Perez, who was signed
by Arsenal last summer for # 17 million, has also made it clear that he wants now to return to Deportivo La Coruna, where he hopes that he can push for a place in Spain's World Cup squad.
The 29 - year - old's CV shows a chequered experience in finals, including the 2 - 1 defeat
by Arsenal last May.
Former England U21 star Carl Jenkinson was handed the number 25 kit
by Arsenal last term but did not play competitively for the club as he was farmed out on loan to West Ham.
Poor old Ronald Koeman took Everton into the Europa League positions last season, but after a summer when he had to sell his prolific striker Romelu Lukaku he failed to bring in a suitable replacement and the Dutchman was sacked after dropping into the relegation zone after being destroyed
by Arsenal last weekend.
It was a great win
by Arsenal last night, and a dominant display against Huddersfield was exactly what we needed ahead of our massive clash with Man United this weekend coming up.
17 of the 41 league goals (41 %) conceded
by Arsenal last season came in defeats away to the three sides that finished above them — at Manchester City (6 - 3), Liverpool (5 - 1) and Chelsea (6 - 0).
I must admit that I am getting a bit worried about the German international centre back signed
by Arsenal last summer, as Shkodran Mustafi seems at times to be going backwards in his development as a top class player.
The 23 - year - old right - back earned his first caps for Portugal this year, and is likely to be one of Lisbon's next big money exports along with holding midfielder William Caravlho — who was targeted
by Arsenal last summer.
The Hammers have won just two of their last ten Premier League games and will still be looking their wounds after being annihilated 5 - 1
by Arsenal last weekend.
Not exact matches
Just
last season we saw Leicester prove people wrong and for most of the campaign they were helped
by the lack of expectations, but can it work for
Arsenal as well?
Arsenal conceded 36 goals
last season, 1 more than Man United and Tottenham, hence
by your logic those teams also need to strengthen at the back, and have not done anything worth talking about so far.
Arsene Wenger has responded to the brilliant performance and hat - trick of the
Arsenal and England international speedster Theo Walcott against West Brom
last week
by giving him a place in the starting line up as the Gunners prepae for a second FA cup final at Wembley in the space of a year.
Even the fact that we have finished second
by only goal difference in the
last two seasons as well as losing to Bayern Munich on away goals a couple of years ago suggested that
Arsenal just could not get a break.
While a lot of
Arsenal fans may be feeling that Arsene Wenger and the players have missed a trick
by failing to win our away game at Bournemouth in order to capitalise on the very welcome defeat of the current Premier League leaders Chelsea
last night, I look at things a different way.
It turns out that the reason that Lukas Podolski was the only
Arsenal player in the Germany squad that was beaten
by Argentina 4 - 2 in a friendly repeat of the World Cup final, was that Mesut Ozil had picked up an injury in the Gunners» disappointing draw at Leicester City
last weekend.
Last season
Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense in the entire league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed
by the conceding 22 horrible goals against the teams in the top five, 20 of those on away games to those same top teams (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, and Everton).
As reported
by Sky Sports the new Watford manager Walter Mazzarri publicy roasted his complacent side after
last night's 2 - 1 reverse and with them having been well beaten
by Arsenal in both EPL matches
last season they are unlikely to be looking forward to facing us on Saturday.
Alexis, If you seriously think that, apart from the occasional exception,
Arsenal are either motivated
by Wenger or self motivated, then you have been ignoring not only the legendary soft underbelly we have had for about the
last decade, which is universal accepted as the awful truth throughout the Prem world,
by our ex-players, other top ex player pundits and virtually all our own fans too.
But Barca were away in both of these matches and the
last time they lost a match at home
by a scoreline enough to see
Arsenal stay in the UCL was back in May of 2013 when Bayern Munich beat them 3 - 0 on the way to their own treble.
AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (
by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the
last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT
ARSENAL
After a very poor start against Liverpool, followed up
by a draw against the Premier League Champions, the
last thing
Arsenal needed was another break for international games.
for someone who brags about watching
arsenal regularly, u do nt seem to have seen that ramsey had a reduced role
last season, was injured and even when fit was surprisingly benched
by wenger.
The Gunners were humiliated
last night
by London rivals Crystal Palace, who pummelled the
Arsenal 3 - 0 at Selhurst Park, leaving our side with a huge task ahead to try and reach the coveted top four slots.
Arsenal are the Premier League's form team, having won their
last seven games in all competitions, and everybody fancies them to be victorious again —
by a significant margin — when they host Middlesbrough on Saturday.
«Olivier Giroud was much - maligned
by Arsenal fans
last season and we were all calling for Wenger to buy a new top class striker»
We've already seen that
Arsenal won't and more importantly can't, buy their way out of trouble i.e Mertesacker, Podolski, Ozil (this is not an anti German thing
by the way) and should stop buying bigger teams cast offs or
last minute bargain buys.
After
last night's 5 - 1 loss Diego Simone was cut to 12/1 to be the next
Arsenal manager
by Skybet, however remains 25/1 with Paddy Power.
Arsenal fans will obviously hoping that this is where the coincidence ends as well, because the Gunners got off to the worst possible start
last year
by losing at home to Liverpool (and when you consider they pipped us to the final Champions League spot
by a single point that loss looks even worse).
After causing a shock
by beating
Arsenal in the
last round of the competition, AS Monaco now travel to Italy hoping to create another.
Chelsea got beaten 3 - 0
by Arsenal early
last season and still won the league.
Although it is often a criticism aimed at Arsene Wenger himself, if there's something Louis van Gaal can learn at the moment it is to mirror the approach
by the
Arsenal manager in his side's hugely impressive 2 - 0 win at Manchester City
last weekend.
I will always say it wit Arsene in charge
Arsenal will not win a major trophy.he is not cut out for that.he is happy wit making profits n balancing d book.after all that happened
last season he is not even moved d squad should hv been strengthen
by nw.but no.so hw do u take d tittle away from Chelsea, Man city and Utd.
Another excellent win for
Arsenal last night in Nottingham, and another four goal thriller, started
by another cracker from Xhaka!
The ex-Bolton youngster Rob Holding made his debut for
Arsenal last night against the MLS All - Stars, and he has been universally praised
by everyone who saw the game, despite his tender years and his unbelievably low transfer fee.
They were humbled 4 - 2
by Southampton
last week, and after they were meekly beaten
by Gareth Bales goal for Madrid, Paul Meron thinks that
Arsenal should have little problem on Sunday.He said: «If there's ever a chance for
Arsenal to win at the Etihad again, this is the game.
That left
Arsenal with the options of Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini, or at least that is what we thought until Wenger's post-match words
last night, reported
by Arsenal.com., when the boss revealed his plans to get Abou Diaby playing in that role.
In an interview with the German press reported
by Metro the
Arsenal captain and centre back declared that next year would be his
last as a player and that he will not be able to play regularly, so will Arsene Wenger just use him to give the other defenders like Mustafi, Koscielny and Holding a rest?
Van Gaal's side were outscored
by Chelsea, Man City and
Arsenal last season.
arsenal is not like Leicester, we can win league
by chance or miracle, when the
last time we won it it was in style, so talking about challenging for the league starts when the transfer window opens, you buy best players, it's going not only motivate supporters but also the players!
«I said it about
Arsenal last week but look at them Chelsea players walking now — it's an embarrassment,» Sky Sports pundit Neville is quoted
by the Metro.
Yet now, at this time, sitting a very lowly and pathetic and embarrassing SIXTH place in the Premiership, after getting knocked out of the FA Cup
by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to
Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than winning a Domestic Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of
last season to enter into this letter.
I believe tgere are 3 titke contenders this year Leicester, city and
arsenal About Leicester they are doing great but there football depends on counter attacking and few quick passes to reach the ball to mahrez or vardy i don't think they can impress anybody if they faced teams that park the bus like what the teams do with arsenal and also any injury for mahrez or vardy will ruin there season so i don't consider them a real challenge and in an open game we got the best out of them and beat them with 5 goals to 2 so calm down gooners About city they had very impressing start for the season then they were vety baf winning most games by pure luck or last minute goals and they could be beaten easily Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the games and the losses and draws were by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with city could have been easily 1
arsenal About Leicester they are doing great but there football depends on counter attacking and few quick passes to reach the ball to mahrez or vardy i don't think they can impress anybody if they faced teams that park the bus like what the teams do with
arsenal and also any injury for mahrez or vardy will ruin there season so i don't consider them a real challenge and in an open game we got the best out of them and beat them with 5 goals to 2 so calm down gooners About city they had very impressing start for the season then they were vety baf winning most games by pure luck or last minute goals and they could be beaten easily Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the games and the losses and draws were by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with city could have been easily 1
arsenal and also any injury for mahrez or vardy will ruin there season so i don't consider them a real challenge and in an open game we got the best out of them and beat them with 5 goals to 2 so calm down gooners About city they had very impressing start for the season then they were vety baf winning most games
by pure luck or
last minute goals and they could be beaten easily
Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the games and the losses and draws were by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with city could have been easily 1
Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the games and the losses and draws were
by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with city could have been easily 10 or 12
Arsenal published their accounts
last week on the official website and those accounts were a subject of a number of articles
by leading media houses in the UK.
Arsenal made up for
last weekends crazy loss to West Brom
by going all out to beat Dinamo Zagreb from the kickoff on Tuesday, and now that the Gunners have to score at least two goals in Athens in a fortnight Per Mertesacker believes that we just have to copy that template, and go all out for the win from the beginning of the game.
The midfielder was practically begging Wenger to sit down with him to discuss a new deal before Christmas, as promised
by the Boss, but
Arsenal didn't actually disclose their offer until
last month.
Arsenal only just missed out on the Top Four
last season
by one point after finishing very strongly and winning 8 of their
last ten matches, and then capping it off when they beat the Champions Chelsea in the FA Cup Final.
We also had a great boost
last night seeing Man United (and Alexis) get beaten
by Tottenham, and Chelsea's crazy 3 - 0 home defeat to Bournemouth, giving
Arsenal a chance to close the gap in the coming weeks.
Arsenal may have given their fans great hope for the future
by bringing in three top quality frontmen in Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan and Lacazette in the
last six months, but circumstances have conspired to turn it into a nightmare for Gunners fans.
Jack Wilshere's physical powers have been intensely tested in the
last few weeks as Arsene Wenger has picked the 25 year - old for every single
Arsenal game over the intense Xmas period, and he showed he was just as fit today as when he first played
by being as impressive as usual and even scoring his first goal in the Premier League for two and a half years.
Needless to say even an out of contract Mbappe
last summer could not be convinced
by Mr. Wenger to come to
Arsenal.