Arsenal Banter Archive September 18 2013

18 Sep 2013 22:54:44
fantastic result. not the hardest team in the world but we went there and turned them over. a year ago we would have come away empty but we have a great resilience about us. we seem to constantly play better away from the emirates, but i'm not complaining.
not too many man of the match performances tonight (maybe gibbs) but we played well as a team. once theo and jack get up to speed and full fitness I think we will be awesome. another mention about ramsey, good solid game and yet another goal. we all talk about jack, ozil and theo but ramsey just keeps grabbing the headlines, he's a top boy

18 Sep 2013 22:21:33
nice result:) well done lads!:)
Rambo! awesome. wally. hmmm. well done :)good goal:)
gibbsy, awesome clearance:) worth 2 goals I recon:)
ahhh, so pleased, group hugs, all round!:)
COYG!! andi:)

18 Sep 2013 21:40:22
2-1 away win. Not a great performance by any means but improved in 2nd half and started to create a few chances.

Well taken goal from Walcott but he did not do much else. Ramsey scored again, our best midfielder tonight. Ozil had a few moments but largely looked leggy and off the pace, not up to 100% match sharp yet. Gibbs played well. Defence not massievly troubled, but played well as a unit. Flamini did a decent protection job.

18 Sep 2013 21:36:34
A message for Graeme souness;

Can you please criticise some more of our players like you did Ramsey?

Thanks in advance,

Arsene Wenger

Nice one 337.

Ha:) nice one, AW:)
souness as manager, hmmm
souness as super pundit, plonker.
graeme, jog on
COYG andi

Didn't Souness say he thought Ramsey was a very god player but needed to add goals to be more of a complete player? He hardly critiqued him at all tbf, no more than must Gooners last season.

1404, he back tracked and said that after, a week or so before he said that he was not good enough and that he didn't know what type of player he was supposed to be.

337, I stand corrected you are right

18 Sep 2013 21:26:06
Full on fallen in love with Aaron Ramsey, anyone else?

Surely he is close now to getting at least half the love, Patience and understanding Jack gets when he has a quite game. Both are a BIG part of our bright new future, would love to see Aaron get the support he deserves through a touugh time should he ever have one again that is

Rambo is the total nuts and to think I use to slag him off so much. credit to the guy, he works his socks off and is playing like a demon

18 Sep 2013 20:35:10
0-0 pretty poor scrappy 1st half we have been poor in final third, but so have they. Ozil looks off the pace tonight but few attacking options on bench to change things.

Gibbs is getting no protection down our left Wilshire often neglecting the left side when we lose ball.

18 Sep 2013 18:55:23
I'm a Liverpool fan. A month or so ago everyone was writing you off, everyone was talking about a crisis at Arsenal. You lot have shown you can never be written off. I'd love it if you got top 4 again and have a real go at the title, (as long as it's not at our expense of course!). Personally I'm fed up of the title going to United, or Money FC (Chelsea or City). We're not going to be there although we're improved enough to get top 4. So Arsenal, do us all a favour and shut the spuds, mancs and oil shieks up!
Good luck tonight in Europe.
Cheers.

Cheers daniel ynwa

18 Sep 2013 18:00:48
We are going to win this group

And it's going to announce to Europe in a big way, that we are back

Time to make it real boys, kick their ass today and send a warning

I'm so ready for this

Coyfg!

The team worked hard all last season to be in games like this.

the doubters can f*** off.

were back in the mix again while the y's are off to sunny norway, lmfao!

coymfg {Ed007's Note - Good luck tonight lads.}

Touché bud, live for nights like this

I was waiting all day for your battle cry.

got a bit excited, ha

hope your well USG.

4 nill tonight flamini to open his account.

coymfg

18 Sep 2013 12:41:28
Must win tonite wouldn't u say lads? Feeling confident?

Feel much more confident with Ozil. just hope caz, rosicky and Arteta can come back soon to the fold. we need the depth.

also hope poldi and ox can recover sooner than expected. with soo many games, having a pile up of injuries to current players is possible.

with the caz injury, having ozil was a stroke of luck along with genius.

hoping giroud and ozil put on a show today. I think ozil will be the difference. his class should show. i'm going to go with 3-1 to arsenal.

I wouldn't say must win. Its probably in theory the easiest away game but a draw would be ok.

This one is our best chance of an away win yes. Not a must win but I think we do need at least a draw as minimum. 10 points is 9 times out of 10 (Man city were very unlucky that time with getting 10 and only being 3rd) is enough to go through so 3 wins and draw. A win tonight will ease a bit of pressure off our home games.

I think if we get 6 points off of Marseille it makes the other games a lot easier. Imo if we fail to win tonight were relying on winning all our home games and the emirates is hardly a fortress these days.

I totally agree laker, the rest imo this defo is a must win! Tbh I think Dortmund and napoli will be thinking exactly the same when playing OM too!
I must also add 10 points normally gets u through however with this group being very tuff I feel 11-13 maybe needed! Or u could all cancel each other out and 8-9 mite be enough for 2nd!
Gd luck tonite lads

18 Sep 2013 09:47:03
I'm not sure how far our interest goes into papadopoulos, but if we do buy him as a CB, we would have depth and competition for the defensive position.

Corchia, is another player we need to buy as cover and competition with Jenkinson for the RB position.

in terms of the CDM position, the only players who would improve us drastically, are players like Lars bender or Ilkay Gundogan, if neither is available then concentrate on improving other positions.

on the wing, I think the addition of Ben Arfa would go along way to improving that position. It would enable us to have poldi or walcott cover for giroud and give us more of an attacking outlet. Think of it as Arjen Robben Lite.

I really don't see any available striker who could make us better than we are, without costing the world.

Benzema is firing again, falcao, cavani would cost the earth, van persie is a traitor, rooney for me is too old and probably another season beyond this one to last with his large unathletic body.

anyway I know its cpl night for us, just looking at our squad, and was looking at a sensible way of adding to our squad and surrounding ozil, and taking a step further. just my thoughts.

18 Sep 2013 12:08:46
I think from reading what Arsene has said about his 3 centre backs and Sagns, that and what Sagna himself has said about moving to CB on the Arsenal site I'm not sure how much Arsene is looking into buying a CB.

I mean if it wasn't for Flamini would he have gone back and got Lars Bender.

I'm sure Arsene has it mapped out where he's looking to buy but finding that out would be a minor miracle.

I for one certainly think that Bender and a quality CB are two places we need to fill with younger better talent than Sagna and Flamini, no disrespect to them but they can only be short term.

Striker wise I'm not sure how Arsene see's that because someone like Hernandez from United would fit and much to 1404's disgust Saurez still would. Rooney is just playing for a way out now, just not sure to who. Not us, hopefully.

January will be an interesting window for us with a new mind set from Arsene.

Benteke for the striker?

Stoner, I get your trend of thought on the CB and the CDM position, and as you have stated, Sagna and flamini are not long term options.

To build a team around Ozil means we either buy quality players between the ages of 20-24 or slightly over from 25-27.

Arteta will be 32 before the season ends, rosicky will be 33 in october, sagna will be 31 before the season ends.

Kos, Verm, Mert are in their prime years, and to utilize a pairing which has been together as long as they have, is useful to win trophies. Giroud himself is entering his prime years. while cazorla and poldi will be 29 soon, they are still prime players.

not to forget we have the likes of Ox, walcott, ramsey, wilshere, gnabry, ryo, some of them have made the step up while some are still at the phase where they have to compete with 1st teamers.

alot of people are really crazy about benteke, and I understand he is a amazing goalscorer, but is he a technical one, that will perform in the champions league? to me he is not as clinical or create a piece of magic on his own to win a game like the traitor we had, and the likes of falcao, cavani, ibra, suarez, ronaldo, messi and so on and so forth.

The best striker who could be available is Lewandowski. and he is already bayern bound.

lets wait it out I guess

18 Sep 2013 02:16:20
going to be a tough game, but if all goes well i'm predicting a 3-1 win.
Giroud, Walcott and Ozil to score. :)
Napoli and Dortmund to draw 2-2.

17 Sep 2013 21:49:16
Misprint. Napoli aren't average. They're good. But imo we're better.