Comments on: Eduardo clicks, as Arsenal Hammer the Hammers

By: geoff

geoff — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:06:36 +0000

You know what ATL, I knew that… what I meant was if Cole hadn’t hadn’t gone we wouldn’t have Clichy in the team playing left back, sometimes you have to read between the lines!

By: jimmyfingers

jimmyfingers — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:53:48 +0000

I think he meant that losing Cole cleared the way for Clichy at left back, not that we got Clichy as part of the deal

By: ATL_Gooner

ATL_Gooner — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:44:00 +0000

“I looked at Clichy yesterday and thought, we got Gallas and him for Ashley Cole, what a piece of business that was! So thanks a lot Kenyon.”

Errm, we actually had Clichy all along really.
We got Gallas and five million for Cashley 2 summers back so it was still a great bit of business and then this year we got Diarra for two Mill off the chavs as well.

So basically we got Gallas, Diarra and three mill for off loading a mouthy cellphonophile.

Can’t get enough chelski deals at those rates.

By: evo

evo — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:36:15 +0000

Pennant was rubbish i agree! He thought he was Henry after scoring that hat-trick against Southampton in his debut game and funnilly enough those were his only goals for us in the 1′s.
Its a clear cut decision for Wenger every time someone comes along where he has to make an assessment. Nearly every single time the decision is right. Bentley was a trouble maker as well early on, not being able to stay out of trouble outside of football like pennant, so he had to go for more reasons than one.
Laarsson would never have made the cut, Muamba and Song were too alike, so 1 had to go! I like Song, his assist to Eduardo in the game against Blackburn in the CC was a cracker! 1 assist doesnt make a player, but it shows his skill and he is versatile in being able to play defence and midfield.
Djourou is 50/50 at the moment to make it, i hope he does as he seems versatile as well and the Swiss wouldnt be playing him and Senderos as the no.1s if the didnt have faith in them.
Wait and see hey!

By: Vuja De

Vuja De — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:12:05 +0000

I completely agree with those posters on this site who believe that, in the final
analysis, Connelly simply isn’t good enough to break into our senior first team.

As has been already stated, if he was that good, there would have been a que of premiership clubs lining up to offer him a deal and a place in their first teams once it had become known that he was up for grabs.

But the real issue here is the not-fully-spelt-out -assertion in some of the comments above that, somehow, Arsene Wenger is making decisions on who to keep and on who to let go on purely non-footballing grounds.

In other words, Arsene is apparently operating on the basis of “if you’re home grown, you can leave, and if you’re an overseas player, you can stay”.

This is clearly nonsense of the highest order, and reveals much more about those who put forward such beliefs than it does about the decision making & planning of Arsene Wenger.

Arsene has repeatedly said that he is not concerned with a player’s nationality, only with whether they are good enough & of sufficient quality to play the kind of football that he dreams about.

I believe Arsene when he says this.

By: jimmyfingers

jimmyfingers — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:03:44 +0000

Seriously, who have we let leave that would be good enough to play for us? As someone pointed out, Connelly went to QPR. Sidwell, Pennant and Bentley all went to good homes. If he was a prospect, Connelly surely would have been snapped up by a Premiership side. He is 20 as well, so really beyond youth team status. Plus he wanted to go, for first team football.

Sidwell got taken off at half-time for Chelsea and was generally shocking. He’s out of his depth there, so would be even more so at the Arse. Pennant is rubbish, and seems to be actually getting worse. Plus he’s a gigantic cock. I’m with you on Bentley, he should have played more for us, but he too made the decision to leave. Now he’s good, perhaps we should buy him back?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:31:57 +0000

I saw Song play for Charlton and he looked ordinary to me.

By: Bud

Bud — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:26:21 +0000

I’m going over to Arse-Hanger…….. this English bollocks is boring me……

If they ain’t good enough which they clearly ain’t, get rid of. The reason the foriegn younsters are good is because we sign the best youngsters from youth teams all over the world. In England, we can only pick them out of a catchment area where we have to compete with every other London Club…….

Anyway, not bothered, more foriegners please !!!!!

By: Bud

Bud — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:23:57 +0000

BUt Geoff, you are missing the point, SONG was the stand out player for Charlton when he went there on loan. If an Arsenal player cannot achieve that STAND OUT status at a lesser team, he’s flogged, simple as that and right by my reckoning.

Besides, any player he wants to sell, he can put a buy back clause in the deal if he wants, its not uncommon to put a buy back cap on a young player when he is sold on !

Besides, Wenger obviously feels someone else in the stiffs is better !!!!

By: The prophet

The prophet — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:21:14 +0000

the word missed is good