Arsenal Banter Archive February 03 2013

03 Feb 2013 19:24:36
I think wenger is going to be given atleast 70m because he only spent 10m of his 40m jan budget and he would have been given 60m in the summer anyways like they said.
players that arsenal needs are
david villa 12m
stephane jovetic 22m
mats hummels 20m
matt Phillips 5m ( like alex ox chamberlain)
pepe reina 8m
this would guarantee arsenal atleast 3rd

Pepe reina?

04 Feb 2013 12:32:41
Capoue! might join

04 Feb 2013 12:55:59
and why would they come if we don't get CL this season.
jovetic for city. hummels will probably end up in chelsea. villa is too old.

You know which on Pepe Reina is, right?

Paul

03 Feb 2013 15:43:04
nasri on the bench again today

do you think he has any regrets

how the mighty have fallen

love it

chamapagne charlie

I think he'd look at his premier league medal, and his bank account and have very little regret unfortunately. How I despise him
Flybo

Rumours are rife Nasri could be sold I the summer window.


Gooner4Life

03 Feb 2013 22:47:53
The best part was at 2-1 down the took Silva of and subbed him for a right back leaving the slime ball on the bench.

Stoner

Hmm I'm more inclined to take charlie's view; Nasri always quick to rise to insults - stuff gets to him, his arrogance and bluster is how he tries to compensate. Out of France team & now a bit part player at city, am sure his ego is going to be bruised.

Lets buy him back for £5m and make him be Jacks boot boy, and during games make him work on the burger stand!

337

In fact, scrub the above, he is not fit to lace Jacks boots!

03 Feb 2013 15:13:09
If you were given the opportunity to ask AW one question and he would have to answer truthfully, what would you ask him?

Why are you paid so much for failure?

Did you see it?

Have you sorted out the Zip yet!

What's your favourite chocolate bar. Seriously though.
1) Which one decision do you regret making the most.
2) If it were up to you, would you have David Dean back.
I know I can only ask one, but stuff it.
Flybo

Love the positive questions!

Are you Malaga goner?!

Do you ever have doubts about the loyalty you have shown the club when a significant minority seem unable to show the same loyatly back to you?

Oh and why oh why will you not sign a CDM when you can?

The ghost of Terry Mancini

03 Feb 2013 18:12:51
Ed. awesome site and I have been posting for a few years now but I can't take this "we will be signing" bs anymore. Unless we kick out Arsene "the rot" Wenger we ain't winning anything but the 4th-Place-trophy and we ain't signing anyone but crappy players who will play crappy.

Vela Squid Bendtner Santos Djourou Denilson Per Arshavin. the list is long. We can't even get rid of the deadwood, that's how wrong these signings were.

Ash

Count your votes!

03 Feb 2013 14:48:42
I thought kyle walker was exceptional last season as a right back for spurs. this year though, he is their sagna equivalent. Amazing what a year can do.

Daniel

And they used to call us a one man team, take Bale away from them and they would be in the bottom half.

He just scored a fantastic goal though, how about a cheeky 50m bid Arsene?

03 Feb 2013 14:20:25
Luckily ribery plays down the left. Imagine the problems he'll cause if he was up against santos. Lol

Santis won't play TV5 will be there. Only got to contend with Lahm and robben.

They've also got robben too mate.

Nick.

Would you guys not put miquel in at LB? Just a thought.

Last one was
Aussie Gunnah

03 Feb 2013 13:16:39
Realistically I don't think we'll be coming close to catching City at all this season, so for that reason I hope they beat Liverpool. If we were closer to City on points I would hope for a draw so that Liverpool don't catch us up too much yet City don't get too far away - but we're never going to catch them so good luck City, would much prefer you to win the league than United.

Metal Gooner

03 Feb 2013 13:11:08
337 you made an interesting point about the get stuck in defenders ceasing to exist.

I would agree but also disagree. I agree the pace of the game has increased so much that defenders need to keep up and this has obviously been at the expensive of brute strength and dominance. but also I look at the best defenders in the league and am not convinced it has changed just due to the league, I just think manager are so caught up with midfielders and attackers that the defence has been neglected in most teams- ours is a prime example!

For me the best defenders in the league, putting social issues and occasional reckless tackles aside, are the biggest ones - or ones who play the same way Keown etc did, with that much strength. Maybe not as big but certainly as strong. Kompany, Vidic, Terry, Richards, Lescott (some don't rate him, he's still a prem winner and a monster. the English Mertesacker? lol), Vermaelen of parts of last season, Koscielny of last season, Williams, Shawcross, Huth, Hangelaand, Samba, Jones (Man U), Rio, Agger, Kyrgiakos - these players either are or play like absolute monsters on their day and to me the difference between them and the Campbell/Keowns is really not discernible to me anyway. If anything, the only thing that has changed is that managers choose pace over talent - see Wigan, Southampton, Reading, Villa, West Ham, Newcastle for details - or won't fork out for the monsters as they cost a fortune.

I think too much is being made of this idea that defenders are different - they aren't, not the best ones anyway, they just cost too much! Because they are such all-round athletes and technically proficient.

Just wanted to talk about it a bit, saw Shearer comment midweek about how defences are slacking and it got me thinking, then I saw your post, so yeah.

Metal Gooner

Sure, kind of agree.

I guess we will never really know how Adams, Keown and Bould would have done in todays game. Kos tried a move that they used to get away with the other week and got a straight red.

337

To be fair, a lot of wrestling goes on inside the box. the fact we conceded a penalty AND a red card for it, is pretty unlucky and inconsistent with other decisions in my opinion.

03 Feb 2013 12:00:00
sorry ed i'm stoned there is a search function there.

champagne charlie

03 Feb 2013 10:08:17
Is it just me or does pulis need to take off his rose tinted glasses. I don't understand how he can critisce the arsenal players for supposedly surrounding the linesman. The question should be why the linesman put the flag up in the first place. Granted if Walcott scored form a rebound yes it was offside but get a grip. Pulis should be more concerned with his horrible tactics of trying to injure players. Best example was shawcross on kos. Two very different attempts to take the ball. One eyes on the ball other well if I don't take the ball ill take the man.
Very pleased with how the squad backs each other up jack squaring off with Owen and arteta with shawcross. I believe with a couple of additions the core of the squad are genuine title contenders just need a few options.

Goober 84

Pretty sure Shawcross plus one other was also surrounding the officials after the goal

Shawcross looked the most intimidating of the lot

SY4

Hes defending his team and his policy's.

wenger does the same

saf does the same

every manager does the same.

i just don't see how this is a issue every time we play them.

i actually believe playing teams like stoke is a good way to see how good our attacking game is.

champagne charlie

Stoke are a rugby league team. So anti-football it is untrue. Pulis should just shut his mouth as his players are representative of him and play like thugs. Even Michael Owen has turned to the dark side!

Did the Arsenal players run to the linesman, yes, but did they shove him or do anything untoward, no. Stoke should go back to their caves as they are neanderthals and so is their football!

The number of comments reflect the accepted view that Shawcross et al are just thugs

When we had players like vierra, henry, pires and freddie we use to beat the stokes of this world 3-4 nil.
this is what annoys us about playing stoke now, we do not have the same quality players.

champagne charlie

03 Feb 2013 00:36:59
did you guys see how p1ssed off tony pulis was lol I thought he was going to cry at one point. They got what they deserved absolutely nothing!

03 Feb 2013 08:19:23
Not as p***ed off as Scholes when he had his car stolen when defrosting his windscreen. what a mug!

Chris

He didn't own the car. It was a sponsors vehicle. Insurance not covered if you leave car unattended with engine running! Doh!

Poor Scholes. NOT! I am sure it will be really painful for him to part with a couple of days' wages to reimburse the sponsors.

Metal Gooner

Another yellow card for Scholes then. Saf said he hadn't seen it but will appeal to the insurance company to get Scholes off.

03 Feb 2013 00:05:05
Now that walcott has signed a new contract, what are the chances of him being stuck out on the right wing again for the next 3 years.

What would be the point in that exactly?

That would be stupid if one of the points was that he wanted to play up top more often, why would AW give him 100k per week then upset him?

It's like you promising your girlfriend you won't cheat on her, buying her a new house, then cheating again - only one outcome there!

Now that he is tied down to a contract they don't have to sell him cheaply.