[Football] Do All Those ‘BRIGHTON’ Fans on Here With a ‘Soft Spot’ for Arsenal Still Want Them to Win the Title?

[Grizz]

It wouldn't have bothered me Arsenal winning it, they bit the bullet and spent the last three years transitioning to a more stable platform, believed and backed Arteta and they're blooding youngsters and playing good footy. What's bugging me are the Arsenal fans. Now rightly revel in the great footy you're playing, but a couple of my mates are lording it big time. Gonna stroll the league now, money no object (which it isn't by the looks of it), Caicedo was always going there in January and we're just being greedy after only paying £4m for him, but these were all vehement Arteta out people, even last season and it's bugging me big time how they've casually glossed over that. I would laugh hard if they choked.

 

[BBassic]

ABC - Anyone but City*

*Preferably not Chelsea, Saudi or Palace.

 

[Jeremiah]

No lover of any of the "Big Six£" plus Newcastle but for some reason recently I found myself wanting City to catch Arsenal. So deep down I must have reasoned that I don't want Arsenal to win it , why I feel this way I don't know ?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Don't want any of the big boys winning it. Our game is now completely fckd because of them. I detest all of them with a passion. The PL is elitist and corrupt. They have been allowed to outgrow famous, solid, historic clubs who form the bedrock of our game and become behemoths. They elicit unconcious bias from referees and benefit hugely from it.

 

[Littlemo]

Watching last night confirms my view they got Trossard cheap

They were playing City though. Judge him on his performances when they have to play the likes of Southampton away.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

My soft spot for the ‘small 14’ has hardened somewhat.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Both City and Arsenal have tried to unsettle players who they couldn't afford. I despise them both, along with Newcastle and the other four. Before this transfer window my mind was already made up that Arsenal looking like they had it in the bag and then doing a Devon Loch would offer the most comedy value for the neutral. My mind is unchanged.

Transfer business unsettles players. Have we not had 2 bids rejected for Mvetyenko?

 

[A1X]

My soft spot for the ‘small 14’ has hardened somewhat.

Isn’t it really a small 13 now with Newcastle?

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Just another franchise club that moved to a different area. Plastic.

 

[Stato]

Transfer business unsettles players. Have we not had 2 bids rejected for Mvetyenko?

And will presumably increase the bids until either one is accepted, or we decide that its reached a level that we don't want to pay. I've seen no evidence of us conspiring with his agent and online rumour mongers for hire to have stories leaked about his desire to come to us. Both City & Arsenal tried this method, rather than just offering more money.

 

[Bold Seagull]

And will presumably increase the bids until either one is accepted, or we decide that its reached a level that we don't want to pay. I've seen no evidence of us conspiring with his agent and online rumour mongers for hire to have stories leaked about his desire to come to us. Both City & Arsenal tried this method, rather than just offering more money.

Bit conspiratorial to suggest Arsenal are behind what MC and his advisors are doing? Where’s the evidence Arsenal have done anything untoward?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

There’s a load of them, for some it’s their main club after jumping on the Arsenal bandwagon when they won things.

I didn’t anyway.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Nobody has a soft spot for Arsenal



or Chelsea, Manchester United or City, Liverpool, Spurs or anyone else.

 

[Stato]

Bit conspiratorial to suggest Arsenal are behind what MC and his advisors are doing? Where’s the evidence Arsenal have done anything untoward?

The agent has let it be known that personal terms have already been agreed, mentioning a five year contract offer from a club who have had their bid rejected. Not tapping up of course because they haven't spoken to Moises. However, he knows that the bid would be a transfer record and is keen to take advantage of the opportunity. Do you think that Arsenal, who have evidently been communicating with the agents, suggested that a deal was close and that they shouldn't do anything public that would jeopardise things and that the agent went rogue, or perhaps that they suggested that the bid had been laughed at and that the deal wouldn't happen if the agent didn't try to move things?

Its not conspiracy theory, its grubby business as usual.

 

[Acker79]

I don't know that I have a soft spot or want arsenal to win (if we can't win it, obvs), but I don't really feel any particulary animosity toward them, either. Trossard is a top player and was nearing the end of his contract and looking to step up, and they were after a player like him. They want/need top quality midfield bodies. Their last was gazzumped by Chelsea and we have one. Of course they're going to be interested.

The result of Brighton not placing price tags on their players is interested parties not know what they need to pay. It behoves them not to over pay, so of course they're not going to jump from 55m to 100+m. And with their not knowing when the deal would be done, it seems to be standard practice to have contracts lined up ready for the deal to be done, so of course they have agreed terms with MC's agent.

I reserve the right to revisit that, following the latest news (or the most recent update I've seen) that Brighton have told Arsenal we won't be selling this window. They should now either walk away and revisit in the summer, or if they really want him, come back with the sort of offer that we can't return, which would require one of those massive jumps in what they've been offering so far.

If they only come back with another incremental offer, then I might start to be vexed by them.

 

[Zebedee]

Bearing in mind we sold Trossard and White with "Add Ons", then it is to our Benefit for Arsenal and Trossard to do well.

Except we rarely see much money reinvested in players.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Brighton

End of thread. I literally stopped reading after that

 

[Stumpy Tim]

This isn't Arsenal or Chelsea. This is the agents, working with their employee Fabrizio Romano. Utter scum of football.

 

[jakarta]

Good mate of mine is a Gooner, so happy for him and even happier that the Oil State won't win...

 

[Bold Seagull]

This isn't Arsenal or Chelsea. This is the agents, working with their employee Fabrizio Romano. Utter scum of football.

Football has always been a grubby business, it's probably less so now than in the past in some ways when deals were done with brown envelopes in car parks after games. Granted they'd have to be very been envelopes these days!!

Agents represent clients, no good vilifying them for doing the job they're paid to do. Players are just trying to play as high as they can and get paid as much as they can - same as it ever was.

The structure of football and the authorities that set the rules are at fault. The disproportional riches of the Champions League, the unrestricted ownership of clubs, the flimsy weak FFP.