Good joke.
i'm sorry but where are your away fans when you play at home. you have some of the best away fans in the league probably on a par with us and liverpool but at home your fans are woeful at best, no one stands up etc. Why is this?
Some people same the same about ManU. It's well-known that football in England has become so commercial and expensive that home games are for the rich and the away games are where you'll see the real supporters.
The game showed how little depth Arsenal has. Traore could not play anywhere in any of the top 4 leagues. Jenkinson was decent going forward but very poor defensively. And Djorou...worst game he ever played. He was pretty good for them last season, I remember that from about midway through the season until the end they never lost in the league with him starting. I thought he was good enough to be Vermaelen's backup and he is a tall, strong CB, which Arsenal needs, but he can't play like that again if Arsenal wants to be in the top 4. I'm nervous about the CAM position as well. Is Ramsey really ready to step it up and replace Fabregas? I'm not so sure. He didn't look like it today.
More than anything Arsenal needs another DM, as I've been saying all along. This game proved it. What if none of their three (Song, Frimpong, Diaby) can play? They'll be absolutely screwed. ManU destroyed them through the middle because no one could win the ball there. If they get another DM, that frees up Wilshere to play as the CAM when Ramsey can't rather than sticking him at DM, where he doesn't belong. And it will free up Rosicky to play on the wing as a back-up for Walcott. AOC was nonexistent today and not ready for lots of Premiership minutes.
I'm now nervous about Arsenal's CB's as well. Djorou was just awful. And when Koscielny's hurt they need a technically gifted CB that can pass it out of the back well. I'm just not sure if Djorou, their tall and strong CB, can be a capable back-up for Vermaelen. Obviously they need another LB because Traore is **** and Gibbs is always injured.
Come on Arsene, please sign a DM and an LB. Sadly, I don't think they can get a CB. They definitely need a back-up for Koscielny, someone technically gifted. But they also have the problem of not strength and height back there as well. I don't think a player like Samba will work for them, as people are suggesting. A Vermaelen Samba partnership won't be able to pass the ball out of the back well enough, and a Djorou Samba partnership would be awful in that regard. Basically they need a CB that does both well enough for a top-level team, and there are few in the world that fit that description. Arsenal couldn't afford any of them, especially since they need to buy a DM and LB.
It's going to be awfully tough to stay in the top 4 this season. Arsenal has done very little wrong, but they simply can't compete with the spending of ManU, Chelsea, ManCity, and Liverpool. It's such a shame that a great club that does things the right way has to get punished for it. And that they get nothing but criticism as well.
Haha, he deleted it. I guess Arsenal's press officer didn't like that.JackWilshere Jack Wilshere
I heard all the Arsenal fans singing! You my friends are a ******* (excuse the language) inspiration to Arsenal Football club and i love you
Keep thy faith!!!!!
actually man u not so excellent but arsenal not defending at all!!! so bye~bye arsenal...not CL next season... and hope not regulated this season
actually man u not so excellent but arsenal not defending at all!!! so bye~bye arsenal...not CL next season... and hope not regulated this season
utterly disagree with this. And the notion that they are a poor club, they have the money, they always have had the money. Not necessarily be mega spenders, but enough to bring in a very high quality player each season, and they have a tonof money this window. Wenger is rightly criticised. Not even sure how you can say a club like United haven't done it the right way for one thing.
Arsenal have the money. Fact. Pick apart their quaterly results and you see this. Wenger has up to 80 million this window alone. He could have signed Jags/Cahill/Samba for 17million, Cissokho for 13 million, M'vila for 22million, and Mata for 18 million and covered their wages with the wage budget vacated by Nasri,Fabregas and Clichy. This was all achievable in July, instead the club chose not to "overpay" and haggled over the extra 4-5 million, and now it could cost them dearly in the long run
utterly disagree with this. And the notion that they are a poor club, they have the money, they always have had the money. Not necessarily be mega spenders, but enough to bring in a very high quality player each season, and they have a tonof money this window. Wenger is rightly criticised. Not even sure how you can say a club like United haven't done it the right way for one thing.
Arsenal have the money. Fact. Pick apart their quaterly results and you see this. Wenger has up to 80 million this window alone. He could have signed Jags/Cahill/Samba for 17million, Cissokho for 13 million, M'vila for 22million, and Mata for 18 million and covered their wages with the wage budget vacated by Nasri,Fabregas and Clichy. This was all achievable in July, instead the club chose not to "overpay" and haggled over the extra 4-5 million, and now it could cost them dearly in the long run
Cissokho, Cahill, Martin, and Park in. NOW.
Where did I say ManU did anything wrong? I just said Arsenal does things right. They spend within their means, which is how teams should operate. ManU is a much bigger club with a much bigger revenue stream. They can spend more than Arsenal. Chelsea and ManU simply live in fantasy land. Clubs should operate on a tight budget like Arsenal does. That's how they do in most leagues in the world and that's how they have for most of history. It's only in the past 10 years we've gotten these crazy transfer fees and out of control spending. When Arsenal has paid for the Emirates then they can go out and spend a decent amount of money. But they're not there yet. They're not nearly as wealthy as you think they are, they need to get themselves out of debt first. Just because others aren't
Sure Arsenal could go out and spend 80 million but it will only put them into debt which they don't want to do. I agree they should have done better with Mata but Chelsea simply would have matched Arsenal's bid and then given him much higher wages. Hopefully Wenger will get some players but they might not be able to afford it because no clubs will sell cheaply to Arsenal right now.
Oh and Merson's analysis wasn't good. It was overly sensationalist, for starters, saying it was the worst performance he'd ever seen (less than half the team were first teamers and they didn't even have a DM this game, they didn't have a chance to begin with, and when the score got bad they just gave up and then the score got worse). He criticized Wenger for his tactics and talked about the need for a Plan B but he didn't even specify what that meant...it's really become a talking point that no one has to back up. He also talked at half time about Arsenal playing too high a line but none of the goals were for that reason. The first goal was simply **** defending. The second was a stroke of brilliance by Ashley Young after an embarassing clearance by Traore (and the defense was defending deep at that point). The final goal before the half was from a free kick. I mean they were playing down and tried to play offensively, it's not like they'd sit with 10 men behind the ball after being down by two goals (which is what many teams do and why lower teams don't lose as badly, a part of his argument).
The pundits are annoying really and they just love picking on Wenger. He isn't perfect tactically and his only real flaw is valuing the long-term health of the club over short-term results too much...how is that such a bad thing in today's world of football????