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Having read more on him, seems like a shrewd move - talented + versatile enough to cover several positions
https://www.skysports.com/football/...-spezia-and-poland-defender-in-deal-worth-20m
Gabriel can do with some rest too
[article]The Brazilian defender has played every single minute for the Gunners in this Premier League season - and every minute in all competitions since the World Cup break.[/article]
Would be a real coup - investing when the club is on the up and players will be more attracted to joining is the right thing to do
It’s an accounting trick not a straight cash in cash out situation.
Looks like Southampton wants to be the mini Man City.
Last year, "Manchester City's Head of Youth Recruitment Joe Shields has joined Southampton as their new Head of Senior Recruitment".
The previous transfer window, "City sold Gavin Bazunu, Romeo Lavia, Sam Edozie and Juan Larios for almost £40m combined this summer, with various sell-on clauses and buy-back options attached to the deals. "
Now, they are bringing in Man City's Academy Director Jason Wilcox to replace outgoing Director of Football Matt Crocker.
Last year, "Manchester City's Head of Youth Recruitment Joe Shields has joined Southampton as their new Head of Senior Recruitment".
The previous transfer window, "City sold Gavin Bazunu, Romeo Lavia, Sam Edozie and Juan Larios for almost £40m combined this summer, with various sell-on clauses and buy-back options attached to the deals. "
Now, they are bringing in Man City's Academy Director Jason Wilcox to replace outgoing Director of Football Matt Crocker.
Did you ever fancy coming to Ireland?
If you do, can I respectfully suggest you stay the fuck over the Dublin side and come nowhere near the west coast. There's a good boy
No I didn't actually, what's good about Ireland?
We won't be here mate ! We're going to Europe for 6-7 months !
That's alright Froggy, I can look after the place while you're gone, gone spending some (or a lot of) quality European time away.
I'll even offer to clean up the dust and water the plants. I'm just a good guy looking for a way out.
I know my wife would rather blow it up than have someone else live in it whilst she's away !
Tad extreme.
You don't know my wife!
Froggy's missus is Chinese. Do not tangle with Chinese ladies. I have a Chinese-American goddaughter whom I love to bits and would do anything for, but I'm telling you I would NOT want to get on the wrong side of that young woman. 
It's ok Froggy, I respect women's wishes and I'd never think twice to come between a Liverpool fan and his missus.
Anyway, the lonesome search for overseas accommodation continues....
I mean, I live here. What would anyone expect?
I was going to post about him the other day. Has been hauled off early many times this season by Real. Is he a flop? Or just not a good fit for a win-now Real time with a midfield in transition?
Thought he could maybe be a good fit for us as a distressed asset.
Haha ! Still I was a bit shocked when he told me what he experienced. Nuts.
Have 6 free articles so thought I'll share this for anyone who's interested in reading about backroom staffs/stuffs.
[article]Mikel Arteta knew the person for the job. He was 24 years old but spoke six different languages, held a university degree and had played with a Champions League winner. He had been the youngest coach at Atletico Madrid and dazzled the directors at Juventus. He offered tactical analysis to Pep Guardiola and went to Porto to study the methods of José Mourinho. His name was Carlos Cuesta and he might have been Arteta’s most obvious signing of the summer.
When Cuesta joined Arteta’s coaching team in August 2020, the news barely made a ripple. Willian had just arrived on a free transfer from Chelsea and Arsenal were weighing up Thomas Partey’s £45 million release clause at Atletico Madrid. Few had their attention diverted by the arrival of a fresh-faced coach from Mallorca, who was less than four years out of university.
But in Europe, and particularly Spain, where his nascent career began, Cuesta is already being circled as one of the most talented young coaches in the game. A senior figure at one of his previous clubs described their academy coaches were blown over by his sessions. Another said they expect him to be a manager by the time he is 30.
At Arsenal, Cuesta is already one of Arteta’s most trusted confidantes and a key component behind this season’s unexpected Premier League title push. He is one of a select group of coaches that sit down with Arteta for meetings after every game and leads sessions in training that have an emphasis on tactics and technique.
But if Cuesta has a specialism, it is talking to players, his one-on-one meetings with members of the Arsenal squad now an essential cog in the Arteta machine. These sessions are often centred round video analysis, the tweaking of details and correcting of errors, and sometimes they are more personal, an exchange about confidence or morale. With his capacity to speak freely, in their native tongue, Cuesta is the one to step in.
When he was growing up, Cuesta idolised Mourinho, not just for his success and charisma, but his path to the top. Like Mourinho, Cuesta gave up early on his playing aspirations. Like Mourinho, Cuesta believed there was an academic route to coaching, that listening and learning could be as valuable as playing. Like Mourinho, who absorbed the subtleties of management as Bobby Robson’s translator at Barcelona, Cuesta is now assimilating in the shadow of Arteta, himself a protégé of Guardiola.
As a youngster, Cuesta was a useful central defender. He played in Mallorca for Santa Catalina Atletico and by most estimates could have gone on to enjoy a decent career around Spain’s third or fourth tiers. He played with Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio for the under-18 Balearic side but by then was already three years into coaching, having recognised at the age of 15 his own dream of winning the Champions League would only ever be realised from the bench. For many years, Cuesta had a photo of the Champions League trophy set as the screensaver on his phone.
Such was his determination to succeed, Cuesta explored every possible area he could improve. He began a university degree in sports science in Madrid, did his first coaching badges and paid to have lessons in Portuguese, which he now speaks along with Spanish, French, Italian, English and Catalan. He studied handball and rugby, and wrote six articles for the Spanish magazine, The Tactical Room, in which he admired Diego Simeone’s leadership skills, marvelled at Guardiola’s attention to detail and quoted Charles Darwin and Groucho Marx.
One recurring theme in Cuesta’s pieces was his insistence, not in one way of playing, but the ability to adapt. “In football and in life there are two large groups of people,” he wrote. “Those who are closed, who believe that only one idea is valid and who criticise everything that is not what they believe, and then more open people, who believe that any idea is valid if it is well argued, a group in which I include myself.”
The key, Cuesta said, is to convince people completely of your idea. “It is about believing in an idea from day one,” he wrote. “Knowing how to convey it to the players and making them believe in it, infecting the fans with your enthusiasm, getting your players to play each game as if their lives depended on it, mastering the media to convey the message that you want and knowing how to manage the success of a team that is not used to it.”
Yet for all his words learned and written, Cuesta needed a foot in the door. He searched every Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid coach he could find on Twitter and sent all of them the same message, each with the same sign-off. “If you need someone to put out the cones,” he wrote, “I’m here”.
Nobody replied, except one, a youth team coach at Atletico Madrid, who invited Cuesta to help with the club’s under-9s before letting him take sole charge of the under-13s. Cuesta took the roles seriously. “We used to ask Carlos if he wanted to go out in Madrid and he would always say no, because he had a match in the morning,” says Estan Rodriguez, one of Cuesta’s closest friends. “We used to tease him that while we were out drinking, he was changing nappies, because the teams were so young. It was always serious for him, always a passion.”
After four years with Atletico, Cuesta left to embark on a European tour, intent on meeting and watching as many top coaches as he could persuade to let him in. Cuesta studied at Porto University with Vitor Frade, whose holistic approach had influenced a young Mourinho. He visited Roma and Granada and then, through a mutual friend in Mallorca, began speaking to Arteta, who was impressed enough to invite Cuesta to visit Manchester City.
Cuesta watched training sessions, produced an in-depth analysis of City’s attacking play and predicted Arteta would go far. “He will be a great coach,” Cuesta told El Pais in 2019.
Arteta did not forget Cuesta but it would be three years before they linked up again at Arsenal. Juventus came first, offering Cuesta a role with the under-17s and under-23s after a memorable meeting between the young coach and the club’s directors. “They were about 40 or older and Carlos, who was 22, just sat with them talking about football,” says a source who was at the meeting. “As he was explaining things, more and more people just kept coming into the room to listen. As soon as he started talking, I knew they were going to offer him a job.”
Cuesta will be on the bench on Sunday at the Emirates Stadium, with Arsenal looking to extend their eight-point lead over Manchester United in the Premier League. After the match, when others unwind and switch off, Cuesta will head home, sit down on his sofa and flip open his laptop. The game will be loaded up, its mistakes and imperfections waiting to be found. Cuesta calls it his motto: “No excuses. Only solutions.”[/article]
[article]Mikel Arteta knew the person for the job. He was 24 years old but spoke six different languages, held a university degree and had played with a Champions League winner. He had been the youngest coach at Atletico Madrid and dazzled the directors at Juventus. He offered tactical analysis to Pep Guardiola and went to Porto to study the methods of José Mourinho. His name was Carlos Cuesta and he might have been Arteta’s most obvious signing of the summer.
When Cuesta joined Arteta’s coaching team in August 2020, the news barely made a ripple. Willian had just arrived on a free transfer from Chelsea and Arsenal were weighing up Thomas Partey’s £45 million release clause at Atletico Madrid. Few had their attention diverted by the arrival of a fresh-faced coach from Mallorca, who was less than four years out of university.
But in Europe, and particularly Spain, where his nascent career began, Cuesta is already being circled as one of the most talented young coaches in the game. A senior figure at one of his previous clubs described their academy coaches were blown over by his sessions. Another said they expect him to be a manager by the time he is 30.
At Arsenal, Cuesta is already one of Arteta’s most trusted confidantes and a key component behind this season’s unexpected Premier League title push. He is one of a select group of coaches that sit down with Arteta for meetings after every game and leads sessions in training that have an emphasis on tactics and technique.
But if Cuesta has a specialism, it is talking to players, his one-on-one meetings with members of the Arsenal squad now an essential cog in the Arteta machine. These sessions are often centred round video analysis, the tweaking of details and correcting of errors, and sometimes they are more personal, an exchange about confidence or morale. With his capacity to speak freely, in their native tongue, Cuesta is the one to step in.
When he was growing up, Cuesta idolised Mourinho, not just for his success and charisma, but his path to the top. Like Mourinho, Cuesta gave up early on his playing aspirations. Like Mourinho, Cuesta believed there was an academic route to coaching, that listening and learning could be as valuable as playing. Like Mourinho, who absorbed the subtleties of management as Bobby Robson’s translator at Barcelona, Cuesta is now assimilating in the shadow of Arteta, himself a protégé of Guardiola.
As a youngster, Cuesta was a useful central defender. He played in Mallorca for Santa Catalina Atletico and by most estimates could have gone on to enjoy a decent career around Spain’s third or fourth tiers. He played with Real Madrid’s Marco Asensio for the under-18 Balearic side but by then was already three years into coaching, having recognised at the age of 15 his own dream of winning the Champions League would only ever be realised from the bench. For many years, Cuesta had a photo of the Champions League trophy set as the screensaver on his phone.
Such was his determination to succeed, Cuesta explored every possible area he could improve. He began a university degree in sports science in Madrid, did his first coaching badges and paid to have lessons in Portuguese, which he now speaks along with Spanish, French, Italian, English and Catalan. He studied handball and rugby, and wrote six articles for the Spanish magazine, The Tactical Room, in which he admired Diego Simeone’s leadership skills, marvelled at Guardiola’s attention to detail and quoted Charles Darwin and Groucho Marx.
One recurring theme in Cuesta’s pieces was his insistence, not in one way of playing, but the ability to adapt. “In football and in life there are two large groups of people,” he wrote. “Those who are closed, who believe that only one idea is valid and who criticise everything that is not what they believe, and then more open people, who believe that any idea is valid if it is well argued, a group in which I include myself.”
The key, Cuesta said, is to convince people completely of your idea. “It is about believing in an idea from day one,” he wrote. “Knowing how to convey it to the players and making them believe in it, infecting the fans with your enthusiasm, getting your players to play each game as if their lives depended on it, mastering the media to convey the message that you want and knowing how to manage the success of a team that is not used to it.”
Yet for all his words learned and written, Cuesta needed a foot in the door. He searched every Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid coach he could find on Twitter and sent all of them the same message, each with the same sign-off. “If you need someone to put out the cones,” he wrote, “I’m here”.
Nobody replied, except one, a youth team coach at Atletico Madrid, who invited Cuesta to help with the club’s under-9s before letting him take sole charge of the under-13s. Cuesta took the roles seriously. “We used to ask Carlos if he wanted to go out in Madrid and he would always say no, because he had a match in the morning,” says Estan Rodriguez, one of Cuesta’s closest friends. “We used to tease him that while we were out drinking, he was changing nappies, because the teams were so young. It was always serious for him, always a passion.”
After four years with Atletico, Cuesta left to embark on a European tour, intent on meeting and watching as many top coaches as he could persuade to let him in. Cuesta studied at Porto University with Vitor Frade, whose holistic approach had influenced a young Mourinho. He visited Roma and Granada and then, through a mutual friend in Mallorca, began speaking to Arteta, who was impressed enough to invite Cuesta to visit Manchester City.
Cuesta watched training sessions, produced an in-depth analysis of City’s attacking play and predicted Arteta would go far. “He will be a great coach,” Cuesta told El Pais in 2019.
Arteta did not forget Cuesta but it would be three years before they linked up again at Arsenal. Juventus came first, offering Cuesta a role with the under-17s and under-23s after a memorable meeting between the young coach and the club’s directors. “They were about 40 or older and Carlos, who was 22, just sat with them talking about football,” says a source who was at the meeting. “As he was explaining things, more and more people just kept coming into the room to listen. As soon as he started talking, I knew they were going to offer him a job.”
Cuesta will be on the bench on Sunday at the Emirates Stadium, with Arsenal looking to extend their eight-point lead over Manchester United in the Premier League. After the match, when others unwind and switch off, Cuesta will head home, sit down on his sofa and flip open his laptop. The game will be loaded up, its mistakes and imperfections waiting to be found. Cuesta calls it his motto: “No excuses. Only solutions.”[/article]
damn - this thread is basically of how fucking amazing arsenal are.
can't wait for Mr. DT to get released from prison so we can enjoy him and AFTV as they dominated english footy for the next decade.
COYG!!!!
can't wait for Mr. DT to get released from prison so we can enjoy him and AFTV as they dominated english footy for the next decade.
COYG!!!!
A few wasted/"mishandled" transfer windows and that's it - can resonate with it
Mr DT has been released months ago. Arteta has spent 100s of millions to get his squad right.
We know where our problem lies and that's the MF, and the people who can fix it are FSG, who clearly don't care that the £60m - £150m theyll miss out on revenues
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