The Serb overlapped Pedro down the right - hand side and fired home with a powerful drive to score what could be his last
ever goal for the club.
Both players were involved, with Begovic keeping a clean sheet and Ivanovic grabbing what could be his last
ever goal for the club.
The left - back has been the difference since his move to the Red's left wing and again put in a match - winning performance by providing an assist and scoring his first
ever goal for the club.
Not exact matches
Bottom line, if he is angered bench the players who were not good enough and play those who deserve some game time based on the Southampton game or on games where they had a positive impact: - Take Özil out and play Ox in the hole (he has to understand your the highest paid player of the
club, your given freedom like nobody else and your even seeking even more money with a new contract you can't play like that
ever and go AWOL)- Put Sanchez on the wing or up top but put Welbeck in (Walcott didn't track back near enough
for the Alsonso
goal)- Iwobi has been bright from the wing let him play there - Xhaka has to go back in the holding midfield role and I would take out Coquelin because he could've taken a foul on the hazard's
goal.
Brozovic has seven caps
for Croatia and one
goal, and has been
ever - present
for Dinamo Zagreb since joining the
club in 2012.
Mertz should never have been our captain in the first place... who has
ever heard of a team that makes 11th hour transfer buys (Arteta & Mertz) then seemingly places those same individuals into prominent leadership positions from the get - go... indicative of the problems that have permeated our clubhouse
for the better part of 7 years under the Kroenke & Wenger... what is wrong with the players chosen and / or the management style of Wenger that doesn't develop and / or encourage strong leadership from within... Mertz was the fine collecting lackey from year one... this is what happens when you don't get world - class players because many times they want to have a voice on and off the pitch and this can't happen when you play
for a fragile manager who has developed a coddling wage structure where everyone is rewarded
for simply wearing the shirt and participating in the process... not enough balance between performance and pay, combined with the obvious favoritism shown to some players regardless of their glaring lack of production... remember that Ramsey has played in positions that make no sense considering his skill - set (out wide) and has forced other players off the field or into equally unfamiliar positions with little or no justification (let's remember when you read articles about how Ramsey's
goals this upcoming season being the potential X-factor
for our success that this is the same individual who didn't score a
goal until the final week last season)... this of course is just one example of many... before I hear another word from Mertz I want this
club to address the fact that no former player of any real consequence has any important role in the management structure of this
club, yet several former Gunners have expressed serious interest in just such an endeavor (Henry, Viera, Adams, Bergkamp... just to name a few legends)... there is only one answer: an extremely insecure manager!!!
The deadly poacher has scored an astonishing 28
goals in 29 games
for his
club in Croatia, and Europe's
clubs are circling
ever closer.
He has scored many
goals for us, but he is inconsistent, hardly
ever score against top
clubs or in big moments, pulls out a
goal from nothing.
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i think this could officially be the start of the end
for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of
club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of
goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and
for some reason wenger has gone all kinky
for english players
for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating
ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay
for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract
for klopp
Tammy Abraham is currently the third highest scorer in the Championship with 19
goals, impressive stats
for a striker that previous to this season had only
ever made 2 first team appearances
for his parent
club Chelsea, racking up a combined on pitch time of 53 minutes.
The hat - trick was the fastest any player wearing the Everton shirt has
ever scored three
goals in an away game and the fourth quickest time
ever for the
club.
Before coming to Arsenal, I don't think Sanchez
ever ended the season as the highest
goal scorer in any
club he
ever played
for, not to mention the highest
goal scorer in the league!
Time
for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in
goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of
for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this
club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the
club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous
for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order
for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as
for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal
for a
club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money
for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul...
for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this
club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market
club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market
club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling»
club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid
for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up
for half the price he eventually went to Juve
for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness
for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it
ever really was...
After a spell of successive corners
for the home side, Leighton Baines whipped in
for 20 - year - old defender John Stones to rocket home with a bullet header
for his first
ever senior
goal for the
club.
The
ever - reliable French media outlet is claiming that Arsenal have tabled a
club record # 87 million offer
for Monaco striker Kylian Mbappe, who helped his
club win the Ligue 1 title with 16
goals and 8 assists.
The 30 - year - old is now on 526
goals for the Catalan giants — the most
ever scored by a single player
for a European
club, overtaking Gerd Muller's tally of 525
for Bayern Munich.
Ever since the big centre forward came to Arsenal fresh off the back of topping the scoring charts with 21 goals to help his club Montpellier to their first ever French Ligue 1 title, Olivier Giroud has been the target of scorn for some Arsenal f
Ever since the big centre forward came to Arsenal fresh off the back of topping the scoring charts with 21
goals to help his
club Montpellier to their first
ever French Ligue 1 title, Olivier Giroud has been the target of scorn for some Arsenal f
ever French Ligue 1 title, Olivier Giroud has been the target of scorn
for some Arsenal fans.
Probably the most dramatic
goal ever scored by a goalkeeper was Jimmy Glass's effort
for Carlisle United in May 1999 that saved the
club from the ignominy of non-league football.
For the first time in the Premier League two
clubs scored over 100
goals (Manchester City - 102 & Liverpool - 101) despite the divisional total slumping to a five year low; (1052 vs 942); Jose Mourinho lost his first EPL home game in 78 matches and that victory helped Sunderland to become only the second team
ever to survive the drop having been bottom at Christmas.
We saw the highest point total
ever at 62, with Payet netting 12
goals and creating a record number of chances
for the
club.
Despite scoring 14
goals for Girona in the Segunda Division last season - 14
goals which helped the Catalan
club secure an historic first
ever promotion to La Liga - Longo was not signed permanently at the end of the campaign, but his impressive performances in Spain's second tier nonetheless caught the eye of Tenerife and so they have taken him on
for this year.
He was a part of the first team
ever since and 430 appearances
for the
club and scored 211
goals for the
club.
The Uruguay international, his country's all - time top scorer, twice European top scorer with two different
clubs and top scorer in three different countries, the only player to break up Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo's eight - year stranglehold on the Pichichi award and the only striker other than them to
ever reach forty La Liga
goals, hasn't scored
for 459 minutes.
John Richards was one of our best
ever strikers during the 70's finishing his career with 194
goals for the
club.
We did our best to screw up our opportunity
for Champion's League football by letting Spurs finish ahead of us, before Fullop decided it would be hilarious to screw over his former
club and gift us some
goals in his only
ever league game
for West Brom.
As they enhanced their SkyClubs hard product through remodels around the world and reduced their free drink selection (soft product) and offer lower end well alcohol in lieu
for overpriced «SkyBar drinks» Delta is now asking
for (not) shockingly more money to access their
clubs — with the end
goal to increase their revenue and gouge frequent flyers more than
ever.