1st half line up:
Fabianski, Nordtveit, Vermaelen, Djourou, Traore, Nasri, Wilshere, Frimpong, Walcott, Arshavin, Chamakh
Fabianski started in goal and as a punishment for last seasons poor form, he was forced to wear a pink goalkeeper shirt. That’ll learn him…
Arsenal were in my favourite away kit of the last ten years, very stylish, so much so, I’m considering buying one for once!
Frimpong had another chance to show his value to the team by hopefully demonstrating his potential could outshine Denilson and his A-list stats. Nordveit was hoping to impress in the right back role again and Chamakh was hoping health and safety could pass a method statement for his highly flammable gel laden hair…
Samir Nasri looked like he’d taken time out this summer to hit the tread mill and JD was aiming to prove that he could complete two consecutive games. Would Jack Wilshere ease the pain of losing out on Joe ‘Liverpool are the best team in the country… seriously’ Cole? Only time would tell!
First good move of the match came when Nasri put Arshavin through on goal, the Russian just short of the required pace to reach the ball first.
Chamakh bagged his first assist of the pre-season when he cleverly managed to get tackled outside the box, knowing Nasri was following in to bury it low and hard past the Graz keeper from 20 yards.
1-0 to the boys in mustard and red currant.
Traore pulled off a super bit of skill, lifting the ball away from his full back winning a corner. Chamakh nearly finished the corner leaping as high as the jumping keepers hands were! We are now a genuine threat from corners. That’s exciting to know.
Frimpong was ticking over in the centre of the park, linking in well with Jack Wilshere who had a solid yet quiet game by his standards.
We were mostly in control of a slightly flat game, but the defence looked shaky and allowed the tiny Sturm striker through on goal forcing a good at the feet of Fabianski. The resultant corner led to a free header from two yards. Same old Arsenal when it came to defending this evening. Regardless of how early it is in our pre-season, we weren’t looking sharp at the back…
Jack Wilshere won a freekick after turning his man on the edge of the Sturm box. Nasri stepped up and dinked the freekick into the top corner. A superb goal. I thought it was funny that the commentary team mentioned the Frenchman’s hunger… you don’t need to tell us guys!
2nd Half team:
Koscielny, Gibbs, Eastmond, Lansbury, Rosicky (c), JET on for Vermaelen, Traore, Frimpong, Nasri, Arshavin, Chamakh
Koz came on for the second half, I was hoping for some heroic show of manliness top prove he had Lucio type strength. I wasn’t holding my breath. Geoff informed me he is in fact 6ft2 according to the Arsenal magazine. It’s a shame there are under 16′s with more muscle mass… the dinner lady at Colney wants to be putting extra meat on his plate this season! How he’s expected to deal with Drogba / Adebayor types I don’t know!
Chesney got his first full half and chose the pink kit because he felt it complimented his light complexion. He made a good save early on which must have eased his nerves.
We bagged our third after JET cut the ball back to Lansbury who dummied before chipping past the keeper.
I like Lansbury, a technically gifted box to box player… sadly, he struggles to impress whenever he plays for us. If he wants to shine in this group of kids, he’s going to have to up his game. His goal and a fizzing 30 yard shot went some way to him staking a claim for a squad number this year.
JET has a similar languid playing style to Bendtner. I can see that irritating fans because he can look lazy at times… however, the kid has dazzling feet, power and productivity. I really hope he realises his potential with us. That will require a lot of hard work… something the English boys have lacked in years gone by.
Theo continued to disappoint with a typical performance. He has very little skill going round players and he’s not very instinctive. I’m struggling to see how a full pre-season is going to change fundamental flaws in his game… but I’ll reserve judgement until October.
The game concluded with a clean sheet and a victory.
What did we learn? Well… we learnt that Arsenal have the same problems they had last year. We attack well and knock the ball round impressively… but we can’t defend. Graz were an extremely weak team and they opened us up on numerous occasion. If we’re to challenge next year, we need a proper keeper and a proper centre back pairing. If we don’t address those issues, I’m struggling to see what’s changed this summer?
I’ve heard that we’re out there making enquiries for top class players this summer (I’m talking £40mill worth of talent in the two positions I heard), but I can’t help but feel we’re going to go into the Emirates cup disappointed again. Wenger hasn’t done his shopping early as promised and we’re once again the proud owners of a transfer window cash surplus. It smacks of doing it on the cheap again and it lacks ambition considering we’re a club looking to sell £14,000 corporate hospitality tickets.
I know there is plenty of time left until the transfer window shuts but I can’t help but get that deja vu feeling… is it time for the ‘I’m satisfied with my squad’ press conference?
I hope not…
Other News
Eduardo left as I predicted earlier in the summer. Reading some of the Gooners in blog land go on about him, like some sort of war hero had just passed away, was a touch vom inducing… jeez, get a grip people! He broke his leg and earned a full footballers salary throughout his recovery, probably watched Jeremy Kyle and loose women everyday and received the best treatment available.
Honestly, you’d have thought Dennis Bergkamp had lost his leg in his prime they way some people have been eulogizing… I thought he was a good player but for me, he lacked pace and involvement in the game. We gave him our full support after he was assaulted, he recovered, now he’s off to make a success of himself at one of the richest clubs in Europe. Good luck son!
Arsenal seem to be very keen to publicise the fact they are using GPS technology, the commentators were asking whether the boxes on the players backs were so Wenger could remotely control the players. Well, just to clarify that isn’t true, here is the run down of what it does…
It measures…
- Distance (broken down into time and % of time in zones).
- Speed (max, average, minimum – total in zones)
- Heart rate (max, average, minimum – total in zones)
- Impacts/body load – the ability to view the musculoskeletal stress
- Meters/min – a key variable of intensity.
- This the one of the key variables used by our clients to monitor and manage the total “WorkLoad” of each player.
Basically, the tech will tell Arsenal how hard the players have trained/played, how fatigued they are and how close they are to injury. A massive boost for our medical team and our fitness staff.
For more info on the product, click here. I know that that GPS sports supply the devices, however, what I’m not sure of is whether they manage sport scientists and the implementations. I’m on the case though…
Sol Campbell is rumoured to be signing back on with the club. I’m pleased about that, but I’m still incredibly nervous about the state of our backline. We’ve got 3 defenders that are untested in the Premier League and another who can’t manage more than one game a week. Hardly confidence inspiring is it? I’d like a centre back, a defensive midfielder and a keeper… that’d put us in the frame for sure.
2 games, 7 goals, 2 clean sheets… still a long way to go if we want to be competing for Champions League and Premiership honours this season. Standing still squad wise is not an acceptable outcome this summer, we need to progress… keep the faith Grovers, that rabbit we’ve been praying Wenger will pull out of his hat is probably dead now, three years is a long time to go without sustenance, however, I’ve still got faith he’s been feeding it behind out backs and this is the summer he’ll pull it out and reveal something a bit special!
Come on Arsene, show us the rabbit!
Stop ganging up on gambon, unless you’re taking his side wtl ? Then all we need is another one, BBK you around ?!
arsenes
Yeah, spending on the stadium is definately improving the team isnt it.
When was the last time the stadium played at right back you mug?
NO the digestives in the board room came up through the academy.
A Ferdinand is Right footed so is Vidic, J.Terry is right footed so is Carvalhio I don’t want to insult your intelligence by explaining how good both defense pairings are not just by my own eyes but with statistics there is no major major difference in my opinion yes it would help if there was balance but it does not mean that two central defenders who have matching foot preference cannot form a mean lean defensive machine.
Bemejor
Because we are a big club. Thats why. Qualifying for the CL is expected. Its like Brazil qualifying for the world, Real Madrid qualifying for the CL, Stan Collymore being a TWAT, its just a given.
Those are the standards that we have set for ourselves and welcome standards they are. Its an accomplishment that we have spent so many consecutive seasons in the CL but we are the Arsenal.
So we are the Dutch of CL?
Zeus those are the standards we have set for ourselves since Wenger and I agree they are welcome standards, certainly wasnt the case before him
gambon – Have you seen Blackpool’s stadium ? The wind starts blowing the ball around half the time because they’ve only got two proper stands.
Arseneabemajor -
Thats because before wenger only the champions went into the champions league.
Gambon the stadium affected our spending, surely even you can see that
AJG – Were they kept in the packet ?!
The analogy with Blackpools spending is just plain stupid and something I would expect from a halfwit
Keyser -
Can either stand play right back?
sure the stadium affected our spending, but the fact remains we are not spending as much as we could or should
and we are underachieving
Depends what side of the pitch you’re on, they only two stands.
vick ackers got the digestives off his sister who works at the co op, they were past the sell by..
WTL agreed but we werent in the top 4 every year either
arsenes
I agree it ‘affected’ our spending.
But a couple of points;
1) We were told it wouldnt
2) We are minted
3) What reason was given for moving stadium?
The stadium move was a great thing for us, and it was handled brilliantly, and no other manager couldve done what Wenger did in those years.
However we arent that club any more, we are a cash machine who make enourmous profits.
You wouldnt take the manager of a cornershop and make him the CEO of Tesco….we used to be a corner shop & Wenger was the guy running it, we arent anymore.
Were they kept in the packet though ?!
i believe they were in a tin, it had a picture of arsene holding the epl trophy up on the balcony of the town hall, next to david dein, a bit like the tins they did for the royal wedding, back in the day.
gambon – You’re comparing us to that same corner shop now though.
Arsenes
Analagy??? It was fact.
We have invested less than every team in the premier league over 5 years, and most over 8 years, and even the 18 years of the prem.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11675_6273904,00.html
Geoff’s gonna have a field day when he reads this.
Exactly Keyser
The cornershop manager has taken over Tesco and is running it like a shitty little convenience store.
‘Wengkers supplies’
GoonerT1m – My next question would have been whether they had that plastic wrapping around the lid to keep it air-tight, but we’re going too far with this.
it’s never too far on le grove!!
gambon – It’s just bollocks though, the corner shop could turn a profit by selling a Mars bar everyday, you’re saying that’s the same as us buying Nestles at a loss and making our own Chocolate.
Gambon thats because we have a manager who has made some massive profits on moving on players, you want to use that fact to have a go at him, we have spent during his reign , you are implying we have spent less than Blackpool on players which is not true
Keyser
Err…Yeah thats exactly what im saying.
finestcuts – “We have to aim for it. We could win the championship.”
I think that’s the key line in that Redknapp interview, I don’t think he knows what league he’s in.
were going into the season with 2 injury prone strikers, chamakh who has yet to kick a ball in the prem and vela who the jury is out on
not impressed
One more thing though, we don’t consider stadium investment as an investment because we have to pay it in instalments? I’m no financial expert but by the same logic we shouldn’t consider transfer in and out’s as well. We don’t have the Kolo, Ade, Henry and Hleb money since it comes to us in instalments.
The only thing we should consider as investment are the wages, and we’re top notch at that.
gambon – Actually it’s the other way around, but it’s the same ridiculous concept and the warehouse and premises the Supermarket works from make a uge difference.
actually Gambon if you truly think we have spent less on players than Blackpool, what it must measn is that Wenger is a genius as he has kept us in the top 4 , whereas Blackpool have been playing championship football. Hadnt really looked at it that way but it makes his acheivements even more impressive dont you agree?
Last year, Chelsea and Man U dropped unecessary points to give us a fighting chance, to make us feel we actually did well, fact is, Arsene sucked! he didnot move when he had an opportunity to, he did not bring in players he needed and he did not change anything during the game, (except one time vs Liverpool at Anfield)
To not go after Ozil,sell Fabregas (cause he is a distraction to winning anything this term) or any quality defender and goal keeper NOW is to tell the fans FUCK YOU!
MG, You’d want another striker? We can’t fit so many in the 25. We need players for other positions as well.
Man U are going in with Rooney, Berba and Owen.
Chelsea with an ageing Drogba and Anelka.
no arsenes
We have sold players in order to buy. Arsene is fantastic at finding players, but his obsession with being cheap is stopping us winning things.
If he’d run a transfer defecit of £10m pa, there would be £50m of talent in the squad right now.
Do you nonestly think we wouldnt be stronger with 4 £12/13m players for example?
So again…..why did we move stadium???
DDG, or did we drop unnecessary points to give them a chance.
arsenes
Ive never said Arsene wasnt a genius at spending money.
Ive never said he wasnt the only manager that couldve kept us in the top 4.
I have heard virtually every pundit in the game, every journo, every ex player say exactly the same.
You know what else ive heard them say???…he needs to stop being so stubborn and change things.
Gambon ’cause Arsene won’t be around forever. Moreover with the current media there’s hardly any unknown talent to unearth.
Dale
Cant agree with that. Sure it was quite uncharacteristic for us to be behind Utd and Chelsea by double digit margins and come back TWICE and at one point topping the league, but I rather like to think that the so called lesser sides just stopped rolling over when Utd and Chelsea came to town.
Hopefully that continues this season.
Had Utd or Chelsea done that they would be praised for the mental strength and character.
Gambon we may know one day how much money he has or hasnt had during the stadium building, one things for sure we will reep the benefits in the long run, if it means a few years of not spending much then so be it, personally I think its great that 22,000 more people can get to see the team at home
Zeus, they don’t roll over because in Man U’s case the ref protects them and in Chelsea’s case they’re as dirty as they come. So their kick ‘em out of the game strategy doesn’t work.
We on the other hand are fair game.
You mean 17000 arsenes.
The long run looks rosy, but not if there is a disproportional investment in the team.
Mayank
I guess its a combination of the 3. I’ve seen teams be completely up for us (like Villa) but then the play Chelsea and get smached 7-0 was it.
mayank plus hernandez who was scoring goals aswell as macheda and wellbeck they have 6 strikers 4 of which are very good
Gambon I thought Highburys capacity was 38419 and the emirates 60,355 which is 22,000 near as damn it
On the squad thing if we dont resign Sol and Cesc did leave doesnt that leave us 2 players short on the homegrown rule?
Hernandez is very good but Vela who starts ahead of him in Mexico is unproven. And Berba, even Man U fans hate him. Owen I won’t say much about. If we’re counting Macheda and Welbeck might as well count JET, And Sunu for us.
Are you sure you’re not being very liberal with Man U and disproportionately cynical about us.
Home-grown (Minimum of eight):
Johan Djourou
Gael Clichy
Denilson
Alex Song
Nicklas Bendtner
Kieran Gibbs
Aaron Ramsey
Carlos Vela
Theo Walcott
Keyser the digestives were still in the packet but, i spoke to Xavi and he said the digestives have Barca DNA and don’t actually belong to us, we have them “on Loan”.
How does everyone feel Liverpool will do this season with Hodgson and Joe Cole.
Mayank are they all over 21?
AJG, Hodgson’s a great manager, but he has a lot of work to do. I’d say Liverpool to finish 5th.
Hodgson will build them a good low budget (relatively speaking) team that will punch above their weight.
If they lose mascherano, means they’ll be facked!
Fuck you wenger . Buy what we need . GK, CB & DM. Everyone can see it and wants it . Mr Wenger you done well over the years with our club but now is time to FUCKOFF.
You are fucking around with history . A Proud club with your bullshit theory of young and foreign players that dont and cant work.
The last few years have been proper hard work winning fuck all. You are on the other hand dont care about OUR history or the love we have for the club. You keep drawing the multi wage you get you french cunt .
Zapata signing for Arsenal will be announced within the next 48 hours, FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looking at Hodgson’s record you will see that they will be in the top 8 surely. His time at Inter says to me that even with more money he isn’t bank to necessarily do better than what he has been doing throughout his career as manager.
I dunno Choy, Hodgson is a defensively minded manager, I’m sure he won’t neglect the defensive positions…..he’ll think of something, something good.
Calling Wenger a cunt is uncalled for.
DE JONG WILL BE ANNOUNCED WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK.
Arsenes,
They don’t have to be. We just need to have 8 HGs and the U21 can be unlimited regardless of where they were grown. Doesn’t matter if a few of the HGs are U21 as well.
Zeus, he’s just trying to fit in. Apparently if you don’t say wrods to that effect you’re an Arsene fan and not an Arsenal fan.
mayank
macheda has scored more goals then vela has for us, not saying im a fan of his
berbatov is better then bendtner
give me hernandez over vela any day
Fabianski(New GK, depends on Fabianski’s Performance)
Sagna Zapata Vermaelen Clichy
Song De Jong
Nasri (Fabregas is leaving)
RVP Chamakh Arshavin
G star…..those are some interesting predictions.
We’ve been knocked back for Zapata in the past because our bid was too low.
And Citeh to sell De Jong?
Once again, I find it hard to believe that Citeh would spend hundreds of millions to outdo us, any player they sell us which will help us out will have a negative impact on their investment.
MG you’re not making any sense.
Nik has scored and assisted more in lesser appearances. I think what you mean is Berba looks classier. Or Looked. At spurs.
Vela is an automatic first choice for Mexico Hernandez makes the bench.
You think Vela is unproven ut MacHeda isn’t.
You’re trying too hard.
Yeah I’ve heard rumours to that we’re going to go with an ultra-defensive mid-field next year with De Jong coming in.
Song De Jong Frimpong.
Berba has more assists. But in many more appearances.
Don’t forget, we sold them Toure and Adebayor, plus I doubt they could play, Yaya and Barry and De Jong so 1 of them is gonna go.
GARY NEVILLE TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE NEXT 2 HOURS!
FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah but G star, we sold them a load of bogus….well I still had hope for Toure…..they paid us a pretty penny form them both and they’re the type of club to stockpile players, it’s a strong squad that win you the league and these Arab sheikhs are used to luxury, they probably have 200 hundred odd pairs of shoes just to have a choice.
Almunia is getting squeezed to getting out says goal.com
blah blah blah
By chance I saw, G Star, as a label on a baseball cap today!!!!!!!
agree with gambon – with no trophy in 5 years his current transfer policy of tying to find cheap players and youths and turn them into gems hasn’t worked.
When we were winning trophies we has a mixture of his talented finds plus established players.
We need to go out spend the huge amount of money we have and buy some established players who can be effective from day 1. Not take 3-5 years to develop then fuck off just as they get good.
then again … it might be true and we instead of getting a new GK are left with Flappy in between the sticks … happy days
I wouldn’t have any objections to Shezny as our new number one though … fuck the age thing … u either got it or not
AC Milan have made Flamini available for cheap… AW likes cheap and francophone… I wouldn’t be against bringing him back… Song and Flamini behind a front four of Cesc, Nasri, Arshavin, RvP or Cesc, Arshavin, Chamakh, RvP could do the job…
What does Le Grove think…
Flamini won’t return because he’s on 80 grand a week at Milan and would need to take a pay cut…..and he’d have to play second fiddle to Song.
Can he play in goal or at Centrehalf ?
All joking aside the mans a mercenary cunt that stiffed marseille and then us. Fuck him, He will end up finishing his Carear at some backwater club like spurs.
I’ve heard Amaury Bischoffs looking for a new club lol what the fuck was that ever about !!
cangunn444
would like that very much, if he can get right back into it.
wont happen tho.
And finest, 80K?? really?!
bishcoff
haha
whose going to be our bischoff this season?
worst signing ever!!
@finestcuts-
Why would he have to play second fiddle?
And still, second fiddle at Arsenal still means more games than 4th fiddle at Milan… What with injuries and 4 competitions…
If he wants to play anywhere he’ll probably have to take a pay cut…
The rumors have Newcastle and Villa interested- I doubt either would pay him 80grand…
@Chippy-
Flamster is enough of a nutter to come out teeth bared, fists flying and elbows sharpened on set pieces, so you never know… He could easily be a better GK option than Flappianski… Hahaha
Not sure about Zapata. Like him a lot, but hes pretty raw, like JD & maybe Kos.
Good player, but not what we need.
I for one would like the Flamster back, but can’t see it.
Can, A one armed one legged gnome is a better option
incesc, Dont know about that apparently we snatched him from under the noses of barca and Madrid wanted him over Ronaldo but we said no
There was something very very strange regarding that deal ?
Incesc, that’s what reports suggest.
Reportedly he received a better deal from Milan than he was trying to get at Arsenal.
Flamini saw himself as a 20 million pound player, so his demands were that Arsenal pay him 75k a week as opposed to 55k a week, which would land the potential transfer fee into his own pocket.
It’s all about the money, and sure if he returned and joined the squad he’d stand a better chance of playing than at Milan, but Flamini will prob get first team football at another team.
Milan want Adey, and are trying to do a part-ex with Citeh, one of the few clubs that could afford Flamini’s contract.
Milan are going to have trouble shifting him, Flamini got himself a good contract with them.
I don’t know if anyone else has noticeed this but on the training pictures on the official site, song is wearing the number 9 jersey.
Having sed that vela is still wearing 12 but its interesting i ges…
SA Gooner, those are just training jerseys.. doesn’t mean much.
hi choy and hey guys, havent been on here for awhile and its the same old story, WE NEED SIGNINGS!!!! chamakh looks the business, not sure on kozzer tho :\ pre ordered my RVP10 shirt today… good times
by the way if you get time would you check out my music blog, i’d really appreciate it http://trezemusic.blogspot.com/
Hi choy and hey guys, havent been on here for awhile and its the same old story, WE NEED SIGNINGS!!!! chamakh looks the business, not sure on kozzer tho :\ pre ordered my RVP10 shirt today… good times
by the way if you get time would you check out my music blog, i’d really appreciate it
http://trezemusic.blogspot.com/
heh
re-sign Campbell, keep Cesc for a swansong season, and with all the Hleb and Flamini out there for cheap, maybe we can have a Reunion Tour 2010-’11.
How you doing treze, yep we need signings but everything is very slow and quiet!
can someone who has got the chance to watch pre-season pls tell me how koscienly has been playing?not much has been said about him.
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/afcreportingbarca
This is a petition to get Arsenal to report Barca.
im good, been trying to get work lately, im going into sound engineering alongside playing in a band atm, how about you… and yep same old arsenal
How’s this for a shit day…
1: Had to spend the day at a salad bowl factory
2: It took three hours to travel 30 miles home
3: I got dinged by a bike that drove off
4: I think I got done by new hidden average speed cameras before the Dartford tunnel
What a bastard!
How are we all?
ouch, rough day.
I realized I only have 3 more payments on my car after making my last one… so kind of a good day so far.
Treze, a guy I know is the sound engineer for Apple in Europe… he makes sure all the sounds on the macs are perfect.
He has a studio in Mayfair… pretty damn cool.
BG,
Don’t even get me started on this bollocks with Campbell, We are londons biggest club one of the biggest in England we are meant to be competing for the league and champions league and yet we are waiting on a 35 year old that’s best days are long gone to tell us if he wants to stay or wants to go somewhere like fucking
Sunderland. What the fuck is going on at the club.
Oh and before I get slated as a Campbell hater it’s got nowt to do with that as you will see from my messages last Xmas as I was one of the only ones that saw it as a good deal,we are being taken for twats.
That’s pretty shitty Pedro,
U guys got hidden speed cameras over there ? Now that’s fucked.
Chippy,
I think if Sol stays, we buy 1 defender, otherwise two!
Thats wishful thinking!
good i didn’t drive when I came in April
Chippy
I think he just wants to play everyweek.
Cant blame him, retirement is looming.
cool pedro, im looking to go into live concert engineering more than that side of it but yeah, how’ve you been anyway? been a while since i’ve been a regular on here (read every day though
)
This is getting a bit ridiculous for real, -We’ll see what Sol decides- … basically says Arsene. WTF??? We need at least 1 great CB and a fuckin Goalie at a very very minimum. If Cesc goes we can actually replace him, but a good CB to complement Vermy we just don’t have. Come on Arsene do the fuckin math, do u or not have an Economics degree, how fuckin hard is it.
If Koz wasn’t so lightweight, I’d consider Campbell as a 4th/5th guy with Nordtveit.
But as far as options go to team with Vermaelen, we are looking at too young, too inexperienced, too skinny, out injured for ages, or too old.
We need to bring an experienced, top, defensive first guy with size…
so we pretty much know for a fact that we won’t.
Gambon,
Mate I couldn’t give a flying what he wants, Personally I couldn’t give a shit if he rapes goats my issue is we are waiting on him !! he should be begging a club like Arsenal to keep him on,We are waiting on a has been footballer to tell us if we are fucking worthy of him soz but it’s really pissed me off,
Pedro,
Shit that’s a shocker mate, I bet you didn’t see Nasri in that factory
Choy,
We’ve got more chance of Herbert Chapman rising from the dead and then riding shergar to derby glory as we have of Wenger signing 2 more centrehalfs
Chippy, wishful thinking!!
heheh… I was looking at the Shitty team and wondering if we could nick a defensive midfielder off them!
They have yaya, barry, vieira, de jong, kompany.
No more lies Wenger.
The club must show the fans that they mean business in the transfer market, give the fans what they want
And their attack is not too bad!
Tevez, Ade, Bellamy, Cruz, Robinho.
Still have bad memories of Wigan/Blackburn away, no fight what so ever, don’t want that feeling of seeing that again, we can have a very good season as long as our manager opens his eyes
Treze, sounds like a pretty sound career choice! I’m all good thanks, yourself?
Kreshnik… the police are bastards on our roads!
So… the metro just e-mailed me and said they would set up a new type of fantasy league especially for Le Grove and it’s readers. Loads of prizes for the best players… would we all be up for that?
Pedro can i still pick Silvestre
yeah im fine, life is good atm, only issue was getting onto a solid course for september to study music tech but thames valley uni are paying for me to do one so i can go on to theirs afterwards, i started that blog to have more to talk about in my interview actually and it went well so yeah, all is well.
Sure pedro, it’d be fun! You haven’t seen the cops here!
Where’s the podcast btw?
Big Dave,
Yes mate agree I can take getting beat but some of the spineless performances over the past season or two are so far away from what the clubs about they were untrue,
Pedro,
Deffo I’m in
me!!!
sounds good pedro!
im up for the fantasy league thingy too btw.
LOL..Song De Jong Frimpong, sounds like a North Korean soup….Mayank, you can’t tell me that those 2 teams didn’t allow us a fighting chance, after all they wiped the floor with our beloved boys 2 times each. Anyone feel confident going into the season with Current setup?
Have we fucking signed anyone yet!
F.c MarMite
Of course we aint Stu, ST renewal has gone, no need to sign anyone now.
Ahh… a forum where they publish your posts if you stick up for Wenger. Unlike Le Grove.
ooooooo
No we fooking haven’t stu.ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…………….bollocks
i see that comment dave, what a prick.
Fuckballs! Wenger get off your boney arse and sign a fucking goalkeeper!!
DaleDaGooner says:
July 22, 2010 at 21:44
Anyone feel confident going into the season with Current setup?
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soup indeed, lol
confident? not I, even with personnel improvements, I’m concerned about the very high line we play
Sturm got behind the line several times yesterday
think we need a defensive coach as well as GK/CB/DM
but having said that, we are close
if the spineless displays at the end of last season were anomalies and not a recurring part of the future
marmite f.c
Why cant wenger even try Walcott upfornt in some fukin friendlies…fu*ksake.
What site is that Dave?
Because Theo is a shite striker. DUH!
sorry thats upfront.
how do you know stu?
as i recall on the only occasions the professiour has played him up top he has scored, cl against somecu*ts cant remember name and chelsea in cc.
Wasn’t walnutt playing upfront in the second half though? With Jet on the right?
Man City are set to launch a huge clearout:
Wayne Bridge – 6m
Nedum Onuoha – 4m
Pablo Zabaleta – 5m
Michael Johnson – 5m
Stephen Ireland – 8m
Shaun Wright–Phillips – 10m
Roque Santa Cruz – 10m
Javier Garrido – 4m
Jo – Birmingham – 9m
Joleon Lescott – 8m
Felipe Caicedo – 3.5m
Joe Hart – 8m
Kelvin Etuhu – 1m
Shaulem Logan – 500k
Javan Vidal – 200k
Craig Bellamy – 3.5m
Vladimir Weiss – 4m
Greg Cunningham – 800k
Alex Nimley – 150k
Adebayor – 14m
Gareth Barry – 10m
De Jong – 12m
pedro
metro league sounds great!
what sort of prozes we looking at?
holidays, cars?
Yeah he was Choy and he did fuck all. Missed a sitter against Barnet through the middle too.
W4S, how do you know he is any good. Fucking cunting internet! I cant find the teams from the final. I dont think Theo played in the middle, definately not in a 4-3-3 so this whole argument is moot.
Yeah right!
I have heard three rumours from the son of a former arsenal player. (I’ll never name him!!)
They have all come true.
They were Chamakh, Fabregas maybe staying for 1 more season and Koscienly.
He has told me two more.
De Jong and Zapata.
I await their signature!
For those prices, I’ll take a Joe Hart, Bellamy, and De Jong…
Bag em up and keep the change.
Geez G Star..
Where do you get this info from?
READ MY POST – 22:07 – 100% FACT (NOT A RUMOUR)
I’ld go for Hart, De Jong and Ireland. Not that anything G star says is ever true but whatever.
Walcott started on the right Vs Chelsea that day.
Doesnt matter cos hes shit wherever.
if we were to buy sketlenburg, de jong and zapata and no one else, do you guys think we’d have a solid chance at challenging this year?
READ MY POST @ 22:07 – NOT A RUMOUR – 100% FACT
G star, how do we take you seriously?