Arsenal women’s team must be proud to represent this mob.
Trying to work out why the police would hold off until the contract ended.
Now they will all hide behind the good old “we can’t comment on a police matter blah blah”
And then he gets off like most of them.
On or off the pitch?
I’m extra glad they won fuck all. May they always come second.
He hasn’t been found guilty of anything. And presumed innocence is the law. He wasn’t charged, he wasn’t on bail, he made no admissions of guilt. There is an argument that not playing him or ceasing his contract would corrupt his right to a fair trial.
But…
If Arteta, Arsenal, PL, UEFA had a percentage inkling of guilt, they are as morally and ethically bankrupt as I feared. If their tilt at success was aided by a player they guarded, well then they got what they deserve. Fuck all.
Circle the wagons around the bad boys. Fuck, we did it with Suarez. Maybe incorrectly.
But my firm belief is that we would jettison a player if we were suspicious that he had committed a sexual related offence.
Partey may well be innocent.
But Arteta will need to comment if he is found guilty.
Because there is no excuse if that outcome happens.
There’s an acceptance among the LFC fanbase that Liverpool did the wrong thing defending Suarez when he was accused of racism.
But this is arsenal doubling down on a rape accused and hiding behind the injunction. I suppose the ends justify the means for arsenal. Fitting that their team won fuck all. And this is a slap in the face to their women’s team who has won recently.
United did with Greenwood. Everton did with Gylfi. I’m sure Liverpool would do the same but we don’t have the dickheads amongst out playing group now. We jettisoned Flanagan(I’m not going into the degrees of violence here)
City were forced to do with Mendy even after initially playing him.
Arsenal hid behind the injunction and continued playing the guy. Fuck them. Even more low class and crass than the Oil clubs.
Impossible to know who is a dickhead (without known incidents or processes going on) or not or who is capable of doing certain things even for club officials at times, let alone us fans.
If an employee has sexual assault claims levied against him, what do you do?
Put him on leave until the matter is closed?
Or
Put him out front as a public face of the company?
For clarity
This is a general question
I was referring to the bit that we don’t have dickheads in our playing group. There is no way for us to know that.
I agree. Show me any group of 30 lads who are all sound people?
We probably have one or two.
You can actively select for soundness though. We know the club has a no dickheads policy. We know they go really deep on character references and personality. It’s not like they are taking thirty random lads.
I think the worst that can be said about ours is that a few have questionable political opinions. And I don’t think we’d sign Lovren today.
We’re not the only ones doing that type of research into characters, background, etc. We do things well on many levels in last years. Things can slip under radar and people can be unpredictable. I’m far from his biggest fan, but I think we would sign Lovren again (or that we wouldn’t judge something about his character that would block the deal), there’s a sea of Dejan Lovrens out there.
You can interview and check references all day. And you will still have the odd bollox gets through. Or their bolloxology develops over time. Then you weed them out or let the group take care of the issue.
Also…
Where is it stated about the no dickheads policy at Liverpool? Are we making shit up to suit the picture?
If Osimhen (queried dickhead) was available on a free, would our people say no…
I doubt it.
I don’t think this is controversial.
Take a random bunch of twenty lads and some will be dickheads
Take a group of twenty lads where you are actively trying to screen out dickheads, and there will be fewer.
We seem to have done our homework right after the balotelli transfer
There were still guys like Sakho and to a lesser extent Lovren who managed to slip in. But there’s been due diligence done in that front.
And again , I don’t think Lovren was a problem area in the team (in terms of discipline or behaving like a dickhead).
He drove me right up the wall screaming at some of his defensive blunders but that’s w.r.t him as a footballer.
Unless there’s something about Lovren that I’ve forgotten.
I do think like you said other teams do the same. But we evidently put more stock in reports coming in from the concerned people. And we do it better than other clubs.
He was an anti-vax covid conspiracy nutcase, and I think he’s developed some other bonker opinions beyond that.
