The blues…
I woke up Sunday morning and I felt pretty terrible, I thought it might have been the beer or the chinese I’d gorged on the night before, but I’ve woken up today with the same dull feeling in the pit of my stomach today as well. If I was a betting man, I’d Eden Hazard a guess that I, like 90% of Gooners, have come down with a severe bout of Football depression.
Is it worse this season? Ultimately yes…
I actually believed that this year, things would be different. I thought we’d managed to weather a few storms, I thought Lady Luck had finally decided to bunk with us… and now it all seems to be disappearing faster than a plate of chips when Frank Lampard is in the vicinity.
Where has it all gone wrong?
Well, that’s a tough question. I do wonder what impact that 4-4 draw in the Premiership had to our overall confidence at the back? I know we’ve taken results here and there since then but as a team, you feel that a result like that tells you that you are never more than 45minutes away from blowing everything.
The defensive displays since then have been very up and down. Even when we’ve been keeping score lines respectable, we’ve still been very shaky. The Carling Cup final really hit everyone for 6. If you can’t defend your goal when you’re taking 60% possession, you have a real problem. A defence like ours shouldn’t be leaking as it is. Mostly, they’re not conceding too many shots. David Seaman said that being a top keeper for a top club was all about concentration. You’ll do nothing for 90minutes, then you’ll be called upon to make a top save. Our defenders have the same scenario except they don’t deal with their one attack very well.
Our boys at the back struggle as a unit. Is that because they’re not drilled in defence? Possibly. Is it because we didn’t buy in the necessary quality? Possibly again. However, I’m not sure even the best defender in the world could play with a Denilson or a Diaby in front of them. I’m not sure cultured talent is enough to outweigh a lack of team discipline.
I’ve asked around about the defence thing. As far as the people I know are aware, we don’t drill the defence. I also heard that Martin Keown didn’t really have a major impact on the back 4 our 2006, that was more a luck thing. What I do know is that our greatest defensive unit of the last 20 years have in the main all been taking coaching badges, are all far more qualified than any of the first team staff to coach defence and they’d instantly command respect of the players because of who they are.
So why are none of them allowed near the back four? Why has no one invited them to coach the first team (Steve Bold is on kids)?
Why are we not taking advantage of medal winning experienced defenders who love the club? Why does Wenger not bring in the much needed expertise to improve an area we really struggle with? On an individual level, I think all of our first team defence are good enough, they just seem to lack practice as a unit. Is this another case of the coach surrounding himself with yes men? It seems that way. Simply put, there is no way Arsene would tolerate a dissentful voice in the coaching staff and lets be honest, players like Adams, Bold, Keown and Seaman would not tolerate some of the things that go on in our backline.
If you have a management structure where no one speaks out, how do you ever improve? How do you pull yourself back on track when things go wrong? You don’t… you stagnate with the same issues, year, after year…
Player love…
I think the other area we’re struggling in is player loyalty. It’s clear for everyone to see that certain players around the periphery of the squad don’t care. Denilson, Diaby, Eboue and Bendtner are sulkers. That my friends is a fact. Half the issue we have is they’ve only played for one top club, they’re outrageously rewarded considering their market worth, so they act like spoilt children. They don’t bleed for the shirt, they bleed for the pay cheque. We need to move players like that on and we need to blood players who do care.
Even Alex Song is getting to me. He cried off pre-season under dubious circumstances and once again we find him picking up niggly injuries for the big away crunch ties. Does he think by not playing the major away games we might lose, somehow his stock goes up? It’s starting to look that way for me… now he has his big contract, is he looking for the next one. A hint of the Adebayor’s perhaps…?
We’ll see what happens with him in the summer if someone big comes knocking…
Like I said yesterday, I’d have a clear out. I’d raise £30million and reduce the wage bill straight away. Then we could go out and buy a Scott Parker type of midfielder. Hell, why not even Scott Parker himself? He puts his body on the line, he’s pretty much single-handedly kept West Ham alive and it’d be a great swansong to his career. It could be an Edgar David’s 2006 style signing. Parker certainly wouldn’t tolerate the bo*locks we’ve seen on the pitch of late.
If we’re not interested in him, how about Muntari of Sunderland? He was good enough to get a move to Inter Milan, he’s a ball winner, he was superb against us the other week and he’s only 26. We could pick him up for a pittance.
We have this Ryo Miyachi chap ripping it up in the Dutch league at the moment. As a winger, bulk isn’t an issue, he could give us the much needed pace out wide. If it’s too early for him, I know we’re looking at Hazard, he could come in. We absolutely need to sign a top quality striker. Nik’s head isn’t right for Arsenal, Chamakh can only play the way he’s facing so we could flog him for a massive profit if there was a chance of brining in a top-notch finisher. The simple fact is, our options outside Robin are diabolical and they cost us as we don’t have an alternative when things are going against us.
In defence, I’d bring in Gary Cahill. Ignore the rumours about him costing £30million, they’re way off the mark unless City get involved. We could pick him up for £15million. He’s great on the floor, he’s good in the air and he’ll absolutely cherish an opportunity at one of the greatest clubs in the world.
People can bleet on about Championship manager, but the fact is, this squad needs a radical shake up. It’s flat, it needs and injection of quality and the deadwood needs to be cut out. We need to be supplementing our top players with players who have a top attitude.
Nothing gets the fans or the dressing room buzzing like new signings. It sparks competition, it revitalises players who are tired of playing with the same dross and bored of losing. A proper shake up could inspire the core of this team to great things.
The question is, will Gazidis pull Wenger to one side and tell him that he has to address the way he’s managing the club?
Someone has to. He has to be accountable to someone. He has to realise that we’re not his pet project. I don’t think he should be sacked, but I think he should be told he has to address the obvious weaknesses in the side this summer and he has to make the team properly competitive.
… because let’s get one thing straight, he won’t make that decision off his own back. He’s shown us he’s incapable of that over the past 3 seasons.
Going forward…
We’re really up against it now. We should have Song and Theo back for the West Brom game. There is an outside chance that Cesc will make it now and I’ve been told that the feeling is, if Squillaci is given a run of games, he’ll be a different player. If we can get to the United game in May on the back of a winning streak and we can field a proper first team, there is no reason why we can’t rescue this season.
It’s all about the players now. If I was Cesc Fabregas, I’d be calling a team meeting this week. I’d thrash out the problems of the last month, let a few players know what is what and get fired up for the 10 game run in. Tony Adams did a similar thing after the Blackburn game we lost in 1998. He called a squad meeting, he told Paddy and Petit they weren’t giving the back 4 enough protection and he landed a title winning response. Do we have enough leaders in the dressing room to take an initiative like that?
I damn well hope so…
Wenger and the boys have ten games to save this season. Win all ten. We win the league. Simple.
Mental strength at the ready… this could get messy!
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A says:
March 14, 2011 at 15:51
Regarding signing someone in a transfer window that wouldn’t have helped at all, our 1st and 2nd choice keepers aren’t the problem
You were presenting your opinion so well and i was actually seeing where you were coming from, and then you types the aboce and i just sighed…and reached for the big bag of skunk…
zeus,
I reckon in the state we’re in at the moment even Bergkamp would be a new signing ffs!!.
TH14 would be great, as a 1stage 20 min. boosterrocket
No tippy tappy nonsense around the box but 1 good pass and kaboom on goal!
Master P think about other third choice keepers. Almunia was once our first choice (even if not really good enough to be that) whereas most clubs have people like Stuart Taylor (City), Utd had the equivalent of James Shea at the start of the season and now Tomasz Kuszczak, Chelsea Turnbull, and Liverpool another equivalent of James Shea, not even sure exactly who!
Although I don’t rate Almunia as a third choice keeper he’s a superstar!
@Pedro – I think this is the first time I don’t completely agree with your post! (it had to happen
Gazidis will never tell Wenger to change his management style. Gazidis already said that winning is not the most important thing for a club (spoken like a true businessman).
Song is out for the Brom game.
Squirrel will only get worse with more games.
There is no leader in the dressing room who can pull us out of this funk.
Ha ha, looks like Wenger fucked up royally with Wellington Silva.
He signed the kid after watching him once at U17 level, and what a mistake that was.
The kid cant even get a game for Levante & has a lousy attitude.
Project youth shines through again!
Amazing that we didn’t sign a keeper in the summer now isn’t it?
For me. the only players worth keeping are:
Sagna
Cesc (unless he wants away)
Vermy
Nasri
RvP
Ramsey
Song
LJW
JD (as a backup – permacrock)
Kos (as a backup – not first team material)
Sneezy
And if they get given their chance:
Vela
JET
Frimpong
Lansbury
The rest can go.
If Wenger does not clear out the deadwood this summer then he has to be classed as deadwood and should go himself.
gambon wellington silva is an amazing talent, it does seem that his attitude is a bit dodgy though which is a worry. Plenty of time for him but things havn’t gone great thus far, and after how excited Levante were about him too….
AW….”we have some of the best young talents there is, and our scouts have worked very hard for Wellington and Ryo Miyaichi because they were being chased by many clubs; Barcelona, Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan,Etc. But they chose Arsenal”.
Anyone know if this is actually true, regarding the other clubs?
lol so in your eyes we should sign about 10-15 players in the summer?!
Ryo is affectionally known as “Ryodinho” in Holland.
Nice!
Anyone actually seen much of this guy??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Fs1CjVTxU
legen fuckin dary
A says:
March 14, 2011 at 16:38
lol so in your eyes we should sign about 10-15 players in the summer?!
that would go someway to making up for the lack of transfer activity post-highbury.
Madrid are supposedly trying to work out a way to snatch Miyaichi from us now Master P, and there were stories that Wellington Silva had changed his mind and decided to go to the likes of them or barca etc after we’d reportedly agreed a deal and had him on trial etc
seen one of his matches for Feyenoord Master P, and saw him in pre season although it seems like he’s come on leaps and bounds since then!
for Feyenoord he just gets the ball, does stepovers and skins players, nippy, quick feet and good technique, and tries very hard too.
pre season he had quick feet worked hard and was skillful, but final ball very poor and he was overshadowed by the awesomeness of Wellington Silva.
Crazy that he was playing u18 school football a few months ago
a…awesomeness is a strong word.
you seen much of w.silva then i take it?
Nah, in terms of live just pre season, and awesomeness there isn’t undeserved – i was VERY excited about him, thought he’d make a difference if he got a work permit in January for us as an impact sub.
He looked very special to me, streets ahead of the likes of Miyaichi and JET
A the RYO story came from caughtoffside so a nonsense one. About Wellington I dont know. Thought he wanted to stay badly? He said on twitter.
Miyaichi has had a couple of good games & a couple of shockers, so still a long way to go for him.
Certainly looks like he could be great. Very 2 footed, very quick & tracksback well.
Far more tools that Theo, but he needs to work hard for a few years. I think he’ll be out again next season, maybe staying out in Holland.
a couple of shockers gambon?! he’s had no shockers at all at feyenoord, not a single one….
agree that he could be back there in pre season, apparently feyenoord are in talks with his younger bro too
A – My point is that we have 10-15 players on our roster that don’t deserve to be there. Obviously Wenger won’t do the spring cleaning that we need… In fact, I can see a summer of no transfer activity (again) if history is our guide. Wenger is too stubborn to change/adapt his ways.
Neglecting the defensive/GK frailties of this side for so long is criminal. To add to this weakness, we no longer have pace (bar Theo when fit) or clinical strikers (bar RvP when fit).
We have gone out of three competitions in a strange way.
that is by far the best excuse he has come out with,ONE ARSENE WENGER
Cracking post Pedro!
Been away for the last 8 days and despite getting score updates via text, have come out of the worst week of the season relatively unscathed.
Start of the season if you’d asked me if we’d win at Nou camp and Old Trafford, I’d have said no and maybe.
However we’re in collapse mode and that’s worrying, a 2 week international break couldn’t have come at a better time. Still we need a thumping win against WBA. Or at least a respectable one. Hell I’d take a 1-0 where Kos scores the winning goal from a corner by eye poking his man.
Miyachi does seem class. I wouldn’t worry about Real’s “ways” they’re exploring to take him there. He is our player, he has signed a long-term contract with us and he is on loan at Feyenoord at our discretion. Moron and Perez will just have to lick their wounds.
I have to say I am surprised by all the talk on here about Denilson being probably our worst player… surprised as in do we sit here and talk about how the sun is probably warm?
I don’t know why we aren’t unveiling banners at games with Denilson dressed as a Teletubbie (come to think of it, even one of those would run faster) with the slogan “Time for Deni-bye-bye… Time for Deni-bye-bye…”
I’m actually off to make a T-shirt of that right now…
A
He has. Stop trying to defend everything for the sake of it.
He was poor against Herenveen, did literally nothing.
gambon
Good game was it? The Herenveen match?
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said last week: “We need now an experienced goalkeeper as cover for Almunia.”
No, you silly f***wit, we need an experienced goalkeeper INSTEAD of Clownmoonia!
Get real or jog on, Arsene
Win the league with Clownmoonia this year? You’re havin’ a laugh!
Sylvester Stallone in Escape to Victory was a better cat!
lmao @ ppl jizzing in their pants that a 41 year old has been GK is coming back. WENGER OUT!
lmao @ ppl jizzing in their pants that a 41 year old has been GK is coming back.
WENGER OUT!
Arsene Wenger must create a ‘siege mentality’ if Arsenal are to win Premier League – former winger Perry Groves
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Find the best odds and bet on the Premier League. Former Arsenal winger Perry Groves believes that current manager Arsene Wenger must develop a “siege mentality” at the Emirates Stadium if they are to win the Premier League this season.
In the past two weeks the Gunners have been beaten in three different competitions – the FA Cup, League Cup and the Champions League. If Wenger and his young side are to end a five-year wait for silverware they will need to win the Premier League title.
They sit below Manchester United in the table, trailing Sir Alex Ferguson’s side by three points, but have a game in hand on the leaders with 10 games remaining.
However, after a tumultuous fortnight, Groves says that Wenger must galvanise his troops if they are to take the Premier League crown.
“[Arsene Wenger] has to galvanise them,” Groves told talkSPORT.
“He has to pull them into a meeting on Monday morning and try to create a siege mentality and say: ‘no-one thinks we can do it, everyone is against us, the press are against us, I believe you can do it. I’ve got the characters in this dressing room that can win the league title’.”
Groves believes that Arsenal should have no problems with players suffering from tiredness as the season reaches its climax.
He added: “I’ve looked at it and Arsenal now have nine games in ten weeks. Now that is not physically taxing.
“Normally when you get to this stage of the season a manager will say my squads a little bit thin, I’ve got three or four trophies to go for but Arsenal don’t have that problem.
“It looks like [Cesc] Fabregas will be fit and [Robin] van Persie is going to be fit. You have your two best players who are fit for the run-in.”
Groves, however, was critical of Wenger’s apparent untouchable status at the Emirates Stadium and questioned some of the Frenchman’s recent decisions.
“Arsene Wenger is becoming unquestionable,” he continued.
“It’s a bit too cosy. At the beginning of the season there should have been a change in the coaching staff.
“He’s not going to go anywhere, he’s untouchable at Arsenal so it’s not even worth talking about whether he will get the sack or not.
“[He needs] a number two who will say to him ‘actually Arsene I don’t think you’re right on that one’.
“Some of Arsene’s team selections have been questionable so he just needs someone to flag things up.
“When you dictate at a football club like Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger you have total say on the football side of it and quite rightly so, but your stubbornness can become a weakness.”
pedro
who came up with that story on song? he fakes injuries? that’s nonsense
LET’S GET BEHIND THE LADS AND WIN THIS DAMN LEAGUE TITLE – IT WOULD BE THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT YET. COME ON YOU GOOOOONNNNNEEEERSSSSSS!!!
Apparently, it was van Persie who suggested to Wenger that he let Miyaichi go to Feyenoord.
And gambon, stop being such a diva. He didn’t have his greatest game against Heerenveenen, but it was far from a shocker. I watched the game (the only game I’ve watched of his) and from minutes 20-55 i think, and the whole team was shit and he was one of the better players. I was particularly impressed with his strength and tenacity with what was a very physical side and dirty.
He won a lot of free kicks as well. I’d like him though to play a bit more with his head up. Either way, he looks a fantastic prospect imo.
Best thing of all, he’s very humble, nice guy with a great attitude. I’m very pleased with that.
Apparently, he bows toward all sides of the ground when substituted/at the end of the match.
Maybe part of the idea of bringing Lehmann back is to shake them up a bit. Whatever else he is, he is certainly not afraid of saying what he thinks, he will call a lazy bastard a lazy bastard, an incompetent fool an incompetent fool. Cant see AW doing that.
The Liverpool game is on the same day as the Manchester semi-final AND the London Marathon – brilliant scheduling. There arent enough police, our game could get pushed back to Monday.
Didn’t Lehmann keep to himself in the dressing room, and not say a word?
gambon, big facking joke you are! Miyaichi played 5 perfect matches and one normal game against heerenveen. He was again outstanding against Nac Breda. Just like bartley he ist he real deal. Those two have arsenal futures!
gambon follows a law that stating: “everything wenger is doing is shit”
brilliant post pedro – a great read. we have so many issues and problems i honestly dont know where a person would start trying to turn it around. to go from being in with a shout of winning 4 competitions to 1 in the blink of an eye is seriously depressing
Like I said before Dutchman – Wenger will coach all the talent out of Miyaichi and reduce him to lazy, feeble one paced tippy tappy monotone. Shame. He probably would be better off at RM.
we need to bring proven talent in.
and not continue with this youth football
tippy tappy..is all he now knows
Mad Jens would be hilarious though. Proper laugh he always was.
Hitman, yeah just like he did with fabregas,walcott,clichy,djourou,szesny,song etc.
Please, grow up. I hate wenger but he is not a bad coach for young players.
Oh sorry hitman, i read your comment not that good.
I know what you mean, and i agree with you that wenger makes players crazy with his shit football but miyaichi is something special and will be our winger.
HOW CAN FABREGAS CALL A MEETING TO THRASH OUT THE PROBLEMS OF THE LAST MONTH WHEN HE IS THE PROBLEM – iF I WAS AN ARSENAL PLAYER, I WOULD FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT TO SOMEONE WHO GOES AROUND HUGGING THE OPPOSITION JUST BEFORE ANY GAME NEVER MIND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GAMES OF THE SEASON
Agree woth Le Grove, something has to change and it doesnt necessarily have to be the manager, we need a new defensive coach, serious team talks, hell why doesnt Wenger bring Keown, Adams or Henry in to give the boys an inspirtaional speech.
no point talkin bout transfers now though, atm it has to be something in the system
no point talkin bout Wenger getting sacked either, cos thats the last thing the club needs when theres only 10 games left
John Motsen, footballing God, has just spoken to millions of Radio 5 listeners, stating that Arsenal will win the league!
And he confirmed that he knows exactly what he is talking about by also saying that he has money on Bolton winning the FA Cup.
So, calm down every one, it’s a guaranteed shag.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuS4ye7JmiI&feature=player_embedded#at=56
http://www.arsenalnewsreview.co.uk/news/1993/30/Wenger-must-go-says-ANR-mailbag/
been any suicides today then?
i wonder why denilson doesn’t kick up a fuss when he gets dropped
i tell you why
the uselss, weak, feeble, slow, desireless fake brazilian knows he will never have it any better
what other manager at a top class club would continue to stick by such a liability,
only hes stubborn mentor wenger
to pick up his salary he doesnt even have to bust a gut to earn it, and he is still rewarded with 20-30 appearences a season and even a new contract
denilson, diaby, bendtner and almunia are like poison in our squad and rosicky, chamakah and squilaci are also way out of their depth imo
Miyaichi looks a good prospect and may be the Ronaldo type winger we desperately need. But this insistence on tippy tappy appears to stifle some of the natural talent of our players.
Why dont our players attack full on instead of playing the ball backwards and allowing the other team to regroup? Its driving me insane.
the team for sat should be
sagna kocielny song clichy
ramsey wilshere nasri
walcott rvp arshavin
squilaci and kocielny is a NO NO them to have been partners for 7 defeats this season
hahaha arseblog today is pure quality.
mark
team will be
amoonia
sagna squid koz clichy
denilson diaby jack
nasri rvp arshavin.
imagine last summer when wenger said he would strengthen the defence that 9 months later out team for the run in included them lot!
Getting Walnutt fit has to be our top priority. He’s invaluable against the weaker teams not to mention that his defensive traits are admirable. It will also shore up the left as Nasri will play there.
incesc…
That backline is going to get severely tested..
we need to score 30+ goals in 10 games.
if things go the newcastle way.. we maybe looking at 50+
Ugh, I don’t know whether to laugh or puke, but just read on another site a poster say in all seriousness that our current starting 11 are better than any past Arsenal 11 one could put together.
There is being positive and then there is delusion.
Henri Lansbury scored for Norwich putting them into a winning position.
Norwich have gone on to win 3-1 after that.
must be drugs billiken
Our current starting 11 (emphasis on the starting 11 being our idea first team) would only get beaten by the Invincibles and the team of that era.
They would murder most of our previous teams. I still maintain that this rag tag bunch is the best team of the past 6 years.
geez no way rohan.
That’s very bold Rohan
I guess when thinking about it there has been a slight improvement from the previous shit over the years. maybe past three.
Anyway, Henri got a assist and goal when coming on as a sub for Norwich.
Which team do you think would have the upper hand in terms of quality over this bunch?
In Cesc, Nasri and van Persie, we have 3 players who would walk into almost all the teams in world football. And that’s not mentioning Arshavin and to an extent Theo.
lol
as if adams back 4 with vieira and petit couldnt stop this lot scoring with anelka banging em in up top.
Cesc and VP are very injury prone.
Cesc is a very good attacking mid, but we need to babysit him with two other midfielders.
RVP? I doubt he’s ever going to fulfill his potential. I would have many strikers ahead of him.
Nasri has had a very good season. Probably Arsenal’s player of the season.. but has been dire after his return from injury.
Lmao whenever I see a word for the first time, immediately after that I see it many times. “Vicinity” just saw it minutes ago for first time in my physics textbook….lol
I’m not talking about injury prone or not.. I don’t think anyone is.
In terms of pure quality in the first 11, I feel that this team does have what it takes.
Experience is a different thing.
Our first choice 11 is world class. No two ways about it.
our keeper aint world class
our centre backs arent.
song isnt, wilshere is too young.
walcott isnt.
rvp, cesc and nasri are, maybe sagna.
imp.
It’s the rest that isn’t right. i.e mentality, experience, the rest of the squad players etc.
If we could play our first choice 11, in 50 games every season, we’d win something for sure.
I disagree. I fancy our chances with ourfirst choice 11 against all teams in european football. ( We beat Barcelona at home ffs)
Yeah, we’re not the best of the world, but I find it difficult to argue against the statement that our first 11 is worldclass.
It’s the backup that’s cack.
sometimes i think an older player with a some balls like carragher can be worth a lot more than than a talented youngster who “might become world class”
Song for me is in the top 10 DM’s in the world. Atleast in our system.
Chesney has been fantastic this season..don’t think any keeper could have done much better.
haha
song?
if he wasnt at arsenal he would not be at a top team.
There’s a reason our bad patch now has come with Song out of the team. He’s invaluable in our system and very underrated imo.
AKB4lyf
AKBSRKNOBENDS
haha
we need to strengthen in midfield and goalkeeping, and shift things up in attack.
Denilson, Rosicky, Diaby, Almunia, Bendtner outs.
Bring in, 1 CM, 1 CDM, 1 GK, 1 forward, and a CAM/winger.
Ideally, if we had enough money (oh wait, we do) 1. Edin Hazard, Jack Rodwell, Scott Parker, Falcao, Adler/Neuer/LLoris/Frey/etc.
On top of our kitty of around 40-50 million, we could get 7-9 for Denilson, 8-10 for Diaby, 13ish for Bendtner, 2-3 for Almunia, and 12-13 for Rosicky equalling around 40-45 million. Think about it!
Song is overrated imo. Good in odd games but his positioning went totally missing earlier in the season, and regardless of his goals leading up to and during that spell and don’t want to see him that far up the pitch, that’s not his role for me. I’d fine him a week’s wages every time he stepped in the opponents’ third. Besides that he’s too slow and crucially lacks hunger. We need goddamn Viera back (at his peak obviously not now) not cuddly, Cameroon-loving Song.
And I say we start a twitter barrage of Cesc’s account telling him to call an Adams style meeting.
Good goal for Lansbury tonight, looking forward to seeing him next season – so athletic really covers alot of ground
I don’t get anyone wanting us to get Scott Parker – would be so pointless!
He’s a good player for lesser teams in a roy of the rovers type role but wouldn’t be at all effective in a system where everything wasn’t going through him and he wasn’t the star man. Hence the fact that he won’t ever play for a top side, he isn’t good enough to warrant a team being built around him.
He’d be better back up for Jack than Denilson, but Ramsey is better or at least will become MUCH better imo
A, we need a tough tackling, ball winning CDM to fight Song for a spot though and Ramsey would be fighting Jack or cesc…. Think Jack Rodwell could become great under Wenger. Agree to some extent about Parker but I still think he would be effective for us.
I agree luke, I’d love Rodwell, and I think Frimpong COULD come through and challenge too, good to have him back and hope he plays in the next reserve game.
Parker isn’t a DM though, he’d be fighting Jack and Cesc and Ramsey
I think Parker and Rodwell could replace Denilson and Diaby- Rodwell to fight for Songs spot, and Parker as backup for Cesc/Wilshere. Cesc is quite injury prone and after all the games LJW has played this season, who knows what will happen with him. Frimpong could come great but he is still a couple of years away and you cant bank on that happening
I’d rather have Diaby than Parker luke as a squad player – offers us something that noone else in the squad does. I really wouldn’t want us to sign Parker, he isn’t the sort of person who could be a squad player imo.
With a first choice midfield of
Cesc Song Wilshere
and back up
Ramsey Frimpong Diaby
With Lansbury coming through as well I reckon we’d be ok, although I’d prefer a Rodwell to Frimpong because as you say it’s no foregone conclusion that he’ll develop as we want him to, and he was never that great on the ball in the first place
fair enough A. Although in my opinion the only thing Diaby offers us is one great game, followed by an injury leading to a 4 weekish absence, followed by 4 mediocre games, followed by one great game etc.
Also, think we need someone as good as song to fight him for contention/offer us something a bit different at CDM. Song is good at what he does, but what he does doesnt work against every team.
The injuries this season havn’t been great luke, but he was very important to us last season and he stayed fit most of the season.
If he can’t break the injury curse then I’d rather we got in someone else. Lansbury can push him though
I dunno about that luke, I rate Song highly, but I do agree that we need an alternative – currently our reliance on him isn’t great
“I’d rather have Diaby than Parker”
Id rather have crabs than watch him line up for us again
sick of his useless lazy self
Parker is a good shout. He deserves to play for a big club. He has a large heart
Parker is a good shout. He deserves to play for a big club. He has a large heart
Mayb the team meeting should be used to show Denilson how to run and not jog, when tracking back.
My everlasting memory off Jens is that he cost us the european cup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWODT6-Zdk8
Rio Ferdinand: “I’m now following @justinbieber this kid is a PHENOMENOM..gotta respect his game..came in the music business+selling out WORLDWIDE! #success”
LOL at his spelling of phenomenon.hhahaha..I can just about imagine him saying phenomenom..
Paul Mc
Jens got us to that European Cup final with ten clean sheets in a row (still a record) he also had a makeshift LB in Flamini and Senderos as CB alongside Sol and Lauren.
Jens is past his sell by date now but he was the best keeper we have had in m,y time of watching The Arsenal and that includes Seaman.
Jens might have got away with the sending off if the Referee that night had showed compassion.
The Clown lost us that final letting in two near post goals.
Jens won us the FA cup in 2005 in a game where we got caned. Fat cunt Rooney couldn’t beat him that day.
If we had Jens in goal on Saturday even at his age he wouldn’t have let those two soft goals in. The first was poor enough shovelling the ball across goal the second one saw him skip like the little girl he is. A crap header by Fat Bollocks from an angle that he should never have been beaten on.
If we falter in the League I promise you it will be the Clown who costs us the most.
Do we have three goals per game in our Strikers? because thats what is needed to win from now on.
Chesser had a fantastic goals against average with the only blip being Newcastle away and two of those were Pens.
Like a poster said earlier The Mancs scored from their first shot on target.
This is my maun reason for wanting Wenger gone as no other decent Manager would play this idiot in goal for them.
Play Mad Jens and let The Clown be his understudy. Thats the only way from now on in.
It won’t happen.
Wenger:
Nobody in England believed we could even fight for the top four. The fact we are in the position we are in I think deserves a lot of credit.
I don’t know [if winning it now would be my greatest achievement].
We have one of top 5 best paid managers in the world, one of the highest wage bills in the world, and we are one of the richest teams in the world with a new stadium holding over 60,000 fans per match, and Wenger says nobody believed we would finish in a top 4 place! It beggars belief! This is exactly what is wrong with the club at the moment – when did a top 4 finish become an achievement?
stop pickinf on Eboue mate .He is always there for the team .he thinks for the team bfore himself and is ready to warm the bench as long as his team win s.He truly loves Arsenal so cut some slack for him please .
stop picking on Eboue mate .He is always there for the team .he thinks for the team bfore himself and is ready to warm the bench as long as his team win s.He truly loves Arsenal so cut some slack for him please .
“a policeman has been arrested for assaulting 3 brothers over a football match.he stabbed 2 of the brothers with a knife and hit the 3rd in the mouth in a bar brawl at kianyaga trading centre in central kenya.the bros were supporting arsenal while the officer was rooting for man utd during the saturday night match.the fight broke out after arsenal lost.” this is all wenger’s fault!
ahahahahaha, Wenger get’s the blame for everything.
Tell those loons to get a life.
Rohan,
sure, you can’t blame Wenger for some nutjobs stabbing one another, but there is a lot that can be laid at his door…
not having a competent striker besides RvP is one I can think of off the top of my head…
They never found Jack the Ripper, did they? Funny how Wenger never seemed to be around when the murders were taking place….
and so much seems to be up for debate about his handedness…
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_arsene_wenger_left_handed
A would rather have diaby in his side, says it all. No doubt A was one of the people talking about winning a trophy, and the quad, how ridiculous they all look now.
Parker wouldn’t be a squad player, Song would.
I’d rather play Jens in goal than Al, even without knowing what sort of form he is in or how much his old bones creak.
Almunia will cost us points at a time when we cannot afford them. He was finally dropped for a 21yr old for a reason. The entire squad had more confidence in Sezecesny. I hope to god is recovery is quick.
A is yin to Gambons yang. Extremists the lot of them. One believes in all things Arsene Wenger and the other wouldn’t let him polish his boots.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1366203/Blackburn-eye-Arsenals-Nicklas-Bendtner.html
Bes news since we defeated Barca at Ems…helluva offer i.e. Blackburn are going nuts…
ead the comments of the previous aticle ha haahah
in old age internet cafe sorry for the typos..
returning of the geoff ?
Lansbury wtf is he doing at Norwich and we are having to bear with Diaby and Denlishit
His first touch is better than bendtner and he knows where the goal is and he is not even a striker! I want him
Martin Keown on the returning Mad Jens has this to say,”If something needs to be said, he’ll say it.”
Haha….That I truly believe!
I dno’t think Diaby and Denilshite will play together again this season. Even the myopic senile idiot manager can surely see by now.
JD might be fit for Blackburn then?! Hope he isn’t just being ridiculous and thinking he can play through it….
At this stage A, I don’t care.
Djourou hopes to play for Switzerland ridiculously in 2 weeks scan results today though.
New post!
In fact, we could probably amputate his arm and play him in defence on his own, and he’d still be better than either of the other two gormless twats we’ve got back there.
Conversely, if he plays for Switzerland, he can fuck off.
EL TEL,that is MY everlasting memory,by the way,keeping clean sheets is a goalkeepers job first and foremost,thats why they play,to try and keep the ball out off the net,as for Flamini he was excellant at left back during that run and should off kept his place for the final,Senderos played well also because he was playing with a real class player in SOL then,it is also no coincidence that the defense was being coached by Martin Known during that time,still should be,just my thinking.