Arsenal Banter Archive July 18 2015

18 Jul 2015 18:38:38
Today was a great game. And also it highlights how close we are to winning the Title again!.
But we do need a world class striker to fully utilize the vision of ozil and cazorla and the skillful dribbles and crosses from sanchez(though he's on holiday)as we've witnessed today against Everton!
We currently have world class goalkeeper in Cech.
World class defender in koscielny for defense.
World class attacking midfield in cazorla and ozil for midfield.
World class winger in Sanchez.
And to complete the zigsaw we need a world class striker.
Benzema would do ;)
Coyg!.

18 Jul 2015 19:42:10
Always nice to have a good pre season but its August 8th onwards that matters, I'm not throwing cold water on anyones excitement but remember how excited people got when we beat city in the community shield then went on to struggle for the rest of 2014.
What ever preseason brings I'm sure we'll have a much better 1st half to the season but even bearing Chelsea in this years community shield will count for nothing once the season starts.

18 Jul 2015 20:23:09
Yes it was a good game and we looked sharp. But you cannot use a performance in a pre season Friendly against Everton in the middle of Asia to give you any indication that we are going to win the leauge

19 Jul 2015 01:23:08
Enjoyed the win, enjoyed the game, but nothing can be judged from a pre season friendly, except, present fitness of individuals. It is a friendly to help regain match fitness and that's all. But i will say it is still nice to win them.

{Ed007's Note - It also makes the club a few quid, that's the main point of these daft bounce games on the other side of the world.}

19 Jul 2015 08:34:41
Pre season games are just training sessions mate , enough talk of winning the title until the actual season starts and then we can start talking about our title credentials.

19 Jul 2015 11:42:36
Oh yes and that ed. A few more quids in the piggy bank, for a rainy day.

18 Jul 2015 14:53:17
It's nice to see a strong squad out. Near enough our first team.

I like that

18 Jul 2015 14:18:51
Good 45 mins - nice to see Ozil getting a pre-season for us and showing some great touches & passes

This is the season I was always looking forward to with Ozil. A pre-season and no major tournament leading into season

18 Jul 2015 14:54:51
Add a goal and more nice touches - great player to watch as a fan but must be great to watch if an up & coming Gooner

18 Jul 2015 15:52:58
Plus very importantly he's really good in the dressing room I hear too, phew! Always good to know :-)

18 Jul 2015 14:01:10
Great through ball for Theo who timed his run real well and finished in style

Nice goal - now sign the extension!

Even if you don't like Theo - his pace & runs are extremely dangerous and he gives us the X factor.

Who got the assist?

18 Jul 2015 13:54:56
Great goal by Walcott through the middle hopefully he signs a deal contract. Think he is a great player

18 Jul 2015 11:32:43
Ed
Sorry for the questions as you are probably bored of them now but : are we in for Vidal? If we don't get Benzema who are the main targets now, given that some have ridiculous buy outs and some have now signed for teams?
Thanks for your hard work on the site and special Intel....

{Ed002's Note - I am bored of the same questions being asked repeatedly - like this one.}

18 Jul 2015 12:09:12
Sorry Ed - I thought there had been developments in both these areas recently. I don't ask questions very often
Have a great weekend

{Ed002's Note - There has been no change with respect to Arsenal and Vidal.}

18 Jul 2015 14:03:14
Thanks Ed

18 Jul 2015 10:19:40
Arsene is refusing to rule out a 40 million bid for that French bloke at Real who's name eludes me :-(
This can only mean we are fishing in very different waters and possibly have a bite we'd rather no one poached, I hope who ever he is he's never been linked to us before as we need to up our vocabulary from Khedira Higuain and the Frenchman of Madrid.

18 Jul 2015 10:59:11
It's callejon of napoli. That's who we are after.

18 Jul 2015 11:56:25
Excellent CS I can handle the next two or three windows listening about how close we are to him, now Jan and next summer will do nicely, but no more ;-)

18 Jul 2015 12:53:39
Bendyman you mean g58

18 Jul 2015 14:05:06
Hi 737 me old mucker, Bendyman? That's got to be slang for MerterDUCKER surely :-) or Selbst Klapp as he's fondly known back home.

18 Jul 2015 15:05:28
Hi g5tr1ng, hope you're all well, just got out of rehab and counciling due to your constant miss spelling of our players names so thought I'd pay a visit :-)

18 Jul 2015 15:39:00
Good to have you back 22.5 what do you think of Peter Check mate? I think he could be differential this Sassoon in my optician.

18 Jul 2015 16:37:17
It's cech ffs! Going back to counciling now :-) great acquisition in my optician mate, not sure about his mum making him wear a bobble hat in the summer though

18 Jul 2015 00:04:41
Theo is the closest thing to Henry :-)

18 Jul 2015 07:48:08
We either need to find out how close he can get or get shot this summer, he's not a very top class winger so play him down the middle or take the money.

18 Jul 2015 09:04:24
Unfair to compare the two, although Thierry started off as a winger.

Theo, in my opinion, is not good enough to lead the line.

Sure, he could fill in from time to time, but for 60 games in a season?
Nope.

Terrific winger, a proper old fashioned winger, but not a full time forward.

18 Jul 2015 10:04:08
But Dags I know your a big Theo fan mate but would he play regularly for city Chelsea Bayern or Barca on the wings?
I'm hoping this season both Jack and Theo will finally do what Le Coq and Belerin did last season and Aaron the season before and have a season that convinces everyone that they are the real deal not just more of the same hero to zero inconsistently brilliant bits.
My own view is Theo's only chance of ever doing that is down the middle because Bale Reus Ribery Robben he still ain't and doesn't look like ever being at 26 years old how long do we wait and hope on him mate?

18 Jul 2015 11:42:55
Look we can either buy a like for like upgrade on giroud (Benzema , lewandowski) and use theo from wings to play striker to change the direction in games where we get no joy. Or we can buy a quicker striker ( lacazette or aubameyang ) and have giroud as a plan b or play along side in a more traditional line
I'm sure we are going to get some good business done . I'm also confident that we will get someone that we thought wasn't on our radar and will have us all saying omg.

17 Jul 2015 22:03:47
My driving instructor told me to pull over somewhere safe.

Two minutes later he said, "Why haven't you pulled over yet?"

I said, "Because we're still in Manchester."

18 Jul 2015 07:18:20
I read an article recently that was saying if the world had to have an enema they'd stick it in Manchester. ;-)

18 Jul 2015 07:40:06
Smiley face :-)

18 Jul 2015 09:07:22
If England was a giant pair of underpants, Manchester would be the skidmarks.

I joke of course 😊

18 Jul 2015 12:21:03
You can take the man out of Manchester

But you can't take the arse...

I jest of course ; )