Morning all.
Something different this morning as I’m bored with this international break. Mind you, the domestic league isn’t that exciting either is it, not when it comes to Arsenal. The ‘OG’ tally heads the top of our goals scored list as it stands today so maybe that’s why Arsene Wenger didn’t sign a striker. After all, he had the vision to persuade Arsenal to build a new stadium at the right time and of course the all new signing and dancing training facilities, heck, he even said football spending would go mad if something didn’t change.. Perhaps he had another vision – our new no9 was going to be the opposition!
Anyway, he was right about the money in the game as right now it’s crazy, especially when compared to ‘real life’ but this is football, it’s not really real. It’s a financial market and Arsenal like all clubs, are reaping rewards from whatever and whoever is prepared to throw money at the game, just so they can show matches live. Most clubs are investing that money back into the squad, others, well Arsenal, haven’t.
And then there’s the pundits, the ex players from different clubs who know so much about tictacs, transfers, in fact they they know everything don’t they? Well, they’d have you believe they do…..
In fact they are so knowledgeable, they choose to put all they know to great use. From a sofa!
Yesterday they were playing, today they are preaching but suddenly, football fans (not all I know) think that every word they spout, is true. Sky Sports/Bt Sports or whatever other television channel who employs them, pays a big salary to these blokes who are so smart when it comes to football, they’d rather keep warm, comfy and be pampered by the make-up staff, than to put their expertise into practise on the pitch….
As far as I know, only Gary Neville actually puts his boots on and gets involved with coaching. With the England international side.
The rest, well why do we even bother listening to them, or trying to in the case of Jamie Carragher?
Some like to lay the boot into their old club, some just like to lay the boot into any club just because they can. Give them a microphone and they’re happy. Or just overpaid and bullish!
Ok, they’ve played the game, they’ve learned a few things along the way no doubt but apart from Neville, what have any of them done in order to prove that what they spout, works at the highest level and even Neville has never managed a club of his own. Keane has, and failed, Curbishley has, and he did ok, but no-one wants him these days do they… Of course there are others but my point is, they are no longer employed as a manager and there has to be a reason for that…
Maybe it’s because they are not as smart as they think they are, or perhaps the crazy money being throw around these days has extended to the sofa men. Either way, it’s probably best to ignore them all and let your own eyes form your own judgement..
And if it wasn’t for the money, would you want to be a pundit?
That’s it for Monday, in fact that’s it from me for a while as I’m off for a few weeks…
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allezkev
SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 AT 10:22AM
Morning Everyone…
Morning Rico, Wath, Ginge…
And Morning Adam, Lee n Rocky…
It’s about time that the Club reconvened…
Morning Rico and All,
After reading adam’s bit on here,
you have to wonder why some on here
think wenger’s all the ticket.
Yer we have won the FA Cup twice
the last two season’s,and a lot of
fan’s think that’s great.
But if you look at the teams who
get to the Semi’s,most year’s
nearly all way’s one of those get’s relegated.
For the top team’s it’s the second eleven
who play.
When we have Big Tony and Ray telling
wenger what to do
you know something’s not right.
So why did wenger chase a player
with all our fund’s,when the player
had no intention’s of ever leaving.
Wenger even went to paris last minute
to get Carvani..He was the back up plan
Psg wanted him off the book’s,everyone
know’s that.
Wenger and his team left it too late
all them month’s of really,really hard work.
Wenger gambled with our season,
he knew Danny had a problem,
he sent Akpom out to till christmas,
and is now hoping and praying that
Akpom will do a Coq,and he can
tell the world he is worth 40 million.
Over the years wenger has said many
time’s how..We like to develope player’s,
and as a coach that is the buzz.
But is that fair to the fan’s who travel
around to support our great club paying
top dollar.
We all know that paying big buck’s for player’s
is not that clever,we can all do that.
But if you are charging the fan’s the top price
to get in,surely it’s only fair to pay the top
price for the top player’s.
Just hope the fans wake up and give
wenger a bucket load,next home game.
Sorry for the rant rico
Well said Fred. Any shite Wenger gets I suspect he will have earned!
Pundits? I be read and listened to a few, too few to mention and they did it their way!
What a bunch of parasites they are! The feed off the bottom of the pool! These players start from a position of ignorance and sink further into the more of the sewer!
Sadly because we listen to them they find that their gullible audience will absorb more and more of their feeble ramblings!
And yet, I turn to the gossip pages before reading the Reports or whatever else is on offer in the daily rags I pay to keep them in business! Who’s the fool? The reader or the pundit? I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions!
Ps it’s not called the Daily Fail for no reason!
Sorry about the iPad corrections!
I be, should have been ‘i’ve’.
And
More should have been ‘mire of the sewer’
Excellent read.
If playing football made folks knowledgeable then Maradona will be managing Barcelona or naples. 🙂
Most of the pundits talk shite…; and their columns in the newspapers are even written for them which is even shocking having recently found out from a friend working for the mail.
Re Wavy. What utter rubbish. Brings discredit to the site.
morning rico and all
have a relaxing and enjoyable break rico
Pundits predict that we wont win the league and every year for the last decade,they have been wright.
Morning Rico and all.
Something is changing in top end football as evidenced by the prices being paid for inexperienced players and the demise of FFP. Online Gooner this morning makes a very interesting and non hysterical point about the dynamics involved. Trying to consider it while looking through the prism of being a Gooner is uncomfortable I found, but the argument might be considered by some to be compelling.
You make a valid point Adam….
Taking a look at the clubs revenue against expenses tells a very different story in regards to the £200m we apparently have sat in the bank…
The current Arsenal wage bill is £180m (Man U £215m, Citeh £206m) up from £166m in 2014… with revenues around £302m… up from previous season of £154m for us and Yanited £180m.
Our profit was less than £5m less than the previous year… with current debt of £259m.
Yanited who have the highest wage bill in the EPl are the under achievers of the league.imho However, they have turnover of close to £430m…
The wages to revenue ratios though is the shocking one for most teams but us and Yanited.
Adam, do you have a link?
Ts,
Did you think Arry wrote his bit..Just Joking.
Naively I must have- Fred… lol. Jamie as well…;)
So Roy Hodgson has commented that he’s ‘been told’ that Danny Welbeck is gonna be out for 6 months…
That takes us to the end of February and makes the lack of action during the summer even more mind-numbing…
But think of the next TW. All the possIble replacements we can ‘have’! Although Le Chef will probably assert that, ” Welbeck is only a couple of weeks and then he’ll be ready, so we will wait”. This scotching the idea that any new players will be arriving, again!
Can anyone remember how and when DW got injured?
wavy
DW got injured playing for england
Thanks MG. so DW caught the RvP ‘international virus’!
A bit of advice, don’t play for Ingerland! Or Holland! Didn’t JW suffer the same long term fate playing for Ingerland last year, too!
Le Boss needs to adopt the ‘red nose’ selection for international call ups, feign an injury and pull out!
I’m not really being serious, but we’d seem to suffer from these international mishaps to our squad.
We do seem to suffer……..
I thought that Welbeck got injured playing for Arsenal vs Chelsea…
Just saying.
Bored rico, solitary confinement would be more fun !
tsgh 11.14, more like the manager of the National Argentinian Handball team.
Morning All
Just scanning all the garbage on NewsNow looking for a scrap of anything worth clicking on that isn’t recycled nonsense, misinformation or some other rubbish invented by some InterNet fantasist and I found a right honey…
I didn’t click on it of course, fcuk them, the headline was enough to tell me what a load of crap was in it…
Just Arsenal News trumpeted the nonsense headline;
‘Have Arsenal fans destroyed Olivier Girouds confidence?’
Arsenal fans???
What a cnut…
Of course the Press/Media haven’t been slagging off Giroud for almost his entire time at Arsenal, have they???
These cretins know no limits, to the depths that they can descend to with their fantasy, innuendos and downright lies…
Morning Rico, Kev and all.
Morning Adam, Kev…. It’s oh so boring during these international breaks but then again now the transfer window or non transfer window in our case has shut there ain’t much to discuss anyway just us lot moaning daily about the fact nothing changes………….
Hi Wath. I agree but I think many of us believe that we are in the throes of change as far as the EPL is concerned. Few like the rampant inflation that the demise of the short-lived FFP has bought but, with Platini looking for support from within the game, it was always going to be on the cards.
The solution is simple, Kev. Don’t page up News Now! I know I don’t and ever since I weaned myself off the addictive site I have felt increasingly better! My whole soul seems purged of nonsense and cheap jounalism! I suggest you do the same. You will feel better about yourself and the monolith that is Arsenal. But it does take time and huge amounts of self-control. The withdrawal symptoms can be pernicious, sweating, shaking, disbelief and astonishment all at the same time! (An early morning bacon buttie usually does the trick and sets you on the right course for another day off the addictive, lying and fictional site!)
Good luck with your therapy, sanity will soon be re-established!
The truth is out there!?
Morning Adam…
How’s things in Virginia… 🙂
Morning Wath…
How’s things in Camden…?
Morning Wavy…
How’s things Oop Norf…?
When you look at what happened in Italy Adam with the boom and subsequent bust is that what’s heading our way as well. Apart from shitty n the chavs the rest of the so called rich owners primarily ours have bought in and spent very little yet look at the net worth of their assets which have doubled if not more. The syrup bought his shares for 400million on the back of borrowed money, he has invested precisely zero of his own money and yet his shares are now worth approx 800million, not bad work if you can get it..! Football looks like it’s gonna go tits up he sells up walks away with a huge smile on his face. Where would that scenario end…?
Wath, it wouldn’t be so bad if we had some quality games to look forward to, but International football is such a pile of dung.
How on earth are we supposed to get excited about playing Estonia and Lithuania ffs…?
Frankly UEFA and FIFA have, due to their own greed, lessened the quality and importance of their flagship competitions…
Both are becoming less and less important.
The players enjoy them but who cares?
The fans increasingly don’t and if the fans don’t care then you may as well stage England vs France over the Hackney Marshes…
Wavy you paint a worrying picture of cold turkey…
If you was trying to encourage me to give up NewsNow, I’m afraid it hasn’t worked.
Can you suggest a methadone substitute?
Adam, we was chatting about this yesterday, but as we alluded to, the clubs are gradually alienating their hard-core fans to such a degree that in the near future going to football will be like going to the cinema, you go now and again, watch most of it on TCM and Film 4, and it becomes almost an irrelevance…
New Post up…………