Manchester United officially completed their third signing of the summer yesterday by hiring the services of Nemanja Matic from
PL champions Chelsea.
For anyone still wondering about the relative competitiveness of the PL and La Liga, Chelsea (
PL champions 2014 - 15) has a squad valuation approximately 15.5 times that of Burnley (bottom placed team 2014 - 15).
In that time — 2
PL champions, 3 FA cups, in the last 16 of CL every year (3 times quarterfinal, 1 SF, one final).
Top players would have been reassured about arsenals ambition and we probably would be
PL champions now.
This would have shown ambition to the likes of sanchez and ozil, plus we would probably now be
PL champions.
If you think about it, we won most of the Community Shields against
the PL Champions.
Probably a whole host of reasons why we failed to beat
the PL champions who have lost just 2 of their 50 + games this season.
For your information frustrated gunner Diaby was unlucky with his injuries if he wasn't so injury prone he would have been a better player than either granit or Ramsey, if you ever saw him play or the few times he did he was vieraesque, hope I'm allowed to make up my own word, but injuries destroyed his career so to me you are just someone who is clueless about football... to all you guys asking for dm and Maherz basically you are saying we need to spend another 85 mil min to get those two, we also need to swich to four at the back, ok yeah let's regress we found that 3 at the back Suits our team we have been more solid defensively but no let's revert to the old system that hasn't won us anything major in a decade even tough we won a trophy beating
the pl champions with the new system, a system that Many top teams are using for your information!!
So basically, despite an offside goal, two deflected goals, and a goal because of a sunday league mistake from an Everton player just subbed in we should praise Chelsea as if they had won 5 - 0, in fact, lets give them an extra three points on top of the 3 points for a win and declare
them PL champions without even playing any more matches.
Win two pub teams Draw Bayern (who got beaten 4 - 0 by a team who has bought 10 new players) Beaten by
the PL champions (and we started 9first team players)
We would probably now be
PL champions (ok that is with hindsight) and now we would have players settled in and possibly not five points behind manu, manc and chelsea.
We would probably now be
PL champions, wenger could have retired on a high note, like fergie.
Here is up to date recent evidence that «30 goal +» strikers are not the essential component for
PL champions.
Thats the difference between
PL champions and fourth place champions City: aguero, dzeko, jovetic Utd: falcao, rooney, Rvp Chelsea: costa, remy, drogba Us: sano - good, giroud, welbeck Let alone the rest of the positions
Surely any eventual
PL champions have a handful of games where they dominate early, score early and win big.
See what worries me is that Leicester is showing signs or a certain characteristic that
PL Champions show.
This will be nearly halfway through next season and then it wiil probably take the rest of the season for him to find his form which won't help Arsenal in our bid to be
PL champions as instructed by Kroenke.
Despite our recent upturn in fortune, Merson can see us being trampled on by
PL champions Chelsea, who he claims could be Champions League contenders this term.
We are literally two to three signings away from being
PL champions.
Wenger doesn't like to think big (ie
PL champions or winning Champions League) any more.
Bournemouth have won only three matches since we beat them at the end of November, although two of those came against last year's
PL champions Leicester City and a high - flying Liverpool side.
Kante has made Chelsea
PL champions Kante helped make Leicester
PL champions Matic helped make Chelsea champions Toure and Kompany helped make City
PL champions
Look at the strikers of winning
PL Champions in last couple of decades: Vardy or Kane Costa Aguero Drogba RVP Tevez Van NestleRoy Berbatov Ronaldo Anelka Henry Bergkamp
He won trophies with guys like Henry, Bergkamp, Ian Wright All the PL winning teams had very good to great strikers ie Vardy, Costa, Aguero, RVP, Rooney, Ronaldo, Drogba, Tevez, Van Nistleroy, Henry, Bergkamp, Ian Wright All these strikers have scored over 20 goals in a season Very rarely do
PL Champions have a striker who scores less than 20 goals and mostly score in the mid 20's Wenger doesn't understand this and wants to believe its not necessary or He probably believes Giroud is WC Top teams usually have a backup of Giroud's quality Look at Spurs.
That is not the only tough match for our rivals this week however, with the last two teams to be crowned
PL champions taking on each other also.
There could be hope that this is a negotiating tactic in an attempt to maximise his profit from the saga, be it with a bigger contract with
the PL champions or with Arsenal, but either way, it is a huge response to the current speculation.
Chelsea will now have a relatively easy FA Cup tie with Peterborough before travelling to face
PL champions Leicester in the league, and that match will be no walk in the park.
It would have shown our top players that we were serious about winning, thus helping the new contract negotiations, and perhaps we might now be
PL Champions.
It would be nice to win against
the PL champions but this one game would not make up for the past season and the lack of progress or the continued slide down the hill.
Penny pinching Leister play like
PL champion.
Had we got this top form one month earlier, we would have become
PL champion and would have beaten Monaco easily.
May be some miracle happens and we win but on paper for me City will be
PL champion.
I remember SAF in an interview saying that he believed that typically as
PL champion you can't afford to lose more than 5 games.
If you want to be
PL champion you better be willing to make life hell for your opponent every game.
Hmmmm indeed our tactics of playing is an old one @ now adays possession is useless when you loose the game @ as well our top players like that of Ozil and Sanchez really participate beyond the expectation compared with what Verdy and Mahrez did in helping their team to be
the PL champion
I compared him to Matic (NM)(the «beast» so envied by many), Fernandinho (F)(
the PL champion's engine room), Schneiderlin (MS)(probably the Arsenal fans most coveted option) and Lucas (LL)(the invisible man behind Liverpool's good season).
Mahrez was snapped and posted on Twitter in the hotel, while Conte was snapped sitting waiting for
the PL champion to sit down.
one thing is sure, if current form cont for all teams then City will be
PL champion.
Chelsea, Leicester last year showed that to be
pl champion you hve to beat the big boys.
I'd also like to know Chelsea's so that I can get a rough idea of what
a PL champion home record is
Not exact matches
Sorry, I'm not trying to be pessimistic but the honest truth is Arsenal haven't won the
PL in 14 seasons and never won the
Champions League.
Must admit getting bored with this «beast» CDM obsession — if we get Godzilla sitting in front of our back 4 we are suddenly nailed on
PL / UCL
champions.
Even if was boring (boring, boring Arsenal / 1 nil to the arsenal) I could handle it if it brought back the
PL and won us our 1st ever
Champions League.
So we are good to go, 38
PL games plus long runs in league cup, FA Cup and
Champions League.
Fact 2: The winner gets to go automatically
Champions League regardless of how we finish in the
PL
You can't win
PL without one (previous
champions had Costa (2015), Aguero, RVP, Tevez, Van Nistleroy, Drogba, Henry, Bergkamp) 2.
As far as am concerned, they are 3
PL trophies,
Champions League final and two
Champions League semi finals away from us counting from 1992
He has won 7 FA Cups, 2
PLs and qualified for
Champions League for about 20 years in a row.
Or maybe they want to win important trophies like the
PL or even
Champions League?