Morning Gooners,
Today’s gossip page first.
Arsenal are understood to have made tentative contact over a possible deal for Derby’s 17 year old midfielder, Will Hughes and has already received a glowing report from chief scout Steve Rowley! Hughes is set to play for England under 21’s this evening in a friendly against Northern Ireland.
Also on show this week will be Wilfried Zaha. He’s been called up for England and should be involved for England in a friendly against Sweden. Unless a deal has already been done, we won’t be signing him after Palace valued their played at £20 Million!! Pfff
Onto today’s post:
With Christmas just round the corner, it’s made me think of those little glass things filled with water, you know what I mean – they have a nice Christmas scene inside and when you shake them a snow storm begins. It’s lovely to watch.
Wenger talks as if we are not watching the team play. He talks rubbish. Before we play he tells us how well the players have trained, how hard they have worked and its only a matter of time that Arsenals talent’s will raise its head and start to perform to the standards we would all like to see.
Well I for one am struggling to find a good word to say about our team, realistically, I struggle to say a good word in favour of the club right now and I feel like we are being robbed blind by high-priced tickets to watch such poor performances.
No pressure seems to be on Wenger to get results and I wonder at times why qualifying for Champions League is so important when we all realise that we will never win it. Lets face it we can hardly get a result against some of the average sides in the Premier League, so I don’t know why we expect us to beat top sides from other leagues around Europe.
Regardless of what fixture we are playing, I would field the strongest side available if I was Wenger as our supporters deserve nothing less. Our travelling fans are magnificent, they turn up in all weathers, sing their hearts out and spend whatever it costs to watch the team of they love. I have noticed that the travelling fans are on the increase and I suspect a lot of them do not bother with the home games, after all, why give money to a club who will not invest in a better squad?
Whatever we are playing for, the players have to battle from beginning to end and 100% is the level of commitment needed. If players need a rest then get enough goals in a game first and then they can get it by being subbed and if that doesn’t materialise then tough, players have to give their all until the game is over. Then they rest.
Make those loyal fans in attendance glad to have turned up to support the club and let them go home knowing that every player gave their all. !
For £40,000 a week, I would work my socks off and then go home to rest.
Our players have no excuse to be as bad as they are right now, they have fantastic facilities, they are well paid and with a bit more effort they could all play for their country. But the most important thing is to be as good as you can be for your club first and if you cannot make a commitment like that then maybe they should go home now and stay there!
Supporters have hearts, they watch a player and as long as they give their all they will speak well of them, give up and they will have them down as a quitter and they will never forget that.
This weekend we host our most bitter of rivals and it’s no time to be thinking about having a bad game. Players can become heroes or villains very easily during this fixture. If our lot can’t get themselves up for this one, supporters will call for heads to roll as losing to arch rivals is a big no no!
Whether players are a seasoned pro or a newcomer, they lose this one and they will definitely not be forgotten!
No glass vessel will save them……
Written by Steve Palmer
Good morning all,
Wow Steve, you really are bitter aren’t you? No christmas spirit there.
Why does wenger make it a habit to lie… His recent comments have been worse than the shambolic performance we put up week in week out. It is like being in a torture chamber for us LOYAL fans. Anyway am glad to be back on HH after a long holiday.
Were are my manners??? Good morning all and nice post sir.
Moaning all… not too much fun being an Arsenal supporter of late! AW has January window to purchase the players needed, will the stubborn one do it?
Morning all.
JW, if Steve is bitter as you say, that doesn’t make him wrong. In fact I agree with most of that post and quite frankly I don’t feel particularly warmly towards the people running the show either. You can ‘t help how you feel.
Morning JW & JWJeff, Sorry to sound down mates but with the filth coming up we need a performance Spuds can play some nice football but i would hate to be on the end of a spuds supporters jibes come the eekend, We had what i thought would be a good outfit this season but what with our new ways defending and players in strange positions injuries for the same few and players ho have taken a long time to come back from long term injuries, Players not knowing whether they want to stay or go and watching some of our stars leave after just a short time of playing well has just built up on me a bit. seeing Van Persie score for fun with that mob up north has not helped but we’ll get there just not as quick as i’de hoped thats all.
Good morning all…
I can feel your pain Sir Steve in this post but I have to disagree on a few of your comments particularly field the strongest side available for each match. Apart from that I agree things are not going well but we have to make sure we do not go over board. 😉
Morning Ginger, Maybe your right bruv but it gets a bit heavy watching us give 2 goal leads up i have watched some very poor matches this season and when i look at the talent we have find it hard to take. I know that we have not started that well but we normally claw back in the second part of the season but i was just hoping for that little bit more effort thats all
Bendtnersgone,
I didn’t say Steve was wrong in what he said, I too agree with a lot of it.
I don’t want to see Wenger spending whatever money we have available on yet more promising youngsters. Some wonderkid from Derby and an untried and unproven winger from Palace. The priority is a left back who can defend and maybe a class ‘keeper who can instill some confidence in the back-four. If there must be a striker Ballotelli’s available. 🙂
JW sounds like were on the same wavelength Balloteli as a keeper not a bad call that 🙂
Good post Steve….wish I had something positive to say about arsenal too… that’s hard to find nowadays ….something positive for me….ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAY YIPEEEE….. 😀
Happy birthday Bondex! Enjoy them now, when you’ve had as many as I have they lose a bit of lustre. 🙂
Steve,
He maybe could do better in goal than some of the so called ‘keepers we have had since David Seaman retired.:D
Happy Birthday Bondex!
😀
our season kicked of for the better last season when we played the spuds at home last season..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2231001/Mario-Balotelli-covers-160-000-Bentley-Continental-GT-camouflage-vinyl-wrap.html
JW, a left back and DM would be my choice but as you say, with experience. I’m very tired of being sold tomorrow.
Gotta go! Back later.
Morning Gooners.
Morning Rico.
Sir Steve, another one from the heart mate…
Great work as per usual…
I share your pain mate, it’s bloody difficult staying positive.
Tbh, everyone at the club already know our limitations, and qualifying for the Champions League is the extent of the clubs ambitions.
Winning it is a pipe dream.
I haven’t gone into a season since Wenger got us into it, with any realistic hopes of winning it.
Arsenal’s record in Europe is shit. End of…
But the EPL is another matter…
Gotta go out.
Lata
Hey all,
I feel pissed at Wenger for the obvious short comings that only he couldn’t/wouldn’t see.
How many free keepers were available besides Cesar and would’ve been happy to be a number 2? Beginning of the season Fab, almunia and Mannone were supposed to be sold according to reports.
Relying on injury prone players hoping for a wonder work like RVP. He’s a rare case, they’re more like hoping on Owen, Hargreaves, King, Woodgate or Kewell playing a full season.
Another is that players are played out of position and whining where they want to play.
If we played players where they want to play, they’ll all be attacking and in the middle.
Sorry just had a bath, Many happy returns Bondex that at least has brought a smile to my face have a good one mate.
Thank you Sir AK very nice of you you old smoothy 🙂
Listen, this is a question for you younger Gooners who are still able to kick a ball, can any of you explain to me if the modern day premier football is that much different than balls of old, as strikers seem to be struggling to kick a ball straight and low. My experience is with old lace up or the ball with a little hole in that were supposed to be rounder. The lace up needed to be taken home and dubinned which we took in turns but when the newer ball came in they had a plastic coating which made them water proof whats the score with the latest ball and why can’t proffesional footballers of the highest quality get a ball on target from 15 yards out.
Happy birthday Bondex. Guess what my bday is on the day of the NLD and it could go either way. Last year we beat Norwich 2-1 around my birthday so I am staying cautiously optimistic.
COYGsss
On the Zaha signing I am against it purely because I see him as a younger Yao Gerv. I will personally prefer Tom Ince as he has something different we lack in our squad. Most importantly he is going to be cheaper than Zaha due to the ignorant media loving he is receiving until he chooses to play for Ivory Coast and then the backlash will begin.Tom looks like a real playmaker and has a bit of his dads fiery attitude to match.
Hope you have a very happy birthday as well Ginge even i’ll celebrate with you.
From what I’ve experienced Steve is it feels lighter. So the more power you put into it the more it moves. Like kicking a beach ball.
I saw a post that Man U were interested in Ince for the Jan window.
Thanks Bradster probably explains why so many strikers kick like its a powder puff
Strangely Totts at home will be my 65th birthday , so it looks like either great celebrations or doom and despondancy for a few of us. I never like this one and I travel with hope rather than confidence
Bradster , I sometimes think that Wenger looks at a player and thinks “” you are very good at what you do, how can I change you to fit the pattern that I want to play “”. The more I watch , the more tactical ineptness I seem to see.
BrADSTER
For you Bondex.
Good Morning my Esteemed Gunner Conspirators.
Sir Steve………you are right. And I do like your style because it is always from the heart. And as a true AFC supporter.
I am lucky. My birthday always fall around cup finals. And tbh every time AFC win something in May its an added present for me.
And to cap it all I was born on the best day of the year which many mummies wish it to be………on Mother’s day.
Sir Steve, i know it is very uncomfortable for all of us. Imagine living in between 2 neighbours who support the chavs and the scum. That is the pain I go through almost every weekend when I see my neighbours.
The fact is Arsenal have issues from the top down to the newest fan/supporter. My reason for making that statement ais mainly due to this example:- lets compare the Ox and CJ25 contract situation to Welbeck’s.
At Arsenal those two youngster have received 2 pay increments in under 2 seasons whilst welbeck has done more on the field abut was lucky to have his pay go up from £8k p/w to £35k p/w recently.
Our youngsters are all on £10k to £20k already so where is the hunger coming from? We go on about deadwoods but every club has deadwoods too. No manager has a 100% success with purchases.
Even maureenho has one of the worst transfer successes but he has had rich owners to sweep it under the carpet. these are some of Mareenho’s signings in 2005. Aug Michael Essien Lyon £24.4m
July Shaun Wright-Phillips Manchester City £21m
July Lassana Diarra Le Havre £1m
July Scott Sinclair Bristol Rovers £160,000
June Asier Del Horno Athletic Bilbao £8m
Jan Jiri Jarosik CSKA Moscow £4.83m
July Ricardo Carvalho Porto £19.85m
July Didier Drogba Marseille £24m
July Tiago Benfica £8m
July Mateja Kezman PSV Eindhoven £5m
July Paulo Ferreira Porto £13.2m
July Arjen Robben PSV Eindhoven £12m
and in 2006
2006
Aug Ashley Cole Arsenal £5m
Aug Khalid Boulahrouz Hamburg £7m
June John Mikel Obi Lyn £16m
May Ben Sahar Hapoel Tev Aviv £320,000
May Andrei Shevchenko AC Milan £30.8m
May Salomon Kalou Feyenoord £8m
May Michael Ballack Bayern Munich Free
How many of those were successful? I will say less than half of his signings were good. Peps signings are even worse, the only thing I can say is that those two managers are very lucky to have inherited very good squads with the teams they have managed.
And remember like ‘arry, every team Maurenho hascoached has had financial troubles after they have left.
So those saying lets get Pep or Maurenrenho, remember all that glitters is not gold.
Good on ya Devil 🙂
Morning all..
Good Post Steve and I totally get why you feel so down hearted. Not sure I totally agree re the ‘playing the strongest’ each game.
I’d field a second string in the CL, as for me that is the least important 😉
Seriously, I’d rotate, but only 2/3 at a time, not vast changes as we see for the FA and Cap1 cup often.
Sides who have a very deep squad can do that, we can’t as players are either not good enough, not old enough or not fit enough 😉
Many Happy Returns Bondex….
cheers Steve.Hopefully we win and then I can get plastered. 😀
Thank you all for the wishes….DG i appreciate the video a lot thanks.
Evening all.
Just heard Jack is injured…..any truth in it??
Thanks for the thanks bondex. 😉
I have always said it and will continue to say it forever and ever AMEN.
Its the EPL I care about. Not the CL. but the EFFING FECKING CLOODY EPL. That should be the club’s aim.
I dreamt of seeing the team win the double. IT was answered.
I dreamt of seeing the team go a whole season unbeaten. My Pa told me to dream on. IT was answered on a postcard.
The last wish I have?? To see AFC win the EPL five times in a row. YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT====FIVE SEASONS IN A ROW.
That is what I wish for. Of course if a tin or pot gets thrown in between that is a bonus. But the league is what I want. It is the hallmark of a great team……….at least at home.
The CL??? Its a lottery determined by the top brass.
Hi Scott, hopefully that ‘story’ is true…. It will be an England only injury 🙂
Fingers crossed Rico.
I agree totally ts that we reward youth too quickly and too highly. Theo wouldn’t ask 100k now at 23 if we didn’t start him high on his arrival. I also blame the English hype and Sven for building an expectation with him without kicking a football.
I suspect we will have the same problem with Ox and Wilshere in the next few years that they’ll out grow our wage budget at 22-23.
One thing on Chelsea is that I’m not sure all players bought was up to Maurinho, I especially think of Shevchenko with my case in point.
I blame Sven too Bradster and Wenger for allowing it to happen.
Once he went with England he thought he’d made it, maybe his head to a bit too big for his boots and his attitude towards improving was all a bit to laid back…
Hopefully Oxlade-Chamberlain won’t go the same way, his father should be keeping his feet firmly on the ground…
Got to dash off again, back later this afternoon…
Have a good day all….
It’s all going Birthday’s this week….
Many Happy Returns Bondex….. 21 again????
It works for me…. 😉
Ginge/Potter Many Happy Returns for Saturday…
Apparantly Wath is 75yrs old, this year….
Well maybe that’s the impression i get…. 😀
Yes good points Ginge, If i speak the truth i have never held those managers in high esteme despite their successes. Rich owners have a way of giving Managers a faulse sense of security they are given more money than they need, they offer top dollar for mediocre players just to get them to sign. I know i moan about Wenger signings but he will not enter bidding wars with anybody but i feel he should with certain players. He has stated in the past that he will only bring in players he feels will improve us but there have been times we have been linked with top quality and he has let them slip the net. but at the end of the day e are not top of the league and we are at present playing a boring style of football how can you not find players to improve us. Its my belief that you start to build a team from the back when you have that sorted you sort out the playmakers and the workhorses then you look for finishers who will score goals if they get the service also strikers that can make things happen out of nothing that takes talent of the highest degree. Although i dont like to sing the praises of other teams with the spuds game coming up we have to watch Bale as he has the talent to hurt us bad he is a player that makes the impossible posible if we don’t keep an eye on him he could punnish us big time. and we don’t want that with all the birthdays we have. 🙂
The problem with AW is that he starts to build the team from the deadwood not from the defence. 😆
Tbh Steve, i would settle for a little bit more boring football if we were competing for the Title…
This will cheer you all up;
GoonRambler@GoonRambler
Exclusive: Swedish 15 year old striker Jamaal Rage is currently in North London undergoing a weeks trial with #AFC
Hi and Bye Rico thank you as usual 🙂
RAge?????? He will surely leave us all in a rage…….another Kid!!!!!
http://twitter.com/fkhanage/status/268290304451416064/photo/1
Harry Redcrapp is not my favorite manager but he takes a bit of beating as a man manager
thanks AK…more like 5..
Revealed: Zaha, Austin, Hughes and Trotter – the four stars Arsenal scouted last week
By Sami Mokbel
PUBLISHED:11:39, 13 November 2012| UPDATED:11:39, 13 November 2012
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Arsenal spied on four of the Football League’s most promising stars on Saturday.
Liam Trotter, Charlie Austin, Will Hughes and Wilfried Zaha – a quartet of England’s best emerging talent outside the top-flight – were the subject of Arsenal’s attentions last weekend.
Influential chief scout Steve Rowley attended Millwall’s 2-1 win over Derby at the Den to cast his eye over Trotter and Hughes
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2232254/Arsenal-transfer-latest-Wilfried-Zaha-Charlie-Austin-Liam-Trotter-Will-Hughes-scouted.html#ixzz2C6bTU247
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Gunners spies have kept close tabs on Lions’ box-to-box midfielder Trotter from the start of last season, with his performances this term earning rave reviews.
Rams midfielder Hughes, 17, has been hailed as a future England international and has made 15 starts for Nigel Clough’s side this season as well as breaking into Stuart Pearce’s Under-21 set-up.
Meanwhile, a senior Gunners spy ran the rule over Burnley goal-machine Charlie Austin in the Clarets’ 2-1 defeat against Ipswich.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2232254/Arsenal-transfer-latest-Wilfried-Zaha-Charlie-Austin-Liam-Trotter-Will-Hughes-scouted.html#ixzz2C6biHMkm
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Austin, 23, has scored 20 goals in just 18 appearances for the Lancashire club this season.
The Gunners have found the lower leagues a productive talent pool in recent years with the likes of Aaron Ramsey, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Theo Walcott and Carl Jenkinson all plucked from either the Championship or League One.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2232254/Arsenal-transfer-latest-Wilfried-Zaha-Charlie-Austin-Liam-Trotter-Will-Hughes-scouted.html#ixzz2C6br5gmM
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SteveyP, for 40K a week I’d run backwards, naked around tottenham with Chamakh on my back smoking a shisha pipe singing ‘I’ve got foreskin, haven’t you’
Josh@josh_gooner1990
Hearing rumours that wilshere has done his ankle in, and is out of Saturdays game? Is this true? #AFC
Hope this rumour is BS…
Your welcome Bondex, have a good one mate…
Mick, i’d pay to watch that….
So we are after a South London boy called Trotter……. 😆
Syahid Aziz@caaaaa8
Jack Wilshere picks up a ankle injury while training with england this morning n will miss the north london derby. http://Goal.com #AFC
Happy Birthday bondex, have a Guinness on me.
Shyam@ShyamWenger
Spuds are expected to be without Lennon, Walker & Defoe against #AFC
See let me tell you Arsenal fans, AW is the best speculator in all the club in the world,he speculate but at the end he will not buy of the players he has speculated like he did in the case me Mate and Hazade. AW is a big Fool with capital letter F. Gunner till i die.!
Kev, where’s the Air Hostess in that photo of Chezzer.
the failed trader@thetunadog
@AngryOfN5 i must confess to having very bad vibes abt Kroenke. He wont invest in team & going to start stripping cash out of club soon.
Worrying…… If true???
A definite case of Pancreatitis….
Now that is very interesting Kev. Maybe we will end up having a british spine after all. I like the look of Austin. He seems to be a goal machine everywhere he played.
Trotter is the same height as Diaby. So he could be an asset in the middle. HOWEVER………he was injured a bit too often. Anything new there????
Zaha and Hughes are still young but both have great potential.
Does anyone know Eric Dier?
He was born in Wimbledon. His grand-father was playing in Chalton and he has been in Portugal since the 7 years old. He belongs to Sporting since the 14 years old.
He is now the right back of Sporting with 18 years old.
Mick, now you got me thinking…..
Wonder if they were on EasyJet?
Coach, ditto.
Jenkinson might well be the start in a change of policy insofar as team/squad construction is concerned?
These guys might not view Arsenal as so much of a stepping stone to one of the Petro-Dollar clubs…
Lee, don’t be a dipstick mate…. 😉
Wenger will probably go for Trigger as he’s the cheaper option!
Footy Extra Time@FootyExtraTime
Burnley’s England Under-21 right-back Kieran Trippier, 22, is understood to be on Arsenal’s radar. #afc
Kieran Trippier????
That says it all.
Trippier in January.
Sagna off to Inter for 10million.
Cu later my Esteemed Fellow Gunner Conspirators.
Off to collect the little one from his class
http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2013/matches/round=2000347/match=2009554/prematch/background/index.html
Arsenal never beaten French opponants at home in CL….
JM I know Eric Dier. He is more of a Cafu than a Neville.
I like Trippier and Trotter.
kev is Trotter from the (3 wheel car family) ie Rodney trotter. 😀
Kev you beat me to that Uefa stats. I was going to drop that next week. Ah well… 😀
interesting news on Usmanov
http://www.insideworldfootball.biz/premierleague/41-news/11579-arsenal-shareholder-usmanov-at-centre-of-controversy-after-wikipedia-entry-doctored
Afternoon everyone…
Fine Post SP….. can’t argue with much there mate but we’re saying the same thing over and over pretty much week in week out month in month out season after season and yet it’s also now different players making the same mistakes and doing the same things as previous teams and players….. Common link anyone..?
Bondex, happy birthday fella hope you have a great day and a healthy and happy year ahead…!
Sorry Ginge…..
Got too much time on my hands it seems… 😉
After 39yrs of coaching poor Harry has won just one trophy ie the FA cup and guess what he did that with 5 Arsenal rejects in his first 11. The rejects include 50 year old Kanu and a player who had an emotional break down on live TV.`
Also about future of Arsenal I am very optimistic because even Barcelona are now coming in for Premier league players particularly Arsenal players since their child groom players are getting older and no more replacement are coming through as they expected. Dortmond are all of a sudden dropping backwards even though they are flying in the CL.
If AW can wake up soon enough from his slumber we have a very strong future. COYGsss
Re :- Usmanov , interesting how the picture of Mihir Bose is next to the story and the week od the NLD as well. Strange how these things come together.
very interesting indeed.
Amazing eh Potter, we all know what a piece of shit Bose is….! another delusional swampie…!
Yes. The info on the wiki page has been there for awhile and then the moment he is reported to have bought new shares this information is released.
I am being paranoid again I guess. 😮
Lee, 12.58, don’t be a plonker all your life !
Happy Birthday Bondex.
JW injured, castastrophe for the derby, I still expect a losss.
A story around last night from a DD neighbour who stated that he persistently pestered AW making his case for certain decisions, and mostly AW relented because he was being challenged and prodded.
Interesting because NOBODY challenges AW, he is a Totalitarian and Egomaniac.
Maybe Emma is right – finish below Top 4 , it hurts, for change to be effected.
Our travelling Gooners are the best and we should be very proud of them. They remain in full voice for the entire game.
Still wish i had some answers.
Apart from changing the BOD and getting rid of some dross in the squad.
AU may make a play with this cloud of unhappiness over us. We wish and hope.
Nice post Steve. I know exactly how you feel. Also, am i the only person very worried that jack has an ankle problem. ? Almost anything but that!
No one has mentioned how he got it, a re-occurence of his previous injury or an injudicious kick from someone else with or without an agenda. Whichever way he got it Wenger will be livid.
Hi Tuffers, thank you. Jack has not had a chance to make the impact that he did before his injury, and he has been out for a long time no sense worrying about him till its written in stone that his definitly injured
AFC Followers@AFC_Followers
Jack Wilshere Injury story is not true! Jack travelled with the England squad earlier today to Sweden! #AFC
Well reported Ak, at least that should make Tuffers sleep well tonight 🙂
I just saw pictures not long ago of Jack travelling with the England squad. dont know where these rumours of injury are coming from
Don’t ya just love the rumours you get on the InterNet…
Is he injured, is he on the plane to Sweden, has Tomstoned kidnapped Jack or is he digging out a tunnel with SYG….? 🙄
Thanks kev. 🙂 I feel better
Didn’t you start that nasty rumour earlier on Grandad…..?
Yeah I don’t know where that rumour came from…..
Mange tout
I’m just ‘avin a red wine spitzer…. petits pois!
Mais oui, mais oui,
Good to hear it’s just a bit of scaremongering.
I’m having a rather large vodka… GG to you……….
Finally home again and for the evening… Kerrr-putt!
Hello all…
Red wine spritzer…………. U big tart….!
Arsenal’s away allocation of 4,500, at Bradford, has sold-out…
What great away fans we have..!
Bradford have sold over 10,000 home tickets.
It’s gonna be an interesting evening…
It’s been a busy day here, I must go out more often 😉
Is Jack injured or not does any one know?
Don’t ask me Rico…?! ;-P
Kev said Jack was injured Rico but has now changed his tune… not that am grassing him up or anything…!
Not surprised Kev, will be a great night for them. Hope it’s televised…
Menage a trois !
I thought Scott started that rumour this morning Wath… You snitch 😉
Don’t worry Rico, it’s Wath’s age, you know how the memory goes at a certain age… 😉
You should know Grandad you told me last week you were 106 last birthday yet Gran says your 93…!
Cul-de-Sac, Wath, as they say in Colchester…. 😀
😆 Kev… Glad you said that and not me…
What did you say Wath, I forgot 😉
Yeah Rico, he’s gone off with the hump now….
Probably stomping down Camden High Rd moaning his head off… 😉
Sneaking off for dinner now, won’t be long…
Swedish trialists all the Raage as U18s struggle for consistency
Posted by Jeorge Bird on November 13, 2012 in Uncategorized
Given that it is an international week, London Colney is a particularly quiet place . There will be some fresh faces present in the youth set-up, however, with the club having invited two Swedish youngsters for trials at the training ground.
Hoping to follow in the footsteps of Kristoffer Olsson, who was signed following a successful trial stint of his own in 2011 and has gone on to become a regular for the club at U21 level, are Jamaal Raage, a striker, and defender Hampus Dahlquist.
Raage previously had a trial with Manchester United, and is currently contracted to Brommapojkarna, whilst Dahlquist is with IFK Goteburg, and will arrive next week having initially been scheduled to be assessed in the summer.
Meanwhile, Arsenal U18s are still searching for their first win under new coach Steve Gatting having gone down 2-0 away to West Ham United at the weekend.
Arsenal created several opportunities but also allowed their opponents to get into the game, with a rare mistake from Jon Toral leading to one of the conceded goals. Anthony Jeffrey impressed again on the left flank, whilst Jack Jebb also came close to finding the net, but the young Gunners will be hoping for a better outcome when they face Norwich City at the weekend.
MultiM8Gooner@MultimateGooner
Kieran Gibbs has recovered well from a thigh problem and could be in the squad NLD this weekend #afc
😆 Kev, that’s what happen when age creeps up…
I hope that Gibbs tweet is for real, we have missed him big time…
MultiM8Gooner@MultimateGooner
Ryo Miyaichi has returned to training for Wigan while Abou Diaby is out until the new year. #afc
Well, Rico he picked up his injury at Upton Park, so what’s that, 3, 4 weeks ago, he should be ok by now…
God know’s what’s wrong with Diaby now…..
As good as he is when he’s fit, there has to come a time when even Wenger (and me) finally give up on him…
Wenger really should never rely on him again after this season.
If he cannot give us 20 games in a season, then maybe it’s time he moved back to France where he can go into semi-retirement….
I read that about Diaby a few days ago Kev, think people thought I was jesting 😉
Think Wenger has a decision to make about him…..
Glad about Ryo, hopefully Martinez will start playing him….
he should Kev but, we all know what happens to them once they go into the AFC big black hole called ‘physio room’
I too think it’s time he was sold….
You know Rico, the Scummers have lost 3 of their last 4 EPL games, but do you see the Press/Media ‘giving it’ Tottenham/AVB crisis etc, blah blah blah…
Usual slanted, biased reporting from all those Scummers in the Press/Media, and there’s a load of them, believe me!
Tbh Rico, i think we’ll see Diaby see out his contract, before leaving on a Bosman…
What’s the betting that he stay’s relatively fit and has a great last season, before going off to join PSG etc… 🙁
I’m offski Rico, see ya tomorrow…
Course they won’t Kev, they are not a big club, no-one expects them to win anything 😉
Don’t let them get to you, you know what they are like now…
Did I read right earlier, Defoe could be out for the weekend?
Nighty Kev, have a good one…
Think I will go too as its quiet…
Night all….
Evening all,
I think some of our players have Factitious disorder or Munchausen syndrome. I know for a fact through a very reliable source that one of our players fakes ailment.
I think our players just lack bottle and heart Ts….. call it what you want but it’s lacking for sure
had a good time today,thank you all for the wishes…..
Arsenal v Spurs ticket £94.50…Bayern Munich “season” ticket £96.49…!!!!
In my country, there will be a revolution supporting for 99% of the people
JM, no offence but Bayern will never be able to attract world class players like Diaby, we’re living the dream.
Morning all….
Morning Rico,
Daily Fail is reporting that AW is considering reverting to Emma’s favourite 3-5-2 system. Interesting ahhh! Maybe there is a bit of femme fatale in her… 😉
New Post up…
Morning Tsgh – I’d play 11 across the back 😉
Yes, just added it to the post, I want 6 numbers off of emma 😉
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