This mornings post has been inspired by the numerous people who rolled onto Le Grove stomping their cyber feet yesterday making comments surrounding they type of fans Arsenal have.
Here is an authors impression of how one of them looked.
‘What is Cesc going to think when he reads stuff like this, fans like you lot don’t deserve Cesc’
Now, I want to address that type of attitude because I truly believe that Arsenal have some of the greatest fans on earth, despite the protestations of a few on the web who constantly want to tell us that everyone outside Arsenal thinks they’re moaners (Yawn.com).
Not true.
Liverpool, Man United, Spurs, West Ham… even Newcastle all have the same problem. Everyone moans, it’s a right of passage as a football fan and I’m pretty sure it’s gone on for all of time. Anyone who says it hasn’t is a liar and a thief.
I sat in a cab with a Geordie cab drive in Newcastle a few weeks ago and he told me that he felt 90% of Newcastle fans have been so unhappy for the last ten years, he wondered why they even attended matches. My old boss is a bin dipper season ticket holder. He said bar the massive games, the atmosphere around the stadium has been so poor he finds it embarrassing to attend matches. My West Ham chums constantly p*ss and moan their way through the season regardless of how well or poorly they are doing!
So… everyone does it. Fact.
If you couldn’t have a rational conversation about the good and bad in your club, no one would talk to you because you’d be boring. You know, that same boring you get with super religious people or ultra-Patriots.
So how do players feel about the fans?
Well, the greatest player in Premiership is Thierry Henry. He left Arsenal 4 years ago and he hasn’t stopped talking about us since. He loves the fans, he loves the clubs and he loved his time there. He came back last season to say thanks to the fans for the good times. Patrick Vieira adored having his name sung by the fans week in week out… he’d stop mid-match to clap us! Bobby Pires recently said,
“It shows how great the Arsenal fans are and that they don’t forget their former players. I was really touched and moved by their ovation and the fact that they were singing my name.”
Even Emmanuel Eboue has nice things to say about us!
‘They sing my name when I play and that makes me feel really happy. I say thank you to the fans for coming to support us’
That’s great becuase it means our support is valued. Martin Keown once said if the fans are on your back, you’ve got to look at yourself, address the problems and fight for their respect.
Bang on the money Martin. Adoration isn’t a right, it’s something you’ve got to earn. Something I know most Arsenal player are patently aware of. In the grand scheme of things, having your own song would probably be worth more to most players than a £20k pay rise.
That’s why it really gets my goat when people slag Arsenal fans off.
So what could be classed as a poor fan?
Well how about the Nice fans who spat a Loic Remy after a bad run of form recently? Or how about the Torino fans who attacked their players in Turin in January? Or the Athletico fans who managed to get their club a European ban for racist chants? The Juve fans who attacked the Milan bus? The Barca fans who attacked Jose (Ok, we’ve all dreamed of that)?
I mean even if you wanted to ignore the extremes, when was the last time you saw English fans waving a white hanky in protest at a player or performance they didn’t like? That’s what the Italians and the Spanish do. How many players stay long enough at these so called mega clubs to get their own chants? How many fans would finance get well soon banners for their young injured superstar? How many clubs have 4287 blogs dedicated to their cause?
How many fans adore their players from all clubs as much as the English (and followers of their respective clubs)! Well… as far as I can see… no one. We’ve got the best fans in the world bar none and I don’t think too many players, managers or outsiders would disagree.
So why if the fans of the mega clubs are so bad do all the players flock to play for them?
Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with our loving approach to football? Do nice fans finish last? Should we take a leaf out of Madrid’s book and boo Cesc like they booed Ronaldo after he innocently said he wouldn’t rule out playing for Barcelona? What do you think their fans would do if Higauin got caught wearing a Manchester United shirt?
They’d probably lynch him.
Now, I’m not suggesting we change the way we are for a second. I’d hate to go to the ground and pull out a white snotty handkerchief on Arsene Wenger for 5 seasons without a trophy.
All I’m saying is I find it incredibly annoying listening to certain sections of our fanbase slagging off the support the players get. They have it easy compared to most other clubs in the world and they should be honoured to play in front of us which many of them confess to after they head to pastures new or retire.
Cesc, you’ll never find love from the Barca fans like you’ve had from us. Sure they’ve got a big fake pair of boobs, collagen injected lips and faux Louis Vuitton bag… but face it son, it’s all been bought on credit and it’s all going to look like a big saggy, ugly mistake in a few years time.
See you in the comments, I’m off to the butchers to find a suitable pigs head to throw at Cesc in the Emirates Cup*!
Geoff is back tomorrow, I’ve heard he’s developed an American accent to fit in over there… don’t mention it when he comes on later!
*Joke
P.S. View here to see the sort of classy act Barca players are. Stick a Spanish footballer under the microscope as intensely as you do an English player and you’ll find out they’re all the same…
has everyone read the story about gallas being sued by the association Tunisian Dentists? my best laugh of the day so far…
Wenger has his BB in training. Lets hope he’s finalizing a deal
Red Arse. I’m pretty sure you only get your contract paid up if you are being “retired”.
You get a signing on fee usually from your new club in return for making the jump.
If you are sold you probably do have a case to claim the loyalty payment that was due to you at the end of your contract, because you could argue, you would have honoured your contract and seen it out so you should get that money.
That sum for instance is what delayed the Arshavin transfer.
how can anyone think that when you sell a player you pay up what’s left of his contract!?
that would mean having players on long term contracts is a bad thing cos every cunt that leaves will need 10m from us to do so meaning you make no money from transfers!!
other than a loyalty bonus (maybe) the contract is more or less torn up when you sell someone.
How so gambon? It doesn’t seem to make any sense? Where is your information coming from?
I think the official photographer has a thing for Nasri. So many close ups
kosser needs to bulk up sharpish
timao
No one said you pay up a players contract if you sell them.
Forcing a player to leave when he doesnt want to is a different matter.
QoS,
I wonder why Arsenal don’t have a revanchist strategy?
They tap Cesc up, we tap up one of their players. They get Barca players to tap Cesc up, we as Gooners email (say) Messi en bloc and tap him up.
Having offered Casillas, Messi, Iniesta £1m a week and got them interested we jus say “nah, don’t bother, we couldn’t be arsed”!
Not subtle but then neither are Barca!
BTW, the final sentence of your 15:22 is exactly right. No transfer request from Cesc, implies the club have agreed to cancel his contract and let him go without any coercion or agreement with the player. Hence payment of his o/s contract. (I have said the figures I used were just for example as none of us knows them.
Of course, if timao is an expert in Contract or Employment Law, I would defer to his learned opinion and excuse his “bizarre” comment. Somehow I doubt it.
you can’t force a player to leave gambon
Timao
Hehe. I’m FLABBERGASTED by that story. So I have a toothache and I fly my own dentist out so you are gonna sue me cuz you and your collegues feel slighted?
MUGS.
timao,
You carnt but you can make it an unpleasant experience to stay,
How to get even with Barcelona
Organise a “friendly” pre-season with them
Sign Martin Taylor and Ryan Shawcross and put them in the team
Then let them express our sincerest displeasure to PiquePuyolIniestaXavi!!!
Red Arse – in other fields of business if I wanted to sell a division to a competitor. I do so.
The staff effectively go with it under Tupe protection meaning that their exisiting rights of employment are protected including salary.
I do however have to offer a redundancy option. If my employee does not wish to transfer to competitor.
Herbert,
I love it. That’s the sort of creative thinking we need to sort the b**tards out!
of course you can force a player to leave… look at ade, we wanted him out and he went, clubs do it all the time. you just tell them “your not in our plans, find a new club” and they will. easy
Dutchman, havent seen much of affelay, but i know hes highly rated and seemed to link well with RVP in NL world cup warm up games. At 24 he isnt too young, but approaching his best years
He would be vastly better than cole
QoS
But youre selling the business, and an employee is an asset of the business so he has the option to TUPE, the key word being Option.
If you sell Cesc to Madrid, even though he doesnt want to go, you arent giving him an option.
Therefore Wenger can say, “well i want you out”, to which cesc says “either sell me to Barca or pay up my contract and i’ll go”.
Atom
You cant force a player to leave at all.
Hence why wenger had to say to Ade things like “we need the money” and “you may not get paid”.
He was gently puching Ade out of the door.
We still had to pay Ade & Kolo a pretty huge chunk to go.
I told this story before but a friend of mine played for Derby County.
He suffered a lot of injuries and Phil Brown (the boss at the time) sent him to a local specialist who basically said his career was over. And Brown had papers drawn up to terminate his contract, retire him and pay him compensation. This wasn’t for the sum of the remainder of his contract even if that circumstance.
My friend was represented by his Dad and they didn’t believe the “local” doctor so they went home and got a second opinion who rubbished the original doctors prognosis saying he’d return to full fitness.
At that point Brown backed off. And my friend left Derby when his contract ran out and is still playing now.
there’s plenty of examples of players drawing huge wages for years but not playing, the clubs can’t sell them because no-one can equal their wage packets, and can’t play them because they don’t fit in the team. so they just have to keep on paying the wages. happened a lot at chelsea i seem to remember.
http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/conor-henderson
it is not connor henderson lol
diani beach brings back good memories
yes, zeus, it is a “slight” on Tunisian dentists everywhere! personally i think south africans are the best dentists. never had a tunisian – and i certainly won’t be getting oen now, jeez, not after william gallas refused one!
gambon – have you any evidence for that…because it still doesn’t sound right to me?
I’ve heard players liken contracts to slavery…I always assumed that was due to the fact that they could be bought and sold effectively with very little say so.
gambon.. what you said is what i meant mate, you force them out without actually forcing them… just look at what benayoun said last weekend about benitez.
dont see how or why we would have paid either of those two to go though, they’d have been guaranteed more money and game time at man city… the two most important things
i’m sure adebayor need a LOT of pushing to become the highest paid footballer in the world… not
AT and gambon
That´s maybe also the reason Wenger has huge problems now if he really wants to replace Almunia, Denilson, Diaby, Vela et al and give their wages to some new signings
What works in our favour with Cesc´s long term contract viciuosly works against us with the players we might want to get rid of
QoS
This week;
http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/man-city-board-agrees-fee-but-adam-clayton-rejects-carlisle-utd-return-1.732559?referrerPath=home
Players often reject moves, and theres nothing the club can do about it.
who is the fat guy in the pictures?
Affeley as DM ??? who said that
herbert
Yes, id imagine the wages are a problem with the likes of Almunia.
Which will probably see us pay him to leave, to subsidise lower wages elsewhere.
its pretty clear at this point that wenger only in the market for 2 more player all defensive and its my guess he is looking for 2 very experienced players at cb position and keeper,any players linked to club under 26 in view will not be be comming,dj verm and new signing are all 23-24 which is good age but wenger will want at least 1-2 experienced defenders sole would have been ideal. and the fact he has backed edwardo thoe vela ect pretty much counts out any more attacking players comming in.
Gooby
might be Johann Djourou having had a couple of too much ice creams while off duty
QoS,
Selling the shares of a business is not quite the same.
I am professionally qualified, but I am not a lawyer!
Long term contracts such as Cesc’s appears to be are supposed to stop this sort of nonsense but can be a two edged sword.
If gives both the club and the player certainty of employment/srevices rendered. Cesc is probably paid a premium to sign such a contract. Arsenal are not subject to a player running down the last year of their contract, until 4 years into the future.
Chamahk refused to ask for a transfer last year. Why? Because Arsenal would pay him a much larger salary when he eventually signed for him. The “loser” was his previous club, because he did not have a 5 year deal.
Alternatively, if he had asked for a transfer he would have forfeited his rights to have his contract paid up and for any loyalty payment that may have been in his contract and his future salary would not have been so large because Arsenal would have had to pay a fee to the selling club.
This is all a bit complicated and I am rapidly becoming bored with my attempt to explain.
The point is, it would be naive to think that Cesc is sitting on the fence with splinters up his a*se because he is doing it for fun. We need to wake up and smell the coffee. It’s MONEY!
Timao, I’m a fan of the Polish dentists.
Though mine is English and he is exceptional and most importantly, trustworthy.
Haha Isnt Conor Henderson a white paddy ?
qos, sometimes its important to pull people up who waffle, not that you would of course, your one of the more sensible on here!, i was only joking as well!, much like the Arsh was as well no doubt!
you just have to hope that players would prefer to play, it’s usually the case, not a big problem i don’t think. most of the time when arsenal have wanted to sell there are plenty of buyers and players want to be playing. it’s more of an issue for smaller clubs getting stuck with an over the hill mega star – like when freddie went to west ham
Chippy, I believe so.
or Chelsea and Bogarde
I said that A&N. And i do know better then everyone else here. He can play DM for sure. I’am a big PSV fan.
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-takes-pre-season-training-pictures
I can see why Wenger signed Kozzer now, he is clearly his son. They are exactly the same build. He’s going to get eaten alive.
Gooby
Do you mean the black one??
If so its Frimpong.
According to TAIG Gooby, its our new Asian recruit Yo Mamma
Red Arse, I liked your explanation…
someone else said it earlier and i thought the same thing… the arsenal photgrapher fancies nasri – it’s almost embarassing!
Dutchman Knows Best
Pedro,
We all say that about our dentists, because if he found out we were being rude we would be terrified about what he could do.
Oops, sorry that should have been the lower back, not the front upper! Never mind you have 25 others!
Timao thanks. I was starting to think my posts were invisible
Dutchman,
In the few matches I have seen them play, I thought both Affelay and Hazard were pretty creative and not so much DM’s. I must be wrong, I suppose?
Pedro,
Thanks for liking my explanation, I think everybody else fell asleep halfway thru.
Matt: Is that Kozzer? Jeepers, see what you mean. His clothes hang off him as though he was one of those spindly wire hangers!
herbert says:
July 14, 2010 at 15:41
How to get even with Barcelona
Organise a “friendly” pre-season with them
Sign Martin Taylor and Ryan Shawcross and put them in the team
Then let them express our sincerest displeasure to PiquePuyolIniestaXavi!!!
That will bring a tear of joy to me eyes, Herbert
Gooner12@ 15.10
Arsenal vs Man utd at the emirates where we won 2-1 with a last minute header from Henry. To date that was the best ever game i seen at the emirates and as for the atmosphere it was electric. (like we won the league with a last minute header against the Mancs!)
Ur Talkin shit m8.
Matt
hehe. That was the same thought I had when I saw this pic.
For the record neither Affelay or Hazard are defensive players in ANY sense.
I’m just trying to see his stats to see what he weighs. I would be amazed if it’s much over 11 stone!
Lionel Messi has admitted he would be ‘delighted’ if Cesc Fabregas joined Barcelona this summer.
The Arsenal captain has been heavily linked with a move to the Catalan giants, with the 23-year-old having been pictured in a Barca shirt during the Spanish national team’s celebrations after winning the World Cup.
Messi is now the latest in a list of Barcelona players to reveal their desire to see Fabregas move to Camp Nou, following pleas from Carles Puyol, Xavi, Gerard Pique and Andres Iniesta to join the ranks.
Fabregas has not yet revealed whether he will leave the Gunners to rejoin the club where he started his career, but Messi confessed it would be a great move.
“I would be delighted if he came,” Messi said
“We played together as kids (in Barca’s youth team) and he knows the club.”
Villa excitement
Messi also stated his excitement at the possibility of playing with David Villa, who left Valencia this summer to join the Spanish champions.
“He will be really good for us. He has already shown what he can do at Valencia and in the Spanish national team. Let’s hope we can be together soon to start preparing for the new season,” he said.
The 22-year-old also issued his desire to see Diego Maradona stay as coach of Argentina, who is under intense pressure to leave following their 4-0 exit to Germany in their World Cup quarter-final.
“It’s up to him to decide whether he stays or not,” Messi added. “For me, he should stay.”
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-takes-pre-season-training-pictures
The picture with Wenger kneeling. Really shows how skinny or svelt he is.
Now compared the pique shit … with this …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldm5qx91UyM&feature=player_embedded#!
That’s classy u cuntolunya twats
As I understand that Gambon – you are right in a way. Because ultimately the player can say…”I understand you’ve agreed a fee, but I like my house so i’m staying put and seeing out the rest of my contract”.
The buying club has to present an attractive enough option that the player is prepared to say, “you know what sod my house and my 3 years left on my contract, I’ll sign the new 5 year contract i’m being offered.”
So to bring it back to Fabregas, if Real Madrid offered us 50m and we accepted the bid. I don’t beleive we would have to pay Fabregas £25m of that.
I think Real would say to him…we’ll give you £5m to join us and a six year deal paying you £30k a week more than what you are on and he’d either say yes or no based on whether he liked the look of it or not.
He’ll probably turn around and ask Arsenal for the loyalty payment he’d be due at the end of his contract but not £25m to pay off the remainder otherwise Arsenal would just say forget it then.
Kozzer Looks like Crook MacKenzie from The Office! Skinny bugger, needs to hang out with Nasri a bit methinks…
t-buzz
wouldn´t that be great? I would sit for hours watching re-runs of the then following youtube footage
Nasri & Arshavin will have Kos beefed up in no time – ‘cakes and pies, cakes and pies’
Lionel Messi has admitted he would be ‘delighted’ if Cesc Fabregas joined Barcelona this summer.
The Arsenal captain has been heavily linked with a move to the Catalan giants, with the 23-year-old having been pictured in a Barca shirt during the Spanish national team’s celebrations after winning the World Cup.
Messi is now the latest in a list of Barcelona players to reveal their desire to see Fabregas move to Camp Nou, following pleas from Carles Puyol, Xavi, Gerard Pique and Andres Iniesta to join the ranks.
Fabregas has not yet revealed whether he will leave the Gunners to rejoin the club where he started his career, but Messi confessed it would be a great move.
“I would be delighted if he came,” Messi said
“We played together as kids (in Barca’s youth team) and he knows the club.”
Villa excitement
Messi also stated his excitement at the possibility of playing with David Villa, who left Valencia this summer to join the Spanish champions.
“He will be really good for us. He has already shown what he can do at Valencia and in the Spanish national team. Let’s hope we can be together soon to start preparing for the new season,” he said.
The 22-year-old also issued his desire to see Diego Maradona stay as coach of Argentina, who is under intense pressure to leave following their 4-0 exit to Germany in their World Cup quarter-final.
“It’s up to him to decide whether he stays or not,” Messi added. “For me, he should stay.”
I HATE MESSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Messi, I love you like a brother, and as a brother from another mother, your a cunt.
Does anyone know what the tea lady at the nou camp thinks of the possibility of Barca signing Cesc, I would really like to know her thoughts too….
DG,
Our first game against the Chavs, Drogba will crunch Kos and we will have another (skinnier) Senderos.
Just great!
According to TAIG Gooby, its our new Asian recruit Yo Mamma
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fait enough, i’ll take this
sixx pacc – it’s not the first time, the pics of the players first day training was all Nasri as well… he/she has got it bad!
‘Arsenal have just splashed out a reported £10 million on Laurent Koscielny, but the 24-year-old defender arrives at the Emirates a relative unknown.
So, just who is he? We asked the managing editor of our French website Cedric Roquette for the inside track on the man who will wear number six shirt for the Gunners next season.
“Koscielny has everything you expect from a defender – except a massive frame,” explained Roquette.’
NO, SHIT!!!
@ Herbert Ha ha ha!
Bliss!
Fifa need to sort their chit out. In US sports if a chairman even comes close to mentioning players in other teams they get big fines.
I would suggest that mentioning players from other teams comes with a big fine in the first instance and for repeat offenders they get banned from transfer windows.
For players I would have the same applied and by big fines I mean between 4-12 weeks worth of pay.
Mother fuckers.
timao says:
July 14, 2010 at 15:54
i’m sure adebayor need a LOT of pushing to become the highest paid footballer in the world… not
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Toure earns more than him now.
And im sure Ade said Wenger begged him to leave. Sort of like Arsenal were skint and they really needed the money so he had to go.
Sounds bollox. But then sounds like something Wenger would say
QoS
Yeah the 2 parties will always compromise.
I wasnt suggesting we would have to pay him £28m, but he certainly could hold out for that much if he wanted, as thats what we owe him according to the contract.
Anyway we should be talking about how we can keep him, not how we can flog him to the highest bidder.
WTL
The tea lady thinks Cesc has Barca DNA…
10 mil for a toilet brush!
Guys, affelay played DM for PSV this year with engelaar. Affelay could easily play with fabregas and song.
Na Red Arse, Kos will come at Drogba like a spider monkey and the Drog wont know what to do. Then Vermaelen will give him his dead eye stare and really freak the head off him. Its all good.
Wenger T L,
Yes, I believe she said, “me enanta su pequeno culo”.
Which means “I love his little arse”.
RT.Z
if i remember correctly, Messi was reported to have said that well before the World Cup. This isnt going to stop till every Barcelona player keep professing their undying love for Cesc!!
Dont just hate Messi, hate the media for even publishing every sh!t that spills out of barcelona.
the office cleaners at barca are looking forward to “working alongside cesc”, probably to clean up all the spit he leaves behind.
Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has distanced himself from reports linking Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas with a switch to the Catalan giants.
The La Liga champions have been widely tipped to take the Spain international back to the Camp Nou, but after being quizzed by journalists, the coach brushed off the news.
He said: “It’s not my business, it’s not my job. I’m sorry.
“He’s a player for Arsenal, so Arsene Wenger has the say. You have to ask them.
“You know him better than me (the media), you see him each weekend, he’s a good player, that’s why he is here with the Spanish team and not on his holidays.
Adios peeps, off home in the rain!
On a much sadder news…Theirry Henry is coming to New York.
Watch the Arsenal Contingency grow
Dutchman
We concede too many goals as is, and leave too much space in midfield.
Bringing affelay in would be a disaster.
If hes ever gonna play for us it’ll be wide right.
Weight is the new height.
Wenger the liar
Don´t get so worked up
Wenger & Gazza are doing the right thing in not even ignoring these retards
Cesc´s holiday will be over, he will find out nothing has been done about his wish to leave for Barcelona, he will say he is impressively happy to be an Arsenal player and we will not hear from Barcelona until next may
Why give them undeserved attention
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11827_6260351,00.html
T BUZZ this was reported 2day
Thanks for that DG, the old Spider Man strategy, of course!
And here I was worrying!
goonerT
Ease now. Give him a chance.
ARSENAL WILL SIGN THE FOLLOWING, PLEASE LISTEN TO ME I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!
Chamakh (Done)
Wellington (Done)
Schwarzer (4m)
Koscielny (Done 9.7m)
Diakhate (8m)
Campbell (50/50 One year extension)
THESE ARE THE ONLY NEW FACES YOU WILL SEE AT ARSENAL NEXT SEASON. OUTS WILL BE!
Almunia
Silvestre
Senderos
Gallas
Merida
Cesc (50/50 but will not be replaced)
Simpson
Vela on loan or Eduardo sold, maybe both.
Vermaelen was too small – but he leaps like a salmon in heat
Now Kos is too skinny – i bet he leaves his hair grow and becomes samson like in his strength
QoS, weight doesn’t fuss me really… Lucio is a light weight but a beast all the same.
Senderos is pretty big and he’s a bit of a fairy on the ball.
It’s not how much you weigh, it’s how you use it.
David – i don’t really believe what Adebayor says, he twists the truth in his own mind. wenger begged him to leave…? i’m not sure about that, he probably just refused to give him another pay rise. adebayor twisted that round to mean arsenal are skint. fuck it – everyone including the entire state if abu dahbi would be skint if they had to pay adebayor what HE thinks he’s worth
Cesc shouldnt be on holiday.
He barely played 80m the whole world cup.
Just like Joe Cole.
WTF does Cole need a holiday for?
Pedro
it´s how you use it
hmmmmm
RT.Z. that’s bullshit!! You have it from bullshit rumours.com. Don”t believe that shit.
QOS
It’s not like he is 6 foot 4 with that sort of frame, where he would at least have a height advantage. He is 6’1 so will maybe have a sleight height advantage on some, but I cant see him having a weight advantage on many. He either needs to be extremely quick or be able to read the game exceptionally well. Like someone else said, can you imagine him up against Drogba, or even Kevin Phillips for that matter!
I hate Fat Birds, Sorry wrong board lol
yesterday Iniesa
today Messi
tomorrow some other cunt.
whatever. its doesn’t actually matter does it?! Its just noise, a distraction. Pathetic and they don’t even realise it.
Pedro “it’s how you use it” – Thats what she said!!
Arsenal are going to sign the follwing players:
Joe Cole;
Subotic;
Balotelli;
Neuer or Steklenberg.
timao
Ade might be a retard…but surely Wenger mustve lied to him much the way he’s been lying to us the fans that we’ve been skint?
Its all about the top 4 for Wenger.
Sorry i mean 3rd place.
Matt, do you think we’ll have signed somebody the scouts and manager don’t think can handle themselves?
I have heard from a very reliable source that Joe Cole has signed a four year deal worth £90,000 a week with Liverpool.He will wear the number 15 shirt for the reds.
DeiseGooner
I know how I use mine
Herbert -
I swear I am so entrentched in Doom that I now never expect anything from Arsene in the transfer market. By not having any expectations I do not feel let down when the sky sports countdown clock hits zero and we have united rejects in the ranks.
However.
This fucking Cesc transfer bollocks has sucked me in and I am in two states currently, on the one hand I actually believe that Arsenal have handled the bid etc in the best possible way and that Cesc will play for us next year. On the other hand I think that our lack of ambition is one of the major reasons he wants to leave and that he is also a cunt from how he has handled the whole situation.
The nightmare is that we were planning on selling him all along and its a case of waiting for the last possible moment to reduce the comeback from the fans. If you look at the way its played out the longer you let this fester the more the fans will think good ridence and the board management will be absolved of blame. Also with fuck all time to find a replacement we can talk of internal solutions.
Anyway its starting to fuck me off, as you can tell.
QOS, I really do hope not.
As I said, I dont know his offical weight but he looks like a strong fart would knock him over.
I just hope he is the most deceptively strong person in the world.
WTL
Barcelona won nothing for 5 years while building a young team with Xavi, Puyol etc
Arsenal won nothing for 5 years while building a young team with Cesc, Clichy etc
Xavi staid at Barcelona and they started winning
We have to say no to Cesc and we will start winning as well
Kos looks pretty similar to Chamakh phsically
Sign Tasci, Give Gallas a 1-year deal, and Get Frey.
That will do it.
Herbert –
Mate your preaching project youth to the wrong person, you can convince Gambon faster than youll convince me.
I do agree that if we are to be succesful anytime in the next decade that we need to keep Cesc.
footy rumours,lol you gotta love that site man.
Lets pretend for a moment we sign no midfielders. How do we line up?
Song Rambo
…Cesc
In
Iniesta – 10 million
Lucio – 7 million
Messi – 15 million
mickydidit89
Song Rambo
VanPersie Cesc Arshavin
Matt
Koscienly said it himself admitted that the physical side of the game is his weakness…but Wenger thinks otherwise.
“We identified Koscielny as a very, very strong centre-half,” Wenger told Arsenal.com.
Translation: He’s weak as shyte.
I think Wenger signed him so he could beat someone in the annual arm wrestling comp!!
David
Thank God Wenger didn´t say he is “intelligent”
Then we would know we are REALLY in trouble with the player
Have we signed another player called rambo or are you people that have been posting here refering to the guy that currently has one leg, will no doubt suffer from constant muscle strains upon his return and will probably not go in for a tackle again for at least two years?
Who we talking about as our saviour?
“do you think we’ll have signed somebody the scouts and manager don’t think can handle themselves?” Err most of his recent signings have been lightweight players!
Chamakh looks more muscular than Kos
Herbert: with Chamakh up top alone? I like it.
..Song Rambo
RVP Cesc AA
…Chamakh
Correct?
mickydidit89
Yes!!
Preston North End Transfers
Signed
Wayne Brown – Leicester City Done Deal
Craig Morgan – Peterborough United Done Deal
Matty James – Manchester United Done Deal
Paul Hayes – Sc11nthorpe United Done Deal
To Sign
Carl Dickinson – Stoke City 500K
Matt Phillips – Wycombe Wanderers 500K
Gary Hooper – Sc11nthorpe United 1.5M
Jason Koumas – Wigan Athletic Free
Jason Scotland – Wigan Athletic 800K
I’m not going to worry until i’ve seen him play a few games Matt.
A tourist is in North London one Saturday and he decides he would very much like to go to a football match, so he asks a man in the street if there are any local matches being played that afternoon.
“Well,” replies the man, “the Arsenal ground is very close but they’re playing away today. If you feel you really must see a match, the Tottenham ground is not that far away. You go straight down this road and you’ll see two queues, a big queue and a small queue.
You should go to the small queue because the big one is for the fish and chip shop.
Call me pessimistic QOS, but I am going to be the opposite. I am going to worry until I have seen him play a few games. At which point hopefully he will prove me wrong!
Herbert, I reckon Chamakh may well become undroppable, so that does leave only that option for RVP.
A young boy goes to Social Services and tells them he has no where to live. ‘What about your parents?’ replies The Social Worker ‘No, they beat me’ says the boy. ‘What about your Grandparents?’ replies the social worker. ‘No, they beat me even harder!’ says the boy. ‘Well where do you want to stay then?’ replies the Social Worker “Tottenham” says the boy “They don’t beat anyone”
WTL
Rambo will make it
RVP isnt a winger.
Vermy had this to say about Koss
Will defenders become more technical?” mulled Vermaelen. “Well that depends on how you play – you’ll always have defenders who are and others who aren’t. If a boss wants a player who just defends, he chooses someone who is big and strong, and not good with his feet. It’s his choice.”
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Why the fuk are we looking at a “technical” defender?
mickydidit89
I actually think RVP is better off a little bit on the right
And Chamakh scores more than half of his goals with the head!!!
Herbert; so that leaves our B Team as:
…Den Diaby
Theo Nasri Ros
….Bendy
As if we havent learned anything from the Sol Campbell signing.
how much would Steve bould be worth now?
Fucking Class Class Class defender.
Herbert 16:56 Agree.
RVP has always been ideally suited to the DB10 role in a 4-4-2, so this is the best option for him the way we set up now.
“Got no hair, we don’t care, Stevie Stevie Bould”
Arsene Wenger showed how relaxed he is by commenting to journalists that if the Catalan giants don’t give up their Cesc chase, he will mount a bid for Barca’s global superstar, Lionel Messi.
Messi has a €150 million (£130m) buy-out clause in his Barca contract.
“I have made a £40 million bid for Messi and nobody speaks about it,” quipped Wenger.
Herbert
100000000000000000000000000% with you there friend.
We would be stupid not to play Chamakh centrally.
gambon
with all due respect
apply for a manager´s job in the premier league, i would be proud to have exchanged messages with you one day in the comments section of Le Grove
But don´t always dismiss other people´s opinion as if they knew nothing
Wenger bid £400k for Mobangwo Messii from the Congo.
David – do you think Sol actually played that well for us?
I’ve been thinking about this a bit, i reckon he was not really any better than OK. His attitude however was brilliant.
It just seems a bit like we were wowed by all the fist pumping and flag waving rather than the performances.
We are short on full backs than can actually cross the ball. I have been amazed that during all the speculation that there have not been more calls for reinforcements in that area.
bould, adams and keown are still probably quicker than fishhead and senderos now lol
Judging by those pics, Kos is about the same size I was when I was playing at 16.
LOL @ Gambon
I bet you mowbango can trap a ball better than theo.
SERIOUSLU THOUGH, SILVESTRE WILL BE OFFERED A NEW 1 YEAR CONTRACT
QoS
SOrry to but in are you talking first or second time around?