So reading the Standard last night it emerges that Rooney, Gerrard and Lampard have all said they would be uncomfortable taking on the captains armband should John Terry get tin tacked by Fabio Capello.
Wow, all that’s missing from that bunch of cheats is alleged drug taker Rio Ferdinand. Amazing those pillars of society don’t think Terry has done anything wrong, does that not show what a bunch of spoilt out of touch prats they all are?
Apart from the fact that none of them have ever done a days work in their lives, have no concept of money and how hard it is to come by, so have no idea what in life is acceptable.
So John Terry feels like shagging his mates bird, so does, he only cares about himself, fine example that John, way to go. He showed a similar contempt in a night club some years ago I believe, not to mention that earning £7million a year is not enough he was showing people around the training ground for cash in his skyrocket, or charity, dependent on what story you believe.
So the people who support him are the very people who shouldn’t get the armband either, one is a granny shagger, one is a shagger, or so his wife said, or ex wife and one attacks a DJ in a bar because he had his mates to protect him.
If anyone wants to say so what, it’s about their football ability then cast your mind back to Rooney stamping on Carvahlio’s nuts and pushing Ronaldo over in the quarter finals, just after kicking a water bottle at the bench for being subbed, petulance. And that cost us the World Cup. Another one didn’t want to play for his country because he couldn’t be arsed, yet played for Liverpool that weekend and other one spent two years getting booed by his own fans, what makes any of them deserving?
Give it to Gareth Barry or Wayne Bridge for being more of a human being than his ex-mate John Terry.
Cheating on your wife is one thing, when you have young kids it’s nasty, but to do all that and shag your mates bird, the bird that’s the mother of his kid, and to have had unprotected sex as well is not worthy of the England arm band. Bobby Moore, roll in your grave son.
I’m no angel, we all have crosses to bear, but no one can defend the actions of a spoilt rich thug that has never had a moral compass, don’t even get me on the parents.
Mr Capello, broken Britain is full of spongers, cheats, liars, thugs, reality TV morons and overpaid pop stars and sportsmen, we have lost the ability to understand the difference between what’s right and what’s wrong, please do the right thing and show the world that true sports stars count for much, much more than rich ones that care only about themselves
Fabio, do the decent thing, give England back it’s pride, sack him.
So a draw last night, does that mean we’re back in it? Who knows, only if all around us drop points, Saturday becomes even bigger now, but I can’t see us winning that one, we should have done better on Sunday, we can only hope now, I’ve had my moan about us, I feel empty right now, we loaned out Sanchez Watt to the Shrimpers so the last big lad we had is now gone.
I’m thinking we now have to win all of our games, can we do it? Yes, of course we can, the question is will we, time will tell.
Arshavin got some stick for not passing, well I like him, at least he had a few shots, I feel if people were up with him more often, he may pass it, more often.
Have a great day Grovers, the weekend will soon be upon us and we’ll find out if we are competing for 1st or 4th, I have a feeling we all know the answer to that one already!
Why always go for small players…cant we buy proven big players?
This leeds keeper is having a superb game and looks real quality, commanding his area, excellent shot stopping, very good decision making. We need one like that, oh wait he’s on loan at the Bees’
A
I dont mind us signing Savic, but in conjunction with sorting the first team.
Its like that scene in the fast show where the guy gets back from the shops, hasnt bought any of the groceries but has bought baloons & fancy dress costumes & all sorts of random shit.
It was vital to sign a few key players in jan, but all we got were a load of kids we dont need.
Pedro – Was talking about Ronaldo in the post before that you replied to, not Arshavin.
A.. you’ve got persistence.. I’ll give you that.
I’m sure wenger is going with his check book to south africa!
Have any of u ever been in that situation where u go to a shop and u haggle for something. U know its worth a bit more than what is being charged but your ego demands that the seller show some leniency to your demand.
U end up leaving the shop having not bought something that was a good deal at the price, simplly because ur EGO couldnt handle the fact that you couldnt outsmart the seller into selling it even cheaper.
I think Wenger has that, he just wants to prove he’s smarter then everyone. hence his youth bullshit and his transfer stinginess.
He wont buy a player unless it satisfies his Ego.
A, but how does he value a player, it is impossible to intrinsically value a footballer.
And it seems he value EVERY footballer over the age of 21 lower than every other manager in the game……doesnt he realise that maybe he’s undervaluing them?!! They cant all be wrong.
LOL
Balloteli got pissed and walked off the pitch cuz he didnt want to be substituted.
gambon I’d guess that savic is to sort the first team – he’s a signing (if he’s earnt a deal) to join in the summer, just as Smalling would have been. If there is a budget, then signing Savic for £2 mil will give us £10-£12 mil more in the summer to spend rather than if we’d gotten Smalling!
Savic is also happening AFTER the transfer window has ended, so when noone could come in now to sort the first team anyways
choy i just don’t get how so many people don’t understand the differentiation between not being able to afford something, and not being willing to pay a certain amount!
Exactly B, if you want something that really does improve your team, and you may have to shell out a bit more why not?
Its not his money! We as fans pay a lot, in tickets, merchandise.
I’ve never thought, I’ll buy the Spud shirt because it is cheaper than the Arsenal one!
He was transferred for £80m,irrespective of his caps for Lisbon.AKBs are just two faced like Wenger.They change their arguments just like Wenger.They would rant about how a player wouldnt fit it into our system,like the mugs,Denilshite and Shitvestre.If Wenger says something appreciative about the player,they would immediately change their opinion,and would be analysing about how good that player would be for us.
I don’t either A…
If you don’t buy anything.. you will be able to afford something! Because you haven’t spent anything!
I wonder where he buys his suits??? they look kinda cheap.
I read the post from whrigty7, he has a point there!
Wenger said before the season that he would rebould the team when not winning trophies this year.
http://wrighty7.blogspot.com/2010/02/maybe-this-is-reason-why-arsene-wenger.html
I mean I don’t get your point A
Oh fuk
Did spurs juss score?
I don’t have read the comments but do guys here say we have not the money???? What a absolute bullshit!! How many times wenger said how much money he has, last week about the 30 million which wenger can afford!!
Wenger’s criteria for buying players
The player should be either of
1)Crocked
2)Francophonic
3)14 year old toddlers,whom noone has ever heard of
4)Wouldnt kill shit players like Denilshit,Shitvestre
Or in extreme case,the hypocrite would spend money,only if his bonus is in jeopardy.
Between Us buying Fabb for 50k and selling him for 50 mil and united buying CR9 for 12mil and selling him for 80mil, who do u think has made more money???
The thing that pisses me off is, despite wasting all this money(and ill make sure I calculate it from reliable sources soon) and winning zit zero, He has the nerve to lecture people about financial prudence.
A
The point is why wouldnt he be willing to pay when he can afford it?!?!?
Heh Jaguar has to be someone on a wind-up.
People agree with wrighty????
David, why do you think we have no money??? Even wenger said we can afford 30 million but wenger will make the perfect signing it is in his blood, he doesn’t buy players who maybe are not good enough.
Dutchman another way to look at it…
Will he sell many players and make wholesale changes?
I doubt it!
David,
Because wenger valuation isn’t the same as the selling club
even a broken clock reads the right time 2 times a day.
i agree with A, wellington is a class signing,
but the point gambon is making is it isnt helping the team now is it ?
i think no one can deny wengers choices are getting better quality wise – nasri – aa – wellingotn rambo just the recent additions ,
if wenger had got it right a few years ago we would be probably ok now ..
most fans were patient for the 1st 3 years of this re-build ..
but 6 almost 7 is pushing it ..
Dutchman Ill believe it when I see it. What do u think are the odds. Some people thought he was gonna spend this window but he couldnt find anyone better than denilson or almunia.
How is he gonna rebuild??? by buying a load of 12 years olds???
Because he’ll only pay what he feels a player is worth David.
According to reports he’s not sure whether to pay the £2.5 mil they’re asking for Savic now, that isn’t because we couldn’t afford it.
Not willing to pay isnt the same thing as being too expensive.
Not willing to pay is not willing to pay.
A,
So why is he trying to sign them?
If our aim is to be the best club in europe why are we signing shit players?
If theyre good enough to win us the CL then why are you worrying about price?
Thats the point A. He’s just stingy end of. Like a millionare on a bicycle. Oh wait.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkchgKFTKys
Was Shitvestre worth his transfer amount A?I dont fink so?Neither was Wallcoat.And why the feck was Senderos not sold to Everton?Everton offered him less than £6m,which was Wenger’s valuation.How the feck can Le Hypocrite assume that,his valuations are always right?
its wengers past failings that are haunting him now .
wenger must realize the players like denilson – diaby – song just took too long to become even back up players worthy of the red and white ..
if he is to continue down this path we MUST see greater productivity from him …
letting go of key players too easily .. TH14 – hleb – flamini .. all hindered his vision .
but failing to replace has just slowed it down even more years …
something needs to give , the fans shouldnt be happy with management currently ..
ethan, diaby is incredible song too! I don’t understand how people can say that they are not!!
Great point Jag. We could have got something for senderos but he went for squat. Another stroke of GENIUS I must say!!!
He is terrible at letting players walk for free.
He decided Senderos was finished 2 years ago, but decided to carry on paying him and get nothing as a fee.
spuds going thru
Not sure about TH14,and Hleb.TH14,was craving for European glory,which he knew,he was never going to achieve under Mr.Wenger.Hleb was a mercenary cunt.
Is this the same diaby who scored a great headed goal for manU. Yes I must agree he is gr8.
Dutchman,
they are decent players, but I would not call them ‘incredible’…
as I write it, Defoe scores…
We should buy him off ManU immediately
That was a top post from Wrighty…
We would’ve gotten a decent loan fee for Senderos when he went to Milan, and would’ve gotten a bit in January. I don’t know why he didn’t get sold in the summer though, when did JD get injured?
Summer i think? or just before season started
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5_KT8vlGc8
Wenger has his love children,and he would play them at any cost.No wonder why Senderos wanted to leave when he saw that francophonic piece of shit Shitvestre ahead of him.
It was in August with Swiss team.
Wow, if Campbell, Eddy and Diaby return for Chav game we will have only 3 injuries, this can’t be right.
I cant agree with Wrighty article
Wenger shouldve come to the conclusion a season ago when he had to spend on quality like Arshavin to save the season.
That shouldve said something but it didnt.
The time is up now.
I can’t tell you how good these shirts are going to be.
In fact I can… they’ll be amazing.
We’ve moved away from hand painted and the sharper graphics look fantastic.
They should be ready in the next two weeks!
A, I doubt we’d have gotten a fee… they’d probably just pay his wages.
pedro your cool
Wenger would make sure that we will have more injuries that the bastard can moan about our bad luck with our injuries.
A
when did JD get injured?
off season training . or was it international duties ..
anyway the more accurate thing to ask is when did he feature for us , really only last year for about 50 % of the games .
not a great return on those 2 really to date .
would of been far better to focus on 1 established player like sagna , TV ..
a DM even ..
, not sure senderos would have been anything but a pay his wages deal A !
i dont think milan really wanted him ..
well obviously they didnt !
Who Pedro? We’d absolutely have gotten a decent fee with Milan, but Everton the fee would’ve been pretty small, similar sort of price as if he’d gone permanently with only 6 months left.
Players don’t go on loan from and to big clubs without a loan fee being involved! There are often even small fees when young players go on loan to clubs lower league clubs.
Why do you think that A?
A is making statements like he is the chairman of Everton,FFS.At the end of the day,we are losing a defender,who was destined for greater things,and that too for free.Enough of your hypocrisy,Mr.Wenger.
Dear sir,
Thank you for your recent e-mail.
As always we welcome supporters’ comments and yours of course in relation to recent results at the Club and indeed Arsène Wenger’s input.
The Club and its performance provokes an emotional and strong response from supporters, it certainly is a game of mixed opinions which are as valued as they are wide ranging.
Your comments are appreciated, as is your continued support which rest assured is not taken for granted.
In closing, thank you again for taking the time to contact us.
Yours sincerely,
Katie Baldwin
Arsenal Football Club
This guy is a gooner. Watch from 1.00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkD756Optas&feature=related
We got £1m from Milan.
I know it happens with lower league clubs Pedro, and for example when Benitez went on loan to Brum, when Gourcuff went to Bordeaux originally from Milan. Unless a club is in really dire financial trouble and need to get a player off the wage bill then they won’t let a player go without a loan fee, just as they wouldn’t let a player leave on a free
David
What did your letter say?
Greetings Sir,
I understand you are very busy so i will not take much of your time.
I sent you an email at the beginning of the season last year. I am a small part of a collective organisation that support Arsenal FC in the States. I have just bought a piece of the Armory Square just this Christmas and in addition to these small contributions we try and find other ways in lending our support for Arsenal as we cannot go to games regularly.
Currently we are planning a massive boycott of all things Arsenal to voice our grave dissatisfaction of the way the club is mistreating its fans.
We have no voice.
While we respect the hard work that has gone into building a model for self sufficiency, the last few years have shown that it is at a cost of Winning major honors and this is just an unacceptable reality.
The resent defeat at home to our most hated rivals has done nothing more than to reaffirm that this model is nothing more than empty promises while robbing the fans of their hard earned sweat. It is also a painful reminder of our Champions League humiliation which suggests that the team have not improved since last year when Trophies are on the line.
We will always support Arsenal FC. And are very eagerly monitoring the situation till the end of the season.
Thank you for your time.
Bay Area Gooners
igazidis@arsenal.co.uk
Good letter, i wouldve used the word cunt in there somewhere.
ok we got 1 mil , but i suppose if milan took him they would have paid for the fee’s only i would imagine ..
i could of seen him go wages only though !
wenger was desperate to get him off the pay roll .
and now it seems its finally happened .
yes me too
DEAR CUNT ,
…………
No point sending them.AFC has outsourced their reply responsibilities to AKB(fucking mugs/retards/bastards with no identity)’s in India.
Gambon
the last email i sent Gazidis himself replied me…now he sends some bytch to do the dirty work.
I take it many people are writing about this…
Maybe i’ll use a different email address.
good letter david , maybe a bit long ,but its hard to get the point across with less .
http://onlinestore.arsenal.com/invt/invt/a3605
nice…
Kate Baldwin is the head of the Media dept isn’t she? No need to call people at the club who reply to you a bitch David.
I tried to be as cordial as I can.
And still they gave me the “emotions running high…I should probably calm my arse down cuz We dont give a fuck about you” response.
I dont know..something about that reply seemed..generic.
Almost Automatic…non-specific.
Baring an unsavory result on Sunday.
If Legrove is no1 Arsenal blog…I think it is time Legrove wielded some magic.
A
It wasnt the person. It was the response.
If it was a guy id have still called him/her a bytch.
David,
that’s just PR, nothing more…
Fair dos david, not sure what response you would expect though?
No point sending mails to them.AFC has outsourced their reply responsibilities to AKBs(Fucking mugs/retards/bastards with no identity) in India.
Jaguar, as you just saw, David said previously Gazidis replied to him, and now Kate Baldwin, so that obviously isn’t true….
That could well be automated replies,A.
Newsflash
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/kate-baldwin-agrees-new-long-term-contract
Ethan,
Dear Cunt…
Funniest thing ive seen in weeks
lol Jaguar, definitely
The ironies keep piling up at Arsenal
#1
It turns out that we are missing a largish CF type.
Bendtner returns from training…problem solved…NOOOOOOO…we play Bendtner on the wing ‘cos he’s the only person on the team that can cross the ball — even with Walcott’s fabled speed he’s unlikely to be able to get on the end of his own crosses.
#2
Given that we aren’t going to bring in a new left back before the Chavs, how is AW going to protect Gael, besides giving him a ‘chest infection’?
(The irony? We are looking for ways to defend a defender!)
By-the-by, I like and respect both players and can’t wait for them to fulfil their potential
a quote from Robbo Robinson
Of course, the reason why there was no major action in the transfer market is because no one’s got any flaming money. The sums owed by the likes of United leave me more bewildered than a recovering Arsenal left-back.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/robborobson/2010/02/robbo_blog.html
Almunia
Eboue-Gallas-Vermaelen-Clichy
Rosicky-Cesc-Song-Diaby
—–Nikki—-Arsh—-
OR
Almunia
Eboue-Gallas-Vermaelen-Clichy
—-Cesc—-Song—-Diaby
Walcott—-Nikki—–Arsh
OR
Almunia
Eboue-Gallas-Sol-Vermaelen
—Cesc—Song—-Diaby
Walcott—Nikk—–Arsh
so, we are a benchmark for being ‘bewildered’ now?
nice…
I like the prospect of having Gallas, Vermy, Sol, Song, Nikki, and Diaby in the starting eleven. Set pieces are chelsea’s weakness, if we put those players in the box on set pieces we will be a menace to defend. I would much rather we put those players in the box and hold back cesc, Sagna/ebway, walcott/rosicky, etc
Luke, is there something wrong with Sagna that you have him in none of your teams?
Diaby would be a menace for us in the opposition penalty box.
We should start all the tall players. Clichy is fine at LB because Chelseas only wide threats are their fullbacks (or anelka drifting out wide). If we can stop their fullbacks being influential and their 2 forwards either running in behind or knocking the ball down for Lampard and the other midfielders to run onto…..and if our defenders dont panic..then we should be able to get a draw.
Either that or just set out to injure drogba and we might get a result.
Basically we need a miracle..
and our own penalty box as well.
just 2 points
1) A – there isnt always a garantee of a loan fee i dont think or even wages being paid by the club loaning the player. paul jewel was on soccer sat the other week and i cant remember the exact words but when talking about clubs getting players in on loan he said to merse i think ” you dont have to worry about the wages the club he comes form pays that”.
milan probably did cover his wages but as his loan was with an option to buy at the end i doubt they would of paid a loan fee too.
2) for me a way to sum up wenger on his transfer dealing/ player evaluations is this. when selling anelka to madrid in his opinion he was worth 21-23 million…..if it was wenger wanting to buy anelka at that time he owuld of said 21-23 is too expensive and he isnt worth that.
thats the way i see it anyways….
Anyfin other than a 4-1 loss for Mr.Wenger’s team would be a respite for us.
A draw would be a fantastic result..a win would be unbelievable…and unlikely.
well i think theres no point trying to match them , we just need to play our wenger ball game , and finish effectively ..
we are never going to stop the goals with coco in goal , so i think its too late to worry about shoring up the defense this season . we put on an extra defender and we just weaken an already depleted attack ..
Wenger wouldnt probably sell Denilshite for less than 20m.We are a joke of a club now,with Mr.Wanker at our helm,who is interested in nuffin,but his bonus.Fuck off you mug!
mike totally agree
im sure milan wouldnt have paid the 1 mill fee if they signed senders ..
it was a sort of release clause .
and 1 million up for missing a CB who was sort of a 1st team spot member isnt that greater deal for AFC either ..
Fergie always sets his teams up to stop the oppo in big matches and it usually works. 4-3-3 against us, diamond against the chavs and they lost to livershit so that obviously didnt work…and i dont remember that anyway.
Not saying we should set out to frustrate them because that would never work but it wouldnt hurt to make note of their strongest attacking characteristics and try stifle it. Like man marking anelka, not letting Drogba run behind the defence etc….
Ethangunner,if you think,we are going to win somefin,with his love children Denilshite and Clownmoonia,I’m sorry mate,you would be disappointed.
I dunno Stu, Chelsea fans have actually been bitching about Drogba after the Hull game! A fair few reckon their system when he was away was working really well, and when he plays it changes, Anelka goes out wide, and it doesn’t work anything like as well!
Not saying we don’t have to fear him to be fair, but in the overall balance of the game, they could potentially be stronger overall without him!
We just need to concentrate and not hand them any goals from individual mistakes. Then try and take our chances. I’d be very happy with a draw, as long as we followed it up by giving Liverpool a spanking!
Stu more like ………..
A draw would be unbelievable…and unlikely..a win would be impossible ….
With that wankers Clownmoonia,and Denilshite,we would be over the moon,if we get apoint against Chelshite.
System or no system Drogba always scores against us so whether they play better as a whlole without him is irrelevant imo.
We have never defeated Chelshite when that mug Dobgra has played for them.
mike/ethan that’s not how it works. Milan had paid the £1 mil upon the start of the loan, they would’ve paid however much more at the end of the loan. It wasn’t a release clause.
Loans like that work with the club paying an amount as a loan fee, then an additional amount if they want to make it permanent, as well as paying the player’s wages whilst he’s there of course.
I’m surprised it was only a million though, you work it out in thinking about how much a player would be valued at to go permanently.
Say a player would cost 6 million to go permanently, and would sign a 4 year contract, that would be £1.5 mil a year.
Actually I suppose £1 mil isn’t that bad, especially considering he only had 2 years left on his contract with us.
Even clubs like Peterborough loaning Kerrea Gilbert pay both the player’s wages, AND a loan fee, albeit a small one.
That’s why there are negotiations when it comes to loaning players, rather than it just happening. Generally there will be a small loan fee, depending on whether it’s a “loan to buy”, or a loan to get first team football, then for the duration of that loan a loaning club negotiates with the player what wages to pay him. If a club won’t pay as much as a player wants, and the loaning club really want him to go there, then they might supplement his wages a bit.
Gilbert however, is being paid more in wages by Peterborough than he is on at us, his parent club! Seems pretty ridiculous to me, though going from Arsenal to Peterborough in terms of locations, and the footballing side of things, facilities etc is a hell of a step down!
Wenger was delighted that he could spend that amount on unproven francophonic/african toddlers.What a mug Wenger is!
That’s funny Jaguar, when we beat them at the bridge last season, both “Clownmoonia,and Denilshite” were playing, as was JD in defence, AND Adebayor up top!
On paper, with Vermy rather than JD, Diaby rather than Denilson, Rosicky rather than Adebayor, and I guess Arshavin rather than VP, overall we should be stronger.
Though I’d probably rather have VP than Arshavin.
To be fair though I’d be delighted with a point!
Have there been any good songs thought up to be directed at Terry on Sunday? Surely the more creative chant-writers have been doing their best?
The only one I’ve heard is “Ashley, watch your wife, Ashley, Ashley watch your wife”
Must be some better ones banging about!?
Dobgra didnt play for them,A,when we defeated them.
Yeah true Jaguar, neither did Essien. The only player they’ve lost compared to last year is Bosingwa, which isn’t a massive deal. Drogba will make a difference though.
i am not saying youre wrong A but i am saying not every deal is done like that. jewel wouldnt think the club a player comes from pays the wages unless thats how a lot of loan deals he did while at bradford, wigan or derby worked.
some invlove a fee or wages paid in full or a percentage and some dont at all……or a mixture of the lot lol.
did we pay madrid a fee and wages for baptista? got me wondering now lol
yeah i’m sure we did mike! though that was evened out by their taking reyes. I’d imagine that was similar to sendy, we took the beast and paid a mil or two, with the rest to be paid at the end of the loan, then said “actually, no thanks”
i still remember almunia throwing the ball out to nasri with no one in front of him and nowhere to go and screaming wtf did you do that for……then seconds later JD own goal.
I can’t believe the way we’ve scored ogs in the big games. JDs then, Diaby’s, Almunia’s this season. Sure there have been others
He didnt even throw it to Nasri Mike. He threw it way in front of him and Bosingwa just got it straight away.
Toure lat season against chavski too A.
Wasnt JD’s fault for the og imo…Diaby’s was inexplicable.
Oh yeah of course Stu! Forgot about Kolo
David imo it wa JDs fault, poor decision making.
All those ogs were poor, as was Almunia’s goalkeeping for Richards’ goal against city, ronaldo’s fk, rosicky not bothering for city’s goal against us, and vermy’s very odd running off against Utd for their third, not to mention shitloads of other inexplicable individual errors!
Stretching to try intercept a cross is porr decision making A?
JDs own goal was all down to Almunia.
Any loss or dropped points this season have been because of individual errors..pretty disgraceful..we are shooting ourselves in the foot in the important games. Definately not the stuff of champions.
Diabys was poor even though almunia called for it and didnt come he still shouldnt forget how to head the ball.
Yeah Stu, if you don’t know whether you can reach it or get enough on it to get it out of play you don’t go for it. It was either poor decision making imo, deciding he should go for it when he wasn’t sure, or it was poor judgement, not being able to work out if he could get enough on it.
True Stu, and other teams don’t make those mistakes, but in the other games, beating the smaller teams, we look much more like champions than the others, it’s been a funny season.
JD’s OG is one that happens to CB’s a lot the ball is one they cant leave but it is just too far in front for them to have any control over where it goes when they make contact.
i can forgive him for that one as the team was under pressure and just when we needed the keeper to hold onto it and let the team all push out he gives it away and puts them under pressure again.
Utd did the double over us, and are only 4 points ahead of us, if we’d done the double over them we’d be 8 point ahead of them – crazy!
A, he might have been wrong to go for it but he wasnt to know what/who was behind him. Had he left it and someone scored then he would have been slaughtered. He either didnt get a call or didnt hear it. Either way it was ALmunias fault for throwing the ball away.
Also maybe JD, like all of our other players, had no faith that Almunia would intercept the cross and thought he had better do something.
Im not certain but wasnt there a chelsea player between Gallas and JD, so had he left the cross we would have conceded anyway…think it was Malouda.
Had we not given West Ham or Everton 2 points, or been raped on the counter against City then we could be at least a point ahead of united despite them doing the double. Even crazier.
Or Sunderland or Burnley. I wonder how many points we have dropped from a winning position this season..we should be confortably top of the league.
and if ramsey got out the way or rosicky placed it instead of smashing the cross bar that would be another 2 for us
Stu, I think Eboue would give chelsea more trouble then sagna. Eboue gets a bad rap because Wenger plays him as RW, or RM, but at RB I think he is on par with sagna if not a tad better this season.
AND he can cross!
we could do the same for the season dudu got assaulted, we were 4 points behind in the end.
its habbit the team cant seem to kick.
Jaguar Says:
February 3, 2010 at 23:37
Ethangunner,if you think,we are going to win somefin,with his love children Denilshite and Clownmoonia,I’m sorry mate,you would be disappointed.
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when did i ever in Gods green Earth give you that idea that im an AKB jag ?
im the longest advocate that this system is flawed .. said it a million times ..
A
you can tailor any sort of loan deal .
can /cant play vs the club , 3 -6 1 year loans .
basically the 1 million was bottom line for us ,
thats all im saying its not TECHNICALLY a tipping fee , but it sort of compensation , which is the same thing ..
clichey & sagna were the best fullbacks in the league by a mile that season…what has happened to that form & why cant they get it back?
Clichy has made poor decision making, and Sagna cant cross. They both are offensively ineffective, except for clichy’s pace. Think Sagna has been decent. LB has been our weakness for the whole season IMO.
made poor decisions* sorry.
Neither Clichy nor Sagna have ever been able to cross with any kind of consistent quality. They are both fantastic athletes but just not good enough as footballers.
Considering we play a pretty narrow game the fullbacks are vital for providing width and imo with those 2 being the wide option its doubtful that we will score from many crosses per season.
Sagna is a more than decent defender and that justifies his inability to attack somewhat but Clichy neiter contributes to goals and isnt the best defensively either. Honestly i would much rather a better leftback than him, Gibbs might be that…when he is able to play again that is.
also speaking of sagna but maybe my memory is wrong and he did it less than i remember but in his 1st season with us sagna used to overlap a lot or when he was coming into the box or just outside at speed he used to do the oppo player a lot by faking a cross/pullback and then just knocking the ball past the player and just as the ball was getting to the touchline he would reach it take a touch see who was coming in then pass it or fire it across for someone to get onto.
i never see him do that now….all he does now is put in high crosses.
maybe gibbs is the answer, he isnt as quick as clichey or traore i dont think so wont be able to rely on his pace as much as they do and hopefully will make him think more so he gets his positioning right.
IMO, this summer: We need to purchase a GK, 1/2 CB (Gallas, Shitvest, Sol all possibly leaving), and one DM, while selling Almunia and Denilson. Hopefully Gibbs will be ready next year but I think he is a bit overrated right now atleast.
Yeah i agree Mike. Gibbs not being as fast would mean he isnt as reliant on his pace to get him out of trouble.
Also, when his pace does eventually go when he reaches his thirties he wouldnt suffer too much. Clichy and Traore both have pretty shit positioning and are always having to bust a gut to try catch a winger who caught them out of position.
This summer we NEED a new keeper, 2 new CBs, maybe a new fullback, a back up DM for Song (or maybe one to replace him) and possibly a striker depepding on whether one leaves or not.
Unfortunately, I have a feeling that new keeper will be Mannone/Fabianski, the new DM will be one of coquelin, Frimpong, eastmond, the new cb: one purchase and Nordveit, and either sunu or watt coming in
I reckon this summer, as long as Fabianski or Szczesny are promoted to number one I’m happy with the keeping situation.
Same with backup DM, certainly not a first choice, imo by the end of the season Song could well be seen as one of the best in Europe in that position, but backup depending on how Eastmond develops in the 7 months between now and then, whether Nordveit comes back and is seen as a DM, and maybe even Coquelin, though I’m less optimistic he’ll be ready, he’s developed slower than I thought he would this season.
1 new centre back, looks like savic, and maybe a second, top quality established one if gallas goes, though i think he’ll stay.
Then anyone else depending on departures. New forward perhaps, might depend on how Vela, Eduardo and Bendtner do in the second half of the season, and also how much is expected of Wellington Silva upon his immediate arrival
Isnt wellington silva 16 A? Surely he must be one for the future.
17 luke, he’ll join us in January 11 as an 18 year old, the same age Pato turned up at Milan and came straight into the first team reckoning
Vela and Bendtner will only get better. Unfortunately I have less faith in Eduardo but we will be “re-signing” RVP when he gets back from injury. Wonder what Wenger will do about CD and CM though…
Let us hope Silva is on par with Pato. I really rate Pato, seems like he’d do great for us. THink our system would suit his style. too bad hes probably worth 35 million.
As in January 2011, not 11th Jan
Whats your team for Sunday A. Mine is:
Almunia
Ebway-Gallas-Vermy-Clichy
—-Cesc—Song—Diaby
Walcott—Nik—-Arsh
Subs: Fabianski, Sol, Sagna, Denilson, Ramsey, Eduardo/nasri, Rosicky