Hanging, Haggering and Haggling of Humdrum!!!

I tried, but couldn't stop myself from writing a Blog after long time...

There has been lot of rumours doing the round and Gooners all over the world have different views about it. On twitter on the other hand, a new crop of ITKs have emerged and that has really created a mess for impatient Gooners like me. When Higuain rumours started, I was like 'meh' what the hell, lets see if it happens and then get happy about it. But that dragged for so long, that it started hurting my ego. Now I want him at any cost!!! :)

Well personal liking aside, I still think that Wenger shouldn't be involved in all of the transfer dealings that the club is doing. There are 2 major flip side to it, one that transfers go slow and two it dilutes his major work of managing the players and coaching them. We all know having too many things on plate can and will hamper your productivity in some way or another. This is why David Dein was so important for Arsenal, he was Arsene's partner in rhyme and crime. If not him, we do need somebody like him who can also question Wenger on why this and why not that? Because currently, there is no one and really no one who can question Arsene, afterall he has built the modern 'Arsene-al' football club we all love!!!

One more thing what I feel was stupid from Ivan Gazidis' side that he came out and told the world, hey we have money, come and hold us ransom. I can understand the point that he wanted to calm the unsettled supporters and make peace with them, but it was not a very tactical move on his part. We at Arsenal have always been frugal in the way we do our transfer dealings and everybody knows that, to tell other clubs we are not frugal anymore (even if Arsene's thinking is still frugal) makes no sense at all. This is what I guess is stumbling block between quick signings and no signings. As other clubs test our resolve to get the player and we still dont want to pay over what we have thought is the players price. The one shrewd thing I liked what we did is to create a smoke screen of Suarez bid and made sure all the bets are off the market, so that Real who are interested in him will quickly try to sign him and we get Higuain in turn. But alas, we are all but sure to go to Asia tour with only one new signing in Yaya Sanogo.

Apart from that I am really excited about the new kit simply becasue it reminds us of the greatest era that most of the clubs dream of 'The Invincibles". But my sincere request is not to buy any of the new kit or season tickets or Emirates cup ticket or any player memberships, till we have seen the ambition we were all promised at the end of last season, by getting quality players in our ranks.

BTW all the players who were considered to be surplus to our requirements (I wont use deadwood, as they were good once and that why they were playing for us, and it doesn't mean that they failed here they will fail elsewhere too!!) are slowly, but steadily moving out of the club.

I know I am a bit rusty, as I havent written in sometime, but please do let me know if you like the post and please do suggest for any improvements I should make..

Till nest time, let Up The Arsenal!!!

Why we shouldn’t worry and why we should!!!

Transfer news is spreading fast like Jungle fire!!! He is in, he is out, he should be in etc etc etc… Most ridiculous I heard is Cesc is coming back!!! Give me a break please. He didn't craft a dream move to his home to comeback!!! But the pressing matter is we are losing players who were first team regulars and we don’t have suitors for players who weren’t… A strange situation indeed!!!

For people who want Theo to stay, I would like to bring into their kind notice that Theo is not a player who is world class by any standard; at most he is a mediocre player, maybe even below it. His knowledge of football is too minimal. He doesn’t have anything in his armory other then pace! His shooting, decision making inside the box and outside, his dribbling, his basic understanding of the game all leaves a lot to be desired. Just because he is English, we can’t carry an excess baggage. If we want a runner in our squad, then let’s get Mo Farah, he would be happy to play and would be loyal too and everybody will agree he is a damn fine runner!!! And to be true, Theo has frustrated me and other Gooners alike with his stupid playing skills. To top that he wants a 100K/Week deal. On what basis Sir, on what basis? So that you can frustrate us even more and keep on taking money from us Gooners pockets (Read: Self Sustaining model)? I am sorry; he can leave and go wherever he wants.

Coming onto other transfers, we have lost a talented player in Lansbury. Atleast I liked his style of play. But how often we have seen people who Boss has let go off become great players? I can’t think of any actually! So hope selling Lansbury was not a mistake and there was something that Boss saw in him which I missed. Hope he has a good future. Moving on, world’s best striker Bendtner is now wanted by Milan. I am not saying he is not good, but the thing is if he is actually 10 percent, his ego and his father tells him he is 110%. Hence I don’t want another inflated ego in my club. Malaga wants Chamakh, now he is a player who started brilliantly, but lost all his confidence after our ex injury prone player came out of yet another injury. If given chance again, I am sure he could be a good target man and would give much needed competition to Giroud. But that’s up to Boss to decide and as we all know #ArseneKnows.

So the news is players are leaving and not coming. Well I am not sure how much of a bad news is this when you think about my next sentence! This is the penultimate season of Le Boss! I am not sure that he would agree for another deal if this keeps on happening. He has always kept the club running in thick and thin, but he also must want to have trophies in his cabinet. He is world class and he deserves that. If he leaves then I would like to see what these fucking board members do!!! How the hell can they run the club like this wherein they just keep on filling their pockets and don’t think about the fans that are paying their salary!!!! After losing 3 players if we don’t get atleast 6 more, then forget about champions league we would be fighting a relegation battle very soon. I want to see MY CLUB at the top, but this way of running a club is something I don’t agree with, whatever people might say….

Till next time Gooners!!! I can’t say today that lets Up The Arse because not in a mood!!!

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Preview Week #2 - Stoke Rugby Vs Arsenal

Second week is about to commence and we have got another lot of targets to come and few others who will not come! I think you all know I am talking about Turkish Midfielder Nuri Sahin, the boy who most of the Gooners want to come to AFC. I don’t want a player to come to us without a buying clause at the end of loan term, because this would mean we are spending 7Mil on a player who would mostly be a fringe player and we don’t even have an option to keep him after loan deal expires! This doesn’t make sense, atleast not to me. We have a packed midfield; we have Arteta, Rosicky, Ox, Cazorla, Diaby, Wilshere, Ramsey, Coquelin, Frimpong and couple of players like Eistfeld etc. and to top that I am pretty sure we would be going for a DM before the window closes. I am not saying that all these players are world class, but we still have these players wages to pay, medical bill to pay and so we can’t afford to have a player for 7Mil and keep him for a year without the assurance that if we like him then we can keep him!

I am not going to talk about stupid transfer speculations now, because of all that I said in my last post and I still stand by it! All I would say is about the club. I think Walcott will sign a new deal if he is told that he would be playing as a striker! Everyone has learned a way to ransom us in past few years, but if song incident has taught us anything, then that is Boss is willing to play hardball. And we should be ready for his exit if he doesn’t sign a new deal by Monday. I don’t think we will sign another winger until we sell Arshavin! Otherwise there is a possibility we can recall Miyachi. As far as defender goes, we need to sell the French sensation Squillaci to buy. For strikers, I don’t think we can buy any until the best striker in the world, the Sheesha smoker and the marketing campaign for east find a new club!

So moving ahead, we would be playing ‘The Rugby Team’ for the first time this season. It has to be a wonderful game :P…. I think American football costumes should be made available for all the teams visiting Britannia Stadium by FA! This will help reduce injuries to other players and teams will be more competent! I hate this team “Stoke City “not only because there is a chance of a player to get injured, but because it defies everything I love about football! They don’t play football; they play a “type” which you can’t even call as football! So target in this game should be to win and not get injured! I am not sure if Ramsey will start or play a part in this game, as his form is haywire and those ugly memories won’t let him play freely. And Boss won’t want to hamper his confidence further!

From my point of view, the team starting should be same as last weekend and this time over the weeks preparation, we should be more clinical. Amen to that!

So until next time. UTA. Folllow me on Twitter for a discussion @OnTheGunPoint

Drama, rumours and what not!!!

If I believe each and every rumour going around the mills, then we will have more than 80 players in the squad! Transfer market has become such a nuisance for so called ‘journalists’ that they will sell their own mother just to create a sensation! The best part is that if one newspaper writes that Nuri Sahin deal is expected to be done in 48 hours then the other writes 24 hours and other becomes more obnoxious and writes the deal is called off! This is not only creating false rumours about players and clubs but also creates unrest amongst the supporters. This makes supporters to come onto social media sites and comment/abuse/enquire etc to the players/clubs/amongst themselves. I don’t know but I don’t believe these rumours at all. Even the Club’s websites have started promoting these rumours and people are lapping them up like kittens!

And then there are so called ITK people. ‘In The Know’ my foot! People who have no work, or who have some IQ can always add 2+2 and come with a plausible situation for everyone to agree upon. They see oh Frimpong is injured, Coquelin has been sparsely used at DM position, Denilson is on loan then we would require a backup. Now they start thinking from the manager’s perspective; where AW does his most of the shopping, France! Who in France can he think of bringing into Arsenal, M’Vila sounds good, hence next day headlines ‘Arsenal in advance talks with Rennes for M’Vila’. Nothing happens, and they get a news, he has misbehaved in France’s Euro tour, now they want to keep the interest going on, so next day’s headline ‘Talks stall between Arsenal and M’Vila on the report of misbehaviour on his part’. Nothing to report for a long time and then song leaves, so next day headlines are ‘As we have reported earlier M’Vila deal is still on’!!! I say what the F***, they think we are idiots! If the deal has to come through, it’ll. If Boss has someone on his mind, he’ll bring him, we don’t need this swing set of rumours to create a chaotic situation.

Coming onto other news, I think like American ‘Yo Mamma’ jokes, we should have a nice banner on “The Little Boy’ joke when Robin Van Purstrings come and visit us. I personally would wait to see his form and situation and then will come up with a suitable one liner. Currently I like couple of them, let’s see which makes the cut!

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Till next time Gooners. Up The Arse!

This summer is going to be Legend… Wait for it….. Oh DRAB!!! Not this again!!!!

These were the exact words which came out of my mouth on 4th July! I know everybody has been talking about ‘Peter Pettigrew’ and ‘Dumbledore’ and how the ‘Ministry of Magic’ has been treating them and us ‘Muggles’!!! Now I don’t want to linger on the same topic, because what I want to say has already been said, and what I don’t want to say has also been said. We all know how ‘Death Eaters’ always circle to find a weak link and how they lure all the peters away from ministry of magic!!! And how successful there are in doing so is for all to see!!!

The point is this all fits with our situation today. Peters are Nasri, Adebayor, Clichy, Kolo,Cesc and now most probably Persie aka New Peter Pettigrew I guess!!! Dumbledore is none other than AW aka Le Boss, whose powers are becoming weaker day by day, after he touched the cursed ring of Emirates Stadium!!! Ministry of Magic is Kroenke and Co. who is so boorish that they can’t see the demise of this empire!!! We all are muggles, because we don’t know what is going inside the ministry, we only hear some hush voices to make us realize there is something or somebody out there and might be doing something!!!! Death Eaters, come on now this is easy one, take ManShitty, Chelshit, Barcelona (aka Dopers and actors) etc etc to get into this elite group.

Enough with this JK Rowling linguistics, but I hope I have made myself quite clear. We Gooners have seen a lot in past 7 years. We have seen legends leave, great players leave, good players leave, cunts leave and yeah no trophies. AFC’s ambitions have been confined to reaching CL at any cost and that has been fulfilled by AW. So it doesn’t come as a surprise to me when I see players leaving for pastures new! Tell me a single person who won’t leave their current job if their salary is tripled or doubled? Or if the company he is working would never compete with the big players in its field for top honors?

Answers are quite simple; Loyalty is always going to be for fans and not footballers, footballers are employees! From my perspective, it doesn’t matter how much I loved SAP Labs as a kid, it doesn’t mean I won’t leave the company if somebody else gives me a great offer! So people looking for loyalty in footballers, my request is to stay away from that word. We should be loyal to club and love it as it is. This doesn't mean we should stop expecting!!! We should definitely expect but also be realistic (Believe me, it does reduce the pain!!!)

This bring me to other point now, R&W holdings has asked questions from Board regarding why Persie is leaving and why we (Gooners) have to go through the same trauma again and again. This seems a valid point to me. I don’t know the internal politics, but from outside I, just like David Dean, would have wanted Usmanov on the board and better still be the owner instead of Kroenke. If other teams can have surplus cash to spend from their owners, why the hell we don’t get any? Self sustaining model aside (which BTW wont grant us financial fair play status, if we don’t qualify for CL any year!!!), I really feel he would have made the club more competitive in fighting for top laurels!!! I know many bloggers and reporters and experts and Gooners who wont agree to what I am saying, but this is my thinking as I don’t want to see other clubs winning everything every year. We are always so close yet so far!!!

Anyways, there are few things I have noticed, if we keep on running the club as we are now, there would be a time when we would be booing every Manshitty player on field!!! Also I would now like to know from the fans who would they boo more, Nasri or Persie or Cesc? Cesc decided not to play for us as he wanted to leave for Barca!!! Persie, ridiculed the club and also made his desire to leave public!!! Nasri on the other hand did play for us when needed, he didn’t disrespected the club and fans until he was booed, called cunt etc etc. Now tell me who is the favorite son of all??? If I was called cunt repeatedly I would have also blown my fuse. I am not saying that Nasri is a gem of a person or he is the best, just saying even when he wanted to leave he was professional, but others are not!!!

Now the next hurdle to cross is to get Walcott, Song and other player’s signature as soon as possible. If they are not willing, then let’s sell them and buy players on long term and hope we can get quality and loyalty!!! Amen to that.

Until next time. Lets be upbeat about the next season and Up The Arse!!! Follow me on twitter @OnTheGunPoint for a nice conversation about the club we love ARSENAL!!!

Transfer Speculations….. And my non dampener friend!!!

January Transfer window is just round the corner, and as expected transfer rumors would be flying left right and centre. Hence a weekly update to all you Gooners from my side.

Lets first focus on current crop of young players. Francis Coquelin has told to a French radio that he is looking out for a club in January as he is not getting enough chances in first team at Arsenal (Though his Arsenal Player Interview says something completely different!!!)… Hmmm, frustration is beginning to crop into younger players now, as Boss’ youngster policy has somewhat taken a backseat after a dismal start to the season. Similar comments were given by Henry Lansbury before moving out on loan for Hammers. Szcz also said the same thing before he got his opportunity when Almunia and Fabianski got injured. And he grabbed it with such pomp and honor, that not only he became number one, but also gave rest to our entire Keeper scouting. I understand that after tasting blood (first team exp), they want more opportunities and want to play regularly. Actually I like Lansbury and Coquelin more than Ramsey and Frimpong and hence want to see them playing on frequent basis. There is a ripe possibility that if Hammers win promotion this year, then Lansbury might make his move permanent there. Also it seems unlikely that boss will let Coquelin leave this January. Reason being Frimpong would be leaving for African cup of Nations in January and we will be short in holding role.

On the senior players front, Arshavin has made some very funny remarks (atleast on google translate it comes across that way) about his life in England and English players, also about first team opportunities. He makes a valid point that currently Arsene trusts Walcott and Gervinho more than him. Now we all have a soft corner for ‘The Russian’, and we know what he is capable of, but alas even after umpteenth chances we only see a spark here and there. My friend and fellow die hard Gooner, Sarit Banerjee, would kill me for what I am about to say now. I think it’s the right time for him to move, his potential somehow has been wasted here and I don’t see how anybody can improve upon that. He is not helping himself or the club by staying. I completely forgot about the funny remarks, he said players in UK like to sway diagonally and can’t control their Uterus!!! Hope you all get the TERRYfic GIG(gs) he threw and it doesn’t go in WAYNE (Vain)!!!

New news has come up from RVP and Lukasz Fabianski front. Where Cesc has spoken for RVP, saying he will either leave this time around or will retire at Arsenal. We all know that RVP has put his contracts talks on hold until end of this season, so Cesc's remark doesn’t make any sense. This is the time when team has started to resurrect itself (with RVP being at thick of things)and we don’t need any controversies surrounding our Captain! I just wonder when Barca players will stop commenting about Arsenal and its players (Tongue in cheek remark ofcourse)!!!  We all love you Cesc, but this is not acceptable, please leave RVP alone. Lukasz Fabianski on the other hand, has had a showdown with Boss regarding not playing regularly and the prospect of missing out on Euro’12 berth for Poland! He either wants to switch to another club or he wants to go out on loan! Now somebody needs to tell him very slowly, so that he understands, till the time Szcz is fit he won’t be playing either for Poland or Arsenal! Because of simple reason, Szcz is a far better keeper than him.

On new players, we already have an existing list of player like Hazard, M’villa, Götze, Gourcuff. I would like to add a few more names to the ever increasing list; Tim Ream (New York Red Bulls), Tongo Hamed Doumbia (Rennes), Brek Shea (FC Dallas), Marco Reus (Borussia Mönchengladbach). These new additions to speculations are actually good players and you guys should check them out on YouTube. Also, you can vote on whom you want to see playing for us. I would be writing on top two of the five players, when voting is completed.

Conclution is saved for my non dampener friend; I would like to say that I have taken some of the stories from ‘The Sun’, ‘The Telegraph’, ‘The Daily Mirror’ and also from my Mentor ‘ArseBlog’. There some other sources for my info, do let me know if you need more names!!!  I just hope I was a fiction writer, then I won’t have stooped so low to get my blog filled with other’s news!!! J

Until next time then. Hail Gunners.