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19 Feb 2014 19:23:00
arsenal line up:
Szczesny; Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs; Flamini, Wilshere; Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ozil, Cazorla; Sanogo
interesting- I like it. (no pods though, disappointed with that)
02 Sep 2013 12:21:10
Ornstein and Cross now reporting Demba Ba on season long loan to arsenal.
Decent back up- when in form he looked great imo.
02 Sep 2013 12:18:58
John Cross reporting Ozil and Viviano agreed, with arsenal still in the market for more.
Lets hope for a good day (for once!) in the transfer market.
02 Sep 2013 12:14:50
David Ornstein: "Arsenal agree €50m (£42.5 mil) deal with Real Madrid for Ozil. Personal terms in place & medical in Germany today - but not signed yet."
Looks promising- but don't want to believe, quite yet.
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24 Aug 2014 17:25:10
I am not concerned.
It's called form, or lack of. Yes we could do with a few more additions (hopefully), but we're simply not firing on all cylinders yet.
Our form will improve and as long as we can keep the results going, I think we'll be fine.
Another thing, we've played 2 PL games. Where were after 2 games last season? And where did we end up or potentially could've ended up?
Lets see where things are 10 games from now.
1.) I think the big worry about yesterday was how we allowed an almost identical first half to last seasons at Goodison to be repeated, have we and Arsene in particular learned nothing from our big defeats away from home last season!
Obviously the big difference was our fight back which in the end was obviously brilliant to see.
But yesterday did cause concerns about a visiting the boot sale and etihad and Anfield again
2.) 24 Aug 2014 22:19:23
Problem is we have a much tougher run of fixtures than this time last season
We need form and we need it quick!
17 May 2014 15:16:52
If we lose today, I can see a tremendous backlash and I really think Wenger would go.
Not that anything is ever taking for granted, nor should it be, but just in the context of the last 9 years. I can see many fans seeing it as the last straw.
1.) Wenger won't be going anywhere what ever. We will win easy, its hull, we won't have any problems, I promise.
2.) Hmmm I hope you are correct Steve, bit too confident for my liking mate.
11 May 2014 14:48:26
We all know we need or would certainly like a top striker.
But who realistically, of the type of quality we want, is available?
Robert Lewandowski (no)
Jackson Martinez (possibly? Has the pace and skills, but is he proven?)
Edinson Cavani (unlikely imho- even IF he was available, I can't see us being able to compete for him)
Luis Suarez (lets be honest highly unlikely and if going anywhere probably RM)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (highly unlikely- big wages, etc. for a 31 yeard old)
Diego Costa (possible? Chelsea appear to be favourites, so unlikely imo)
Augereo (no chance)
Falcao (no chance)
Karim Benzema (possibly, especially if suarez joins RM)
Alvaro Morata (possible. Good talented young player-but 20-30 PL goals straightaway? perhaps)
Gonzalo Higuain (unlikely!?)
Edin Dzeko (good player, but what we need? unlikely anyway imho)
Mario Mandzukic (better that Giroud and has a little more pace as well. Scored 22 out of 40 apps last season and 13 out of 25 this season. Possible)
RVP (I don't think so)
Rooney (very unlikely)
Mario Balotelli (has the ability, but? It would be a punt imo, but possible?)
By my reckoning and my opinion, who's a realistic possibility: Jackson Martinez, Diego Costa (ish?), Benzema (perhaps?), Alvaro Morata, Mandzukic, Balotelli (maybe).
So that leaves players like: Lukaku (?), Carlos vela (improved a lot and had a good season), Benteke (hmm) Alfred Finnbogason (prolific striker in the Dutch league, could be worth a punt, but still unproven imho) and Remy (think he could be good for us).
I'm sure there are others I haven't mentioned, but we are demanding a quality striker, so.
I don't think we have a great deal of choice, in terms of the more proven strikers imo.
Unfortunately top quality strikers don't appear out of thin air. So who does AW try and sign?
1.) Ive heard benzema if off this summer
EDS
might cast some light on it
{Ed025's Note - karim looks likely to leave taff, press speculation is that madrid will try for suarez and use him as a makeweight in the deal, if that does not come to fruition, then i believe arsenal have a great chance of landing him mate..if they are willing to meet their valuation of course..
2.) I am always suspect of these player swap deals.
1) the player being traded wants to go there.
2) the valuation the clubs set on their players needs to be agreed on.
so if Suarez is valued at 85 mill then Madrid will say Benzema is worth 45 mill, while Liverpool may value him at 20 mill, so the likelyhood of any swap is much more difficult to any sale.
if I remember correctly, during last seasons bale transfer, Levy wanted a world record fee, and then he wanted to buy some madrid players for his valuation, do not remember which players but depending on the players desire to join spurs and the valuation it was difficult to make that jump to say the least.
28 Apr 2014 14:59:01
I know this isn't exactly news to us, but just looking at the points gained between all those in the top 5 of the league on "paper" doesn't make good reading.
arsenal 6 points
Chelsea 19 points
Everton 8 points
Liverpool 10 points
man city 10 points
Everton and man city have to play each other so depending on that result, lose, draw or win, they could potentially end up on : Everton 8, 9 or 11 and city 10, 11 or 13.
You have to hand to JM who knows how to get results against his rivals.
But we are poorest against our rivals, simple as that.
I know we have had some bad injuries, but even at full strength I am not convinced it would make that much difference?
We simply need a plan B or a better plan B. These teams are simply too strong where we can expect to dominate and play "our way" against them. We cannot get with that anymore like 10 years ago, too many teams have improved and/or are "subsidised" now.
Just imagine another win and couple of draws?(taking points off our rivals of course, as well as adding to ours) We would be right up there in the mix.
So Wenger- either you have to change and add more robust/thoughtful tactics against our rivals or put together a fantastic team- which will cost money.
Either way Wenger has to change *something* for us to win the PL title again imho.
1.) Depth has been an issue, but at the same time timing of injuries has been our downfall.
Walcott, Ramsey, Wilshere our main players have barely played this season, neither have they played long enough to build team chemistry.
while I do agree that some of it has been our own doing in how we setup for games, we have not added the necessary players to challenge the big teams.
Giroud being our only striker, while Eto, torres, ba are chelsea's who are second in the league.
we are two wins worse at the moment, so its not like its such a disaster of a season, its just winning the games that we should have won that has cost us.
Stoke and Villa at home come to mind.
Plan B is having a striker come off the bench to make an impact, not having a midfielder coming off the bench when the midfield is not the cause of the problem.
chelsea needed a goal against athletico who did they bring on?
Man city need a goal what do they do?
even liverpool this weekend they needed a goal, brought on sturridge and aspas.
Giroud as our only option has been the handicap, if we had even a josip drmic or a morata off the bench it would make a tremendous change.
think back when we had henry and rvp and bergkamp and how we had options in attack.
while poldi has shown recently, he is just not pacey enough to add to the frontline, neither is he a winger to supply a forward.
so once we effectively lost theo who created space by spreading the pitch effectively giving out creative players space to move, we lost the only plan B we had at the time.
i guess the summer will judge if we fix our issues or we sit back and add more midfielders not recognizing our own weakness.
2.) I have been trying to point this out to people for weeks, pleased youve backed it up. Eurika!
3.) People are blaming our injuries, our bad luck, our tea lady etc but if my memory serves me right we didn't beat any top four team at all last season. I think we only got 2 points from all the games. I wait to be shot down, I've got my helmet on.
4.) Steve r
What has last season got to do with it, we might as well through in a stat from Don Howe's time lol
5.) Banbury not a lot really just it seems to be a theme.
6.) Steve this year we beat liverpool
we drew with man city
we drew with chelsea
we beat everton
so that must be progress
on last year
7.) But we also got humiliated by Liverpool, smashed by City and Everton, and stuttered against Jose gang again
8.) I have to agree with Welsh, . Blimey that is rare lol :)
13 Apr 2014 12:36:00
In reply your post soopergooner.
Yeah unfortunately there are far too many fans like that these days at arsenal.
I am season ticket holder and yes there are some good fans, but many like you describe and it really P's a lot of us off.
No one is beyond reproach or criticism and I agree that AW time is up and significant changes are needed at our club.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it's the level of total disrespect, unrealistic expectations and ignorance of our club that bothers a lot of us.
The biggest irony is that many of these "fans" only become fans of arsenal *because of wenger*, invincible's era, etc. in the first place and they are one's with loudest voices, biggest opinions and show a lack of respect.
A bunch of spoilt, glory hunters, with no arsenal class - good riddance to them, we don't want them at our club.
1.) There are without doubt some young fans who never knew Arsenal under Terry Neil or even George boring boring Arsenal era's so have been totally spoilt by Arsene's style of play.
But we are lucky enough to have youngsters like our very own Saint Arsenal poster who is 17 yrs old who appreciate the club above just winning things.
I will get stick for this I'm sure but I'd rather finish 2nd under Arsene than top under George.
I want to compete with the best again and think that may well be beyond Arsene sadly but I don't want to go back to 1 shot 1 goal 1 0 to the Arsenal days ever again
2.) As a relatively newcomer to Arsenal compared to some I know - I only saw my first match in 1971 - I remain gobsmacked by what Wenger has done within the history of the club - he transformed the modern Arsenal completely. Legend isn't a big enough word. After 20 years the world has moved on, and perhaps we should do so too, but with grace and gratitude.
I see where you are coming from LG1, but every Arsenal fan has a legitimate voice borne of their experiences. At some point they'll be the old fogey like me or moved on to some other immediate gratification. Or as one American mate of mine says. "Kids, eh?! Whatayagonna do with them?" -:)
For the record, I'd like to see Wenger stay, but not as manager. But If he re-signs rather than resigns -:) I'd still be extremely pleased - he's a marvel in the game.
3.) Like yyc, I have been going to Arsenal since 1971.
Have seen the dark dark days under the likes on Don Howe, Terry Neill and the better times under George Graham and even Bruce Rioch.
Watching players like Richie Powling, David Hillier, Gus Caesar, Pal Lydersen, (the list is endless), but you have to endure the bad times to enjoy the good times.
Remember boys, the kids (supporters) of today are the future of Arsenal Football Club.
4.) Well said Dags. Sometimes kids just need to experience that downs for the first time to appreciate the good times. Life experience and all that.
5.) ALL my family are chelsea fans, me and my older bro saw (my) first match arsenal vs chelsea like 20 odd years ago, arsenal won. 'any team that's better than the team mum and dad support must be awesome!'
call me a glory hunter all you want, ill call you a big mouthed bully and be done with it.
too many loudmouthed fans isn't the individuals fault, maybe more reasonable prices and youd get a whole section of the emirates full of familys instead of the expensive plumber with a colourful vocabulary.
perhaps we should all support spurs for fear of being called a glory hunter as we all know they'll never win anything.
{Ed025's Note - dont even joke about supporting spurs mate, you dont want to become one of the living dead!.. :)
That's very cryptic ed lol Wire are you sure not reading too much into ed's words? But, I guess it is a glue.
I just can't see us signing Falco. Surely not.
Yeah Ed, I am sympathetic to the Southampton fans, must be a nightmare for them. But it's football now, money talks the loudest.
16 Jul 2014 13:59:40
Not according to the 'Chelsea ed', answering a Q about Khedira:
"Ed018's Note - I was told no a few days ago, I'm not sure if that has changed".
But it seems you have a better source (?).
Anyhow, I think both players would add something to our team and perhaps what we've been lacking. So I would be happy with either or morgan schneiderlin for that matter.
12 Jun 2014 16:35:42
personally I don't care where an EX-arsenal player goes.
I'm more interested in the players we do have and who we might sign this summer.
I agree Gunner1 and the difference now is that we don't need to sell anymore. I can see Klopp seeing arsenal as a new challenge and where he has money to spend, etc.
Absolutely true. Generally in the wenger era when we've been at our best, we've had a petit, Vieira or Gilberto in the team- we haven't had a player like one of those 3 for sometime imo.
So I really hope we'll get a player of that elk these week, please :)
Agreed. Di Maria is a great player, but you're right, not a huge difference between the two, so comparatively you could say it was a bargain.
Very easy- Dennis Bergkamp :)
I know what you mean- he would be a great signing for us - which just increases the anxiety that it won't happen.
But hey it's looking good and let's just keep our fingers crossed.
17 Jun 2014 13:38:44
Good post mate. Sensible and realistic.