Arsenal Banter Archive June 21 2016

21 Jun 2016 19:36:46
Great to see you lads scrape through.
Hopeful we will see you at the final, i'm sure us welsh lads will give you, a wave up in the stand, hope you have comfy seats.
Got to go bags to pack, rooms to book.

21 Jun 2016 19:55:03
Enjoy your two weeks at Barry island Welsh mate hope you retain your knobbly knees tittle yet again:-)

21 Jun 2016 19:56:01
Welsh mate there's a great little hotel near Cardiff Airport, if you book now for Saturday you can meet your boys at the Airport when they arrive home Sunday.

You'll have a ball mate, just won't be able to go in the duty free. 😂😂😂😂.

21 Jun 2016 21:04:25
Go on welsh, cheer on the boys till the end, I've got a feeling wales will go further than England . Wales are hungry for success unlike the over hyped England team wales smashed Russia and Slovakia while England struggled. Plus the welsh have the wonderful Gareth bale who could win this tournament on his own. England haven't got a player like that. Also gooner tell the merthyr boys the raver was asking about them.

21 Jun 2016 21:22:30
Raver you could be right, full of toots, so we can't expect too much.

21 Jun 2016 23:19:09
The state of raver announcing this England team are over hyped when the starting line up is made up of a lot of spurs players.

Lol what a lad.

22 Jun 2016 10:34:52
Ctr, the England team have been over hyped since 1966, I remember the England teams of the 80s Robson, hoddle etc failed. The so called golden generation of Scholes, Gerrard, lampard failed big time what's going to change now. England reminds me of a stud muffin who goes out every weekend and never pulls.

22 Jun 2016 17:19:56
Do u see yourself in them rave?

England have had some too players over the years bit as always it's the press that picks the teams and another failed manager gets the boot.

21 Jun 2016 09:32:10
The British crop of players we have are just not good enough

They have had enough time to prove themselves

Time to ship them out.

21 Jun 2016 09:45:33
Due to current regulations, a team can only have 17 foreign players, so you need 8 homegrown players to make up the numbers, plus young players that qualify.
We have Bellerin (I think he is considered as homegrown) , Chambers, Gibbs, Ramsey, Wilshere, Walcott, Iwobi, Ox and Welbeck. These would not be easy to replace with better homegrown options.

21 Jun 2016 10:37:03
unfortunately we need those core players even if they are utter crap just to make numbers.

england need to do something about how they develop players and can't keep on lacking behind other national teams.

from the current squad almost every player is over hyped, Kane, Delle Ali, i have no idea why wilshere is even at that tournament considering game time, I am not saying they are crap but comparing these guys to the golden generation or the generation before with shearer and linekar and gazza shows the trend to be downward.

look at spain and germany, players not fit or not performed for the year are cut. reus and caz and mata not making the cuts where they would be starting for england.

too many over hyped players, Arsenal fans on twitter saying wilshere was the best player on the pitch, doing what exactly?

iniesta or silva would have sliced that defense open.

rooney comes on and its same old dross.

you only need to look at club level to see who is the key player on the team sheet and not even vardy would claim that title with mahrez in the team.

21 Jun 2016 11:11:32
The injury have taken their toll on Jack W. sorry to say but he looks done. Too bad as Arsenal through and through - but I would t want to see him holding back some of our youths.

21 Jun 2016 12:09:00
Looks done?! He's had about 200 minutes of game time this season. It's going to take longer than that to get back to him self. If he was in his 30s maybe. In the first half he made some good passes but I guess match fitness isn't there yet.

21 Jun 2016 15:15:57
I thought jack looked creative, played some great balls, but some shoddy play too. I'd put that down to a quality player that was a bit rusty. Hoping he'll show his quality when playing a team that doesn't jut sit back. Still plays direct and through the middle, always feel he could conjure something up - only Rooney or Barkley could do similar. I'd give Barkley a start next game though.


As for over hyped England players, perhaps. But Kane had that levelled at him season before last and he did it again last season in the prem, alongside aguero, hazard, costa, Sanchez etc. How old is he? What else does he need to do? Seems like a talented hardworking player that could become a legend to me, just a bit tired for England. As for the rest of the England squad, I'd agree more - sterling, henderson, sometimes lallana no end product, but the fullbacks have been good, and if dier and Alli laid it off rather than shoot they'd be doing pretty well. If we take more of our chances, we'd have less questions asked.

21 Jun 2016 08:56:33
Will somebody please offer 40mill for wilshere?

21 Jun 2016 09:11:41
Pep will be stupid enough.

21 Jun 2016 09:23:18
We wouldn't get 20 million for him

Most overhyped player to put on an arsenal shirt

1 more of wengers failed players.

21 Jun 2016 09:39:50
Amazing fans we have, so loyal.

21 Jun 2016 09:46:10
Wesley let's just give him a new contract.

21 Jun 2016 10:08:44
Better yet hound him till he's sold off and be bitter about it when he's playing well somewhere else.

21 Jun 2016 10:08:50
We have got to be the least loyal fans around! If he'd scored a wonder goal like against palace you'd all be calling him the wonder boy from Arsenal! The lad is class and I'd love to see him at Arsenal for all of his career. Maybe we as fans and the media slating the players every week has some impact on their mentality!

21 Jun 2016 10:39:08
I don't care how Jack plays in this tournament, it's a great pre season for him which hopefully benefits him and us.

Not certain how anyone expects him to be match fit now. Daft to take him really but if it gets him stronger and fitter for us then like I said who cares.

21 Jun 2016 11:09:37
I won't have my jack been slagged off.

21 Jun 2016 11:48:48
Jack is coming back from a long term injury IF he stays fit he will get better and better every game is money in the bank. Another setback and then we can question him but he needs games and a pre season will help no end. Time will tell, ramsey took 6 months after his injury to show anything .

21 Jun 2016 07:40:34
Dags recently left a comment under a post recently saying that Morata and Van Dijk would be perfect for us. These two players would be very, very good with us. Morata is my preference over any striker that is available (Vardy included) as he has bags of potential but has also proved he can score in times of need. Van Dijk is a proven Premier League centre half who can defend and is good with his feet. Perfect.

21 Jun 2016 09:11:04
Them 2 player's are the missing pieces to the puzzle.

I'm guessing £45m for Morata and £15m Van Dijk.

£60m plus £30m Xhaka.

That's £90m and we have a title winning team.

21 Jun 2016 17:01:13
Van Dyk is a fantastic player, perfect us in my opinion.