Harsh IMO…He is an experienced player and in my view would be more than an upgrade on Mustafi. We are not going to be able to overhaul all of our squad this summer. Sven has only had one transfer window and signed a world class player in Aubameyang, an excellent player in Mkhitaryan and a good young promising player in Mavropanos. This summer marks the start of our new structure and WE all have to give it time. Providing we get rid of Mustafi and sign another CB as well I am more than happy with Sokratis - he can do a good job for us for the next two seasons while we rebuild during this transition period.
As for the comment on the Emirates, we made the move to ensure our club could compete with the other big clubs. The decision was made at a time before the sales of Chelsea and Man City, BUT notwithstanding this, if we hadn’t made the move to the Emirates we would be totally fucked now and would likely be a mid table team. Although it’s popular to slate Arsenal and the board for their decisions, unlike other clubs we have a very sound finances, can pay big wages and can afford big transfer fees.
Most Arsenal fans wanted change after last season. We’ve got change. WE ALL need to be patient and get behind the new manager and team next season. It’s not fantasy football. We won’t get Neymar this summer. We have to rebuild the squad so we can as a minimum get back into the top 4, which likely means overhauling Spurs and Chelsea next season.
We’ll see how this works out. I am slightly more optimistic b/c Sven is more intimately knowledgeable about him and the price is ok - VVD cost how much?
With some young defenders and Kos out and Moose crap, we needed this - now get another stud and a CM and wing and we are sorted, or at least sorted optimally for one summer.
or maybe with some fucking decent defensive coaching for a fucking change we wont look like a bunch of twats that don’t know what they are meant to be doing…who knows they might surprise you with some fucking coaching.
That ref was an idiot to be fair. Footballers respond with words and gestures all the time, for as long as he didn’t curse at him or offend him in any way sending him off like that was just an excessive use of authority and bad refereeing.
If you’re going to send a player off for that, then imagine what the ref would have done if he had been refereeing a Man U game, when Ferguson was in charge and all their players used to surround the ref when they didn’t get a throw in.
I’ve just noticed only fifty posts on him. which would indicate he isn’t going to generate much excitement.
I expect the board are serving him up a a starter for when the true world class players start coming in.
Also, Sokratis Papastathopoulos has nine syllables in his name.
Is this an Arsenal record?
