Morning all,
Starting with David Dein today, the man who brought Arsene Wenger to England. He’s been talking BBC Radio Five Live about the club he still loves today:
Clearly they have fallen 20 odd points behind Manchester United which is not good enough and it speaks for itself that he has to strengthen the team and I know he will do that.
Dein also believes that Arsene Wenger who at 63 years old, is not considering quitting, regardless of the lack of trophies in recent years.
I think he has the fire in his belly, I don’t see any reason why he shouldn’t be there.
He is one of the best managers in the world. He has been coaching for 30 years. He knows what he is doing. He knows what he wants and I think it’s just a question of identifying the right talent.
David Dein and Arsene Wenger may have parted company at Arsenal but off the pitch they remain great friends. The dine together and only a couple of summers ago they were picture on a yacht as their families shared a summer holiday together.
I don’t doubt for one minute that they talk football much of the time they are in each others company, especially Arsenal and I strongly suspect that Dein knows many of Wenger’s plans. I also suspect that this ‘he will buy’ has been ok’d by our manager too. Could it be to simply get fans back on side during the last few weeks? I doubt it somehow, that’s not Arsene Wenger is it.
Maybe it’s more about reiterating the plea to remain patient, just for a couple of months and then the doubters will see change.
Change that could finally put us back on the map again…..
When Dein says ‘talent’ I hope he means talent for today, players who are ready to make an impact, not ones we have to wait four years to see. If the last two summers are anything to go by, those youth signings are fading.
We have far too much ‘talent’ waiting to making their name in years to come, so much so that younger players have started to realise that. Angha is off to Germany in the summer as we know, and Josh Rees may heading to Brentford having been offered a contract there. However, other clubs are interested so he’s yet to make a final decision, but he’s going it seems.
Many others will probably follow them and good luck to each and every one who decide to leave for the sake of their footballing career.
One man who we all, well most believe has a long career ahead of him at Arsenal is Carl Jenkinson. He’s already proved that he has what it takes to play for our club and he’s improved no end since joining us. Unlike some around him of a similar age.
His inspiration come from Lee Dixon.
If I could have half the career Lee Dixon had, I’ll have done well. That side was a special side and Lee Dixon is the sort of player who I look up to.
I watched a lot of him even though I was relatively young, and there’s a lot I could learn from him.
I think Arsenal have been lucky over recent years to be blessed with a lot of top quality right backs, like Dixon, Lauren and Sagna. They’re all players who I can learn a lot from and I have learnt a lot from them.
Even going back before that, with the likes of Pat Rice, Arsenal have always had great full backs.
He’s right isn’t he, we have had some top class full backs and not only on the right. We had Winterburn, Sylvinho, Cole, Clichy (until he regressed) and of course now Gibbs and Monreal. We also have Meade behind them and should he remain patient, he could very well have a place in this side for years to come as poor old Gibbs always seems to battle with fitness.
Talking of fitness, both Wilshere and Walcott should be back for this weekends battle against Norwich, but should either walk back into this side?
I’d say no, what’s not broken shouldn’t try to be fixed. The only change we will hopefully see is Thomas Vermaelen coming in for suspended Per Mertesacker.
That’s it for another day, have a good one all…..
Morning all …
Juventus 0-2 Bayern Munich
0-4 agg
The best team in Italy go out to possibly the best team in the world.
We drew 3-3 on agg and lost on away goals.
We have something.
Morning all…
I’m off to meet the HH Curry Crew today, you all have a good day….
Back later….
Morning Rico,SYG and all. There’s is, unfortunately, a flaw in that logic. 🙂
There is Adam ….. We would have gone through 3-0 on agg if it wasn’t for Sczny ! and lost against Juventus 4-3 on agg
And both Blackburn and Bradford would have either drawn or just beaten them too.
If my aunt had nuts she’d be uncle…. morning all!
great post rico, since the demise or should i say dismissal of dein we havent been realy ourselves. From invincinbles to invisible,from title/cup challenging to top 4 dreaming. Something is wrong with Arsenals managenent, something must be done fast or else we would end up like looserpool whinning and mincing about our past glories.
Hi Lee. Dreary weather morning mate.
Morning all.
No windows near where I sit but I’m told it’s shit outside!
GoodMorning guys. I would try Poldoski in 9 if I were Wenger. Bring Giroud in as plan B.
Here he is, Mr 32c and not a cloud in the sky…lol
Dreary weather… good excuse for a rather zinging hot curry lol
The Khazi roll is in the freezer!
Copped one last night…….. sound
it’s not you I am worried about Lee……….. Stay off the Guinness 😀
Morning all. Lee, I overlook the river and the South Bank (direct view to the |Royal Festival Hall) and I conform… Dreary….
Looking forward to getting my curry on later!
Kene – I agree. I think Giroud is a plan B at best option. ALthough having said that, you can’t knock the guys commitment / effort. I’m still a fan
Good Morning to the Lady of the House and all fellow Gooners in residence.
It will be an interesting summer in the transfer market. Some of Europe’s biggest teams may/will have to sell before they can buy if they are to stay within the debt to income limits of the Financial Fair Play rules. If the club are going to spend big (I think they will), they may do some of their dealings early as we have a better wages to income ratio than many of our major competitors and that should improve with the likes of Squillaci’s and I believe Arshavin’s contracts expiring. Also, many of the older fringe Academy players are being loaned out or sold. Hopefully we can sell on-loan players such as Bendtner, Chamakh, Denilson, Djourou, Park and Santos; or at the very least renew their loans. We certainly don’t want them back and on our wage roll.
I still think Giroud was bought to partner the Lying Dutchman not replace him. He is a good player, but not the out-and-out goal poacher we require.
Morning CG, the money we will have from wages alone after getting rid of those who’s contracts expire will be a decent sum. As you say add to that the dead wood and the players who are just not going to make it and we could quite easily afford to get 20/25 players off our books. I think we keep the cream of the youngsters not 30 of them it’s just way to costly an exercise when we see only 1 or 2 make it… yes some will slip though the net but such is life. We would need 5 players brought in I reckon and that won’t break the bank and will not ruin the wage structure. cut the players on our books down from the ridiculous 70+ down to a more manageable dare I say 50..? Promote competition for places more and then players improve..! Fight for the shirt no more easy rides and Arsenal pension funds for players. Poor management that needs to be addressed and cannot be repeated.
Lol Lee.
More like about 23 without a cloud to be seen 🙂
Beautiful Autumnal day we had.
The weather is great here to Scott, indoors central heating… what a scorcher……………
bore off wath!
W.A.T.H – I agree. Add to that the money form the renewal/renegotiation or new contracts for some of our commercial sponsorships such as our kit supplier and increased moneys from the new television contract over the next couple of seasons; we should be sitting pretty with some real financial clout. Also, it is in the club’s long-term financial interest to have a competitive team when negotiating sponsorship deals.
I love this damp, grey weather! (Actually being serious!)
Right… Off out to meet the other Curry Clubbers. Have a good day all.
Rocky – If I could, I’d ship you all our recent damp grey weather.
Rocky and the HH Curry Clubbers – Look after Rico, she’s just a simple country girl. This place goes to Hell in a handbasket when she is away too long.
Good afternoon all,
Will it surprise people when they find out DD, Stan and AU are all on the same side? 😉 😉
Keep talking Ginge!!!!
Agreed CG but the club has missed out on many commercial deals by treading water, the commercial side of things has been far to reliant on the stadium naming rights and the new kit deal which they all pay themselves on the back for a great job done yet over the last 3/4 years what else have they brought into the club… Our secondary sponsorship’s are pathetic and why is that… due mostly to us not being an attractive option when we are not competitive.
Investment on the pitch brings in added revenues off it but these brilliant business minds seem to of over looked that one.
Ts i thought years back that with the clout the yank has in the states if he and AU join forces we would smash everyone.. why can that not work was there an agreement in place when he took over to keep AU out..? is that tim eframe now about to lapse for all parties concerned surely that would be a dream ticket that would make us a hugely powerful club and see them making a decent profit on their investment while still running the club properly and investing in the team/squad…!
Have fun Rocky…! Stay warm mate dreary git 😉
Hi WATH, Scott…
I smell short selling that is all… but it would be awesome if both money men can come together and agree and push this club forward…
It was rumoured that IG wrote to AU looking for sponsorship … why did he do that if he knew AU was disappointed about being blackballed from the board?And rumours that AU was seriously considering bidding for LTE/4G spectrum in this country but then didn’t
Hi all,
With Wenger buying older players, there’s no sell on value. We won’t be able to sell a star for big monies in the summer. I suppose only Wilshere can be sold above 15m. Does that mean that Wenger needs to sell a handful?
Or do we reckon wenger doesn’t need to sell this summer?
No way do we need to sell Brad…!
Ts, the story goes the club contacted one of Au’s companies not him directly and were looking for sponsorship yet how can they not know it was one of his companies… poor research or accidently on purpose..?
I cannot think why the syrup would want to keep Au off the board he would know the potential of such a partnership and knowing he is all about profit makes you wonder what clauses were put into the take over to keep AU out and for how long..? Surely they can circumvent if they see the positives… We’ll see soon enough.
He needs to reduce the wage bill… how he does that is another question because I doubt the board will just pay players off to walk away if those same players can do a job or two at least in training… just my 2 pennies…
That is why I think the alleged rivalry is just to push the value of the club up… A man like AU would know that trying to have a public spat with Stan would only make Stan better off… unless he has too much money to care….
18 billion and rising makes you very care free Ts
Samir Nastry-
“I remember when [Cesc] Fabregas moved to Barcelona in June, Arsene said, ‘I will only buy Gervinho and nobody else’.
“How can he say that when he knows he must fight against Manchester United, City and Chelsea who buy players everywhere.”
Read more at http://www.insidefutbol.com/2013/04/11/how-can-arsene-wenger-expect-to-compete-samir-nasri-explains-reasons-for-joining-manchester-city/83307/#WAVDcGjGRLG8Gtb5.99
Tha’s funny Ts… like Wenger is going to tell that skanky little upstart any of his plans when he knew the prick was leaving anyway…! Delusion little twat…!
Arsène Wenger has revealed the following team news ahead of Saturday’s game against Norwich City:
on Wilshere and Walcott…
Jack has joined normal training since Wednesday and Theo should join in tomorrow. They are 90 per cent available for Saturday.
on other team news…
The other uncertainty we have from last Saturday is Tomas Rosicky, who has a little hamstring irritation. His involvement is yet to be decided as well but it’s fair to say that he is a big doubt for Saturday. And of course, Per Mertesacker will be out because of his red card.
Of Nasri, I think he is just having a spiteful swipe at Wenger. A week or so ago he made the odd complimentary remark about ,”father figure Wenger” and how good a coach he was and how good he had been to him, even when he was a fat lazy twat! I think he may have been angling for a return to his former club………..time passes and you know, I think he has been knocked back, so he is having a go! As another door closes the next one bangs shut! Pretty certain he won’t be a shitty player next year. Only problem who has enough gelt and stupidity to buy the fatster? PSG, well maybe.
Sure as hell I don’t ever want to see him in an Arsenal shirt again.
Def don’t want that slimy bastard back in an Arsenal shirt Wavy….!
Has anyone noticed that Arsenal have a new partnership deal which is a very big one, no one seems to have talked about it.
Arsenal have announced a partnership deal in Indonesia with Telkomsel which is their biggest telecom supplier (seems for mobiles) it has a reach of 125 million people already and growing…………..this partner alone could be a VERY big earner for us, especially as the partnership grows as people are Crazy for Arsenal in Indonesia. Read more here:
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-agree-partnership-with-telkomsel
I reckon this honestly could give us enough money for a star player ever couple of years on its own once it starts motoring. Obviously i can’t tell how much it will bring in straight away and i dont think Arsenal will say how much it is gonna bring them but i feel it could bring 10-15m a season maybe even more. Considering i have heard malta guiness is giving us about 4m a season and that is just a drink company, this is a major telecoms company in Indonesia which is branching out further and further.
I don’t think anything will happen with Usmanov until PHW goes. There is personal between him and Dein over the share dealings with danny Fiszmann.
Not sure about 10-15mil a season Maverick but we’ll never know as they won’t really say but very good exposure but the mancs been doing this for 5/6 yrs…!
Agreed Potter, we know the history there eh…!
mourinho will be back to Chelsea soon with Khedira, hulk, etc
I hope Nerwcastle in the next round of the european league
W.A.T.H might be right, might be nowhere near that at the moment but i feel it would have the scope to not only pay big by itself but since it is such a major company over there it definitely has the scope to get other companies there noticing Arsenal and also wanting to team up. So maybe not that much to begin with but in a few years who knows.
Apparently we are looking to do tours etc in vietnam and we are the first major football team to go there in decades and this uncharted territory is probably worth 100’s of millions to whoever gets there first and gets the biggest exposure before others jump on board.
People say a lot about Gazidis and Fox and Kroenke, and people say they are doing nothing and call them stupid. Maybe they are smarter than we give them credit for, imagine if they leaked the deals they were sorting out and some fuckers like Manu and Mancity took over before we got the deals sealed we would have lost millions. Maybe (even though it is annoying as fuck) it is best that we have ‘silent’ people running our clubs.
I rather the silent approach than the prattish redkrapp approach ‘yeah yeah geezers i love that player i want them in my team’ ‘yeahwe will try and get a tour dont in vietnam it will get lotsa money for me and the club it will be ‘triffic’
Maverick, Agree with the silent appoach and you don’t need to do thing in the public eye but when you look at the highly paid commercial department thats been in place almost 5 years now apart from the stadium deal and shirt deals which are the norm anyway what they have done is pretty pathetic. The fans and player sales have whats brought in the cash to the so called wwell run club and their deals are piss willy and so far have been so for 5 yrs of work very little to show for it when the commercial department is so big and costs the club millions..!
Have to agree with you there W.A.T.H! Do you think that they have done a ‘systematic’ approach and they have a LOT of deals in the pipeline and they are doing it bit by bit but have tonnes lined up but are doing it sorta cautiously and making sure the partnership is right. Like say for instance, we will launch Telkomsel, then a little later after we have dealt with them another sponsor from indonesia then so on so forth.
Or maybe it is that they are slowly getting their shit together back there and are slowly churning out deals which could be valuable. The difference between us and Manu is the approach, their partnership approach is sorta like OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH MONEY, you are offering us money thankyou we will take it and you can sponsor our traning ground for a year, bish bash bosh done. But i think Arsenal are more like they are with their charity work they take their time building a genuine partnership that means something that will hopefully get us returns.
Manu they will get new deals because of success, but if their success dries up i reckon so might some of their deals (which i suppose is a no brainer) but i strongly feel that the likes of Manu their deals is you scratch my back i’ll scratch your, but with us we deal with the human side and genuinely want to help our partners and that could go a long way.
Or as you say….might just geniunely be that Arsenal have been very poor with getting deals sorted and it cost us. But i suppose at least it seems to be slowly getting better!
Sorry Maverick had to look busy for a while,
I hear what your saying but a lot of the mancs sponsorships are of fthe back of the fact that they win things and are competitive. I can assume we’re a harder sell when we’re not competitive but then why do we have a huge commercial department then earning huge sums…? they should be out there generating business not waiting for it. I think we have genuinely been very poor in pushing the commercial deals and a lot of that also lies with us not doing overseas tours but now look at the difference. AW didn’t want to do them but has been pushed into it and that can only help exposure and commercial deals in the future if can can get things right on the pitch and at least be up there pushing for trophies.
Hello all 🙂
CG – your 12.10, bless you and I was looked after, very very well….. 🙂
Yes and I looked after here 😛
Hi Wath, and bless you. Thank you. I had a glass of water for you 😉
Chelsea got lucky then….
All very quiet here so, catch up tomorrow…
Night all….
Adethewhore, restored my faith in football again tonight.
Rico, was you press-ganged today, those roughians have got a lot to answer for ! Just say the word, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind donkey.
2-2. Extra-time. Lose on penalties.
Now who would have predicted this??? 😉
Adebayor missing a penalty just added to the merriment… 😆
The perfect finish to a perfect day, thanks to the HHCC.
The addition of it’s first female curry clubber.
And for Lee, cheers mate… 🙂
Hark, is that Micko that I spy making a fleeting visit…
Morning House…..I am reliably informed that Neolithic jaw line is out for the season! Sweet………FOYS!
I had a dream, it was 2-2 against Norwich with minutes left on the clock. Sagna whipped in the perfect cross, and I missed a sitter to win the game….
Good job dreams don’t come true isn’t it……
Morning Lee, Kev and all…..
Good to see you Micko, I was indeed press-ganged, but enjoyed every minute. Even the ones I can’t remember 😉
Who is that Lee, Bale?
Lee please don’t tease………………. 😉
Yes!!! Apparent Adebarndoor has been arrested…his penalty last night killed a bird!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism
WATH, it’s true, from a good source!
Morning Wath..
Ah, penny has just dropped…..
Sharp as a beach ball Rico!
Nice one Lee….. Shame he ain’t been out since Xmas…! Now we’ll see how they get on…!
As ever Lee, I think I am hung over 😉
I knew Lee would lead you astray Rico….. .
🙂 Wath….
Moi? I resemble that comment…….
I didn’t think you looked like an ashtray…..
New Post up now….