Sentences with phrase «teams above arsenal»

Just to chip in a little, look at the table and look at the teams above arsenal and you will see the reason, from chelsea to man utd; they all have new managers and a change.

There are about five teams above Arsenal in the world with spending power to lure a Sanchez, and Man U is at the top.

Merson is not my cup of tea but he is entitled to his opinion in our free society.As usual however, he tends to over react and in the case of Bellerin, despite having a mixed season, he would most certainly attract interest from teams above Arsenal in the EPL and from abroad from the likes of Real Madrid, Barca, Athletico and Juventus who are all in the market for a right back.Merson, it has to be said is correct with regard to our goalkeepers and centre backs who have little in the way of resale value.

Not exact matches

With that being said, Arsenal have a match against the single team above us, Chelsea.

United are sixth in the table and a positive result against third - placed Arsenal would naturally put pressure on the other teams above the Reds, with Tottenham Hotspur (West Ham away), Manchester City (Crystal Palace away) and leaders Liverpool (Southampton away) all in action later in the day.

goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?

Can't blame him but change that, a new coach wont work, Henry is perfect option, he has nothing to do with Belgium Team but Arsenal who needs him... Or we finish above 10 place.

Many names are being mentioned to replace Mr Wenger, but Arsenal needs a good team of Ex Arsenal players mentioned above who could formed of a great Arsenal team for the future.

The last time I looked Arsenal are at the bottom of the completed transfer list with just an embarrassing 1, even the next team above us have 4 signings, which along is embarrassing.

I'll go a step further if Van Djik hasn't signed for Liverpool I would try to make a move and here is why: 1) Prem experience 2) Southampton plays a similar style of football than Arsenal 3) He can play in both a 3 and 4 man defense with his ability on the ball 4) Mustafi has been up and down and I don't know which one we're getting ahead of next season and will it be for 38 weeks 5) Mertesacker will go into a non playing role 6) Chambers has played well at Boro but well enough to play a big role into this team... not really and could be used in any deal for Van Djik 7) Koscielny is our best defenders but is dealing with a chronic injury not only that he hasn't made the best decisions at times Everything mentioned above will free wages but also increase Wenger money to spend!

In addition, Mhky might not be on the same level with Sanshit... but he is well above all the wing forwards we have in the team at the moment (including Ozil whenever he is deployed on the wing), just imagine an attack line of Laca, Auba and Mhky with Ozil providing all the assists, you can bet you luch that Arsenal will be a handfull for any team to handle and less predictable with fresher options coming off the bench to maintain the pressure (Iwobi, Welbeck and co).

Arsenal probably will not win out, but none of the team above them will either.

But I guess Pires here thinks that Arsenal trailing the teams above them by so many points is something we should be encouraged by and proud of.

Arsenal travelled to Bournemouth today to face a team that was hovering above the relegation zone and hadn't won for ten games, but then again Arsenal hadn't won any of their last five either and they had an awful away record.

Until we played Crystal Palace this weekend, Arsenal had gone on a five - game run without a win that had seen us drop away from the Top Four contention, so now it is imperative that we start winning again and start putting pressure on the teams above us in the table.

Arsenal are some way behind the the three teams above us in the table with our goal tally and that is while having the best creative player in the division in our side creating chances galore.

As all the teams above them have been more consistent and it could be a disaster for Arsenal if they don't make it and not play In the Champions League next season as it will have a massive impact on Transfers come the summer as we have all seen how those top players looking to move teams will only go to another team playing Champions League football.

Unless Arsenal can pull off a miraculously great end of season winning streak while the teams above us choke, it will be an interesting summer window as Wenger will only have one more year to win a major trophy before disgracing himself any further.

With the team just above the relegation zone, the last thing Pompey need is another player considering his future, but Kranjcar, who has been linked with Arsenal and Monaco, insists he would walk away from Fratton Park if a bigger club came in for him.

The Scot suggested that Arsenal are being left behind by the likes of his former team, Chelsea, the Manchester clubs and our north London rivals Tottenham, so perhaps Wenger should use this to make sure the Gunners go to Watford and prove Dalglish wrong by going back above Liverpool on Saturday evening.

Despite the fact that Arsenal go into the next round of games above his old club on points, Dalglish has claimed that we are the only one of the top six teams not to have improved.

If we had good team management then Arsenal could be finishing above those teams this season.

In addition to this he is a proven premiership player and would have easily fitted back into the Arsenal team and possibly at less cost than is proposed above.

Still, it looks like the club will stick with the former Malaga boss if he can keep the team in second place, where they currently sit one point above third - placed Arsenal.

Your response to our league positions is also a smokescreen.From your comments it seems that only the teams above us were vying for the title.When it comes to Arsenal, we were never in it.

Happy for the win...... but beating the top teams and finishing above 4th have always been my desires for Arsenal.....

All the players mentioned above would make Arsenal a better team.

Unfortunately over the last baron period the team's that have finished above the Arsenal ie 1st 2nd or 3rd have all had deeper pockets than the Arsenal.

Will Elneny break into the midfield of any of the teams currently sitting above Arsenal on the table.

If Wenger allows Burnley to finish above Arsenal it will go down as the single biggest mis - management of this club in our history bar none.Burnley are a small town club with limited expectations but it shows what Good Management with Tatical Nous can do.Not a single Burnley player would get anywhere near our SQUAD let alone team and yet we are looking over our shoulder as they continue to over perform.And exactly WHO is the so called novice manager?

Barca, that would be fantastic but it would mean the end of La Liga then Real would want to come then what's to stop Bayern and PSG, Juventus and so on that would be the start of the new super Ligue which top teams have been tring to do for so many years and Arsenal will be just above the relegation zone most seasons?

wenger managed teams knows how to crumble when it matters most, wont be surprised if chelsea at 16position after 8 games finishes above arsenal.

arsenal have scored 37 goals after 24 matches, the top 3 teams all score 44 or above... arsenal give away only 21 goals, top 3 give away average of 25, our problem is not mert, flamini... all the players we seem to hate, our defense is number 3 in the league, our problem is we can not score

Well, while Wenger has clearly decided that financial commonsense is obsolete in a League crazed by cash, perhaps he also hopes to destroy the one team which finished above Arsenal last season, and believes Leicester's striker can provide him with a bench - based Plan B.»

The above teams are the teams with a good chance of finishing in the top four this year, but you can't count out the likes of Arsenal and Tottenham, especially with the firing power they've got when it comes to attack - minded play.

Name me ONE team that would sack there manager after that???? Wenger is trying his hardest to get Arsenal to the top within his budget, and last season he finished above every other manager except Ranieri.

I get what you are saying but I just do nt see any coach who has actually watched Giroud note I said who's actually watched Giroud to pay above 20mill for him.Trust me when the time comes for him to go we ai nt gonna get a lot of cash.i also expect him to be going to a lesser team and not a top team.Trust me he's really lucky to be an Arsenal player as some of our playrrs here are.I don't want to mention names because my blood boils up when I even think of them in the team.There are so many players in this team I don't rate but hey I guess I got ta keep em to myself.Sadly Giroud is one of them.It's not like I hate or I refuse to see the light but it's just that my eyes are telling me he's average when I watch him.So if anything please blame my eyes.

If you think k it takes for Arsenal to beat big teams to lift the EPL then you need to land back on planet earth and start counting up points Arsenal lost to teams below them rather than above them and see where they would have been in the table.

And here are the advance weekend results for the 2 teams that are above and bellow Arsenal in the table, which will ease off some presure that are in the front and behind the Gunners.

Include the cost of building the new stadium and it is evident that overr this period the Arsenal have punched above their weight 3) There is a stong correlation 90 % between the size of the wage bill and success in terms of winning trophies (in 2011 Arsenal 5th) 4) Arsenal supporters expectations for their team and manager are far too high — the EPL is beyond their means at present.

The Boro team did rally a bit and scored a goal but then a terrible error from Victor Valdes gifted them a third which saw a very grateful Jose Mourinho and his Man United players claim all three points and go above Arsenal in the table.

Everton are actually level on points but the gap to West Brom of seven is not that big, so even though we have played two fewer games than both teams, I reckon that Ronald Koeman and Tony Pulis may just be harbouring ideas about finishing above Arsenal this year.

It is easy to mock what Wenger says about team spirit and consistency, especially Arsenal are a big club with big ambitions, but when a club like Bournemouth or Swansea punches above their weight and achieves great things because of that same spirit, we applaud them.

So Arsenal are still the side that he would prefer to win this tight race for the EPL trophy and although the England international midfielder is set to spend the whole season with the Cherries, at least, he will soon get the chance to help the Gunners in our attempt to catch and overhaul the teams above us in the table.

But that does not mean that Arsenal will win it, even if we finish above Mourinho's team.

When the old guard led by David Dein sold us the vision, we trusted them to make it happen, we voted with our wallets, Kroenke came in and stole, and is still stealing that dream from us with Wenger as a convenient scape goat while our commonwealth is being raided, the sad part is that the situation has seen the spuds steal the template of that dream, and so far so good for them, a bigger club would have implemented it faster though but still, they are on course and at this rate, while we watch after our coffers, a small pub team like the spuds will overtake us, for the first time in the Premier League era, they finished above us, a situation not conceivable previously, shows how much the institution Arsenal has deteriorated in recent times.

As the table for last season on physioroom.com shows, Arsenal topped the table with a whopping 1716 points and it is perhaps very telling that the three teams that finished above us fared much better.

It has come to this thanks to Wenger, missing out another above average player such as Giroud, we had hopes with Welbeck as he had a couple of good games, but don't forget he is a REJECT from MANURE and he was the best that Wenger could find the stingy POS brought ARSENAL to this a midlevel team....

If we are to judge teams» overall seasons based on the last two games, then Chelsea and Arsenal will be fighting to stay above 18th place this season.

Arsenal need to win to close the gap on the teams above us and a Mourinho bus parking job would not help, whereas with Lukaku he may well make it a more open game as they need a win themselves with Man City having a sizable gap that will probably get bigger if United drop points,