The Official Arsenal - 14 x Cup Winners Thread (Vol 5)

[mylesmcd]

Any word on the Saliba injury? Cant seem to find any updates on progress...

[Wonderman]

mylesmcd said:

Any word on the Saliba injury? Cant seem to find any updates on progress...

https://tbrfootball.com/the-initial-prognosis-jour...
Probably back for West Ham on the 16th April.

Kiwor played at RB for Poland (full 90 mins), so likely Holding for Leeds and Liverpool >.<

Edited by Wonderman on Tuesday 28th March 12:06

[Carl_Manchester]

Saliba has a 75% chance of playing in the next match according to Fantasy Footie. He is close to a return.

I hope Real Madrid don't come in for Saka and/or Saliba.

If you are religious, start praying.

[Wonderman]

Carl_Manchester said:

Saliba has a 75% chance of playing in the next match according to Fantasy Footie. He is close to a return.

I hope Real Madrid don't come in for Saka and/or Saliba.

If you are religious, start praying.

I thought they were after Jesus

[Carl_Manchester]

now you have jinxed it mate.

why not sign all three?

[Wonderman]

Carl_Manchester said:

now you have jinxed it mate.

why not sign all three?

Looks like Saka is signing the thing…article in mirror re wages.

Saka is close to agreeing a new contract with Arsenal worth a minimum of £10million per year (just over £192,000-a-week). Yet it is claimed he will actually receive nearly £15m per year thanks to bonuses and other add-ons.

Arsenal's New Weekly Wages
Bukayo Saka - £288,000
**Gabriel Jesus - £265,000
Thomas Partey - £200,000
Oleksandr Zinchenko - £150,000
Ben White - £120,000
Granit Xhaka - £120,000
Martin Odegaard - £115,000
Kieran Tierney - £110,000
Eddie Nketiah - £100,000
Gabriel Martinelli - £90,000
Aaron Ramsdale - £61,923
Takehiro Tomiyasu - £55,962
Mohamed Elneny - £50,000
Fabio Vieira - £45,385
Leandro Trossard - £45,000
Rob Holding - £40,000
William Saliba - £40,000
Emile Smith Rowe - £40,000
Matt Turner - £35,000
Jakub Kiwior - £29,000
Reiss Nelson - £15,000
*Jorginho's wages remain undisclosed
**According to the Daily Mail and Spotrac

Edited by Wonderman on Wednesday 29th March 07:54

[MOBB]

There's a few on that list that need a hefty payrise and quickly! When we were st no-one was looking at our squad, now Martinelli and Odegaard look well underpaid and stealable.

[Carl_Manchester]

Saliba getting paid about the same as Rory Delap

[Puzzles]

Those wages seem very low

[Wonderman]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65117724

Sigh

Arsenal and Aston Villa staff members charged by FA with improper conduct

[Wonderman]

Article in the Metro…
Arsenal fans paying £53,000 for final day tickets amid Premier League title race in hope of seeing team lift trophy

Too soon, and too much!

[StonedRollin]

Wonderman said:

Article in the Metro…
Arsenal fans paying £53,000 for final day tickets amid Premier League title race in hope of seeing team lift trophy

Too soon, and too much!

Maybe the article should read 'tickets advertised at' as I don't believe anyone in their right mind would pay that.

[Wonderman]

StonedRollin said:

Wonderman said:

Article in the Metro…
Arsenal fans paying £53,000 for final day tickets amid Premier League title race in hope of seeing team lift trophy

Too soon, and too much!

Maybe the article should read 'tickets advertised at' as I don't believe anyone in their right mind would pay that.

Seen more sensible articles with £28,000 I can't imagine why wouldn't put it on Ticket Exchange and get £28 for it instead (or if we've collapsed before then £2.80)

Anyway Arsenal "cracking down on touts" https://www.arsenal.com/news/acting-against-ticket... I had email convo with the lead for this back when we made the Champions League final, good to see they are quick to respond and not motivated to get fresh blood spending in The Armoury pre match...

Arteta manager of the month and Saka EPL player of the month...goes off to check on odds for Leeds win 1 nil with Saka OG ETA from Ramsdale clearance...

ETA Ramsdale got EPL save of the month DOOOOMED I TELLLSYA DOOOOOMED!!!!!

Edited by Wonderman on Friday 31st March 14:34

[TikTak]

StonedRollin said:

Wonderman said:

Article in the Metro…
Arsenal fans paying £53,000 for final day tickets amid Premier League title race in hope of seeing team lift trophy

Too soon, and too much!

Maybe the article should read 'tickets advertised at' as I don't believe anyone in their right mind would pay that.

You'd hope not. Honestly a 10th of that seems extreme to me. So crazy people out there though.

[Wonderman]

From Pre-match press conference:
https://www.arsenal.com/news/every-word-mikels-pre...

William Saliba is still progressing but has "some discomfort in his back" and is not fit for this game.*

Arteta, however, is "hopeful" midfielder Thomas Partey will be back this weekend.

Forward Gabriel Jesus is "very close" to being "100% fit" and has made "big steps" in the past 10 days, with Arteta adding: "He is in a really good place."

https://www.arsenal.com/news/arteta-rules-saliba-o...

*on whether Saliba’s injury was one that he had been managing for a while:
No, it’s something that happened - we don’t know if it happened in the previous game because he had a very awkward landing against Fulham but before that he was fine.

on why he can’t give a better extent of the injury:
That’s one more for the doctors to answer and be more specific about the area and the load he puts into the area, how he can cope with that and what kind of pain he can handle, and the risk that we can make it worse.

Edited by Wonderman on Friday 31st March 16:28

[Wonderman]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65073189

If we win tomorrow that will take Arteta to 100 wins in all competitions (in 170 games)

The Gunners could register seven successive top-flight wins for the first time since August to October 2018 under Unai Emery.

Hoping we start brightly as Leeds were looking lively before the international break.

[Radec]

Another win with a couple of nervy moments along the way.
Just have to keep doing what we are doing.
Trossard has been a brilliant addition.

[Wonderman]

Radec said:

Another win with a couple of nervy moments along the way.
Just have to keep doing what we are doing.
Trossard has been a brilliant addition.

Classic post international, Partey looked stiff in the warm up, Saka got a bit of rest and didn’t over do it when came on, so hopefully a nice warm up/ down.
Leeds almost pulled a Bournemouth from the kick off, and Ramsdale had to pull off a couple saves.

Agreed Trossard was good and not just going forward, was almost Partey level nipping the ball away to stop a couple chances.

Martinelli is just a machine!

Hopefully Jesus can keep up his disrupter role and be more relaxed in his shooting now he’s scored a couple.

One of Xhaka better games as well, and took the chance that Odegaard put a plate for him after Saka nullified about four defenders that was surrounding him.

On to Anfield next; they play Chelsea pensioners on Tuesday so we will have a couple extra days to recover for the Sunday match

Edited by Wonderman on Monday 3rd April 11:05

[Carl_Manchester]

I was poorly yesterday so listened on the radio and then fell asleep after half time.

the commentators tried to make out it was a close game but we seemed to be able to score at will.

[TikTak]

Seeing what City did to Liverpool, we've got to make sure we in that game.

Also not specifically Arsenal but more managers out the door. Crazy.