£7.5 Million, already labelled a Flop so why did we bother…..

good post rico…..
certainly db10 was my favorite player and always will be……..

Silk and steel. The guy was a warrior, yes he was oone of the most skillful players to grace the English league but the guy could battle and roll up his sleeves. How many of the modern team can say that?

1 word. Legend.

Has anyone seen the recent clips of him scoring wonder goals on ajax open training sessions. Still making keepers look like idiots. He’s still got it!!

Still got my 9798 DB10 shirt. Cant see anyone else touching him as my fave all time Arsenal player

http://www.caughtoffside.com/2011/07/10/dennis-bergkamp-scores-wonder-goal-during-ajax-training-session-video/

Rico, spot on, if Ramsay hadn’t been shawcrossed I’m pretty sure he would be alot happier to let cesc go now. However Aaron has missed a year of his career. But I am convinced he will be BETTER than cesc.

Yes, Clichy seems to forget that his continuous mistakes were one of the contributing factors to the team’s lack of success. It is often the way with footballers who seem to have zero sense of collective responsibility. It’s surprising how a few quid turns people into loudmouthed idiots.

What time does jiminez tee off rico?

The sight of him doing his stretches with a fat Cuban cigar hanging out of his gob was pure comedy gold!!

Hello, Rocastle. Hey, Weeds. Howdy? How’s work? 🙂 You on your way to becoming a billionaire yet? 🙂

Howdy Agag, been a while…am getting there bu t at a snail pace. How have you been?

The only thing am worried about is Cesc won’t be replaced but agree we can manage even if its the hard way

Rico how are you, missed you guys big time 🙂

YOu are right there Rico, I just wonder how many chances he would have had if it had been Cesc and Rambo in the centre all season.

Great point re Jack Will, but you have to give it to Jack he really took advantage and Diaby is surely behind them all

If Frimpong takes advantage and Lansbury as well, I can see Diaby being frozen out which is a shame because he has all teh talent in the world, just not the brain.

I think the two things we need are:

A defensive coach, someone to teach them how to read the ball over the top and cover the deep runs.

A rocket up their arses and made to play a more dynamic game rather than the safe tippy tappy game. We need to get back to the fast counter attacking game we used to play.

Once had an DB 10 Jersey,then someone broke in to my house and stole it .If he was 22 today Barca and Madrid would be all over him saying he had Barca dna because he is dutch and know Cryuff,tossers.If 22 today he would be the first 100 mil player.

As for players leaving, i don’t know why everybody’s worrying, Cesc was always leaving, so no surprise there, Nasri if he wants to go let him as long as they pay the right amount.
We have Jack & Rambo, with Song or Frimpong behind, all we need is a more combative midfielder to help them, i reckon it we be Barton, he ticks the boxes, mentality and physically strong, and not a bad player to have on a cold Saturday away to the likes of Stoke etc, he’ll put in a shift unlike a lot of players we have that go missing.
He might be a thug, but i’ll rather have him, over a lot of other players were link too.
As for defence, i’m glad Clichy’s gone made too many mistakes, and had gone stale, as for him bad mouthing, someone should remind him he was part of that non-trophy winning team, plus he played the problem area defence, so he should shut up.

So, it’s time to upgrade the left column of the block, with Denilson, Eusebio cup, maybe Campbell from Saprissa of São José de la costa rica, Bendtner, Eboue…
I fear we are just plugging “holes” of players coming out. It is important to do it but what was needed was to improve the quality of the squad, making it most ambitious, strong and dynamic victory.
If Eboue comes out, we need another full back (better, if he could play right and left)

hi peeps, good read as usual….am away on hols so sporadic time on tinternet…will try and keep up!! 🙂

Fair enough but I guess his lack os class is suited for where he is going

Overmars came to us with his career almost over due to a dodgy knee, it didn’t get any better playing against the English defenders of teh time and he really didn’t set the world alight once he left.

To be honest, I would have Pires ahead of him every time.

Mike its all chaos at the moment, trying to be positive and the past kinda does that ;-)you

Ha ha ha ha please check the link that I wil post later and like the page 🙂 is he any good Rico

Just watching some youtube vids, I was reminded of the one player I wish Wenger has signed.

Who is that player Will

Try and guess Erick.

Wesley of inter

Will here in kenya pk is a chewing gum…end of thinking capacity(etc)

Enjoy your dinner Rico, off for the day Arsenal till I die..come on Arsenal

Those days goals use to come easy,now days goals seems to be a lot of hard work!

DB10 was not only talented, he has the right attitude. something that is missing more than talent in the current squad.

Dennis had fight, and could put the boot in if needed, over 11 years service there is a loyalty that isn’t shown these days. Clichy’s statement shows how shallow and deluded the modern player can be, to take no responsibility is nothing short of outragous.

David Dein was to prove the lynchpin upon whom Wenger would rely when he arrived at Highbury. ‘He is the best manager in Europe, as well as the most reliable,’ said Dein. ‘He transformed our club from top to bottom, even with training techniques and diet, which allowed our player to play longer. He made average players good, good players very good, and very good players great. Arsene Wenger also has his authenticity with players.’ ‘They operate as a mutually beneficial duo,’ Alex Flynn said.

Back in the summer of 1995, Dein had recruited Dennis Bergkamp from Inter Milan, the Dutchman costing a then record fee of £7.5 million and becoming the first major foreign star to switch to Highbury. Wenger, at Grampus Eight at the time, had been consulted over his recruitment. Dein and Hill-Wood had sought his advice and the Alsatian had agreed the striker ould be a good signing.

Having worked with Hoddle at Monaco and Stoijkovic in Nagoya, Wenger had learned not to be intimidated by top-quality footballers. His was not blind admiration for their talents or achievements. Rather, he expected them to bring with them all that they had learnt from their careers, but then to continue their education under him.

Yet, when Bergkamp witnessed the sacking of Rioch – who had nominally bought him to the club – and the appointment of Wenegr in his stead, he was initially doubtful. ‘At the beginning I was a bit confused,’ said Bergkamp. ‘I wondered what this meant for me. Arsenal, and Rioch, had bought me the previous summer, and I wondered whether I would fall out of favour with the new boss just as I had done at Inter previously.’ Yet Bergkamp respected the reputation of the man who took up the reins. ‘When I was playing with Ajax, we often compared ourselves to Monaco, in particular the way both teams deployed two strikers. I was up to date with his match philosophy.’

Bergkamp had real pedigree. When he and Wenger met for the first time, they found common ground on which to base their future relationship. ‘I had wanted to come to England, I had always wanted it,’ he said. ‘For me, for a long time, the English supports – from all clubs – have been the best in the world. They sing, each player has his own song, it’s unique.’

‘Here in England, we get the feeling that the fans suffer in silence with their team, but support them vocally,’ added Wenger. ‘That’s the dream, anyway. In other countries, in general, they support in silence and destroy with passion.’ This understanding and empathy with the British fans was one of the keys to explaining why Bergkamp and Wenger hit it off from the outset. They had common goals. The other link between them was born of how they liked the game to be played.

‘As soon as he arrived, I knew that his approach suited me,’ said Bergkamp. ‘The teams of Arsene Wenger play offensive football, aiming as a priority to exploit their strengths. This is perfect for me. I was asked why I had signed for Arsenal during my first season with the club. This, after all, was a team with a certain reputation and at whom opposing supporters would chant ‘boring, boring Arsenal’. They had a reputation for defensive football, for squeezing out 1-0 wins, but I knew that a new Arsenal was being born. At the end of a few weeks, a few months, I realized that it was a unique club. And after that, everything went well, thanks to the arrival of Wenger, of course, who was exactly the manager we needed at that time. Everything changed, and looks where it took us in the end.’

The pair went into battle side by side – one on the pitch, the other in the dressing room. Indeed, they seemed to feed off each other. ‘I was always like this, even at Ajax,’ said the Dutchman. ‘It is important to show that you can fight, for the supporters and the team. And here, in England, it is vital.’

‘You watch matches between Premier League teams, mainly made up of foreign players, who play real English football in terms of the rhythm of the game,’ sad Wenger. ‘That is to say that it is the public and the relationship on the pitch that motivates you.’

In keeping with that, Bergkamp was never afraid of using an elbow or going in with studs showing to play his part for the team, and was sent off numerous times as a result.

‘In my heart, I know what is really important for our sport: winning matches, claiming trophies,’ he said. ‘But it is normal for the public to support players with style and flair rather than those who only have to work at it.’

‘There is always a balance to be found between basic principles,’ added Wenger. ‘For me, football is above all a game with principles of organization but, at the same time, a certain freedom of expression. What attracted me to the game was the fact that players can express themselves. ‘

In his first training sessions with Bergkamp, Wenger insisted the striker work on his strong points – his artistic side – rather than spending time trying to improve areas of his game that were not really in his nature, such as tackling. ‘Working on technique is very important to me,’ said Bergkamp. ‘Arsene would tell me that his idea was to give me a certain liberty, almost a free role, rather than make me play within a rigid system.’ Wenger would later use the same theory to coax the best out of Thierry henry after he was signed in 1999, asking the forward to refine his sprint, his dribbles and shooting, and transform a player who had lost all confidence at Juventus into a world-class striker.

Not that Bergkamp and Wenger always saw eye to eye. Some four years after Wenger’s arrival. Just after Euro 2000, Bergkamp announced his retirement from international football to concentrate his time solely on the Gunners. ‘Yet, when I took this decision, Arsene warned me that he might not be playing me as often in the future,’ recalled Bergkamp. ‘I said to him: “Hang on a minute. I’ve just ended my international career to dedicate myself exclusively to my club, and you’re telling me I can’t play every match?” It was strange to say the least.’

Resentful, Bergkamp, already considered a veteran and with more than 30 goals under his belt for the club, was vocal in questioning his role as luxury substitute. Wenger dodged the complaint by merely doffing his cap to the Dutchman. ‘People say we have more than 27 million fans throughout the world,’ he said at the time. ‘If this is true, it is to a great extent thanks to Dennis, and if anyone symbolizes true team spirit in our game, it is him.’ Placated by this public show of support, Bergkamp remained a bastion of the club during its most successful spell in the modern era.

“Arsene Wenger – The Biography” by Xavier Rivoire (2007)

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With disloyal players and ex-players slamming Arsenal FC, they don’t make players like Dennis Bergkamp no more.

WHo in our 2011/12 team will be that lynchpin that Arsene Wenger is building his team to fill “Bergy’s Hole”?

WENGER OUT!