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26 Feb 2015 09:11:32
Everyone on here moaning about Wenger. surly this loss has to be entirely down to the players and there abysmal attitude towards the tie. Welbeck and Sanchez wanted there name up in lights and refused to stick wide, they felt there individual display was more important than the team as a whole.
Do you think Wenger told Metasacker to come up into Monacos half and make a tackle whilst leaving an acre of space in behind. Not a hope.
Blaming Wenger for cazorla starting midefield. What was our choice? If city or Chelsea where missing 3 injured CMs there centre midfield would be struggling too.
Only thing I can blame Wenger for is Ospina. Clearly Szczęsny should have been reinstated a long time ago cause he is a far superior keeper than Ospina in every department.
Im not a Wenger in man but sometimes its not the manager this one in my opinion lies firmly on the shoulders of the player. They were like boys out there not one wanted any responsibility.
So if your looking for a scapegoat I would look at the 11 on the pitch rather than the man in the dugout
1.) 26 Feb 2015 09:54:29
Good post JK
They should of all been made to stay at the Emirates and watch the invincibls documentary
Then they might learn something about effort and teamwork
2.) 26 Feb 2015 09:56:44
wengers been here for years its his team his squad. he has refused to buy a DM for years. the squad is lob sided. no balance.
he will not win us the prem again no chance. he's taking us backwards JK
3.) 26 Feb 2015 10:11:46
While there is a lot of sense to what your saying DG. i'm afraid prior to the last 18 months we financially could not compete so if we are going to be realistic we can only judge Wenger on his exploits for the last 18 months. This is not championship manger to build a side to challenge on all fronts takes longer than 18 months to build.
I Firmly believe he has his targets in mind for the summer and top DM and ST are two of them.
Only thing I can blame him for is not sorting out the GK situation after Lehmann left.
4.) 26 Feb 2015 13:10:33
jk. we could we are just tight. we have a lot of money coming in and people pay a lot to watch us and i feel for them. the owner is happy with spending as little as poss and getting the champions league. we are a cash cow. do any of koronkes teams win anything? no he bleeds them dry the guys a joke
06 Jan 2015 10:24:14
Realistically what DM and CB would you like? there seems to be a shortage of top quality defenders in Europe and to be honest we won't compete with the Bigger spenders for Hummels or Varane?
1.) I just want a Makelele type of DM. Someone who doesn't do anything too flashy but sits in front of the defence, breaking opposition's attacks and someone who can distribute the ball well and let our more forward thinking players take it from there.
I am a fan of box to box midfielders but in our system I think we need a a consistent, old fashioned DM - someone for Coquelin to be understudy to because he's becoming that sort of player.
2.) 06 Jan 2015 11:25:52
We are more than capable of buying Varane and paying suitable wages be it now or in the summer.
Surely we are done with this buying low end market garbage like Andre Santos.
3.) Thepefectgoal. wanyama is that man
4.) 06 Jan 2015 13:24:22
It's true we should be looking at and can afford the up and coming CB's such as Varane. Wenger has managed to get Ozil and Sanchez here so attracting a quality CB should also be a possibility.
I watched Coquelin specifically against Hull as after the last game some were saying he was good others said he was poor.
Apart from that somewhat out of the blue lunge towards the end he didn't do badly by any stretch, the best thing was watching to see how far forward he went when we attacked and I didn't see him going that far beyond the halfway line and allowing the attackers to do their thing, which was really good to see.
With him it will be a run of games to know for sure, some short passing slightly wayward and not the toughest of opposition but who knows.
What we really want to see though in reality is Wenger just go and buy the real thing and watch Coquelin become a great back up for him.
5.) Derby, I was going to write a few possible examples and Wanyama would have been one of them. I have to agree with you, he would improve our team.
6.) 06 Jan 2015 17:58:01
Hey stoner buddy
How's she hanging
27 Aug 2014 12:21:40
David Ornstein decent source for all things Arsenal has come out and said we won't be signing a striker.
Usually he is a good source, but since this news only broke late last night I don't know how any journalist would know what wenger and the Arsenal board are planning. It is probably only being discussed today.
So i'm going to call Bullsh*t on that one. I still believe that the most important position we need to fill is DM, as is said before it wasnt a striker that let us concede 20 goals away to Liverpool, city, chelski and Everton. If we don't sign one of quality, all we can hope for this season is another cup.
After watching the Everton game, I think its an absolute disgrace, that ozil has to push wide left just to accomadate jack, its the same thing city had to do with Aguero and Balotelli . don't get me wrong I like jack, but when he plays with Ramsey it really does make a dogs dinner of our formation.
He should be only used as a direct replacement for ozil or ramsey and played through the middle and leave the wings to ox, walcott, sanchez etc.
21 Aug 2014 10:52:26
Looks like Ballotelli is off to liverpool. Fee believed to be £17.5 Million.
Do you think we should have taking a chance on him or is there to much risk?
Id imagine this one will divide opinions. he's an absoloute talent but the man is nuts.
1.) 21 Aug 2014 12:37:11
I think the wages are a stumbling block. 160k is alot
2.) Signing balotelli leaves us at a risk eventually.
he does not track back or defend, but yes if he is in the mood he is one hell of a player.
we got the forward player we wanted in sanchez, we need the winger now to make sanchez our CF, and I know its almost as unlikely as us signing messi but Reus should be that player.
im hoping we can land a DM to strenghten our midfield, we are still lacking that key player.
lets hope its khedira, as it may give us some edge with reus, although it seems barca are trying to do a deal for him this summer.
3.) Ya a lot of people are saying that a striker is the most important position, but a striker wasnt the reason we conceded 6 at city 5 at liverpool and another bucket load at stamford bridge. Chelsea mid ran through Arteta and the Arsenal midfield like it wasnt there. the sad thing is Chelsea are better this year too.
A DM is the main priority for me and a 8-10 mllion cb (which looks to be Manolas)
i think a striker will have to wait another year. we are in need of one but with walcott coming back it is not as important as a DM. Khedira bender or carvhalo I don't mind.
Just need one of them and it will be our greatest transfer window in the last 15+ years.
14 Aug 2014 13:20:43
I know everyone on this page including myself is complaining that we don't have proper DM, and it is a very good point, but comparing to this time last year the team with its new additons has showed serious signs of improvemnt, on top of that nobody knows the Arsenal players like Arsene Wenger and if he believes that Arteta is good enough to be the DM in this team then you have just got to support him, after all he is the longest serving manager in the league and is The Arsenals most successful maneger in history, during pre season Ramsey was talking about how good the Harmony in the squad was and that it had never been better since he was at arsenal, if somebody like pogba (who was already troublesome at Man utd) came in, it may jeprodise squad harmony, I think wenger is taking everything into consideration here, on top of that he sees chambers as the man to take over artetas position, and judging by pre season, I think he could go on to be an Arsenal legend. I still hope we sign a CB who can cover DM too, but as a club we have always developed players and never blocked underage talent from coming through like chelski and city, any true gooner knows that we run our club in the right way and we won't turn into a plastic club like those named above just for a a trophy here or there. The way Arsenal is run is for long term sustanabilty and we will see in 20+ years time that chelski and city are the thing of the past and it will be Arsenal and Utd challenging for top honours again. Arsenal are about three things, History, Tradition and class and I for one would take that ahead of a short period of success anyday.
1.) 14 Aug 2014 20:40:26
Great post JK
07 Jan 2015 09:26:51
Don't hold your breath Derby looks like he's off to Manchester £30 Million and a huge contract
20 May 2015 09:11:45
I couldn't disagree more about the goalkeeping situation... I think ospina was extremely poor on Monacos third goal, Swanseas goal and I might be harsh but if De gea was in our goal he would of saved Herrera's shot at the weekend.
How many points had De gea saved Utd or Courtois saved Chelsea this year. The defence has been Solid since Jan. I don't remember at any stage this year that ospina saved us a single point. I think its the position we need most
26 Feb 2015 10:11:46
While there is a lot of sense to what your saying DG. i'm afraid prior to the last 18 months we financially could not compete so if we are going to be realistic we can only judge Wenger on his exploits for the last 18 months. This is not championship manger to build a side to challenge on all fronts takes longer than 18 months to build.
I Firmly believe he has his targets in mind for the summer and top DM and ST are two of them.
Only thing I can blame him for is not sorting out the GK situation after Lehmann left.
VDG- While I agree your view is the most realistic as were not playing football manager or Fifa. Everything you have stated is exactly what Mr Wenger himself thinks but there lies the Problem.
The top top Mangers are ruthless if you aren't up to scratch your gone. you surly can't feel sorry for professional footballers its the name of the game. its not as if their on minimum wage and with family's to feed and bills to pay. Most of them earn ridiculous money per week. So I don't think ill shed a tear for them if they have to uproot their familys.
Ferguson, Mourinho would not have players playing at 70% week in week out and let them get away with it. That's where the winning mentality comes from, at Arsenal when you lose a game there is no major panic sure there will always be next week or the week after.
If I went into my job and decided i'd slack off and my boss thought it was fine then i'd keep slacking off. its the same model at arsenal. the managers not responsible for results, neither or the player and neither is the board.
Until the players and Manager are made responsible for results nothing will change at Arsenal.
Point is if the players aren't good enough for the club their not good enough. As a huge arsenal fan like everyone else on this page we aspire to win major honours and with Monreal, flamini, and arteta in our side that just won't happen. if you want to be successful in this day and age in football you have to be ruthless and put the club ahead of everyone else. Real Madrid is an extreme take the di maria saga for instance but one thing is for sure there successful I know we can't compete with real with wage and fees be we must be as ruthless with under preforming players
Have to agree with Robbie and G62. If Arteta and Flamini signed for Hull in the morning they would be 4th and 5th choice midfielders as I would have Livermore, huddlestone and diame ahead of them. The fact that arteta is important for a team that is supposed to be challenging at the top of the division and would not be for a team that is in the relegation zone is exactly where the problem lies. I don't think either of them would come close to getting into chelseas or citys squad never mind being a the heart of there team. Matic was suspended for Chelsea last week and they recorded there first defeat of the season I just goes to show how important a player he is for them and what more how important a position it is in any team. Mourinho has realised this and Wenger hasnt
Winston Reed anyone? Sam said he won't be leaving for less than 20 Million but his contract is up in the Summer and that decision would be taken out of his hands. Quality IMO