So yesterday saw unprecedented criticism levelled at the boss, not just from most of the blogs, but from just about every journalist, football pundit and ex player in the world of football, home and abroad, so who is right, Arsene Wenger, or everyone else?
It’s time to stop treating the boss like a demi-God that can do no wrong, it’s time to open your eyes people, we need to change tack or we’ll go another 6 years with nothing to show for it bar a shiny new stadium, a posh training ground (or should I say treatment room) and a shed load of rich people benefitting from it that really don’t care about winning.
We play Liverpool tomorrow, a must win game, in our leaders quest for finishing third, they don’t come much tougher than this one, win it and we are on track for that coveted 3rd spot, lose it and the chasing pack are on us, and we could end up out of Europe and out of new young fans.
Two years ago we, here on Le Grove stressed the importance of beating ManU in the FA cup, field a weakened side we said and the confidence will go and we could blow the Premiership, of which at that time we were leading, we blew it and the rest is history.
Wind the clock forward and up step Stoke, we fielded a crazy team and lost, followed by a draw at Villa Park and two hammerings to title rivals and now we are out of the cups, and out of the league, so what’s left? That’s right, the bonus target of finishing third and the outside chance of winning the Champions league. Great. That was worth every penny I scraped together to buy my two expensive season tickets.
Every season we all say Wenger must learn from his laughable project youth and in the summer he will buy, well with season ticket renewal on the way, Wenger has once again started telling the French press he wants Chamakh.
We all renew and we buy a player only then to sell two first teamers, I could list all those that have gone, Reyes, Henry, Hleb, Kolo and Ade but I won’t, oops, I already did, sorry, but Chamakh could have and should have been bought in August, we could have got him for £12mil, we didn’t because we can get him on a free, but by the time we pay him a signing on fee and inflated wages, it will be the same, so we failed to get a player when he could have made a difference and another year of nothing drifts by.
I don’t even think he’s the one, Dzeko or Villa would have been better, it’s not like we didn’t have the money is it?
This year though, we got the added bonus of the whole footballing world laughing at us, thanks for that boss.
Tomorrow we have to win, tomorrow we have to field a team that can score and put some distance in between us and the pack, tomorrow we should play this lot.
Fabianski
Eboue Campbell Gallas Traore
Diaby Cesc Vermaelen
Rosicky Bendtner Arshavin
This has to be the team we play, a solid back four, a half decent keeper and a defensive midfielder with pace, strength, the knowledge to read play and score goals with a forward line that has presence and the ability to hold play up.
Almunia is just a joke, Clichy and Sagna have lost form and Song is too slow, Arshavin is too small to be a centre forward and Theo has lost his ability. Time to drop your favourites and start thinking of the poor fans.
We need to get in their faces from the off and shoot when we get near the goal, time to stand up and be counted and time to stop the embarrassing and pathetic excuses.
Oh and finally time to start winning games again, the players we’ve been playing in key games are either not old enough, not strong enough or not good enough, time to realise that and show the pundits we are a team that can challenge, either that or time to change, and you all know what that means.
I want to write blogs that are happy ones, all I can find to write about these days are critical ones, and you know what? That’s not my fault, it’s Arsenal’s, and finally it’s time to man up and admit when you’re wrong. Because you know what? You really are.
Can someone tell me what the benefit in moving stadiums has been? At Highbury we had no debt and beer was £2.25 a pint, we had a better atmosphere, we were winners and we spent money on players, we were told we needed to move to compete with the mancs and the chavs, if we had been told 7 years on and we’d still spend no money and be pot-less would you have been happy? I know I wouldn’t, and that 7 years is only if we win something next year, and that’s a big if, would you have been happy if you were given the caveat that we would would not be trying to win any domestic cups and that third place would be our new target? I’m not.
Have a great day Grovers, it’s win tomorrow or bust, oh, and we have a spare ticket for the game, if you’re interested email Pedro.
mind you henry denied leaving about this time prior to leaving in the summer …
so i would expect cesc to deny it anyhoo ..
for morale purposes , if theres any of left that at all currently ..
I hope he stays.
But I would not blame him for going.
Hi Guys,
Can’t be arsed with the Cesc bollocks.
Is he a great Player = Yes
Have we won anything since he has been a regular in the Team = No
Can we win without him = Yes (proven when he has been injured)
Would I sell him for 40 Mill upwards = Definetely.
I would sell him as long as Coco the Tapas bar waiter is part of the deal, we will be ok without him and possibly better off.
IMO Diaby would play in his role. We could try getting the Turkish/German fella in to replace him Ouzap I think he is. There are untold options as Cesc’s position is one where there are many Super Players.
we can revert back to 4-4-2 and strengthen the defence.
We need an awesome No.10 to sign for us along with a Keeper and another DM. Add a winger and then job done.
Couls Shmackh be the No.10 type we need. I have no idea as I have never seen him play.
We really are not as far away as many on Le Grove think, we still have chances this year but Wenger must stop screwing up by picking the wrong Players.
If he starts later today by making the right decisions then we will prosper. If Coco is still in goal and denilson and Clichy are still included then we will have serious problems.
Good post El Tel
unfortunately Almunia, Denilson and Clichy will all play.
Clichy maybe deserves a bit more time to see if he can get back to being as good as he was a couple of seasons ago but I am done with the other two.
Denlison can fuck off on loan because he’s still young enough to potentially be an ok squad player but I would straight up fire Almunia, I dont even want any money for him just get him out of here.
I’d have Chesney Hawkes back from Brentford and play him for the rest of the season. He cannot possibly be worse than Almunia, its just not possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jzJLFRXOMo
I thought Jack looked really good. If some of those Bolton horses can get on his wavelength he could be a top little player for them.
Ancelotti is starting to get on my fucking nerves, sticking up for his classless players every time they fucking mouth off.
How many more times does this horrible cunt want to say how much he supports John Terry? John Terry fucked his mates missus behind his own missus’ back, what a top bloke, fucking father of the year too. would you keep telling the newspapers what a great guy he is and how much you love him?
Dirty bunch of cunts.
haha it was funn seeing wilshere making top plays for Bolton only for those thugs to mess it up by not being on the same wavelength as him. I’d go as far as saying he was teh best Bolton player on the pitch. Loved the way he stood up to De jong…surely, he’ll be close to a first team place much like Ramsey this season next year.
On the same topic, I’d like to see Ramsey be given a chance instead of Nasri today against ‘Pool.
We really are not as far away as many on Le Grove think
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le tel , we are not that far away , only 3/4 players with the ade proceeds and cesc if it comes to it it should be more than enough ..
numbchucks is an OK player ..
he could do well or he could be less than impressive .. he is like dudu , in every sense of the word , including expectations prior ..
who knows if any striker makes it with any team , look at shevcheko prior . you cant tell 100%
but he is better than nothing ..
and he will cost nothing
so … its right up wengers alley !
i think wenger if he gets him , thats game over for the strikers …
it would be good if jack turned into a legend and took over from cesc …
he can do it !
i hope im right , but i think given the chance he will excel .
ill be watching bolton more closely !
thats 4 sure ..
if you want optimism there’s my limit !
So tomorrow is the perfect time to try Verminator in midfield for the first time in a competitive game? Good call guys. I can’t stop jerking, must be because I have no brain.
Sorry to bother you all.
Wilshere looked top class..And we have walcott running around cluelessly.
rayspalor or should I say Ian, you are way too weird for this blog, you need to fuck off somewhere else.
Grovers I’m on my way to work and to write the blog for today, catch you all later.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2846868/Rivals-will-come-out-all-Guns-blazing.html
Gilberto Silva is in the Brazil WC squad (so is Baptista) two years after AW decided he had lost his pace and power.
Strange that he is good enough for Brazil and not for AFC when we so clearly needed a DM.
Another AW blunder.
Comments from Bolton Fan on Soccernet:
For the 77 minutes Wilshire and Lee Chung-Yong were on the pitch, Bolton played good, cohesive football, and if they had had more quality around them than Johan Elmander and Tamir Cohen could provide, Shay Given could have had a busy night.
Jack Wilshire was exactly as advertised: menacing on the ball, even in his own half, comfortable all over the field and always had enough time on the ball to pick out a pass or jink past his man. Theo Walcott should be very worried.
Big Raddy Says:
February 10, 2010 at 07:04
Gilberto Silva is in the Brazil WC squad (so is Baptista) two years after AW decided he had lost his pace and power.
Strange that he is good enough for Brazil and not for AFC when we so clearly needed a DM.
Another AW blunder.
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awww come on BR , dont be so hard on your mate wenger . he has already got you the 3rd place cup this season ..
LOL Ethan.
Geoff’s writing the post I see, I wonder what goodies he has for us.
Its another
type of day. Lucky I had half a doz Peronis @ lunch time, with my lunch. They were really cold & refreshing.
BR
You can’t really be happy with the state of the recruiting of quality players to, as you say, THOF
sorry GG9 im a dedicated Burbon drinker ..
that doesnt make me jealous even if its 38 degrees here
however a double shot of jacks in a long ball glass filled with ice is another story
ethan
A double shot of the jack
must be a Thai thing, chamoneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 
BR This ones for you, music man. I know you never got down here, but CCR could be from here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZKMKsoHWI0
actually mekkon is a thai thing ! or sang som !
seng thip even !
thai rocket fuel whiskey !
made apparently with traces of amphetamine’s-
tastes half like scotch half like southern comfort .
weird and 43 %
GG.
Of course I am not. Ethan likes to pigeon hole me as believing AW is the Second Coming (not in Pattaya terms!).
We have been blogging together for almost 2 years and I have consistently stated the need for a GK, DM and CF.
But we have what we have, and I find that if I spend my time being negative about the team it impacts upon the rest of my day!
GG. I got to see Jon Fogerty four years ago in Auckland NZ. He was brilliant
GG there is only 1 CCR song of note
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNLu2gY2-uU
CRANK IT !
http://www.imscouting.com/global-news-article/William-Gallas-to-leave-Arsenal-after-only-being-offered-one-year-deal/5671/?
I hope this is not true.We can’t give gallas a 2 year extension yet we can sign someone as useless as silvestre and give him a 2 year contract.
nish,
if Billy leaves due to being offered one year, the knives will be out…
Definitely SUGA.Especially the way he has played this year.I know we have conceded a lot of goals but gallas has played well.And also his attitude is excellent.Even after the likes of cesc gave up after united were 3 goals up gallas kept trying.
So in the last two weeks Wenger has made statements that he can buy a 30 million pound player if it’s needed & also hinted that he tried to sign David Villa (even though nobody believes him). Then today he is in the papers saying we cannot afford expensive players.
Can somebody somewhere tell him to get his head out his arse & stop coming out with all this bollocks.
can’t blame gallas and verminator for the goal leakages. it is good performce from these two had they got better support from LB, RB GK and DM story would have a lot different
GMR why dont journalist ask these question? u said so in recent pass and now u say this
and hatrick
GMR, exactly. I fail to understand how none of this “hard bitten” journalists haven’t asked him “What happenned to the £40 million Arsenal got from Man City”
gooner-pak – sorry, I didn’t understand your comment, could you ask again??
Garyc – I was happy to defend Wenger, not over his tactics or management but when it come to spending money, as I believe the board are just as much to blame. After all we all know he wanted Smalling but Gazidis (or whoever is doing tranfers) messed it up.
However, nobody can defend such wildly differing comments from Arsene. It’s pathetic & an insult to fans.
I saw Vieira float a lovely ball to Ade, who took it on his chest, spun and volleyed it into the net, and we could have had them both.
Wenger knows best though.
Forget the fact Ade was a cunt, he’s at the right age now, that’s what we do, we get kids, nurse them through the shit years, sell them, then someone else gets the benefit.
GMR i meant when he is doing press confrence why dont journalist counter question him that u said u were IN for villa and now u dont have penny to spoend,. Y contradicting statement in weeks time
geoff ade is totally different case but yes i agree 25-26 age is the prime performance time
hope wilshere learns some physical aspect of game during his stay at bolton
Dont worry Geoff we have Vela he is like Robbie Fowler
Geoff – Vieira is no longer a kid; he is 34.