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This last
point should also be applied to the Ox but since he is only on 65k / p it is not unrealistic to fathom and expect
clubs like Liverpool and Chelsea coming in to try and persuade him to sign for them, promising him more playing
time as well as giving him his defined role.
That in turn has seen them fall to sixth place in the Premier League table, four
points adrift of the top four, and it's certainly giving Mauricio Pochettino something to think about for arguably the first
time in his tenure at the
club.
Whether we fall 8 or 9
points behind we are still the same old Arsenal and the energy around the
club will likely turn toxic again as a result of disappointing performances, growing questions about the future of Sanchez and Ozil, every
time they play poorly we will wonder if it is because they are disappointed Arsenal are not recognizing their contribution, and fans increasingly getting upset with Wenger.
Of course at the same
time unless the
club are willing to spend big on players who can win the big prizes then there is no
point in being in the competition in the first place.
Everyone
time I defend this
club (and having to do so against OUR OWN FANS is a completely different issue), one of the main
points people always use to criticise Arsenal with, is the utterly embarrassing manner in which our own «fans» constantly attack the players, manager and the board.
The England international has had a miserable
time at Old Trafford, getting a major injury in his second season at the
club and struggling from that
point on to win the trust of manager Jose Mourinho.
Failure shouldn't necessarily be blamed on transfers.It's part of the reason but is not the only reasons.Other
clubs which can't even buy like Arsenal have won very good trophies.Even at those
times we were in debt we had a good team capable of winning the EPL or winng some of the smaller trophies.But we just went on trophyless.Now we are almost debt free and we are promised glory but honestly we don't even have the hope of glory.The only thing that can save us is renewal of the mind of the manager and board.That will bring a positive change.It's only insanity to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.We have a lot to prove out there to the world because the greatness of Arsenal has really gone down in the face of the world.They only see us as a team with good football that's all.The world doubts us and we have a
point to prove.The values of a
club is as important as winning trophies.If not Arsenal wouldn't have been this top
club that people talk about everyday were it fpr only values or trophies.They go hand in hand.However, to the world trophies are very important and that fact can not be hidden.
As it has done so many
times, Arsenal's season is reaches breaking
point as the
club approaches Christmas.
However, Shaqiri has failed to establish himself in the team under Roberto Mancini at the San Siro and is expected to call
time on his stint in Italy at some
point this summer as he has been in talks with several
clubs including Stoke City.
Inter currently sit in ninth place in Serie A, 23
points behind league leaders Juventus, and despite Mancini returning to the
club in November, he has failed to inspire much of a transformation at San Siro, but the former Manchester City man believes that he needs a bit of
time to mould the team to title - challenging quality.
The Blues have met German
clubs 12
times in the Champion League: the Londoners have won six
times, losing four
times and sharing the
points twice.
These young guns will only get a chance to prove themselves at top level if and only if arsenal make massive signings that will give us a major trophy... if we are for example leading the league in like seven
points in February, then we can afford to give them some minutes on field but they wont get game
time on the current team cz the manager realizes that the
club needs trophies and hez running out of
time so i even doubt he will use them in capital one cup... Good luck boys
Walcott's
time at the
club has been very inconsistent and so poor have been some of Walcott's campaigns, he has left many frustrated to the
point where he has been dropped from both the Arsenal and England squads.
nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in
time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that
point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this
club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer
club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved
club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow
we were awful for 60 mins and fortunate to be just one down and the good... we took a
point from being decent for 30 mins all but securing third place... As for realism it's simple... There is no way a real arsenal fan could watch that performance and be confident that we will be challenging for title in 12 months
time... So if that is what we want the realist fan asks what needs to change... and if we rule out the first best option... which as a realist I do... to get rid of wenger... then in our second best world it's a matter of where we need to strengthen... Sadly at the
point realism breaks down because in the absence of first best option we are in the fantasy world of the cheese eating surrender monkey where 11 yr olds are zee future of zee
club
At the same
time that we are hearing from the Arsenal and Spain star Santi Cazorla some hints that he might be going back to Spain's La Liga to play for his former
club Villarreal at some
point, there are the reports that the Gunners have not yet managed to persuade our two best players to sign extensions to their current contracts.
If we are still abusive between now and the end of his
time here (a matter of weeks now) then my
point regarding the
club having acquired a lot of classless fans along the way stands.
Despite beating Arsenal 1 - 0 a few weeks ago, Fulham seem to be in all sorts of trouble, while Bolton are many people's tip to go down, although a 3 - 1 win at West Ham was deserved and
points to better
times ahead for the Lancashire
club.
I predict all twenty
clubs are separated by just 3
points at seasons end and I further predict I can get out of this straitjacket any
time I want to.
This form has seen them shoot into second place in the Premier league table just 2 -
points behind early leaders Chelsea and fans will be hoping that these big injury set - backs will not have too great of an effect on their
club's form as the season progresses and they will welcome back Flores when he returns from his suspension in several week's
time.
I think we are reaching a turning
point since the Emirates was build and I just hope that the
club, the board will make the correct decision this
time.
And because of the way things are decided if two
clubs are tied on
points, the task ahead of Arsenal is even more clear, to score goals and try to win by two or to win and score at least three
times.
If you have supported a professional football
club in England for any significant period of
time, then at some
point you're more than likely to have cheered and clapped a few, maybe more, of the following: racists, sexists, homophobes, bigots, petty criminals, bad husbands, bad fathers, adulterers, tax dodgers, wife - beaters, liars, people who don't close the tops of cereal boxes, Conservatives, and instances of any of the other shades and shapes of the evil that men do.
but on the
point wenger wants to watch what he says next
time or he will end up making himself and the
club looking silly.
His goals, his work rate his pressing when usually he is the only one doing it is amazing he deserves better than what this manager can give him, better than what this
club can give him at this
point In
time.
Some people might try to say that a
club with a squad as big as Arsenal have should be able to cope or that every side has it's own problems to deal with but I would
point to the relatively injury free seasons that last season's Premier League champions Leicester City were blessed with and the fact that the runaway leaders this
time have also had almost no injury issues to cope with.
They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly
pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a
club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a
club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this
time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....
Sorry neil, as people
pointed out no one will tolerate failure for this long especially when u consider arsenal were a big
club even before Wenger.wenger achieved things, so as a note of thanks fans gave him
time.but that
time got over some two years back and now he's jus like any other manager....
I do nt know why, we have a very small team compared to other bug
clubs of our caliber that alone can send a player off once he knows he's not going to play, our squad players mostly get
time to play during injury crisis... I could remember a
point in
time when we loaned Bendtner to Juventus, they already have four strikers then, in which minus Van Persie we have like half or no striker..
why was Sanchez truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this
club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting business ahead of fielding a team with the greatest chance to secure 3
points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been truly in it for quite some
time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this
club, on the outside looking in
Well... i say we should just take it one step / game at a
time and not get ahead of ourselves yet, all we have to do is focus on our own games and other
clubs, we need to keep winning matches and at our tough away matches where we can't win or play very well like the Man Utd game, i say we take a
point and we will see what happens at the end of the season, COYG
Giroud's fair evaluation at this
point, especially considering that he's wanted by several
clubs, is about 1.5
times that price.
its frustrating being a gunner every single period of the season including the transfer window... we want to b d best but our transfer situations begs to differ... how many tyms do we need to shout spend, spend, spend b4 dat happens???? wat is d
point of being in d «top 10 financially rich
clubs» list every year but don't spend like 1????? sure, we'll buy d odd 30m player but is it enough... dat stingy prof will always look for «value» for money spent but he has dat worked out for d past 12 years walcott - waste tbh chamberlain - waste chambers - so far, waste spending 15m five
times is 75m which could have been used to buy 2 top 30m signings....
In fact it's his constant willingness to move this transfer window that has made Aulas concede defeat in keeping him at Lyon.He seems to have his heart set on a move away this season than ever.I've also not heard another
club competing with Arsenal for his signature hence this is his likely destination.Aulas at this
point in
time would also want no stumbling block in the deal and would want everything done quickly after seeing how Laca wants to move.I'm 100 % sure Lacazette will be an Arsenal player.
The Player of the Year for the Stamford Bridge outfit has played a pivotal role in the
club sitting seven
points clear at the top of the table, and fans have been waiting for this news for some
time.
The big news from the current international break from an Arsenal
point of view involves our on - loan midfield star Jack Wilshere, who has been brought back into the fold by the temporary manager Gareth Southgate after getting some regular game
time with his current
club AFC Bournemouth.
Because this
club is in a right mess at the moment and I can't imagine anyone on the international level joining us at this
point in
time.
The
club has sunk to it's lowest
point in years and although deep inside I feel like it'll get worse, because we've been heading downhill for a long
time, I want to be positive this year and I'll start with a few good things that actually have happened.
But the fact of the matter is, players who don't want to stay will 9
times out of 10 be allowed to leave, as there is no
point in holding on to a player, who doesn't want to play for the
club.
He represents all that is wrong with the
club at this
point in
time.
Finally, and to reiterate an earlier
point, the way forward for this
club is to stop paying below average bench players so much money and to focus the bulk of the weekly wages on establishing a dominant starting 11... this will require the
club to eat some wages in order to ship some players out, get rid of any deadwood over the age of 21, develop a cutting edge scouting service and put your money where your mouth is for once... I would much rather have a starting 11 that was world - class and give some reasonably paid young blue - chippers playing
time when injuries occur than have 2 or 3 world class players surrounded by a plethora of overpaid and underwhelming players... management would no longer be able to sell their half - baked plans to the fans under the guise of «winning now», which any intelligent fan knows is a crap - shoot at best, and instead create a a squad that provides hope for the present and the future... this is exactly the model that has been used by Barcelona, Real & Bayern, so it should be good enough for us... by the way, until Messi & Ronaldo re-signed just recently all 3
clubs weekly wages were on par with ours... think about that for a second or two
Wenger has achieved a huge amount for the
club and although some of it was set prior to his arrival and some of it was an extension of his initial success the fact that winds up most of the anti wenger fans is that the
club IS spending money and IS trying to rebuild after a long
time in the wilderness, but when it comes to the spending on players its always the CHEAPER option in the most important area's Chips Keswick Boasted a # 100» 000 000 war chest during last summers closed season and stated that the
club could buy any player they wished (Apart from the worlds top players at that
point Messi) yet instead of spending the money in area's that needed drastic improvement Wenger opted for the cheaper replacements and spent just over half of the money allocated.
I absolutely appreciate everything that Arsene has done for the
club, but I would agree that at this
point, his inability to be flexible at key moments in
time — tactics prior to a game, tactics during a game, player rotation, substitutions in key area, accurate purchases at key areas, team selection, etc. — continues to hold us back.
he can never see past his big nose when it concerns arsenal, he is now at the
point of embarassing our great
club each
time he decides to open his dried up mouth.perhaps heis suffering from a loss of memory when he talks about other teams wasting
time, be gone with you wenger.
A «proper fan» is necessarily one that at every
point in
time must accept mediocrity as a standard and never worry about the swift pace at which his
club is deteriorating.
In turn, they'll need big improvements this
time round and Wenger believes that if they can add 10
points onto the 75 that they collected last year, Arsenal should be in the thick of a title race with competition as fierce as ever with several top
clubs all vying for top spot.
Nobody expects the team to go through the whole season without a small dip and yes we should be winning against the smaller
clubs time and
time again, however it's the same old story every season and it would be ignorant to assume Arsenal won't drop
points.
The one fact of the mighty empiricist in this article is that we were in 4 cup finals in the last 5 years and won 3 the rest of the piece is opinion about the unfair treatment of his supplier... another fact is that we were incapable of getting past the last 16 in the CL in that
time and another fact is that we were never at any
point serious contenders to win the EPL and another fact is that at the end of that cup run we dropped out of the top 4 and will now drop out of the top 5... Another fact is that for over a decade we haven't been competitive in the two races that define a top flight european
club even though the promise was that by building a shiny new stadium and charging the highest gate prices in world football we would... And a million and one other facts that
point to one thing WENGER OUT