steve_69

Isn't he a bit shit?

It's bullshit though. Their version of diving will be where there's no contact but the player falls over. What they need to outlaw is players going to ground when they feel contact. That's the real scourge of the game Completely disagree. It's been shown many times that refs don't give penalties if players stay on their feet after being fouled so they are right to go down if they're fouled It's a foul if you are impeded. You can feel contact and not be impeded, able to carry on your run, dribble etc. without any bother. Instead players CHOOSE to go down instead of carrying on. That's not a foul according to any laws of the game. If you CHOOSE to go down it's a dive, whether you feel contact or not. This 'he had a right to go down' is one of the most frustrating and destructive sentences uttered by anyone with regards to football. Absolutely bullshit and the reason the game is being ruined. You're basically saying he had a right to throw himself to the ground because someone tapped his leg?! Really!? Is this what it's come to where supposed fans of football are advocating players falling over when they feel a tap. That's f***ing disgraceful and actually quite sad as well. Yes you have a right to go down if you're fouled. Getting tapped on the ankle preventing you from getting to the ball or continuing a run is a foul yes We're not talking about getting tapped on the ankle and it stopping you getting to the ball. We're talking about players getting tapped on the ankle, not being impeded and being perfectly able to carry on their run but instead CHOOSING to go down. That isn't a foul, ever! It's a dive, but this practice has become so widely accepted and supported by pros, former pros and pundits that people think it's OK. Watching a penalty incident where a player throws themselves to the ground when they could have carried on, and watching pundits replay it 10 times trying to discern if there was any contact is depressing as f***! Football is a contact sport and always will be, it can't be anything else with 22 players running around in such close confinement. Basically saying if someone touches you, you have a right to throw yourself on the ground makes a mockery of the whole sport. The game will be unwatchable if we continue down this route. It's already totally sterile and significantly less entertaining than it used to be at the top level. Maybe it's just my age.

It's bullshit though. Their version of diving will be where there's no contact but the player falls over. What they need to outlaw is players going to ground when they feel contact. That's the real scourge of the game Completely disagree. It's been shown many times that refs don't give penalties if players stay on their feet after being fouled so they are right to go down if they're fouled It's a foul if you are impeded. You can feel contact and not be impeded, able to carry on your run, dribble etc. without any bother. Instead players CHOOSE to go down instead of carrying on. That's not a foul according to any laws of the game. If you CHOOSE to go down it's a dive, whether you feel contact or not. This 'he had a right to go down' is one of the most frustrating and destructive sentences uttered by anyone with regards to football. Absolutely bullshit and the reason the game is being ruined. You're basically saying he had a right to throw himself to the ground because someone tapped his leg?! Really!? Is this what it's come to where supposed fans of football are advocating players falling over when they feel a tap. That's f***ing disgraceful and actually quite sad as well.

It's bullshit though. Their version of diving will be where there's no contact but the player falls over. What they need to outlaw is players going to ground when they feel contact. That's the real scourge of the game

I'd absolutely love him here. He seems like a decent guy as well so he ticks a lot of boxes. He is 28 though so that would count against him if we're operating on the old 'resale value' model.

Is Chicarito realistic? He seems like a Rafa type striker, knows the PL and scores for fun. He's also not playing for a Champions League club so it's not like he'd be taking a massive step down

He is right that the sense of entitlement is wrong, however he is wrong about everything else. He himself won't have an attachment to clubs like others do, so it is easy for him to say to just leave. I wouldn't say to Arsenal fans who are unhappy to just leave, I'd just explain to them that no club automatically is entitled to success, and in there case are successful but they choose to dismiss this success. He explains it well in 1 paragraph, the rest of the article is tripe that only a 'middle class bandwagon jumper' can come too. The sense of entitlement is wrong, but the frustration at having watched many different iterations of their team exhibiting the same glaring problems that Wenger refuses to acknowledge or address isn't. He's the world's most stubborn football manager. It's all well and good having a football philosophy but if that philosophy is ultimately flawed in the modern game, and his refusal to amend it even slightly is stopping the club from challenging for major honours, they are well within their rights to want him to leave. How long have they needed a big dirty CB and a solid DM for?! 10 years? I'd be pissed off after 2 years let alone 10.

Us, the fans are also a big draw for players. Granted, the money/Champions League football are the biggest swaying factors but players will have taken note of the scenes throughout this season and especially on the last day, even though we were in the Championship. When our ground is full and rocking it's one of the best, if not the best in the country and that matters to players - they want to play in stadiums like ours. Add the Rafa factor to that and I think we're a lot more attractive to potential signings than some of you lot think.

Read the first line *click*. Yep. What a twat!

We won't if the likes of Ben Gibson are being quoted at £30m. The good thing is, Rafa will have as good a knowledge of the foreign market as anyone so he'll be the right man to bring in quality players for decent value. English players will end up going to CL clubs like Chelsea and Man U who will be prepared to pay stupid money for an instant fix. There's definitely still plenty of value out there. Off the top of my head, in the past couple of seasons Matip, Redmond, Shaqiri, Gabiadini, Kante, Huth, Lanzini, Dele Alli, Eric Dier, Matt Ritchie, Negredo etc. have all either been free or cost 'reasonable' money. I don't think Rafa will have any problem adding significant quality to the squad with the sort of budget that's been quoted.

Charnley's got the egg-iest shaped head i've ever seen. It's like a comedy head

Yes Fuck no no

You say that but plenty of diminutive players have thrived in the PL over the past few years. They're as protected by soft-touch refs as they ever have been. It would be down to his attitude, character and the way he was deployed as to whether he'd succeed. Under Pardew he'd have absolutely no chance but under Rafa he might thrive.

How did Davinson Sanchez and Riedewald play? Always read quite good things about them, but never really seen them play. Sanchez made a couple of fantastic tackles to win the ball, hard but totally clean. He looks a really good prospect but it wasn't the game for him to shine as both teams basically threw defence out of the window.

Watched Ajax last night and i'd take half of their team. Their little playmaker, Younes, was absolutely class. He's listed as a left winger/striker

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Jan Khirchhoff from the Mackems on a free would be a nice little deal. Can cover DM and CB.

Betting companies aren't exactly known for their moral standards

The rules are clear regarding this. He's broken them a stupid amount of times. It's a completely deserved ban. I get that but half the posts about him betting against his own team omitted this point and it's quite an important one. We're not a tabloid newspaper FFS! Deserves a ban but 18 months is f***ing ridiculous. He's broken rules but hasn't cheated or brought the game into disrepute.

Bet against his own team only when he wasn't playing or even on the bench. No match fixing implications at all.

one of his trusted men, Farid Ayad, and sulphurous agent Willy McKay, would be in the sights of the investigators OM transfers allegedly fraudulent.

No photos of thumb-head being carted away in handcuffs?

Sell up you fucking fat mess!