In the Times yesterday they talked about the shortcomings of Arsenal football club this season, the captaincy and of course, what might have been, they also talked about who was available that would make us a title winning team again, mostly I agree, but I’ve made a few additions, what do you think?
Zapata is a big centre back that does look good, I think we should think about this kid, Senderos is not the answer, he’ll never add pace to his game and his one customary howler per game has now become two, he has to go.
With the constant debate over strikers, we would do no worse than sign David Villa (He has a £100million buyout clause!), he would cost more than Benzema but looks the ticket already, Eduardo may never be the same and Bendtner may not make it, Robin is a liability so that leaves Ade and Theo, I believe every top side should have 4 top strikers to win the league and be able to compete for all trophies. David Villa says we are his choice as he loves our one touch passing game, the other option is Sergio Aguero who at 19 would be the right age for Wenger, but Villa is ready now, so a possibility.
Midfield, even if we keep Flamini I believe we need to add to our midfield, but we have enough young talent already plus the ressurgent Gilberto to cope, so add to those Diaby, Hleb, Cesc, Denilson and Song it should be enough, but we do need Wingers, I think two but I’d settle for one.
That one has to be an out and out winger, Robinho would be my choice but Ben Arfa would do me just fine as well. Rosicky won’t make it and if he does, he won’t last, so we shouldn’t put our eggs in his basket, he’s not a real winger anyway, another possibility is Wright Philips, Chelsea are having a clear out so he could go, he’s an Arsenal fan and he’s 200 times better than everyone’s favourite hate figure, Eboue. Another great option is Quaresma, I like him but I’m sure the big spenders already have him lined up.
We need a goalie, a world class goalie and Almunia isn’t it, Fabianski is way too young and Lehmann has done far too much slagging to be in this team, he also is prone to howlers so he needs to go. We should try for Buffon, perhaps now he’d come now he realises that Italian football is lagging.
Luka Modric looks too slight to me and if we have players like Lansbury and Wilshire in the production line we don’t need to spend huge sums on big time Charlies when we are adequately covered in that department. However if Diego came available he would be worth a gamble.
Which ever way you look at it we have to challenge for all the trophies this year, if we do, he needs to spend and this shopping list would go a long, long way towards it.
If he doesn’t want to seriously compete for four trophies next season, then he needs to tell the board they should rebate the season tickets holders for not even attempting to deliver what we pay for.
As I said yesterday, West Ham play pretty football and win nothing, but West Ham fans don’t expect to, so the West Ham board charge them accordingly, Arsenal fans on the other hand get charged more than any other fans in world football, that’s right, more than ANY OTHER FANS IN WORLD FOOTBALL.
So Arsenal, make your mind up, we’ll pay it if you deliver, you can”t have it both ways.
Finally, if you persist in stiffing us the fans and not spending money on players, you’ll switch young kids away from Arsenal and you’ll be open season for a takeover as the fans will begin to dislike you, so far you have the mob, but it won’t last.
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Pedro
Geoff
Actually west ham play boring football. why is it that everybody says we need a keeper Almunia has been great this season he’s committed way less mistakes than any other top 4 goal keeper, i think that arsenal need one centre back an one right winger zapata and wright phillips anyone?
A really good post, full of good knowledge and a positive attitude. Football is an entertainment industry which includes the non playing transfer window. Fans like it when big players are linked and signed, it’s exciting to hear about David Villa and Arsenal. A boost will be given to the club, players and fans if some signings arrive.
Have a good day.
and BTW i think that lansbury is better than denilson
I wouldn’t mind David Villa, we’re probably only going to get one top class striker and if it’s him, he’ll do well at Arsenal, a very technically gifted player.
For every other position I expect we’ll promote from within. Arsene’s style of football suits the “top striker” philosophy, we were for a while called a one man team. Now we have the team element and no top out and out fully developed striker, that looks to be the key if we’re only going to buy for one position.
Next season I don’t expect to see Eboue on the right, and it’ll be interesting who leaves. Arsene himself fully appreciates how difficult it is to keep hold of players, which is why he’d rather have a few duds and keep the team together.
We have a lot of talent in our reserves and players coming back from loan look to be our solution for adding cover. We won’t have trouble attracting top strikers, David Villa has identified that we have a vacancy where a top striker doesn’t have to wait in line. With the service offered at Arsenal, it’s every top strikers dream.
We’re not converting our fair share of chances and creating more than our fair share., when that crucial problem is solved, we’ll be winning games on a regular basis.
good point about modric,
landsbury and wilshire look capable of taking that role in the next few years.
Great post Geoff!
Well said regarding the season ticket prices. We expect to compete when we pay the most. Otherwise what are you paying for? A nice seat? Some nice one touch football?
David Villa would be a great signing, he is proven, young and would lift the whole squad.
I’d love to see Diego as well.
Fuck it, i’d love to see any signings!
It must be hard for the players to hear that after having a shite season, Arsene wont add. I would think if a new player can lift the fans, it would lift the squad?
I like Almunia though, he has done next to nothing wrong this year compared to many other keepers.
WAT DO U THINK??
New keeper – Igor Akinfeev….Russias number 1, young and dominant…..£6M
Centre back/right back – Micah Richards – Strong, young, english……£18M
Winger – Carlos Vela returning from loan – pacey energetic left footer kind of in the theo mould……No transfer fee
Midfield enforcer – Loic Perrin sounds like a perfect Wenger purchase, french under 21 captain, strong and disciplined……£5M
New Striker – David Villa – perfect age, very technical, lots of pace and can finish…….£20M
To go………..
Lehmann – No transfer fee
Hoyte – £3M
Gilberto – No transfer fee
Senderos – Switzerlands captain….£5M
Bendtner – £6M
That would be £49M spent….with £14M coming in
Total spent – £35M………….Not bad i think…..wat u think???
On the Bendtner issue, for a number four striker, he’s got us a pretty good return.
14 starts, 22 substitutions, 7 goals.
Plus his international goals.
There are clubs who have paid much more for their strikers who have delivered less and have a lower games to goals ratio.
These players would be my ideal Arsenal Summer…
David Villa, Hatem Ben Arfa, Cristian Zapata, De Guzman
These players will win us the league and champions league, now this experienced player, does he mean a defensive one because thats the only experience we need
Bendtner, Senderos, Lehmann, need to go
Whats all this talk of De Guzman?
Can someone give me a low down of him?
I am so out the loop with Euro players…
Diego, i think we lost him, real madrid will buy him
luka modric is good but again he similar to rosicky, hleb and fabregas we wont have space for him
we have to get rid of bendtner, senderos, lehmann, hoyte, eboue we can easily get £20m from them sales
am sure juventus will want to sign senderos
Jonathon De Guzman, from feyenoord he is a right winger, quick and mobile and puts in loads of good crosses, cheaper version of SWP
Oh i can see it now
Fabregas and David Villa show, with carlos vela on the left ripping defenders
Another fine post this morning. Something to think about while pretending to listen in class.
I think there is NO chance Ade will be sold. Should Villa come in, he will be our number one striker. Would RvP accept that ? I don’t think so. RvP’s injury record requires us to have another striker, so I would say the unthinkable – ship him out.
I can’t believe I wrote that – RvP is fantastic, but we need to be able to rely on a strike force. Bendtner, Ade, Theo and a recovered Dudu plus Villa would give us a strikeforce to reckon with
De Guzman is good, if Wenger stuck him straight in like he did with Sagna I reckon he’d cope.
We are in urgent need of a right winger. There are better than De Guzman out there, but he’d probably be relatively inexpensive and would instantly boost our squad. I have a feeling Carlos Vela is gong to be playing there.
Yeah i read last season that Juventus wanted to sign Big Phil…I also read yesterday that Diego does’nt want to leave Bremen….he’d be expensive as well??
I would love to sign Villa, I watch him on Spanish football sometimes and he is really good he doesnt fuck around outside the box like Ade or Hleb, he looks quite greedy but a good greedy (like hitting it from outside the area alot)
I dont think people give Nikki enough credit, he works his bollocks of and is just unlucky, remeber how shit Ade was a season ago….
I’d keep RVP as backup, we’re not going to get a better sub striker than RVP.
If we’re going to compare Ade and Bendtner’s first 12 months, Bendtner has already out done Ade…
Rosicky is in rehab at the moment……I’d keep him as backup as well when he gets back to normal, but for both Rosicky’s and RVP’s positions, we need a number 1 ahead of them.
Ok if we sign david villa
Ade, RVP, Bendtner, Walcott, Eduardo
we should loan Bendtner out to a big team and Walcott is best at the moment as a impact player
RVP he is injury prone at the moment, but imagine the holland formation
Rvp Ade David Villa
fucking hell that would be unstoppbale
and for defenders, Lucio is availabe and he is experienced and he is a monstor of a defender
ezequiel Garay is simialr to lucio but a great free kick expert
chrisitan zapata is a pacy defender and strong simialr to lilian thuram
Jonahthon De Guzman is a direct type of player like eboue but much better end product
James, they always say they don’t want to leave! I reckon he’d love a move over… his game suits the Arsenal.
Big Phil to Juve for £14million, what a deal! haha! Am I dreaming again?
Steve, is the site working ok for you?
So Guzman is a winger? We didn’t do to badly last time we raided Feyenoord. Does he score goals though?
I think key to the summer signings is not thinking about whether or not you are taking someone’s spot. Rosicky and RvP are not reliable enough to worry about putting someone world class in their place.
Competition is good…
True FC, but RvP is too good and too ambitious to accept being a sub-striker. Plus we could finance the deal with him out. This is only a suggestion. I could see RvP becoming a great player somewhere else, but if wereally were to sign Villa somone has to go and who should it be?
Bendtner (despite what I read on the site) is going to be superb. Only 19, an established International (OK, it is only Denmark – but they beat England 4-0 last year).
Theo? ….. no way
Ade ? 26 goals and counting. Plus he is injury free.
Dudu? … . why?
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The France U17 international has Arsenal, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid all chasing him and Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas said: “This man will be a big star and Lyon are keen to profit from his abilities.”
this kids name is coming up everywhere, real madrid, juventus, milan are all interested him..
wenger sign him i dont mind but BUT we want world class signings
Lucio, David Villa are both “super super class players”
I can’t believe it!!! Villa, arguably the most sought-after striker still available has openly come out and said that his club are willing to sell him and he wants to come to arsenal!! Any manager would be foolish not to make a bid instantly, but there’s our problem…..
Well done geoff !
good to hear some positive steps to take in redeeming the clubs stature as a world class club , good to hear one of my preferred strikers make his feelings known ..
Lets just hope arsene opens his wallet up and grabs him .. He could very well be the striker needed to take us forward.. In fact ill go as far as saying HE IS the one we need !
Buys
David Villa
Boruc from Celtic
Nesta from Milan
Swop Senderos for Dunne at Man City
Wright-Phillips if available
Sells
Eboue
Bendtner
Rosicky
Captain: Cesc Fabregas
New year – 2 trophies at least
I agree that at present the board & AW have the vast majority of fans on their side at present. That will change come next August if there are not substantial purchases made.
We need top class talent at centre half and centre forward.
Without this talent, we will fail again to push on.
Gunnershabz, Wenger doesn’t play Dutch style attacking football.
If we’re gonna have 3 up front.
Almunia
Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy
Fabregas, Flamini, Hleb
RVP, Huntelaar, Villa
Bench: Fabianski, Adebayor, Rosicky, Walcott, Senderos
But this is daft…. we all know Wenger won’t sign Villa. It will be some 21 y.o from Somalia. Experienced in the French second div.
Almunia
Sagna Toure Gallas Clichy
Fabregas Flamini Hleb
Villa RVP
Adebayor
Midovco, the whole point is….we need to replace our first striker. Ade is not a first striker, even in a 4-3-3 He would not be most suited to the central role.
Ade is best in a 4-4-2 playing second fiddle to a top class number 1.
Let’s hope he’s reading this and reading the comments eh! for Villa to come out and say that, Wenger’s ego will be stroked and I bet Cesc will have a quiet word too, exciting times ahead?
Wenger you have the money, yo can buy Villa for around 20 mil easily he will definatly be worth it. if you try and give your excuse of no top quality stars being available to you again then i will go mad. please fuking buy him he is better then Torres all day long.
Wengers experience player will be the freakin freak Gomes Keeper, i wouldnt mind a 6ft5 giant in our goal, that way AW wouldnt have to worry about his little CB’s.
Bendtner has done brilliantly, maybe there is an issue within the team, but if he got some of the service Ade gets in a game he would score more. His link up play is far better than Ade. I think Wenger should take it as a given that he will only get 10-20 games a season from RvP and Rosicky…hopefully i am wrong but those two definitely need replacements/reinforcements, Villa and Ben Arfa for me, both quality.
If Senderos does go, and that a big IF, because we know AW rates him, but if he does go, I suspect Djerou will become 3rd choice, so any CB will be not the quality and experienced CB we all waiting for. Dammit!
pedro
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but i say
lucio, david villa and hatem ben arfa…..
best summer for arsenal fans
Raddy -
Don’t disagree re RvP but I think we need to give him one more season and see how the injuries go. Same with Rosicklynote – if they can both recover and do a job then great; if not, they need to go!
Villa, RvP and Dudu as a strike force – cracking; they’d do the job. I don’t see they would have a problem —- anyways; according to most ade is the no1 striker – great then maybe he’d fuck off!!!
i do think Royston Drenthe should be also seriously looked at as a midfield option
oh yeah sign up flamini and make him captain he is everywhere on the pitch he is a born leader you can see it in him
I personally Ade is suited to the first striker, he’s a big man who can lay off balls to the two forwards following up. Drogba is great at playing up the top of a front three, Ade should and could be exactly like that, Drogba’s first couple of seasons weren’t that good. Ade has it in him to be better for the club.
And it will be Mali and Finland that he’s looking not Somalia
ok these are the super super class players available this summer
david villa, lucio, robinho, ronaldinho, deco, aquillani, rafael marquez, diego
what do u guys think
Ade can only play in the team on his own up front. Ade cannot play alongside any other striker. he gets in their way. he dominates the whole striker area but when it comes to finishing chances he lets us down. Ade would smother Villa. he cannot form a partnership. Bendtner can. Nik will work with another striker even if he doesn’t get on with them.
its a tricky situation. RVP’s injury proneness is my biggest worry. if I was to buy Villa, I would probably sell RVP purely because you cant have 6 stirkers. but it will all depend on how much Villa costs and how much you’d get for RVP. If you could get something like £12m for RVP then fine.
ronald koemen is the coach of valencia
a swap deal with david villa with RVP!!!!
he will do it
I’ll tell you why T-Buzz… you said a banned word on Le Grove and it got spammed!
Never say the R word… never…
But what about the 100 mill buyout clause for Villa – is that payable up front ? If it is can we see Arsne putting all his psending into one person ?
There’s a real potential that RVP will be a great player, we should show faith in him through his injuries for a while more because of that. Rosicky hasn’t shown much of what he can do so I think he’s the one who should go.
I think the Clause was in place when Valencia were contenders… I think they’d take anything for him now, they are having a big clear out in the summer. Loads of the big names are off!
I like Joaquin as well… he has gone a bit off the boil recently though?
the buy out clause is nothing, its a spanish thing, everyone has it on there contract. its just there for clubs to get scared
ronaldinho is got a £120m buyout clause, do u think MILAN are going to pay that no way.
when a spanish club wants to sell then they put a price tag on him
For fooks sake!
Can we keep a squad together for more than 5 minutes please?
We need to ADD to the squad, not decimate it.
there are rumours in france that chelski are bidding for thierry henry
RVP will not be sold – the boss rates him too highly, he and villa would be awesome
Ade/Bendtner as back up – if Dudu makes full recovery, it will take time for him to get to the top again, and will be used as sub for three months
I would love to see Villa in our club – what a difference he would make
Oh – and a couple of BIG defenders
I see Pedro – it should be a good start to the transfer round if he came – and it sounds like a “come and get me plea” puts us in pole position toget him.
Villa plus a world class centre back and left winger (to replace Rosicknote) would give us weary goons a lift we badly need.
Valencia will sell a couple of players this summer to balance the books. They aren’t a rich club & when they don’t make europe (which they won’t unless they go through the intertoto) then they always sell players. Villa I’m sure will be allowed to leave for around 20-23 million.
I would love Wenger to sign him but it won’t happen. Other top teams want him & regardless of us being his first choice, teams like Chelski would outbid us & that would mean Valencia not accepting our offer. Although he said he wanted to join Arsenal he did also say that he would seriously look at any offer from England so its not like he’ll turn every other premier league team down!!
he did say he wants to try himself out in england
valencia we can raid them
david villa, vicente, joaquin and raul abdiol the defender
thats it we done for a few seaons
Add to the squad = good chance of doing something next season.
sell everyone = no fookin chance.
oh i forgot about the brillant david silva
david villa, vicente, silva and joaquin
oh my they would make a big difference to our attackign line up
4 to solve all our weaknesses:
ASHLEY YOUNG
GABI AGBONLAHOR
MICAH RICHARDS
DE ROSSI
I was thinking about whether we ever sign ‘Come and get me’ players…
Sagna
Diaby
Theo
Flamini
There are a few in there… does Arsene have the guts to splash the cash!
It would be amazing and it would kick start the summer!
PROVEN QUALITY!
Ben Arfa wouold be a top signing. Plus I would love it, if BobbyP came back for a 1 season swan song. We couldve done with him while Rosicky has been out!
i dont think central midfield should be touched unless flamini and gilberto both go.
we got diaby, fabregas, song, denilson, hleb and rosicky
we need width hence we got atheltic wing backs in sagna and clichy.
carlos vela if he does come, there is a possiblity he may stay in spain for another season.
Villa for me, a route one striker with a massive shot, and a center back and a winger…who am I kidding!
Would Love to see Villa with us next year, I’m just waiting for Wenger to come out though and say we aren’t interested! Is it me or does the Prof only come out with dissapointing answers!
With Vela, and Villa i think our attacking aspect to our game would rival the best in history.
Then with one WORLD CLASS centre back to partner Toure or Gallas (which ever one decides to show some form) then the title would be ours.
I think Almunia has been solid as a rock all season, be harsh to drop him, though maybe a world class keeper may have won us a few more points with unbelievable saves? Akinfeev on Football manager comes good next year
why is everybody against bentner hes only 20 and has scored 7 goals from 14 starts and 20 something sub apperances thats preetty good for a backup player
Very good post geoff -I also think RVP must be given another season he looks a shadow of his former self but hey ho everything goes in cycles -he will have his day in the sun again
Oh and talking about day in the sun whats the weather like in Spain Geoff
I always thought Eto’o would be the 1 top notch striker we should go for, especially when Cesc started tapping him up in the media! But Villa would be top notch too.
If I hear Arsene come out and say, “Well, yes he is a super player and we could have signed him for a tenner but, what does that mean for Gilles Sunu?”
I will mess my pants!
wenger buying david villa?..keep dreaming
be prepared to see mputu in action at emirates soon
It’s worse than it was when I was in England Mike! A signing would make the clouds go away though!
if we do trying to sign world class players it has to be before euro 2008, the value will go up if they perform
Thanks for the youtube clip on De Guzman, ethan_gunner!! Iam liking his style of play and he looks very confident too, taking his chances and that freekick towards the end was spot-on. Only problem is Wenger would rather choose that can pass the ball 50times until they get in the box to score!
Bendtner unfortunately doesnt do it for me as he’s too slow on the ball and defenders already know what he’s going to do before he even thinks it! I really hope eduardo recovers cos remembering the Man City vArsenal game, he and Ade were superb.
first I think we have to perchese one defender
and rip Galas’s capitancy and give it to fabrigas
and
David villa
Ben arfa
Zapata
and that Florotina man who play in midfil cover up for Falmini
and bring barzit from the reserves to the first team
Well no signings will happen before June thats for sure. Then Wenger will be away commentating on the Euro’s for French TV, so it’ll be July before you hear any noises from Wenger re the one signing!!
He may bring in a couple of kids before that but I have a feeling we’re all in for a very long & very boring summer, once again watching all the real world talent getting snapped up by the other clubs around us!!
Morning chaps,
Top post Geoff.
So we’re speculating re buys for next season?
How about
Gomez PSV /Buffon
Wheater Middlesborough /Nesta
De Guzman/Ashley Young or Robinho
Villa Valencia/Daniel Guiza Mallorca (would rather have a fit RVP)
Out
Lehmann
Senderos
Eboue
Gilberto
Hleb(?)
We can win the CL next season as long as we avoid any blinking English teams en route to the final and Le Boss tries to win the group this time.
The league – as long as we plan that the likes of Cesc,Sagna,Gallas,Flamini,RVP (Euros) wont be available until maybe September we’ll be fine. For them we’ll have enough cover with the likes of Denilson, Diaby, Djourou, Theo, Merida, Barazite, Gilbert,Gibbs.
Great post, just been reading all the posts and at least we have a good summer to look forward too, hopefully if we go out and get a potential big nam…although that’s never always the answer look at Shevva & Ballack at Chelsea, hardly set the prem league alight?
I like the idea of the following additions provided that the following is true about these guys leaving
Hleb – to inter
Senderos – Juve
Flamini – Inter
Gilberto – Bayern
Eboue – Inter
Lehmann – Bundasliga
Modric – his link up play with Eduardo was great for the both D.Zagreb and Croatia, he is slight but strong, as proved when Gerrard try to smash him up at wembley.
Mauro Zarate – already established in the Prem league with Birmingham, very similar to Tevez, great dribbler, good feet and can hit a ball, and would only cost about £3m
Micah Richards – even to muscle out Gallas or Toure, he needs to partner with a good centre back as he has pace, aggression, and can header from set pieces
Yohann Gourfran – goalscoring midfielder, U21 french star he is good, and being french would fit it perfectly.
Plus we have
Lansbury
Randall
Gibbs
Nordveit
Carlos Vela
All coming back next year.
Keep the faith guys
Excellent post indeed, and good fun to imagine top p;ayers coming to the Emirates. One thing is for sure – Villa is a class forward who knows where the goal is. We could do with a player like him, and if he wants to come then what is to stop us??
It would be fantastic to see Aguero here too. He’s a superstar in the making, kind of like Man U’s Anderson but plays further forward and is an excellent finisher.
Left wing, yeh we could wait for Vela to come in but it’s a lot to ask for a young guy in his first season. If Hleb goes then we would surely want to add a new name and Robinho would fit in really well if only he wanted to come. Maybe RVP as a winger?
How good is this Christian Zapata? I haven’t seen him but I know I’ve never been that convinced by either Micah Richards or Lucio.
And how great would it be to have a top-class goalie again?
He looks big and solid and some say similar to Thuram, worth a punt I’d say.
zarate is valued at 12m, not 3m.
Well written article reflecting the growing feeling among some fans like me who have been going for more years than they care to remember. The last time I felt like I didn’t care about our club, was when we had Terry Neill manager in the early 80′s. Even when things went sour under George Graham in the mid 90′s I still had a passion for our club, unlike today. The reason? We have been sold a pup.
We’re a big 4 Premierhip club, whatever that’s supposed to mean but we behave like a Championship side. Our major stars all retired or were sold in the last 3 years and what we have in their place is the Tesco’s value version. Yes they pretty football, outpass teams, hold onto the ball longer than anyone else but they don’t finish teams off when it matters.
Granted, there are players like Sagna, Clichy, Toure, Fabregas, Flamini who have pride and battle. The rest I’m afraid are just not up to it, some are only good for the bench while others need to be developed further before they can be considered as top notch.
Gallas as captain is a failure and has become an average defender. He is also mostly to blame for the poor run of results with his strops and with his bad defending being reponsilble for our defeats at Chelsea & United the other day. I feel sorry for Senderos but he’s had a few years to step up and hasn’t done it. We need a big mobile in yer face kind of defender.
Adebayor give him the ball and he will pass it back or slow down the game. His first touch is woeful and funny he should be talking about killer instincts because he has none. Yeah he scored 25 goals this year but he’s failed to score 225 times. The United match being the perfect example, missing sitter after sitter and finally putting it in with his hand. His beef with Bendtner has also cost us, when he failed to pass it to him at Birmingham we ended up dropping two points and those 2 players will never click.
Hleb for all his skill and trickery, doesn’t score or shoot enough, his passing is suspect, runs into blind alleys and has to beat his man 3 times before laying it off.
Eboue as a right winger will never work. Perhaps if we are winning 1-0 with 5 minutes to go and you replace your proper winger with him to strengthen the defence, maybe but as a first team player no. The above two players are also the reason we dont get behind defences anymore or score enough from the wings. For the last 20 years we have always had a goalscoring winger, Hayes, Marwood, Rocastle, Merson, Overmars, Pires, Ljunberg to name a few. This season Hleb has scored 4, the last being in November while Eboue has a big fat zero.
This side needs a bit of surgery, Wenger needs to show a ruthless streak and rid the side of its failures. In certain positions we can do better and as a season ticket holder I’m not going to pay over a grand to watch us draw at home to Birmingham, Villa & Boro. This season we have kept 12 clean sheets, we used to do that before Christmas a few years back and now we concede too many early goals and have to fight to get a draw.
Rant over. Peace.
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There is no way Villa is coming to Emirates..Torres had said the same thng abt us 2 years back..look where he is now and what he is doing there…Villa will do the same thing..sign for Madrid or Barca and we will be blaming Adeb all along the season…Wenger is a miser and will spend not more than 20 million and again we will be nowhere come next season…As far as Senderos fetching 5 million, that happens only in FIFA MANAGER 2008…
breaking news guys.. we are not signing any big money players and we dont need to..we need two or three quality pleayers doesnt matter how much they cost..
wer linked wit gomes and i think hes one of the best keeprs ..lets wait aand c what happens in the window..
Why are we talking about Eduardo as if he’ll have a part to play next season? He won’t be able to run until Christmas, and half the season will be over by then. Not only that, he needs games in the reserves so we can assess what his progress is…..it’ll be very much like Diaby’s rehab.
So we need 6 strikers at the moment, Eduardo will not be ready for first team action until August 2009.
Villa won’t cost anywhere near 100 mil. They’ll get a valuation done on him, and that’ll be the price, that was just there to prevent him from jumping ship too early. Valencia know they can’t keep their star man without European football. Maybe Wenger can do a part exchange, like chuck in Eboue or Justin Hoyte, there won’t be many names Valencia can pull this summer who have Champions League experience.
who was it raving about young jack wilshere the other day?
fuck me, you were not wrong, you were actually not raving about that performance enough, just seen the game on sky +
WOW, WOW, WOW, best talent since liam brady, without a doubt this kd is going to make it, far far far far toooooo talented not to.
my god, unreal talent.
Yeah make you right, Eboue, Hoyte and £99 million! kidding, I think we could get him for £20 or less if we can part ex.
He needs to be talking to them now though or the Chavs will have him.
good piece of writing, guys!
however, i will wait on who is really coming in during the summer and reserve my comments till then.
forgive me for my negativity as for the last 2 seasons i’ve had so much hope for the team to do well … so close yet so far this year!
up the gooners!
the player wenger mentioned who at 15 was laready techincally go enough to play for the first team was defo wilshere.
100%
Losing Bendtner would be a big mistake
signings that would change Arsenals fortunes
1 – Jussi Jaskalianen ( his transfer fee wouldn’t break the bank)
2 – Diego Capel or Robinho
3 – David Villa / Karim Benzema/ Claus Jan Huntelaar (one of the three, although my 1st choice would be David Villa)
4 – Micah Richards/ Christian Zapata (Udinese/Colombia) Age 21
Zapata is big, athletic and quick. He has been a starter at a top-eight Serie A side since the age of 18. He is also versatile and apparently very humble and will give Wenger a whole host of defensive solutions if he wants to mix and match his back four.
Micah Richards is 21yrs and can play in defence or in central midfield, and can also double-up as a right back who is useful for a goal threat at set-pieces.
Jussi Jaskalianen has been a very consistently good goal-keeper in the EPl for many years, and we make a great signing for Arsenal, as well as provide competiion for places for the Arsenal stoppers.
I prefer david Villa for the simple fact that he is ready made and will fill a big void.
As for the left-sided midfield role, my choice will be Robinho as he can contribute more goals and assists than Capel, something that has been distinctively lacking at the Arsenal this season. We were at our best when Pires and Freddy were contributing between 12 and 15 goals each season.
If Arsene signs the players named above, Arsenal will go on and win all four trophies for the first time ever.
Huntelaar plays in a shit league. I could score 15 goals in holland
Where on Sky did you watch it Stupid?! wasnt ArseTV was it?
I think the folling signings can help arsenal win the CL, EPL, and the FA cup:
Cover for Clichy(G. Bale, J. Lescot, F. Clerc, or Dragotinovic)
cover for Flamini(F. Gago, J. Tulelon, or M. Siena)
cover for Fabrigas( Diego, S. Nasri, or P. Feindulo)
#1 striker: D. Villa, K Hunterlaas, K. benzema, or L. Fabiano)
left winger: Robinho, ben arfa, quaresma, Abo terika, or D. capel
right winger: SWP, De guzman, quaresma or k. keita
two tall and strong defenders: M. richard, and Lucio or Woodgate and Zapata
the major problem is that our squard is too thin. some of the other reserve players are
too young and not ready yet. other players are always injure, thus leaving the burden on the few fit players. as a result, they got tired and overran in the second half of the league this season. the choice for strike force is made of proven goal scorers.
flamin and fabrigas need cover up as well as clichy.
gallas and toure partnership does not work because they are too similar in height and stature. they are easily bullied by big size strikers and big phil is not the answer.
we need left winger that can score; the one with the best goal scoring record is arbo terika of eygpt. the rest are all young and good players.
some time fab looks tired; thats when AW needs to replace him with any of the options Nasri is creative, Diego is a magician, feindulo is special with the free kick that won us at old traford. if we sign one player from each option we will win tree trophies.
I’d actually get Villa and Huntelaar and loan Bendtner to Ajax.
Villa, Huntelaar, RVP, Adebayor, Walcott
We’d have the best strike force in the PL and the CL.
Get 2 wingers, Smolarek and De Guzman
If we bought those four, we would be sorted and maybe a rock solid centre half (I’d buy an English player but Wenger won’t…) and we would be sorted.
4-3-3, a very successful attacking system which would suit our players. Wenger should rotate formations to suit his best available. We should be able to play the following formations.
4-4-2
4-5-1
4-4-1-1
4-1-4-1
4-3-1-2
4-3-2-1
3-5-2
One of our problems at the moment could be that we’ve been found out by some teams because they know what to expect of us. By varying formations, we could improve our tactical approach, and we’d never hear of being down to the bare bones, we’d always have a formation to play because of our flexibility. We should be a team who can play in ANY formation.
3-5-2 is a German formation which is highly effective when used properly. The idea is to clog up the defence completely and keep feeding it through to the two strikers up front. You need a very technically skilled team to pull it off correctly, and we have that. Using our best available 11 (regardless of current injury status)we could go for:
Almunia
Sagna, Toure, Clichy
Rosicky, Fabergas, Flamini, Gilberto, Hleb
RVP, Eduardo
4-4-2 is only one way…..
How sad is it that I am really excited about the prospect of signing someone like Villa?
Its nice to have big names talking about you, regardless of whether Arsenal would sign him!
I reckon it could be a busy summer.
Who reckons Hleb is going? Not enough assists, not enough goals… but I will give him an award for the best dribbler… and his agent and award for the biggestcunt/worst excuse maker.
Would you ditch Rosicky?
Don’t even say you’d get rid of Eboue… because he is a ‘favourite’.
Very happy to hear this news after all the bull shit about Arsenal and AW for a couple of weeks. I hope we can sign David Villa and Silva too.
Nope, keep Rosicky and bring someone else in for him, get them to compete for places. Get someone beeter than Rosicky and keep Rosicky for when necessary.
If Hleb goes, we can replace him with someone better, even Flamini, we can get players that do those jobs and score + assist more.
We can’t go back to the times when we thought that if Henry left, we’d suddenly turn into Newcastle united.
If anyone leaves, we’ll get on with it and still be fighting for titles and cups.
Hopefully Wenger will keep the best players we have, and if the leave, replace them with someone superior.
I genuinely believe we should be looking to auction Hleb to the highest bidder if the named clubs are indeed interested (although that’s according to his agent, so maybe not). Hleb offers very little goal threat. His best position is advanced midfield, but that’s a role Rosicky can play just as well (and offer more of a goal threat). I wouldn’t be too disappointed if Hleb went for £15m and we replaced him with a genuine winger that can score goals. We’ve really missed the goals of a Pires or Ljungberg recently
pedro
if you read the whole interview he also states he’d love to play along side torres also!
meaning liverpool ! so as much as id love him to join us , purse strings wenger
must come to the party QUICKLY , but it seems like he wants to come to a top 4 club in the EPL regardless..
i spose that gives us a 25 % chance even by default ..
dont think Wenger is in the market for a striker .. he is looking at a central defender as he clearly feels that he has been let down by his current players, ie Gallas/Toure/Senderos
the fact that he mentioned Ben Arfa means that he is looking for an option on the left
Ben Arfa received raving comments again when he played against Marseille, the president of Marseille even saying that he would give anything to sign him
Wenger is currently happy with Ade/RVP/Theo/Bendtner and will use Hleb as a second striker/midfield man when he plays 4-5-1, so no chance there
Rosicki might leave, but I doubt so as his injuries would make any move difficult and also would not genearte any decent revenue
should Hleb leave, which is a possibility, then Wenger will definitely strengthen his forward options and then a Villa type player is likely
there is a good chance that Eboue will be sold and that the club will keep Hoyte as cover for RB..a mistake, but Hoyte’s loyalty and family connections play an important part in this
Gilberto will be sold and Flamini is likely to leave..expect only one replacement in this case..either Loic Perrin from St-Etienne or another strong holding midfield player..no African though as Wenger is less and less impressed with them leaving for the ANC and again this season he could witness the drop in form in Kolo in particular..Eboue is shiit anyway
Wenger will definitely look at a CB as he believes that Kolo/Gallas is not a solution in the league and will guarantee neither of them automatic starts in the future
his main concern is to keep Cesc at the club and he faces an uphill battle, especially if either Hleb or Flam or worse both were to leave
Wenger will take full responsibility for results next season and in case of a trophy less season, will resign from the club as he feels that the money is now there to secure the future whoever comes in..
the ideal scenario at Arsenal is to continue with him until DB10 becomes involved with the club again..either as a head coach or with somebody else
Wilshire seriously is the bees knees. What is so refreshing about him is that he a tricky schemer in the mould of Alex Hleb. I can’t get enough of those players. And like Alex, he was frustrated the other night by players not being on his wavelength.
Hopefully he grows a bit over the summer, and he and Hleb will love playing with eachother.
Wilshire is a genuine superstar. They’re are fairly mediocre talents like Denilson and there are ones that really get you excited. This guy has already got me looking forward to next season.
If there was one player I want to see at the Emirates, it would have to be Kaka.
Yeah I know wishful thinking. But AW has said he would like to see him playing with Cesc, and Kaka has said he would like to play for AW.
I do get the impression Villa could say he would join us for £40 a week, Valencia could waive the fee and we’d still say we couldn’t afford him…
Its the Arsenal way… make out you are skint!
I just read somewhere else people saying they reckon Senderos is a special talent!
BLINKERED VISION ALERT!
That is Arsene knows on a whole new level.
I’ve always stuck up for him, but he is not a special talent especially when you compare him to younger players who are doing a better job!
I think some people like to be seen as having ‘Arsene Vision’.
You know the guy who sits there and tells you that Eboue will be world class…
No basis for the comment, but it means if he does become good, they can remind you of what a football visionary they are!
Senderos is not rubbish, he’s not the finished article, thus he still suffers from occasional poor performance. We can iron that out, he’s had some excellent games in an Arsenal shirt.
shame Wilshere is only 16. he will need another year in the reserves before anything occurs with the first team even CC.
why would wenger sell our only decent wide midfielder? the only wide midfielder who spends more time on the pitch than in the treatment room and a player that never goes missing even in those dank northern games. Hleb is a master of creating goals and we need him here next season.
If you sell Hleb, youd’ have to replace him, Rosicky and Eboue in the same summer. no chance.
Playing a five man defence with Eboue is also not a good idea, an attacking player should be playing there.
Eboue is a RB and should only play RB for Arsenal. Eboue could be used more effectively as cover for Sagna, so it’s little wonder the dude isn’t a goal scorer, he’s a defender.
senderos does not have the ability that Adams had in his little finger. people always go on about how Adams was called donkey, well not by me. I loved Big TA from the first time he played for us and hated the donkey comments. I always rated Tony but I dont rate Big Phil. sorry if that offends some of you.
its a bit like calling John Terry donkey when he had that habit of scoring own goals – i mean you could still see he was a top defender despite the odd high profile howler. Terry and Adams are alike but Adams and Senderos are not.
Wenger should either use Eboue as RB cover for Sagna or sell him, simple as.
Eboue was good enough to dislodge Lauren and play in the team which got us to the CL final, why has a player which showed excellence before deteriorated so much? If he just had a lucky year, lets sell ASAP, otherwise train him back to the CL final player…..and no more 5 man defences, they don’t work.
He’s not rubbish, but he is not a top level defender is he? Watching the player instead of the ball against liverpool… tut tut. What about his customary lapse of concentration every game?
John Terry was never as bad as Senderos. Its not good enough that Arsenal have to put up with a defender who is error prone. That is why we ditched Eboue at right back, he was good most of the time, but his lapses cost us points.
I am not saying sell Hleb, I am just asking whether you’d be bothered? He is not a wider player Gazzap, he is a central midfielder who has been pushed out wide…
How many goals did Hleb create this year? 7 by my reckoning… versus 17 by Cesc. How many goals? 2 (All prem stats).
Who has more assists than Hleb this year?
Petrov
Elano
Simon Davies!
Nicky Shorey
Kalou
Carlton Cole
Kenwyne Jones
Bentley
So if that is our best option out wide… I think we should reconsider.
Amen to that last comment Gazzap… I’m not offended.
I always find these Hleb critics say the same thing. Not enough asssists and not enough goals. He is essentially an ineffective player. For me those statements show a certain lack of footballing knowlege and trivialise the importance of possession in a game, especially in our game.
As Paul Merson once said, as an attacking midfielder your only as good as the striker in front of you. How true is that when you have a somone like Adebayor ahead of you. Last Wednesday his great forty yard throughball was wasted by Adebayor, from five yards out, and at Old Trafford his potential assist was wasted by Ade. If those goals would have gone in that would have been 15 assists for the season, which is pretty good.
Anyway, because Hleb hasn’t got a massive ego and only thinks about the team, he does alot of magic deep in midfield. If you look at that chance that Eboue slashed into the sidenetting at Anfield, that all came from Hleb dropping deep and slipping the ball through to Fabregas. Up until that point, Arsenal couldn’t get into their final third in that second half.
Another thing is hleb makes Fabregas play so much better. Both of them see the game the same way. If Hleb leaves, I wouldn’t want to know Fabregas’s reaction. He would be pissed.
When you look at Micah Richards, you see talent, Senderos who’s 3 years older has none. Time to go, he won’t get better.
Hleb I would keep, I think he makes things happen and he always chases it if he loses the ball.
Where is everyone seeing Wilshire, what’s he on?
Wilshire was on Arse TV. The guy is brilliant. Of course, you have to be wary of anything that concludes with Traore being man of match- just kidding- but he a little genius. He is built a bit like Diego Maradona.
I’m usually very hard to please when it comes to youngsters but this one is going to be superstar. Nick Banfield said before the game he is special and Sam Wallace, a journalist on was on football forum, also said he is being talked about in ‘hushed tones’ around the Emirates.
We need to double riad Valencia for Joaquin and Villa.
Valencia will most likely buy Van Der Vaart in the summer.
Why can’t it be Villa & RVP
And Ade to come off the bench?
We won’t, and shouldn’t sell RVP
And keep Eboue as cover for Sagna. We have the money where we don’t NEED to sell
Paulinho… most critics would point to the fact that Ade has scored 26 goals this season. That is a good striker by most standards.
Cesc has 17 assists…
I like watching Hleb on the ball, he holds up play well and he does create things but statistics don’t lie do they? He is paid to create goals and score them. Everyone points to the fact that our lack of goals from Midfield have cost us… so something is clearly wrong?
I don’t think asking questions of players shows a lack of knowledge, I watch him every week. He does some great things, but players stand off him because they know he poses no goal threat.
Give me a Pires/Overmars over Hleb any day of the week. He is not a wide midfielder, so lets get someone in who is.
It’s funny how things go … alot of people were praising Senderos after Milan and calling for him to temporarily replace Toure at CB … it happened, and it didn’t work.
Now people want him out and forgot that they wanted him there.
People were calling for that because Toure had a shocker against the Mancs and was not playing particularly well.
The lesser of two evils.
What has happened to Toure recently?
I agree people have different tastes, and apologise for insuating ignorance on your behalf, but until Hleb is in a midfield that doesn’t consist of players like Eboue and Diaby then we have to reserve judgement I feel.
Having Hleb in the team could work if we had a real ballsy type goal-scorer in Eboue’s place. If we had someone like that, we would see the real value of Hleb.
I still think Adebayor’s presence doesn’t help players like Hleb who like to play technical football in tight areas. Our football only looks tedious and aimless because someone like Ade doesn’t have the patience or vision to know when to cut it short and make a penetrative move.
If we look at the one moment when Hleb burst into the box- versus Fulham on the opening day- who wasn’t hogging the space for him to run into? Emmanuel Adebayor, Because he wasn’t playing.
Who knows? He has looked out of sorts hasn’t he?
I was talking to Geoff earlier… its not like he hasn’t been a rock before? Remember when he was arguably the better defender than Sol during the invincible’s run?
Gr8 post again guys. That’s why I love this blog so much. Criticise in a positive way with some good knowledge. I haven’t seen Zapata much. Talking about a big CB how about Mertesacker. He plays for Bremen. And in my opinion no one would be able to challenge him in the air b’cos he’s a Hagrid kind of thing. We want a potent striker too. It could be among Villa, Benzema, Kun Aguero but knowing Arsene he won’t go for the big money guy. Any other Eduardo hidden. I would love SWP in Arsenal as he’s lightning, a proper winger although he can’t cross, but the biggest advantage of having him is that he’ll not only play for Arsenal but love it too. I always said 2 wingers are critical and the other one could be Hatem Bin Arfa or Robinho. I’ll take Robinho though.
Trinidad where’s your memory? after the Milan game we were all drunk!
Good point Gooner from Pakistan, SWP would be good too, don’t worry about the crosses, no one else can cross either!
Glad you’re enjoying the blog.
Paulinho, I am only playing devils advocate… I wrote this a few months back
LINK
Hleb will work well with Eddie… he feeds the ball into tight situations and needs someone with tight footwork to finish off his chances.
Good shout Geoff.
Gooner from Pakistan, good shout with Mertesacker… he is massive, 6ft8 I heard?
Maybe Toure wanted to be Captain ahead of Gallas. They haven’t been a good pair. He should’ve been anyway. No chance now, I think when Wenger changes the captaincy it is either for Flamini or Fabregas.
Gallas should never have been made captain. End of. Gilberto never quite recovered from that shock, Toure had captained the team numerous times last season, Gallas never got a look in, so why the hell did he get it?!
If what Lee Dixon mentioned over the weekend was true about the dressing room losing all respect for gallas after the brum game, I think he should be decaptained next season!!! Good word…I know!
Regardless Odub – he should be DECAPTAINED!!! Great word
If we’re lucky; he’ll be sold as well!
After those comments from Villa, it would be ridiculous not to sign him.
Is it all about Wenger though? He is not running the club.
Well if we strip Gallas off his captaincy he would demand a transfer. And in my opinion Gallas is the best defender we’ve got. Although he’s got abig mouth but so has ADE-BARCA-REAL.
I thought Gallas suited the captaincy, but there is no denying Gilberto had an amazing season last year… there is also no doubt that Gilberto wouldn’t have walked halfway across the pitch over a penalty.
The problem is… if you give Bertie the captain, you lose the dynamic wonder that is Flamini.
I think a lot of our form this year has been down to him.
Someone mentioned Drenthe … he is a Wenger signing (young) but that would have been last year. I don’t think he would buy him from Real.
Looks like Edgar Davids, strong, and can play in defence or on the wing, and young.
Madrid did a tripple raid on Dutch players last year with Drenthe, Sneijder, and Robben.
within a few games of being captain I thought Gallas was a good choice and he continued to be a great captain until the Birmingham away game. since then he lost all the respect of his team mates and whats more he seemed to lose his love for the game and became angry. players do not play or captain well when they are angry. he was not happy or relaxed. since Brum, he should not have been captain but it was hard for Wenger to take it mid-season. the situation is a difficult one. what will it do to Gallas as a player, if wenger takes the captaincy away?
If Flam signs my choice of cap would be him.
Here’s our new left winger:
http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=news&article=490366&cpid=703&title=Traore+-+Why+I+can+follow+in+Eboue%27s+footsteps
I hope he does a bit better than Eboue…
Trin_Gunner, Ryan Babel said arsenal were interested in him and that there was talks going on with his agent…only for AW to come out and say that it was untrue!! I have given up on AW with signings cos you hear things hoping its true only to find out on the arsenal website that its false(e.g Woodgate Babel, the list goes on).
Pedro wouldnt give it to him now, but think a change is def required for next season. Obviously need to see who stays, gets sold and comes in, but I’d give it to Gilberto if he stays because the likelyhood is all the others (apart from Kolo) will have early season off after the euros, and I still aint convinced Flamini’s staying, hope I’m wrong.
Gallas hasn’t been as bad as it looks (apart from the penalty last weekend).. we were calling it a master move by Wenger when Gallas was putting in last minute goals at the begining of the season.
I Think Flamini would be our best captain, then Cesc as he is our best player and leads by example.
Hleb cant go, simple as. Arsenal would be half as attractive side to watch without Hleb, Put him and Rosicky in the same side and the fireworks were flying!
I like senderos, as a back up im happy with him, need to break up that partnership of gallas and toure though, not comanding enough!
Traore out wide… makes sense!
He reckons it is his natural position. He is fast, skilful and can defend (A bit). That would be one pacey left side of park!
I hope Flamini values the team more than money… but I doubt it!
Can he cross though?
gallas was flaky before Brum; he is not a leader.
It’s easy to manage/motivate/lead when everything is running smoothly and going well – anyone on here including me who’ve been a perfect captain the way we were playing….
He’s not half the player he was at chelski so if he’s the best we got we’re fucked!!! Oh yeah; even Wenger has spotted that flaw
I don’t want to see the back of Senderos, i think he can be a great defender, i dunno why but i just have faith in him. I would definitely get rid of Eboue though.
I would love to see Villa at Arsenal and i would be happy if we only brought him and no other major signings as i think some of the reserve players will come up.
I cant wait to see Barazite and Merida in the first team, in my opinion they look great and will be great for the first team. Actually, a lot of the reserves look great at the moment, hopefully they can become great first team players in a few years.
Dan
Well I read good article by arsenalanalysis. If anyone wants to here is the link:
http://arsenalanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/04/arsenes-wish-list.html
Although there are many wigan players included in this article which we ceratinly don’t need.
Correct TRINIDAD GOONER it would be ridiculous. but how many players did we buy who said they like us. But in my opinion this guy is worth a go.
why does scoring goals make you a great captain?
maybe ade should get it then….
Toure has been a defensive rock for Arsenal, but Gallas should go. We got him for free, might as well cash in on him and bring someone else to play next to Toure. We could get about 5 mill for Gallas easily, bring in a 10-15 mil CB with skill and experience and we’re sorted for another 3-5 years. Gallas is not the future.
give it to Justin Hoyte!! local boy, cares, who gives a monkey’s that he’s our 15th choice right back?!! he’s arsenal thru and thru!!!
I think Fabregas would be a good captain, a positive role model and someone who strives towards excellence. Even senior players in rival teams such as Frank Lampard have respect for him.
A captain needs to command respect…..he should be a player that everyone shows respect to when they walk past. Fabregas is the man.
Libelfootball Alert:
Real Madrid winger Robinho is facing being axed by the club at the end of the season.
DiarioSport says Real management have grown tired of Robinho’s antics off the pitch, including his time spent away with the Brazil squad.
Some at Real have likened Robinho’s behaviour to what Antonio Cassano was getting up to before he was jettisoned to Sampdoria last year and are pushing for the Brazilian to be sold in the summer.
The winger made his first team return against Murcia last weekend, but produced a flat performance. Interestingly, Wagner Ribeiro, Robinho’s agent, held talks with Real sports chief Pedja Mijatovic about a new contract two weeks ago, but left Madrid empty handed.
Justin Hoyte has some Trinidadian blood …. we asked him to play for us in World Cup qualifiers but he says he’s aiming for England !
Good luck with that Justin!!!!
I think he missed his chance to play in a WC
Wenger needs to sing this to flamini
If Wenger can take away the armband from Gilberto without whom we wouldn’t be in the Champions League this year, why can’t he dish out the same treatment to Gallas.
Is it Gallas’ right to be captain or a privilege bestowed upon him by the club?
good blog guys – from all players U mentioned I like Gomez from PSV -hes much better than Almunia and Lehman and still 27. If 10-12 mil quoted is right I would say -GO 4 HIM WENGER!
Zapata is good but how about BenHaim -hes very unhappy now and we could snatch him for not much as he went to chavs 4 free.
Robinho I like alot but he is not in our spending league , Im afraid.
As for strikers-I would love to see Villa joining us ,but I dont see it happening. As Wenger thinks Ade is irreplaceable, Bendtner will be ready next season(read it somewhere him saying that) , in which Im not convinced at all. RVP , Edu….. we dont know about them ,neither AW knows.
PEDRO- about our little convers yesterday. I checked the facts you gave me about Benzema but they R not correct. 70 games -23 goals in 3 years is what you said, but His record is 50 games -30 goals for Lyon only this season-that from LYon website. I would recomend dont rely ot wikipedia too much as their info is not 100% accurate
Nice one Dan, he should play this one for Eboue:
I don’t think Flamini has been that vital although I like his attitude.
On Sunday we produced one of our best performances and Flamini was nowhere to be seen. When Gilberto is awake, he can do things Flamini can’t, while the Flamster does things Gilberto can’t. One thing they both have in common is giving away stupid free kicks.
Without Hleb on Sunday, we would have been in trouble.
Players in order of importance taking into consideration squad depth and team style:
1) Fabregas
2)Hleb
3)Rosicky
4)Clichy
5)Sagna
6)Gallas
7)Flamini
8)Eduardo
9)Van Persie
10)Adebayor
11) Toure, Bendtner etc
Paulinho I’d move Gallas to 9 and move Sagna higher, we’ve only just began to realise how important he is now he’s injured. Almunia didnt even make your list mate!!
both goals were Gilberto’s fault on sunday. he should have been covering the area between Carrick and Gallas for the pen but Carrick was totally unmarked. Flam would have been on him like a rash. Gilberto made the foul on Evra that led to Hargreaves’ winner. we may have played well but the key moments in football are goals and Gilberto is often at fault for goals conceded. I think he has played in nearly all our defeats this season (other than Chelsea?) and has only won a handful of the games he’s been involved in.
Well I disagree with you. If that’s the case that we produced our best performance without Flamini then we can say we still lost didn’t we? And if Gilberto is the better one why Flamini was given far more starts then Gilberto.
gazzap-this foul was never a foul mate. Berto didnt touch Evra at all, but noone mentioned this . maybe because clever pricks from TV never showed replay of it…
after reading all the comments here, i found out that i agree with Finestcuts’ comments the most especially the one where you said we shld buy villa(my mouth just waters with the thought of him playing for arsenal) and huntelaar. those two are proven goal scorers. at the back anyone big and strong like micah richards will do good. think of it, rvp, villa, huntelaar, walcott, and ade. damn, that’s much better than rooney,tevez and ronaldo.
and i hope arsene thinks for the good of the club not himself!! arsene, a top european striker clearly declared that arsenal is his first choice team in england. come on arsene, do the right thing! please, we know you’re a great coach, please! please.
Arsenaldo…
I’d check that again.
ESPN have the following Stats
85 Appearances
31 Goals
I would recommend sending a letter to Lyons site administrators!
its mistery-3 sources-3 diferent stats:)))
maybe OL lie and push his stats up to sell him 4 more money?
I dont know.
Pedro and Arsenaldo you two are serious stat catchers!
With Ray Gooner gone… someone has to plug the gap!
Arsenaldo, I reckon your stats are starts.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/stats?id=46858&cc=5739
Check it out.
Where’s Ray Gooner when you need him aye?!!
Whacking off over his Arsenal Annuals I would think… sorry, that was crude.
I should think so too!! No need to lower the tone just because it’s a bit quiet!
Wenger won’t sign Benzema because Madrid and ManU will be after him, so he won’t break the (big) bank.
If we have to settle for 2nd choice (cheaper) players, does that mean we have to settle for 2nd place (at best) in the league?
Yup!!
They may help with Villa if the others are after others! Truth be known he has no intention of signing him, I’m just hoping that Cesc has a say.
I’m sure AW’s signed players on other players’ recommendation, but can’t remember who it was. Any ideas?!
David Villa to Arsenal!!!???? Oh from your lips to God’s ear!
He would be exactly the kind of player we need, given our current striker situation.
That would be a dream come true for me. If we lose Flamini in the summer, we’ll also need a world-class holding midfielder. Whoever we can get. Regardless, Arsene must open his wallet a bit or we’ll go without silverware again, I’m afraid.
this david villa chappie’s only 5ft 9, does that mean we all envisage him playing off Ade or NB?! Because he sure as hell aint leading the line by himself is he?
I guess Pedro this is getting boring 4 both of us , but since when Americans know football( or should i say soccer -sorry)?
I wish he’d signed Torres on Reyes’ recommendation!
I didn’t realise Benzema had scored quite so many goals this year Arsenaldo! He looks good too… he is quite tall and his control looks amazing (youtube can cloud!).
I don’t know why people think we can’t afford him? We can afford whatever Madrid or Barca can… we are number 2 in the world now and we haven’t shelled out anything substantial for a while.
Wouldnt count on it!! Seeing as our 70 mill then went down to 30, and now we dont even know how much he has to spend!!
paulinho
your hleb comments are spot on
great player for the gooners
I think that is PR odub… pretend you are skint and someone will buy you a pint type behaviour.
We seem to always get away with it, I am surprised Arsenal even release their figures… we’ll be the first football club to get in trouble for suppressing profits!
I really dont think we can afford him Pedro-especially from Lyon. They R tough negotiators-wont sell him 4 less than 25mil 4 sure, and AW will never pay so much money unfortunatelly:(((
In an exclusive interview with Arsenal TV Online, Philippe talks about his love for basketball. He discusses:
* why he loves basketball
* the team he supports
* being a basketball pundit for Sky
* his basketball heroes
* how he is going to quit Arsenal for a crack at the NBA
I made the last bit up…
What a stupid interview to put out when he is up for so much criticism?
I hate to admit this but, I have a sneeky suspicion he wont even go as high as 20 mill for anyone player! which means half the wish list above aint gonna happen!
Anyone see Giles Barnes is up for sale? Anyone think he’s worth a look at 2 mill?
It should be an interesting summer to say the least. Hopefully not an aggravating one as well. But I guess The Sun can report whatever they want. Deep down as much as it would be wonderful for Villa to go to the Arsenal, as was said earlier we will probably end up with some kid from a French Ligue 2 side few have ever heard of.
I want to be wrong. I really do.
What’s the point of the senderos interview?!!! Makes him look like a bloody plonker!
I know what we’ll do, we’ll interview one of our players on a different sport and not talk arsenal at all!! Genius! stoggies all round!
tribal football says AW gave phil a rest,because he was wreck after his mistakes. So except he is shait phisically hes the same mentally- unstable. Phil why dont you try some other sport-because you r suitable for a centre only but not high enough- so why not rugby??//
Odub: you are probably spot on. Damn it all.
…Centre in basketball I meant.
Giles Barnes showed real promise and talent a couple of years ago; haven’t seen that much of him since – £2M is nothing these days
I highly doubt that Wenger would sign Villa, anyway I thought he was going to sign that Gouffran guy from the French 2nd division, now thats more Wenger’s style.
if villa came to arsenal i would freak out. ade cant lead the line but i think him and villa would be a great partnership, villa would bring the best out of all the chances ade wasted this year.
since rvp usually plays behind another striker, him and villa would make us probley one of the most feared teams. and then we would have villa with the finish and if the teams defense is to tall we could have ade to play aswell who is more then capable of being a solid back up.
maybe this is the year arsene does us proud over summer.
as far as wingers go, i watched the reserves on arsenal tv and traore looks great playing on the wing. quick, powerful, and can cut in or run down to cross which will keep the defense guessing. plus with vela coming back i wouldnt mind seeing an experianced winger but def. not a young one with all the talent we have coming up, because fuck, isnt that wengers whole plan. and this year might be his last to show that his system works.
Villa is a bit of Eduardo style player-fox in da box , so I dont think Venger will buy similar striker, or striker at all to be honest. In fairness we have 4+1 strikers for next year , so we r not buying one at all guys . Sorry to kill your dreams but thats the reallity…
Three words… Ribery, Benzema and Richards
And we need a clear out too… Get rid of Eboue, Gilberto, Senderos, Hoyte, Eduardo and restructure our fragile and error prone defence. Whenever Man U or even Chelsea take the lead I feel they will win, whenever we take the lead (providing we aren’t one down already) I don’t feel so secure!
Have to agree mate, We’ve got 2 giraffe like, one fox in the box, one technically gifted and one speedy gonzalez! Don’t think he’ll get a striker if you look at those options.
He’ll probably draft Jay Simpson in and call it a day! Shit!
arsenaldo .. Villa for a start got a viciously strong shot .. he is also a great freekicks taker..unlike Dudu .. Dudu wont be back anytime soon..if Wenger plans next season with Dudu in his mind, then he deserves to be kicked up his backside as hard as he can take it and more if necessary
Don’t forget it was Derby’s reserves, don’t get too excited!
arsenaldo , yeah your right but everytime eduardo sees a person run at him hes gooing to be scared shitless so his confidence will take months maybe even a season to come back, plus re-adjust to english football ontop of the injury time. and bentdner is what like 19? and he barely gets first team time. i cant see him sticking around too much longer when he can start for the denmark national team but can barely get 20 min. in 5 games for the starting squad.
but who knows what arsene will do because of the of the thousands of people that try to predict what he does over summer, i dont think one has been right yet because i hadnt ever heard of eduardo da silva before this sumer.
michael .. Caen are playing in the 1st division this season .. but Gouffran has only scored 8 goals this season .. hopefully we wont buy him
ok so that’t the fox in the box out of the options category…I’m thinking we’ve got more chance the replacement will be Jay Simpson not Villa… Iknow how AW thinks trust me!
He won’t sign Villa but he fucking ought to, he should be ashamed of himself for being so bastard well stubborn, if he’d bought Torres or Tevez we’d have won the league by now.
Eduardo won’t be any use next season so nothing else will change, Robin will get injured in the summer and Bendtner will get pissed off.
Ade will…
Dont forget Geoff we have Jay Simpson, Theo Rhys Murphy and Rui Fonte as far as AW’s concerned that’s plenty. We’re doomed!!! I jest!
geoff . right .. derby’s reserves are some 10 years old icecream sellers .. forget it .. no relevance whatsoever.. watched the game against the spuds reserves.. the only 2 players that looked senior material were Djourou and Traore . no joke
and Luke Freeman!!!
BB- Ive seen couple of DUdu’s goals and they were crackers, as well as volleys, so I dont think hes shot is weak at all. Also I havent seen him take free kicks at Arsenal, but as a technically very gifted player I dont think he has a problem with that either.
ALthough i agree he wont be ready for next half season
Need a campaign to get that spanish bastard into our squad one way or another!!! Shouldn’t have to put up with his ‘the current squad will be one year more experienced’. Fuck that, We’ve not won the league for yearrssss, we need world class sparkle!
Hleb is an amazing player. No way should he be sold.
You guys crack me up…Jay Simpson, Gouffran. How about Gary Alexander from Leyton Orient while we’re at it.,…maybe Michael Chopra….he scored against Tottenham.
Either Huntelaar or Villa for me, ideally both but it’s not feasible that Wenger would splash 40 mil up front for a goal machine.
who hasn’t this season?
matt k, i’m with you to start a campaign to get villa in.
where and how can we start one?
i just dont want to hear another “we dont need another striker, we have adebayor up front who’s capable of…….” you know how the rest goes. Plus all arsene’s other excuses that we are more than capable of winning the major trophies without the likes of villa in our attacking force. it just drives me insane sometimes. it hurts to see manutd adding world class players to their already great squad while we sign another 17 year old french ‘starlet’.
A class centreback (like Zapata from what Ive heard), a winger (might be Vela, but lets not ask to much of him just yet) and a world class forward (like Villa) will win us the league next season.
BUT we know Wenger, Villa is too expensive for him.
Anyway, Arsene knows, and I have a feeling he will bring us glory next season no matter what he does!
arsenaldo .. in any case, we will never buy the tapas muncher as both his purchase price and salary tag will only be slightly above our bean counter’s figures
sell adebayor,, very bad finishing,,gilberto too slow, rosicky, hoyte, lehman go to retired
buy villa,benzema,benarfa, nasri,
promoted barazite, havard nordvet, lasbury, vela
Get the Banners out Boys!! Villa IN!!! lol.
or
A massive march from the Spanish embassy to the Emirates! Haha
i’ll even pay his air fare over here!
The place needs a signing like Villa to give us all a boost ahead of next season. And he is a great player and would suit us down to the ground.
Unfortunately I am not holding out much hope. I am waiting for the old reasons such as price tag, salary structure etc etc to come out.
One can but hope!
why do people keep saying we should sign zapata? he cant even get in the udinese team at the moment….he is far from a class act. quick and strong yes but so is bobo balde!!!!!!
as much as i love this blog guys, dont get drawn down the transfer speculation bollocks route.
We all know we would never buy Benzema, and signing the new contract confirms it.
If Wenger is making noises like he will spend money on the right player then maybe he recognises the fact that perhaps if he had more than inquired about Torres our season might be ending differently. He has a case when he points at the injuries we have suffered as a major contributing factor to our awful run in but every team has injuries and defensive fraility and a lack of real leadership probably are the real reasons for the malaise. We played well against United, Chelsea and Liverpool and scored first in every game. That says the team could have won the games with more solidity at the backs and more experience within the team
Villa sounds like a great signing BTW. I’m hoping for an exciting summer and some significant additions to the team. Also hoping that Flamini and Hleb aren’t going to fuck us around. Flamini has said in the past that contract negotiations are secondary to the football but that no longer applies. The fact that he hasn’t signed yet means he’s open to offers. I’m not saying he wants to go, but he may use other’s interest as leverage in any negotiations. I say pay him what he wants
I think it is safe to say all Gooners are getting sick and tired of Wengers reluctence to bring in world class talent.
Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd, Real, Barca all spend big and they win things… the last signing over £10m we got was a 16 year old Theo Walcott who 2 years later has only just started to come good… while all the other members of G14 are year in year out strengthening their already strong squads while we strengthen our reserve squad.
Look at Bayern… Not won anything in years… make a few big signings in the summer and now they are top of the league in Germany and look to be favourites to win the UEFA Cup.
Wenger… we all love the idea that we have all these exceptional 17 year olds coming through… the future looks good. But while i’m paying a grand every year for my season ticket i want success now not in 5 years time.
I think Henry, Ljungberg, Viera and Pires all lost patience with Arsenal not bringing in any fresh blood to help… top players want to play along side top players and i fear Fabregas will eventually lose patience with not seeing any progression and ambition from the club and leave like the rest because he wants to play alongside the best.
The more worrying thing is that if something isn’t done this summer is i can see a lot of the supporters losing patience too.
Villa (one of the best strikers in the world) would be an outstanding buy for us and he is basically saying ‘come get me Arsene’ why would you not make a bid?
A lot of people are saying we don’t need strikers but i beg to differ… we can’t rely on RVP to play more than half a season, Dudu i honestly can’t see coming back at all next season and if he does wont be til the very end of the season and will be very rusty, Bendtner for all his promise is utterly useless at times, several times this season when we have started with Bendtner we have struggled to get a shot on goal because he drops too deep and leaves us with no outlet plus he doesn’t play off the shoulders of the defenders so Defenders can afford to push high up field when he plays which restricts room for our midfield to create anything, Ade’s finishing is poor and his first touch is poor and reminds me of Crouch in the air, can score goals and regularly gets his head to the ball but more often than not has no direction to his heading, he just does not have the quality of the lead striker for a top 4 club and anyone who thinks Walcott is ready to be used as a striker in the Prem is dreaming.
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i personally think we should go for villa we never got torres and look we that got us lets face we aint exactly got a lot of world class strikers
Good article.
The players I think we should let go are:
Senderos, Gilberto, Eboue & Lehmann.
Buying
I think keeper wise we should go for Gomes, excellent big keeper who we wouldn’t need to break the bank on. Yes also we need a big strong centre back, not sure who though. Also yes I agree Ben Arfa & Modric could be great additions to the squad. I hear Modric is similar to Fabregas but if hes that good I think it could work. Not too sure about a striker but from what Ive seem Villa could suit us.
Yes the prices are expensive but Im not overly fussed…but it doea mean I only make 4/5 games a season which is ok with me.
Also forgot to mention Vela who will be a great addition to the squad next season. Anyone wanting to see footage of him go on youtube.co.uk
After reading a few of the comments above I have a few things to add. Ade has been amazing this season, along Flamini hes been our most improved player. We should keep RVP, once hes fit at the start of next season hopefully he will get back to normal.
Also I think lots of people myself included have been a bit harsh on Bendtner. Hes scored a few & done well when coming on a fair bit. Hes only 19 so nowhere near his peak yet. Look at how Ade was when he first came to the club, hes made great improvements. I think we should give Bendtner more time.
one of the best things about villa is he is spanish aswell and what better way to make cesc wanna stay then to add talent AND probley the best spanish striker in the last couple years.
but above all.
id rather see iker casillas come to us.
yeah yeah almunia has done great whatever but. 1on1 he is suspect.
lehmann showed 3 times against man u that he is better then almunia. maybe not as consistant, but def. better.
the start of the season yeah he fucked up but come on he is 38 and it was right at the start when he probley wasnt even match fit.
one thing our defense hasnt done THAT much is have people get a significant break, and thats just because i think we have the fastest defense aslong as big phil isnt on.
our team had flaws this year but if you think about it. if this was stilldecember. we would not be complaining about ade or big phil(maybe) or gallas because we were doing well.
and i dont think our players went down in skill. what i think happened is we just ran out of energy.
so maybe, JUST maybe al we need to do is add a couple players just for depth. nothin world class or more then 10 mil.
but then again.
fuck that.
LETS SIGN VILLA!!!!
as for goalies though, fuck almunia. lehmann would whoop his ass anyday. yeah lehmann is probley a dick but id rather have a flaw in chemistry and win then give 4 goals up to liverpool when we already had the game sealed.
hugo lloris (http://youtube.com/watch?v=mBGezxHGsEQ)
probley the sickest goalkeeping prospect in the world. best part? hes FRENCH.
Bendtner is not that bad! 7 goals and 7 assists, while Hleb has 4 goals and 8 assists! How many more playing time does Hleb get than Bendtner (not suggesting we should get rid of Hleb).
RVP might stay fit, Bendtner and Theo have experience, Adebayor will improve, Eduardo’s recovery is going well (probably back playing proper football by January as I read he could start training as soon as September) and he strikes me as the type of guy who could come back better than ever. Rosicky and Hleb can both play behind the striker and Rosicky’s our goalscoring midfielder and will likely be first choice for another 1-2 years at least. Oh, and he’s in rehabilitation to fix his injury problems.
That’s 8 choices for striker. Now don’t get me wrong, I would love to see Villa here and I seem to remember Jose Antonio Reyes’ buy out contract of 80 million euros. Oh and Valencia are mid table and the fans even hate them (booing at the Mestalla) so he could well be bought for cheap, but AW will not buy him when he has 8 choices for striker. He even said we don’t have a problem in attack with Theo and Bendtner having gained more experience).
As for a winger, Hleb, Rosicky, Vela, Traore and Eboue (although I’d rather see him as cover RB) can all play there, but one’s kind of crap and two are unproven so I would like to see a new winger, but any of the wingers you listed would be unproven in England.
And mate, even if they raise the price I can still see the Emirates being full.
I can’t believe nobody mentioned frey…the keeper from fiorentina. he’s damn good and we need a replacement for lehmann.
The other worries i have is that it seems like our team fail to function when cesc’s not playing….and i dont think we should have cesc playing games week in week out again next year look how burnt out he was in the past few games….maybe we should get a midfield playmaker? or should we bank on denilson, maybe even diaby? any players coming up for that spot?
I thought maybe we could get deco…..i know he’s thirty but if he’s okay with not locking down a starting spot then he’d be great…..give cesc a breather once in a while….and he can shoot from distance too
great point mike. i personally think a fit rosicky outplays any midfielder in the team even cesc, but if you look at our strikers. rvp is a winger or striker not naturally either same with theo
leaving eduardo ade and bendtner as the “natural” strikers. ade isnt as bad as people make him out to be, but do you really think he is good enough to lead the attack for arsenal? yeah he had a good season but i cant see him beinga 20+ goal scorer every year. and fuck if he ends up being one then ill owe him a serious apology because i just cant see any of our strikers being able to put the ball away consistantly. RVP maybe but he hasnt had a full starting season to prove him self. ade had his season and he just isnt as consistant as he should be. bendtner looks VERY promising but his attitude on the feel makes him seem too cocky when he looks pissed for not getting the ball, which is quite disapointing because i think he could have had a chance to start, and maybe will not that the season is gone.
theo would rather be a striker but i like theo on the wing, the cuts he does just scares defenses to death.
but shit..
lets just say arsene DID buy villa,
who said he wouldnt do what barcelona did to henry and have him kind of offset like he is winger. because thats something i oculd see him doing.
but its just a rumor so no sense in getting all worked up so for now im just gonna concetrate on our remaining games.
if diaby’s suspension is over id like to see him start in a cm role with bendtner and rvp upfront and theo inplace of eboue.
if eboue plays i am going to be utterly dissapointed.
Okay grovers so who should we dump? if of course we had the choice!
I think we do have a problem in attack: a one goal lead after 60 minutes at Old Trafford, an hour where we were the utterly dominant side. RvP, Ade, Hleb on the pitch and only one goal, and considering our lack of goals in general in the run in means there is a case for bolstering the attack
There’s always a case for bolstering the attack
As I’ve been trying to say earlier, I’ve convinced myself Villa won’t come as Arsene will revert to type and be a tight wad.
J, when has signing a contract ever meant anything?
Ask Thierry what he thought of his contract, ask Diarra, as Cashley!
Contract mean fuck all nowadays, especially when you play in France!
A good days blogging people!
I’m off to now!
yes arsenal will always score… but we need to keep them sheets clean.. thats what wins u games!!!
agree wholeheartedly with what has emerged as on of the top 3 blogs this season!
Geoff
OUT
senderos3 – eboue4 – gilberto 2- ade11 – jens 0..
that would get us 20 mil or so..
it would pay for villa …
then spend 30 mil .. on 3 more players .roughly 10 mil each to get hleb quality +
1 goal keeper 7- 10 mil (W’hams green for that English touch)
1 winger 10 mil ( some frenchie obviously)
1 central defender 10-13 mil (Richards)
mix in
vela – walcott – merida -gibbs -fabinski – traore
with Keeping
sagna – toure-gallas-clichy
hleb-cesc-flamini(pay him the wages arsene!) denilson
RVP dudu bends
almunia
LINE UP
———
green
sagna – toure – richards – clichy
theo – cesc-hleb- vela/frenchie
villa – rvp
BENCH
gallas-flamini- vela/frenchie-fabinski -dudu
Some subjects would be raised about keeping almunia
as after he has kept for us all season i would say sell him whilst his price is good
you might get west brom or someone who has just steped up to the EPL to flog him at a reasonable price . If so vito should be used .. OR sold !
i also dont want to say ben arfa as he might not come but im sure arsene will
scout thru France for another winger .. Or he might just go with rosicky if he’s ever fit .
Offload Buy
Emmanuel Adebayour (Fucking useless) Karim Benzema
Robin Van Persie (Injury prone) Thierry Henry (Just get this genius back to the Emirates)
Nicholas Bendtner (Fucking useless)
Tomas Rosicky (Injury prone) Hatem Ben Arfa
Abou Diaby (Useless) Ricardo Quaresma
Gilberto Silva (Times up)
Justin Hoyte (Times up)
Phillipe Sanderos (Fucking useless) Micah Richards
Arsenal Dream Team :
1. Almunia
3. Sagna 5. Toure(c) 6. Richards 2. Clichy
7. Quaresma 19. Flamini 4. Febregas 12. BenArfa
10. Benzema 14. Henry
Supersubs :
24. Lehman
8. Gallas
27. Ebue – Right Back !!!
15. Denilson
13. Hleb
9. Eduardo
11. Walcott
Cheers.
Got to say here are my Ins and Outs
Out – Lehmann,Eboue,Gilberto,Rosicky,
On Loan – Djourou,Hoyte,Bendtner,Fabianski,
In – any of these would be nice
Joaquin,Richards,Villa,King,Buffon,Gomes,
First Eleven,
1 – Buffon or Gomes GK
2 – Sagna RB
3 – Clichy LB
5 – Toure CB
6 – Richards or King
4 – Cesc CM Capt
7 – Flamini CM
8 – Villa CF
9 – RVP CF
10 – Hleb RM
11 – Joaquin Lm
This is what frustrates me most about being a gooner at the moment……………………
I can’t see one good reason why Arsenal (Arsene) would not make every effort from now until start of Euros to sign David Villa???
He’s young, aggresive, strong, natural finisher plays for Spain alongside Cesc….
Valencia are not doing well & could use money to rebuild etc etc…….
Seriously what are the chances tho?????????????????
Even just that one BIG name signing of ‘Villa’ would have me buzzing about next year already……got a bad feeling this summer is going to be exactly same as last 3/4… which means David Villa will be prob be putting on a Blue shirt next year in premiership!! & no doubt making a mug of our inept No.6!!!
David Villa is 25 years old and experienced, he has played in champions league, world cups.
He is a small striker but amazing ability and he can finish, i was watching him play against real madrid him and Silva just toke out real madrids defence within 2 passes and he was on goal and left cassillas with no chance
lets just do a £100m raid on valencia
David Villa, Joaquin, Silva and Raul Abdiol
then we will win everything
today the mancs are targeting 4 players joao mountinho, miquel veleso, luis valencia and wilson palacios of wigan
100 millions thats big money and we know AW don’t like to spend.But we pray that he change his mind as there r many lapses in this team.
First of all the players who must go:
Our fucking captain GALLAS,its GALLASTROPHIC. What a mistake by AW. Toure was the ideal captain and now its flamini that has emerge. So Gallas has not his place as captain. And now as defender also.Against chelsea and united , it’s his fault. And also 1 times in 50games clichy gives a penalty , he goes, why he has not gone when he gave the penalty????I prefer giving a chance to senderos than this nonsense of gallas. Senderos has some level of progressing instead of gallas.
SO OUT GALLAS OUT OUT OUT.
Then the second one to go is Gilberto. He has served well arsenal for a long time but now he is not at the level , sorry gilberto.
The 3rd one is Hyote. Nothing to say, its simple, he’s not good.
The 4th is Lehmann. Almunia has take his place. 39 years old, its time to retire.
These 4 players must absolutely go.
Then there is some balance players
Eboue, he’s good at right back but not at right midfield. Come on AW, u dont see that. The solution is to make him a back up for Sagna.
Senderos is young and he can progress , give he a last year to prove his worth.
Bendtner same as senderos, he’s young and can improve. At international level , he’s good, so he has something. I think he’s a bit lazy. He don’t work enough, so he has to work on that to show that he want his place.
Adebayor don’t be shocked. Yes in football, if u have a ball in front of the goal , u have to put. He has not the killer instinct. He does not control well the ball. But he’s a good pitch worker, runs and press on defender. But he’s not like a villa, torres, inzagi. But i
see him as a great backup. He has to stay.
The players that we should bring on.
Keeper
Igor Akinfeev- Impressive keeper, he’s young and not very expensive. I think he will be the future best world keeper.
Central defender
I see micah richards who is good. Many talk about zapata , i dont know him well to talk. But we need a good one to work with toure. If i can suggest some central defender (pablo (atletico madrid), Raul albiol (valence), coloccini (deportivo), barzagali( palerme))
Midfield
we need winger. I suggest quaresma, Robinho(i dont think AW would buy him).May be van der vartand vela will come this year.
Central midfield.
I have heard of Xavi, why not?. Diego will be go also. and just for our dreams kaka who will fit well in our playing system
Forward
Villa , villa and villa. He is transferable.He is very good in front of the goal. He is a world class striker. He is the man. we can bring also adriano who has the physical power to play in england and inter want to let him go.
My team next season is:
Akinfeev, Almunia , Fiabinski
Sagna, Eboue, Toure, Senderos, Song, Raul Albiol,Barzagali, Clichy, Traore
Wallcot, Hleb, Fabregas, Denilson, Flamini, Diaby, Rosicky, Vela, Quaresma
Van persie, Adebayor, Edourdo, Bendtner,villa
He is a fantastic player. He was brilliant in the Emirates cup.
wenger has to do his business in May or early june. it will stop our best players wanting to leave if they can see that wenger has got a couple of top players coming in August. I find the summer unbearable when its week after week of no transfers when everyone else has done their business.
If we have one more year of no trophies, our best young players will leave, make no mistake about that. Fans might be patient but players are not.
Geoff/Pedro must be relaxing somewhere.
I do not believe many will want to go. Only Mad Jens and perhaps Falm. But if he should leave, Flam is one silly boy. There isn’t a better club in the world than Arsenal. You can ask any of the other players who have left. They all seem to recall Arse as the best club in their career.
Henry, Overmars, Petit, PV4, . They all say the same
I was fairly convinced nothing could depress me in Arsenal terms as much as the last 4 months, but it appears I was wrong. I have just realised that the off-season is going to depress me even more…why?
1. The constant speculation from now onwards about Arsenal being in for the likes of Villa, Gattuso, Ben Arfa, Benzema, Joaquin, Quaresma, Aguero, Richards, SWP, Henry and the excitement this brings.
2. The slow churning disappointment as that list reduces rapidly into nothingness with Benzema joining Real, Villa signing for Chelski, Quaresma signing for Inter etc etc while we sit idly on our hands waiting for news.
3. The realisation that the Euro 2008′s are meaningless for most Arsenal fans and all just praying that the tournament doesn’t cripple Cesc/RVP/Clichy etc.
4. The countdown to the close of the window where we hear that Arsenal are trying for someone and that it is ’50% he will come, 50% he will not’. As the deadline looms we are informed that Wenger has agreed a deal for Gouffran [big fucking whoop] and is finalising a medical. At the same time we will hear that Flamini is in Milan completing a medical.
5. As the season starts with are even weaker squad it will transpire that the player who was 50/50 to sign was not in fact Gouffran but actually Villa or Richards or Benzema but that Arsene decided the price was too high and we didn’t need him.
So that is basically the dreaded summer I am expecting.
Don’t you love being an Arsenal fan? Oh and you can add to that watching Ronaldinho/Kaka/Robinho/Messi/Eto’o/Huntelaar/Pirlo/Nesta etc etc all signing up for Chelsea/United/Liverpool while Ronaldo/Drogba/Torres all pledge their future to their clubs with huge bumper long term deals.
I might start supporting Boreham Wood. Less depression.
THSOA. It is the same at every club !! MU fans will be crapping themselves about Ronaldo. Chavs – Drogba. Sp*rs – Bers. Pool – Gerrard. etc etc etc.
Will they stay or go. Imagine how painful it was for the Scumfans when Sol came to us
The bit I hate is the realisation that the club means so much less to the players than it does to me…..
come on, surely wenger will buy 3 more 16 year olds! just think, in 2012, we are gonna be fucking good. shame most of our good players will have buggered off to Madrid or Barca by then!
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The more I think about it the more I think is we need a quality centre back. Someones who is big, strong, quick & dominates in the air. Then this would help solve our problem of defending set pieices. Yes we will need a new keeper & maybe one attacker but generally I think our midfield is our strongest assest if a bit lightweight at times.
Does anyone else agree?
IF ITS TRUE THAT ADEBAYOR HAD ANOTHER PUNCH UP WITH TOURE AFTER THE BENDTNER EPISODE, I HOPE THE NEXT PERSON HE DECKS IS FABREGAS THAT WOULD DEFINITELY CAUSE ARSENE TO MAKE A DECISION CONCERNING THIS IGNORANT PUFFED UP GIT WHOSE TRYING HIS DAMMEST POSSIBLE TO BE THE FACE OF ARSENAL. I DONT CARE FOR THE GOALS HE’S SCORED I PERSONALLY THINK HE’S NOT GOOD ENUF FOR THE GOONERS AND THE SOONER HE’S GONE THE BETTER FOR THE WHOLE TEAM.