Titbits first today:
The Sunday Mirror suggests that Manchester United midfielder Ravel Morrison’s situation is being monitored by our manager. Morrison is out of contract in the summer and is throwing his toys out the pram because he’s not playing.
The Sunday People report that Wenger wants to loan Real Madrid Spanish Under-19 striker Alvaro Morata on loan. The story suggests that the player has been told to get himself a move but whether that is this month or in the summer, remains unclear.
Arsene Wenger has been talking about this current transfer window and he believes it should be scrapped. That way it will:
Force disaffected players to fight for their places and remain committed to the cause.
He goes on:
I am for [scrapping the transfer window]. I would leave it completely open all year, or you close it for a whole year. But that’s in-between.
Everybody becomes nervous from November until January. Then players maybe think, ‘if I don’t play then I will leave in January’. They are already less committed to the cause, it gives them an opening.
We have gone from a period where we knew that if we didn’t play, we still had to be committed to the club for your whole life.
You had no other option but to fight for your place. There is not a position where the players have a quick and easy way out if it is difficult.
So, another excuse given for not signing anyone this month, can’t understand why our club don’t believe that signing an odd fresh face or two in this window can actually spur others on, those who really want to play for Arsenal have to fight more for their place. Fresh players this month for the last few seasons has been just what we needed to push on in the second half of the season.
We didn’t get them and we have faded, just look back to last season when we really had a great chance to win the PL?
He does go on to say that he’d rather wait for the injured players to return than sign an old has been who is looking for an easy exit from their current club, for sure, we all agree there but a player like Jan Vertonghen is hardly that is he, he wouldn’t break the bank and he would no doubt solve all our defensive frailties right now.
As for up front, well the club recently sanctioned a break for Robin van Persie as they must have thought he was shattered, does that not tell us that something?
Oh well, window locked and bolted already then Arsenal!
On to today, a trip down to sunny Wales to face the side rightly earned promotion last season, the side that we huffed and puffed against at home and finally sneaked a 1-0 victory. That victory though saw us get our season kick started. We’d had a dreadful opening few fixtures and despite the result being far from convincing, the recovery began and with it came the creep up the table back into a decent position in the league.
Today is going to be a tough one but then again, every game in this league now is that way. We still have a long list of injuries and Francis Coquelin is the latest addition, Mertesacker and Rosicky both face late fitness test having been ‘ill’. Chamakh and Gervinho are of course gone now for a while.
Swansea however has pretty much a full squad, a few of which had a rest in their last fixture.
Djourou returns after his one match ban and should he feature at right back, he’ll be in for a tough time up against Scott Sinclair.
Thierry Henry should also make his return to Premier League football but I truly hope we don’t need a repeat of Monday to secure this victory, Robin also returns from his holiday so things up front should be different.
Will the two start together and put the pressure on?
Swansea are a confident side at home, the only loss they have suffered in front of their home fans is to Manchester United!
There is not too much to tell about the history of this fixture as the two sides have only met on ten occasions and that tells us little really about the players of today – Brendan Rogers has his side playing football the right way these days, they won’t be parking any bus or looking to hit us on the break, the game will be open and maybe it will be more about who scores most will win.
Yes I know that is obvious but you know what I mean!
We have wobbled on the road recently and have an average of just one goal a game in our last seven matches which doesn’t make pretty reading does it?
Time for that to change or Wenger may just have to get his cheque book out!!
Have a good day all, 3 points would make it that wouldn’t it?
Morning gooners.. Another match day.. time to forget the desolation,. Hope it’s a 3pt game.. better late than never.
Morning Stv and all…
Tough game in Wales today, 3 points a must just to keep up…
And, do we really need to be looking at a player from Manchester Utd who, if SAF can’t tame, Wenger stands little chance….
Sivestre come to mind rico.. did’t he learned or some thing!
excuses again! transfers or no transfers, starting today we will have some very tough games ahead. in pl and in cl..
At least this one is younger Stv 😉
He’s actually meant to be pretty good but thinks he should be playing and wants out, but i suspect SAF will wind him in….
Shocking excuses re this window, agree re the old has beens, we don’t need them but just 1/2 players now could really help push us on…
Any excuse for not spending money that Wenger feels is unnecessary, yet he knows the position in our defence i.e. that we have lost our best defender Vermaelen, at the moment I don’t rate Mertsaker and as for Squillaci and Konchelny they definitely can’t play in the same team and Wenger knows this, yet he still persists. He’s a disgrace and as far as I’m concerned the board have become ineffectual, look at other clubs the chairman gets rid of managers who under perform, yet Wenger has been given a free reign and it seems he’s unsackable. Kroenke doesn’t actually care about Arsenal, I wish Usmanov had been given the chance to purchase the club, then perhaps we’d be in a better position.
Seen him play agaist aldershot., apparently he has asked too much wage for SAF and is 18 yr old.. are they good signs.. his signing could be gud but it dont do any good for current situation.
Arteta injured?
I think this is the first time in the last 5 years that I can look at the team and genuinely feel we are going through a transition phase. To bring someone in, we have to drop someone from the squad list – looking around is there anyone out there that we could see coming in? If they are a decent player, their club will not let them leave until the summer. If they are benched and not getting game-time its probably because they either have an attitude problem or are shit.
I think the first phase of the transition phase was bringing in the experienced heads he did, while shipping some of the dead wood out on loans etc. I think in the summer we will see another 3 or 4 players moved on and the same number bought in – a mixture of experience and promising talent.
I appreciate people being frustrated but there is little point dwelling on the past and I think as long as the boss is starting to learn from the issues over the summer (and the last 5 or 6 years – or having pressure applied from above?) then we should just give it time.
Give it another month or so and we will have many of the injured back in which will strengthen the squad. Like most people out there, the one area I am really concerned about is up front – but if Walcott/Arshavin/Gervinho and Ramsey start putting some goals in, we might not be so tense coming into the final months of the season.
JLS I think Wenger’s hands are tied and its the board that dont show any ambition. But wenger need to take blame on oter things as well. For the nth time we will again see some one like Djorou in defense. merts doing ok at the moment imo and squill is simply pitiful.
Hi Judith – that’s because Wenger saves the board money, they can then pay off more debt, club becomes ‘debt free’ and Stan seels and makes a vast profit, that’s all our major shareholder appears to be interested in….
If AU really wanted to buy him out, he could – still think he will one day….
Stv, oh well, maybe wenger will offer another over paid salary to him, just we seem to all the other young players…
Hi ADK, don’t think Arteta is injured…
Hi Le Foxe, but by the time our injured are back, will we have dropped vital points and be too far back to catch up?
We are getting away with it at the moment as those behind us are dropping points but if Newcastle and the Dippers pick their game up and we don’t, we won’t make top 4…
Rico, I totally agree with you and I know its a gamble…its just that I can see it from Wenger’s perspective and dont expect us to make any further signings this month.
If we bring someone in on loan, will they hit the ground running? Because if they need a bit of time to get the match sharpness back the chances are they will only just be hitting peak fitness at the same time we have our own injured players coming back.
rico. did you see how mourinho reactd when down 1-0 at HT, he made changes at HT, changed formation, 2 attackers for 2 defenders and there was virtually no right back.. he was whole animated and only sit back after went 2-1 up in 85t min.
Good morning
Another match day. I have lot of things to do this morning
Catch you at the kick-off
I can see what he is saying to Le Foxe, but we have all seen this coming for a few seasons now, each summer window comes and we hope for the deadwood to be cleared out but it doesn’t happen.
We get our hopes up that we will sign the right players to make us a real threat again but that seldom happens either.
Why did we just loan out Nik and Denilson, we should have sold them and got their wages off of our books and taken whateve money we could for them, both will no doubt be valued even less this summer…
It’s is LB that concerns me big time, Santos is still two months away from a return at least, if Gibbs was less injury prone it wouldn’t be a problem but we all know he will suffer setbacks and poss another injury in no time….
JV would solve that and he is so versitile, and would mean Squlli can take a hike finally….
I didn’t see the match Stv but you sure have to admire Jose for that – what do we do, wait until the usual 67 minutes and see AA and Chamkh 😉
Thankfully that won’t happen today, maybe Park will actually get on the bench?
Morning JM – catch you later…
Wonder why nothing has been confirmed/denied on afc.com about the left back on trial?
This is great news for us long term imho
MARTIN KEOWN is the favourite to be the next Stevenage boss.
Borough are searching for a new boss to replace Graham Westley, who quit to join Preston.
Bookies have slashed Arsenal legend Keown’s odds on taking over the League One club from 10-1 to 7-2.
Former Bristol Rovers boss Paul Buckle, a Hertfordshire resident, is also a contender.
And little-known former Wycombe midfielder Gary Smith is being linked with the job after quitting MLS outfit Colorado Rapids.
Stevenage have said they will make a new appointment next week.
Westley’s coaching staff of John Dreyer and Dino Maamria are set to join him.
Westley guided Borough from non-league to League One — and chairman Phil Wallace said: “I’d like to thank Graham for all he has done here. We’ve had successive promotions and exciting cup triumphs.”
true I hoped wenger did that against fulham (h) and wolves !
Looking fwd to see park’s play. he played well in Ist cc game and against csity.. better than chamakh for sure.
me too going off..see u after d game.
Laters Stv….
I have to head off for an hour too – laters guys and gals
Boo! How is everyone? It is not even as if we held high hopes for this transfer window… but the lack of activity is altogether discouraging. 🙁
Nothing this invisible owner has done is cause for optimism.
I get here and everyone disappears… Haha. 😉
Boo agag, hows you??
Will catch you later 😉
Morning Rico and all. Wenger seems to be making it up as he goes along these days. Firstly he is bitching about the unfairness of fixtures and now it is some lame excuse for not spending money. Everyone knows that we are woefully short up front and that if Robin gets an injury we are up shit creek. Everyone knows that Arshavin has been total rubbish for ages. We know this because we have seen him squander chance after goal scoring chance as well as possession time after time. Wenger tells us the stats tell him Arshavin is efficient. If he really believes that then I can only think that Wenger is deluded. We know that Arshavin and Chamakh are rubbish because we see it whenever they play. But Wenger, the man who bought Arshavin and Reyes in the January window, now tells us he doesn’t like it because you could end up buying a player who isn’t committed. Well, buy a bloody player who is committed then. The reason we are so short in January is because of the appalling way our business was done in the summer with all the crap that brings to mind. The January window should be viewed as an opportunity to strengthen and not some hinderance. But Wenger has good form here and this won’t be the first time he has blown a chance to push us on at this time of year will it? I suppose he is too busy working out what percentage the season tickets should rise in the summer.
Morning all, another good post Rico.
Yes we have clawed our way back from 17th to 5th, and it has been in all honesty a struggle, especially with the amount of injuries we have picked up, I know we have some good players nearing fitness, and that the second part of the season should on paper suggest we will have better chances, but we have many players who it has to be said are not up to premier league quality, they either lack the talent or are not putting in the effort. I don’t believe we need many new players but we do need to sort out the deadwood and replace them with triers. Chamakh and Arshavin do not fit in with our kind of play Squilly as well, they have been tried over and over and it has been quite obvious to us that no matter what happens Wenger will keep useing them, If he cannot find new homes for these players and bring in good replacements then i am afraid he is not doing the job right. Even if we take a loss for these playes we could at least buy one quality player from what they bring in, Our young fringe players would fit in well and at least they would be willing to work their socks off.
It’s all smoke and mirrors nowadays , you can’t believe anything that comes out of the club . They take ” playing cards close to their chest ” to another level.
Potter. I agree but it’s the fans who suffer from the delusion. I think the team is to be admired for what it has done in pulling itself up the table but Wenger really needs to get a grip now. What is the point of keeping Chamakh if you could sell him? Does anyone think that he will expode into goal scoring form in the second half of the season?Will Arshavin find that change of pace that he seems to have lost? I believe that, until Kroenke gets up one day and decides he wants to take Arsenal back to the top, with all that entails, we are locked into a passive resignation that a top 4 finish is our aim and even that will grow harder to achieve. As I cannot see Kroenke as the recipient of such a blinding revelation and as Wenger seems a man locked within a certain way of doing things I guess we will just stutter along as the “nearly team” for some time yet. What is so depressing is that we can all see how much better things could be if Wenger was proactive rather than lethargically reactive. And I am not advocating spending on a massive scale, just a realistic assessment of where we are and where we want to go.
Wenger talking out his arse – as usual.
The only person in sport who doesn’t realise that the biggest spur for a player is competition.
Adam you talk about Arshavin losing his pace but really he hasn’t . Over 3 or 4 yards he goes past people easily. The problem is that over 5 to 10 the six foot full backs catch him. He needs players moving in the box to release the ball early to be effective if we continue to play him wide. If we play him on the edge of the box his speed of thought makes him dangerous because his change of direction is his major strength. What he can’t do physically is chase the length of the pitch back or forward and people that expect him to do so are deluded , 10 -15 yards maybe but not 30 – 40. I don’t think that he is lazy just played wrongly , we bought him on the back of his relationship with Schevchenko where he played behind a mobile predator and then put him on the wing. It doesn’t work for him or the team.
Now that I have put up a defence for him I am donning a tin hat because I expect copious amounts of flack to come my way.
Good aftergoon all.
Wenger talk has been ground hog day for 5 seasons now. The wizard of value quashing he’s caught in a looney contraption. Deflection tactics at best. Promoting the bare minimum over sensible initiative.
Afternoon guys and gals….
Good day guys and chicks of the Thierry Gunners’ faith.
Not exactly Potter……I go with all that you say. The problem with AW, and its one I have highlighted several times is that he buys ball players and plays them wherever he wants. Arshavin, Rosicky, Na$ri all were used to play behind the striker, but with us they usually played on the wing, The thing with AW is that he wanted to create Arsellona using Barca style players when in fact these type of players are used to the system from their teens. It all went wrong because while he had 3 to 4 players who could do so the rest where not up to the required standard.
The next thing I would like to point out is that I am seeing a pattern developing. Let us take the Chesney scenario. He persevered with Almunia, Fabianski and Mannone simply because he knew that he had Chesney coming true. If you look at certain positions they are already filled up. Wilshere, Ramsey, Miguel, OX, Coquelin, Frimpong, Yennaris etc. They will be there to compliment the likes of Vermaelen, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Van Persie, Song, etc. He will persevere with them till players like the ones mentioned above will all come through and claim their rightful place. RVP to be sold in the summer??? Do not bet against it. Not when we have Campbell, Afobe etc who can get into the team. Remember this…..if AW feels that with selling RVP he will gain 25 to 35 million he will sell him. No matter what we say or feel. He bought Campbell for 1 mllion and he will stand to gain around 30 million…..money which goes for the stadium. And believe me….in the next four to five years we will see the stadium expanded to 72K.
We wait and see.
Stevep
Agree with some of our fringe players giving more, we only have to look at Chamberlain, Coq and Miquel each time they get a chance…
Other Steve, i think what he says starts with the board, they are too tight to give him money to spend…
Hi potter, Adam, DG and devil and to anyone else i have missed 😉
Newcastle 1-0 up against qpr 🙁
Seems as if we are missing quite a few players today with Mertesacker, Rosicky, Arteta all joining the sick list and with others injured or unavailable. So that means that the midfield will be of Song Ramsey and Benayoun.
I think today will be like this……
Chesney
Yennaris, Koscielny, Djourou, Miguel
Song, Benayoun, Ramsey
Theo, RVP, Arshavin
Off to the promenade (a 3 mile long one) for half an hour jogging while the little prince will be trying to lead me a merry dance on his bike.
devil, are they all confirmed out for the game?
🙁
I actually seriously doubt there’s ever been a Wenger/Arsenal style of play other than a Wenger style of management. Would tongue-tied Stan been interested in a lion share if that wasn’t the case?? Our past fortunes were brought by chemistry and synergy between gifted PERSONALITIES. Players that brought their game face on training days and their hearts and minds on match day. Resulting in a brand image of self sustainability that only needed a inventor to address the accolades to. The one who brought the ingredients together. Forgetting about the team’s own natural ability to mix and weight the necessary, stiring the fire up the right temperature.
Wenger isn’t in a position to dictate footie law neither is it part of his job description. I expect him to put on training gear instead of wearing a lab coat, a wig and hammer or a suit and tie to moan about circumstances outside the primary focus.
No Rico…..just what I have managed to glean from here and there on NN. maybe some of them might be mistaken as usual, but we can only tell 30 minutes before the game when the team sheets are handed in.
DG10, since DD left, AW has had too much involvement of the pitch, he’s the manager, and that’s it, let erything else be dealt with by those who earn a huge salary for what they are meant to be doing…..
devil, wenger said they were having late tests, i strongly suspect they will all be fit…
hi, bad news…
I must working one hour more
Catch you late
JM, you work too hard 😉
Got a couple of things to do so back very shortly….
Devil gunner, if things dont change on the pitch,the club stand no chance of filling the stadium with the present capacity let alone 72000. It is so frustrating having an owner who does not want to invest in the team ,as in the football world of 2012 a club needs that to be successful.I know talk is cheap, but reading what the QPR lot are planning with the backing of Mittal, who is worth 18 billion, the current policy means we are going to fall further behind.The champions league will be a distant memory of what used to be.Wenger uses even more bizarre reasons to excuse our poor performances and defeats,the latest being the tv schedule.Well the club does nt moan when the sky money comes rolling in. Considering Fulham played on the sat and mon just like us, it is a poor excuse ,especially as we did not have to travel out of london all over xmas.I will be amazed if we get anything out of todays game, still i am sure it will all be the fault of those nasty referees or espn who made us play on monday.
I must correct lot of examens today…
Hi Rico.
AW might be juggling too many balls. But he advances general problems in front of the ability to act. He raises concerns over issues which wouldn’t be his focus if the team was performing and competing for the title. He has waved the white flag without considering the transfer window as an opportunity to inject quality that doesn’t need his grooming to reach their potential.
AW is/was given a free reign years ago. As if his hand could be noticed in every detail of the heydays. Not so. He has never raised a team that looked effortless since then.
Subs: Almunia (!), Squill (obvius…), Park (Surprise !), Henry (no doubt),OX(again),Rosicky (ill?…),yennaris
Benaayoun in…
God help us…
all the best
Team…Chesney, Djourou, Koscielny, Merte, Miguel,Song, Benny, Ramsey,RVP, Theo,Arshavin
SUBS: Almunia, Yennaris, Squillaci, Rosicky, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Henry, Park
Just back in time to see the line up. off for a shower. back soon.
Welcome LJB – good to see you here…..
This is gunner be tough…..
You couldnt have put it any better LJB. I agree with all you said. Unfortunately that is the pattern I am seeing at the moment. If needs be RVP and Sagna will both be sold if a healthy profit can be made.
RVPPPPPPPPP 1-0
I thought that Caulker had that covered and even Vorm had his angle correct. But RVP managed to find a chink and from an impossible angle put it in. great finish
Ooooooo oooo early goal makes a change 😉
all eyes on neil taylor then…..
a great assist by Arshavin. Hope he manages to rediscover his form in the absence of Gervinho
we have to attack their soft centre. On the flanks we lack penetration but in the middle we are stronger.
Shit 1-1. Penalty. a rather unfortunate penalty by Ramsey
Fragile lead, hope we put some distance between before halftime.
Prophetic words sorry. Need to regain the advantage to put them of the blood trail.
Seems as if Arshavin is slowly finding his feet. But Theo’s inefficiency is making Taylor look impenetrable.
did ramsey actually make any contact for that penalty?
we are really being outplayed right now…….
It was a rather unfortunate penalty DG10. however we need to step up after going ahead. This method of letting the opponents come to us instead of going for the jugular irritates me. We need to hammer them from the start and keep on at it
the touch was minimal Rico.
This is the worst Arsenal team I have ever seen.
Agree Devil a lightly wounded animal is by far a more unpredictable threat than one who’s had defining blow. Which will bring the tail between his legs.
The attacks are always coming from the left or the centre, through Arshavin and Ramsey/Benny. The right is not functioning well. I know that we have a centreback as a right back but then again even on the left we have one. And a rookie at that.
Its disgusting to watch these bunch of fucking flops and rejects play in an Arsenal shirts, look how far we have fallen.
Afternoon Gooners.
Afternoon Rico.
I sense a spineless acceptance of dropped points by our gormless team.
Will they get bollocked at half-time???
Or will AW blame TV, and let them off the hook???
So what, Wenger has to wait until the 60 minute to take Walcott off? How does he get a fucking game anyway??!
How Theo gets ahead of the Ox is beyond me. His passing lets him down, his crossing is not up to scratch, he runs into blind alleys and there is no link up play between the midfield-him-RVP.
Hiya AK. did not see you there. I agree….a gormless bunch some of them.
Out played by a championship side from wales..
My hatred for Wenger builds with every match, what the hell is his problem, guy needs to be replaced as soon as possible.
After our direct rivals draw yesterday I was hoping they’d take the game by the scruff of the neck. This opportunity to lessen the deficit has been squandered before quite recently. Me remembers. 🙁
Hiya Dev;
You look around that team, you look for someone to start pointing at team mates, shaking their fist and reminding them of the shirt their wearing and their responsibilities.
You look, but you see no one.
I’m beginning to run out of patience with Walcott.
The guy just seems to lack a backbone…. No fight in him at all…
Bad penalty decision again and Ramsey is very lucky not to have suffered another nasty injury!!
Afternoon AK and Esp…
we knock theo, what has yossi done?
In fact, what have many of them actually done???
Walcott is useless, has he ever made a proper tackle, even a challenge would be welcome he loses it and sulks fcuking pathetic
The buck lies with the manager. If any of SAF/GG/Mourinho was in charge of that lot the attitude will change….even if the same team remained. AW’s mentality is that of a silent library, where you are not allowed to shout an opinion. Maybe he cuts their tongue when they sign.
AK and ESP
I actually seriously doubt there’s ever been a Wenger/Arsenal style of play other than a Wenger style of management. Would tongue-tied Stan been interested in a lion share if that wasn’t the case?? Our past fortunes were brought by chemistry and synergy between gifted PERSONALITIES. Players that brought their game face on training days and their hearts and minds on match day.
Yossi has done nothing, but lucky for us, he a burden we only have to bare for the season, why in the name of god are we playing other teams left overs..
As I said before Rico, the worst Arsenal team I have ever seen.
Watching our backline is like watching 4 squarball rays
Exactly DG10.
Why can’t Wenger make changes before 60 minutes? Sick of his nonsense.
Cow’s arse and banjo spring to mind……
That was a peach of a low cross from Miguel. Reminds me of Jenkinson’s crossing. Miguel is a cnetreback but he is growing better with every minute.
Esp, i was just sat thinking about just a few years ago, the days when i always believed we would win, regardless of who we faced, these days, i think we will lose or maybe sneak a draw……
it’s not the worst afc side i have seen play but it sure as heck aint the best 🙁
steve, i am poss the biggest fan of theo but even my patience is wearing thin – very thin…..
Wenger was getting his excuses in early,complaining about the pitch before the game.Sky have shown it was never a pen, but to be fair to the ref when it happened i thought it was one as well. Ooh the benefits of the instant replay eh? Still there is no excuse for this toothless performance,and the conspiracy theorists will have a field day. What would we do without RVP, he is drowning in a sea of mediocrity.Come on arsenal for heavens sake.
FFS, all i can hear is Swansea attacking………
2-1, and tbh they fcuking deserve it…..
Either they are a bunch of idiots or they have played the bookies before the game. you decide. I know what I feel and recently FIFA commented on these things. Obviously they never mention that players are a bunch of idiots.
I was hoping Ramsey was injured there, no luck at all.
LJB, good to see you back – why do we all bother, thats what i am asking myself right now…..
Outplayed, over-run and watching this breaks my heart – what has happened to OUR club…..
Get the Ox and Henry on, Yossi and Walcott off
Oui AK. they are outplaying us. RVP is alone upfront. Theo needs to go off. AA as well. The team needs toshow more hunger at times like these. But AA and Theo need to surely come off. They are simply invisible and I do not mean the Gilberto type. Song is working his socks off but cannot carry the midfield alone. We are all crap.;
Fucking Rosicky…. Are you joking.
AK, we are awful, just awful – no shape, no passion, no nothing!!
Get Chamberlian on, Swansea are battering us!
Is there anyone at the club that can give AW a facepalm?? Telling him he’s the master of plaster.
WENGER OUT! I can’t take it anymore.. He’s destroyed what he’s built..
Board out ADK, it is they that choose not to invest!
Well well, Walcott has just scored a really good goal…..
The useless fucker has scored.
And so have fecking Swansea!!!
kos and ches – should have done better!!!!
Bookies
All i can do is laugh…….
Top-four…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ramsey was involved in four of today’s five goals up till now. hope he manages to score at the right end twice now.
AK, i know exactly where you are coming from……
what else can we do eh 🙁
No urgency, no shape, no determination and no team cohesion.
We couldn’t conquer a mole’s doodoo with the guidance of Edmund Hillary. Appalling shite attitude and concentration. 🙂 🙂
Chamberlain on. Hopefully Theo off
Yikes its Merte off. so we go to 3–3-1-3
Don’t know about you lot, but i think the Mancs will kick our arse…. 🙁
This has happened too much frequently for my liking. We go in front only to concede a draw or loose. Something is happening. The answer is obvious. No one does anything about it.
Could Ramsey do the club a giant favor and fuck off? Sick of him.
If they kick our arse and something is done about it then better still. But we will have our new signings available…..Sagna and Vermaelen.
AK – i fear the manc fixture too 🙁
Esp, on a day like today, no one player can honestly be singled out….
Ramsey has been shocking today.Fulham and Swansea for christs sake.Wengers time is over.Nothing lasts forever. But heh arsene, we dont need any new signings do we?
Well I could single the player who cost us two goals today, he is awful.
How many minutes left??
LJB, for sure we don’t, how AW thinks that i never know……
DG10 – nowhere near enough sadly!
I’m done for the day guys, i’m really chessed off and don’t just want to rant and rave…
If anyone feels they have it in them to write something about today, feel free to email it in, i know i don’t right now!
Night guys and gals, another s***e day in the world of a football club i love……
Night all…..
Fucking subtitution
fucking final whistle !!! Another horried performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Figures Rico.
fucking garbage.
Naive, dumb and full of it. Wenger I mean.
Miquel has today shown he’s not good enough. Who told Song he was a tricky midfielder? Just win the ball and play it. stop trying to weave through people. And when did Ramsey suddenly think he can physically run through people? Any chance we can swap him for Joe Allen? We were being ripped apart by Danny Graham. DANNY GRAHAM! I bet AC Milan are really shitting themselves about meeting us.
Night all. I can’t be drawn into shaming myself over this team either.
Ramsey Arshavin Song Djourou Walcott..
Not good enough as usual and yet Wenger will carry on. I hoped he had turned it around but every day that goes by he proves he’s not the manager he used to be. Nothing will change until the board and Wenger goes. Bring in Usmanov and Dein to sort this mess out because Wenger and the toothless board are destroying our club.
Sorry guys rant over
All woeful today. Why do we have no urgency either? Last 30 seconds JD could have crossed a ball into the middle. No, he slows it down, checks back and plays it backwards. dipshit.
At the end of the day we have been well beaten by the better team out passed out played beaten by a team that want to win and play for one another. Arsenal knew exactly what Swansea was all about but we do not have the players to win these type of games.
It will be pointed out that many players have had a bad day where in reality the players are just not good enough, You only get what you pay for and we don’t spend . Enough said. Well played Swans a hard working Quality Outfit.
Absolutly. Each time djourou recieves the ball he pass it backwards killing / delaying a move. Altogether it was a bad game from the start even with an early lead. We made swansea look like real madrid.. What’s in the mind of our coach !
Nevermind, our new signings will be back soon ha ha .Im off to bang my head against the wall, i can think of someone elses head i would like to bash but my own will have to do. Young redknapp says we have conceded more goals THAN ANY OTHER TEAM IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE. If this is true ( cant be fucked to check atm tbh} then the manager is even more useless than i thought.Someone at arsenal has got to grow a pair coz we are a mess.Anyways cu all later.
Agree Steve, they were better. But they shouldn’t be should they. We need to stop fucking around in the middle of the pitch.
I think we are all forgetting how efficient Arshavin is. What a pile of crap. Can anyone really see RVP wanting to stick around? I can’t and I couldn’t blame him either. The season looks to me like it will end in tatters. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride I think.
Chesney…..cost nothing.
Djourou….cost nothing
Koscielny…8.45million
Mertesacker..10milion
Miguel….do not know how much but AFC offered straight cash
Song…1million
Ramsey….5 million
Benayoun….cost nothing
Walcott….9 million
RVP….3.25million
Arshavin….18milliom
So the team which started today.s game cost between 55 and 68 million (depending how much AFC paid for Miguel). You can bet that the Swansea team which started today’s game did not cost that much. And yet we lost. And with the exception of Miguel all are international captains or players.
I would expect that lot to demolish teams like Wolves. Swansea, Fulham, Blackburn. We have lost 13 points to that lot…..that would have seen us top of the pile with 49 FUCKING points.
Something stinks and nothing will change my mind what it is!!!!
brrr….my comments later. How can Ramsey play all the game? He was injury sindece the the beginning of the 2nd half… we played all the 2th half with 10 players
Sorry there was a missprint….wanted to say 55 to 58 million not 68
10 men you say JM???? we played the entire game with around 5 men
Theo was crap. AA started well then drifted. Benny the same. Ramsey was out of his depth. Miguel tried his best but he is a centrehalf. Djourou the same. That makes it 6 players who did not turn up today.
Dont we say we have devoloped after a bad start. 7 points in 6 games after 7 points in the 7 games.. we had lost 7 games in pl already, and we along with bottom team conceded most goals in the premierleague..(?)
Every body saw it coming exept few idiots out there..
The fact is that AW knows that if we do not make the champions league players like Arshavin, RVP, Song, Walcott will bugger off. AA would fetch around 10mill. Theo maybe 20 mill. RVP will fetch 25 to 30mill. Song would be 16 mill. That would make a total of over 70 mill. No need to be a Harvard Professor to work that out. Then he will blame the tea lady for not cuddling the players up to her ample bosom when they wanted to cry because they are not in the CL and they buggered off. A good reason for him not to buy is that no one is interested in a team which is not in the champions league and therefore he will promote the young players. TV has been secured. But is there a rush to secure AA, Song Theo and RVP on long deals. A RESOUNDING AND CLEAR NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
So they will be sold.
And stan could start a pizza company with all trhat money and emloy wenger as GM.
fuck! employ wenger. !!!! can not evn type, wenger stan bored all s’d fk off
Everyone gone…….
And there’s me looking to have a grumble….. 🙁
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Same old AK, blame everyone but us!!
Why can’t he just say we were crap and his tactics were pants….
Grumble away AK……. I’ll listen…!
If we were actually not so pathetic and average it would be laughable but it’s not laughable cos it’s my team and it fuckin hurts to see us as such a fuckin shambles…. As they kept saying on tv 9 seasons ago we were top of the league they were bottom of the then 4th division and today they beat us… says it all…!
Ditto Wath, i’m pig feckin sick!!
And then all we hear is that it’s the bloody ref’s fault!
Its the fecking boards fault and Wenger’s for being the mouthpice….
Ahh, your here, good
Was just having a read elsewhere…..
Rico, i did think the penalty was a bit harsh.
We’ve had 3 penalty shouts recently, almost identical, but got sod all.
Since Eduardo dived against Celtic we get fcuk all from referees, but they’re ultra-fast in pointing to the spot if it’s against us…
Not for long AK, I’m bloody livid and wonder why we all spend our time running blogs, writing posts, watching our team, listening to Stan, Ivan and their mouthpiece.
Why is it that it’s ok for us to suffer, when the players we watched today will go home and sleep without worry whereas so many of us won’t!
Why do we bloody well bother caring??
Even so, we wasted a bucket-load of chances again.
If RVP doesn’t score, then no one else seems capable of even getting a shot on target.
I think that we missed Arteta big-time today.
So did I AK, but not until i’d seen a replay was i sure…
regardless though, should we not have been better, should we be honestly thinking about relying on that decision?
i know most will say that the pen boosted them and gave them the drive in the game but tbh, we were made to look second best for most of the game…..
Rico, we all love Arsenal.
The people inside the club are incidental.
Now if you wasn’t running this blog, then you wouldn’t have me and Wath for you to have a grumble to….. 😉
We bring on TH and still play that fuckin boring predictable 451 bollox… why not go 442 to make the most of Henry… wenger is clueless and a stubborn pig head…. guilty by association Rico, he earns 7mil a year to give us all the same old excuses while they stitch us up…! We lost to Swansea, yep the mightly Swansea ANd they played us off the park if we honest….!
Saw about 20 mins on my son’s laptop, and again, i thought that Song was shit…..
He’s going next summer. I’m convinced….
I know that Walcott scored, but i would have hooked him at half-time and given AOC 45 mins….
We had players out there who got out played….. out fought and who lost to a team with far more passion and they wanted it far more than we did…! As we have said time and time again, very few leaders very few players to grab the game by the scruff of the neck and hardly anyone who really gives a shit…!
but one player like arteta missing shouldn’t make so much difference…
reality is, 1st jan we were and still are 4 fullbacks short and at least one CB short, we are now the 15th jan and what has the club done?
Rico, it’ll happen [ if at all ] on the 31st…
Wath – i’m not disagreeing, played off the park for 70 mins at least, even RvP was off…
AK, when does AW ever haul players off when they are rubbish, Yossi was shocking, Theo was shocking, and others were poor but AW leaves it too late, he needs to wake up and make earlier subs, mind you, how many seasons have we been saying that?
Ak, Song was slow ponderous and got caught on the ball time and time again, Yossi did very little, Ramsey taking stick but he did try and think very unfair the shit he getting…! AA well enuff said… Theo needs to grow some balls as well never ever gets stuck in and turns his back…. he’s chicken….
I’ve been having a moan about Ju Young Park and asking what was the point of signing him…..?!
But do any of us believe that Joel Campbell would have made any difference even if he’d joined us last August?
We needed a quality striker signing.
But Absent Stan won’t allow the funds to be released…
Then is too late AK, just like the 3oth of August was last year, we have the mancs next weekend, we are going to get battered by them again – is that what Stan wants to happen so he can justify spending??
I’m going to have a crap birthday 😉
Wath, today was Theo’s 200th senior game for Arsenal.
This March he will be 23 years old.
He isn’t a baby, he is an experienced international player.
And most of the time, he flatters to deceive.
So Rico….
Your Aquarius…. 😉
I din’t think Ramsey was ‘that’ bad, in fact compared to most, he was good, so so many others were dire!! Walcott, very poor and even his goal won’t save his deserved critisism…
Park AK, maybe if Wenger played 442, he’d get a chance but no, lets carry on with a system that we aren’t able to play to because we don’t have the right players…..
Apparantly, financially, lucky Venus is attracting good things your way…… 🙂
Rico, make sure you get your lotto tickets…. :P:
AK, sad truth is we are a club in decline, we’ve gone backwards and there are no signs of it getting put right while the tightfisted pocket lining wankers that run our club are still around…!.
We are a few players away from being a really good team also a few away from being very average what way are we heading…?
Fails AK, that’s what Theo does and he is far from being alone…..
I am indeed an Aquarian, just 😉
Ok, i am gone again now, don’t feel any better for my moan, i still think that we all, every blog etc should just shut down and protest 😉
Ramsey was really unlucky today.
If it could have gone wrong, it did…
Cardiff boy in Swansea it seems….
Thanks AK, I will 😉
Spot on Wath, i wonder which way it will turn eh?
Definately gone now, nighty to you AK and Wath…..
Stay safe…..
Wath, even if Sagna and Vermaelen come back, i think the Mancs will beat us next weekend….
Tottenham are out of sight now……
Goodnight Rico…..
Don’t forget the lotto… 😉
Night Rico,
AK, dreading next week mate dreading it…..!
My son is going to that one, God help him.
He’s going to AC Milan as well.
Me? I’ll have the Aston Villa FA Cup thank you….
Wath, i’m offski.
See ya tomorrow mate……
I ain’t even going over there mate am sick of it…!
Cheers AK take it easy mate…!
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