Arsenal Banter Archive August 19 2016

19 Aug 2016 21:47:18
5 goals in 2 games from lacazette lol

Wengers a fool 😫.

{Ed025's Note - not a fool je, just a minge bag.. :)

19 Aug 2016 22:25:55
Muppet, Prat, Idiot.

19 Aug 2016 22:41:37
Absolutely heartbreaking. Seriously.

19 Aug 2016 23:00:24
Never mind Lacazette, how on earth did he let Kaboul slip through his fingers, he wanted to come back to London too. Shocking.

19 Aug 2016 23:01:34
I stand corrected ed 👍🏻.

19 Aug 2016 23:08:34
Just sign Hernandez and get it done - EPL experience

Then a CB and right back

Then a bloody winger who can actually run at people - Draxler.

19 Aug 2016 23:10:29
This is the part where we go back in and meet Lyon's original asking price, only to find they now want £55m not £45m and Arsene declares the transfer window prices madness.


Seriously though, say what you want about the quality of the league he's playing in, the lad's a finisher, pure and simple and Arsenal lack that.
Put him Infront of Özil and I'd bet he'd bag 20 goals in his first season.
I'd back myself to get 10 with Özil, Cazorla and Co supplying me and I'm a overweight bloke in his twenties.

In a world where Benteke is acceptable priced st £32m, Bolasie at £30m and Andre Gomes at €50m, paying £40-45m for Lacazette is robbery.

I'd dare say that ship has sailed now and our only hope of signings are maybe, maybe, please god don't balls it up, Mustafi and after that, it's just a wait to see who Madrid cast out, like seagulls following a fishing trawler.

19 Aug 2016 23:14:59
Red Dog,
And to think, Joey Barton would have walked on his hands and knee's to come to us.

Ridiculous :-)

19 Aug 2016 23:19:33
Well well, calm down now, he said last week that zalatan age is aginst him and he might not be able to proform week in week out. What do you expect from him.
I don't think wenger will have a good farewell party, that is if ever bloody leave.

19 Aug 2016 23:29:10
What does me that much is that their prices keep on increasing with every transfer window yet Wenger and the board wouldn't pay. I bet Lacazette will cost 60-70 million come January.

19 Aug 2016 23:44:14
For me, the window is over. I've decided to think in this direction so I don't get too disgruntled by the club. If we sign someone before the close of the window, then it's a miracle.

19 Aug 2016 21:43:47
see lacazette bagged 2 again tonight. If he is the target he's added to his price since the season started!

why oh why do we take an age to sort out a transfer!

{Ed025's Note - because you baulk at paying the going rate fitwick, god knows why? your one of the richest clubs in the world but want players on the cheap mate..

19 Aug 2016 23:02:11
That's it you want to compete with the citys and uniteds but want to pay what west brom pay! I'm not getting involved in it this year mate.

19 Aug 2016 23:13:32
Don't worry, Berahino is apparently a free agent next summer, so we'll swoop in on deadline day with a £30m double swoop for Evans and Berahino!

Why pay for lobster when you can get half as good crayfish for a quarter of the price?!

19 Aug 2016 23:48:33
I predicate arsenal are just flirting with the players with the intention of tricking the fans they were doing something.

19 Aug 2016 22:43:11
Sad but true Ed.

Ridiculous, a club of our stature and we revel in mediocrity.

{Ed025's Note - i really do wish i was wrong dags, you still have a very strong team though and will dine at the top table im sure, but as far as winning the league i expect you will fall short again as all the other big boys are stronger, i think you will buy before the deadline but 1 token signing will not be enough i fear mate..

19 Aug 2016 18:27:02
It's been said before but the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, this is why the club have to make several changes not only on the transfer front (paying big money for a player who may not quite be worth 40 million but would be 10 times better than a player worth half that who requires time to develop) but also regarding tactics, since employing the 4231 formation we have not performed greatly. Leicester showed last year that 442 is still a very effective tactic even with the players we have at the moment we could do well using this, just think xhaka and carzola in holding midfield roles, chamberlain on the right, sanchez as an attacking left midfielder and ozil in the old Bergkamp role and (don't shoot me) Theo making the runs behind defence (as Henry or Wright did) .
With this in mind Man utd and Chelsea will be challenging for title as they are the only clubs to make big changes. Man city may have Guardiola but are still all style and no defence which won't work in the epl, Tottenham have not invested and are making similar mistakes to us a few years ago and Liverpool have invested a lot of money but perhaps in the wrong players (again) which inflates expectations of their performances.
I hope I'm wrong but fear I won't be.

19 Aug 2016 20:46:56
Our best days under Wenger, used a 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1 formation and I am a great fan of these formations, assuming they are fluid and not too rigid. He also used more tall, powerful, athletic players, I noticed last season, that a lot of teams had returned to using strong physical players in a 4-4-2 formation.

My favourite Arsenal team was the 1998 double winning team, which played in a 4-4-2 and had Vieira and Petit protecting the back four, not that it need protecting! We had the industrious Parlour on the right and the superb Overmars on the left.

The current team looks far more fragile and I have never liked the current system we use, nor too many small, technical players.

19 Aug 2016 23:06:08
RG
Agree - I don't think Ozil is able to play the DB10 role and I don't believe Santi can play in midfield in the Petit role. Granit and Elneny plus Rambo on right wing gives you Vierra, petit and Parlour
Sanchez is no Overmars either

Crazy - I just said our best two players can't equal DB10 or Overmars now we would want Theo to replace Henry

4 4 2 requires an overhaul - our team seems to fit 4 3 3 or 4 5 1.

I like 4 4 2.

20 Aug 2016 00:38:08
Oh and if you listen carefully to his comments it seems he isn't leaving the club anytime soon. Only the fans can throw him out which would be a shame as that will stain his good works for the club.

20 Aug 2016 00:49:44
The good old days. We need a time machine, someone?

{Ed007's Note - Try Ed003's wardrobe. The last time I seen him I thought I was back in the '80's.}

19 Aug 2016 15:36:36
Hi Eds I read that Alexis Sanchez has asked Arsenal to look at a move to Juventus for him before the window closes. Also read that we have put in a serious bid for Julian Draxler. Is Draxler a possible replacement for Sanchez. Thanks in advance.

{Ed001's Note - I really wonder what people read! Sanchez has not asked to move to Juve, though he certainly would take the move if Juve stepped in for him. I don't know of any bid for Draxler in from Arsenal, I thought it was City, but I could be wrong, I haven't checked.}

19 Aug 2016 17:48:42
If Arsenal were to even consider letting Sanchez move this summer then Stan and Arsene would both be looking to leave in the very near future, on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being highly likely and 10 being no chance at alk I'd say the chances of this story being anything rubbish are about 100 billion.

19 Aug 2016 13:21:39
We appear to have made our one annual expensive signing in Xhaka. Despite Gazidis and Wenger stating that we have funds available, I can't see any more top signings. Wenger has prepared us by stating that he wouldn't rule out an older CB and by saying that Welbeck should be back in December.

So we are getting an old CB and no striker. Although I have appreciated all Wenger has done for the club, I am becoming increasingly frustrated with more of the same nonsense. Does he really think that the fans are fooled by his manipulative behaviour? The sad thing is that a quality CB, cover at RB and a top striker, could give us a chance of competing at the top level.

If we don't make these signings, I can see us finishing outside the top four and Wenger being hounded out of the club by the supporters. I hope I'm wroing, but I somehow doubt it.

19 Aug 2016 13:53:33
Don't be surprised

I said weeks ago Xhaka would be it

There is a predictability from Wenger

Yawn.

19 Aug 2016 16:07:22
I bet you whatever you like that there will be another signing!

19 Aug 2016 17:51:42
There might be but it will be loan or for two bob and an orange if people are waiting for another 'biggie' that will only happen if we balance the books

Wenger is a net spend bloke.

19 Aug 2016 17:56:43
Ok Sanogo I bet you if we don't get anyone else in your have to change your name to Bentnerlovessanogo.
Not so confident now ate you? :-)

19 Aug 2016 21:26:52
I'm just pointing out that people go mad at the click bait and over hyping innocent quotes and here we have xhaka would be it! Now the goal post have changed and were supposed to now debate on people's idea of what is another 'biggie' when many could also argue that xhaka wasn't a biggie in the first place! Wow. Ok define biggie for me please.

19 Aug 2016 22:30:15
A game changer

How's that

Xhaka ain't one and he's overpriced, who isn't nowadays but he won't win us many games be a question of how many will he miss.

19 Aug 2016 23:03:34
Well we have cleared that up then.

19 Aug 2016 02:24:44
Welbeck is back for Christmas, that's our striker signing sorted, that with our new Brazilian cb signing we'll make when Gabriel returns is our business concluded for another year.

19 Aug 2016 06:35:49
That you Arsene? :-)

19 Aug 2016 09:39:51
No dags it's just another hacked off fan telling you all exactly what Arsene will be telling everyone very soon I'm afraid.

19 Aug 2016 11:23:29
I hear you JP.

Totally agree mate.

19 Aug 2016 11:51:50
Two signing by this time next week CB and lacazette.

19 Aug 2016 17:19:52
Love your optimism Crybaby.