Arsenal Banter Archive September 01 2015

01 Sep 2015 23:09:03
I presume the success of the team depends on Wenger. Despite having been disgruntled with no striker signing, i'll still be a fan all my life. He Wenger knows what he is up against this season, knows what he wants and has worked with these players for long. This time around he craves to win the league. Predicably he knows he can do so with this squad. We should get behind him and the team. All these rants are pointless as it doesn't effect any change.
Lets just hope it's our season. We've played four games, 34 more to go. Would be happy if we find our connections and sharpness back.

01 Sep 2015 23:38:40
Willy I have no doubt we can challenge for the league. A lot of factors must swing for us but yeah this team can win the league. But wenger has been niave because if he bought a striker he could afford not to win the league. The signings would have been his insurance policy. But he's gone all in on a decent hand but not a royal flush .

01 Sep 2015 22:54:25
latest transfer update!! regards gibo

01 Sep 2015 23:37:26
That's that cleared up than.

Cheers Gibo.

Gonna sleep better now.

01 Sep 2015 22:30:09
Sorry guys,

I was wrong about Benzema and Cavani.

We are all disappointed with the window.

We all know what we need and want. But, we have to remain positive and upbeat.

Player for player, we are a match for anybody in the prem (bar Aguero).

This is the strongest squad we have ever had.
2 players for every position, and good players et al.

City will be the team to beat but they always have a blip.

Chelsea are Champs, but Terry looks like a spent force, Diego Costa is one tackle away from a 2 month lay off and other teams don't fear them anymore.

If we can keep our injuries at a manageable level, we could be in with a shout.

I know Olly is not everybody's cuppa, but he scored 18 last season, despite missing 3 months.

Keep the faith boys.

01 Sep 2015 23:18:29
Costa is one tackle away from a two month lay up or a two month ban. Got a temper that boy

01 Sep 2015 23:08:25
That's the problem Dags, we keep 'keeping the faith' when maybe that's the problem, we keep putting our faith in a Management and board that are happy to be the best of the rest rather than build on a good team and be the best we can be

01 Sep 2015 23:09:32
Dags you honestly believe aguero is the only difference between us and them?

01 Sep 2015 23:17:41
Dags i applaud your rousing and positiveness, i just think it is just more fuel for the fire today. Its not about signings, its about arsene making a statement. Personally i can't see him backing it up. I also think today he has put us back two years. But he knows better than me. If he doesn't he's in for a rough ride.

01 Sep 2015 22:58:24
Dags you talk a good game mate and I'd love to say to you in May how right you were all those months ago and who knows maybe I will but confidence in the clubs ambition is very low mate and like anything else if you don't really want it and go the extra mile your unlikely to ever be the best of the best.
Eye of the tiger is needed and sadly we've got all eyes on the bank manager.

01 Sep 2015 23:43:32
call me mad...but i'm backing welbeck to have a ramsey coming of age season...just have feeling.

02 Sep 2015 00:05:18
Derby,

I don't see too much difference between us and City, they only finished 4 points above us last season.
Of course, time will tell as they have just spent £150m. But, maybe their new boys won't integrate.

Fingers crossed G62.

Hope you are correct Sligo.

1404 and Steve.
Unfortunately, as Gooners we have to like it or lump it boys.

02 Sep 2015 00:24:58
Sligo you are mad. Well you did ask us too. Lol

02 Sep 2015 08:29:35
dags you underestimate this city mate. do you not think they have improved alot??

01 Sep 2015 22:11:09
You mean these prats couldn't even get Pato!

01 Sep 2015 21:13:41
Berbatov on a free anyone?

Just kidding

{Ed025's Note - i should hope so bacon.. :)

01 Sep 2015 22:07:50
What that he's free or he's joking

01 Sep 2015 22:19:13
No chance,

He's so lazy.

Only player I have ever seen get stretchered ONTO the pitch.

02 Sep 2015 00:14:38
I bet we get berba

01 Sep 2015 20:57:13
Ok we're all upset, some are angry and no doubt a few are currently sitting in the corner rocking back and forth mumbling to themselves... but it's not quite as bad as some make out.

So here's the thing, if you could create a team using the best 11 players currently in the prem how many would be from Arsenal? How many would be from teams other than last years top 4?

Using a 4-2-3-1 since it's by far the most popular formation for top sides name your prem 11.

01 Sep 2015 22:12:49
Cech (purely based on experience)
Bellerin terry kos bains
Matic yaya
Hazard fabregas sanchez
Aguero

01 Sep 2015 22:34:05
Hart
Bellerin Kos Kompany Azpilicueta
Matic Yaya
Hazard Silva Sanchez
Aguero

I wonder if any man united fans would put any of their players in the team? Only one might be De Gea, but would you really want to do that after what's happened?

01 Sep 2015 22:55:30
De gea
Coleman kompany kos. Cesar
Matic yaya
Hazard silva Sanchez
Aguero

02 Sep 2015 00:21:10
Cech kompany kos bellerin Bertrand yaya ozil Sanchez rooney hazard aguero

01 Sep 2015 20:23:56
Hey Ed's, just wanted to say that WENGER and Co should be Sacked tonight... I just can't get my head around this as a manager you know what you missing from the squad and as a director of football Gazidis you make sure you will make deals done.... Not in last 2hrs week before, now knowing price 45 Mil Benz as a sample they not going to down below 40... You want that player pay the F.... Money.... i'm so upset

02 Sep 2015 00:21:37
Bit extreme

01 Sep 2015 20:22:44
Ubi and lemon. Please remember by post come may. Thanks.

01 Sep 2015 20:14:06
Ok

Emotions taken out of it .

I am sure we all agree , Mr Wenger has done a very good job , he has got us into a fantastic stadium and finacially we are in a very good position ( remember that )

It is no good the pro Wenger camp saying look what he won us , that means nothing now and he hasn't progressed us ( on the pitch ) . I'm afraid it is all about the here and now and the future and currently we aren't going to compete , and that can't be argued.

Only Arsene knows why he didn't want to spend but most of the footballing world ( in the UK ) are amazed he didn't spend. I don't think he had any intention to be honest.

We have a very good squad at Arsenal but it is short of really comepeting in the PL ( winning it I mean ) and very very short of doing anything in the CL.

Let's hope we keep the lads off the treatment table .....................of course what we don't know is , has Arsene got something up his sleeve for January? time will tell.

Looking forward Arteta and Rosicky will surely have to be moved on next summer so signings in midfield will have to be made???

01 Sep 2015 22:21:26
I'm afraid January is 4 months too late no matter how amazing the trick up his sleeve is...

01 Sep 2015 21:27:11
So...Arsenal the only team in the top 5 European leagues not to sign an outfield player!?!

{Ed002's Note - So, you want to wait on Carvaljho and Higuain for January or do you want the money pissed up the wall now on players who won't make the first team.}

01 Sep 2015 22:36:33
I'd be thrilled with Carvalho and Higuain in January. Higuain > Benzema for me.

Obviously Carvalho will be attainable in January but will Higuain be? Surely if Napoli were prepared to sell at a price Wenger would be of been prepared to pay we'd of made more noise about signing him this window

01 Sep 2015 23:32:50
Think il sit tight for January if that's the case

No point spending it for the sake of it...you want to get the perfect players for your team, wenger knows what he wants so just let the man do his job.

Those two signings right there could complete us for a few years, what's 4 more months after the years we had to wait whilst the stadium was being constructed.

Just a shame William C got injured otherwise we probably would have seen him come in in this window, was it Higuain's price tag that meant us not proceeding to sign him ed? Just curious to see what would be the difference come January in that respect :)

01 Sep 2015 23:16:27
ed in your hearts of hearts you know well that wenger not going to pay 100m in jan for two players.no one sells there best players in jan

{Ed001's Note - except they are players the clubs have accepted will leave and made plans for that, so it is possible.}

01 Sep 2015 19:58:07
I was going to write one of my typical 'Wenger is the problem' rants, but I'm past giving a toss anymore. After this transfer window it should be abundantly clear to you all that he needs to stop holding us back and make way for someone who will actually do the job for us.

So done.

01 Sep 2015 20:31:38
Peps going to be available next year, we should be doing everything possible to get that deal done, whatever it takes!!

01 Sep 2015 20:32:48
Judge the team after 15 games, but yes it is very frustrating

01 Sep 2015 20:52:22
I feel your pain channel

01 Sep 2015 21:34:48
Says 'i'm past giving a toss anymore' and then proceeds to rant about how Wenger is the problem

01 Sep 2015 21:12:03
Lucas_Courtney just saved all us pages and pages of electronic ink. -:) Back to regular service now?

01 Sep 2015 19:40:43
Ok my take on the transfer window.

Arsenal take our money and charge us the highest prices in the world. If we are not spending that money on building a team to match the prices and be the best in the world then where is it going?

The stadium is at least well ahead of the payments and is no longer draining our resources. 9 years ago we were told the move from Highbury would provide us with the cash to compete for the best players in the world. Over the last 2 years we have bought 2 world class players so we can afford them but we won't pay for them

Wenger, gazidis and kroenke should be delivering but as a group they are just too tight

Kroenke is also wengers boss so he should be demanding that we compete for the biggest of trophies

Players are available, they have their price but our owners and manager think they will get top notch players for 1998 prices and they need to wake up

Ultimately Wenger, gazidis and kroenke have stated in practical terms thEy think this team is good enough to make up 15 points on the teams that finished above us and win the league and/or to go beyond the round of 16 to the cl final
If he fails to do at least one of those things then he kroenke and gazidis must all go at the end of this season

01 Sep 2015 19:56:47
Also, we won't pay today's prices and with the TV money they will only be higher and we will be even less likely to pay

The future looks increasingly bleak with this regime in place and whilst I 100% support the call for the reduction in prices it is never going to happen because this lot are only interested in money and they see supporters as a source of income to be squeezed for everything try can get whilst giving as little as possible in return

01 Sep 2015 20:31:21
Your so right mate

01 Sep 2015 19:36:44
i'd like to say i'm shocked by arsenal this transfer window, but i'm not. Its going to be another "we're just 2 or 3 players short' season again. A player like Sanchez is not going to hang around at a club with no ambition for much longer. I'm sick of it

01 Sep 2015 19:24:39
Around Copa América's time, there was some talking here in Chile about Alexis and Vidal wanting to play toghether in the same team. Now i'm concerned that this could happen any time soon in Bayern Muchen.
Also, what could be thinking Özil right now about the stats of his assitances wasted for our attacking force?
I can understand the difficults for Arsene to getting the players he want, and I can agree over not to buy for the sake of it; but looking at the big picture of our recently history once again we had the chance to take the team to the next level but at the end seems like another big moment wasted. How many of that can we count already?
Even after the invencible's times, we failed to secure the ultimate jackpot loosing in UCL. It's seems like we always lack of that final consolidation moment.
This is not a "Wenger out" statement. I can dimesion all the magnitude of Arsene's work and as fan i'm very gratefull for it; but I wonder where is the limit of what he can do for the club in this moment.
No doubt he is the man who has build this institution and keep us on the map all this years, but now we may be on the edge of another moment of our history and I can't tell if the man who brought us here is the same man needed to respond at final crucial moments in order to be on the world class team´s league.
I don't have a clear answer to it.
Very disapointed righ now, but hopping we can do our very best anyway.

01 Sep 2015 19:14:44
So I take it when we signed those mega money commercial deals we heard so much about from Gazidis to unable us to compete with our rivals he must have been talking about the mid table teams as we clearly have zero aspirations to win or even compete for the title.

I have zero faith I'm the current regime, totally clueless

01 Sep 2015 19:33:25
He meant if the player is a free agent we could compete

01 Sep 2015 19:44:07
I think only those to loyal to Arsene to ever see (or want to see) his failings are not left completely flat and wondering will we ever compete at the very top again by this summer when hopes were at their highest for years of actually having a real go at the title.
Let's be honest people can offer all the reasons/excuses they like but the truth is few actually really think we things have any hope of changing for a good few years atlest.
You can only say jam tomorrow for so long and hope keep the majority with you

01 Sep 2015 19:07:47
My thoughts are that when AW talks about improving the squad/quality he's looking at qualifying for CL - not the championship. Untying the purse strings is relative to his judgment on winning the championshp/CL - he may have felt buying Benzema was justified but the other strikers he looked at - not so much.

01 Sep 2015 18:56:57
Sup Guys,

Say hello to our new striker:
Korean Forward Fu Kin No Wan

Should do well along with our other major signing: Cohesion.

Because no other team in world football has cohesion, it's special to Arsenal.

May be a silver lining, if (and when) we're out of the title race by the New Year, hopefully more of the fans will wake up to the fact that the main priority at Arsenal FC is not winning trophies, once you grasp and accept that, it all becomes easier.

Of course I respect the badge, but not the current regime.

I wish you all the best,
Sebastian

01 Sep 2015 19:34:49
Lol like it

01 Sep 2015 20:03:02
Sad day in the history of arsenal football club.

01 Sep 2015 20:14:43
That made me laugh.

01 Sep 2015 18:41:59
Remember I used the phrase " Wenger won't be going to the cash point again" .....I was mocked a bit.

How right was I and I wish I was wrong .

As Redknapp has said ,,,,,,,every pound note is a prisoner to Wenger , he has to remember the money isn't his.

People who are happy with Wenger are clearly the ones's happy with 3rd or 4th every year.

We need to compete and there is no way on this earth we can do that .

I would have been happy with Schderjghwjbderlin :) from Southampton but we didn't want to pay the price........bloody ridiculous

01 Sep 2015 18:54:46
You're so full of guff. To even use a redknapp quote is just a joke. Every team he's managed apart from Tottenham has ended up skint.

Abd on the other thing, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I bet you were moaning when we signed santos and park. Would it have been a good idea to do that today?

If the right player isn't available a good manager won't spend the money. Schneiderlin? Isn't a dm. We have many players who play box to box. Wiltshere Ramsey and cazorla to start with.

Use your brain. Your opinions on wenger are well known. But that doesn't excuse down right rubbish

01 Sep 2015 19:02:44
I do agree with you in parts Banbury. I like wenger but I'm not happy with him this window. And although the money isn't his like in any company if an employee makes them a shed load of cash they get rewarded and he has been rewarded. The problem is wenger likes the whole idea of total success from the bank to the pitch. If for example he spent 150 million and won the league it would be bitter sweet for him. But I'm a fan and I want trophies and I know we could have bought someone. Henry just said we get will never pay over what he believes a player is worth but the problem is selling clubs know that other clubs will pay it so why would they sell to us. If a team can get the price what they are asking them that's the market price for that player wether wenger agrees or not

01 Sep 2015 19:15:08
C S he was quoting a Harry quote not vouching for what he's done as a manager. I have the utmost respect for wenger but what Banbury says is valid you can't argue with results and trophys or lack of. Its most definitely not guff

01 Sep 2015 19:17:53
CS comedy value from you again......since when did Jamie Redknapp manage Tottenham .

You speak the biggest load of TOSH I have ever heard....so we are now going to have Santi running box to box , and who is Wiltshire?? when did he sign .

I am sure there are many many people one here who would have willingly taken Morgan from Southampton.

If the right player isn't available?? Have you been asleep?? there were many players available but offering two bob and an orange just isn't enough.

Can you reply, I love the laugh :) xx

01 Sep 2015 19:18:54
BG 82

Good post

01 Sep 2015 21:22:40
God I didn't know it was Jamie either Banbury. Feel like a dumb ass now 😓

01 Sep 2015 18:39:46
Look I'm not a wenger out. We still have a season to fight yet. Fuming we never got anyone and I'm fuming at wenger. But if we win or at least challenge up to the last few games and be at very least a good second and I mean a very good second then that's fine but if we are still going to be third or fourth best in this country then it has to be time.

It is a shame because wenger is fundamentally right and if the game was run correctly we would be by far the best team in England. But it's not so if you can't beat em!

01 Sep 2015 19:20:27
Again that's an excellent post

01 Sep 2015 20:19:46
We won't be near city. Can't see it

01 Sep 2015 18:23:55
Very depressing not to get a striker. It's all very well running a totalitarian regime but Wenger forgets who is paying a large proportion of the wages. It will blow up in his face, as it always does, and it's becoming tiresome. We have a great squad but to compete we need a striker better than Giroud.

Time will tell. Been two good seasons I guess.

01 Sep 2015 18:14:55
Cant believe it, its another year that we try and scrape through to get top 4

01 Sep 2015 18:35:42
We haven't been scraping top 4. We absolutely walked the top 4 last year, and have since added a world class goal keeper.

01 Sep 2015 18:40:53
iam fumimg with wenger i want him gone now its a joke

01 Sep 2015 18:52:51
Well he isn't going, so move on. Why would anybody sack a manager 4 games into a season?

01 Sep 2015 19:22:13
Ubi and I don't agree that often but I do with him this time, you can't get rid of Wenger now, that is daft, personally let's get someone lined up and move Wenger when his contract is up

01 Sep 2015 18:06:23
sorry if seemed low eds just really wanted a signing

01 Sep 2015 18:04:05
Well on a bright side man u have wasted 36m on a unknown with about the only thing going for him is his surname GOONER for life no matter what.

01 Sep 2015 18:58:32
Does that make u feel better?

What happens if he turns out to be decent?

01 Sep 2015 19:17:21
He will turn out to be great CTR

02 Sep 2015 08:56:25
A BIG if. Or like Falcoa did you mean.

01 Sep 2015 17:54:23
Looks like we're not getting anybody, little disappointed but glad we've not overspent massively on someone with "potential"

Anyway, personally i think our starting 11 is as strong as our rivals but we don't quite have the depth some of them do.

Cech
Bellerin Kos Gab Nacho
Ramsey Coq
Walcott Ozil alexis
Giroud

Gives us a good mix of pace and passing as well as 2 players who actively make runs into the box (walcott and ramsey).

We played our best football in the 2013-2014 season (in terms of recent years) and we've upgraded massively since then. Coq is an upgrade on arteta, bellerin is proving to be a great RB and alexis is an upgrade on having caz out wide.

If we can hit our stride then there's no reason we cannot challenge, but realistically city are miles ahead of everyone.

01 Sep 2015 18:29:33
Completely agree with that team - it does feel a little harsh leaving Cazorla out though

01 Sep 2015 18:57:21
Agree with u bruv, buying is not always the answer, team spirit is priceless, and we have that.

01 Sep 2015 19:01:12
Yeah harsh as it is leaving Cazorla out it's really a case of him or Ozil, not both.

Ramsey proved against Newcastle that he offers fantastic movement going forward, something we sorely lack without walcott on a wing. Coq cannot be removed for obvious reasons either.

As much as we all slate Giroud for failing to hit the target when it's presented on a plate for him he does do one thing well, link up play. If we have Ramsey and Walcott running past him then we're playing to his strengths, as well as Ozil's.

01 Sep 2015 19:19:10
Our starting 11 isn't bad, how many of those would start for City, Chelsea or UTD? There the teams winning the league not us

01 Sep 2015 20:45:31
Cech is as good as De Gea, Courtois and Hart. The only reason he lost his spot to Courtois was because Chelsea had to promise him he'd be first choice otherwise he'd of left and then they'd be in the same problem us and United have been in for the past decade... trying to find replacements for truly great keepers.

Bellerin is young and will still improve but he's showing he's capable of performing at this level. Ivanovic looks out of sorts andsagna is currently keeping zabaleta out of the city team.

Yes, Mert is a liability at the best of times but Kos is fantastic. Man city are clearly miles ahead in this department having Otamendi and Kompany but Kompany is injury prone and Mangala isn't exactly a replacement on the same level. Kos would still get in City's back four, United would jump at the chance to have him and Mourinho would probably take Mert at the rate they're going!

Sanchez would walk into any team in the prem, hell he'd walk into any team in the world not named Barcelona.
Ramsey is as good as anyone when he's played in the correct position with the right players around him.

If you had to make up the best 11 prem team players, using a 4-2-3-1 since it's the most popular formation, who would you pick?

01 Sep 2015 17:39:17
Waste of everyones day

Im sick of the club now

We are a laughing stock

Why didn't we come out and say

We will be signing no-one

Its a disgrace!!

01 Sep 2015 17:38:24
I fail to understand a certain philosophy:

"If we fail to sign the players that we want, then we will wait until they are available in future windows"

I think that's a load of nonsense considering most fans think that we do not have the financial muscle to compete with the likes of Man U, Citeh and Chelsea. It does not matter when the world class strikers and DMFs become available, if we want to sign them, we will have to cough up the dough.
No team in their right mind would ever allow a class player to leave for less than what he is worth. Would we ever sell Sanchez off for 10mill? Never.

Whether it's this window or the next, we will have to part with big money to get the top players. That is a fact of life.

Personally, it is not the fact that we are not getting world class players. But rather just upgrades. Especially at CF. IS Giroud a top top class forward? Not at all. I believe he would struggle to get into the top ten EPL sides, let alone on the world market. Can we upgrade on him? Yes of course! Do we have to pay an arm and a leg for that upgrade? Not necessarily, an upgrade is not necessarily Benzema or Cavani. There are so many strikers in world football who I believe are more clinical than he is.

I love my team, but I am really struggling to see how we are more competetive now as compared to last season considering that our main opponents have gotten some upgrades/re-inforcements in. Chelsea will definitely improve, they won't be his bad for long.

Rant over. But if somehow we can secure a striker of quality and DMF upgrade or re-inforcement, we give ourself batter chance of competing.

Don't ever think that when and if the Benzemas and Cavani ever do become available, they will walk straight to us. The money boys will also be there trying to hijack any major deals we might attempt to pull off

01 Sep 2015 17:27:19
maybe this be wenger's last year not saying i want him to leave but i don't think we will win the league any more we have the money this year to put a bid in for benz every player has a price

01 Sep 2015 17:41:52
Wenger should give the board a list of players and then leave it at that, the price we pay should have nothing to do with Wenger , he is not an accountant

01 Sep 2015 17:43:02
2 more years minimum Stephen that's his current contract, who knows he will decide after that but I think winning a title under Arsene is very highly improbable how ever long he stays.
If we don't get close to the big prizes how much longer will Sanchez Ozil and even Belerin stick around when other clubs with real ambition come knocking, the same pattern will be repeated again and again under Arsene.

01 Sep 2015 17:49:44
I agree.

Peny picnhing
Playing people out of position

I seriously doubt that formula has ever won anyone anything. Don't get me wrong, if we had won the EPL last season, I could understand the idea that the team could still be strong enough without additions of substance

01 Sep 2015 19:20:31
I think if we don't get silver this year he is gone

01 Sep 2015 17:16:19
well I am just waiting to take my ten year old son to football training and looking at the sky desk, looks like we are jokers again. I refuse to travel every other week from Southampton to the emirates costing around 400 a month and getting nothing back just a load of empty promises. its ok when your earning 8 mil a year it don't matter, but when half your wages are spent on the love of football it a joke,

01 Sep 2015 17:26:00
dont waste your money mate

01 Sep 2015 17:34:07
Saint I feel your pain. The club have gone to far this time.

01 Sep 2015 18:19:38
I don't think they have Derby mate, the stadium will be full first match back and even if we get stuffed by Chelsea second game back will be full again the next match and even if it wasn't they've already got peoples money.
Its no big deal to the club how the fans feel either way protests will make people feel better for a short time and then they'll calm down and nothing will change as January and next summer its rinse and repeat time again.

01 Sep 2015 18:45:58
thats becaues we love OUR CLUB but he's holding us back and whoever can't see it is as duleded as wenger is

01 Sep 2015 16:02:36
Whispers surfacing about Hulk to arsenal......interesting

{Ed002's Note - On Twitter I assume. Perhaps someone knows Zenit has representatives in London yesterday and today.}

01 sep 2015 16:21:39
do not want

01 Sep 2015 17:16:16
Bloody Hell Hulk must be rubbish if he doesn't make the 300! Only joking Derby - Totally agree

01 Sep 2015 17:34:47
Hulks incredible some say. One to marvel at

01 Sep 2015 14:56:44
Bbc journo David orstein has confirmed that it unlikely there b no ins or out.he very reliable broke chambers deal.since June 1st there must b no strikers or holding mid better or could compete with our current squad.Wenger your a Muppet,no excuses this time.if we don't challenge on all fronts this season...he has to go.....

01 Sep 2015 15:28:23
The eds have said we want carvalho, who is injured so can't pass a medical. Surely it's better to wait for someone we actually want than break the bank on someone we don't think is as good.
As for a striker, no idea what happened with benzema and maybe it was doomed from the start, but I'd rather we try to get someone good and fail than spend 36m on some nobody.

{Ed002's Note - Exactly.}

01 Sep 2015 16:14:38
totally agree with LemonTree. no point in wasting money like UTD and chelsea did with Falcao or how Liverpool do every season. there were people on this forum giving out we didn't try get Falcao a year ago. thank god we didnt.
Wenger knows what's best for his squad. I hate the "Wenger out" crap, horrible fans say that and there is nobody out there that could manage our club better with the restricted budget

01 Sep 2015 16:46:16
Not to mention everybody and their mum wanting us to sign Balotelli when actually we would have just been better off signing somebody's mum.

01 Sep 2015 17:01:51
You don't sign a player for 36m that's a nobody.competition for places is vital at every level of football keeps everyone on there toes and makes players work harder .buzz and exitement of new signings lifts fans and players...things can go stale when injuries and results go against you.look I like Wenger and if he bought in players and had a right go and we came up short.id say fair play we showed ambition and tried,but to leave the squad the same that was a good bit of Chelsea the same as last season ,bar cech is naive or plain stupid.

01 Sep 2015 17:19:35
Robio if your happy continuing as we are then fair play to you. Some people want to be at the top

01 Sep 2015 17:52:36
I totally disagree with the idea that no man can manage Arsenal like Arsene does. He is not a God in football, and he is not irreplaceable

01 Sep 2015 18:07:03
Budget yeah when we first moved to d emirates..but not now.how do we know no one else could do a better job wit the players and money we have.watched arsenal win things with worst players Hayes,groves, morrow. Maybe its time for a change,I don't no.look window closed .we should all get behind the team and manager.its only the start of the season.my team.1.cech.2 bellerin 3.monereal 4.gabriel 5 kos 6 le coq 7.carzola 8ramsey 9.welbeck.10ozil 11.sanchez. Lots of pace,power and skill in key areas.

01 Sep 2015 14:47:35
Bbc journo David Ornstein has said what must of us had known for a long time

01 Sep 2015 13:07:18
I can't see anyone coming in the only good thing that could happen is Flamini leaving

01 Sep 2015 14:09:31
I don't understand why Flamini leaving is good news or bad news, OK it free's up his wages but I can't see why that mattes to usmin the slightest.

01 Sep 2015 15:00:11
Would be good news because it free's up even more money for wenger and the board.. Obviously. Is'nt that what we all want?!

01 Sep 2015 12:01:58
The BBC are saying that even with the Ozil deal there were solid rumours on the ITK grapevine leading upto the deal going public but there is absolutely nothing even close to that happening today or if there is Arsenal are using the best smokescreen that's ever been seen because no one ITK has even a wiff of anything genuine to report of anything even being discussed involving Arsenal transfers.

01 Sep 2015 12:30:02
we are set for riots. final nail in the coffin for wenger if so

01 Sep 2015 13:00:44
In wenger we trust. We haven't sold any key players. And signed a top ass gK but he obviousLY thinks that there isn't anyone out here who is available who could improve our team.

01 Sep 2015 13:34:44
Derby do you stand in the middle of Westfield holding a sign saying 'The end is nigh'? :D

01 Sep 2015 14:20:49
Bacon he's deluded if he thinks that mate.

01 Sep 2015 15:11:22
No TPG,

He's normally outside Melwood trying to add Courtinho and Benteke's autographs to his collection!

01 Sep 2015 17:21:08
My names stoner I'm happy always being a nearly man :(

01 Sep 2015 11:26:41
Banbury your right about David Dein mate he got things done and we he went so did our credibility as serious contenders, he did what's needed doing to make things happen.

01 Sep 2015 14:27:31
I really like David Dein he was a genuine Arsenal fan too. If you watch the Arsene Wenger documentary that sky sports did a little while ago where David Dein explains the reason why he recruited AW, he comes across as a really sincere guy who genuinely loves the club and loves Arsene Wenger. When he left, Wenger offered to resign in support of him and I think it was a relationship that made Arsene Wenger perform at his best.

According to Ian Wright, David Dein 'goes into the dressing room after every single game, shakes every player by the hand and who knows all the youth team players'.

Thierry Henry also claimed that he felt it was time to leave Arsenal when Dein left.

Sorry to ramble I just have a lot of praise for DD.

01 Sep 2015 14:50:56
That's great info perfect thanks for that mate.

01 Sep 2015 11:00:09
Is there any interest in Camacho from Arsenal?

01 Sep 2015 09:33:24
Were on an iternational break Arsene Wenger is Frenchman who is a pundit on French TV so its not really surprising he's in France or that he travelled there by plane or that when he arrived he went for a meal or that he was joined by other people for that meal, maybe I'm putting 2 and 2 together and coming up 4 and he could indeed be their to give Cavani a medical I'm not saying its deffinately not true but people shouldn't get over excited about him not being around on transfer deadline day as last year he was in Italy and Danny Welbeck turned up :-)

01 Sep 2015 09:57:44
He also had rubber gloves on, so it's probably the Cavani medical

01 Sep 2015 11:01:15
Cavani is an adult there is no way wenger would be interested doing a personal medical on spoiled meat

01 Sep 2015 10:53:58
or is he wearing gloves because he is a secret cat burglar and is actually in Paris to steal a piece from The Louvre...that reminds me, my grandad tried his hand a cat burgling but broke his back whilst trying to lick his own a*se....

01 Sep 2015 08:58:18
Not looking good..if no one comes in.?how the hell will we challenege for title wit just a keeper upgrade.wenger stuck in the stone age.ill get behind him and the team as always and hope for the best.then if hope is not good enough....he can go at the end of the season.jesus tony pulis loves d old transfer window he makes harry look like a tight arse

01 Sep 2015 00:32:45
Will we sign cavani and rabiot. Will we sign just one, will it be cavani, will it be rabiot, or will it be us left dangling with our tongues hanging out. Is iit going to be deadline day delight or doldrums. Hold on guys we are on another rollercoaster ride.

01 Sep 2015 06:45:27
The transfer window has closed in France Steve ( according to Sky )

{Ed002's Note - I have explained this - why not read the posts.}

01 Sep 2015 07:39:36
PSG can still sell players just can not buy as the eds have said

01 Sep 2015 08:01:53
The Metro seem to be the main peddlers of this story that I can find, what am I missing? Why the sudden excitement?

{Ed002's Note - There is nothing new in the interest of Arsenal in Rabiot. I have explained this in detail in reply to another post. As for Cavani, I have explained the situation over and over.}

01 Sep 2015 08:27:00
I know Ed I've read them which is why I didn't ask about them but what I was wondering why the sudden excitement from posters?

{Ed002's Note - I guess it is because it is the last day and with news that AW is touring Europe carrying a rucksack containing £100M in cash, they are bound to get excited.}

01 Sep 2015 08:38:12
That's got to be heavy, I wonder if he needs someone to look after it for a while, mind you its probably in Arsene's favoured choice of currency pennies so it might take a bit carrying :-)

01 Sep 2015 09:32:19
Wenger is just backpacking around Europe to 'find himself'. Nothing in it.

01 Sep 2015 09:38:02
When you've lost something they say you should try to remember where you last had it Rosie, perhaps Arsene should try looking in 2005 :-)

01 Sep 2015 12:44:27
Like it Rosie, although backpacking is too much of an extravagance for Wenger. Probably haggling with a poundland manager for a discount at the moment!

31 Aug 2015 23:58:44
Well I'll be well ****in happy with Rabiot and Cavani

31 Aug 2015 23:36:55
If Wenger doesn't get a world class player then in my eyes this is his biggest ever cock up , signing Cech should have been the start of a summer of joy for the Arsenal fans but for some reason AW and the board have let time march on and the window is about to close .

We missed out on Schneiderlin because Wenger thinks Arteta can cover for Le Coq ......even Schweinsteiger would have done , god knows he was cheap enough.

It is baffling is it not , surely the board are saying something to Wenger or are they worried Arsene will sack them??

Bring back David Dein

01 Sep 2015 08:18:46
We missed schneiderlin because we waited for carvalho. He's huge a tech I call far better. Just got role collarbone currently so January deal it is at a guess.


Can David Dein play upfront then? haha

In all seriousness Russian billionaires hadnt artificially inflated every player in the world's price 3 fold when David Dein was working on transfers.

01 Sep 2015 10:53:36
David Dein was excellent at sealing a deal and wasn't scared of spending a bob or two.

31 Aug 2015 23:08:08
I think we should pause for a brief moment to recognise just how truly crap and desperate Spurs now are.

Feel much better for that.

01 Sep 2015 06:21:16
Not to mention the shambles that is Utd. How many goalies do they have now? And will de gea play for them again still?

01 Sep 2015 07:05:34
They want to sign Perez from Newcastle. So funny. There buying policy is horrible