Arsenal Banter Archive November 06 2014

06 Nov 2014 20:08:59
Walcott in the England squad , 1 day back from injury
Chambers in England squad never played under 21 and is a wet week in a premier league first team . Wiltshire in the England squad , apparently still injured! Do u ever wonder why England win phish all!

I haven't seen the England squad BUT if Walcott is in it then. . . . . . . .are you all ready

BLAME WENGER, how the hell can Walcott be released for international duty when he has hardly kicked a ball in anger for his club.

SAF would never have let that happen.

Madness

Same goes for Jacko he has missed a couple of games but can't be fit, I know let's release rather than keep him at Arsenal to make sure he is fit for M United

Exactly! There was a post on Facebook from the arsenal ( official page ) happy as a pig in rubbish that we have 6 players in the full England squad, I even forgot to mention Gibbs, played 1 game since coming back from injury??? Really?? WTF, the insurance payments must be worth it!

Roy is a joke. No regard for players long term health. Walcott should be nowhere near the squad. If I was thei i'd say roy are you crazy jog on.

If you listen to Roy's press conference he says theo is on a strict training regime and he has agreed with Arsenal to stick with it, and rightly so.
Personally I don't see any problem with Theo's inclusion. If we want him fit then 20-30 mins as sub for England will more than likely benefit arsenal. It's match practice he needs and if he wasn't selected he's not going to get match fit any quicker.

07 Nov 2014 08:25:53
Wenger doesn't get the final say

Sheeny .you are having a laugh aren't you?

All Wenger has to say is he is on the treatment table, how many times do you think SAF did this and then a player is fit for the weekend.

07 Nov 2014 20:23:02
No I'm not having a laugh! He quite obviously isn't on the treatment table Banbury! How do you expect him to get away with a blatant lie when he's progression from the treatment table is highly publicised?

Banbury
I don't see why your being so negative about Walcott inclusion. He needs game time to get match fit. Up to now he's had 10 minutes. He's only likely to get 20 minutes this weekend. If he plays 20-30 mins for england there's a chance he could start against Utd. We could get 60-70 minutes out of him and that would be ideal. He's not going to get match fit jogging round the training ground.

I just worry and its a bit embarassing on the rest of the players if he walks back in the england squad.

06 Nov 2014 17:29:41
DAGS
The only way for things to change is for us to suddenly lose income and limelight from the CL .

STONER
I understand what you are saying but Wenger either has to change this pathetic policy he has with regards type of player he buys and style of football. The man has moaned about his defence yet how many times did he stand in the Technical area and sort it out. silence :)

I think someone else said we don't want to be as bad as Man U???eh we already are and for those thinking differently WAKE UP . or better still wait until we play them in a couple of weeks.

I also read somewhere that we need CL football to attract the likes of Sanchez?? Agree but how long do you think it will be before he leaves if we fail to deliver, Arsenal need to win trophies to KEEP the big names, 4th place is not . repeat not a trophy. How many players have left because we can't win a raffle??

Its a terrible situation Banbury but I don't disagree we have to go backwards before we will ever go forward, shame on the people who call the tune
As bad as utd? Next season we will be firmly back in their shadow because they are in repair mode wether peoplle like it or not they are and we are in a state of constant continuation of the status quo that is just enough to keep the money coming in and as little going out as possible.
Until the cash cow stops giving its extra rich cream nothing will change

Totally agree 62 that is exactly how it is, we need to go back to improve .

And yes Man U will take their customary position above us next season if we are not careful.

Maybe Wenger will point a finger at the FFP . snigger

After a year of everyone pulling in different directions in Fergie absence like naughty school boys united have installed a new headmaster who insists on total control and instant sacking of anyone who doesn't give him their total backing.
The manager board players who survive and fans are totally all pulling in the one direction of their team getting back to the top on the field of play, everyone is working 100% to that aim, there's every chance they'll get what they hope for with that plan

06 Nov 2014 14:42:03
On a lighter note did anyone else think Peaky Blinders when the Anderlecht midfielder touched the ball? Any more looky likeys?
COYG

Keowen and Dixon are the Righteous Brothers and (they never open to their eyes anymore when they watch us play, there's no optimism in their lips like there was before, they've lost that Wenger feeling )

06 Nov 2014 10:50:46
In his autobiography, SAF dedicated a chapter to AW, he admitted there was a time he had sleepless night on how to beat arsenal, he indirectly admitted that arsenal where superior to MU, he took it up as a do able task to decode arsenal, and what did he found out, he wrote, wenger never changes tactics, he love's to attack with a very high backline, so what does he do, plot out a way to break there attack and strile them fast on the counter, ever since then wenger has remained in the shadow of SAF, many years after that wenger still refuse to change, and the same result persist, obviously other managers have read that part of SAF book, we saw the result severaly last season, liverpool did it, man city did it, chelsea did it, even everton did it too, and just last tuesday we saw it happen again, and we have a proffesor of economics who decided not to read that one chapter, a proffesor of economics who refused to apply economics on his leaky defence.an educated man is the man who is educated enough to listen to an opposing arguement and is humble enough to accept a superiour arguement.God help my belove arsenal

06 Nov 2014 12:13:17
Great post mate.

Sadly true.

I think you're looking a bit too much on the outside mate.

Im not a wenger fan at the moment, but the team he had then and the team he has now? big difference.

some of the best players in the EPL played in our team then.

now only a few would even make that team, forgive me I mean only one. and that's Sanchez.

Ramsey off form, cazorla massively off form, too many injury plagued players, and too many players not worthy to wear an Arsenal shirt. Arteta, Flamini, Monreal, Podolski, Giroud, just to name a few.

also if you want my honest opinion, wenger did not bring cesc because it would halt ramseys progress I assume, and its done that anyway.

too many players need to be loved, if I had that treatment at work i'd be sitting with my legs up.

06 Nov 2014 16:47:58
Harsh on Giroud.

Without him the last few seasons we would be screwed.

Signed the same time as Podolski, Podolski got all the plaudits, Giroud gave us a starting player.

Nothing against giroud or poldi, I do not dislike them.

its just that when you look at what we had and what we have now, we are a shadow of a team.

we do have a lot of promise but we all know how that goes.

we have sanchez. we need to build on that. and playing ozil the right way would be a start.

lets see how the season goes.

06 Nov 2014 07:48:19
Tell me something. It's depressing enough when there is no Premiership football on due to International fixtures.
But putting that aside do we really need to be playing an International friendly against Scotland! Nov 18 th 3 days after the Slovenia game on the 15th Nov? .
This would be the perfect excuse for Wenger and any right minded manager or player to fake an injury.
What is the FA thinking about?

Internationals bore me. I hever watch them. No interest at all

06 Nov 2014 12:57:46
I think there needs to be a specific squad for any Internationals involving us and Scotland and it should consist of Ryan Shawcross, Lee Catermole, Joey Barton, Nigel Benn, Phil Jones, Wayne Rooney, John Terry, James Milner, Audley Harrison, Fraser Forster, Kevin Nolan and anyone else who'd rather scrap than play football.

Maybe Vinny Jones, Stuart Pearce and David Batty on the bench!

Wenger faking an injury would make no difference. He was a mediocre footballer and 65 years old so I doubt Hodgson would consider him for selection. Besides I believe he is French which might disqualify him, unless he has an English grandmother maybe?

Wenger faking an injury would make no difference. He was a mediocre footballer and 65 years old so I doubt Hodgson would consider him for selection. Besides I believe he is French which might disqualify him, unless he has an English grandmother maybe?

06 Nov 2014 16:25:06
Peanuts,

I think Goldboy meant Wenger to fake an injury for an Arsenal player, so they don't play an pick up an injury.

Sorry Dags, it was tongue in cheek and I couldn't resist it mate:)

{Ed007's Note - That's far too subtle for Dags to spot. His humour level is still kicking about at the 'Knock Knock' stage.}

06 Nov 2014 21:24:03
Sorry peanuts, went totally over my head lol :-) .

Love the name BTW.

Thanks a lot Ed007 lol