Morning all.
Yesterday, the Metropolitan Police confirmed that the idiot who kicked Aaron Ramsdale in the back at the end of Sunday’s match has been charged with assault by beating, going onto an area adjacent to a playing area and throwing a missile onto a football playing area. 35 year old Joseph Watts, from Hackney, has been bailed to appear at Highbury Magistrates’ Court on 17 February. I’ve no idea what kind of punishment he’ll receive but I hope it’s the maximum a magistrate can hand out.
Next should be about the FA and what charges they will hand out to Tottenham FC, and Richarlison. If the referee didn’t see him shove Aaron Ramsdale in the face, he might just receive a retrospective ban. If Craig Pawson did see the incident, one has to wonder why he didn’t send him off at the time, or why VAR didn’t intervene. We’ll see what happens with that one over the next few days. If anything does of course.
The newspapers and sports outlets can’t seem to move on from Chelsea beating Arsenal to the signing of Mykhailo Mudryk. I read that the club has spent roughly £420 million on transfers since Boehly bought the club. An outrageous amount of money really, especially as he only took control of the club last spring. ‘People’ talk/write about Arsenal’s recent spending but it’s a pittance in comparison to what Chelsea, Man Utd and Man City have spent over the last ten years or so. Football is in a transfer financial disaster because of them, because of the transfer fees and wages they have paid for players. How has football got to a place where a 21 year old is ‘worth’ £100 million?
It is what it is though and unless a transfer fee and wage cap is put in place, I can only see things getting worse with only the big spending clubs fighting it out with each other for the trophies on offer. Assuming they can find the right manager of course but eventually, that pot will run dry. Is there a manager out there in the footballing world who you’d rather see at Arsenal than Mikel Arteta right now? No, me neither so credit to the club for sticking by him through the tough times when fools like me couldn’t see where Arsenal were going.
Arsenal face Man Utd this weekend, the next ‘big test’ Mikel Arteta’s players have to overcome in order to convince the media this isn’t just another false dawn going on in north London. Does any other club get such a tough time in the media? No, yet there are so many other clubs who haven’t won a piece of silverware for donkeys years and quite frankly, don’t look like they will for a long time either. Still, we’ve got Arsene Wenger to blame for that and I mean that in a positive way.
When will Sky Sports realise that we all know Mydryk decided to join Chelsea? Do they really need to make it their biggest headline on their transfer page each morning? Of course not but they do because they can. Chelsea are apparently going to beat Arsenal to the signing of Brighton’s Leandro Trossard is another headline of theirs, although Newcastle Utd might have a plan of their own to sign him too. It’s so boring now isn’t it?
The clock is ticking for Arsenal though if they’re serious about signing a player or two this month. I hope they do because it’d be foolhardy to think we’re going to get to the end of May without suffering an injury to one or two key players.
Catch up in the comments..
Excellent post as usual, Rico
They can have Mudryk, I want Arsenal to sign players who choose what they think is the best club to play for, not the one who offers the most money. As for Trossard, the last thing we need is someone who sulks and refuses to play, for whatever reason. Chelsea need a striker and defenders, not more midfielders.
Hopefully Patrick’s lot will kick the crap out of MU tonight.
Thanks Brian. Ditto, we’ve had enough of players who only join us because of the money. Players who really want to play for the club are what we need. Pretty sure Arteta feels the same.
Afternoon Rico and all
Rico don’t be so hard on yourself, I recon Arteta was totally out of his comfort zone at the start and didn’t realize how bad things were at the club, and over time he understood what Emery was trying to do by getting rid of players that were bringing everyone else down and the lack of support he was given. luckily for Arteta after the Super league issue’s Kroenke changed his attitude and showed him full support and released more money to buy the type of player we needed.
Any player that chooses money over the chance of winning trophies or playing in the champion league football can’t be trusted to hang around, if another club comes and offers him even more money.
Afternoon Geoff, I do think had Emery been supported more he’d have done better but that’s history now. I’m just glad Mikel Arteta seems to have sorted things out, it’d be a great shame though if the club don’t back him in this transfer window because the way things are going, this season might be the best chance of winning the PL for a while.
Chelsea are claiming they got mudryk because they persuaded him that he would not get picked in front of Martinelli. If so not much of a confidence builder .
Caseimero booked 80 th minute and Palace equalise , United 8 points behind we have a game in hand . A win sunday is a must to keep them at arms reach.
I don’t think that Chelsea needed to convinced Mudryk that he might be behind Martinelli or possibly ESR when he’s fully fit. I could see that sitting at my couch. That’s the reason I thought that even at 65m the Mudryk price tag was high, and I am a Mudryk fan.
Even if Jesus is fully fit, I think we need a striker, and of course a DM or B2B. Sunday’s game confirmed to me my long held observations about Eddie. I am not knocking the guy, but he’s not a top 4 caliber striker. As compared to Jesus or even PEA, his movements is a tag slow, his anticipation questionable, doesn’t provide the proper angles and lacks strength. If Arsenal buys a top four caliber striker, Jesus can play the wing, he did many times at City. Seriously, would Eddie start for any of the top 6 teams right now?
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Obi, he’s our second striker, not every player in the squad can be at a super high level. I think as far as the goals go, he’s doing as well as Jesus.