It’s true Grovers. After 68 minutes of running around, Robin Van Precious has been given a few days off to rest his weary over worked brittle bones. He must be shattered and I fully understand the precaution.
I had a look over his game log for the past 6 months. Since May, Robin has managed 829 minutes of playing time for Holland. For us, he’s manage 134. He’s played 6 times the amount of minutes for his national team than he has for the club that pay him £70,000 per week.
Isn’t that staggering?
If you delve into the sums further, it works out that last season, Robin cost us £202,533 a per start. Pretty steep wouldn’t you say! This season, I can’t even value his starts because he’s made so few… what I can tell you is that so far this he’s cost us a whopping £9,068 a minute! If Holland were paying his wages for the two months they’d had him, they would have picked him up at the far cheaper rate of £732 a minute.
Basically, what I’m saying here is we’re getting a bum deal.
I’m not questioning the boy’s talent, he’s electric on his day, but when you look at the cold hard facts, he’s not £80k a week well spent. If Real Madrid came knocking with a wedge of cash, I don’t think I’d be overly disappointed if we parted with him and landed Benzema as part of the deal. Or perhaps looked elsewhere in Europe at Suarez, Llorente or Edin Dzeko.
…and please, lets not start talking about Wellington like he’s the answer to our problems.
Tonight’s game is going to be interesting, there’s no Gael Clichy which I’m absolutely f*cking gutted about. It’d be nice if Kieron Gibbs could come in and stay on the pitch longer than 4 minutes, he’s certainly one for the future and his superb crossing will be a refreshing change. Andrey Arshavin misses out on the trip giving Theo an opportunity to recapture his early season form.
Cesc has a late fitness test. Hopefully someone is going to have a quick check inside his skull, I’m pretty sure he left his brain in the dressing room at half time against Spurs. He owes us a big performance.
Wenger has been talking about releasing the tension in the side. To be honest, I don’t think tension is the problem, more a lack of it. Lets get some positive tension back in the team, I want the boys feel nervous they might lose their place in the side if they have a poor game… they need to buck their ideas up.
We’re in the 5th year of transition and I’m pretty sure I was told countless times these boys would be amazing in 5 years. Now is the time to show it because if they can’t, then their futures have to be elsewhere because judging by what I’ve been reading around the web, people have had enough of the mediocrity.
Arsenal are still in the dog house with me, tonight had better be a pretty damn impressive showing if forgiveness is to be achieved in a speedy way.
We need to demonstrate defensive awareness because Braga have some incredibly pacey players. Everyone needs to muck in defensively and Alex Song in particular needs to behave himself in the middle of the park. Tomorrow isn’t the game to go walk abouts.
Lets have a big game out there tonight boys and restore some of that red and white North London pride!
P.S. I heard on Talksport that mouthy Spud bookmaker Barry Dennis started giving it the big one towards Frank McLintock’s box during the Spurs game, the ex-Arsenal captain went mad, Barry hid in his box so Frank powered through the stewards and stormed his box!
That my friends is a true legend! I hope he whacked him with a stale prawn sandwich!
Good luck to Henri Lansbury at Norwich, stay away from Delia though, regardless of how good she tells you her breakfast is!
How do you like your eggs Henri?
Arsenal is not a big team.
Why would Guardiola come here? L:eave Messi for who exactly, Bendtner? Pfffft.
Wenger goes nowhere. How many times does the man have to say ‘I always serve out my contract, just relax til 2014.
Have to say the following posts were hilarious……
sixx pac says:
November 24, 2010 at 02:05
I’m confused. There are two A’s? Who the fuck makes a letter their username anyway. I’ll tell u who. Lazy twats like A. And fake A ur twice as lazy.
A says:
November 24, 2010 at 01:12
message to the opposite A
you have to be the most annoying shitstain who posts comments on arsenal blogs.
what the fuck is wrong with you.
reading your comments on a regular basis one can only assume that your very psyche is built up and sustained by arsene wenger.
the thought of arsene wenger not being a supreme deity is for you equivalent to a buddhist having to face the idea that buddha was not enlightened.
I’m afraid you might have a nervous breakdown. you should seek some professional help.
SUGA3 says:
November 24, 2010 at 00:13
if someone told me Flamini would come in a straight swap for Denilson, I would piggyback the former to London after having been piggybacked to Milan by the latter
Good Point AA23………
Our team is going through some rough patches.
Its our duty to back them to comeback strongly..
AA23,
oh, yeah, so Wenger has put Djourou in the team and he was our best player on the pitch hands down…
Gibbs was one of the bright points as well!
then again, he fielded Cesc who was unfit and once again, his hammy went as expected…
plus, he assembled midfield of Cesc, Wilshere and Denilson against a team of shitkickers…
not to mention that we have been undone by schoolboy errors in the last 10 minutes, the second goal being particularly embarrassing!
back the team…
there is the saying: can’t help you if you don’t help yourself…
and at this moment this lot deserves everything that is coming their way:
- fire sale in Jan
- supporters booing the fuck out of them after another performance like this
if they don’t show the heart (I don’t mind losing, but not on the cruise control and not without a fight), they don’t deserve anybody’s support!
are u sure its just 2 shit results aa23 ?
and yes, it’s Wenger’s fault!
- he buys players
- he is responsible for coaching (i.e. holding the coaching personnel accountable for results)
- he selects the team
- he is supposed to give players a tactical plan
I rest my case…
@suga, and people call it wengerball when our football is beautiful and succesful. When we lose, its all the players fault.
and I can recall him risking Cesc twice: against Pompey and against Villa, this ended with considerable injury layoff on both counts…
and it’s not like we shouldn’t be able to beat them w/o Cesc, is it?
same shit, expecting different results – the very sign of insanity!
exactly…
common misconception perpetrated by people thinking AW is some sort of a demi god…
the only question AW should be asked is: are you able to refocus from keeping us in red back to challenging for honours?
off for a bit…
It will be a blessing in disguise if we don’t survive the groupstage.
i would rather play with 10 men that have denilson in the team!!
we were unlucky, the ref was rubbish, they defended all game in there own half, they were to rough!! blah blah blah! WENGER LOOK AT YOURSELF!!
we had one of the easiest groups!!
http://thegoonblog.com/2010/11/denilson-haters-shut-your-mouth/
i cant believe what i am reading!! Denilson makes a couple of tackles and there is a whole article on the man!!
Hahaha.
I received an email this morning saying that the credit card details attached to my ATVO subscription have expired, could I please update them.
Bad timing AFC!
I was thinking of cancelling anyway since they stopped showing the stiffs’ games live………
It’s becoming that the worst thing about an arsenal loss is other arsenal fans.
Some people really need to grow up.
Twin imposters of success and failure remember?
Last night was so predictable.
It’s worrying that we’re barely creating any chances anymore.
I sacked off my espn last week Chozzer!
QoS,
it’s not just loss, it’s the manner of loss and the pathetic excuses uttered by the big man…
I would like him to come out, APOLOGISE for once and openly admit: we are not good enough, time to rethink, instead of ‘it’s a mystery, it’s the referee, it’s the girl in block 36 not wearing knickers’
QoS, you obviously find the darker side of the goon support interesting, as I do, else you wouldn’t log on to LG every day.
Sometimes it’s the reading of the uber-negative comments that actually makes me feel more positive after a shite night like last night. Mind you, I’m perverse that way.
Suga, you can hardly expect him not to mention the penalty that never was and also the fact that Braga committed a large number of fouls yet we got the most bookings.
He probably also said that we were poor up front and switched off at the back somewhere in the interview, but that’s hardly news ,is it?, as it was plain to see to everyone.
I’ll be sureto pass that on to him then Suga.
It’s football, we’ll win some games and we will lose some games. Enjoy it when we do and try not to let it get to you too much when we don’t.
Yesterday I met a baby with a brain tumour. Shankley was wrong.
QOS – 3 home defeats in a row. We just about beat west ham. We are struggling to qualify in the the easiest champions league group. Wenger uses the same excuses and blames everyone else!! we have the most expensive seats at arsenal!!
and your happy are you?!?!!?
We were dreadful last night, we were dreadful on Saturday, Cesc is fast becoming a crock, Bendtner is hopeless, Denilson should never wear the Arsenal shirt again and Wenger is too old and too safe.
Fuck me, the man that brought us Dennis Bergkamp was fired for not signing a new contract, what has Wenger got to do?
We always do better when we come second in the group anyway! A win against Partizan permitting, of course.
the last time arsenal won a trophy was 2005 and we just about scraped through on penalty’s then!! We don’t look like we are going to ever win anything under wenger again!! We have needed a decent goalkeeper since Lehman left and have had defensive trouble for year after year!!
Rob you are so right, but Wenger is untouchable and cannot be criticised. As for the cost, we have to pay that much to pay our shit kids and our management team so much.
It sure as fuck doesn’t go to the shareholders.
Wenger is blind, stubborn and his time is up!! I would love it if he left!!
Geoff, I think we’d have to not win anything this season and not qualify for next season’s Champions League for the board to even consider giving Wenger the boot.
QoS,
I know it’s ‘win some, lose some’, I am not stupid enough to think you can win them all, but what I will never stand for is going down without a fight and playing completely shit due to lack of effort…
yesterday, I saw a few situations on the edge of the box where it went into the tippy-tappy mode, where most of them were in position to have a pop…
another one is our speed on the counter or complete lack thereof – remember Theo and NB breaking away? all that was required was a diagonal ball for Bendy to chase, it was the simple and obvious choice, but no, let’s wait for everyone to come back, eh?
off to work, see you guys later!
He is slowly killing arsenal!! yes we are financially strong and have a good training facility and good youth academy but the fans want trophies! I’m sick of his lies and his broken promises!! all he does is moan!!
Geoff – Wenger doesn’t have to answer to anyone!! he is untouchable at arsenal!!
chozzer – the board wouldn’t even think about it if that happened! it would take a lot more than that!!
rob – if that’s the case, what’s the point in demanding his head every time we lose?
New post!
Way to miss the point Rob.
But to answer your question “am I happy???”
Resoundingly yes. I have three wonderful healthy children, a kind and considerate husband, a nice house a nice car and great friends.
Do I think it sucks that arsenal lost? You bettcha but we won’t lose every game.
Crying and wailing and picking fights with so called AKB’s after a defeat doesn’t make one a better supporter but it sure as hell makes one less of a human being.
That’s what I am trying to say.
Now Cesc is out who is Captain? Squillaci? Rosicky? Almunia? Anyone but Nasri and it’s a pisstake.
Whenever we have developed a world class player like Henry or Fabregas, there has always been a Barcelona or a Real Madrid trying to snatch them away from us.
Have you ever heard of a big club trying to lure Van Persie away. I haven’t and I think that sums it all up