El indecido me molesta, si no me quiero, Transfer Thead 2016

The rest of the details don't matter. Wenger has been a minimum of six months late on every decision he's made in the last 7 years.

 

It's not even tactics. He goes years without bothering to address obvious deficiencies in the squad. For ********'s sake Almunia played 100 games and probably cost us points in 1/4 of them.

 

Aight. Wasn't trying to start a tactical analysis of the arsenal midfield circa 2008, was just rehashing my opinion on Denilson.

He was good, but I don't feel the team played better with him. He got hurt and song stepped in. Ramsey and wilshere were coming up and he couldn't find another spot.

It wasn't the injury, it was that the team was better with the other options. We've seen it plenty of times, most recently with debuchy, Gibbs and now Jack.

 

Song wasn't a started as a cm till 09 10 and even then as time progressed he moved further up the pitch

 

Not because anyone wanted him to, mind.

 

Agreed. But still I will never forget those incisive throughballs he played to Cesc towards the end of his tenure at Arsenal. Yes he was leaving the back exposed more, but man he did have a knack and vision for a few killer offensive passes. At that moment in time anyway.

 

except Wenger

 

His few and far "killer passes" (or Hollywood passes more aptly named) went to his head and may have also obscured his major positioning and tactical flaws. Her was simply a liabilty on the field. That we sold him to Barca for, iirc, 15 M is still incomprehensible to me. Arsenal really fleeced Barcelona on this (and a few others to be fair).

 

I can't really disagree with any of that, but you have to admit that there were some spectacular Hollywood passes. There's one or two to Cesc that are stuck in my brain. No idea what game, but they paid off with important goals.

For the record I liked Song in general, and even though he sort of strayed away from his awesome enforcer role that was most endearing, I still was largely sad when we let him go. A spectacular bit of business that was by Wenger though to get Barca to pay 15M.

 

I've given Arseblog's ArseCast a few listens now. It's growing on me. But the main guy's accent takes a bit of getting used to. What is that an American-Irish mashup? And what's his name?? The other guy who joins him, James from GunnerBlog(?)... I like him, thoughtful without a lot of stupid sh1t.

And what's the verdict on Football Weekly podcast? (he says, wondering if that might replace the daily 5Live podcasts which can be a bit too much of a time commitment)

 

This is annoying me. Song's greatest passes were to RvP and Eduardo, not Cesc.

 

I only liked Song for this song....

Alex Dmitri Song Billong
Plays the holding role
scores the occasional goal

 

James Olley in the Evening Standard tonight: The Deal: Arsene Wenger's 'Moneyball' works, but next Arsenal boss needs super agents like Manchester United talks about agent Jon Smith's new book The Deal.

The book contains an unprecedented level of detail on the inner workings of the club Smith has supported all his life and he believes the system can sometimes slow transfer business down, contributing to the frustration some supporters feel.​

This might be an interesting book to pick up. I also saw Smith on AFTV interviewed by Robbie:

 

I read that article and am unimpressed with its content. He basically said a whole bunch of things that Arsenal do to scout and evaluate players, then said Arsene has the final say. He also seems to think that the data-driven scouting is the holdup on player evaluation, which is nonsense, imo. Go look at Ted Knutsen's prospects from 13 and 14 and it's a great list. If our numbers people really take that long to evaluate people then they're a waste.

 

Song-to-RVP you're probably right that was the greatest combo. I think there was one that Robin took first time out of the air, like only he could do.

But still I have this memory of a few beautiful Route-1 passes to Cesc. Faulty memory or not, they're in my head.

 

Both Madrid team's one year transfer bans were upheld. Which almost certainly means that since they can't buy replacements, the rumored transfers for CR, Bale and Greizman will not occur until the winter of 2018 at the earliest. in anticipation of not winning their appeal this may also explain why Real Madrid didn't put Morata up for sale after the bought him back from Juve.

 

Griezmann has a buyout. Are the bans for outgoing transfers as well?

 

No. It's a player registration ban meaning they can't add any new players to their UEFA sanctioned rosters (which covers the country's league).

 

But it means they won't sell anyone because they can't replace them.

Firesale at Real coming up

 

Sure, but a buyout is different, no? Once that is met, if the player agrees terms, the club has to let the player go (anyone who mentions Suarez has to watch Chamakh's hair over the ages).

 

No just incoming, but they won't be able to replace any players that leave.

See I was beaten to it.

 

he just signed a new contract, how much is the buy out?