Arsenal Banter Archive February 01 2014

01 Feb 2014 21:38:28
As if we don't have enough injured players, we now have taken to signing them! One has to question Wengers sanity.

01 Feb 2014 21:04:31
is it only us that sign these glass players, I saw an interesting stat that we win the injury league week in week out and year in year out

well I was of the opinion KK wasn't going to be good enough for arsenal but was happy to be proved wrong

said a little prayer last night asking why and will he be good enough? maybe I got my sign :(

oh well sorry to say it lads but we're back at the drawing board so we going to have to do it the hard way

so let's be avin you tomorrow and I want passion and shouting singing from the fans, and a sweet passing game and a win to nil result

i'd like us out of sight by half time to rotate players

but i'll take 1-0 if that's what it has to be, just win lads

and bring on the draw monday or a chelsea win (spits on the floor)

01 Feb 2014 20:29:58
in a bad place right now. completely lost my faith in wenger :(

i know I shouldnt, I even read that big german article on how its ARSENE FC, and everything and was proud.


but he's destoyed that faith with me now.

i don't like spending for the sake of it, but we wouldn't be if we won something, we might not win by spending, but we won't by not.

arsene to me now seems like his new signing, the stuff of legends, if he was on a certain football management game.

Financial astuteness : 20
Team cohesion : 15
Man management : 15
Negotiations : 10 (aber wenn sie sind deutsch gesprechen)
Fan Appreciation : 1
Anatomical Knowledge : 1
Trust : 1
Sight : 0
Media : 5

*all stats out of 20


On a serious note, wtf. :(

01 Feb 2014 20:19:41
That is so weird, for a minute there I thought we were in 7th place on 40 points with some clueless ginger prince in charge of us and our Stella signing had failed to inspire us to defeat Stoke City.

Then thankfully I saw Flybo's name and realised I was home and that despite an ongoing injury list we remain a solitary point behind the USS Nimitz and her world class crew.

Then it occurred to me, just out of the blue really, what if we had the best defence in the premiership, a goal keeper back in form and TV5 has remained a gunner.

Then and you won't believe this as I'd completely forgotten, we've got Ozil, Santi, Wilshere and Rosicky in our midfield helping their mate Giroud with some goals.

Geez guys, it's not like last year where we all gave the league away, it's proper bloody difficult to win it this season and most of us will be chuffed with 3rd.

I know the window was pants and so does every man and his dog but these boys have and will step up, you play these big games on adrenalin as well as fitness, Oscar wasn't tired last year when he played god knows how many games for Chelsea.

And please judge Arsene after the next summers window when he will have added the last pieces. If he fails then there really will be no place to hide.

I'm all for believing in my team and the quality throughout it, they'll have to tough it out and stay in touch through these next two months and I really do believe better than 3rd is still possible.

Go jenny!

Good positive post Jenny. I had a similar experience. I dreamt we had a s**t load of cash and on the brink of buying in a position of strength one of the most exciting young talents in Europe. Add to that that particular player wanted to come to us.

Unfortunately I woke up to find we pulled out and bought an injured player to replace our injured players. I'm now left slightly disappointed we didn't buy a replacement for the injured player we bought to replace the injured players, and we didn't bring in a striker. Oh well, at least Bendtner will be back shortly.

God I wish I could get back to sleep :-)
Flybo

Welcome back Jenny T

Yes I'm with Dagenham Jenny nice to see you back where you been? Cruising round the World or something. LOL 😄

01 Feb 2014 19:42:18
the only plus I can see here at the min is that we could be forced to play the ox in the middle! remember he played there in italy!
and also eisfeld might get a game if he was'nt loaned out or is also injured or in the bad books or to young or not stong enough or from the wrong part of germany or.

01 Feb 2014 19:14:59
maybe we're training our medical staff by bringing in injured players, like a formula one pit stop

;)

Best explanation I've heard so far. Lol!

01 Feb 2014 18:48:50
Confirmed on ssn that kallstrom will miss the palace match, Liverpool, man utd, Liverpool and bayern thanks mr wenger we had a real chance of winning something this year!

01 Feb 2014 18:09:12
hi

signing ozil made every one step up the gear and the whole team played up to the top level. AW has now done totally the opposite, at the most crucial part if the season, he has got an injured player, but has not played football for more than 80 days. He was playing beach football. Now I do fear, we are on a tight leash. If giroud gets injured then what?

why he did that? is he not renewing his contract. may be it certainly a possibility. He has not signed anything yet, or has he. May be there is a big offer from Monaco or PSG. don't know what he is thinking.

it sucks man! why everytime these things come up for Arsenal. makes u feel. man I can't explain . u all know how does it feel?

not again.

01 Feb 2014 17:39:35
GREAT NEWS

Arsenal's new signing is out for 6 weeks with a back injury, that showed up in the medical but we still decided to sign him. what the hell are we playing at

Its getting more like a carry on film every day

Nuts, we sign a player on loan until the end of the season, who will be out of action whilst Ramsey & Flamini are out! We needed a 4th centre back and a striker. We get a 31 year old injured player on loan! Desperate.

01 Feb 2014 17:16:53
So. Wait a minute.
Kallstrom was injured BEFORE we bought him?
And we needed him because, "suddenly were a bit short"?

At first I thought it was funny, now I'm just baffled.

What's the odds he never gets a game?

More money well spent

01 Feb 2014 16:37:32
Listen boys your all mising the point of the Kallstrom signing here remember the old saying
" If it ain't broke don't fix it " but in our case "If it is broke let Arsenal sign them on! " What did you all expect a player that wasnt going to visit the treatment room as soon as he could. I would love to know what the attraction is in that room. tell you what have a guess I will kick it off. Lap dancers Don Perignon Champagne on ice, bag loads of money(take what you want). Any advances on that?

Haha. Very good, I'm seeing tropical plants, scantily clad beauties handing out pina coladas and swathing giant palm leaves, waterfalls, mountains of grapes and abou diaby sporting a toga atop a golden throne.

01 Feb 2014 16:14:00
QUESTION

Why hasn't Arsene signed his contract yet? We have heard them say "we will announce when the time is right." What I want to know is, when is the right time?

If Arsenal had announced the renewel after the villa game and before the Özil signing, it would have gone down like a fart at a funeral, but since then they have had ample opportunity to announce it. Being top of the table flying high for the last few months, you would have thought that would have been the ideal time to announce Arsene's renewel, amidst a wave of positivity about the direction of the club?

Don't want to come across negative here, but say for example February and March turns in to an absolute disaster for us. Then when would be the 'right time' to announce his renewel? The club would want any announcement to be deemed as a positive thing and welcomed by the vast majority of the fans. It would be difficult to pick 'the right time' if we were out of the cup competitions, and were floundering in the league.
It's all very confusing. Or quite obvious?

Thoughts?
Flybo

Sorry, I didn't think the first one had gone through.
Flybo

01 Feb 2014 17:23:50
That's because its his last season

We will have a German manager

That's the LOW down mate

You might well be right Malaga.
Flybo

Wenger's behaviour has been extremely strange. He won't sign his contract. He wouldn't buy players and whinged about the window. He now signs an injured player, to cover injured players in the midfield where we have lots of options! I believe he is off at the end of the season.

Think he knows he's off in the summer, no signing, no success.

01 Feb 2014 16:05:09
You couldn't make it up!

Kallstrom out with a back injury suffered in training, what was he doing? Carrying the water bottles or something ffs?

At least Manu, Everton and the spurs are all losing at half time.

He was injured before he signed, the injury showed up in the medical but we said " let's sign him"

effing mental. I am so angry with WENGER . at times he is a really prick

01 Feb 2014 15:49:38
Kim Kallstrom has injured himself in his first training session with the club. It's a back injury - early reports suggesting 2-3 months out seem exaggerated.

It just gets better and better. No problem with Kallstrom looks a solid player with a good rep for dead ball goals but what price might we pay for messing up signing Higuain in the summer and failing to bring in a quality striker to help out Giroud?

Last few games we have looked tired, always second to the ball and barely turning up in the first half of a match. A big signing would have raised the spirits of both the fans and the players.

The interview with Kallstrom on the Arsenal website is very telling

Interviewer: "Can you tell us about the loan deal and how it came about?"
Kallstrom: "Yesterday I was in Abu Dhabi with Spartak Moscow and I got a phone call asking if I would like to go to Arsenal on loan for a few months. I thought ‘Absolutely, why not?’"

Sounds like a long planned move to strengthen then. What the hell are the back room staff responsible for scouting and securing players being paid for and as an aside why is Diaby still on our books how much has he been paid per hours actually played it must be a record.

01 Feb 2014 15:21:33
I feel gutted, the super swede is out injured. But still feel we can go on and win a trophy this season. If we don't then AW must go in the summer. There are going to be big changes in the summer as said by ed 002, new sponser more big singings aswell!

01 Feb 2014 15:11:03
Even better news, our deadline day super loan is now injured on day 1, will done Arsenal!

01 Feb 2014 11:57:39
Not posted for a while but after another poor window does anyone else get the impression that Ozil was signed just to keep the fans happy.(post villa game fan reaction) At that time in the summer we NEEDED a striker and still do desperately if we really want to contend. Roll on to the January window and yet again no striker. We lose Giroud to the growing injury list it will be another 3rd/4th place scrap

Do you really believe AFC would spend 42 million - without weeks of preparation and research?
MO was targeted as the buy in the window- there may have been others but he was the big one we went for.
If you look around - almost all the so-called targets during the summer window have turned out to be either Kak or were always going somewhere else.

Ozil was anything but planned.

It was forseeable that Madrid would sign Bale - whomever real decided would be deemed surplus was up for debate, it just happened to be Ozil. We could just have well bought Di Maria or Benzema.

{Ed001's Note - Ozil was never on the table until he asked to leave. Madrid had previously rejected interest.}

01 Feb 2014 11:25:30
Can I just say a big big big and even bigger thank you to all the Eds for all their hard work throughout the season and especially yesterday on transfer deadline day.

I'm sure you guys were working ya little Arsenal sock's off all day and I'm sure I can say on behalf of everybody on this site that we appreciate all your hard work and respect/laugh at your comments.

Thank's Ed's for putting up with all of us.

{Ed001's Note - that's ok mate, just glad you were all so happy with your signings. Ok maybe happy is not the right word. Happier than say Liverpool, Spurs, Newcastle and Southampton fans. Oh and much happier than Leeds fans! It was a relief to edit on here rather than them at times. I actually found myself feeling sorry for Leeds fans, never thought I would say that!}

Lol, Leeds are in a bit of a mess Ed001

01 Feb 2014 11:07:23
No big names, no upset of the balance of the team, no rushing youngsters into a new league without a preseason. Just one player who provides cover and title winning experience as well as that style of play that we know and love so much, and have come to love in Rosicky. Well done mr wenger I applaud you. We don't need another tall, average striker, we've got enough of them. What we need is to maintain our title winning credentials and maintain the balance and closeness of the squad

01 Feb 2014 10:26:49
so i've been looking and thinking for a positive from the transfer window, and the positive I can take is more of the players consuming wages have been moved on

thats about all I got :)

rest will be construed as negative lol, so let's just put it behind us and get behind the lads cause we are sure as f*** going to be needed by them over the next 17 days

and in the words of kevin keegan I would love it just love it if we can smash that smug smile of robin van co** face

up the arsenal!

01 Feb 2014 09:56:18
Kim Kallstrom could turn out to be our Ray Parlour!

{Ed039's Note - Do you not already have/had your own Ray Parlour)

Thats funny ed, I think they meant 'next' Ray Parlour.

Kim Kardashian What a signing!now that's one player I wouldn't mind on the treatment table. didn't even know she could kick a ball although I've seen her hiding them up her jumper a few times. I often wondered why she did that never knew she was on Arsenes hit list. Just shows you a reality star and Swedish footballer. what a talent LOL

She's got a couple of regulation 5's down the back of the leggings!

01 Feb 2014 07:11:26
For some unknown reason, we didn't buy a striker. Sad to say, but I don't think we have what it takes to stop the Manchester City Juggernaut

I don't think anyone has enough to stop them this season.

I really hope Podolski steps up to the plate and given the chance to play up top more he will score goals.

We have Santi scoring again now and Giroud keeps putting them away.

Deadline day was not what we all hoped, but I truly believe Draxler will come in the summer and a top class striker too.

Chins up everyone

01 Feb 2014 01:42:18
Well that was s**t, annoying, predictable, frustrating, insert your word here. Let's be honest the crime wasn't not signing a striker in this window. It was not signing a striker in the summer.

What adds to the misery is when you find out that for one moment the club thought to itself "Kalou could do a job for us." Please!

As far as Kallstrom is concerned he is now an Arsenal player. I will support him and judge him as I do every other player, on what he does on the pitch. I just hope that if there are any negative feelings around the stadium about the window, it is directed at the powers that be and not the player. It isn't his fault.

37m for a player is a sh*t load of money for someone so young, and Arsene rightly or wrongly has decided against it. I just hope time will not come back to bite us on the bum. Ronaldo 12m? a bit too much for potential. Hazard two seasons before he went to chavski, 30m? We'll leave it thankyou. Mata 26m? Let me think about it. Then think about it a bit more. Hmm, emm. Oh he's gone!
"Ok Arsene if you don't agree that the price matches your valuation of the player then you have the final say. What's that? You've seen a Brazilian left back called Santos for 6.5m? Well you know what your doing.
Are you sure the Dane deserves 52k a week? OK it's down to you.
You've high jacked a transfer that was nearly completed! Nice one Arsene. Usually it's us who get done over at the last minute, what's his name? Park! Well he must have something if you've pulled a fast one."

Do we know where Arsene begins and Arsenal ends? There needs to be that David Dein element where you say "Give me your list of players in order of importance and we'll do the rest. You just coach the players and dedicate your time and effort on the training pitch. Yes Arsene I know all about APR!"
But that ship has sailed. Wenger will leave when he decides to. I'm not saying I want him out because I don't. It's just I don't like one individual having so much control over the club. It's never healthy, whether it's the Owner, Manager or Player.
IN ARSENE WE WAIT AND SEE? I hope he gets it right.

Well I've got that off my chest. It's over now, back to the important stuff. The football.
UP THE GOONERS
Flybo

I agree

But why wait until the last minute to get some players in.
The targets should have been identified at least by November / December.
Again Arsene you have shown your weakness in the transfer market.
All we can do is keep our fingers crossed for no more injuries.

But we got what we got. so its 100% behind the team.
Lets beat the Palace on Sunday and hope Chelsea get a result at City so we stay top

Well said totally agree, he's written his own death warrant if we suffer up front and he's had 2 windows to fix it he can have no excuses but let's get behind the team, I pray to god no booing

Great post flybo exactly my thoughts and how I felt. Thanks for getting that off my chest too. COYGs

To be fair we met Mata and Hazards valuations but they chose Chelski because of their astronomical wage offers. I don't think anything has changed with this window, no panic buying and a top 4 finish. Next season we will start with another top top quality striker and then we will really be in the mix!

01 Feb 2014 00:50:43
morning, As frustrating as it is I think the January window has proven how hard it can be to sign quality players, the fact is we could have signed players like Klose etc, but would this be better than we have? just look at Man U, yes mata is a quality player but £37 million is so over priced that's the only reason Chelsea accepted they knew no other club valued him at that. I think this was probably the case with draxler because he is one of the top talents available and no other club put a bid in I think that says everything about an over priced January window. I feel in January a loan only approach from all clubs would be more of a benefit for emergency cover rather than to unsettle teams challenging of fighting the drop and make it a level playing field leaving the summer for the real trading. fact is it's been a frustrating transfer period for all Look at Liverpool Even man city struggled today, in a way no one has significantly improved apart from united but it's to little to late.

In agreement there mate!

01 Feb 2014 00:08:33
We might have signed someone else too, you can announce a transfer whenever you want as long as you can prove it was before the transfer window ends. A signing could be announced when we play Crystal Palace, you never know, all I can do is hope :-). Kallstrom is actually pretty good, I have seen him play a few times for club and country.
If there are no new signings (other than Kallstrom), hopefully we won't regret it at the end of the season

1hr 22 mins after the window i'm reasonably sure tv have a sniff