Arsenal Banter Archive May 16 2016

16 May 2016 20:24:22
Arsene should go into politics as a spin doctor when he quits football :-)
Apparently it's the 18 teams below us who are to blame for us not winning the league because we did all we could by beating Leicester home and away plus we had to travel to both city and utd in the second half of the season which made things more difficult for us than Tottenham and Leicester who I can only assume only had to play them at home :-)
I will give him his due his extremely consistent.

17 May 2016 00:56:57
Yes got to agree gunner I think france need him as their president, asap so as to get the best out of him. Viva arsene for france.

17 May 2016 06:46:41
I still fail to comprehend the critisicm aimed at Wenger. Yes, we all get a little frustrated at times, but in the cold light of day, he is clearly a top manager and has the record to prove it. We did better than any of the top clubs this season. With the squad shed of players that were no longer good enough and three players brought in, we will enter next season in good shape.
As I have already stated, none of the top managers are available at present, with the exception of Mourinho, who many Arsenal fans don't want to manage. I asked recently for a name to replace Wenger and was given Simeone. Yes, he would be a suitable replacement, but I can't see him leaving Athletico Madrid any time soon. In addition, it has been reported that he doesn't speak English.
Pochettino has been hailed as the next great manager, but his record doen't show that yet. Koeman has taken over at Southampton and has exceeded Pochettino's record, without many of the stars that were sold. The Toot slumped in the run in and like Leicester, I don't believe they will find things so easy next season, with the big boys re-energised and the demands of playing at least 6 CL matches, as well as having many players playing in the Euros this summer.
I believe the fans disloyalty towards Wenger has been as a result of being complacent with his consistency.

17 May 2016 13:53:32
You "still fail to comprehend criticism of Wenger"?
Why?
We haven't been close to winning the league in 12 YEARS!
What other club aside from Auxerre in the late 20th century would stand by such a managers' results?

Criticism of Wenger doesn't necessarily refer to his first ten years at the club it refers to the last ten.

Whoopee do for consistency! let's oscilate between 4th and 2nd forever. Hoorah.

15 May 2016 17:22:15
Ed25 can I have them straws now please mate 👍🏻.

{Ed025's Note - they are in the post SLB, That 4th place trophy is a thing of the distant past now mate.. :)

16 May 2016 01:48:55
PROGRESS?
Since the 2014 season (the year Ozil arrived) our progression in the league has been.
2014 4th
2015 3rd
2016 2nd

2014 79 ots
2015 75 pts
2016 71 pts.

So an early prediction for next year has to be 1st with 67 points!

16 May 2016 13:27:48
Yes Melbourne, is this years second in the league down to others under performing or us progressing. Personally i think this season has masked very grave errors and i think it is very wrong to say second is an improvement. In league position it is but in real terms is it?

16 May 2016 15:21:16
for me what has been our main issue has been our forward play.

too many intricate passes with no end result. while they play pass the ball the entire defense moves up. then they lose that one ball and its counter time and its as if they have not learnt about how to play the game.

when coq played and sat deep it worked, once he was injured it was nothing but a nightmare.

teams came to the emirates knowing our striker was not going to score at will, and all they had to do was keep their defense tall, keep the midfield tight and sit back and counter to give them a chance and it worked.

i do not think we need wholesale changes, but a CB who can command and take responsibility is vital.

if Xhaka is who we are trying to sign, then its the right direction, he reminds me a lot of xabi alonso. always makes the sensible plays. not extravagant but sensible and knows how to read the opposition defense.

besides him we need to get that striker that giroud just is not.
someone like lewandowski, dybala, neymar.

someone the opposition looks at and goes, don't let the ball touch his feet. then you have defenders all worried, about sanchez and campbell, iwobi and ox who bring pace and directness and then you have ozil and hopefully xhaka and ramsey, caz and jack who can pull the strings

yes wenger is right we need 3 players. a CB, a CM/ CDM and a striker.

i have no idea who is the striker we will end up with but if we have to spend 90-100 mill to get one it should be imperative we do that, as all the other big teams have the striker they need to score 20-25 goals.

16 May 2016 09:54:32
on my last post on 26th april i did say spurs ain't got 2nd nailed on yet and that if results go our way we can still get 2nd.
i know we messed up as per usual but even after them having their best season and we have one of our worse they still can't finish above us.
i know it ain't about just finishing above them but after we crumbled and them giving it large i will take finishing above them.
i know you'll get some spurs fans saying all we have to go on about this season is finishing above them but even after their title bid failed they blatantly would have still been bragging if it was them finishing 2nd.

now to look forward to reading about the 20 different strikers and midfielders we'll be linked with and not get any lol.

been great banter on here as usual this season.

16 May 2016 12:39:43
I've been saying that it's notify of the question that we finished second to which I was told I was clutching at straws and not in my wildest dreams.

16 May 2016 15:34:26
Goonermark didn't you fail as well I your title bid. No Chelsea, city, Utd etc and you didn't win it either. Also our worst season in years, you haven't finished 2nd for 11 years so how can it be your worst season . The fact is spurs are very disappointed for finishing 3rd while you kot are going crazy for coming 2nd shows the way the two clubs are heading.

16 May 2016 07:38:09
Not as bad a season as some thought. Very little money spent, yet improved on last year.
So with a good few new signings, things are looking Rosie.
We will be loosing some real characters, so a big thank you to them
But now it time for the euros,
So have a good summer and hopefully the Welsh flag will do GB proud.

16 May 2016 10:14:19
with respect welshgooner we haven't improved on last year. other sides apart form Leicester have under performed. Our standard of performance at times have been awful re Watford. It is the managers job to ensure the players are able to perform to the games requirements Wenge has failed on that. He failed, knowing were were not scoring to either motivate or buy a player to sort that problem.
Tactically we were awful this season, walking football is for blokes my age not PL players. Possession doesn't win games, goals do.
We ended where we did due to Spurs imploding, as fun as that is, don't let it blind us to the problems staring back at us. Major surgery must happen in this window or we will have worse problems next season. Chelsea Man City and L'pool will improve and dare we say it so will Spurs.

16 May 2016 10:38:06
Welsh welsh welsh, yes we finished second the table doesn't lie. But the truth is we snuck in on the final lap after all the front runners had engine failures and punctures and the leader had flown months ago. We got less points than last year, let in more goals scored less, went out of the champs league with our usual whimper and never really had a fs or league cup run of note. Same old problems surfaced and missed a great chance to capitalise on the big pkayers imploding. So yes second but a real bitter taste, not very convincing and not celebration, no way.

16 May 2016 00:17:52
just want to say a big thank you to tomas rosicky. class player. though he was plagued by injuries, every time he played he gave 100%. Hope arteta learns from the great guardiola and comes back to coach us.