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8 hours ago, nemtizz said:

Keith Neesy backing up his man unsurprisingly

 

 

 

Take it as a compliment.[emoji38] We're not Palace. Oh wow, we have a player who would be good enough for the allmighty Arsenal? Incredible!

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8 hours ago, Ronaldo said:

Fuck do you expect from him, another one on Ashley’s bacon sarnie list. Was very quick to talk about the need for change as soon as the takeover happened. Twat.

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3 hours ago, Zero said:

No disrespect to wor Alan but Isak is genuinely better.

Disagree. As an all round player, maybe but as a striker, no. The proof will be in the pudding if he can better Shearers record pro-rata and over a sustained period of time. Until he does that I won't believe it. Shearer had career threatening injuries and still scored 49% of the time when he returned.

 

 

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22 minutes ago, relámpago blanco said:

Arsenal can't afford him. If he leaves it'll be Barca, Real or PSG for 175M

 

PSG is said to have changed strategy away from those kind of deals.

 

 

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12 minutes ago, Hanshithispantz said:

Shearer's best days started at Blackburn and he was outrageous for half a decade.

 

 

 

Shearer scored 51% of the time over 559 league games (18 years).

 

That is an absolutely phenomenal record. Especially when he was only in one trophy winning side and had the injuries he had.

 

 

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The Arsenal thing from Sky/everyone is so odd. What’s it all based on?! 
 

Was it not just them enquiring in the summer and being told to fuck off and them needing a striker. Has there been anything concrete since? 
 

Seems like Sky are playing the role of an Arsenal fanzine and just pushing some weird narrative of Arsenal wanting him and supposedly they will get him in the summer. Despite nothing actually being reported regarding bids, solid interest etc. 

 

It’s absolutely mental and has been brought about by PSR making the January transfer window a bit pointless. They just want something to talk about. 
 

Cunts. 

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I absolutely love Isak, always have really. I’m Swedish and have followed him through his career, really liked him when he broke through and I’ve always thought he’s special. He really is.

 

BUT for me it’s still too early to compare him with our record goal scorer who played for us for almost 20 years. Alex has been here for two minutes in comparison. For me it’s quite obvious and means no disrespect to the man.

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12 minutes ago, Heron said:

Shearer scored 51% of the time over 559 league games (18 years).

 

That is an absolutely phenomenal record. Especially when he was only in one trophy winning side and had the injuries he had.

 

 

 

Without his injuries I don't think there would be talk of Haaland getting anywhere near him tbh, there would be no debate between him and Henry either. It's a shame, although he adapted brilliantly still.

 

 

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11 minutes ago, Heron said:

Disagree. As an all round player, maybe but as a striker, no. The proof will be in the pudding if he can better Shearers record pro-rata and over a sustained period of time. Until he does that I won't believe it. Shearer had career threatening injuries and still scored 49% of the time when he returned.

 

 

 

 

Shearer is my hero, I watched all his games. Shearer is definitely a better finisher - if given space, and he has better strength and determination re scoring goals. If you want a classical striker, then probably Shearer would be a more prolific choice.

 

But Isak is more than that. I don’t want to bring it up again (fuck the gunners) but Isak is exactly the type of modern striker like Henry. He can destroy opponent on his own, even if the other players couldn’t create chances for him. He can do that himself. He can beat opponents one on one and score with both foot, or he can pick up Gordon/Murphy in critical area. He has too much arsenals in his pocket, it’s close to ridiculous. 
 

Higuain at his prime has ridiculous goal scoring rate. Yet we all know Benzema is the better striker (and why CR7 scored so much). 

Isak still needs time and stats to proof, let’s hope he would be free from injuries and able to extend his prime years till early 30s.

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:

The Arsenal thing from Sky/everyone is so odd. What’s it all based on?! 
 

Was it not just them enquiring in the summer and being told to fuck off and them needing a striker. Has there been anything concrete since? 
 

Seems like Sky are playing the role of an Arsenal fanzine and just pushing some weird narrative of Arsenal wanting him and supposedly they will get him in the summer. Despite nothing actually being reported regarding bids, solid interest etc. 

 

It’s absolutely mental and has been brought about by PSR making the January transfer window a bit pointless. They just want something to talk about. 
 

Cunts. 


To me it seems it’s purely based on the comparisons to Thierry Henry and how “he’d be perfect for Arsenal” now they are all just gagging for him to go there

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5 minutes ago, Collage said:

I absolutely love Isak, always have really. I’m Swedish and have followed him through his career, really liked him when he broke through and I’ve always thought he’s special. He really is.

 

BUT for me it’s still too early to compare him with our record goal scorer who played for us for almost 20 years. Alex has been here for two minutes in comparison. For me it’s quite obvious and means no disrespect to the man.

 

Just a small correction. It was 10 years, Isaks been here for 25% of that.

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5 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:

The Arsenal thing from Sky/everyone is so odd. What’s it all based on?! 
 

Was it not just them enquiring in the summer and being told to fuck off and them needing a striker. Has there been anything concrete since? 
 

Seems like Sky are playing the role of an Arsenal fanzine and just pushing some weird narrative of Arsenal wanting him and supposedly they will get him in the summer. Despite nothing actually being reported regarding bids, solid interest etc. 

 

It’s absolutely mental and has been brought about by PSR making the January transfer window a bit pointless. They just want something to talk about. 
 

 

As far as the media is concerned only 3 clubs really matter - the same ones that have driven the domestic football agenda for almost 40 years. 

Add the fact the transfer window has been nobbled by PSR constraints, as well as increasingly clichéd and poor standards of journalism, and you have repetitive hyperbole such as the Isak to Arsenal link. 

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7 minutes ago, gdm said:


To me it seems it’s purely based on the comparisons to Thierry Henry and how “he’d be perfect for Arsenal” now they are all just gagging for him to go there


Arsenal, since the Wenger era, always played a style that requires their striker to be able to create plays and score goals. Henry was not the first one, Bergkamp was.

 

This “tradition” in fact brought more bad than good to them. They didn’t really value Giroud due to this. They always want to find another Henry.

 

I do agree Isak would be fucking great for them. He would be fucking great for any team in the world anyway.

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1 hour ago, Lush Vlad said:

The Arsenal thing from Sky/everyone is so odd. What’s it all based on?! 
 

Was it not just them enquiring in the summer and being told to fuck off and them needing a striker. Has there been anything concrete since? 
 

Seems like Sky are playing the role of an Arsenal fanzine and just pushing some weird narrative of Arsenal wanting him and supposedly they will get him in the summer. Despite nothing actually being reported regarding bids, solid interest etc. 

 

It’s absolutely mental and has been brought about by PSR making the January transfer window a bit pointless. They just want something to talk about. 
 

Cunts. 

 

There was a lot of talk that Arsenal were in for him the previous summer before we signed him, and it was all over the media. 

 

There was even photos of some car in London with an Isak custom license plate during the rumours he was set to sign.

 

Arsenal fans have therefore decided that he was always theirs and will inevitably end up there, especially because he now wears the number 14 and has some similarities to Henry.

 

It is altogether one of the most extraordinarily embarrassing episodes of desperate fawning over a player in footballing history.

 

Especially because at the time he was being linked, loads of them didn't think he was good enough because 'he wasn't a goal scorer'. Purely based off of one season of stats in a pretty dull Sociedad side that didn't utilise his strengths.

 

He will never end up there. He's done far too well, and if he opts for a new adventure at some point it will be at Real or Barca.

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1 minute ago, KaKa said:

He will never end up there. He's done far too well, and if he opts for a new adventure at some point it will be at Real or Barca.

 

Definitely. Going to Arsenal or someone like that isn't a sideways move as such but he's so good that he'll just be looking to step up another level after a couple of seasons there anyway. 

 

He'll not just go to a Champions League club, he'll go to a club realistically aiming to win the Champions League. 

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4 minutes ago, Menace said:

Why would a Spanish resident have a private UK plate car, their fans are genuinely incredibly weird.

 

It was so funny man.

 

They weren't even excited about him signing at the time.

 

Certainly not from what I remember, and now, just so desperate.

 

I take immeasurable joy in reminding all the ones I know, of how they were turning their noses up at the time, every time he scores.

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