Ok, so a bit of a silly headline there, but I think it’s fair to say, there were a lot of silly comments on the blog yesterday.
Geoff and I decided to clear the spam list out the other day and give certain folk another chance to post on the site. Some have come back and played ball, sadly, it seems others still haven’t learnt to behave.
Both sections on the positive/negative side are as bad as each other. We have a poor result and the positives come on the site prepared to say anything in defense of the team even if they don’t believe it, the negative come on the site armed with statements akin to a relegation dog fight.
I can accept difference of opinion, but when I look back and see childish sniping and bitching, it makes me a little sad. Even more disrespectful is when people start abusing the authors. Geoff and I don’t give a s**t about peoples interpretation of the Magna Carta because our own version of that document is engraved here. Respect it, or blog elsewhere.
May I just remind everyone, the success of the Le Grove comments section is down to you lot treating each other with deserved respect. Don’t lower yourself to the crap I read on other people’s websites, you’re better than that.
I’m not angry guys, just disappointed… let’s make amends today.
In other news, Alex Song’s Cameroon side were unable to beat the might of Egypt, so he’ll be on a jet plane, I’m not sure when he’ll be back again… I’ve heard for United. If some of you are celebrating Song’s return because you think that’s the end of Denilson’s first run, may I just laugh in your face and point my finger at you… that’ll never happen. Now Senderos has gone, Denilson has been promoted to love child number one. He’s here to stay people! I’m so glad I don’t have to listen to people telling me about how good Song was in the ACN…
It has all gone quiet on the transfer front. Goonertalk reported the news that Loic Remy could be on his way out of Nice after fans were so disgusted with his performance, they queued up outside the ground to spit at him and abuse him. An £11mill move has been suggested. Now, not one to put a dampener on a transfer rumour… but… if he’s not good enough for Nice fans, I’ll be damned if he’s good enough for Arsenal!
Wenger has been justifying his weak FA Cup team on the propaganda tv. He reckons the Frenchman has been on the verge of injury all season. Arsene, which of our players hasn’t been in that situation all season? Kind of like the 15 players we have on the verge of greatness! Jokes aside, Willy G has put in a sterling run this year, if wrapping him up in cotton wool keeps him fit, I’ll post my Tesco’s club card points to Arsenal to help with the cost of bulk buying the white stuff.
Finally today… the news you’ve all been waiting for… yep, you guessed it… we’ve been treated to the news of a young player signing on for 10 years. Yesterday was the turn of Vito Mannone.
A player we all know wont make it at Arsenal has been given a new long term contract! Great business Arsenal, I’m so excited. Vito must be chuffed knowing he has to displace Almunia, Fabianski and Chesney! I’ve got faith Vito, I’ve got faith!
Am I the only one who has noticed we seem to save these announcements for the days after poor results?
Just before I go, I’ve been working with a t-shirt designer on some designs of the hand painted variety. I’ll hopefully be able to showcase them later in the week! I’m looking forward to showing you!
Have a great day Grovers, keep it friendly in the comments section… Jesus would have wanted it that way.
Pedro
Has Red Nose ever signed a bad defender??
Hahaha YON< who called Song a "stupid Gorilla". C'mon, be honest, it was you wasnt it..
http://vodpod.com/watch/2919720-did-rio-ferdinand-slug-craig-fagan-manchester-united-hull
Evening all,
The hearing,if and when Rio appeals,takes place Thursday. They may reduce the ban to a game but from what I saw of it,nothing less then the 3 given suits the crime.
If only they banned cheating cunts for being butt fucking ugly.
Looks like I will be firing off yet another literary hand grenade addressed to Mr Wenger, care of Highbury Ivory Towers London, in the morning, signed Disgusted of Mancland…
reggie reg! I think you should follow suit too fella!! Nite mate!
Good that Pool has lost points.Less competition for us in our race for the fourth spot.
‘We did not lack experience at Stoke’
‘If I don’t find better than what we have, then I will not buy’
You have to be fucking kidding me – come up with something new…
Where’s David..
Nikki B is back
Thanks Choy. The worst thing about that clip wasnt the punch, or the ref being a twat, it was that atrocious attempt as a long pass from McShane. There are 12year olds who play football down the road who can pass better than that. Awful..just awful
And fagan got a yellow for that
haha..
Pat;
That article says £12 million FFS! If that is true then fuck that man! I am glad we didnt spend that on an unproven 20 year old defender! That is crackers and smacks of shear desperation if you ask moi…
Manyoo have paid the 5 million “I want him price” putting a £12m deal on the table. Rest Assured, there is no hope we will get Smalling, goodnight.
Smalling was caught ball watching for Crouch’s goal today. Wasn’t impressed tbh. Its easy to defend a deep line. Senderos is bloody stellar at doing that.
Hodgson says he is not aware of an Arsenal bid, not that we did not make one, just he aint the fella who would know that kinda thang…
I still do not think it is a done deal…
LuvDup Loner Says:
January 26, 2010 at 23:00
Pat;
That article says £12 million FFS! If that is true then fuck that man! I am glad we didnt spend that on an unproven 20 year old defender! That is crackers and smacks of shear desperation if you ask moi…
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Wouldnt you be happy,if we rather place a £8m bid on a 14 year old toddler from Africa?
Pat; If Wenger rated him but failed to get him, due to not offering enough, then that is poor, IMO… If United just offered stoopid money out of a desperate need for new CBs for next season too!!!??? Then they are welcome to him…
We can definitely do better for next season and we will have the likes of Nordveit and Bartley a year older and wiser then anyways…
Jaguar;
No, that is just the usual unhinged nonsense one expects from you fella! £7 million is a lot of money for Smalling, £12m is crackers, surely you, of all people can relate to crackers?
12 mill for Smalling is Manyoo prices. Ferguson is a Harrods type shopper, likes to overspend just to show off……..you and I would call it getting ripped off but he’s got money to burn and he gets what he wants, overpay and you can get whatever you want, one of the benefits of being rich.
Wenger likes to haggle at the till when he goes to Poundstretcher.
Kjaer’s buy out clause is something around 8 million. I rather we get him ffs.
He’s one of the best CB’s in Serie A. Smalling isn’t even a starter for Fulham!
Wenger goes to poundstretcher and poundland,but bastard demands Harrods prices for his wages.What a mug!
Mang
But its ok for a 16 year old RW/CF whos never played in the prem??
Is Kjaer French and crocked,Pat?I was just weighing up the possibilities of a transfer?
finest;
But, United aont loaded, they are scrimping and cutting back all over the place at Old Trafford… £12 million is as much of a risk for them as it would be for us…
Smacks of desperation, if true…
Did we actually pay 12 million for Walcott ?!
We paid £5m (which could rise upto 12m) for Walcott,Keyser.
Paid £9.1m, was supposed to rise to £12m but So’ton were in trouble.
Keyser,
we paid £9M for his, as Saints were skint and accepted less cash to get in earlier…
money well spent…
gambon;
Come on man, you know there’s a huge difference with attack minded players… When a topm talent comes up and attracts loads of attention… Attackers and strikers fetch far more, look at babel FFS! He was £12m!
An untried 20 year olod CB with hardly any top flight experience???
You are jjust making mischief now!
*get it earlier
Heh, so 5 or 9.1 ? and why would we be more willing to take another risk on a young player ?!
lol, Jimbo just got his arse kicked over at YoungGuns!
They don’t appear to appreciate his comments on AW and Denilson!
Its like us paying £12 million for Senderos…
It gets better, there was a Haiti benefit all star game in Lisbon tonight, and one of the keepers is called Quim! Love it!
Keyser,
would you deny that we need reinforcements?
fucking penniless Bindippers have bought Rodriguez and are reportedly bidding for Jones – we could do well with both…
No. More. Fucking. Kids.
Zorr0 – Did he start going on about white elephants and non-sequitors, it could be a different Jimbo, he seemed to be on here earlier aswell..
Could have been a Spurs supporter.
Just seen Rio’s forearm smash on that Hull twat…
I doubt he will even bother to contest it, he is bang to rights! He wont be at the Grove sunday…
ManGoo, how’s it hanging? Still not back oop north?
So is Rio gonna miss Sunday?
They got Maxi on a free SUGA. And they are apparently after Jovanovic or Standard Liege on a free this summer. Whats with those fuckers and free players. Aurelio and Degan were free too and Voronin but he was shit.
Stu,
fair enough, but why didn’t we get Maxi on a free then?
Why do we need Maxi??? Possible Jones, although his quality aint top class, IMO…
oh, I know: ‘he is no better than what we already have’
this is beyond fucking joke…
Jaguar, when was the last time we signed a french crock?
Suga3 – No matter what I say, how well I put, what argument I stake, you’re just going to go off on one, what’s the point.
I wouldn’t mind players coming in, but I wouldn’t want half the names people put forward, I wouldn’t want Rodriguez and Kenweyne seems like a poorer version of Adebayor, so I’m not too bothered about those.
How much did they spend on Maxi ? I want players that will benefit as much as the likes of Arshavin or Vermaelen, not bought for the sake of it.
I am pretty sure that we got Theo for an initial fee of 9m.
Vermalen, SIlvestre, Arshavin, Nasri, Ramsey, Sagna, Diarra, Eduardo
1 French crock in there that we paid pennies for
Hey oop Zorr0!!! Not back up in Mancland yet fella… Off to Villa tomorrow night, on the way though!!!
Suga3 – So you’d want us to buy Maxi ? Where would he fit in ?!
Mang
Wenger certainly only likes spending money on attackers, but the more succesful managers (Fergie, Mourinho) tend to go for expensive defenders as well.
LUL,
to show Walcott how to play on the right?
we don’t need Maxi to do that, fucking Sidibe is enough
Keyser, nah, he was slating Denilson and specifically Arse&Nose’s attempts to defend him with stats! Some one called him a ‘known troll!’ lol.
Pat Says:
January 26, 2010 at 23:27
Jaguar, when was the last time we signed a french crock?
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Pennies or not,Shitvestre was not our priority.He was signed only because he was a francophonic crock.
Suga3; Should we sign every player you have seen a few times and quite like then???
Well technically Maxi is only on loan there but his contract expires in the summer, like the Senderos deal.
Keyser,
I don’t want to go into a slanging fest, but saying that you won’t even bother shows that your arguments are just piss weak
Kenwyne a poor version of Ade? please…
who would you like to see then?
LUL,
probably a better idea than signing no one?
Maxi is a class player no doubt.
No Suga, it just shows that maybe you have worn him down with your refusal to budge!
Gambon;
Mourinho just spends mate, pure and simple… Pkus he is a cunt…
But I take your point, although Sagna, Vermilli and Sol (signing on fee and wages) were not exactly cheap, nor was Richard Wright either, but I take your point again…
Maxi had apparently been out of favour there all season. I mean, how highly could Atletico rate him if they let him go on loan with them already having a pretty light squad.
Reyes plays right wing now ffs!
Oh Arsene who art in Higbury, please sign a player, any player, even in positions we do not need, just to make our deer depressed brethren Suga3 feel complete and conteneted!!!
Maxi is a shadow of the player he was, and we do not need him, but fuck me! Lets sign him anyways…
Reyes replaced Maxi gambon!!
Although I always rated Reyes. Never understood why many said he was a flop. Absolutely brilliant footballer.
Zorr0,
no matter what I say, Wenger apologists will come up with ‘logical’ arguments that just simply don’t stick in the real world:
- we haven’t won squat for 4 years and counting
- OGL continues with selecting the trophies to treat seriously
- despite damning evidence showing that some players are not good enough, OGL sacrifices chances of winning ‘selected’ trophies on the altar of their development
- we have spent £0 on proven quality and a good few mil of fucking kids
these are the facts: deal with it…
Loner, Barton might be available, will he do a job?
Keyser has a point, you just seem to be waffling on about us signing any fucker, just for the sake of it… Maxi??? Fuck off!
Kenwynne Jones aint a poor Ade, nope, he is a piss poor Ade!
*on fucking kids
I’m just going to start numbering people David, 1,2,3…
Some idiots here will be supporting Real Madrid next season,after Mr.Wenger take charge of Madrid next season(albeit for six months).
SUGA, 0 on quality? We spent 39 million in a year on quality!!
lol Suga Suga Suga. Why can you not just accept that you have your opinion and others like Keyser have theirs and you are both entitled to believe what you want.
We spend so much time going round and round in circles on this site sometimes.
Zorr0, LUL:
yeah, that’s mature – how about some ‘better’ ideas?
we don’t need superstars, we need squad players – Jones would be a superb competition for B52…
fair enough, Maxi is not the player he once was, but don’t forget that we have Silvestre on our books
Keyser,
there you go – yawn…
Pat,
I am talking THIS transfer window – does that compute?
Zorr0; I was thinking of Nicky Butt myself…
Oh Suga3! You can tell when you have lost the plot when you trot out the good old fall back Wenger apologist bollocks!
Dont throw the toys out of the pram…!
Suga3 – Why Maxi ? and where would he fit in ?!
Lol, could you imagine wenger at Madrid;
Perez; “Arsene, give me your list and i will sign the galacticos”
Wenger; “I dont want new players. Raul, Benzema & Alonso are coming back from injuries, theyre like new signings”
Perez; “Yes but Mr Wenger, we are Madrid, we bring the world greatest players to the worlds greatest club”
Wenger; “Well, i do know of some talented 15 year olds in Gabon”
REAL MADRID SACK MANAGER
Jaguar, don’t be a dick!
No chances for Jones,he speaks good English,and is not crocked and francophonic.Bastard wouldnt go for such players.
Have I missed something; What the fuck is LUL????
gambon – So you think Real Madrid would go to all that trouble to get Wenger at their club, only to give him no power at all ?!
I feel sorry for Pelligrini at times, almost every shot of him he looks a year older and he usually has his face cupped in his hands, Real Madrid don’t really do managers, they want puppets.
Keyser – that’s just an example, not something to cling on…
however, he would be a better option than useless Walnutt…
LUL,
sorry
tried not to use the ‘AKB’ (which I think is the far extreme, btw)
and what about the rest of my post you’re referring to, which represents facts, not my opinions?
The best managers usually avoid madrid.
Jag, you calling our manager a tsicaR???
Keyser,
Chill out.
LuvdUpLoner?
Suga3 – He’s started 5 games all season.
Have you actually thought this through ? Why would Maxi be a better option ?! Athletico let him leave on a free ?!
Suga3;
I am not against us signing players… Jeeez! I have been goin on about little else since Jan 1st really! As we all have to 1 extent or another…
I just do not get this desire to sign anyone, regardless of the need, quality, availability etc…?
Silvestre aint my favourite player ever, but he is happy to sit on the bench and play when needed and despite being scapegoated vs WHam in the FA cup, he has done OK… Sol came in and played effin well, IMO…
So, if we could get an experienced striker in that mould, then I would be well happy…
Better still, a top class striker instead, but I think we will have to wait till the summer to sign Torres…
lol, mucho apologetico, LUL = ManGoo. Very thick of me!
So Suga3, would you be happy for us to sign Smalling?
one more thing: ‘we have no time to think about it as we are focusing on the next games’
yet, somehow he found time to go and sign some 15 y.o. goalie
you gotta laugh at the cheeky fecker…
gambon – Sorry dude, just weren’t particularly funny.
Keyser,
and that’s why we are short as fuck on the right – Nasri, Rosicky, Walcott: three friends from the treatment room
LUL,
I reckon Sly did pretty well in a few games – I consider him to be a good pro…
then again, Maxi could do the same…
Jaguar;
I do not want to use the R word, but your comment smacks of bigotry… (There, didnt use the R word after all)
Theo, Rosicky and Nasri; all back and raring to go…. Maxi would not be too impressed not getting any game time in a WC year now would he! Or does he even get a game for Argentina these days???
lol, someone just asked Jimbo if he was going to run on the pitch and kick Theo in the bollocks!
He said he would just continue to boo him and ridicule AW for picking him! Hilarious.
Zorr0,
sorry mate, but one has to have them first…
MG, I used it, did you see the clever way I did though!! lol
If we signed Smalling and it wasnt till next season, I think we would be missing a few regualrs on here as they would’ve gone apoplectic with rage and konked out!
Hopefully Theo wont get on the pitch in the first place.
Zorro;
Ha! Thats way too clever for me, especially at this time of night!
Theo will be a top player for us, he has been unlucky with injuries..,. he will show his class and not in a lady of the night way either… mark my words… Mark my words you disbelieveing- think Maxi is ace- heevens!!!
Adios y buenas noches bastados!!!!!
nite LUL
MG, laters buddy. Enjoy the match, give them a shout for me, especially the wee gobshite Walcott! Don’t forget to get your injections updated before re-entering Greater Mancfester!
I am watching AW’s conference:
‘what is Milner? 24? Give Theo 3 more years’
AAAAAARGHHHHHHHH!!!
Laters all, I’ll be back for tomorrow’s installment of tag team action as Suga3 and David take on A and Keyser.
off to catch some Z’s, Mr Z?
nite
Suga3, you are obviously a masochist!
no, but I wanted to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth
was not impressed with ‘I already forgot about Stoke’ comments…
skysports understands that wilshere is going to move to bolton wanderers.Surely this can’t be true right?
Nish
Yeah Coyle likes him
Coyle likes him but we fucking hate bolton and their shit was of playing football.I can’t imagine kevin davies making a run for a wilshere pass
He doesnt need to learn how to play the game, he needs to toughen up and learn to perform under pressure.
It doesnt matter whether he’s at Bolton or Brighton to do that.
At least at Bolton the training will be physical so he will toughen up quick.
I agree he needs to toughen up and he would do that at any other premier league club too.I was hoping he would join west ham or even everton i didn’t mind
So 4 games tomorrow morning. If I have to look for another link for this game coz Fox are showing some other boring installment I’ll react
So this one will be the 1st of the big month. An absolute 3 points, nothing less for me. It will take pressure off for the other 3 Big Games in a row.
I hope Le Gaffer doesn’t start with Dennilson. He is a slow starter & for such an important fixture, The Arsenal would not want to be coming from behind.
GG9-Denilson is undroppable
Right bed-time, gotta catch a train in 5 hours!
Night y’all. Lets hope Chris Smalling has an epiphany in his sleep and calls Wenger in the moring!
i would rather wilshere goes to westham.. their down the road and keeps wilshere in london.. plus i feel they better football then bolton.
Very interesting Wenger says…
A) I wont buy a player if he isnt already better than what we have
AND
B) We have the quality but now we need cover
Which is it?
http://younggunsblog.co.uk/2010/01/26/update-arsenal-back-in-the-race-for-smalling/?
This is getting really intersting.Looks like Wenger badly wants to sign smalling
They gave me a fair chance. But at big clubs you have a lot of players and two or three games a week and, if they come in and do well, they will take your place. That’s what happened to me. I don’t think I’ve been unfairly treated apart from the last few months but even then the players in the team were doing well and staying in.”
“I am not bitter at leaving. Arsenal are a big club who gave me a lot and I owe a lot to them. They took me from Switzerland when I was 18 and I got to play in a Champions League final and to win the FA Cup. I am proud to say I was an Arsenal player but I couldn’t go on not playing every week. I needed to move. I didn’t just move to Everton for opportunities, I’ve moved to Everton because it’s a massive club and I can see myself growing as a player and as a man here.”
Very nice of Senderos.Hope he does really well at everton
nishanth, Hodgson said Arsenal didn’t even bid for him.
Also, rumors going around that Red Nose dined with Hodgson this weekend.
Bolton Lee looks like a great little player. He did very well against us and today he won 3 points for Bolton.
Wenger is saying that, Gallas is playing all along with niggling injury. He should have convinced Sendoros to stay. He is a good option.
Post sounds like I missed the fun yesterday! damn the work bit…wish I worked as a full time groverster.
Hmm, apparently Warnock, Carew, Reo Coker are injured.
Petrov will have a late fitness test and Shorey to be recalled from Nottingham?
So who has the worse injury list?
Us
Smalling whatever, why is our manager such a jerk to always put the fans through this shit, year in, year out.
Why doesn’t he just say, I’m signing no one, I’m giving all my boys fucking huge pay rises, so fuck off. And do that irritating smirk.
The FA Cup fixture was the 1st chance I had of having a good look @ JET. IMO he is the next version of the Togo Twat, who was next version of Kanu.
Honestly, I could see a good deal of similarities with TT, physically & hair style wise.
Geoff the shit he has put the fans thru is that The Arsenal is 2 points from Top with a game in hand. I agree AW is a dipstick when it comes to the transfer market with the way he procrastinates, but if we beat Villa we can go Topski againski. Chamoneeeeeski!!!!!
Do the fans still sing the “Are you watching Tottenham” song
Phil Brown: ‘I did not want to complain about Rio at the weekend in case I upset Sir Alex.’
Gnarley, football has 4 competitions, we should be trying to win them all, with our best players. Enough said.
I think we are in this position because the others have fucked up, not because we are special, finally had we bought 3 players in the summer, we might be 10 points clear.
morning y’all
gg9,
I am prepared to make AW right as long as we collect 7 points from the upcoming games…
2 points off the top at the moment is fine, but if you take into the account our results against quality teams so far, it leaves a reasonable amount of doubt…
Also if we see Denilson line up again, I will lose all respect for Wenger, how many shit games does he have to play before Wenger admits he’s not good enough?
It’s bad enough watching the keepers.
I do wonder what Hill-Wood, Fizman, Kroenke, Usmanov and Gazidas all say to Wenger after watching those two after a game.
Great selection Arsene, here’s more money for you.
Geoff
I know what you mean, but, gee, The Gooners are positioned nicely for a run @ It. We have a one, one sit coming into the straight, in horse racing terms.
Suga
Minimum 9 points for me, starting with 3 tomorrow morning.
gg9,
minimum? If we manage that, I will admit that sun shines out of AW’s backside
Great selection Arsene, here’s more money for you
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HAHA id say thats exactly what there saying .
whilst hunts on loan would be a good move , it might back fire if the guy plays like a legend for us then goes to man U or something after preforming with us ..
i can see that happening …
so if he fails we lose ,if he’s successful we will probably lose him to a better team if he preforms .
Geoff – If we see Denilson in the starting line up tonight we will not beat Villa!
This ‘player’ is a liability at this level, four years at the club, new improved contract and if anything he’s worse than when he first joined the club.
I know Eastmond is not the finished article by a long way, but at least he shows promise, and understands his role In the team, I for one would feel more confident with him in the team, at least if Eastmond makes a mistake he’ll learn from it, I can’t say the same of Denilson!
We have 16 games remaining in the prem. If Denilson starts even half of them, IMHO we wont win the league or even be 2nd in the league.
We have a good chance if its song,cesc and diaby. Knowing our injuries with diaby and cesc , not sure.
Well at least we’re in agreement of how useless Denilson is, I agree, he has got worse.
My post today offers an interesting alternative.
Sky just said to get into the EPL you need a wage bill of £10mil, fuck me and what’s ours???
I agree, Eastmond over Denilson
Whilst denilson resembles curious George ,
i dont think he is that bigger monkey ..
He is definitely out of his league currently ,SURE !
In time he could be good .. BUT HE’S NOT NOW !
but who really is to blame denilson? or the manager for not recognizing currently he shouldn’t be in the team and give someone like rambo or even TV a chance in the hole ..
i blame wenger for NOT realizing denilson in the last configuration just was hopeless .
Morning all, Denilson will play for sure. If Diaby is injured and Song is not there, Denilson will be on the pitch.
Eastmond over Denilson
IF you want/have to defend
denyson over easteregg if attacking
Denilson and Theo are wengers love childs ..
they WILL PLAY
Ethan – The manager EVERY time, just like all the booing Eboue got earlier in the season, that should’ve been directed at Wenger, as it’s his call to pick the players and piss ball around with their carears by continually playing them out of position….
even nik B the other love child will play a part ..
ohhh i can hardly wait !~
ive got to get up at 3 am to watch this !
oh the joy !!!!!
Its 1.15 am in this part of the world. EG where do you live?
1499
bnsb , u should be in my timezone then. India ?