Morning all.
Numbers 6 and 4.
Adams and Vieira, two of Arsenal’s best ever to wear the two shirts. Certainly as far back as my memory will take me.
Number 6. Frank McLintock is up there with the best, along with Willie Young, Michael Thomas and David Rocastle for a brief spell. Now it’ll be Gabriel Magalhaes wearing the famous shirt after Arsenal confirmed yesterday that he’s ours.
“London is Red” he tweeted, followed by “Wearing and representing the Arsenal shirt is the privilege of a few. I thank my parents, my businessmen and everyone who helped me get here. Very happy and motivated to be able to play in such a traditional team of world football. A new beginning. A new story.” #Arsenal #Gunners
Number 4. Patrick Vieira, Cesc Fabregas, Per Mertesacker, Michael Thomas, Brian Talbot and Mo Elneny. Lol. Elneny has of course given up his shirt number for our new man William Saliba. He might have signed for Arsenal last season but it’s only now that he’s arrived.
Potentially, Arsenal have the best central defensive partnership the club has had since Adams and Bould or Adams and Keown. We’ve two top quality goalkeepers and two very good full backs in Bellerin (if Arsenal reject PSG’s reported £25/30 million offer. Juve and Bayern want him to say The Mail) and Tierney, supported by AMN and Cedric. If that doesn’t make Arsenal fans happy then I don’t know what will. Plus we have Mari, Luiz, Chambers and Holding behind them although it’s unlikely they’ll all be at Arsenal when the transfer window shuts.
There’s been another arrival this summer too although we’re yet to see him play. Willian. An exciting player who Chelsea wanted to keep. In fact all three players were wanted by other clubs, big clubs too but despite their best efforts, they were turned down.
Yesterday afternoon, NN headlines linked Arsenal to Amadou Diawara, a defensive midfielder at AS Roma. Daniele Piraino, who represents Diawara has apparently said that his player is “liked” by Arsenal. A swap deal with Lucas Torreira is being mooted.
“He is concentrated on his career. Diawara is at a top club like Roma, where he is happy, as there is enthusiasm around the new owners,” Piraino told TuttoMercatoWeb.
“However, he is also liked by many clubs in England, including Arsenal. Being linked with certain clubs is pleasing for him, as these are prestigious sides. Amadou is concentrated on football and his career.”
Transfermarket have him valued at £18m so he’d be a cheaper option than Thomas Partey and he’s younger too but whether he’s right or not is what matters. Partey certainly seems to tick all the right boxes and if The Daily Mail are right in their reporting, he wants to move to Arsenal. Why wouldn’t he? Arsenal are building a good squad. A young and talented squad with Aubameyang leading the line.
Edu and Arteta are young and enthusiastic too and it’s clear from what they’ve said, they want Arsenal back in the big time. Back playing the big clubs in Europe’s biggest competition. Both are Arsenal men having played and won silverware with the club, one an invincible. Things like that matter when they’re selling the Arsenal story to potential signings. Just as Arsene Wenger had pulling power for Arsenal, Edu and Arteta clearly do too. A double dose of it. A double dose which helped bring Gabriel Magalhaes to Arsenal.
Edu and I] had several chats about Arsenal and the new project, we had many good conversations,’ Gabriel told Arsenal Digital. “As the days went by I was getting very excited about it, then I had a call from the coach and that was very reassuring.
“Having the coach himself calling you to say he wants you in his squad motivates you a lot. That is the very reason I am here today. We did not talk about [details], he just told me he is aware of my quality, my capacity and how far I can go. He also said he will be very demanding with me.
“I know he is a great coach and I will make progress with his help.”
The clincher though was the Arsenal fans.
So many fans were sending me messages asking me to join Arsenal, and that played a big part in me signing for this club,”
Best get back onto Twitter guys, #ThomasParteycometoarsenal…..
See you in the comments guys.
Morning all, thanks Rico.
Not trying to be too pedantic, 😆 but Frank was a Number 5 from my memory and Peter Simpson was Number 6!
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Peter Simpson one of the best two players never to play for England!……………………along with Geordie Armstrong!………………………..he was number 7 😆
Well Lc, the historic numbers of the Arsenal squad list Frank as wearing the number 6 too. Many Arsenal players switch numbers early on. Even Nick B.
Did somebody forget that Kosieny wore the number 6 shirt last for arsenal. I used to love this guu until he messed up at his unveiling…
Morning all,
Not wishing to be even more ocd, but I think fabulous Frank wore number 4. Number 5 was always reserved for the big, tall, commanding centre half. Terry Neill for example, or Ian Ure. Number 6 was Peter Simpson. During that era.
Too many memories! Mostly good but not a lot of silverware till the late sixties and early seventies!
Best off luck to our new numbers let’s hope they propel us on a new high trajectory success story.
Perhaps I should have written ‘who have at some stage worn’ during their time at Arsenal. Anyway, we know who will be wearing them now and that’s more important I reckon.
I didn’t forget Bee, nor Senderos. Just neither are on my list of great players for Arsenal.
Good morning Rico and al.
Back in the day shirt numbers indicated the position played. There was no such thing as a player “owning” a particular number. It was only when names were displayed on the shirts that squad numbers were allocated.
For instance although Geordie Armstrong always wore the number seven shirt, if he wasn’t playing in a particular game his replacement wore seven.
I always thought that Jon Sammels shoud have played for England.
Brian P
Hi Rico and all at the end of the day do jumper numbers really matter that much after all it’s the players name that you remember
I would like to know why Aubameyang has not resigned yet, me think he wants more money
Wavy…………………I thought Peter Storey wore number 4 ! ( yes he probably wore number 2 when he was a RB)…………………………..I`m prpobably only thinking of the double season, maybe someone knows for sure, but like Rico says, they probably swapped numbers often.
Morning Cicero, I didn’t know that. Makes sense though. Nowadays it’s a free for all, depending on what’s available. Why else would Gallas wear number 10. An insult to the number I thought.
Hi Geoff, superstition possibly comes into it.
Perhaps Auba isn’t staying after all.
Not sure how we are standing at the moment with the F F P rules but I hope we can start selling or loaning out some more players very soon as the closer we get to the end of transfer market the less amount of money other club will offer us knowing we have to sell
Geoff, do you want Auba to resign, or re-sign 🙂
Beebee, I’m with you:Koscielny was superb and totally under rated in a very, very average defensive unit.
Morning all.
Yeah Wavy, Frank McLintock came to us from Leicester as an attacking wing-back, or midfielder in new money, he used to wear 4 but when Don Howe switched him to centre half for 1969-70 season he wore the No.5 usually and Stan wore the No.6.
By Stan I mean Peter Simpson not Kroenke
Numbers were a bit more fluid prior to names being printed on shirts for 1993/94.
Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday were the first Premier League clubs to have names on their shirts for our two (three incld replay) cup finals in 1993.
Scott I want him stay but if he does not sign a new contract in say the next 24 hours then get rid of him as long as he does not sign how do we know how much extra we have left to to spend on new players payments lets face an extra 20 grand a week to some players is the difference between staying with us or leaving
Geoff,
He may already have signed.
Who knows?
I agree it’s very frustrating, but we’ve seen these things play out like this before.
Not much we can about it mate.
There was only one sub back then in the 70`s and I`m pretty sure he wore number 12!
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Definitely our squad will be so exciting to watch now probably we need to clear some dead woods but none of their names is coming out for transfers instead it’s the important ones please what is the situation of laca as it stands now…
Am just waiting to jubilate when i see my fellow African man accept to represent us in Arsenal again it will remind me of the days those of KANU who actually made Arsenal to have a lot of fans in Africa so Partey Thomas please give us that hope we need from you. and good enough you will go straight to the first team squad. Am a Ugandan fan of GHANA and Arsenal.
From BBC Sport
Fans may be allowed to attend Arsenal’s home Premier League fixture against Sheffield United on 3 October.
The Gunners hope they will be able to have supporters inside Emirates Stadium on a reduced capacity basis and in line with UK government guidelines.
Initially, only gold season ticket holders and premium members will have priority access to tickets.
PS
Social distancing would be in place if supporters were to attend the Blades’ visit to Arsenal, while there would also be other measures, including the introduction of new hygiene protocols and intensive cleansing routines.
Anyone attending the match would also have to agree to a code of conduct devised in line with the government guidelines.
At least Gabriel chose Arsenal, Beeky wanted Real Madrid but settled for Utd…
I spoke to my son who has a season ticket, earlier today and he isn’t sure he even wants to go this season, what with social distancing and not being sure if your mates are going to be there with you, what’s the fun in that?
Tbh when I thought about it I thought yeah, you go to the game and sit on your own, none of the people you socialise with will probably be there and you can hardly have a conversation with someone 5 seats away. Might be worth having a year off?
I’ll be having a year off, Kev – red member!!
FA Cup qualifying rounds starting tonight and who do they all look up to as the best? 🙂
Sue, don’t the club want you to pay a little over £200 to be included in the ballot, sobits a kind of a loan. You might be lucky, even as a Red..?
The way I read it gold and premium members are the only ones to get ballot entries .However I believe that it is going to take a few more readings than the three goes that I have done so far to understand everything in the e mail .
The club are expecting a huge demand but I am not sure. Quite a number of season tickets get passed around groups with the track and trace system and identification it’s going to be harder to pass them around.
PSG are still interested in Bellerin, but will not take Guendouzi in a swap. Valencia do want our wayward midfielder on loan though.
Arteta wants AMN to stay.
I’ve already paid my membership, Kev… I think my only joy will be the ticket exchange, that is of course if it will be open…. we shall see!
Good morning all.
Please ignore my middle-of-the-night ramblings about a swap deal for Guendouzi, PSG simply turned down the chance to sign him when he was offered to them.
Ha ha Cicero, at least it’s a football ramble.
Morning to you and all.
New post up now