SimonButtle

Walcott has had a hell of alot of injuries over his career. but to be fair to him Arsenal as a club have a shocking fitness record overall. The Gylfi price is just ridiculous and personally i wish we would just walk away from it, but Koeman seems determined to get him.

No, surely if they wanted him to stay they would take him away on the training camp? it does not matter that he is injured he could still integrate himself with in the squad with the new signings whilst regaining his fitness.

Jim White saying before that he understands that the club have had no interest in Barkley so far.

Not sure how, i remember when we signed the Kitbag deal, it was crap, there were clubs in the championship with better kit deals

Still need a right back imo and decent striker. some of the names being linked at the moment are just frightening

Id be very surprised he is another one who is never fit

Im glad he is the person designing the ground as he has taken a genuine interest in the club and what it stands for, there are many people who would just chuck out a generic design with a few basic alterations to it.

I don't get this tbh, Kenwright promised three new stadiums, none of which ever came to anything. Although i do agree that Meis should just probably just stick to designing the stadium and ignore the idiots

This tbh. I think maybe he just needs a fresh start away from the city, that smack in the chops he got was not the first bit of trouble he has had out on the town, he seems to keep some slightly dodgy company at times. If he went to Spurs per say, it is very easy to get lost in somewhere like London and live a fairly normal life just because of the size of the place, hard to do that in Liverpool, one of the reasons i moved away was because i found it to be like living in Coronation Street where everyone knew everyone elses business

Rejected as Swansea want £50m, need to move on from this, money is starting to get way beyond what Gylfi is worth

£35m is still a bit too much when you think city only payed £40m for Bernardo Silva, and Silva is a far better player than Gylfi. Also jim white is starting to get on my nerves i do wish he would just shut up about Everton and let the club get on and do what they need to do, he always tries to claim he is breaking all these stories all the time when most of it is just rehashed jarg from twitter and other websites. He also goes on about how well connected he is but he only ever has the same people on all the time, typical shit talking journo on the wind up imo

This is why i have chosen to go into Sports Science rather than Sports Coaching, i know people going down the coaching route and some of them are regretting it already simply because after a session or a game or whatever, they will get a parent coming up to them asking why their kid only had 10 mins and not 15 mins.

I think the best thing you can do is just to encourage them and NEVER try to live your own sporting misgivings(if you have any) through your children. nothing worse than parents who failed to make the grade themselves and then force their own kids to make up for it when you can clearly see that the kid is not that arsed.

There has been quite a lot recently about the high number of kids who have dropped out of sports due to pressure from parents or not getting a chance in the relevent team/sport they have chosen, there is also a serious lack of coaches for many sports and facilities here in the UK, it's no wonder they would play video games at times

cheers guys, some good stuff there.

I need to write an essay over the summer for uni on a current issue within youth sport, any ideas people? im struggling to think of much at the moment the only thing i have got is something to do with pushy parents. All suggestions are welcome. Thanks

I don't understand how they get away with it every single time! any other club would be getting the book thrown at them by now, this is the third thing now in the space of the year, such a horrible club.

Swerve this for me, got a poor goalscoring record

Our manager can offer much more than Rooney can when it comes to stuff like that, he was one of the greatest players the game has ever seen

Probably because Chelsea don't want him, i still reckon he will be here at the start of the season.

Some stuff around saying Martial wants to leave Man U and they will sell for the right price, he is good when played in his proper position

Got to agree, he seems very good in the air but not much else, he is very slow from what i have noticed

There is no logic to it, i just don't see the point in buying Rooney thats all.

Schneiderlin didn't really get a chance to show what he can do at United, not really sure why they ever signed him tbh and Rom got turfed out of Chelsea by Jose because he missed that penalty in the Super Cup if you remember.

If we could sign the Mahrez that was playing 2 seasons ago, then id rather him than Sandro tbh, he was almost unstopable at times. Just last seasons version was the complete opposite, and im not sure he would come to us as Arsenal were very interested in him.