Athletic and 2 other sources mentioned that Edu don't have much input in our club structure. Arteta controls everything and is a mini Wenger.

Players all complained about his training methods and intensity

Anything more specific about what they were complaining about?

I think it was "some" rather than "all", but it was a vague report about how some players felt that the sessions were overly tactical and didn't have enough intensity.

It does fit with what you see transpire on the pitch, but honestly I don't pay too much attention to these sorts of stories. It's usually from the agents of a couple of fringe players or players copping the most abuse that come out with this stuff.

Isn't Miguel Delaney a notorious houseboat peddler?

Don't really matter because I choose to believe it either way

He hardly post any insider features these days so this is a long one and judging from the response to it seems pretty credible I don't know. Many people believed it anyway it's like this on the pitch and on transfers anyway

I swear all of our managers since Graham have had detractors in terms of their chosen training methods. Never gonna please everyone. Feels a nothing story.

Torreira officially to Fiorentina. (Loan - not sure of the terms)

Apparently, per Twitter, Willian and Arsenal have mutually agreed to terminate his contract so that he can join a new club.

I read he removed all his Arsenal stuff from his social media today so that would make sense.

Rumours coming out of Italy that Juve might be looking at Icardi, Auba or Laca to replace C.Ronaldo.

id take £10m for laca. £5m if they balk at our first ask

Would be unreal if we could get rid of both and get a striker in.

Selling Auba would set this summer back to 0 basically. Where on earth are our goals going to come from? Who's on the market who is even close to that level?

One year ago I'd be agreeing with you but his form last season was shocking. He is 32 years old and wouldn't be the first player to fall off a cliff physically around that age.

If money is no issue what's your view on Vlahovic?

Klaus wrote:

Selling Auba would set this summer back to 0 basically. Where on earth are our goals going to come from? Who's on the market who is even close to that level?

if we had a younger striker lined up who is a more traditional CF with good technique, id be fine selling auba. hes on massive wages and is at the tail end of his peak, and we're not winning anything of substance in the next 2-3 years.

but selling him without a replacement, given that martinelli, as much as i love him, looks about 8 notches off the pace, yeah i think thats not smart

We’d probably get Calvert Lewin in our quest to be brexit friendly.

I honestly want Martinelli to go on a season long loan.

He looks miles away from making a consistent impact on our first team fortunes.

Our problem is that we have so few players who can even score. Losing Auba would be inexcusable without a good replacement.