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04 Jan 2014 00:12:09
What about these Mandzukic rumours? Don't know how true, but he is a fine footballer.
02 Dec 2013 20:46:10
Spanish press reporting Arsenal and Madrid have agreed to the 6 month loan of Morata? Don't know if this is true but I think it would be a great move.
Young guy has the talent for sure, I can't really see us signing a 'big name' striker in January so I would be more than happy with him.
1.) If we have agreed to a six month loan and he loves it here with caz, arteta, monreal and the playing with the likes of ozil he could be tempted to make a permanent switch, considering madrid will buy a striker in the summer, or who knows giving us morata on loan means they are going to buy a striker in january.
either way I think its a positive move, and he will be more of an impact to the likes of bendtner or park.
take morata over pato anyday.
he can play all the fa cup games.
mulumbu would be useful for depth behind arteta and flamini, because ramsey is no longer a holding mid.
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19 May 2014 13:37:06
Over the moon with the FA Cup win. The bitterness coming from the Spud fan's is something else (apparently the FA Cup is a Mickey Mouse trophy now)?
This win has been particularly special in my eyes for a number of reasons.
The main reason though, is the fact that my 1st born child was born 3 months before our Champions League final loss.
I thought that year was going to be the best in my life, hoping that becoming a father for the 1st time would coincide with us finally winning the 'big one'. Alas, it wasn't to be!
As you can imagine, every season we didn't win anything I was looking at my son and thinking "oh no, since you've been born we have been unsuccessful" "Maybe I should have wore protection that night".
LOL Wee jokes. I love him more than anything.
What has been hard though, has been him growing up and loving football as much as me. Unfortunately the poor lad has had to put up with me forcing our jersey on him, year after unsuccessful year. Making him watch some harrowing performances on the telly and finally getting him to the Emirates once last year.
His buddies, some UTD fans, some Chelsea, some City (we're from Ireland, us Irish support all-sorts) have been rubbing it in his face about being 'loosers'. I thought he was going to jump on another team a few times. Especially when the snake (RVP) joined the Mancs (he idolised him).
Young kids don't care about balance sheets, getting top four, or working towards the future. They want to be known as a supporter of a winning team right here, right now. Sad as it is, but it's true. I look about my town on the weekends when we're out and about and all you see is kids wearing UTD, Chelsea, City shirts. Obviously it's all a little fickle but kids don't care. If their team is winning in their early lives, they'll more than likely continue supporting them throughout their lives.
Anyway, this trophy win has made my life a little bit easier and Saturday was fantastic for myself and my son. The joy and excitement on his face when Rambo scored the winner was epic. He's already talking about going back to the Emirates next season and looking forward to viewing the trophy room (his 'buddies' apparently think there isn't one).
Hopefully the board and Mr Wenger can see how much being successful can change how a club is revered amongst it's young fans (the new generation of supporters). We need to really build on this success and add some quality players to push us forward even more. Even our young players have now tasted success and will be hoping it continues. Adding the right players to this squad could see the reintroduction of our glory days. Footballs all about the glory isn't it? I think that's what it says in the cricket stadium.
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17 Feb 2014 02:19:04
I know Podolski doesn't track back well, but I'm a firm believer in his talent.
Anytime the guy plays he seems to score,
If we play Cazorla, Rosicky, Gnabry, or any other player in his place. They don't seem to be as clinical.
Prince Poldi needs to be playing from wide left, he's the perfect outlet for Ozil.
Anytime Ozil has had his astronomical assist stats, it has always involved players getting in behind defenses.
I feel for Le Prof this season, simply because of the fact that Walcott and Poldi have been out for long periods. If we had a complete ful team this season we would be out of sight.
Only my opinion.
1.) Pod is a legend
2.) I really hope Wenger gives him a nice long run of games. He certainly knows how to score that's for sure
3.) Poldi is a ledge! He has to start on Weds along with the Ox!
16 Feb 2014 21:34:49
Thoughts on Sanogo folks?
I thought he played extremely well for a young player fresh out of division two in France.
He's been ravaged by injuries which is quite worrying, but hey, he wouldn't be an Arsenal player otherwise ;)
He looked a bit off in the shooting department, but by gosh he got stuck in. Definitely doesn't look like he's frightened of the harsh battles of the Premiership.
To come to a big club like Arsenal, have a rough start, no playing time and then to introduce yourself like that, in an FA Cup game against a team on top of their game at the moment. I think he done brilliantly.
Don't want to get my hopes up too much but hopefully he can become the real deal. Dare I say the player Adebaywhore was in the season we all loved him.
1.) Boozy, I think your post sum's it up perfectly. Nothing to add really mate, good assessment.
I like the kid to be honest.
2.) 16 Feb 2014 22:30:24
I know it's only one game but he did himself and us proud, he got stuck in and his turn and shot led to the Ox's opener.
He looks like he has used his time out to bulk up too, sure he didn't look that big when he first played.
With game time he can only improve.
3.) After we were linked with him and eventually agreed to sign him, I watched him carefully at the Under 20 World Cup alongside Kondogbia.
He scored a couple of goals and made a few. Played really well and looks decent. Could be a very good addition, especially as he came on a free.
4.) Shows great promise and great tenacity. Friends of mine saying 'had a terrible game, what goods a forward that just runs into people.'
Think he wanted to prove a point and my work he proved it tonight. So exited today, the sort of excitement we've gotten from gnabry and zelalem!
5.) His pace for his size is blistering! did you not see how many through balls looked too far gone, but then you blink and Sanogo is battling one fo the defenders to get to it and almost does 9/10 times.
also what I loved, about 70th min you could see yaya appealing to the crowd to cheer and stuff. A guy who no one really knows, or loves or anything. actively interacting with his new fans? just what we need. get prolific yaya and youll be a legend here
6.) I plead the 5th.
09 Feb 2014 23:55:22
No 'if's' or 'but's' PLEASE against Utd on Wednesday. Utd are there for the taking, we really need to show we can be ruthless against the big teams. I'm starting to worry about Ozil. I know he's a fantastic footballer but I can see a tactical demolition job at the courtesy of Wenger happening to him. Ozil thrives on players getting ahead of him, and in between defenses. He needs runners who he can play cutting passes to, not passes back or to the side of the pitch. Our main focus is Giroud who we look to find to play balls to oncoming midfield attackers and I really do not think Ozil is the type to be busting a gut to get into the box for such lay offs. Personally, I think Wengers football changing ways are behind him. He was a revelation over a decade ago who no doubt changed English football for the better, but he doesn't seem to be doing what the 'up and coming' managers do, which is basically change their line-up depending on which team they're playing. Wenger just seems to put out the best at his disposal and hopes his one dimensional tactics pay off. I can't help but think that the likes of Mourinho, Rodgers, Ferguson, and basically any other 21st century manager, can tell before a game against Arsenal, which way they are going to play.
This isn't a cutting statement on Wenger the same as we see on blogs throughout the WEB, calling for his head and basically cutting him to death. Just an honest opinion of how football has moved on, even from the revelation days of Wenger's changes on training, tactics, and football culture. I'm not in the opinion of saying there's many managers out there at the minute who could have done the same job that Wenger has in the last decdade. The man has totally revolutionised the club when it comes to revenue, training facilities and stadium, but it pains me to say, he has taken the club as far as he can on the field. His one-way tactics are out-dated. We were anihilated in the 1st 20 mins at Anfield and it still didn't look to me that he had asked the team to change style. Obviously he can't be so arrogant as to thinking he can just put his best team out in the same formation every single week against completely different opposition?
1.) Boozy you make some really good points here (btw, paragraphs are good- makes it easier to read, etc.).
Totally spot on about Ozil and utilising his strengths (or not as the case maybe).
It's not just that we need another striker, we need a different *type* of striker, an alternative and also one that will bring into play the strengths of Ozil as well (I think we've missed theo on flanks with his pace for that as well).
I think you make a point about AW and his one dimensional tactics, compared with Fergie, Mourniho, etc who will change as and when and get their players understanding and working those tactics for particular games.
Yes, perhaps things have moved on from 10+ years ago. But I also think AW has a philosophy/style which he (rightly or wrongly) absolutely believes in. A vision of how he wants to see his teams play.
For me his philosophy or one dimensional tactics, as you call it, is dependent on the players available to just how successful this style is going to be (that's the lack of flexibility/versatility and using the players available to "do a job", etc which Fergie, JM, etc would do).
When we had a genuinely great
team 8, 10-12 years ago, we all saw just had good AW philosophy was - a lot of the time, it was arguably unplayable. They could make AW's philosophy work to the max. That's the strengths and weaknesses of AW's philosophy.
Problem is we have (and have had for some time), on the whole a good team, not a great one. That's the weakness of his philosophy imho.
I think this is why when we do come up against teams with quality we can/or do struggle. We don't quite have the players to pull it off.
The great team we had, as well as technical ability, had the physical attributes, leadership and perhaps most of all intelligence- they had the ability to be flexible, within AW's philosophy, they could make it work against most opponents.
Today, by and large you need a cheque book to buy quality players- as we know he hasn't had that.
But know he does ( a sizeable budget will be available each summer).
The big question for me is, can he assemble that 'great team'? If he does, I think the potential rewards could be great, but.
There are just my views anyway.
06 Jan 2014 18:31:45
Damn, we never have any luck with injuries. Theo out for 6 months.
Do people think we need two forwards now in this window.
Big ask, both from Wenger and the market. Getting one top class forward was going to be bad enough, now we need two.
Gnabry I think is more than capable of filling the wide right position, but he can't go the rest of the season on his own, especially with the difficult run of games we have in Febuary and March.
I honestly think anyone who works at Arsenal, right from the board to the grounds staff are all brainwashed by Wenger and his methods.
Walcott came out today and said something along the lines of. whoever the manager brings to the club will always be a top notch player.
We have been hearing for years that. next year, or the year after we will be able to compete with Europes Elite.
We have money to spend, if we can find a player who will add quality to the squad, we will buy.
I would love to, but I don't believe a word of it. Our squad has been full of mediocre players over the best part of ten years.
We should have been able to go pound for pound with Europes Elite the past 2 or 3 years at least (giving a bit of time to cope with the stadium move).
We are now supposedly armed with a vast amount of cash to buy big, yet again Wenger has stalled. It is coming to the start of the season and we haven't got a player of note in to get to know the squad, training sessions, or tactics.
There have been a lot of very good players we have missed out on the past year who would have definitely added quality to our squad, and within our wage and transfer budget
HaHa. Sorry mate, but I too feel your pain. My young lad can't get over RVP joining the Mancs, he actually said "can we not just support Utd now, Van Persie left and won the league, Arsenal never win anything". He's only 7 and doesn't understand why we support our clubs, but I suppose that's how Utd get their fans
Just seen that myself on a site, supposedly the biggest shirt deal in England?
I think he has the potential to be a fine Arsenal player, but I also think the unfortunate event of him being banned gives Wenger the choice to try Podolski up front. I honestly think Podolski could do a better job
How was there not money available before? every season we seem to have positive transfer profit. If the money hadn't been there, how on earth can they run a club who pay below par players astronomical wages. Get rid of the players who do not deserve to be there, if it means releasing them on a free then so be it. Selling players, property and what ever else for millions, then saying there's no surplus is bullsh*t. Arsenal may not have the millions provided by the oligarchs, however, they are not stupid and could easily buy 2 or 3 £30 mill + players over the past few seasons if they really wanted.
Yeah it's quite funny. I know football nowadays is faster and quite demanding but come on, these guys are out there doing what most of us would love to do for a normal wage.
These footballers are much fitter than I ever was. I still managed to train 4 or 5 times a week with gaelic football and football. Played games on a Saturday and a Sunday, sometimes with a game during the week as well, all whilst still at school all day then later holding down a job too.
I'd love the opportunity to play in England, train in the best facilities. Playing against some of the best players in the world, in the league and European cups.
Not to mention the 10's of thousands a week for the pleasure of doing so. I'd say I'm not alone in saying most of the posters here would play for the Arsenal for the same wage you would get working in a blue collar job.
I'd take tthem as back-up for Kos and Mert :)
I honestly can't believe how far their partnership has come in the past year.
They suit each other down to the ground, each complement each other.
I would dare say they look like the best partnership in the league.
UTD got extremely lucky with the 'class of 92' or whatever it was. Many teams have had successful youth/local set-ups. Celtic had a set-up of young-ish Scotsmen, born within a limited amount of miles from Celtic Park. Athletico Bilbao, untill recently, have only ever signed young players of Basque origin whilst keeping their morals.
You cannot say UTD's youth set-up is any different from most of the more well-off teams, most take players from all over England and the rest of the UK and give them a chance. UTD got lucky, a one off, like few before.
You talk about your money well spent compared to the doe the 'sugardaddys' or 'oligarchs' spend on these plastic clubs, but you forget, UTD have spent some of the biggest transfers in the leagues history. 30 mill for Rio almost 10 years ago? Almost 30 for an unproven 18 year old Rooney? Veron, Anderson, Nani, and many, many others. You have spent 100's of millions just taking punts on players. You were the first, maybe not as bad as the one's we see now, sugardaddy club.
Ian Wright would score goals galore in this current Arsenal team.
Think he really thought it was going in, as did I. Some comentators just get excited (Andy Gray) the player chose the right option and hit it perfectly, a neutral would have enjoyed it going in.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. Our fantastic No1 who didn't do much all game pulled off another 'worldy' :)