Fear not chums, I was being sarcastic!
So the news yesterday was Michael Owen, the Darren Anderton of the new millenium offered his services to us and the Mancs, well at last Arsenal got lucky for once and it seems that fergie has landed the injury prone has been from Liverpool, thank the good lord for that, can you imagine the reception he’ll get from Liverpool fans!
Well he won’t actually, because he’ll only play his customary 3 games a season so chances are he won’t be fit for that one.
Arsene says that Gallas and Adebayor will not be leaving so that means we won’t be getting a new forward and probably not a centreback, so we still have an opening in the defensive midfield spot if he decides to get the company wallet out.
The boss however did say this about Ade ‘If he does not want to stay, he will leave’ now that appalls me, he has 3 years left on his contract, so why give these huge new contracts out if they mean nothing, except of course more money for the player concerned.
Anyway, I digress, I think we have enough players if he doesn’t buy, but I still hope he has a clear out.
Other great news is we have extended Jack Wilshere’s contract much the same way he did Ramsey’s the day before, so we can at least bank on having them around until they decide to break their contracts in a few years time and bugger off to Barcelona, AC Milan or Real Madrid, still at least we are paying them well so none of you need lose any sleep over that.
I watched the Spud game at the Grove on Arsenal TV last night and with 4 minutes to go I watched with horror as Gael Clichy slipped, not to worry I thought it’s only Jenas on the ball, he’s slow and we have Alex Song right behind him, he’ll get it…oops 4-3.
Thing is I was at that game and swore I would never watch the game again… …sucker!
Anyway that reminded me why we really do need a defensive midfielder, Alex will take a couple more years to work on his speed and then we’ll be okay.
On a positive note I was thinking of a fully fit Arsenal and you know what I was getting quite excited, so I thought I would have a little look at what sort of team we could field if we had all of our players, these are my team options, what do you think?
Before I do though, I am assuming Vermaelen is the dogs, if Robin is happy with the signing, then that’s good enough for me.
Almunia
Sagna Gallas Vermaelen Clichy
Arshavin Cesc Nasri Rosicky
Robin Eduardo
Or
Almunia
Eboue Kolo Vermaelen Gibbs
Walcott Cesc Diaby Vela
Arshavin Bendtner
Or
Almunia
Kolo Djourou Senderos Traore
Nasri Cesc Arshavin Rosicky
Walcott Robin
You know what, they’re not bad line ups, we then have a number of super players that could come on and do a job like Ramsey, Wilshere, Denilson and Song then there wouldn’t be the pressure on their young shoulders there has been and we may see a different side fighting for silverware.
Oh and notice no 4-5-1 that was what we had when we threw away a two goal lead against the spuds, it was 4-4-2.
So without the negative thoughts we actually do have quite a strong squad that will be a year older, a lot stronger and very hungry.
What I saw in the spuds game was that Eboue, Diaby, Song and Denilson in the same team when we were winning 4-2 and cruising really doesn’t work and that must never be allowed to happen again, when those four are all playing at the same time the confidence drops and mistakes happen, they can all do a job of that there is no doubt, but not all at the same time, let them develop boss, give them cameos and it may just work.
It’s getting near that time when we need to start beleiving again, it’s getting close to when we have to accept what we have and get behind the team and if he played Coco the clown in the team I for one would be cheering him on.
And don’t say we already do or I will get hammered.
Have a great day today grovers, at least we didn’t sign Michael miserable Owen!
If Adebayor banged in 30 odd goals next season would you still want him to leave even though he says he want to stay and a big offer was made for him?
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!all day
Didn’t Vidic and Terry both say Ade was the hardest player to handle last season.
When Ade gets off his ass he can be a good player. He has the pace,the strength and the touch. He needs to learn the offside rule and we are off….
Yeah definitely Pedro, the wages are irrelevant, whatever he’s on.
Noone could ever say Ade is a world class footballer on his day, but maybe a world class goalscorer. At his very best his intelligence and passing is JUST adequate, so he’s never had a world class performance, but as scored world class goals.
The first team will be a front 3 of VP, Eduardo, and Arshavin. After that Theo and Bendy could well play more games than Ade, but those three will rotate with Vela as well coming in when the first choice 3 don’t start.
Gooner, I don’t think that is a realistic thing to say.
You’d want any 30 goal a season striker to stay.
Question is, was that a one season wonder?
He doesn’t have the work ethic to get that tally again. Well, that’s what I think…
Samir he has the attributes to make life incredibly difficult for ANY defender, when his heads in it. However he’s not got the all round game to be a working cog in a top quality team playing top quality football, and because of his limitations he’ll never be anything other than a plan B unless we’re really suffering from injuries or our sexy football really isn’t working.
I expect Nikky B to step up this season.
Ade should leave next season no matter how many goals he scores.
Eduardo,RVP are both better.
And in time Bendy and Vela will soon also be better…
Im willing to bet Ade is 1st choice striker next season!!
Gooner
Honestly,
I dont know,
People said last summer that I would forgive him after the last season, but I still find myself hating him
Who knows, I am more in line with thinking, that he has a great season and still fucks off next summer. I hate him more than anyone else that has ever worn an Arsenal shirt. Why…Because he fucking let a lot of Gooners down that defended him to the hilt the season before last (me included) and that press conference summed up what he is all about, Complete Cunt and not welcome at Arsenal.
I’m willing to take that bet reggie, seeing as he’s only ever been 2nd choice – he’s never been ahead of vp! And he wouldn’t be ahead of a fit Eduardo either, before we even get into Theo and Bendy talk
And that is what really winds me up
Ade could be World Class, I honestly think he has it in him and I would have loved it if he would have proved that at Arsenal.
But for whatever reason, last summer he decided that Arsenal was not enough for him, and instead of just saying He wanted to test himself somewhere else (which I would have reluctantly accepted) he acted like the most spoilt fucking child ever to grace this earth. Players like Henry, Etoo, Messi, Ronaldo etc have earnt their place in the modern day game, Ade thinks he is at the same level, but one season does not make him anywhere near that level.
You are on A Ade will be 1st name on teamsheet for next season, whats the wager!!
pat ade could never be world class, because he doesn’t have the intelligence, and that’s something that can’t be developed! Ronaldo is the only player in my lifetime with so little intelligence (and he’s not as stupid as ade) that i’d consider world class, and that’s only because his physical attributes make him a freak of nature!!
Sorry A
There is me defending the in-defensible
Complete Cunt, Fuck I pray I pray that he still goes this summer.
Luckilly for me, i am off back to the middle east on Monday, so no more exposure to the wank that is the gutter press of the UK and beyond.
Not back until September so whatever will be will be.
Should still be in some contact with Le Grove though, so you guys are my ears and eyes on fact and fiction.
Getting fed up of some of you guys knocking shit out of eacvh other for ages, then kissing and making up! FFS will you agree to have a blog straightener on the cobbles so we can all gather round going ‘fight, fight, fight….’
Im up for that zorr0 fight anywhere, anytime, anyday a bit like martini
lol, Reggie, why does that not surprise me!
Where were you earlier when I said what we needed at DM was Peter Storey?
What a great week. The plastic peado dies, The anti English cunt loses at wimbledon and Owen signs for the mancunts.
zorr0 what about peter nicholas as a DM he was a hard fucker can you remember when he took out Souness,as Souness was getting stretchered off he threatened nicholas and took him out the next time they met. Peter nick was never the same again.
Reggie, bit of an unsung hero old Peter Nicholas, one in a short line of legendary Gooner Taffs, lol.
Still think Peter Storey was the nuts, my brother told me all about him as I was just too young to appreciate the 71 team properly and they had been broken up by the time I could properly appreciate the game.
Storey had a pub in islington called the jolly farmers when in there a few times saw storey legless,shame as he was one of my heroes at the time
I always think back to the semi against stoke a few of us were streaming out of the ground when we heard a massive roar, then everyone turned around to get back in the crush was something else, another massive roar storey had pulled us level what a day that was,thats when he became my hero!
Good nite campers i must leave you!!
SeeYa Reggie.
Laters Grovers!
BINGO BINGO BINGO And BINGO was his name-O!
PAVEL PAVEL PAVEL POGREBNYAK is his name-O.
MARCO MARCO MARCO and JANKO is his name-O!
T-R-ANQUILO T-R-ANQUILO T-R-ANQUILO and BARNETTA is his name-O.
Shall i continue?
I quess i shall…..
S-I-M-O-N S-I-M-O-N S-I-M-O-N ROLFES is his name-O!
There was a mananger who had a club
And arsenal was its name-o
A-R-S-ENAL
A-R-S-ENAL
A-R-S-ENAL
And arsenal was its name-0
A-R-S-E-N-A-L!!!!
I will take any bets that Ade scores 30 + next season no matter where he goes.
That’s why I hope he stays, the guy is class on the pitch (wanker off it by all accounts)when he’s focused and I think this season has taught him a harsh lesson, if he stays with us he will be the top scorer in the league and we will win the title.
He got lazy but he’s a young bloke, we’ve all got too big for our boots at one point or another, I think he’s ready to do a shift again. Lets don’t foget how magical him and Eduardo looked together.
I was on “redcafe” the other day to see what they were saying about Benzema, and there is a thread on there about the best attacking threat for next season, they all admit that its us…with what we have right now.
They are scared of us…and they should be.
And just a quick note on Ade’s offsides, dont be worried by them, embrace them. they are one of the reasons that we damage teams in the second half of matches. They stretch teams over a whole game not early in the first half.
I really will take bets on Adebayor scoring 30+ all comps next season no matter what club he ends up at.
I hope its at Arsenal.
AA mate, sutrely wyou too are pissed and just blabbing because no way Ade is scoring 30 next season. He is a cunt off the pitch and he is shit eon it.
Embrace his offsides? Fuck that. He needs to learn to stay onside. Him being offside constantly stunts our attacks because the midfielders either cant pass to him because he is off or when he does get the ball the attack breaks down because he was offside.
Either way his offsides are a curse. They stop our (attempted)free flowing football. Not to mention he isnt great on the ball so when he gets it all he does is pass it backwards. A pointless pass.
A
I swear with some it isn’t a case of seeing the glass half empty or half full, it’s seeing the glass as half empty, AND deciding the glass itself is complete shit, as is the liquid inside.
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A,
its not about viewing the glass or drinking the shit inside .or what eva your on about
.. its about realizing the glass was full 4/5 seasons ago …
so who fucking drank half of it ?,
up until that point we were never out of the top 2 under wengers reign ,a very fucking important fact MOST now over look !
mediocrity Cnuts ..
this is the reason for CERTAIN peoples frustrations that we have ‘clearly’ dropped in stature during this stadium move.
and money is the main cause of it …
and the boards reluctance to re- invest in the squad when they have butt raped it of invincibles for the past 4 years and replaced it with above average kids , who can barely hold it together to scrape in 4th nowadays !!
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dennisdamenace Says:
July 3, 2009 at 14:55
Well spotted Duke, ethan you are the devil spwan of Pedro
ILL TAKE THAT AS A COMPLIMENT
Stu, I dont drink mate, maybe I should start! Adebayor on form is impossible to deal with.
I’d rather he was with us when he finds his form again.
there is no such thing as ade on form !
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the season he got 19 goals in 4 months was due to injuries and playing in a 4 -5-1 where he was the center of attention
(and the only fit striker available !) .. unless those precise climatic conditions replicate again he will always be caught to far up the pitch ,which will either make him offside or pass back ! he needs to be in the 6 yard box to score !!!!
he was only effective when we had the best 4/5 man midfield in the EPL give him 20 chances a match
(cesc-hleb-flamini theo/eboue)
ade hardly ever creates something out of nothing and he NEVER can beat his man !
I’d love to have Ade scoring 30 goals for us but i would also love to have a threesome with Megan Fox and Vanessa Hudgens. Wish as much as you want but neither are ever going to happen.
He just isnt good enough to score that amount of goals without amazing luck and the best service known to man.
“Ade hardly ever creates something out of nothing?”
Are you serious Ethan?
Cham is just a smoke screen — clearly as many of u are saying he is so shit… Arsene has put his interest in someone most clubs wont buy… smokescreen hardcore! no1 has even bothered making an offer on him like they normally do on any other of our targets – so i think hes keepin them guessing LOL! if he sells ade theres a suprise buy comming in
Adebayor will be playing for Arsenal this season. We have a 25 million pound striker at the club.
Rejoice.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/van-persie-commits-to-arsenal-until-2014-1731349.html
great news
great news indeed..any1 think we have enough strikers minus ade, and we just need the a dm if we dont loose any cbs..?
I would also want us to buy a utility player
Is it definite that van p has signed? nothin on official site and only 1 report which is printed in two different papers
?? whoo
No he hasn’t signed yet Viper but he will.
wer is the new post?
AA23 Says:
July 4, 2009 at 02:00
“Ade hardly ever creates something out of nothing?”
Are you serious Ethan?
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your an idiot !
i have nothing further to add !
who the fuck is chamakh we dont need shit nobodys
Kirby he’s not a nobody, he quite a skillful player, read todays post.
Niraj 9am as always!
Ethan, to the point.
well the rumours afre getting stronger that we are in for cana….
can’t wait to see the faces on those chelsea wimps when they see him in the tunnel..
Where did you read the stronger rumours Rohan? I want some of it!
chamakh is guilty of some of the worst sitters i’ve seen…all his youtube videos focus more on his misses……
It was made by one of his own fans to stop him leaving, fuck you could do a youtube of Bendtner in the Burnley game that would frighten you to death, why do you think they showed his misses?
i got a couple of e-mails from my frineds who said that they are looking to buy him for 12million euros with possibly silvestre thrown in….
they apparently have connections…
also there were quite a few artivles (independent i think ) saying that we are in the race along with tottenham..
Then he must be ours and the bonus of losing Silvestre! Fanatastico!
YT video mad by a fan to stop him leaving? does the fan think that AW and co. decide who to buy on the basis of YT videos…
no i think they were trying to show that he is good at getting into scoring positions(with a few turns and tricks etc. )..
i have watched quite a few ligue 1 games this season and chamakh is just not arsenal quality..
he is reasonably good in the air and reasonably quick but his hold up play and his creativity are woeful…he would probably do well at aq club like west ham etc…
Good morning,
Geoff can you tell me when the draw for the Champions league play off is?
sort of a link to cana….
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.francefootball.fr%2FFF%2Fbreves2009%2F20090703_111707_cana-fixe-vendredi.html&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=
a lot of people on here have said the same thing.
you could desribe him as a slower darren bent who is slightly more wiry…
Arcastic this month. Mayank yes of course, don’t you?
New post!
ethangunner Says:
July 4, 2009 at 08:30
AA23 Says:
July 4, 2009 at 02:00
“Ade hardly ever creates something out of nothing?”
Are you serious Ethan?
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your an idiot !
i have nothing further to add !
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“i have nothing further to add !”
you are not wrong there you mug