Re: The Official Summer Transfer Rumours Thread

[Sri]

He will.

Just needs to get the fack away from our medical staff.

[Sri]

Wilshere arrived at AFCB - good choice lad.

[Hapless_Hans]

He will.

Just needs to get the fack away from our medical staff.

Wasn't Bournemouth's last season seriously marred by a severe injury crisis involving key players?

[Sri]

He will.

Just needs to get the fack away from our medical staff.

Wasn't Bournemouth's last season seriously marred by a severe injury crisis involving key players?

Can't get worse than ours. We send players on without warm-up, just to see them twang their hammys.

[Sushi Master]

Sounds good as long as he gets some playing time (and avoids injuries, duh).

'Bout time Jack steps up. With the Xhaka signing his regular playing days are pretty much over.

Hope he has a good season and either miracles his form back or at the very least plays well enough to demand a nice transfer value in the future.

[RealGunner]

MVV Maastricht have signed Kelechi Nwakali on loan from Arsenal for the season.

[since1996]

today's deadline day is like visiting your girlfriend while shes on her period.

[Sri]

today's deadline day is like visiting your girlfriend while shes on her period.

I'm alright with that when she has given me bloody decent sex a couple of days before her period. She even did the positions which we really needed to do for quite some time. Doing it at the back was pretty darn good, while up front was an affair that I am ok with - rather than having no action at all.

[Jay29]

[Sri]

Good luck, lad. Come back and make us proud. (Please)

[Chumlum]

Next year, when Jack comes back, he's going to bring Eddie Howe with him.

[Sri]

[Jay29]

Watch Bournemouth get relegated now

[Sri]

:-/

[Sri]

Afobe got this.

[RealGunner]

Yaya Sanogo is still with us ffs

[El Gunner]

Next year, when Jack comes back, he's going to bring Eddie Howe with him.

This has been the plan all along ffs

[Sri]

Agent Jack

Save us Eddie

[urbaNRoots]

Yaya Sanogo is still with us ffs

Apparently we even blocked a loan move to Leeds United

[Sri]

Leeds is not worthy imho

[Sri]

http://news.arseblog.com/2016/09/howe-reveals-afobe-influence-on-wilshere-deal/

Agent Afobe

[RealGunner]

Best tweet ever

You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about pic.twitter.com/7hAoRnXIcS

— Carl (@MajesticMesut) September 3, 2016

[Rev]

The guy on the right is Ornstein correct? Who's the guy on the left ? I'm not quite sure I get the post

[S]

John Cross who works for Mirror.

And yeah I dint get the tweet either.

[RealGunner]

It follows a popular meme of 'You vs the guy'

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasminnahar/literally-just-the-funniest-you-vs-the-guy-tweets

[Jay29]

The following is a really interesting extra from a book written by an agent on transfers:

“Since Stan Kroenke took a majority shareholding in the club, they have created matrices for players, a bit like Moneyball.

"And if a player doesn’t quite meet all the criteria, the matrix tells them not to offer more than a certain amount. That is what Arsene means when he talks about value.

“Four years ago, they bought a company called StatDNA in Chicago, which owns an operation in Cambodia where they crunch every conceivable number relating to a footballer.

"They will take a player and collate data based on every pass, sprint, shot, assist, goal – you name it – he has ever made. These stats are fed into a computer that assesses strengths and weaknesses against every professional in the game before producing an overall value of that player.

“Arsenal tend to use statistics to raise questions or confirm observations on possible targets and sometimes unearth players for scouting. There are occasions where it will cause them to re-examine a candidate who has been scouted, but senior figures at the club believe the data can remove doubts that they might otherwise have had or encourage them to sign a player from their rivals.

“Arsenal insist they take decisions primarily driven by scouting, and the human rather than numerical characteristics of a potential target. Ultimately all decisions are made by Arsene.”

...

“Arsenal’s operational model is based on an American corporate style,” Smith told Standard Sport. “I think StatDNA takes time to churn out the information they need. Of course, they can monitor players all year round but an individual’s statistical data changes with every game. That probably slows the system down.

“Fans have got to understand that while we all grow up with tribal loyalties in our hearts, clubs are businesses now. Arsenal is the archetypal co-habiting club in sport and business. It crosses that divide. It may be a bit lugubrious in its football dealings sometimes but that’s because it is a business.

“In the end, by signing the players they did, Arsenal’s summer dealings were in the top five of all clubs.

“If I have a criticism of them, it is that they are stand-off-ish in the transfer market. They don’t always make the running because they are Arsenal and think that is enough.

"Nowadays, nobody cares who you are – it's just Jerry Maguire: show me the money. They sometimes have a corporate stand-off mentality that doesn’t play well even though they are all very decent and professional people.”

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/the-deal-arsene-wengers-moneyball-works-but-next-arsenal-boss-needs-super-agents-like-manchester-a3339776.html

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