Arsenal Banter Archive September 22 2013

22 Sep 2013 22:14:12
Greetings and Salutations my fellow Gooners,

Pessimism, skepticism and frustrations have seemingly been replaced by optimism, joy and excitement.

Vindication is a word often used to describe a victors moment after periods of great adversity, some including myself will pronounce that the end of last season and the beginning of this have vindicated our belief in our clubs vision, the mantra in which we've handled our development and the belief that we can once again be a force in football.

Allow me to begin by saying that all credit to this transformation must begin with the manager. Arsene Wenger has been the face of our club for almost two decades. He walks the walk each day, he's been at the pinnacle, he's walked the low's, he's heard the criticism and he's been brave to accept the challenge of this and all that comes with his position.

The rumours of Higuain followed by Suarez and the ultimate signing of Ozil I believe has shown our intent.

The development of the club takes patience. Many were willing to give up on Ramsey, Giroud, Kos, and others because of our need for instant gratification. 8 years to those outside the working walls of the club seemed like an eternity. I only imagine how it felt within the club.

Yet we stayed strong to our principles. A belief and model of self sustenance and development. Growth of our youth and now the inclusion of world class players.

The model of any successful club, business and/or entity is to find ways to be unique amongst the competition. This is what truly makes Arsenal great.
How hard is it to spend money without discrimination? City, Chelsea, PSG and Monaco have shown us the potential, but I will always believe their success is not due to the efforts of the club but they are the benefactors of a wealthy owner.

Now some might say we too have wealthy owners and that we should have taken this approach however I would agree to disagree. Our approach takes development, and an understanding of refined business sporting practices. A belief of living within our means.

Today we saw just what self sustenance and belief enables us to do. It allows us to develop the youth into stars (Ramsey, Wilshire and Gibbs), it provides opportunity for a second chance (Merts, Sagna and Giroud all of which as recently as 2013 were not considered good enough) and gives us a glimpse into the future (Gnabry, Ryo and others). This is why Arsene Wenger is the greatest manager in sports!

Its easy to conform in life, but it takes true vision to be a leader and distinguish ones self. Arsene is a true visionary and we should be proud to embrace his impact. I encourage all to read the article in the Guardian of Bergkamp and his thoughts on Arsene.

I am proud that the club did what was necessary and bought Ozil. There is a renewed optimism in the club, and I look forward to seeing Arsene man the sidelines for many more years to come!

Ah so that's what happens to Joey from bread, he went on to be a Guardian reader. (Just joking) you make some good points mate (I think ) but very heavy going that lot. But if your saying that Arsene's coming good after we all thought he had lost it then fair play

23 Sep 2013 11:32:36
Gunners4life,

It's been an achievement that Arsene can genuinely be proud of, he has stood up and been counted over these last 8 years and I for one regret that I got so frustrated last year that I at one point stated the best signing we could make was Klopp.

I'm sure that no other manager could have kept us within the grasp of everything, I know without actual success, but to hang in there as we have done really is an achievement.

We have a stadium, a manager and a team to be proud of, I am not carried away with being top of the table in September, that counts for nothing, we have yet to win anything and still remain with no guarantees, but what a corner to have turned.

We have a great if not somewhat thin squad who will continue to get better, I'm still conscious of the fact that the end of last season's form and the beginning of this has only involved playing Utd and the Spuds, we have hard games ahead, not least Swansea on Saturday but we are now able to add to our squad with quality.

That is the single most important thing, don't stand still with the signing of Ozil, add to him in January if possible, even if it's one single quality player. We may find ourselves still fighting on a number of fronts. What we have is what we have as far as the Champions League goes but if we're still in with a shout for the league then get us some more quality Arsene.

It's going to be a tough but enjoyable season.

22 Sep 2013 20:51:30
ABSOLUTELY BUZZING.

TOP OF THE LEAGUE

MANCS GETTING SPANKED

22 Sep 2013 18:42:47
heres a tricky poser for all you fellow gooners.
defoe scored twice during the week but wasnt even in spurs 18 man squad today. personally I would love him at the emirates alongside giroud or as back up. he may not be everybodys cup of tea but he is a very good striker who, with a bit of confidence knows where the net is. who agrees/disagrees?

Would be happy to have him as think he is miles underated and used, but would they sell to us?

I thought we should have gone for him in the transfer window.

Gunner62, prob not mate but I think he would love to come to arsenal

I'd welcome him. He would be a good option. Always professional and clinical coming off the bench. Wants to score. What more would you want? Especially if he scored for us on derby day -:)

22 Sep 2013 16:53:18
I'm a big Ramsey fan - but he does frustrate me a lot. He does so much good work but keeps playing really lazy/arrogant passes at times.
If we play as slowly and lazily and give the ball away as much against top 6 teams we will lose games - Stoke could easily have taken a point today.

Aint watched the game, but by the sounds of it we didn't play well.

We can't play well every game, just be thankful we played bad and still won the game.

22 Sep 2013 16:30:59
Put your head down and go to work boys

It's all yours now

This team knows how to grind results. Other years, we are sitting here moaning a 1-3 loss at home. This team has a spine, and his name is Per Mertesacker.

He, Flamini and Arteta will be the key to us winning anything.

Today we looked like league leaders. Played average, won 3-1. That's what big teams do

Bring it on

Coyfg!

"played average, won 3 - 1 that's what big teams do " I couldn't agree more with that statement us gooner, more of this sort this year and we won't be stopped :)

22 Sep 2013 15:46:38
Good result, top of the league. Boys started to look tired half way through second half but only to be expected. There looks to be a steeliness about our defence this year( maybe flamini was the missing piece) and we are grinding out results.
On another note van pursie starting to get injured. He hasn't looked interested this year

22 Sep 2013 13:37:13
Will he ever stop scoring coyg

22 Sep 2013 09:46:50
this is a huge game for us today.

we have been knocking on the door to give some 1 a hammering.

top of the league is todays motivation, it does not get bigger than this.

5-1

theo to get 3 of them

coymfg

Spot on malaga. I hope we really stuff that load of cloggers from up there. A 5-0 win would be only topped by Shawcross being sent off 2mins in for imitating a footballer :)

4-0 To us, Theo to score first!

Shawcross to try and kick Ramsey and miss, but gets sent off for intent.

I can see a 3-0 giroud with 2, ramsey with 1, ozil wilshere and walcott sharing the assists