(The not-so-temporary quite-official) Gooner Thread (Part 3)

Fudge football very much.

oh ffs

great few mins from Iwobi

gah. fudge this

AMN has been massively exposed tonight. Sokratis and Koscielny haven't helped him at all. Monreal's shown why he doesn't deserve another contract. Of that starting 11 I'm expecting we won't see Cech, Ozil, Monreal, and Koscielny in Arsenal shirts next year.

Ozil has once again shown why we must show him the door, offered absolutely nothing tonight.

Worst thing is that this Chelsea team isnt even that good arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh i'm a gunner through and through but we keep shooting ourselves in the foot. Terrible performance considering what was at stake

I mean part of me feels like Kroenke and the board who have woefully mismanaged this club deserve this and Spurs winning the CL in the weekend but it still fudgeing hurts. Probably hurts even more to know Kroenke couldn't give less of a fudge.

Just give Ozil away for free. Anything to get this leech out of the club. Might aswell just play with 10 men.

shiiit, we could of well been still in this if our finishing was even half pie. 

I wonder how differently this would have been had the Laca penalty been given or at least reviewed by VAR.

With all of this shiit, i still really rate guendouzi ay. I hope he is the heart of our midfield for some time to come. 

what a weird final whistle. 

1000% 

Was Kroenke there? Shouldn't think he even had the faintest idea the match took place nor could he have given less of a fudge. No accountability or responsibility at this club and it comes from the top down.

dead

You or the club? 

Ahhh well can't get any worse.

True. We could be trying to find our way home from Baku!

Liverpool could lose on Saturday...

Dont start thinking like that. 

The powers that that run this club deserved this morning and deserve to see Spurs win on Sunday tbh. 

I'm too depressed to care anymore. Almost ready to stop watching football if the Nix get kicked out.

Squad Clean Up

This summer represents the biggest clean up than since we signed Arteta, BFG, and others in the great fire sale of 2011.

Aside from those exiting for free due to retirement/mismanagement of contracts we have a bunch of players we need to ship.

Here’s what I see are priorities. Special shout out to a back up RB for Hector so we can use AMN in a DM role instead of RB.

GK

Keep: Leno

Sell: Cech (retiring), Ospina

Promote: Illev, Martinez

Buy: no one, all internal solutions.

CB

Keep: Holding, Sokratis, Chambers

Sell: Monreal, Koscielny, Mustafi

Loan: Mavropanos

Promote: Bielek

Buy: established mid twenties CB

TPTB don't give a shark about the club nor the result... the ones that do are us fans.

Watch the recent propaganda videos on the clubs website and that comes across very clear; all the bullshark about wanting to win stuff but the reality is we're a self sustaining branding exercise for KSE, he/they won't invest a cent in the club. And therefore we won't compete at the top table of european football - until such time as the global squillionaires get bored with football and decide to invest/gamble in another sport. Pricks.

Priority for KSE is the Rams new stadium, not us.

If it makes you feel any better, imagine being a Man United fan at the moment. Your team finishes 6th, no trophies for the season. Your city neighbours have just won the domestic treble and your biggest rivals could be crowned European Champions on Sunday morning.

Saw a stat you guys might appreciate.  All of Giroud's 16 goals for us this year were one touch finishes.

Giroud: 'It was an improvement going from Arsenal to Chelsea and I knew I would have the opportunity to win some more trophies... I’m a Blue, a proper Blue. It’s a new chapter of my career and it was very special to score. I am so proud of this team.'

https://twitter.com/amadoit__/status/1134486687692853249

Does anyone else find it ironic that this years "Champions" League final will be between two teams who haven't actually been champions of their domestic league for 29 and 58 years. This years is more like the "We put a bit of pressure on" League final.

Do not appreciate :)

sad news out of Spain, Reyes has died in a car accident :(

I just don’t know how we’d manage to ship both Mhiki and Ozil in the same summer. Also think AMN needs more time, he’s been part of a horrible defence covering a position he doesn’t see his career in.

Reports that Emery wants Ozil out no matter what, even if we have to subsidise wages. 

Rumours that we are looking at RB Thomas Meunier from PSG. Seems an odd decision given it would be half our rumoured transfer budget for a back up RB. No talk of Bellerin leaving at all. 

Aubameyang apparently has mega offers from China that he might even be keen on. 

Rumours that Barca are sniffing around Lacazette as well. 

Agree he could do with time in the middle, i personally can't see him being a boss midfielder we need/want

He’s so calm and composed I reckon he could be a serial killer in the midfield!

AMN aside I’m excited to see more of our yoof incorporated next season.

Crazy talk around the place now. 

Apparently Xhaka, Mustafi, Mkhitaryan and Aubameyang have all removed references to Arsenal from their social media accounts.

Xhaka is being linked with Inter Milan, and apparently wants to leave because of our lack of CL football. 40m may be the fee. 

Big offers from China for Auba. 

Also talk about Kolasinac wanting out. 

And of course those rumours that Emery wants Ozil out any which way, even through subsidising his wages if necessary. 

Our team is going to look very different come next season, no matter what happens!

I must say, as much as I love Auba, and have liked Xhaka, if we could get 100m for them I'd take it, as that would transform our budget for transfers this off-season. We can replace Xhaka for a lot cheaper I'm sure, and we have Lacazette as our starter, so could take a punt on some cheaper alternatives to back him up, plus bring Nketiah properly into the first team. 

agree with selling Auba and Xhaka.....and anything we can get for Ozil 

i must say this past season Ozil has really disappointed, i think we would be better off without him

Any chance we can get Rambo back :( 

I remember when Rooney did this and replaced it was "Nike Athlete". Caused a sharkshow that came to nothing.

I looked up the first two on Twitter to see what they'd changed it to, and both still have Arsenal references. Not going to bother checking the rest, but it sounds like a pile of bollocks.

Thanks 20L, I hadn't checked for myself, just went by social media commentary and screenshots. Perhaps they were in the process of updating, or it's all total bollocks.