Arsenal Banter Archive April 04 2013

04 Apr 2013 22:30:33
I made a post a few down about how fast arsenal's defence is, and where it might rank worlwide in terms of pace - and 'davo' from the spurs page came on here and started talking about the spurs defence.

Anyone else think that with Gallas, dawson, vertonghen, spurs have the slowest centre backs in the league?

I thought mertesacker was slow, and then I watched vertonghen get absolutely destroyed tonight by that little egyptian guy for basel. who was pretty good actually.

Assou ekotto aswell, is nowhere near as good as he was 2 seasons ago.

Bale injured. Gallas injured. Defoe injured. Lennon Injured. Adebayor not giving a s*** and holtby lookin pretty average for a guy we all craved for arsenal to sign.

spurs are finished.

Absolutely the Toot have conceded more League goals than us. Walker, Vertonghen & Assou-Ekotto are better going forward. Whilst Gallas & Friedel are clearly past their best. Dawson is cumbersome.

Am I glad we didn't sign Vertonghen, he makes the Merte look like an Olympic sprinter!

For me it was the cockiness. The players admitted before the game of dreaming of the finals.

as the age old adage goes never underestimate the opponent.

Bayern did it to us and we almost punished them.

04 Apr 2013 22:18:48
Now I do not wish injury upon any player, but if this injury to Bale is serious, Tottenham will be greatly effected, and will drop points.

The comeback is on, perhaps not in the style we wanted, but it may be on regardless.

04 Apr 2013 22:02:18
Oh dear. Bale is injured. I was really hoping for a close battle between us and the spurs for third/fourth. but I guess now it's over.

Hope he's not out for too long - it's never good to see a player injure themselves badly even is they are a Spud.

Sally

04 Apr 2013 19:44:07
Physio room site shows Wilshire and Theo returning 13th! Monreal on sat



exlied clock ender

04 Apr 2013 17:45:35
Bould (hes got hair but we don't care) has reported on Arsenal site Theo and Jack both running and have a chance playing against Norwich.

To be honest without the pair of em we're in fine form. don't get me wrong I know they're both big players, but at this moment in time they both should be benched for now in my opinion at least.

Since when did Bould have hair?

He has hair! Just not on his head.

337

Left out he's got NO hair

Bergkamps apprentice 1

04 Apr 2013 17:09:33
Hey Ed,

I think these are the players arsenal NEED to sign:

GK: Victor Valdes (£10-20M)
CB: N'Koulou or Kouyate (Both) (£7-12M)
CDM: Etienne Capoue (£10-15M)
ST: Stevan Jovetic or Andreus Cornelius (Jovetic £15-25M)
Cornelius (£5-12M) I think more of Jovetic than Cornelius though

Lucas

04 Apr 2013 15:19:24
Good news for the weekend. Mulumbu west brom midfielder who makes a big difference to there team is suspended. He got sent off last week against west ham.

04 Apr 2013 13:55:36
I was wondering.

What would happen if hypothetically, Arsenal and Chelsea finished 3rd and 4th, with Spurs finishing 5th. If Spurs were to go on and win the Europa league, and beat the CL holders in the Super Cup, would they get into the CL at the expense of an English club? Or would there be 5 English teams in CL. I'm have no idea what might happen, albeit it is highly unlikely these events will occur.

Detroit Gooner {Ed027's Note - Nothing, Arsenal and Chelsea would get CL, spurs would get Europa League as usual

03 Apr 2013 22:22:30
Heard a rumour flying around that we, r chasing Rooney have you heard anything ed {Ed027's Note - No.

Wtf its not april fools day now an if we did it would probleys be his brother

Haha
ok I have laughed on behalf of all gooners. now go get a better joke thank you.
iwarutis

03 Apr 2013 23:55:46
Forget Gotze, we have quite a few quality central mids who struggle to score.

I'd rather we sign Gundogan, that kid is something else. At his age playing the pivot. Incredible when you see how they move the ball and he starts everything

Isco is the right addition over Gotze. One hell of a shot and more versatile. I'm not knocking Gotze, but 30 million? No thanks

I'd happily offer 15-20m for Gundogan

To me gundogan is like a faster version of arteta. I remember wenger praising him and in January wenger also said he was looking to sign a player in the mould of arteta.
Waq

03 Apr 2013 22:56:28
did anyone see Gundongan against Malaga tonight? his passes were crisp and classy, had a couple of dodgy 1-2's and loose passes under pressure, ran back whenever he lost the ball personally, positioning was pretty good, made some good tackles I thought

have we ever been interested Ed (s)? {Ed029's Note - Not Arsenal mate.}

That's a shame, he'd be a great Arteta replacement

we have way too many mids though, ah well!