Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2020/2021

greendom

OmegaGene wrote: »

Anyone else not really feeling it for the rest of the season ?

True, decent finishes nonetheless.

Hopefully that gets the errors out of the way. (No I don't think so either)

OmegaGene

OmegaGene wrote: »

Anyone else not really feeling it for the rest of the season ?

To be fair there hasnt been any games of importance for months to get in the mood.

CatInABox

OmegaGene wrote: »

I know but normally during the summer break I would be climbing the walls getting hyped for the new season but his is weird and it’s the first time I haven’t actually missed football
Sky sports advert on Spotify saying it’s all to play for in the premier league

Reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_uOgyBK1c

"The giants of Charlton play host to the titans of Ipswich, making them both seem normal sized...."

tayto lover

Football is in the doldrums.
I’m not even taking any notice of when we’re playing, who’s leaving or coming in or any rumours. Can’t see football without fans being of much interest either.
No matter how the likes of Sky Ports or BT etc spin it it’s not the same, for me anyway.

MonsterCookie

tayto lover wrote: »

Football is in the doldrums.
I’m not even taking any notice of when we’re playing, who’s leaving or coming in or any rumours. Can’t see football without fans being of much interest either.
No matter how the likes of Sky Ports or BT etc spin it it’s not the same, for me anyway.

doesn't help when your team loses to Brentford...:)

I'm sort of looking forward to the footie coming back, but it's far from top of mind. Maybe they'll give us something to cheer about, who knows.

Sheep breeder

On YouTube Ian Wright is doing talks with Arsenal players and the manager under Adidas thing, a good look at how some of the ex players talk and how much Ian is an Arsenal man.

beer enigma

Ha I'm not the better of seeing the sports headlines this morning...

Rambo to Spurs
Maitland-Niles sold to fund Auba deal
Barca paying part of Coutinho wages to force though deal

Let's hope its a non news day

FixitFelix

beer enigma wrote: »

Ha I'm not the better of seeing the sports headlines this morning...

Rambo to Spurs
Maitland-Niles sold to fund Auba deal
Barca paying part of Coutinho wages to force though deal

Let's hope its a non news day

Are spurs gonna pay an injury probe player 400k a week?, plus can't see him going there.
Wouldn't really bother me to see AMN leave
Barca want something like 14m for 1 season loan, shouldn't touch that with a barge pole

tayto lover

My son tells me that Arsenal are favourites to sign Thomas Partrey from Athletico Madrid. He’s a highly rated defensive midfielder apparently.
I don’t pay any heed to rumours but my son says he saw it on a reputable news source.

djan

Reports also floating around that a fee has been agreed for RB Lepzis's Upamecano. If true, that would be a phenomenal boost to the defence.

beer enigma

OmegaGene wrote: »

We will probably end up with Thomas the tank engine And give Ozil a pay rise

I thought we'd sacked the fat controller

correction

We will definitely not be paying big money for Parety or that Leipzig CB months after making our players take a wage cut. Only way Parety happens is a swap with Lacazette and while that would be a stunning deal for us I find it a bit fanciful.

djan

In the grand scheme of a club's financials, I don't think the break in play would have that much of an impact on a club of arsenal's size. Prices for players will be lower as well so, as long as the selling club is willing, things will happen.

greendom

How's Kliuvert doing with Roma? Talk of us getting him as part of the Mikhitarian (sp) deal

Royale with Cheese

Kluivert to Arsenal, is it 2003 again?

CatInABox

For the first time in a very, very long time, it's MATCHDAY!!

I'm excited, but also weirded out. I really don't know if these games are even going to be enjoyable without the crowd.

Ironically, I think Wenger would have loved empty stadiums, I remember the first time the Emirates really rocked he came out complaining that the players couldn't hear him shout commands.

tayto lover

Two fully fit squads tonight.
We’ll get a realistic look at exactly where we are and where we’re lacking.
Arteta in the newspapers today talking about a push for Europe.
Although there’ll be no crowd and little atmosphere it should be interesting to watch.
Anyone know what channel it’s on?

Bobby Baccala

tayto lover wrote: »

Two fully fit squads tonight.
We’ll get a realistic look at exactly where we are and where we’re lacking.
Arteta in the newspapers today talking about a push for Europe.
Although there’ll be no crowd and little atmosphere it should be interesting to watch.
Anyone know what channel it’s on?

Everyone may be in good shape but I think there’ll be a bit of rust about them, nobodies played league football in 3 months. It’s like they just had a summer off with a half arsed pre season.

tayto lover

Bobby Baccala wrote: »

Everyone may be in good shape but I think there’ll be a bit of rust about them, nobodies played league football in 3 months. It’s like they just had a summer off with a half arsed pre season.

Yes indeed both sides will be rusty but there should still be a lot effort shown as they’ve been looking forward to getting back and training hard according to the two managers.
I’m more hoping than expecting as I didn’t enjoy the German football in empty venues.

Bobby Baccala

Anybody got a reliable IPTV for soccer? Sick of dodgy streams

stuchyg

Bobby Baccala wrote: »

Anybody got a reliable IPTV for soccer? Sick of dodgy streams

Check out Apollo group TV. Been using it on the firestick the last week and the quality is amazing

DenMan

(From the BBC) Full teams to follow!

No Aguero or Ozil
Manchester City v Arsenal (20:15 BST)

Changes, lots of them.

Manchester City make eight changes from the team beaten in the Manchester derby way back at the start of March.

In come Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus, Aymeric Laporte, Kevin de Bruyne, David Silva, Benjamin Mendy, Riyad Mahrez and Eric Garcia.

Sergio Aguero is on the bench. Fantasy woe.

Arsenal also make changes, five of them. Bellerin, Tierney, Mustafi, Willock and Guendouzi all come in.

Ardennes1944

Leno, Tierney, Mari, Mustafi, Bellerin, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Willock, Saka, Auba, Nketiah

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/1273319068146286594?s=19

Looks like Saka playing on the left of a front 3 ahead of Tierney. Mari and Mustafi at the back.

Should be interesting.

Hmmm...or maybe Saka is on the right ahead of Bellerin, with Auba down the left?

Bobby Baccala

stuchyg wrote: »

Check out Apollo group TV. Been using it on the firestick the last week and the quality is amazing

Try using it on kodi! Nearly launched the laptop at the wall!

Underground

Very interesting lineup. I don't mind it apart from Mustafi being picked ahead of Luiz.

tayto lover

Underground wrote: »

Very interesting lineup. I don't mind it apart from Mustafi being picked ahead of Luiz.

Where’s Torreira?
Not even in the panel.

tayto lover

Can anyone remember Ozil ever playing after a break?

Underground

tayto lover wrote: »

Where’s Torreira?
Not even in the panel.

Probably not fit to play yet, still coming back from a big injury. Either that or there's stuff going on behind closed doors.

Ardennes1944

I would say he isnt fit and I dont think he has to legs to keep with Man City anyway

tayto lover

Hope our match is a bit more interesting and exciting than the Villa v Sheffield Utd match. It’s awful.

darego

nice to be back! any recipes lads?

djan

Not too keen on the line up. Would have preferred to see Pepe and Martinelli start on the wings and Torreira at least on the bench. Regardless can't wait to watch a live match!

Arteta to address the Ozil absence after the game. I wonder why he couldn't beforehand.

Basil3

Basil3 wrote: »

Looks like Saka playing on the left of a front 3 ahead of Tierney. Mari and Mustafi at the back.

Should be interesting.

Hmmm...or maybe Saka is on the right ahead of Bellerin, with Auba down the left?

So it looks like Saka down the left with Auba right

Ardennes1944

Basil3 wrote: »

Arteta to address the Ozil absence after the game. I wonder why he couldn't beforehand.

Interesting!

omega man

Great to be back even as surreal as it feels.
Like with most people, football was the last thing on my mind over the last few months but this is a timely and welcomed distraction.

tayto lover

omega man wrote: »

Great to be back even as surreal as it feels.
Like with most people, football was the last thing on my mind over the last few months but this is a timely and welcomed distraction.

And we’re all still alive.

stuchyg

My Apollo group down now despite working flawlessly all week, bastards

tayto lover

Never a foul 😂

omega man

OmegaGene wrote: »

Fake crowd noise isn’t too bad

Thought it would be cringe but it’s not bad actually. At least you have the option for both.

Ardennes1944

Xhaka off injured, of course it would happen to one of our players

tayto lover

Xhaka injured through running into his own man and Torreira not in the squad.
We never get a break.

omega man

He tripped over himself.

jonneymendoza

Apparently arsenal took a plane to get here at 5am. And then took two coaches to get there...

Doff

Second injury for Arsenal?

omega man

Some things just don’t change.

tayto lover

We used to have class players, now it’s glass players.

FixitFelix

5pm today seems absolutely ridiculous to me

Christ....3 subs left for the next 70 minutes. How are we going to manage?