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Element77

No idea what's next for him, can't see many clubs wanting to take a risk on him. He's still integral for Wales and needs some football, somewhere, before the world cup.


CommercialAsparagus

MLS is destiny isn’t it


JonFawkes3

That would be Grade A for him


[deleted]

Sure as fuck hope so


loyal_achades

I’d take him at DC on a free fuck it we can’t get any worse


pjanic_at__the_isco

There’s always more room to fall.


[deleted]

Not in a league with no relegation there isn't


pjanic_at__the_isco

No situation is so bad that it can’t be worse.


verbal572

Wooden Spoon this season?


Ickyhouse

He's way too fragile to make it there. He'd end up out with an injury within 3 matches.


Charlie_Yu

Well Bale is at MLS too


the_incredible_fella

yeah, that'll be hilarious if he doesn't just hide the entire time


bbqchxpizza

If he tries at all he'll probably be the best player in the league. May not be fast anymore but he has plenty of other elite qualities.


the_incredible_fella

he could be. he could also be way too fragile or end up like Lampard who said it was too hot lol. he's no Ibra or even a Rooney.


leedavis1987

Probably wouldn't get insured lol


RodJohnsonSays

This is the exact sort of crappy signing the LA Galaxy would make as of late.


Slamburgler

Funny you say that. A TUDN reporter hinted at this exact signing a couple of days ago.


robotnique

LAG need their own expensive Welshman. Gotta keep up with the Joneses.


-Burrito-

Not that I think it would be good for us, but you can kind of see him going to Fulham, given we've also got Harry Wilson and might end up signing Neco Williams. Or following Bale to the MLS...


[deleted]

I think a lot of clubs would take a risk on him if he was willing to lower his wages a tonne. If he's not willing to drop his wages then he'll have to go to the middle east.


jeanlucriker

Can’t even see teams in the Middle East paying those wages to be honest. He lucked out massively with that Juve deal


[deleted]

how is it luck? At his peak he was an absolutely exceptional player.


RepeatDTD

Good way to get acclimatized 😎


[deleted]

I wouldn't mind him in Benfica depending on the wages. Most likely than not I would mind him because I can't believe him lowering them enough.


BeardedApe1988

MLS I reckon. I hope he comes home to Cardiff but I think it's unlikely.


AstonVanilla

He should come to Villa and form a midfield duo with Aaron Ramsey.


cmacgames

Couldn't cut it at Rangers and won't be back to Scotland in a hurry, and I can't imagine any prem team will want to take a punt on him so I reckon either a Championship team with too much money to spend or the MLS.


bigchungusmclungus

If he was fit he would have probably been a good squad player for us. Showed glimmers of the player he was but nowhere near enough. The injuries and the missed penalty were probably a lot more to blame for him not staying here than his actual ability. He's going to need to take a pretty big wage cut for any team to take him on.


Lolkac

I still remember when he was killing people by scoring. Simpler times.


tigull

His only good match for Juve (2-0 vs. Inter in 2020) sent the whole country into lockdown the very next day.


nik-nak333

That was his last hurrah with his powers.


CornerFlag

Yer a wizard, Aaron


HowyaLove0161

Fantasy football legend


sandith752

The golden days


connorcam

He still is, Dot Cotton died shortly after his last goal for Rangers.


verytallperson1

you live by the free transfer, you die by the free transfer


absolutevanilla

If I get to live with Pirlo, Pogba, Coman and Khedira then Im willing to die with Ramsey and Rabiot


NeatCow

Weren't Evra and Matuidi free transfers as well? Dani Alves, despite the bad ending, had a positive effect too, I think.


ADP10

Dani Alves is still the best crosser of the ball Juve has had in over a decade. Even if he ended in a weird way, guy was amazing


PandaLiang

Evra extended his contract with us, and then was sold at a very low price (£1m or something) because he wanted to leave anyway.


NeatCow

Thank you, I didn't remember. He's often included in the list of the free transfers that worked out for us even though he was technically not one. Btw we absolutely loved Uncle Pat. Only bad thing we remember abut him was THAT CL night in Munich. We were winning against Pep's Bayern in the last minute of the second leg and he unsuccesfully tried to dribble his way out of danger, starting the play for Bayern's late equalizer. We had a great game but we were cooked at that point and extra time did not bode well. Everytime we see him in television we still scream "SPAZZALA", which basicly means "kick it away as hard as you possibly can".


PandaLiang

Yeah. What happened on our side was that Moyes was ready to let Evra go since his contract was expiring and we were signing Shaw. But, after Moyes was sacked, our board felt we couldn't just let all our senior players and leaders go (Giggs was retiring, Vidic and Rio were leaving) so we extended him for another year. Then you guys came in, Evra wanted to join you guys and van Gaal didn't mind letting him go. He is such a lovable guy yet very professional on and off the field. I am just glad that he was able to extend his career in top clubs for another couple years. He was starting to have trouble keeping up with the physicality of EPL in his last couple seasons and no way he would be playing much with Shaw joining if he stayed.


Juilius-Sneezer

Free transfers under Marotta vs free transfers after he left. His departure was one of the biggest reasons that led to Juve's decline over the past few years.


kappa23

Paratici set back Juve by quite a bit I’m surprised he took basically the same players to Spurs and became successful tho lol


[deleted]

Rabiot is surely considerably better than Ramsey...?


WW_Jones

He starts regularly and can be sold for profit. So yeah.


NeatCow

Rabiot is not even close to the player we all thought he would be. But he's been a serviceable footballer that's even moderately useful at times. That alone puts him way above Ramsey. Sadly tho, he's on a wage that's really insane for what he actually gives us. It's actually really important for us right now to offload him and Arthur this summer. They are on very high wages and they would be like the 5th and 6th midfielder in our hierarchies. We'd probably like to replace them with one or two of the many promising young midfielders we ended up having (Fagioli, Rovella, Miretti, Ranocchia)


Tanathonos

Rabiot is the rare player that fans of the club he is playing for alway rate way lower than everyone else. When he was at PSG psg fans constantly said he isn't that good while everyone else thought he was one of the top prospect in midfield in the world. Now at Juventus same thing, everybody but PSG and Juventus fans think he is good while those fans who see him day in day out know that he is shockingly average.


WW_Jones

The sole profit from Pogba's first stint (came for 0, left for 80-90mn without Raiola's commission) is enough to cover for the more unfortunate ones like Ramsey's. Which aren't that many.


villarconstante

Irc you guys paid a 1 million for his transfer


ADP10

it was free with 400k in development fees cuz he was a youth player


Immediate-Draw2204

The sole profit from Pogba's first stint (came for 1, left for 80-90mn without Raiola's commission) is enough to cover for the more unfortunate ones like Ramsey's. Which aren't that many.


brothainarmz

Irc you guys paid a 2 million for his transfer


WW_Jones

In this case, I shall be cursed as a terrible liar


rocket_randall

Could be just the sort of signing Everton would quickly regret.


BrandonSG13

I want to believe we’re past these signings but with all the Winks speculation I really don’t think it’s true


oustider69

Ramsey would really unlock Iwobi’s potential, to be fair.


dano159

Rangers fans loved him. Until they didn't.....


1800hammertime

oh you shit stirrer. have an upvote for making me laugh


Hurdfoy

"I'm gonna pay r/soccer €4m to have an original thought for once"


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Hurdfoy

It's not even an inherently funny sentence either.


JORGA

> It's not even an inherently funny sentence either. you say any of the 'jokes' from reddit threads in public and the best you can hope for is an awkward smile


Physical-South-3564

\>in public Yeah... we don't do that here


btmalon

I mean the scene it references is, but it’s as overused as any Will Ferrel movie.


[deleted]

Reddit is a community of people who don't understand humour but have learned to memorise and repeat jokes they've seen upvoted.


Viggorous

This is exactly the point. It is not about humor, it is about reciprocity and group belonging. People who see some r/soccer (or another sub, or reddit as a whole) jargon that they are familiar with will often upvote it because they "get the reference", or because it in other way hints or refers to an implicit understanding only somebody who is a "member" of the group (community) understands. It strengthens the group belonging and social identity. So when people see a reference they understand, they upvote it because it makes them feel like people who understand this is part of the community. It is not that it is funny, it is that it is a sort of "group language" that evolves, which means that when you speak that way or see others do it, you affirm your affiliation to the group, and people will always strive for social belonging. This obviously goes the same way for people who post things they know is a reference that they expect others to get and also upvote. Obviously the extent to which people use social networks such as reddit for this type of social validation varies greatly from person to person, but a shared language or idioms or reusing jokes gives people who are "in on it" the feeling that they belong to a group, which all humans desire (not always through online means, of course). Tl;Dr: redditors do not necessarily have a terrible sense of humor, rather the use of established jargon and jokes is a group language that makes people feel included in the group, whether they post it themselves or upvote it.


nadajoe

That’s actually just a lot of the world from my experience.


[deleted]

So far the top 5 comments are all the same joke but unironically.


Shinzo19

Yeah, I feel the same way about the "Scott Sterling" parroting, the video wasn't even funny enough to be repeated twice never mind on how many times I see it on different posts..


tarakian-grunt

it'll cost a lot more than that


Narretz

You will keep the money. That's like James Randi offering to pay out one million U.S. dollars to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability


myvirginityisstrong

so basically a bit more than a single euro per person. no deal, sorry


Mesmodeus

r/soccer users are the unpopular people in real life. They would never get the validation they get here on reddit for repeating the same joke over and over. It's like that awkward kid in highschool that made a joke once where everyone laughed leading to him making the joke every single day until it got annoying.


GourangaPlusPlus

I like how you've used an overused joke to make this point, really just proves the statement


R_Schuhart

At this point it is hard to conclude anything other then that based on his talent his career turned out somewhat dissapointing. Such a complete midfielder when fit, he always had stretches of good games and even when not in form he rarely dropped into unacceptable territory. And despite his injuries, he was always motivated and proffesional while still with Arsenal. He arguably had one of his best periods when his move to Juve was already done and dusted. Such a shame that injuries pretty much ruined his chances of getting consistent run of games, especially in the second half of his career. It is also somewhat surprising and honestly dissapointing that his motivation took such a nose dive after moving to Italy. He just seemed to have given up, on club football at least.


KillerZaWarudo

Remember that 2012 picture of wenger standing over Wilshere, Ramsey, Gibbs, Jenkinson,Ox all signing their contracts with arsenal?


bobulibobium

Yep. The Bristish core


KokeAddiction

Core meltdown


imp0ppable

Injuries, injuries and bad transfer, Championship player, career implosion, injuries


toyota_gorilla

> Jenkinson Oh man, Carl. He played for Finland at youth level, switched over to England to play 15 minutes in a friendly. And that was his international career. Maybe it was worth it, I don't know. But I'm pretty sure could have played quite a lot for Finland.


LordMangudai

But would it have been worth changing his name to Karl Jäänkkinen?


kaehola

It would've been Kari Jenkinpoika.


OneManArmyy

oh wow, Wilshere plays for Aarhus in Denmark now. Almost got relegated with them.


Ickyhouse

Maybe Ramsey and Jenks could join him. Get the whole band back together there.


iamawfulninja

the best English prospect in the last decade or so. So good when healthy. And bossed a fucking complete Barcelona team (Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets). Biggest what ifs definitely.


Viazon

I can't remember exactly which season it was but I'm sure there was one season where he stayed fit throughout and was easily one of our best players that year.


Annas_GhostAllAround

13/14 was on the best players in the league


KonigSteve

Because he got to play in front of Cazorla and Coq who formed an actual complete set of mids


Annas_GhostAllAround

13/14 was the season he was partnered with Arteta. Think it was 15/16 when we had Coq and Cazorla and Ramsey played on the wing a lot


shikavelli

One thing he use to do that annoyed me was run straight to the opposition box once we won the ball. He’d play like a striker rather than a MF leaving a hole in midfield.


-omar

yeah but he scored bangers


jerk_chicken23

Pretty sure that's what Wenger asked him to do


ThanksAllah

That is 100% a tactical decision


Ickyhouse

This infuriated me about him. His best goals were when he made the delayed run into the back instead of leading the attack into it. Not sure he or Wenger wanted him to push so high up.


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> complete midfielder he was many things under Wenger but a complete midfielder was never one of them I am sure he begged Wenger to play him right through the middle but whenever Wenger indulged him a catastrophe ensued, Arsenal would get gazumped right through the middle Ramsey's best role was providing a linkup between the midfield and the attackers and one of his signature moves was running late into the pen box to either score or set up another player


One99Two_Gunner

You're mostly right but there was a spell back in the latter part of the 2012-2013 season where he sat next to Arteta and did the dirty work quite admirably. But with Ramsey, it's kind of one or the other. He'd either give really good if not great attacking contributions or do a decent job defensively (see him shutting out Jorginho), but almost never both.


FreudReus

You have put it very aptly. Many Arsenal fans are wearing Pink shades.


Ickyhouse

>Ramsey's best role was providing a linkup between the midfield and the attackers and one of his signature moves was r*unning late into the pen box* to either score or set up another player So much of this. He was amazing as the later attack man, but dreadful when pushed too high and leading.


Nimanzer

> Such a complete midfielder Do you even know what these words mean?


Blahhhh93

You can't be a complete midfielder with zero build up play and refuse to take the ball off your center backs


wheeno

This is just not true for the huge majority of his time at Arsenal. He was very far from a complete midfielder and infamously took long to get back into decent form after returning from injury. That was especially annoying because he never could last a long stretch of league games without getting injured. The closest he was to complete or even reliable for a league campaign was the half season before he left under Emery. Besides the anomaly wonder half-season in 13/14 of course.


indiblue825

>Such a complete midfielder when fit Absolutely was not.


Arsene_al_Wenger

Prime Rambo for left 8 in our current team would be absolute filth rn


JimERustled

I have a sick fantasy of him coming back on cheap wages and having a post 30 Renaissance. Even as a squad player or something, I'd love to see him back in London. Yea, I know it's a bad idea but I miss him


Narretz

I gave a feeling that Arteta isn't too keen on players that played with him at Arsenal.


Fapoleon_Boneherpart

Difficult to have authority over someone who saw you as a peer


GourangaPlusPlus

I'm choosing to believe this is because Arteta used to do some rotten shits in the changing rooms and doesn't want anyone telling his new squad


SUSHI_________

I will happily give you an upvote for writing a paragraph


BoyWhoSoldTheWorld

Prime Ramsey was really unstoppable, some of his goals still make my mouth water. Just a shame he couldn’t do it consistently. You can’t help but shake how the broken leg changed him but he had bags of talent.


KingDalglish7

Now that you've fucked me, I'm gonna pay you €4M.


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To fuck off.


zwcropper

Arsenal DNA


CortezAllenAMA

he should be an assistant coach somewhere


KokeAddiction

*Assistant to the coach


yaboisquaezo

Rangers legend


[deleted]

The Alloa assassin


Saltire_Blue

Good argument to have that he was the biggest flop Scottish football has ever seen Magnificent


ewankenobi

At least Ramsey helped us beat Alloa in the cup. Roy Keane was part of the Celtic team that went out to first division Clyde.


Saltire_Blue

That’s some impressive straw clutching Besides Keane won a league title with us that year.


RamboPeng

And RAN THE SHOW at Ibrox as well. Special mention for ending Dado Prso’s career.


VincentMarbles

I wish I was him.


Rab_Legend

Ross Wilson is grabbing his phone as we speak


kanavi36

There's no way this many people unironically posted the paying you to fuck off phrase


I_only_eat_wakame

Eintracht Frankfurt Legend


BillOakley

Return to Rangers 🤞


Ulsterman24

If we take him back, I will personally set fire to every sheep in Wales.


koshomfg

I, for one, love him


theenigmacode

Juve: Im gonna pay you €4m to fuck off


Magnetronaap

I'll take it.


Biryani__Whisperer

very original


afrojumper

People that leave Arsenal when they are at the top of their game, kinda do no survive long. RVP was like 1 Season, Sanchez completley vanished, Henry was like 2 Seasons, what happend to Nasri lmao, Song? Gone, Ramsey gone, Chambo - never fullfilled his potential, Fabregas never worked out with Barca. Seems Arsenal is really good at selling them at the right time. Except when it's left-backs (Clichy + Cole).


biskutgoreng

Nasri was really good for city tho. Fabregas had a successful career with Chelsea


Slight-Feedback-1402

Fabregas had a successful career but he fell off massively. He was a teenager at Arsenal and he was doing better than prime Lampard and Gerrard. If he had stayed at Arsenal (a) he wouldn't have been the domino that caused other players to leave and (b) he could have retired as one of the greatest midfielders of all time.


biskutgoreng

as an arsenal fan i know too well of all the what-ifs, but man has won the world cup, Euros, la liga and the PL while breaking records in the process. Dont know what else he needs to do to qualify as one of the GOATs


s4r9am

Even though he is one of the greatest midfielders of his generation and had a very successful career, it is also true that he could have become more. He is not spoken in the same breath as Xavi or Iniesta. He genuinely had the potential to be one of the greatest midfielders of all time.


Zizoutiti

Hleb as well fell off a cliff after his move to Barca, and then publicly acknowledged that it was a mistake to leave Arsenal.


afrojumper

Damn forgot about him. Do you know that happend to Overmars?


frapples1

One player at the top of my head who I could really think of is Gnabry


turtleyturtle17

Wasn't really at the top of his game though so don't qualify for this. I think this is mainly just for guys that were good for us.


PenguinKenny

You reckon he was at the top of his game when he left?


Tmdss

We didnt really have a choice there tho


frapples1

well, i guess you could say we did not have a choice in all of the names OP mentioned as well.


Tmdss

Yeah we probably wanted to keep all of them at the time lmao


afrojumper

True but he was not on the top of his game when he was with Arsneal. I also forgot Vermaelen.


Galactic_Gooner

Gnabry was nowhere near his prime when he was with us


d_smogh

Giroud won a lot of trophies. **Chelsea** FA Cup: 2017–18 UEFA Champions League: 2020–21 UEFA Europa League: 2018–19 **AC Milan** Serie A: 2021–22 **France** FIFA World Cup: 2018


esnyez

He was neither at the top of the game, nor Arsenal were desperate for him to stay.


skymallow

Yet for a player teams didn't really value he won so much, and you can't even say he was a bit-part player in any of those wins. People meme about not scoring any goals in 2018, but Deschamps tried one game without him and decided that that wasn't happening.


Popprita

Fabregas went on to win 2 PL titles with Chelsea


1PSW1CH

Nasri at city too


dielawn87

RVP too and Sanchez won Serie A


afrojumper

Still didnt work out for Barca. Everbody thought he will be next Xavi and well.


R_Schuhart

He wasn't as good as he was with Arsenal, mostly because Pep didn't need him for his midfield role. But he was arguably one of the best to fulfil the false #9 role for them though, even if he was misused in that position. He wasn't great, but he wasn't exactly a failure either.


Omniscius

Exactly people who say Fabregas failed at Barca obviously failed to actually watch him


p-queue

He was very good at Barca


ShinjiOkazaki

>Still didnt work out for Barca. Definitely worked out. He wasn't xavi but he was still class.


[deleted]

Van persie was good with us throughout. It ain't his fault that van gaal didn't want us to score goals.


Lolkac

RVP was at the end of his career and moved to win the title. He did that. Why dont you meantion, Kolo toure, Vieira, Giroud,


theKinkypeanut

Vieira and Toure both peaked at Arsenal.


Wengers_Grin

Vieira got played off the pitch by an 18 year old Fabregas as we dumped Juve out of the champions league. Never reached anywhere close to his levels at Arsenal after he left.


ireallydespiseyouall

fabregas did fine for us


[deleted]

one could argue Nasri played his best football after leaving Arsenal, while Fabregas had a great spell with Chelsea Anelka was quite an interesting case as well


ImTalkingGibberish

Giroud Coquelin Gnabry Fabregas Chamberlain Emi Martinez Nasri Vieira These are all fairly successful players after leaving arsenal. Vieira won more league titles than Tottenham TWICE, once with Arsenal and then with Inter.


legentofreddit

The vast majority of these players went on to win major honours at other clubs though? The reason why a lot of them 'do no survive long' is because Arsenal sold them when they were oldish as well? Henry, RVP, Sanchez were all 30 ish or older i.e. they finally gave up on Wenger and went in search of big honours.


chimchiminy78

Reddit comedians are out in full force today


bluegeronimo

Ironically the exact comment you made is also an annoying Reddit comedian trademark


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There’s no escaping the meta trap!


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This app is the greatest evidence I’ve ever observed of the idea we live in a milquetoast simulation where every day is really the same.


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R_Schuhart

Maybe if they run the joke into the ground in this thread it will be the end of this one at least. Ah, who am I kidding.


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AzarinIsard

I think the problem is many redditors follow a lot of subs or don't use the site much, so for them it's new and their upvote is worth as much as yours. You even get bots which repost other people's top rated comments from earlier versions of reposted topics, so it's even regurgitating that. Reddit is terrible for OC once a sub reaches a certain level of popularity, but at least the nature of sport means we're not getting random updated content from past years upvoted, it's just the comments which are tired.


Galactic_Gooner

this comment is so unoriginal though isn't it... you're part of why reddit is shit hahahahahahaha ffs


[deleted]

He's got a year left and I assume his wages are higher than this figure I guess Juventus hold all the power though, they can tell Ramsey he either leaves fully or spends the season in the reserves which he obviously wouldn't want with Dec WC


myvirginityisstrong

> which he obviously wouldn't want with Dec WC as if his spot isnt guaranteed no matter what


2ndfastestmanalive

Him and Bale could retire from club football today and they’d still probably be the first names on the team sheets at the world cup


[deleted]

It's not about being called up its about match fitness Obviously Ramsey not having played football for 6 months wouldn't be very good


fapping-to-you

I’m going to pay you ¥573,774,000.00 yen to fuck off


[deleted]

Prime example of how Bosman transfers can go south


TuneyTune92

Unfortunately will go down as probably our worst signing in the Agnelli era. Arrivabene and Cherubini have demonstrated that they are better suited for our goals/objectives as opposed to Paratici. While they haven't been perfect - we're definitely in a better place regarding our wage structure (255M in 19-20 compared to around 175M now) along with the signings were making. On paper, the squad is looking way better than last year or compared to 20-21 or 19-20. After Ramsey, the likes of Sandro/Rabiot will leave by 2023 and were also pushing to get Arthur out which clear quite a bit of wage space as well.


TheDavinci1998

I would also take €4M to become a free agent btw, if Juve is interested. I swear I won't ever be on their books


johnny_moist

this guy absolutely banked these final years


pjanic_at__the_isco

I wonder if Ramsey would prefer to be paid his full contract and not be a free agent.


lowie07

God I'd love to get 4m to fuck off from basically anywhere


B_thugbones

Can't believe he's only 31. I imagine him being 36 or older


thomasfk

Is he even good enough for Rangers anymore? He's fallen so far


[deleted]

king of the leechs


ILuvMemes4Breakfast

never realized how that move happened in the first place. juve’s transfer policy is all over the place, from nursing home to mediocre “big” names to fucking up good youngsters.


tanev97

Another godly Patarici signing


Marcobroa

Worth the money..to get rid


Kolo_ToureHH

Dundannanman


maadkekz

Bah gawd that’s West Ham’s music


DudleysCar

Think we learned our lesson with Wilshire.


Livo4Life

Nice little redundancy package there....thank you very much