Arsenal Banter Archive December 20 2012

20 Dec 2012 21:59:38
Jesus Navas anyone? Top quality winger who could slot in on the right. Has intellegent pace and could easily play behind the striker.

Suffers from homesickness, he had therapy for it, to allow him to travel on international duty, but apparently it's only helps for a short period of time.

Not worth the gamble, even if he is a top Winger.

D

Navas is a world class winger, one of the very best and he's not too expensive.

It's a shame, after the Reyes experience, is it worth a gamble... probably not.

Similar situation to arshavin.

Billybob

20 Dec 2012 20:15:29
Hi eds!
Are arsenal showing any interest in sturridge? He is clearly available. £10-£12 mill for a england striker? Wud surely pick us over liverpool
Thank nb

Dont rate him...he is greedy...can get in a team where the main striker is out of form.....the reason is he is no good.....off to Liverpool mate with the rest of the overpriced rubbish....

20 Dec 2012 16:17:43
not the best draw but at the same time it could have been worse.

20 Dec 2012 15:37:00
The more I think about it, it makes sense - we should definately make an offer for Demba Ba.

He is only one goal behind rvp and Newcastle have been awful, he would'nt break the bank and it seems like he wants to come to us.

Lets have a vote?

Agree = yes
Disagree = no

He also has this recurring knee problem, which when he gets.. you will slate Wenger for getting him.

Sliced Bread {Ed002's Note - Very high wages demands, very high agent fees, very high insurance due to the knee.}

20 Dec 2012 16:41:42
I was aware of all the above, however this knee problem does'nt seem to be affecting him lately, maybe Diaby & Rosicky should see his doctor.

Also his price would reflect all this, rvp had a worse injury record than him and it has (so far) paid off for the mancs.

If AW were to gamble with 10mil it may pay off

Zero chance of us signing Ba, due to his knee problem.

How many games has he missed since joining premiership teams as I cannot remember many at all?
Chess

Thanks chess, that was my point I can't remember him being out at all but I can remember him scoring plenty of cracking goals.

I really hope we dont sign Ba, good enough for West Ham and NUFC but he isnt the direction we should be going in.

1404

I agree we should defo buy him. He is the sort of striker we need think how many goals he will score with arsenal's playing style he is a perfect fit in my opinion. All fans ever say is wenger should go for proven premier league players and for me he is the best option for us i mean we ain't gonna buy rooney aguero or any one like that and the next best thing is ba.

Thankyou for all your votes, it seems in favour of signing Mr Ba so I will.

Arsene Wenger

20 Dec 2012 14:15:16
I would have rather had Dortmund. We play similar football to them, and it would have been a bit more balanced match. Bayern is all attack at nearly every position, and with our back line not playing at it's highest potential lately....this will be a very tough draw. Hoping for the best!


North Carolina Gooner

20 Dec 2012 12:21:02
Hi Ed - How much truth is there to the rumours of the guy from Zambia coming over to sign in Jan?

Reports saying his off to reading now

Do you mean Stopilla Sunza? Ask ed002?

20 Dec 2012 11:11:52
Arsenal to play Bayern Munich in the Champions League QF.

As soon as I saw this, I thought 'crap, forget about going through now'

But then I thought 'hang on, we could actually pull this off.'

We all know how good we can be, we have been unlucky in the past few years.

I thought last year we could've overcome a 4 goal defecit and defy the odds, but it didn't turn out that way. Van Persie shouldn't have been sent off the year before and that could've seen us through also.

Regardless, we now have two memorable fixtures to look forward to.

Nick.

Better than getting Barca....
Chris

Not the best draw but not the worst either. I think as long as we avoided Barca and Dortmund we have a chance.

I think we have better chance of beating Munich than Utd have of beating Madrid put it that way. I Fancy Celtic may cause a surprise aswell and sneak past Juve.

20 Dec 2012 13:37:44
It's not a Quarter Final, it's the Last 16.

Stezza.

20 Dec 2012 10:54:37
We got Bayern Munich

I think we will surprise a few and win this.

Podolski to prove a point?

Billybob

Not many teams in world football have a stronger passing game in midfield than we do (on a good day) . Bayern are one of the teams that do. I honestly feel we would have more chance against barca..bayern are in form; have exceptional players and i fully believe that atleast in Germany we will get beaten by atleast 2 clear goals.
Great tie..we get to play a legendary team who we never play against..can't wait to seen it!

How can anyone disagree with the OP ??

Unfortunatley we need 2 good days........im confident we will have turned a corner by the time the first leg comes around.

1404

20 Dec 2012 05:08:46
just wanted to say i have noticed Stewart Robson has become so anti Wenger all of a sudden every interview he has done the last month or so he has slagged and blamed Wenger for everything in the last 7yrs. he says he's tactics have been wrong for the last 7yrs. i admit some decisions wenger has made now again over the last 2 or 3 season have been bad but not over the 7yrs it ain't. i am just think he is going way over the top with it now. I mean we all criticizes wenger now and again but he has gone mental over it in this last month even Bob Wilson, Liam Brady and Ray Parlour have all come out and said that they think he is wrong to say what he has about wenger and Wilson has also said that Robson was the one that started the rumors about bold and wenger arguing but as Wilson said if it is true and Bould is unhappy he can always step down has assistant manager. i just think he is bitter about being sacked from being and arsenal media pundit just think he is a proper mug now. {Ed025's Note - i agree mate..

I agree to a certain extent & Robson clearly has an agenda. However, I agree with his comments in respect of the tactics, with Wenger abandoning his highly successful & trophy winning fluid 4-4-2 and using various odd & rather unsuccessful formations.

He really needs to get over it, if anything bad happens to AW over xmas he'll be prime suspect!

Robson, an ex bit part Arsenal player, never be a legend does most of his stuff now via Talkcrap radio apparently, I class myself above that trash, please tune into something else, you are also above that muck

20 Dec 2012 03:26:32
Personally i think we should buy a CDM, a left back and a CAM and move cazorla on the right. The attacking mid should be just as good technically like santi (gotze, belhanda, hamsik, or even kaka who could go for cheap) and thank goodness the 5 signed their contracts. Now we jusy need sagna and walcott to do the same!!

I think you'll find that the other night Santi proved his best position is NOT on the right/wing but behind the striker.

Cazorla is a player that not only plays behind the striker but EVERYWHERE in midfield and attack. so yes he can play on the right wing nd he should

Just because he CAN play right that does'nt make it his best position, he played his best position against Reading and it was NOT on the right.

Why are people so obsessed with deciding where to play our players other than where they are best.

I suppose you are one of the play TV5 at left back crew?

Good idea pal, move our best player and move him out wide were he won't have as much influence on the game. And your droppin the ox or theo too? good one maaaaaaaaaaaaate

20 Dec 2012 00:14:26
So who're we looking to draw tomorrow?

Obviously Malaga are the obvious pick but I don't think PSG are all that either. The other 4 are nightmare draws but I really dont want to face Barca again. The novelty has worn off and I dont really want to play against Fabregas. Plus the fact they'd **** us.

Bayern, Dortmund and Juventus are equally bad draws imo. All stronger sides but also beatable if we play our game. But either German team would be epic for the atmosphere and I might try to wing a couple of tickets for Allianz Arena if we draw Munich. One of the best cities to travel to for football and a booze up I imagine.

So for me its Malaga>PSG>Bayern>Dortmund>Juventus>Barca
Eman

Completely agree. Malaga are the weakest and travelling there would make a good holiday as well. :)

StEvE

I wouldnt underestimate Malaga too much, as they have a talented team, but we have a good record v Juventus, so I wouldnt mind them, and Dortmund are not strong at the back.

Er, PSG aren't all that ? Two words my friend: Zlatan Ibrahimovic. On his day he can destroy any opposition as we saw with his performance against England.

ClockEndClockEndGiveUsaWave

Zlatan has had his good game this season already

Paul

I fancy we will get Bayern Munich, in fact I'll put money on it, I bet united get RM and Celtic get Juventus.