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If he ends up winning trophies with Arsenal, and you end up winning nothing as per usual, it'll be worth it. :emoticon-0103-cool:
Honest question...
How do you feel about your club making 55 staff redundant and today making the geezer in the mascot redundant while buying a player for £45m?
Seems really ****ty and classless to me.
(And I was very critical of us thinking about furloughing staff.)
 
He should rub you up the wrong way too, but Arsenal fans are suckers for leaches who slag off Tottenham.
You've replaced him with the new Gunnersaurus, AKA Mesut Ozil.

Why? He did a few ****ty things as a teenager, but he's not really done much else since, to my knowledge. Unless there's something you know that I don't.
 
Honest question...
How do you feel about your club making 55 staff redundant and today making the geezer in the mascot redundant while buying a player for £45m?
Seems really ****ty and classless to me.
(And I was very critical of us thinking about furloughing staff.)
After the players took a wage deferral to avoid such things happening...
Ol' Bug Eyes was right about that one, at least.
 
Why? He did a few ****ty things as a teenager, but he's not really done much else since, to my knowledge. Unless there's something you know that I don't.
If you ignore his general unprofessionalism, then gobbing on a cab driver and missing an entire year of football for, erm... reasons.
In unrelated news, Robbie Fowler once posted this:
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Honest question...
How do you feel about your club making 55 staff redundant and today making the geezer in the mascot redundant while buying a player for £45m?
Seems really ****ty and classless to me.
(And I was very critical of us thinking about furloughing staff.)

I made my view on the staff redundancies clear before. I really did think it was poor from the club and, although some may argue we were overstaffed as it was (which may be true compared to the staff members at the other 'elite' clubs), to let people go during a global pandemic wasn't morally or ethically justifiable. Either give them a generous pay off or retrain them in something else that they could help with.

My view on this is slight different, however. Gunnersaurus was a part-time member of staff and there are reports circulating that he'll be back once more fans are allowed into the stadium. If this is true, I'm not going to knock the club for it too much because, logically, it does make sense. If it isn't true, then it's another poor decision from Arsenal and another one that doesn't portray them in a positive way.
 
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Gunnersaurus was a part-time member of staff and there are reports circulating that he'll be back once more fans are allowed into the stadium. If this is true, I'm not going to knock the club for it too much because, logically, it does make sense. If it isn't true, then it's another poor decision from Arsenal and another one that doesn't portray them in a positive way.
How much is this going to save the club, though? You've probably lost more than that in negative publicity in one day.
 
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Wilshire was the epitome of an average, overhyped English player that just happened to have a gob on him. Guy has stolen a living, funny as **** though that West Ham paid him the wages they did knowing full well his injury history at Arsenal.

He was literally Arsenal's version of Winks, academy player that gets overhyped. Only difference was that the whole media circus jumped on the Wilshire bandwagon as if he was gonna be the best English CM ever produced. I think Guardiola is a prick (team Jose, baby!) but when he came out and said he has loads of Wilshire's at La Masia, he weren't lying.
 
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If you ignore his general unprofessionalism, then gobbing on a cab driver and missing an entire year of football for, erm... reasons.
In unrelated news, Robbie Fowler once posted this:
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You'll have to explain the missing year thing to me because I don't recall that. Elaborate?
Spitting at a cabbie is ****ty though, so I'm not going to excuse that.
What's the evidence that Fowler is alluding to Wilshere in that tweet? I get that you don't like him and that he likes to drink, but that's not a basis to conclude that Wilshere does cocaine.
 
I made my view on the staff redundancies clear before. I really did think it was poor from the club and, although some may argue we were overstaffed as it was (which may be true compared to the staff members at the other 'elite' clubs), to let people go during a global pandemic wasn't morally or ethically justifiable. Either give them a generous pay off or retrain them in something else that they could help with.

My view on this is slight different, however. Gunnersaurus was a part-time member of staff and there are reports circulating that he'll be back once more fans are allowed into the stadium. If this is true, I'm not going to knock the club for it too much because, logically, it does make sense. If it isn't true, then it's another poor decision from Arsenal and another one that doesn't portray them in a positive way.

Sorry mate hadn't seen your views on this.
 
How much is this going to save the club, though? You've probably lost more than that in negative publicity in one day.

Barely anything, which is why I do question whether this decision is purely financial. if there isn't much for him to do, no fans in the stadium, no photo opps with kids etc, then no point keeping him around.

You could argue that he maybe could have been given a different role at the club, but if it's part-time and he's got other work on, then that changes the picture.

I'm not going to lambast Arsenal too much on this until I know for sure what's happened. Right now, people are speculating and jumping on the bandwagon based on minimal information.
 
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You'll have to explain the missing year thing to me because I don't recall that. Elaborate?
Spitting at a cabbie is ****ty though, so I'm not going to excuse that.
What's the evidence that Fowler is alluding to Wilshere in that tweet? I get that you don't like him and that he likes to drink, but that's not a basis to conclude that Wilshere does cocaine.
Do a search for his name and drugs. There were loads of rumours back when he was with you.
Wilshere missed the entire 2011/12 season: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Wilshere#Career_statistics
Arsenal publicly denied it: https://www.espn.co.uk/football/news/story/_/id/1099663/arsenal-deny-jack-wilshere-drug-test-rumours

A bunch of footballers failed drugs tests, took bans and the FA didn't reveal their names.
There were a lot of rumours about one of them being a former Liverpool right-back, for example... <whistle>