Morning Grovers… and what a miserable one at that, on the football front and the weather front!
So… first up.
Adebayor is staying, Hillwood says that he is one of our best players, he has 3 years on his contract and that is a contract that he will not be released from.
Tough shit Ade… you’d better pray the Gooner faithful are in a forgiving mood.
Hillwood did however admit that Hlebinho would be leaving for pastures new, as reported by Le Grove last week.
“Hleb has made it clear he wants to go,”
“I think maybe he will go.”
Barcelona is Hlebs preferred destination, so let’s wait and see on that one!
The one good thing that may come out of this is that if Barca sign Hleb, it leaves that path clear for us to sign ’2 games’ Arshavin. Apparently the Chav’s have dropped out of the race and Arsh would like his kids to learn English in London. His agent said this,
“The clubs who are following him are only just warming their engines.”“Arshavin’s future depends on what happens with Hleb and Adebayor.”
Exciting stuff there then! We sell a player who can’t score or assist and buy in a player for less money who can do both of those and more. What is even better about Arsh is moving to Britain would be the equivalent of a Brit moving to Spain… he is gonna love the weather! Weather he can hack it physically is a different question, but for me… his a 27 year old footballer, he’ll be alright!
Finally onto something darker… the quotes from yesterdays NoTW interview can from Agence France Presse (AFP), the worlds oldest press agency! So, unless someone comes out and denies it today, take the quotes at face value. If you read the interview, I think what is clear is that it wasn’t about Arsenal becoming a selling club… it was about player power, maybe an unintentional slip of the tongue by Arsene?
All the same, it raises the ugliest of questions… what do you want?
A) Usmanov to add us to his portfolio and catapult us to the top of the spending leagues with his dirty money.
B) Nice guy Stan to takeover as he is the favoured Billionaire. He could turn us into a big time player just like he has with his other sporting successes. Beware though… the weak dollar would probably see him levy the debt against the club.
C) Remain a selling club with the current board for 17 years because we have a long term plan.
I’ll let you decide the best option there, but one thing I will say it this…
Everyone is expecting a big implosion with football. Many people are saying the type of wages on offer cannot be sustained and people will just switch off in the end. Well, can I point you in the direction of Baseball, Basketball and NFL. They might be American sports, but I am pretty certain they don’t have the same following as the Premier League, yet the wages make the Premier Leagues look pathetic. We’ve already had a TV rights crash and we’ve come back even stronger.
Spoilt brat mercenaries are here to stay, sorry people.
There is a reason the Oligarchs and the Billionaires club are tracking only English clubs… they see a future in it and they see money in it.
Anyway, I’ll leave you to chew the fat off today’s post!
Happy blogging!
Training starts tomorrow Pedro…
Bud if Pedro doesn’t fancy it i’ll glady tag along if your obliging I really wanna go to the game!
Take it you’re a no for Barnet then as you didn’t reply?
Training starts Friday according to Sky’s interview with our new Welsh Manc !!!
Probably the best time to sign off!! I dont want blood on my shoes thanks!!:)
Have a good one fellas!
Bud I am on for it!
Training started today according to whatever the hell I read?
You to Odub!
Yeah, tough crowd Odub!
Iam out too, its started p!ssing down here again…its going to be an adventurous journey home methinks!
Adios compadrés!!
Well, Good Afternoon you fine Gentlemen out there, see what happens when the Girlie leaves the camp, theres a fight…. Now both Bud and Matt and anyone else who has a bit of spike in them this fine afternoon, take yourselves off to the naughty corner, collect your toys and put them back in your prams!!!!!
Other than that – guess I have not missed much
Keep it good Grovers
I have authorised to blog for a while – Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Did anyone see the where are they now ? on ATV about Steeeeeevie Williams. It was more like Tommy Walsh than the er Tommy Walsh show..
Reserves are good, the interviews with the old players are good, but the adverts get on yer tits,, (they still keep showing Flamini on the Arsenal Opus)..
Afternoon Rico!
It is all sorted now!
No news… which is a shame. Well, other than the fact that Hleb is a certainty to leave now…
Ade… we’re unsure about.
We’re also unsure about when training starts!
SSN said the 7th last week…
Matt – Am agreeing to a love in, if you stop the patronising…….. there Pedro, I have backed down……… it really fucking hurts !!!!!!!
Neither of you backed down… you’ve both agreed to let sleeping dogs lie…
Bud, you need to have a word with that training ground ref… he gave us some good gossip at the end of last season.
We need a blog mole…
Talking of Moles I had one up till last May – Hoyte’s dad.
I’m off home now to, will bring my avatar back to the party tomorrow, hopefully there will be some real new then!
Pedro. Will talk next week, but will pick you up en-route. Pre-match meal is at 1.30, but will probably get there for about 12.30 and drain them of their Lager Reserves, so probably pick you up about 11.30…….. no clothes spiders though !!!!!!!!
*news, can’t frikkin type today!
Bud / Matt, life is too short… Oh, and so am I
Hi Pedro, I thought the boys were back today, and hoped that would kick start everything off, SSN’s said it was today, lying old buggers!!
Imagine you were Ade, how the heck would you be able to play at THOF now, knowing what stupid, greedy, anal, arrogant, pathetic comments you have made will turn those who once ‘loved’ you really dislike you -
Is he going to be another Anelka and Sulk, leaving the club no choice but to sell, there is no way we as a club afford to put him in the reserves…..
Bud… you love the shirt spider! Speak to you next week… I’ll make sure I get a ‘ I love Le Grove’ sheet of paper printed out…
See you later Pierre!
Chary, really? Did he give you any gossip?
Rico… I know what you mean. He could have been loved, but he played his greed card about 2 years to early. Silly boy. He should have spoken to Thierry before he shot his mouth off.
He couldn’t be another Anelka. 8 clubs wouldn’t make the same mistake with him!
i think both of them are off…
but wenger’s speech yesterday was crazy if it were true!!!
Don’t speak about moles – I’ve got some chewing up my ‘lawn’ areas currently – they’re an absolute pain! I’ve tried bottles on sticks: vibration; solar powered sonic waves; poison, mole traps, poisonous gasses and still they persist…..so I’ve given up. The only thing they’re good for is providing topsoil for other places!
Pedro – he did have some useful tit bits – like how TH14 was on the flight home from the CL final. From how he talked it was obvious I knew he wasn’t leaving then.
Anyway off home now – see you later.
PS – he was a Manscum fan so lots of barracking during the season.
Sorry Top-Gooner-Stow, young Pedro has taken the ticket. Will no doubt have plenty of League & Cup games throughout the season if you struggle to get tickets……. although O’dub has first refusal on the Bud-Credit scheme !!!!
I can’t imagine we are going to struggle to fill seats this year bud!
Plenty of keen grovers ready to buy them up if they are available!
i think anelka’s more talented than ade!!
Where do you get this ‘SSN’ info’ from? Is it reliable or like NewsNow?
Cheers Patrick we have got moles too!!! and we use the hills as top soil but I put my foot down a 10″ hole today so if you do find a answer let us know!!
Sorry about that back to football news… hoping…..
FROM SKY
Aaron Ramsey has already set his sights on making his Arsenal debut against West Brom on 16th August.
The 17-year-old will report for pre-season training on Friday, along with those members of the squad who did not feature at Euro 2008 or are currently injured.
FRIDAY START FOR PRE-SEASON……. why so late?
Bud… I think the holidays are staggered for most of them…
Nice to hear Ramsey talking up his chances, but I don’t think he was a regular for Cardiff?
Patrick… Sky Sports News
Can anyone think of a good song for… Szombathelyi Haladas. They are our second game of the pre season!
Did you know we are playing Huddersfield? It’s for their centenary.
Also, do you know what they are doing for it?
Selling all their season tickets half price! They shifted nearly all of them… the most they’ve sold since the 80′s and apparently they’ve made the same amount of money as they did last year… after only selling half.
Good thinking you have to say!
Pedro – Thanks for that! Not got it so I’ll have to keep watching this space………
David – The ‘traps’ with the explosive charge can take out the odd one but not all of them I’m told……………more expense. The solar powered ones can drive them off if used as a group and keep moving them but they’re a pain unless you’ve got loads of flowerbeds to plant them in as when you mow the lawn you’ve got to take them up.
Football – where’s our CB or DMF coming from?
Hi guys, anyone here going to the WBA game on the first day of the season?
Do you think Diaby/Song will be tried out by AW before he signs another (hopefully) waiting in the wings. Surely Nordvelt/Djourou aren’t ready for this season?
Afternoon Pedro/Geoff and Le Grovers,
Good post Pedro.
I have to say though regarding PHW’s comments, he says that Ade is staying and Hleb is leaving because Hleb has “clearly stated his intent to leave”
Hasn’t Ade done pretty much the same? He has stated his intent to leave also.
Sounds like double standards!!!
I also feel a signing is around the corner regarding a wide player after these comments. With Hleb going I reckon the Nazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzri deal maybe concluded or Arshavin will be arriving.
By the way Pedro, do you get a donut called Spike ever leaving comments? He seems to like stirring big time.
The way Hill Wood was talking, the delay on Nasri is because we need to sell Hleb first to get the money…………
Evening Wrighty, I am sure I’ve had him on at some point! I hope you hit him with a spammer (Spam button… like hammer, but spammer)!
I am getting good vibes regarding Arsh! He seems like the perfect replacement for Hleb! I have only watched him a few times, I think he’d link up nicely with Cesc… especially in a 4-5-1… imagine Arsh joining the front line!
Bud, I truly hope that is not the case… where is all this cash we are earning going? What happened to this cash surplus?
Trez… I’ll be there for sure!
Bud, are you sitting upstairs or down this year?
Guys,
I am not sure why wenger made a reference to the 24 million interst payments on the stadium. Just a cursory glance at arsenal’s balance sheet shows a gross profit of over 90 million (if I remember correctly) which can easily cover this.
I do not think selling players is necessary, even though we still do it every year and generate a profit based on player transfers.
That said, I think because of the housing credit crunch(in the US and maybe elsewhere) it might be difficult to sell the highbury flats (most people have only paid a 10 % downpayment) impacting arsenal balance sheet for the next few years.
Club still. Have a spare also. Stuart gave his up, so I bought that as well…….
Let’s see how keen the Grovers are when I ask face value (£110 a game) ?!!!!!
Look, all joking aside. If my company bank account has £100K in it, and to run my company with overheads and wages it takes £30K a month…… it does not mean I have £70K to spend, its my reserve in case things go tits up anywhere…… thats why Arsenal will not spend it if they do not have to, they are buiding up a nice reserve for any bad eventualities so they will survive and not do a Leeds !!!!!
Pedro… Huddersfield = Herbert Chapman ..
I’ve a sneaky feeling that we will be seeing Arshavin in an Arsenal shirt next year. Le Boss has shown that sneaky side when talking about him, throwing an element of doubt and then bigging him up.
He can play off the front man, wide and also could play in the middle when Cesc needs a breather!
Sign the Russian!!!!!!!!!!
The only song I can think of at the moment for that team is sung to the bananas in pyjamas song!
Dont ask why! It rymes a little
“Halada’s in pyjamas……..
I’m taking my pills……………………
Pedro Says:
July 7, 2008 at 4:08 pm
well done mate .. thats all ill say ,
keep it cryptic
So true thou !
im sure there all over there saying how well the season is panning out so far !!!!
just as they planned it !
look on the bright side !
things will be better now they are a year older !
wrighty love the optimism !
but im sure that is the most well used phrase this arsenal transfer window !
A SIGNING IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER !
I won’t even think about trying to top that Wrighty, that truly does deserve to sit out there on its own……. do you have Bupa cover by the way????
Stewart sacked it this year? Lucky Buds clients then!
David… I forgot about that… I suppose that was the last time they won a trophy! A nice gesture from Arsenal you have to say!
Nice song Wrighty! I have the same feelings about Arsh.
Bud, I don’t know what the bad eventualities would be? I suppose we just have to accept that whatever cash surplus Wenger accrues through transfers… he is never going to spend it. It’s just the way he operates.
Would people be happy with the summer transfers if we bought Arsh and Nasri and kept Ade?
Could we seriously mount a decent challenge?
Cheers Ethan… the guy is a plank… he is only interested in sugar coated Arsenal news… he was the one who said this,
‘My concern’s not with individuals on any obscure blog but specifically with negativity, xenophobia (albiet unwitting/unconscious at times) and the impact this has on our stadium, players and club.’
Xenophobia impacting at the stadium eh? Maybe the sky digital is a little fuzzy up in Harrogate, but I’ve never noticed that…
Being positive for the sake of it is commendable. If you are like that though, you have to accept being labelled delusional…
Delusion: A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception.
No Arsenal fan can take comfort from this summer so far.
Arsenal are more than ok. Trust in Wenger.
A squad of…
Almunia/Fabianski/Mannone
Sagna/Hoyte
Toure/Senderos/Djourou
Gallas/Song/Nordveit
Clichy/Traore
Walcott/Eboue
Fabregas/Denilson/Ramsey
DM (Veloso or De La Red)/Diaby/Gilberto
Nasri/Rosicky
Van Persie/Vela/Barazite
Eduardo/Bendtner
Will do very well next season. Thats excluding Hleb and Adebayor without a new striker.
We’re still short of midfield bite and grit with the Flamster gone. I doubt if most could cover that. Kolo might but AW says he hasn’t got the engine…………Yaya? or Gilberto with a different system?
Arsenal are sorted. Trust in Wenger, not the tabloids.
Could we seriously mount a decent challenge?
NO
we are in for .. much of the same im afraid ..
whilst wenger admits he cant keep his players and the club refuses to spend
on experience , its all more of the same .. predictable stuff
close but no cigar type stuff …
wheres our 3 major signings ?
before flamini – hleb and maybe ade goes?
we wont get 6 top notch players ..
normal clubs would replace them in a heart beat to maintain there stature !
we on the other hand like to test the water every year , with average results !
There is only one solution ! we need a investor ! if it hits you in the face any more
we would be K.O ed !
Bud, that shits going global mate!
Platinum in the USA
Ethan, you mean much of the same being at the top of the league and killing off all opponents with ease?
They won’t insure me Bud, they can’t get strong enough pills!!
Apparently 1500 tickets garunteed for red members at every game……………. i dont care if im up all night refreshing my screen a month before a game IM GOIN TO AT LEAST 10 GAMES THIS YEAR. Only got to go to 2 last year, best two days of 2007 though Sevilla and newcastle Champs league and CC we won both times (as im sure you knew). I’d say the sevilla game had the best atmosphere all of us on our feet cheering on the boys then eduardo scored and made it 3-1 (made me 50 quid too). EPIC NIGHT
MeM mate… that didn’t happen last year?
We lost to the Chav’s, the Mancs and drew a whole bundle…
We blew a 5 point lead with 13 to go.
Mem – Don’t think Traore’s strong enough at LB, maybe as LW; Gallas is better cover.
Agree with Ethan as there’s too much cross-fingers and hope with that squad. We need those 2-3 experienced quality players, not names (necessarily) that AW said he needed several weeks ago!
We blew it. But we had it. Thats the difference. We challenged until the last two games of the season. Whatever you say, we were a win and a draw away from winning the league. Bad luck (I admit all clubs have some) and injuries hit us hard last season. Nobody can doubt that the quality is not there.
Pat – Just putting his somewhere. I didn’t want to say, Gallas here and there, Eboue RM and RB, Diaby DM and LM etc. Just one player per spot with at least two players per position. maybe Pedro will step up?
No Arsenal fan can take comfort from this summer so far.
Precisely !
and anyone who denies it is either a plastic fan or just fucking kidding themselves !
,The board, wenger in the past few seasons have came out with some blatant lies !
We are not in a transitional period – we dont need the yanks money ..
we have 75 million to spend – we will get 2 or 3 world class signings in the next 3weeks
to put the fans minds at ease ?
Should we be worrying any time soon ?
oh … thats right … have faith in wenger .. he’s done us right !!! before???
…
This club should be trying to win everything on the board !
if you win everything ! you get more followers ! if you get more followers
you make more money !!
if you go into next season displaying this sort of vigor ! we all know what we can expect !
Did anyone know that Arsenal “LEGEND” Chris Kiwomya was at Arsenal working as a coach for the reserves?! I didnt
He’s left for Ipswich, taking a role there.
I remember when he was signed in an act of desperation by Georgie boy along side John Hartson!
Memories, I was only a wee kiddie
MeM Says:
July 7, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Ethan, you mean much of the same being at the top of the league and killing off all opponents with ease?
NO MEM i mean going 11 games straight without winning !
an all time wenger low record !
We might win one competition with that squad with SOME luck and no injuries but certainly won’t be dominant in 4 competitions!
The LUCK bit omitted on this blog I realised the other night was the fact we kept on drawing TOP teams both in CL & FAC whilst the Chavs & ManUre (& Portsmouth) had a relatively easy run.
if we killed off all opponents with ease ?
why didnt we win the C.C ?
or the F.A cup ?
C.L ? the epl ???!
theres a draft in here ..
and i know where the wind is coming from
MEM !
Ethan, try to understand football past the idea that signing a player will win you a trophy. Sometimes you lose by bad luck, sometimes its lack of quality, sometimes it is injuries, sometimes it is a small squad. If we did sign Villa, Richards, Boruc or whoever there is no guarantee that we would win the league. We could do worse than this season just gone.
Only one club can win each competition. We only take twos seriousley (although I think that the FA Cup will be more of an objective next season) so that meant that realistically we had to win the PL or the CL to have a trophy.
If United did not win any trophies last season would you say that their squad was not good enough? All it took was for Terry to score that penalty and for the referee to have a big enough brain to see Clichy winning the ball in the area against birmingham rather than giving a penalty.
http://le-grove.co.uk/page/17/ – Look at the posts around this time. Arsenal were the greatest. We were unbeatable. You loved them. Untouchable we all thought. Now what? We cannot challenge at all? Give me a break.
signings like deco – anelka – ballack ..
chelsea ain’t stupid .. thats experience ..
Blend them with some 24 -27 year olds 2 or 3 youthful players and you have a great team mix…
wenger is dead right .. all the shite players stay at AFC and all his good ones leave !
he cannot hang on to them .. we will do well to keep cesc 2 more seasons .. the rumors are constant and wont stop ! Our club is close to crisis !
No one at the club is thinking forward enough , or even as far as’ this season ‘
even ! we are all just crossing our fingers that the premature youth will all turn good
and make it … maybe they will !
but its not a cast iron plan by any stretch !
i would go as far as saying its frightening !
i honestly thought ! when i drove home today that nasri would be in the number 8 shirt
and we would have at least another signing … !!!
yes i was wrong !!
i fancy traore as a left winger… we won’t win anything if 3 players left and three come in…
we needed additions to the squad and we haven’t even bought replacements!!!!!
Welcome back Ethan
How was your trip
Yep another quiet week on the transfer front, in fact the only Arsenal news was more negatvie news.
What is worse is that the Board are not going to listen to the fans at all and keep the Togotwat despite him basically laughing in the face of every Arsenal fan.
Its not a crisis just yet, but it is very concerning
364th
^^^lol u got 365
p.s 366th
Wrighty7- I saw that prick Spike’s comment on your blog this morning slagging off yourself & le-grove. I also saw your comment telling him to go away, unfortunately though those idiots will continue on & on forever!! Oh well, I suppose you can always hope one day they will grow up.
MeM… your comments were in moderation… I am back now.
Debate away, but don’t start telling me or the Grovers how to support a team.
Regarding the challenging…
We’ve lost Hleb, Flamini and probably Ade.
We played out of our socks last year then capitulated… what has improved?
This summer has seen us go backwards so far.
dont panic pedro!
there is no way we wont replace hleb, that I am certain. Besides weve got cover for him in Eboue………..joke!
looks like ade might be stayin, (personally i think we should get rid), so he had better have an absolute blinder. Not too worried if he does go and we dont replace, as long as there is money in the pot in january ready for when RVP etc. have their customary 5 month break. We have enough fire power up front, we just need 1 or 2 in the middle and cover for the big sulky baby that is gallas
GMR,
He always tries to large it mate.
I don’t think he has ever agreed with anything I’ve written. I don’t mind that but he never writes a constructive comment just spills his venom!
The muppet always slags my site and Le Grove, that comment he made yesterday made me laugh, I felt sorry for him, it must get lonely in that cage of his.
FFS
If this is true, shall we just enter the Premier Youth League next year and be done with it
http://arsenalanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/07/arsenal-decide-to-transfer-midfielder.html
Wrighty, if I don’t like a site, I don’t click the link!
Doesn’t it make you wonder if it is someone with an agenda?
£1.5mill for a world cup winning midfielder who is 31? Great business Arsenal…
Andy, got any suggestions for a back up centre back?
I’d like Ade to stay, but not if he is going to be a sulky cunt…
pat i hope for sentimental sakes, that its not true,
Some good news! Liverpool and Portsmouth have agreed a fee for Crouch..
Wrighty7, thats one of the reasons I was so happy to have found this site. I knew what Geoff was like having had debates with him on East Lower, however that site got taken over by the mindless morons & now he gets relatively few comments. As you said its ok disagreeing with whats written but at least come up with a counter argument, just to come on & slag people off is just cowardly. If people could easily find your actual address from your IP address those idiots would disappear as quickly as they appear, either that or internet cafe’s would get a lot busier!!
I don’t watch ‘Doctor Who’ but apparently a mobile number for the Doctor was shown in the last episode & something like 2500 people tried ringing it actually believing they would speak to the actor who plays him (or maybe they think there is a Doctor Who), obviously as the line was actually dead & only used for program purposes they complained to Ofcom about the fact it may cost them the price of a phonecall.
Some people are so thick!!
Too right Pedro and GMR,
I’m off for the night.
Keep it Goonerish………….
Van der Vaart told Dutch weekly Sportweek: “The interest has been there for some time already, but they (Tottenham) are not the club I want to go to. Tottenham are not a club I want to swap Hamburg for.
“The chance that I will stay at HSV is really big. As long as no team comes by which makes me immediately excited, I see no reason to leave. And so far none of those clubs have called us.”
i’ll miss hleb’s fancy footwork though!!!
Night Wrighty!
Chris, Gilberto’s treatment has been extremely shoddy…
We’re once again haemorrhaging experience…
He is a world cup and prem winner!
We wont sign a replacement either… lets hope the brit pack are going to be ready soon!
Pedro – Richards or ferdinand (Anton, not that manc tosspot), even Ledley King, we need s good English boy in there, not some poof who sulks on the halfway line! (having said that I did nearly break my phone, tv remote, tv, the mrs and the dog when they got that pen, but hey, thats why I’m not the captain of Arsenal!)
And yes if Ade starts being a sulky cunt, we should stick him in the reserves till he retires, which by all accounts isnt too far away!
All I can say is that I do not begrudge Gilberto this move at all,
He has been an excellent professional at Arsenal in a time when the likes of TT25 treat the club and fans like dirt. Gilberto deserves this final pay day and good luck to him.
I just pray we replace him, the thought of Diaby and Denilson being considered 1st team regular in that position scares the shit out of me.
Again if this is true and we dont replace with a top quality CM player, I dread to imagine the consequences.
gilberto has been a true professional… an arsenal legend.. he saved our asses last season!!!
I mean the 06-07 season!!
My first ever post on the famous Le-grove….AW’s shrewd, dont be surprised if he’s negotiated a “first option” deal with that greek wonderkid everyone’s after by allowing Panathinaikos to take Gilberto off us
I agree pat Gilberto is a legend at the Arsenal. I do think Diaby is almost ready though, just needs a run in the team. Having said that Gareth Barry would be ideal if we could hijack his move to liverpool
Welcome aboard TJ.
Andy… not Anton! He is rubbish! West ham are trying to flog him! Bad attitude… street brawler and a bit rubbish.
Richards… well, the jury is out. But not interest from the big 4 so far this year?
Pat… if Berto goes… do we have any over 30′s?
Maybe gallas and Almunia? That says something doesn’t it…
lol TJ.. not another kid!!!
Evening …. Lets face it guys , Gilberto’s legs are gone, I wish him all the best if it’s true but he is past it and his departure makes a lot of sense, he was abysmal last season and played in most of the hammering we took in the cups + vs Boro & Newcastle away in the prem!
If he does indeed leave then i expect a high profile name to arrive ….. Yaya, Barry or Veloso me thinks .
I dont think we do actually
The problem with Diaby is he is as prone to giving the ball away and making mistakes as some say Senderos is.
Sorry if you want to win either of the Premiership or the CL, you dont do it by considering Diaby as your defensive CM. It is too important a position to carry someone in.
Oh yeah Gallas is 30 and Almunia is 31
and
Adebayor is 47 (Come on I am only joking)
Pedro – street brawler he may be, but rubbish he is not. Under wenger he would shine, and imagine the effort he’d put in to get one over his twat faced brother in the league, fa cup, CL, fuck me even the ferdinand v ferdinand thing on soccer AM! I think he would be good and he would cost fuck all!
Lol….u know its the Wenger way choy…
Cheers Pedro
I second that AndyB….. I rate Anton and reckon would do a decent job for us.
People use to laugh at Rio’s defending at West Ham but look at him now….
fair point pat but i still think its just a confidence thing, I think he will suprise a few this season.
I dont rate Anton at all
He would also cost about 8m, I think he worth more like 2m
The only way we will get a CB is if he buys Veloso as he can play in both positions
Or if he spots a 13 year old Afghan sheep farmer kicking cows heads around
don’t think anton would be such a great idea… he spends more time tying up his hair.. we need a no-nonsense centreback like vidic or skrtel…
just get the job done types….
Thing is, until his injury I thought Diaby looked the business, but since he came back he has really dissapointed me
Anyway, we should of bought Hargreeves when we had the chance a few years ago, he was cheap before the world cup too
diaby is hardly defensive…!!!
this guy TJ?
Arsene Wenger is looking to steal a march on his opposite number by securing the services of Greek prodigy Demetris Christofi.
The 19-year-old striker currently plays for Greek outfit Omonoia after moving from ENP FC for a domestic record fee of £800,000
yes choy, not like our right back who dosn’t care what his hair looks like!
diaby is still inured currently, i hope he is paddy mrk2 when fit,
lol andy b… we need an essien .. ok too much dreaming ….
choy – I have to admit vidic and skrtle are class.
Thats why I am concerned choy,
Nor is Denilson really, he is too slight to be a commanding tough tackling CM player.
We needed to buy one before Gilberto was linked to leave, now we really need one if he goes.
Maybe he is thinking of converting Vito Mannone into a Defensive Midfielder. I bet it would be a better success than turning Eboue into a RM
Would it be possible to close down the caughtoffside for writing outrageous bullshit?
How to solve a problem like Eboue
http://www.clubfanzine.com/arsenal/v2.showNews.php?id=11778&loc=1
“Eboue was mildly irritating when he played at full-back but his lack of a football brain, and arguably any brain whatsoever”
Anton would not be my first choice but he is certainly an option, his performances dipped last season after the court situation but was brilliant before then.
He was one the best CB around when West Ham got promoted and reached the FA cup final…. he was even included in the Germany 06 “28 man squad”……. .
….. a fresh start would do him good i reckon but we defo need a new defender.
sorry i dont like essien, think it is all those nasty leg breaking tackles he has a liking for……….. Oh yeah and he’s a chav cock
haha.. wenger and defenders do not go together.. he has given us the best forwards the PL has seen but his defenders aren’t much to talk about..!!
an italian or a eastern european defender is what we need!!
isnt it ironic that AW was a defender choy
O.k something just really pissed me off, my mate who i’ve always doubted his loyalty to arsenal has just BOUGHT A MAN.U SHIT……….(shirt) BASTARD.
CANT STAND GLORY HUNTERS, THIS IS THE SAME GUY WHO LAST SEASON WAS TELLING ME I AM NOT A TRUE FAN BECAUSE I MISSED MotD ONE NIGHT FUCK!!!!!!!!! :@ i am not a happy bunny right now……….
Think we’d be better off getting Paul Daniels to turn Eboue into a gazzelle with no football skill………….. oh too late
treze, thats tought to swallow
I know hammers fans are not the best judges when it comes to players… but they all assure me Anton is not good enough.
He has moved in down the road from me… shall I go and ask him now?
Andy, I don’t think Hargreaves was ever cheap!
Skrtel was brilliant when he played against us… a quality player… all over the place.
Chris… Christofi? Where did you read that? It sounds disappointing… and not in an Eduardo/Sagna kind of way… at least those two ticked the quality boxes!
*tough
well said abdenor, bit of guidance from AW and he’d be back up there
don’t tell me he was a CB chris!!!
treze13… how did you let that happen mate!!! don’t tell me it is a CR7 shirt!!!
a terrible source for the greek story…
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/sport/topstories/display.var.2343431.0.gunners_set_to_battle_united_for_greek_teenage_sensation.php
Treze… cut him out your life… he is the type of bloke who will try and nick your girlfriend… no scrupples…
some might say ‘failed” centre back choy,
pedro – £8m we could have got him for
oh no choy imagine being associated with a turn coat manu fan whom wares a ronaldo shirt, id actualy kill him
I dunno how it happened im gutted though i actually brought him to Arsenal vs. Toon last season lil bastard didnt even sing……… Well guess whos gonna get a good kickin tomorrow at skl. Naa its not CR7 its WOLFMAN!!!! might even be worse
o lord chris.. instead of buying all these teenstars why couldn’t the money have gone in keeping flamini and ade and hleb…these teenage sensations will become famous and leave when they are 25!!!!
wolfman = tevez for those who don’t know.
an dont worry Pedro after i kick the living shit out of him tomorrow im not even gunna aknowledge the little traitor
but as we have alluded to mention even clichy recognises that arsenal are a great club for young players to learn before trying different challenges, we know what he means, by teh way choy i forgot to ask where have you been ,
Haha….. wolfman…lol, got that one right matey
I thought Van Der Vaart was shite in the euros. He does nothing for me at all as a footballer. Good shot, that’s about it.
chris i was out on a mini vacation… seaside.. have you heard of a place called GOA?
it was pretty ok.. but you can’t really enjoy yourself when all you think about is who we’ve sold or signed
Treze – track him down, steal his shirt, poo in it, then post it back. Repeat this every time it has been washed or renewed. Its the only language these people understand
Yo Chris….Sotiris Ninis is his name. Think of every big club in european football….well they all want him (apparently). There’s clips of him on youtube too….
Paulinho… did he even play?
Lol andy b. I was thinking more along the lines of post him anthrax………….but yeah i guess your method would knock a few years off the prison sentence
Hahaha…what if United decide NOT to buy Tevez permanently? Then what? Hahahaha
just eat a jar of jalapenos before you poo. its better than anthrax
Then TJ he will have a shirt of a one season player that will be covered in none other than the finest……… POO POO!!!!!! (trying not to swear i think i got through my maximum allowance with the last few posts.
So is Ramsey serious about starting the first Prem game?
Surely Arsene didn’t tell him he’d be competing in the first team that early!
did you hear about the irish guy who got killed at the bull run in spain…………..
he fell off a wall,
GOA?
yeah i have, there was a type of dance music called goa, its somewhere i want to go someday,
30p for a bottle of beer!
It has to be on the to-do list!
pedro – did ramsey say that? or was it in the NOTW/ sunday sport?
have you been there pedro?
yes converting your pounds into rupees .. you guys will have a blast!!!