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03 Feb 2016 22:31:03
Suarez,
35 goals in 33 games.
He's a bad boy, total fruitcake, but jeez, World Class.
Mr Nibbles in an Arsenal shirt?
Behave yourself.
03 Feb 2016 23:11:26
My missus bought home a roll of bubble wrap and asked me to pop behind the couch, loses its appeal after and hour or so.
03 Feb 2016 22:20:50
Good news boys,
Barca have just beat Valencia 7-0.
Messi 3, Suarez 4.
But, are we afraid of them?
Err, yes.
03 Feb 2016 22:33:12
There are only two words dags
We surrender!
Lol ;)
03 Feb 2016 22:47:33
Could be first club to retain it. Hope they don't and I hope no one does as it keeps it varies. Suarez has completed them.
03 Feb 2016 23:39:19
We are to Barcelona in the champions league what Hull are to us in the fa cup, shame the champions league is over 2 legs : (
03 Feb 2016 22:08:25
You lot want Wenger out in the summer w I think the raver has found a great candidate to be the new arsenal manager. Gary Neville.
03 Feb 2016 22:24:36
You mean Gary '7-0' Neville? Lol.
Anyway, pipe down Raver because if Gazidis clicks his fingers, Poch will come running :-)
03 Feb 2016 21:24:41
Whats happened to our french scouts, payet and kante, playing french football for years and both come to this league for relative small change. Think they need sacking, or a trip to specsavers.
03 Feb 2016 21:39:24
You can't win them all mate.
Many teams have many scouts in many countries.
Plus, for every good player that plays on our shores, there are a hundred bad ones.
Plus plus, I thought the French market was all tapped out and clubs were adopting a more South American flavour.
03 Feb 2016 22:15:54
When Arsene first came to Arsenal he had the upper hand in an untapped market in a nation who were on the verge of producing an abundance of talent, since then others have joined in fishing in what was once our waters. We weren't knick named le Arsenal for nothing.
If an Englishman with a good knowledge of the championship and lower leagues took over a side in Portugal he could quite easily build a team capable winning things there quite cheaply.
Austen and Vardy were non league a short while ago.
03 Feb 2016 22:26:01
G62,
You mention Austen in all your posts now.
I have so converted you :-)
03 Feb 2016 22:26:57
Just a wild guess here but I'm thinking, Barcelona, Madrid, City, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Atletico, Juventus, Dortmund, United, Milan, PSG, Monaco and Liverpools French scouts are all coming up short too.
How the phuck has this been allowed to happen. I mean Payet is 28 for Christ sake, that's at least 10 years that no one has "spotted" him.
Sleeping on watch, unacceptable and Wenger is to blame for this, mark my words.
If Derby can spot players across the globe from the comfort of his sofa what the hell are these boys doing. :-)
04 Feb 2016 00:48:56
Yes red dog lost his touch.
04 Feb 2016 06:05:48
You have indeed Dags mate, mainly you but the 4 million price tag helped too :-)
What a bargain.
04 Feb 2016 00:12:27
Red dog lol. Payet is a strange one to work out. Late bloomer? Looks immense to me. Big test next year but hel be in a great stadium and I like there manager so no reason he can't continue.
He could run rings around players at there new ground.
Also che Adams is worth a look at. Believe the hype people.
03 Feb 2016 20:11:22
Good news we are only 5 points off Leicester in top spot!
Bad news we are only 5 points off Manchester United in 5th spot.
So what's our absolute minimum acceptable final league position come May?
A 1st place if not this season of all seasons when?
B 2nd its progress and our first top 2 finish in over a decade.
C 3rd we've consolidated our position as non 4th place trophy winners.
D 4th that's 20 years of successive champions league football under Arsene Wenger.
03 Feb 2016 20:41:59
I fear if we don't win it this season we never will under Wenger and without serious investment as City Chelsea and Utd will spend like crazy under new Managers the summer and will left behind. We have to take advantage of the upheaval in the clubs now while we still can. so to answer anything other than top will feel like failure this season for me.
03 Feb 2016 21:40:03
1st or nothing.
03 Feb 2016 22:19:00
What about 2nd another FA cup Dags?
03 Feb 2016 22:28:03
OK, you have twisted my arm mate.
Hattrick of FA Cups would be a remarkable achievement, plus 2nd is better than last years 3rd.
Where do I sign?
03 Feb 2016 22:55:04
Its got to be first with Leicester and spurs in close proximity. Second would be a positional improvement, but would it really be a team improvement given the state of the league and the fact we might finish second on less points than last season, with our main rivals struggling.
04 Feb 2016 06:03:51
What about 3rd a hatrick of FA cups and taking Barcelona to penalties after both legs home and away end in 3 3 draws and is described by pundits afterwards as the tie of the century due to the quality of football from both sides in both legs Dags?
03 Feb 2016 18:43:41
Just seen vardys goal, no wonder klopp said he nearly clapped it. We don't score goals like that, out paced defenders and 20 yards out rocket. LUCKY. Ha ha. Welch, wish we had him.
03 Feb 2016 19:41:55
Wenger would have boll***ed him for shooting.
03 Feb 2016 20:10:13
Yep he is a real fox in the box and has now shown he can strike a long range cracker aswell. He is like a Duracell Bunny and never gives the defenders a moments peace for 90 Minutes kind of like Sanchez in that way but more of a clever box player than a skill dribbler.
03 Feb 2016 20:22:41
Absolute class :)
The guy just keeps on impressing
Euro's?
03 Feb 2016 21:41:46
Jegooner,
Yes, Vardy is worth many Euro's but let's keep it pounds sterling, makes things easier :-)
03 Feb 2016 22:32:00
Lol dags
The guys got to be going to the euro's surely!
Hodgson must be licking his lips, just hope he has the balls to play the in form players rather than just names.
England have a real good young side that could do really well given the chance.
Sorry to go off subject 😁.
03 Feb 2016 16:10:14
Leicester have Manchester city away this weekend then us away after. Tottenham play Manchester city the weekend we have Leicester. Points will be dropped and gained. We can win this league title.
03 Feb 2016 18:04:15
LONG WAY to go
1/ 3 of a season. still feel leics will drop out the top 4.I must admit they are shocking me every game
They are having some sort of luck.
Its good for the league to see two little clubs up in the top four, scrapping with the big boys.
03 Feb 2016 18:11:21
If Leicester beat city at city they are going to take some stopping, not only will they be atleat 5 points clear of the chasing pack but will come to us with no fear what so ever and more than ready to finish us off as any sort of contenders.
Leicester are a hard working talented team who have very high expectations of themselves and each other and every one of their players gives it everything in every match, they will need to be dragged off the top screaming and kicking, I'm not sure some of our players are up for that sort of battle, but they don't mind asking for a payrise or a new contract though.
03 Feb 2016 18:34:07
Welch LUCK, how insulting, big boys, little teams. You don't sit top of the league going into feb by being lucky. They aren't fading and are flying, yes they have big games coming up but to flippantly say they won't finish top four, whether ultimately right is like saying we are nailed on to win the league. I will have you as big a bet as you like, arsenal for the title against Leicester out of top four. I stopped gambling years ago, but i will come out of retirement, your judgement against mine.
03 Feb 2016 18:39:16
Lucas, if Leicester are top after that, do you think they are serious contenders or pretenders.
03 Feb 2016 18:55:33
We will be Leicester at home, I am confident of that.
03 Feb 2016 19:01:52
Welsh,
I might have agreed after 8/ 10 games, but not 23.
They are there on merit, like us are 4th on merit.
03 Feb 2016 19:07:04
iF, they win at city Banbury I wouldn't write them off against any premier league team home or away mate.
Obviously losing to city might shake them up a bit especially if they got well beaten but I'm not sure that's going to happen.
03 Feb 2016 19:33:20
All the top 5 teams still play each other, there will be lots of twist come may. I for one believe our game with city will decide the league as it's going to be the one before the last game.
I'm really hoping that we get out of this bad patch as quick as possible if we want to have a chance of wining the league. We just seem very desperate which leading to bad decisions.
03 Feb 2016 20:06:18
Leicester are not going away anytime soon and are there on merit they have an effective game plan that suits the players and they work with boundless energy to carry it out. Weather they can win the league depends on keeping likes of Varney fit and I just feel it will catch up with them eventually.
I personally think the key thing is weather Man City can keep Augero fit if they do they will win the league IMO. He is the class deadly striker that we desperatly need to take us from nearly men to real winners. Out strikers in Giroud and Walcott are just too inconsistent in the finishing dept. Sanchez for his class is not a naturel box player either really. We are still looking for that Fox in the box. If only we could have got Suarez.
We must have the worse goals to chance conversion ratio in the league which tells you that we are just not clinical enough on a regular enough basis. Added to that or defence still has silly mistake in it every game.
03 Feb 2016 21:18:36
Ryan people just don't see it. Walcott is not a winger, playing no9 for us his strike rate is 1 in 2 not me saying, statitics, giroud no 9 strike rate 1 in 7 again not me saying. Walcotts first eleven games as striker for england and us 11goals 11 games. Eleven starts for us at no 9, 11goals. We were flying when he was our number 9, giroud was scoring every time he came on as sub, why are we not reverting to type. Watch kane, aguero and vardy, they are not old fashioned no9, the game is moving on, a striker has got to do more than try and be a battering ram, it is not working. Your targets have to move not stick to one spot. I know giroud gives us height at dead balls in both boxes, but he ain't a prolific header of goals. I just think he slows the game down and now Walcott should be given the reins. Walcott is not a winger and he links with ozil better. I just don't see us winning the league with giroud, he has never got more than 20 league goals in a season, that not good enough.
03 Feb 2016 21:46:02
To be fair though Steve, as much as I agree with your assessment of Walcott, up until 3 or 4 games ago, Giroud was banging them in for fun.
Would have been nice to play them upfront together once in a while.
{Ed025's Note - get theo back on the subs bench where he belongs..impact sub for me im afraid..
03 Feb 2016 23:02:06
Dags, I can't knock him for that, but not only does he blow hot and cold he doesn't run in behind, which we miss. The prem has always been about pace and breaking. I can't change my mind on giroud, i'm sorry, he doesn't get me on the edge of my seat.
04 Feb 2016 00:52:11
Giroud is as good as anyone on his day. Unfortunately his day is Thursday and we don't play Thursday night football.
03 Feb 2016 22:24:17
Gonna disagree with you their Ed 25 and agree with Steve, I liked Theo starting and giroud coming in as the impact sub, just saying'.
{Ed025's Note - its all about opinions rooster, i really want theo to do well as he seems a good lad, now i dont see him as much as the rest of you but he flatters to deceive for me mate..
04 Feb 2016 07:33:27
Steve sorry for late reply mate but if Leicester beat city away then comes to us and get a decent result then I do think they'll win the league. And if they get those results boy do they deserve it.
03 Feb 2016 12:30:04
It's amazing the bookies still have us down as second favourite.
03 Feb 2016 17:23:59
Well they won't be intising me in to their web.
03 Feb 2016 18:11:39
Or enticing.
03 Feb 2016 19:03:13
I bet our odds are entising.
Err, I mean enticing :-)
03 Feb 2016 19:12:52
Its that dodgy productive text dags.
03 Feb 2016 21:47:00
"Productive" Steve? Lol.
03 Feb 2016 23:03:31
I see yours is dodgy as well dags. Ebay? Lol.
03 Feb 2016 06:27:50
I can't believe that we played the woeful Flamini last night. Surely, we should have started with Coquelin and Elneny in front of the back four. I also couldn't understand why we started Campbell, instead of either Walcott or Oxlade.
Arteta, Flamini and Rosicky should have departed last summer, with more able replacements being brought in.
We missed a further opportunity during this window to bring in a season defining player.
It's easy to see what will happen: A struggle to finish in the top four with Man U finding some form and the team's above us consistently producing good results. The FA Cup may be our usual salvation, but there are still some top teams to overcome, despite a good 5th round draw.
03 Feb 2016 17:09:18
I agree about flamini. if Le coq was fit enough for the bench then he should be fit enough to start otherwise stick elneny on the bench, but I disagree with the Campbell part. he has been in far better form than Theo n ox put together tbh so he dam right earnt that starting spot.
Theo is far to hot n cold, he puts in 1 decent performance in 8 games he should be an impact sub at most but even last night he came on n did NOTHING again. If he does play then it has to be up-top as striker, at the start of the season he was doing alright up there n gave us a complete different dimension n was getting goals whilst ozil flourished as he had a runner to hit.
It's frustrating being a gooner but we as fans need to get behind the team, this season is far from over n we could quite easily go on a winning run now of 6/ 7 games n boom we're top again, points will be dropped by the other title contenders so let's not right ourselves off just yet ;)
Ooooh to be a gooner :)
03 Feb 2016 18:56:30
RG
Good post and wouldn't disagree with any of it.
03 Feb 2016 13:18:47
lads come on, we should have put one of those chances away but we didnt. but there is still 14 games to play, by sunday we could well be join second 3 points off top.
everyone said this was our best chance but no one said it would be a walk in the park.
there are going to be slip from EVEY team.
This team have NEVER won the league and yet we are all expecting them to take it in their stride, like they have done it before.
We are still very much in with our best chance of winning this league. A bit more composure yesterday and if there keeper had not been so immense then we would all be having a very different conservation about the team, the manager and the squad today.
03 Feb 2016 13:42:11
Perfectly put GBR
The race ain't over by a long shot!
03 Feb 2016 13:45:36
Our two chances of winning the league are little and fat. League title winners have a solid base/ defence and a quality striker, we don't have either in reality. Couple that with a manager who hasn't got the tools to do the job, it ain't happening. He finds too many opposing team/ managers who go on snuffing him out, he can't put it right, his style of play and tactics are not that required for a title winning formula. he's not taking us forward we are stuck in neutral, we are not a team on the up.
03 Feb 2016 13:56:04
Spot on mate. The team is good enough to win the title.
03 Feb 2016 14:24:27
It's simple.
The team are good enough to win the title.
Whether we do is another question.
03 Feb 2016 17:16:51
Summed it up nicely Dags :)
03 Feb 2016 19:04:43
Perfect,
Poetry in motion :-)
03 Feb 2016 23:04:48
Is wether we do it a question?
04 Feb 2016 08:34:50
agreed Steve it is weather we do, but we are certainly good enough.
of the teams chasing that could win, none really ( poss Tottenham) have what you would call a solid defence, other than KUN, although they are in good form would you really call either world class? not much if at all better than giroud ( but again they are in better form. )
champ league will be over for us soon and I believe that Tottenham and city will progress and that will give us a slight edge also.
03 Feb 2016 11:07:03
Bet Charlie boy would have put one of those 21 chances away :-)
03 Feb 2016 11:17:10
wenger didn't know that charlie was up for sale.
he must of been the only 1 that didn't
more BS from the manager.
03 Feb 2016 17:57:03
Malaga
If the manager signed 1 of the twenty you say he is, Jesus You have predicted 99 players a year.
Lets show some respect. Whaen it come to BS, you are the MASTER.
03 Feb 2016 11:52:55
cant score in the stands dags.
03 Feb 2016 09:59:23
Our 25 man squad is made up 3 players who never really had any chance of being available for up to 10 games this season ( (Jack Rosicky Danny) plus Arteta Flamini Mertesacker who are all the wrong side of 30 and have eraned reputation for having a mistake or 10 in them, then there's Theo Calum Gibbs Ox and even Joel to a lesser extent who have so far failed to show the consistency needed to prove themselves as top premier league players plus Elneny who dispite the optimism is at the moment a £5 million punt ( he may be brilliant one day but so far none of us know one way or the other) leaving us with 13 consistent proven premier league players of who 1_is still out for a while Caz another who is not yet 100% Le Coq and a reserve keeper Ospina plus some u21 players and £195 million in the bank.
I can't begin to think why it's all going wrong can you?
03 Feb 2016 10:32:26
there is only 1 man to blame for the state of the squad.
how many squads has he built over the last 10 years that just have not been good enough.
we built the grove to be able to compete with the best teams in europe and have failed.
enough is enough
he should resign at the end of the season and not be allowed to pick the next manager of the club.
03 Feb 2016 10:55:40
I think out of that list, Arteta, Flamini and Rosicky should have been sold about 2 years ago.
Arteta and Flamini are well past it and Rosicky, despite being at Arsenal 10 years, only averages 17 games per season.
The rest I would keep.
No team on this planet, including Barca, RM and Bayern has a 25 man squad jam packed with world class players.
They all have 3 or 4 world class players, supplemented by 8 or 9 very good players and about 10 good players.
We have Cech, Sanchez, Ozil and Koscielny who I would bracket as world class and the rest are very good players.
Player for player, squad for squad, domestically we are as good as anybody, but don't know we are struggling of late.
You don't need 11 world class players to be a very good team, just ask Claudio Ranieri.
03 Feb 2016 11:10:28
dags, koscielny is not a world class player.
03 Feb 2016 11:19:31
True Dags but you do need 7 fully fit very good players who consistently turn up 9/ 10 games to supplement those 4 top class players plus another 8 good players who are reliable 8/ 10 games covering injuries plus desperate to take their chance.
Where do Theo Jack Ox Gibbs Danny Calum fit into the above? Or Mertesacker either? All over paid for their ability and under achieve more often than not with unbelievable consistency.
Leicester are where they are through consistency of their players to perform at their best 9/ 10 games not occasionally plus the Leicester players have real spirit and fight in them, how many times have they been behind by 2 goals and come back to win and as a team they show up against Southampton as much as they do against Chelsea plus Norwich and Man city, their afraid of no one but respect everyone, I wish we could say the same about our players/ manager.
03 Feb 2016 11:31:07
Its all about hame plan, yes we have some good players but when the game plan is ineffective we don't have different approach. You don't need a team full of world class players as dags mentioned look at Leicester.
03 Feb 2016 11:44:48
Agree G62,
We have more under performers than over achievers.
Malaga, I was being slightly optimistic, but I don't think Kos is far from it mate.
03 Feb 2016 12:08:25
dags a world class player is able to communicate, organise and take responsibility
i don't see any of those attributes in him.
03 Feb 2016 12:35:37
Malaga,
That, I agree with.
I even mentioned that in an earlier post.
No leaders.
03 Feb 2016 12:32:45
Right I'm a little distressed about the state of the squad and how stubborn wenger has been but please can someone give me a name of a manager who's available and better.
03 Feb 2016 15:41:07
How can Kos not be world class, he is arguably and the best central defender in the the EPL. Is the EPL that bad or is the bar for world class that high?
Ballerina is on the verge of world class as well by the way.
03 Feb 2016 16:43:14
thats one hell of a fishing expedition there magda.
03 Feb 2016 17:57:34
Red Rooster, Kos might be good but the best central defender in the EPL, wow that's some claim! I think that Toby is twice the defender that Kos is!
03 Feb 2016 20:35:41
Arteta and Flamini are just not good enough fullstop for that Defensive position. Flamini has plenty of energy but not much else no composure and real intelligence on or off the ball a headless chicken if you will. Arteta is kind of the opposite in the head he play intelligent but his body is just not athletically up to it anymore, he gets caught out dallying on the ball too much and slows our game down too much.
Rosicky just never fit a good servant but time to part ways.
I am not this Elneny is the answer DM wise as he seem more box to box to me so we are asking a lot of Coq. Maybe Callum Chambers can be a Good Dm but god knows what Wenger is thinking, but to me we still need and established older DM.
I am not sure you can put Kos in World class bracket but he is certainly in top 5 CB in EPL. Unfortunatly we have a weak link in Mert alongside who is just to slow and Gaberiel who is just too rash and aggressive sometimes.
We have at least finally got a Keeper worthy of a Arsenal team. Our Fullbacks have really developed well and we still have plenty of creativity and skill in the midfield, its just trying to make best use of it that is the problem.
Giroud is a decent hold up man but not deadly enough on a consistent basis in front of goal and Walcott is not a naturel finisher either, but is suffering playing out wide for me. Sanchez is obviously class and Campbell is a good option to have. Ox seems to have hit something of a wall in development when you really want to see him come on.
To summarize we need a spine still that of a Worthy partner to Kos, Established DM to bring Coq along and most importantly a proper fox in the box. a Winger would go a miss aswell to stop using Walcott and Ramsey for that matter out wide.
03 Feb 2016 11:09:54
Dags a striker on form helps
aguero, kane, vardy!
giroud will never be good enough. we will finish trophy less i reckon. he should of gone big in the summer.
03 Feb 2016 09:43:40
My fellow gooners I think I speak for everyone when I say that last night was frustrating, any other goal keeper and it would of been 5-0 but unfortunately it wasn't like that.
Now id like to share my view which is more than up for debate and I'm happy with people sharing their opinion because let's face it that's what this site is about.
Our season is FAR from over, 5 points off Leicester is a gap but not a big one, every team has a dry patch in the league so who knows Leicester may just get theirs at the wrong time and we overtake.
We still have to play Leicester, Citeh, Spuds and United, if we beat all of those which we are more than capable of then we will go to 1st place, I know it's very easy to drop your head in times like this but right now the team needs more support than ever.
It's all rosey when we are top of the league but it's times like this when you snap back into reality and realise that it's never handed on a plate to you, if this is to be our year then the boys will get the results but the fans need to support right till the end.
I know wenger frustrates us with his team selection sometimes but say he played Le Coq from the start and he pulled up after 15 mins he would be slated for rushing him back in so its swings and roundabouts boys.
Like I said guys the season is far from over, have faith in this team because I believe they can do it so don't panic just yet :)
03 Feb 2016 10:42:31
Hi Essex
When it's matchday, I think I like most fans, am rabid with passion and enthusiasm. I support the boys whole heartedly and we are comrades. But it is important that after every battle, especially a non winning one that we take stock of what happened.
And I think what is most important is the context to this whole issue:
1. We haven't won the league in forever
2. For first half of the season, we were the team most fancied to go all the way
3. We did not buy a back up striker to assist Giroud. Walcot is unreliable but still we did nothing
4. All major opponents were relatively poor and we had so many chances to open up a cushion between us and the pack chasing for first.
5. We have so many players who make up numbers and yet contribute nothing. Wenger doesn't seem interested in off loading them
I think it is understandable for people to start losing faith. We have been in this boat for a long time and we as the fans do not seem to learn. Coupled with the press who are never on our side and are always waiting for us to slip up, we should have made hay while the sun shined.
Now we are under pressure and playing catch up. Every season we lack character. We seem afraid to win an. Whenever there is a chance to be leaders, we cower and fail.
Even if we do recover and somehow manage to win this league, I have been and will continue to advocate for a new manager and New tactics. The gaping chance that was there this year is not going to present every year. I do not know why we struggle every year like this.
I am disappointed and the burden rests with the manager to 're-energize the players and the fans. Not to come out and deliver these dross post match interviews that make people angrier.
03 Feb 2016 11:00:14
Good optimistic post Essex.
But, I think Rue has just come up with possibly the best reply I have ever seen on this site.
Total respect to both of you for 2 terrific posts that typifies both sides of the coin.
03 Feb 2016 15:13:29
Exactly dags, although I wrote my post I do agree with rue completely which sounds strange.
03 Feb 2016 11:12:28
(We still have to play Leicester, Citeh, Spuds and United, if we beat all of those which we are more than capable of then we will go to 1st place)
no chance we will win all of them. blind faith sorry essex.
03 Feb 2016 09:43:09
Not the result we wanted yesterday, and that will not make me lose hope in us clinching our first league title in a decade. As the points stand two games can easily change the standings. Of the 14 games left one or two upsets left, but we should be smiling come May, not smiling for fourth but first TRUST ME. Good day gunners. FIYG (Faith In You Gunners)
03 Feb 2016 11:45:46
Agree, but the games keep coming and we keep bottling it.
03 Feb 2016 08:40:53
Does everybody remember our great hope
Jackson Martinez?
My god the rumours were never ending about him coming to Arsenal.
Anyhow it looks like he prefers Chinese to a nice pie from Holliway Road.
Just sold for £31 m!
03 Feb 2016 11:46:09
We dodged a bullet mate.
03 Feb 2016 08:56:01
hes 30 next birthday. atletico are lucky they have made a profit on him. madness.
03 Feb 2016 08:19:38
We really had a good chance of winning the league this year. but I now think we have blown. we have failed to step up to the plate when everyone else around was down and put a gap between us and the rest.
2 points from a possible 12 is not the sign of champions. no real leader on the pitch and really lacking a top striker.
Rant over.
03 Feb 2016 11:46:53
You hit the nail on the head with "No real leaders".
03 Feb 2016 07:38:59
I told a friend of mine during the norwich game when i saw cazorla limping that arsenal's chances of winning the league depend on him staying fit and i think last night proved my point. ramsey is no replacement for cazorla. cazorla can start attacks with a precise long pass or even a run. cazorla has that passing ability and rarely loses the ball and he is so effective against teams that press high up the pitch (remember tim sherwood's villa trying to press arsenal in the fa cup final) . santi needs to start running or our title bid will keep faltering. thank God though theo has been found out. the boy has no football brain let him keep sitting on the bench.
03 Feb 2016 08:43:12
It ended when arteta and rosicky signed a new deals.
03 Feb 2016 07:13:02
Jackson Martinez moves to China.
03 Feb 2016 11:01:37
We dodged a bullet Derby mate.
03 Feb 2016 06:45:12
I understand that some games will be tough, and this is the chance for the manager to show his skill.
1. Substituted Campbell for Walcot who we all know has been poor on the wing
2. In the 82nd minute, we substituted a Flamini for Le Coq when we were looking to win. Straight swap DMF for DMF which does nothing for us attack-wise
3. I don't remember us using the 3rd substitute. Giroud is out of form of late. If we had bought a striker, we could have given him a run for 15mins.
So'ton made changes upfront, they at least tried to go for the win. We did nothing
Rosicky, Eleny, Iwobi didn't even make the bench.
I am struggling to Trust Arsene right now, as I have done for the past 3 seasons now.
{Ed001's Note - Rosicky is injured.}
03 Feb 2016 13:11:26
rue i get your upset but on the other side of the points you make
1 . yes he has been inconstant but is always worth a goal from the wing, and against tired legs even more so, this is also an attacking option.
2. its not a straight swap, flam is NOT a DMF quite often he is the furthest man forward meaning Ramsay, Sanchez, Walcott, giroud have to worrie about thier position, Le Coq has no desire to get forward, meaning the rest have that freedom to go a litte bit more gungho.
3. I have got nothing other than he didn't really have the options on the bench, I do think iwobi should be on there like you said.
Having said that man city play Leicester next and we are away to Bournemouth by Saturday we could well be joint 2nd 3 points off top with a better goal difference.
03 Feb 2016 06:24:43
Well as we are so bad that Spurs are now above us let's try this.
Guy walks into the local surgery with 6 plastic horses up his bum.
Doctor says he's stable.
02 Feb 2016 23:07:00
We haven't got a settled center back partnership, we don't have the striker to carry us and the other teams around us seem to have strikers that save the day, we are struggling for form. We obviously don't give up hope yet but the signs are not good i'm afraid. Wenger seems to have found yet another manager who has his number, 2 wins in eleven against koeman, you know what I think and I don't see much making me change that at the moment.
03 Feb 2016 03:12:18
The old man is to blame for the failures he continues to back.
02 Feb 2016 23:02:46
I have been optimistic all season that we will win the league.
However, I really don't think we have a chance.
Since we went top, 4 games, 1 defeat, 3 draws and we couldn't score a goal if we play all day and night.
We have no bottle, no character.
You look across the boards and all fans say the same all season, "Arsenal won't win league because they always bottle it".
Our players never step up.
Aguero time and again for City, Alli and Kane time and again for Spurs, Vardy and Mahrez for Leicester.
Yet again top 4 mediocrity.
Let's hope for an FA Cup run.
03 Feb 2016 00:22:54
Your sounding more and more like me Dags. Scarry.
03 Feb 2016 03:13:30
Finally Dags you found your mind. Where was it?
03 Feb 2016 08:02:20
I say again the bloke will pay for not buying in the Summer, the usual culprits will jump down my throat for saying this.
Rosicky, Flamini and Arteta HAVE to go. That is 3 we need, he will keep Jack but let's face it he has to go, that should be 4 .
Look over our shoulders and Man U have picked up a bit . Top 4 isn't a given either.
02 Feb 2016 23:07:00
We haven't got a settled center back partnership, we don't have the striker to carry us and the other teams around us seem to have strikers that save the day, we are struggling for form. We obviously don't give up hope yet but the signs are not good i'm afraid. Wenger seems to have found yet another manager who has his number, 2 wins in eleven against koeman, you know what I think and I don't see much making me change that at the moment.
02 Feb 2016 23:02:46
I have been optimistic all season that we will win the league.
However, I really don't think we have a chance.
Since we went top, 4 games, 1 defeat, 3 draws and we couldn't score a goal if we play all day and night.
We have no bottle, no character.
You look across the boards and all fans say the same all season, "Arsenal won't win league because they always bottle it".
Our players never step up.
Aguero time and again for City, Alli and Kane time and again for Spurs, Vardy and Mahrez for Leicester.
Yet again top 4 mediocrity.
Let's hope for an FA Cup run.