Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2024/25

Why would anyone have you on ignore? Haven't seen any poster who had a disagreement with you.

Bit ridiculous to put the bid in when Arsenal's window is closed..

Paper never refuses ink.

Jorginho is going to be a busy man! Fingers crossed we don't pick up any injuries during the international break and Merino gets back to us asap. Just keep Martinelli away from him in training!

They were fantastic. I saw a good bit of it last night. Rosenberg next on Saturday @7:70pm. The game will be at the Emirates. Last night's win was a Meadow Park where Borehamwood play.

Timber, Merino, Calafiori...

We don't have it lucky with signing new players, do we? They all seem to damage themselves in the first month. Like a weird form of hazing

Calafiori is fine and the manager has said he'd be fit for the match against Israel on Monday. He took a slight knock and the media took over again.

Another absolute load of crap from Gallagher. An apologist just like Dean.

Havertz got Germany's 5th goal from the penalty spot last night as they cruised to victory against Hungary. 5-0

Rice conducted himself very well yesterday amid the constant booing. I didn't like the decision he made to plump for England rather than Ireland at the time but I can see why he made it. He was born and bred there and it opened doors for him. He is a fantastic player and fair play to him for how he dealt with the constant barrage of abuse yesterday. Glad he's at Arsenal now.

Based on initial reports I'd be shocked if he's back for Spurs or City. Some start to the season with injuries

It'll be another disappointing season imo. Not signing a striker was criminal after selling Nketiah will come back to haunt us. City will run away with the league and Arsenal will be playing catchup another 2nd place finish perhaps we might even drop to 3rd or 4th this season as Liverpool are looking good.

The question I have when will the pressure on Arteta start to mount if we don't win anything this season it'll be 5 years trophyless, he's bottled the league twice and been poor in Europe that Bayern game last season was a disgrace it looked like the team gave up after going 1-0 down in the second leg. Also Saka has looked average at best lately for both England and Arsenal.

If he declared for Ireland he probably wouldn't have cost us 105m

What else was it? All he had to do was beat Villa and we would've won the league last season. 4 points from a possible 12 vs Fulham and West Ham last season was also poor you can't give City that kind of leeway.

I forgot all about Jorginho.

Two totally different clubs, so I don't know what good that comparison is.

Arteta didn't take over at Real Madrid: who even at their lowest at still competing for leagues and in Europe. He took over at a club in disarray, well off the pace, with a totally substandard squad - it was a long term project, with a totally different context.

I'm sorry but that Real Madrid comparison is just silly.

The expectation is that Arsenal will challenge for the league this year. If they go backwards - even to finish third - then Arteta will be under pressure. It's just the way this level of football works.

Arsenal have improved year on year every season under Arteta, but I think the next step will be the hardest. City are an absolute machine: only Klopp has managed to best them, once.

Hugely different playing field now to when we played out of Highbury to be fair. As we left Highbury we already had chelsea and their Russian money changing the game with us struggling to compete, then the petrodollars came in and even blew that out of the water with City and their unlimited funds. Now we'll have Newcastle starting to ramp up as well. So to be comparing football and resources from 20 years ago to now is like comparing the busby babes to peps city the gulf has grown that big.

The emirates has been financially a huge success story for the club, had we stayed at Highbury we'd be miles behind in the financial stakes, and given what we're competing with nowadays we'd be so far away from being able to compete we'd probably never catch up unless there's a seismic change in the entire football industry.

When the new stadium was being developed no one could have envisaged City and their financial doping changing the landscape to the extent they have.

Man City and Chelsea being good is not an excuse for our failure as a club since leaving Highbury. Since we've left Highbury United, Liverpool and even bloody Leicester have all won the league all clubs not named Chelsea or Man City.

We've actually outspent Man City since 2020 and have nothing to show for it. Ten Hag, Brendan Rodgers and even David Moyes have all won trophies in that time.

If we don't win at least an FA Cup this season Arteta and Edu must be sacked.

Arteta is an overrated manager he's been alright in the league but his performance in Europe and the domestic cups has been dismal besides winning the covid FA Cup with Unai Emery's squad not to mention the transfer howlers like buying Willian, Fabio Viera, Pablo Mari and Nuno Tavares aswell as letting Auba, Pepe and Martinez leave on frees.