Gabriel Jesus | Joins Arsenal for £45m

[Saddleworth2]

Bizarre comment from Merson on Jesus ""People say he misses chances but everybody misses chances. The name of the game is when you miss a chance, you're not scared to get back into the box and miss another one, and he's definitely one of those players."

There was me thinking the name of the game was scoring goals. So is Merson calling Gabby a 'serial misser'?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Arsenal doing quite some spending recently.

spent 150m last summer, with only selling Willock for 25ish.

this summer they spent 40m already, add Jesus fee to that and they still looking at like Tielemans, Raphina which could be another 90m maybe.

Yep, spending massive money without anyone noticing. This was mentioned last year when it turns out they were quietly the 5th highest spenders in Europe since 2012/13 (way higher than Chelsea and Liverpool), the highest spenders last summer, and well on their way to being the biggest spenders again this summer.

Add Everton and Aston Villa to that list, btw, who both outspent Chelsea over the same period, even factoring in Lukaku.

Interestingly, Leeds, Wolves and Brighton all outspent Real Madrid on transfers at a time that they won 5 Champions League titles. Which kinda highlights why looking at just transfer spending is clearly bollocks, incidentally.

 

[Craggers]

Bizarre comment from Merson on Jesus ""People say he misses chances but everybody misses chances. The name of the game is when you miss a chance, you're not scared to get back into the box and miss another one, and he's definitely one of those players."

Crazy! Maybe we've been doing it all wrong apart from Raz, as he does that perfectly :)

 

[Jung the foreman]

There was me thinking the name of the game was scoring goals. So is Merson calling Gabby a 'serial misser'?

Well, for once he'd be right.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Well, for once he'd be right.

Harsh and untrue.

 

[Taylor]

If the aim of the game is to miss and miss again then let's bring back Samaras.

 

[FMwkdsoul]

Bizarre comment from Merson on Jesus ""People say he misses chances but everybody misses chances. The name of the game is when you miss a chance, you're not scared to get back into the box and miss another one, and he's definitely one of those players."

Not bizarre in the least, you want those players who dont shy away and step up and keep working

 

[Cobwebcat]

Come back…..Chelsea want you! ;-)

 

[TonyM]

If Jesus ever scores against us he should do the Adebayor run and slide and instead of rabid cockneys we just laugh and applaud. Obviously it'd have to be a consolation goal to make it 6-1 but still.

 

[Petethemancinleeds]

Top lad, top attitude I hope he scores loads for the arse and becomes the legend there I thought he'd be here. A great move all round , can see him hitting hatricks at the swamp and Klanfield