Arsenal Banter Archive April 17 2014

17 Apr 2014 20:23:57
A lot o f people saying they want Mandzucic in, others saying with bayerns wingers giroud would be just as good. Just occurred to me its not girouds quality that needs improving, its the option to rest him that needs to become improve. Mandzucic would do that. Is for that reason that I believe Mandzucic should be signed

Mandzukic has no pace really. So for that reason, I would say no to him

Hey Saint is today the big 18 mate? Its gota be close

We need someone with a bit of pace, someone who likes to poach goals. I personally wouldn't go for Mandzukic.

It's got to be Hernandez for me! Experience in the prem and if the media are correct, the player's keen for a move away from utd.

We need a more dynamic striker than manzucic, he's a giroud clone. The prem is to quick for him. In my opinion he's not as good as dzeko.

For me it's got to be Costa or Balotelli. Costa has the pace, finishing and composure on the ball and is still lethal in the air and I still think Balotelli can become a world beater under the right manager.

I don't understand what the problem is with giroud, he's a Worldy who got tired because of a lack of back up. If we had him and another player like him, we'd have won the league this year. Let's not forget giroud has scored 20 goals this season. This is not to say I don't want balotelli, Costa etc. but at the same time I think we should not undervalue the importance of players like Mandzucic and giroud

Next wednesday golds, what have you got me? ;)

Saint spoken with the maturity of someone older mate.
i think we should keep giroud and add someone
Saint how is your mum its been 18yr and 9 monthes since I seen her hope she is well, lol

Its the amount of chances Giroud misses that bothers me the most (and his lack of professionalism), seems to be the only consistent part of his game.
Give Giroud and Podolski the same amount of chances over a season and I could only see one winner.and he wouldn't be French with a dodgy barnet

The problem is if Poldolski was up top instead of Giroud, neither he or the team would have many goals.
His finishing is top class his work rate is poor, one of the reasons we were top in the 1st half of the season was Giroud team performances

Giroud lacks pace badly. He remind me of felliaini when he used to play upfront at evertone when he first arrived. back to goal all the time, no turn of pace to score a single handed effort and hasn't got the positional nouse to be the fox in the box type player. to often is he predictable and ineffective.

pace on the wings, someone like di maria, may help his cause though due to their pace and forward drive. RE: like when walcott was fit.

17 Apr 2014 13:26:31
I think we should start some sort of vivd campaign to bring Di maria to the Emirates, He maybe available, and Arsenal do have some interest, if we make it vocal perhaps the manager will have in the back of his mind ( like an advert makes you buy crap - repetetive stuff) and perhaps even the players will feel like he wants to join a place where he is being wanted before he has joined.

Just think draxler will prove to be too expensive and inexperienced, and the worst bit is he turns out to be joining munich in the end.

Getting di maria gives us pace and width with an eye for goal.

Di Maria, Serge Aurier, Lars bender, Mandzukic and we can really do some serious damange.

Ozil got the wings to supply, we got ramsey and wilshere and not to forget the ox, walcott and gnabry. its optimistic if we can add some depth and quality.

everyone does not win every year and as bad as we have been, I think looking at barcelona is an example of how we are actually better off.

No selling poldi or arteta or no one, just add 4 players and let the freebies go.

{Ed002's Note - How embarrassing will it be for the club and the players to have the Arsenal fans singing the name of another club's player. Astonishing stuff - you sound like a Liverpool fan.}

Leave it to the manager I am sure he has identified targets. And I hope he knows how much stick he will be getting if he does not sign a world class striker.

I agree Di Maria should be our main priority this summer

I also agree w Ed that singing someone else's players name is a joke

Gratuitous insults Ed002?

{Ed007's Note - To be fair it's difficult to tell the difference between Arsenal and LFC fans this weather. It's as if you have merged into one big blob of homoerotic gloop.}

Couldn't agree more Ed007!

The love in with the L'pool fans makes me want to be sick. They are coming on here and wishing us the best for 4th place, it's horrific. Shows how far we've fallen when even L'pool are better than us!

The whole 'if we don't win it, I hope you do' is as equally horrific. You shouldn't want anyone to win it other than your team. And if you can't win it then you should be properly annoyed and not all this 'I hope you win it now.'

I agree that Stevie G deserves a medal for his footballing ability but it doesn't mean I want him to get it over us. I wonder how 'loyal' he was when he put in his transfer request.

If your team mucks it up, then that's that. Forget about the whole title race. Concentrate on the why your team mucked it up. It's just completely patronising when we've got fans coming on and wishing us the best for 4th place. The players celebrate like they are happy with it too.

Maybe if we, as fans, showed some proper rivalry towards our title rivals then it might transfer to the players and we wouldn't get absolute humiliated like we have been countless times in the past few years.

Support your team and screw everyone else.

{Ed025's Note - amen to that G95..

G95 - as an LFC fan I agree with your sentiments. If your own team is out of the title race why spend much time or effort on posting who you would prefer to win it. We finished 7th last season and deserved nothing more - its a different story this season but when I see Arsenal fans wishing us the best I just can't help but think that maybe there are a lot of AFC fans who don't really believe they can really compete whilst they have a manager who IMO doesn't have the hunger to win things that he used to have.

I know this may rile some AFC fans but why not create some heated debate rather than boring 'all the best' posts: IMO Arsenal are not making progress - if you win the fa cup you will have done so only because because you got home draws in every round along with some generous ref decisions. As soon as you have to play away (sorry neutral ground) you need penalties to beat a championship side.

I await some not so friendly banter!

You'll get no stick from me Janman, we all have our own opinions and ways of doing things.
When I played (many moons ago) I always went to to the oppositions changing room after the game to thank them for the game and wish them the best for the season, it's my nature to be very competitive on the pitch but sporting win lose or draw once the game was over.
We all operate how we wish some positive some negative, some friendly some hostile, some share friendly banter some seek confrontation at every level.

We all have our own way of representing our self's and each to their own, respect is the key one way or the other

{Ed007's Note - I was once sent off by a ref who was using a Monopoly card for his red.}

Its a shame you didn't have a get out of jail free card handy 007, in today's game I'd have been suspended for most of the season as I was always on the line ready to give a pen away by saving the ball with my hand if the keeper missed it.in a SF once I did it 3 times and the ref gave 2 pens which they missed and the ref didn't see the 3rd, we won 2 1i had to leave the ground in my kit as the opposition wanted to lynch me, they still do probably :-) good memories

I'm all for good sportsmanship, shaking hand before and after, etc) but the rest of the time I want no-one to win other than my team. And if we don't win then I don't care who wins it. I certainly won't be sucking up to some of our closet rivals hoping they win it.

G95

Spot on with all your comments

Oh boy this conversation again.

I'm from a family of 4, my mother and I support Kentucky sports, whereas my brother and dad support Louisville sports. Every year we are hostile towards each other come game day. But don't bet for a second that when kentucky is out I wouldn't root for Louisville. It's a combination of respect of the way they play and not wanting Duke/UNC/Michigan State to win.

There is a very contrasting situation. My brother supports chelsea, I support liverpool. And I HATE chelsea. They're boring, they go for 1-0 wins, and mourinho is a person.

So why do I congratulate Arsenal when they win? Two reasons. Their fans congratulate me when I do, and have been classy to us. Also, I really admire the way they play. I want successful teams to play the game the exciting way.

{Ed007's Note -

17 Apr 2014 08:07:00
Fabianski who is prob leaving at end of season or Szczesny to win a trophy and confidence for next season for the Cup Final fellow Gooners??

I think Sczesny should play, if Fabianski is leaving anyway there is no point giving him the nod over sczesny.

it would be a good time to make amends for the blunder against birmingham.

For me fab all day long. He has been a back up keeper all season and been very reliable when he came in. Shez for me is only no1 by number, not performances. It doesn't matter to me if he is going or not, any player could potentially be going in summer. I understand anyway, that it is an agreement that fab is the fa and league cup keeper this year and he performed great in a lot of games. No probs at all if he played.

Fabianski helped us to the final, let him keep his place.

Shez does not deserve to take his place if anything I would have said maybe stick Fab in for the league games as well.

I think Fabianski deserves his place in the final.

Yes got to agree. It would be an outright liberty if Fabianski is not our keeper in the FA Cup final. He has well deserved his place. Actually this must be the first time that I can ever remember never worrying when we had to play our substitute goalkeeper. Not just in the cup games but in any game. I think that Fabianski has really stepped up to the plate this season. Whoever gets him will have a really good goalkeeper on their hands. He has probably become too good to be a backup keeper. I don't blame him if he went. Good luck to him.

For me it has to be shezza
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