Morning all.
As much as I’m over the moon after West Brom held the neighbours to a draw last night which in all likelihood has put an end to their Premier League title hopes, I think Arsenal fans shouldn’t laugh too loudly because we were out of contention a long time ago.
Mauricio Pochettino is a young, motivational manager and one who clearly has his players wanting to play for him. Their side might not be full of big players, but their players have the desire to play good football and win. (Ouch, that hurts) I actually think Tottenham will improve under their manager although they could be hamstrung in the transfer window as they build a new stadium.
Arsenal have been there and done that with the stadium but despite there being big money in the bank over the last couple of transfer windows (if not more) Arsene Wenger has continued to be more frugal than Ebenezer Scrooge at Christmas and Arsenal have continued to fail. Yes we have won the FA Cup twice which is great in it’s own right but the big one is the Premier League and we’ve never come close, not for years now. Likewise the Champions League, a competition which seems a waste of time each season and one which perhaps gets in the way of our domestic campaign as we just don’t have a squad to cope, either with the challenge, or the amount of games. We don’t have the manager either as winning the Champions League means you have to be smart. Arsene isn’t smart, even though he always wears a nice suit.
Leicester are looking for a win at Old Trafford this weekend to secure the Premier League title and I actually think they’ll do it as LvG is like Arsene, past it. Even though Vardy will be missing, I honestly don’t think the Utd defence will cope with the attacking players Ranieri has at his disposal.. Good luck to them I say and a big well done if they get the job done, it’s not their fault the rest of the so called ‘top four’ have been dire. They’ve taken advantage, and they deserve everything they get.
The bigger picture for me is that the clubs who each and every pundit thinks should have won the title this year ahead of Leicester or Tottenham should seriously have a look a what has gone on and gone wrong this season, especially Arsenal. I know our squad isn’t the biggest or deepest in strength but it was good enough to win the league but what it doesn’t have, unlike the two clubs mentioned above is a manager able to motivate, rotate or outfox an opponent. I won’t mention the eye they both have for a good player!
One would have to be without sight not to know that most teams park a bus against us at The Emirates, not all I know but most yet what has the manager and his coaching staff done to beat that style of football over the years? Nothing is my answer. What have they done to stop a big strong and tall striker when up against one? The same, nothing. What about the lack of goals converted from the chances we create? Again, nothing. What about having proper pacey wingers who can beat full-back for fun in the way Bobby and co did? Nowt. There’s more, but you all know where I’m going….
This season has highlighted a lot of decencies at many clubs, but I’d say none more than Arsenal FC and if next season we continue to watch our manager sitting static alongside Steve Bould in silence, don’t expect anything other than more of the same.
Absolutely spot on. AW has overseen a culture whereby fourth is a trophy, laps of honour after beating Leicester, no disrespect, at home and dressing room poses on Twitter are endemic. And it’s a culture of failure! Too many average players performing averagely, to many good players performing badly and not enough brilliant players, do we have two? Despite having millions in the bank…….a sad end to a great career, a memory forever tainted.
Good Morning Lovelies and Hunkies.
Don’t rub it in Rico. As Potter said ……. lets all search for a colour pic of their team lifting the top flight trophy.
I still envy them having Pocchettino though. Imagine what he would do with our team.
Agree Devil, he seems a good manager. I know he’s won nothing yet in England but….
An honest assessment on a weird season. As a Spurs fan I can only say congratulations to Leicester for doing what all fans dream of, it’s a real life Roy of the rovers story.
I think there has been a new beginning in the premier league and although the “top clubs” will come strong again the TV money has equalised the league greatly. Where years ago clubs like Man U. Had 10 or 20 times the spending power of the clubs at the foot of the league it’s now down to 3 maybe 4 times. This is still a big advantage but nothing like it was even a few years back.
Clubs that have got use to spending there way to the top will have to think again as its no longer a reliable way of working.
Again speaking as a Spurs fan we can be proud of the fact that we sit above all the richer clubs than us and that fact alone brings home just how well Leicester have done.
Maybe, just maybe football goes back to everyone having a chance at the start of the season, which would be brilliant news for all.
Welcome Mike. Apart from a few, I don’t think our squad is that bad and I’m convinced a more disciplined manager would do a lot more with them that what’s been done this season.
Mind you, it’s still lacking a few leaders and a goal scorer…
But nothing will change under AW imo.
Well atleast spuds won’t win the trophy this season. But they had a good run which we can’t say about our team. The scoreboard clearly shows they’ve outdone us in everything – Wenger said we shouldn’t look at the table?
My worry is they might improve and we’ll be stuck with an inept manager for another season. I don’t think a new stadium will tighten their transfer budget. That is an excuse Wenger made not to spend (after 2008) and kept of feeding us the likes of sanogo. Now ‘lack of quality’ is the number one excuse.
It’ll be lovely to see them lift the cup an the dirty manchester. Let them see how a team wins the league without a manager influencing the officials.
Morning All
Morning Rico, very good post…
Morning Coach…
Relief is what I feel Rico, I certainly don’t see too much to laugh about…
I mean, Arsenal should have won the Double this season, is that a reason for laughter, I don’t think so?
I wonder what bollocks Wenger will come out with the next time he’s quizzed about Leicester’s success?
Obviously he won’t publicly admit that he, his coaching staff and his playing staff, have seriously underachieved this season.
What I worry about is does he, in private, really question himself and his ability to do the job properly anymore?
Some of his public statements make me feel that he doesn’t…
Devil, of course it’s a long time ago Spurs lifted the PL trophy but as said earlier, it’s the here and now which counts and matters. The PL is more than just a ‘let’s finish above Tottenham’ – we are a club with so much money in the bank, steeped in history and yet we have a manager who really has seen better days…
Morning Kev.
yep……our manager should look at himself in the mirror and see the wrinkles. He does not have the body and virility of a 35 year old. And if he wants to see something as it once was I suggest he gets a magnifying glass.
Unless he says he did not see it.
Bazza, Leicester (if they win the league) will be living proof that money spent guarantees nothing. Was it £27 million they spent in the summer.
As you say,good for them if they win it. I just hope it wakes Arsenal up and we can beat your team at least twice next season… 😉
How about Blanc? I bet he’d do a better job than Arsene.
Marshall, if you are right about the spending, then it’s a disgrace, it really is and to be honest, the way he’s spent recently doesn’t suggest you might be wrong…. Regardless, whoever he buys, he’s lost the ability to get the best out of them…
Spurs Fan here. Thanks for the praise – I get the fans laughing at us – in a season where you guys haven’t had much to cheer about (not even a st tottinghams day) it was always going to be a case of living your victories vicariously through our losses.
Might be a bit premature considering your form of lat and how close United could get to you if they win their next two games….
gonna be interesting who gets the last laugh this season though i would say as long as we finish above you we will be having it.
Morning Kev, thanks.
I’m with you there, I’m just glad that it’s looking unlikely that the Totts won’t win the league but to be honest, my feelings are more about Arsenal than them. The way AW has cocked this season up is remarkable for all the wrong reasons…
The only double we’ll get with him as manager is when we drown our sorrows in the nearest bar….
Duduq, if finishing below you in the league means a new Arsenal manager, we’ll be thanking Poch, not laughing….
True Rico, well it’s not facts but i feel he just doesn’t like to spend. His supporters will say Ozil and Sanchez but as was said again, those players had their clubs wanting to sell. Suarez deal shows how we are bad in the transfer market (i’ll never move on from that) We always dilly huggling over 1M-2M price difference for a player who could be massive. Yet we waste that amount on wages for flamini, sanogo..
Agree there Marshall, any ambitious club would have got that Suarez deal done. Straight in with £50m and see where it goes…
Fair enough if Liverpool refuse to sell at any cost but at least bloody well try properly and not insult them with the extra £1.
Rico. Unfortunately for you, you have a manager that truly believes that you don’t deviate from what you think is the right way. So he won’t ever change.
As far as next season goes, this season isn’t over yet Spurs could easily drop to 3rd or 4th. So I’m just hoping city stay in the top four as them winning the CL and Liverpool winning EL will mean just the top 3 can qualify if city drop out the top four.
Couldn’t happen? We thought that once.
Wenger will ofcourse finnish fourht but i fear Klopp will shove it up with a Europa win. Like Chelsea did to Spurs Bazza 🙂
*finish fourth. Jeez my keyboard is bezerk.
I know Bazza, he’s stubborn and has his head in the sand….
Disagree re Liverpool, I hope they lose in the next round or in the final and tbh, I can’t see City beating Real Madrid…
Ideally it would be Leicester win the League, Arsenal finish 2nd (I wish), Manunre finish 3rd, Spuddies 4th and Shitty win the CL and the dippers get the Europa.
Sadly it will not finish that way. And tbh…..the CL will not go to England while the Europa will head to Spain.
Morning all,
I watched the game yesterday and Tottenham choked. WBA are bum average and under Pulis play the worst archaic football around. I was waiting for a David Unsworth to come off the bench to score the winning header from a free kick or corner.
I would’ve preferred WBA going down than say Newcastle.
I still don’t think it’s so much about our quality and more about our aimless style. Whatever happened to balls across the 6 yard where Giroud can flick in. He has a deft touch for it and was slotting those first half of the season.
I’m not convinced we’ll get 4th Marshall… Norwich will want something this weekend for PL survival and whose to say Villa won’t beat us on the final day… 😉
I still say that AW and the players know something we do not know.
What they know will explain a lot the results this season.
Ideally, we’d have won the PL Devil… 😉
A new manager? Have I just seen ice covering hell? Not a cats hope in………..! Wenger has become like the stuff that gets stuck on your shoe and won’t come off. In fact the more you scrub at it the worse it smells!
In his view Wenger is totally irreplaceable. He built the team, well after GG left him the defence of the realm! He bought players he had coached as kids in another country, at least the best of them. And he didn’t spend a fortune on them. Recently with one or two notable exceptions he has bought cheap, very ordinary players, mostly from the equivalent of footballs BHS. He is out of time and now out of place. I really think he has forgotten the fact that he is an employee of our sacred club not the owner/CEO !
When the time comes I wonder who will wield the axe? Gazidis? Wonky Kronke? ANOther? Or will he commit hara kiri and slay himself?
The end of May will be interesting, I think. Will he stay or will he go now? I’d hold my breath but I don’t think I can wait that long and survive!
Morning all a bit brighter here, just now!
Agree Brad, it’s the way they are being asked to play which isn’t working imo. Too many passes, not enough pace and backwards because there’s not enough movement up front…
In the times gone by there was a king who said the famous sentence……..the most commonly quoted, as handed down by oral tradition, is “Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?”
Whatever Henry said, it was interpreted as a royal command, and four knights,[10] Reginald fitzUrse, Hugh de Morville, William de Tracy and Richard le Breton,[1] set out to confront the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Queen Elizabeth is reputed to be an Arsenal fan. Will she utter those immortal words???
the chances are that the four knights will be spuddie fans and they want AW to stay
Rico, I feel we’ll nick it- we always do. We cannot have both spuds and manc finish above us :). Champions league wont be a guarantee though.
Another season like this and I’ll need a shrink.
how many of you are willing to bet that next season Leicester will finish below the 10th place while the spuddies will finish outside the top 5 again????
There’s always a first time Marshall… 😉
Or what about betting on where Arsenal will finish Devil?
All other clubs will strengthen this summer, Totts, West Ham, City, Chelsea, Utd and Leicester…
Perhaps it’ll be us who slide down the table….
I would not put it past us to finish 10th Rico. Yet I would not bet against us finishing first. We are Jekyll and Hyde. Loose it when it seems easiest and win it when it seems unlikely. How many of us bet that Leicester will win the league having spent less than the cost of Alexis?
The league was fixed, is fixed and next year will be fixed as well.
Next season for Leicester will be determined by what they do in the summer. If they sell Kante, Mahrez and Vardy then it will be mid table for them. Spurs always have one good season in 5 years, this was their year, they won’t be back till 2021… as for arsenal we can’t win a thing with Wenger anymore. Doesn’t matter who comes in.
I’d love us to win again under AW Devil, but just can’t see it, not really.
If Leicester do sell those three, whose to say they won’t replace them equally as well. It’s only AW who sells our best and replaces them with quite average players…
I am less concerned about Spurs than I am about our future. Thinking about it I would say that, if Wenger hangs around for next season, then he will be here for at least another 2 years. I really cannot see him just completing his contract. But, where is the evidence that he is capable of any innovative thinking for next year? Yes, he can go and spend the money this year that he should have spent last, he can rid us of the under-performers and he can give all the press conferences he likes about squad depth and mental strength. But, I do not see a manager who thinks on his feet or a man who is likely to change tactics or formations during a game. I don’t see any fluidity within him but rather a man operating on memory, doing things because they worked a dozen years ago and he’s always done things that way. I see a man with zero accountability and zero interest in the feeling of the fans. In other words, a deluded man who seems hell bent on destroying his own reputation. I see a club lost in thrall over him and a man, in Ivan, who would like him to leave with dignity.
If he stays then I can see big problems next season which could well be a Groundhog Day situation.
In a real-world situation, how can he stay except through stubbornness and delusion?
That’s what I said Adam, just differently… 😉
I know Rico. I was just paraphrasing really. 🙂
I can even see “doing a Wenger” becoming part of the vernacular.
I do share your concern about if he is still manager next season, he’ll stay on longer…
The Evening Standard reckon Kroenke will be the target on Saturday…
As he’ll be branding steers or rounding up massive herds of cattle, I doubt it will bother him very much. The Evening Standard, on the other hand, will love it.
Wise words rico, all true unfortunately! Nice to see the title brought a few Spurs fans in having a civilised conversation, always good to get some alternative views.
As will all the other newspapers…..
Agree Andrew, civilised stuff which has been good and sensible views…
Szczesny wants to stay at Roma apparently….
I’m always up for a bit of paraphrasing ?
Hi all
Nice to see a couple of sensible Spurs fans on here engaging in polite debate. I really think Arsene is all about his own ego now. He would rather spend nothing and finish fourth which then appears to be an achievement than to splash out and risk not winning the league. Trouble is that both Leicester and Spurs have shown him up by beating him at his own game. Talking of Leicester, I wonder how many of our ‘esteemed’ press men who took the piss out of Ranieri’s appointment, will have the guts to eat humble pie?
As much as I loved that result last night…Imo utd will beat Leicester on Sunday. I just hope fabregas can put the final nail into spurs title challenge on Monday.
We need to take care of Norwich on sat they’ll be fighting for their lives the only positive is it probably doesn’t suit them to come and park the bus.
So annoying yet so wenger that Arsenal have dropped from challenging for the title to fighting for 4th again.
Did Spain not have 5 teams on the CL 2 yrs ago? Sevilla being the 5th by winning the EL.?
If for example the top 4 Is Leicester, spurs, city, Arsenal… and Liverpool win the EL… would that not be just like Spain. Or has their been a rule change,
it’s all a bit confusing lol to my way of thinking the only way 4th is knocked out of CL is if city finish outside the top 4 but win the CL, what Liverpool does is irrelevant I think…
Spot on Bob.
Kel, I hope you are wrong, it would be lovely for Leicester to win it at OT, we all enjoyed it, albeit years ago now…
Lol I’d take a draw right now rico as it would help secure 4th a bit more because I just don’t have any confidence in Arsenal or wenger 🙁
Nah, Leicester win and keep Utd away from us Kel….
Wasn’t it Everton who finished 4th in the EPL, but missed out when Liverpool won the CL and finished outside of the top four?
The Europa Cup winners don’t impact on the top four, I believe…
So what Liverpool do or don’t do has not effect…
Hi Rico,
love what you’ve done regarding how the blog looks, very refreshing, unlike anything currently going on at Arsenal.
We don’t deserve to laugh at Tottenham, after failing to address issues that have existed since we moved 10 years ago.
I don’t want to over-criticise Arsene Wenger, but if he is complicit with Stan Kroenke’s ideology of Arsenal, and is either scared or just doesn’t want to challenge and pit his wits against the very best in the game, what is he doing at Arsenal, apart from stealing a small fortune?
Hi allezkev – In 2005, when Liverpool won the CL, England had five teams in 2005/6. Everton played in the CL 3rd Qualifying Round – the one we regularly play in – but were knocked out so failed to make the group stages.
On the subject of Liverpool, going into the summer, whose fans do you think are more excited, ours, or Liverpool’s – (Klopp’s first proper TW) – ?
England is allowed a max of 5 CL places. The winners of CL and EL now qualify automatically for CL next year. If city drop out of the top four and win CL AND Liverpool win the EL then they both go in the CL leaving only 3 places that can be taken by league position. So it is possible that finishing 4th won’t be enough this year, at
least until city play Madrid anyway.
Ps. As your sliding off the bottom of the news now page this is my last post. Lol
Didn’t Spain have 5 this year? Villareal, Savilla, Real, Barca and Valencia?
Hi Herb, thanks re HH.. Yes, nothing refreshing about what’s going on at Arsenal, it’s been more of the same for a few years.
Re the transfer window looming, Liverpool fans is my answer and how wrong is that with so much money in the bank but a manager who won’t dip to far into the funds….
Kev, I hope not as we need it imo.
I reckon we’ll win the Champions League next season.
??
Honest.
Rubbish… Lol
Yes Rico. I was overcome with positivity after a period of pessimism. 🙂
You must have either smoked some funny stuff or had a lot of wine with lunch Adam…. 😉
🙂
Whose been on a six footer then? ?
Thanks for that Herb…
You still visiting AA..?
Not me Kev.. 😳
Just before anyone gets hold of the wrong end of the stick (Mick)…
That’s ArsenalArsenal blog
Not Alcoholics Anon… ?
Rico ?
🙂
Adam, have you been tuning into the new 4 in a bed?
I have Rico.
Me too Adam, last week was all rather odd…
It’s snowing here….
Snowing?
There are some awfully strange people about Rico. 🙂
Yes and yes, especially on that programme Adam… Lol
I’ve watched Arsenal game today. It was not so bad I’ve had imagine.
If City and liverpoll win in europe they go to the CL. Then, only the 1st, 2nd and 3rd go to the CL.
However, only the champion will be in the first pot.
Matters not which pot Arsenal are in Jm, we’ll never go very far….
Evening Rico and the House.
Funny start to the cricket season Rico snow stopped play at the Oval.
I thought I would try to clear up the confusion over the position of the P/L in next seasons Champions League. As it stands the rules state:-
(a) Under the coefficient rule the P/L are given 4 spots. 3 into the group stage and 1 qualifying stage, We cannot lose these.
(b) The Europa League Champions have been given a place in next years competition But they do not go straight into the group stage.
They enter by a qualifying game to be played on the 8th June .
Should they win they enter Group stage lose they are out.
Should the dippers win europa we will have 5 Teams in it.
(c) The winners of this years Champions League go straight into next years Group stage. And this is where it becomes a little complicated.
If this years Champions also qualify through their domestic league they will vacate that position and it will be taken by the Europa champions.
This means if Bayen are German champs and win the Champs League they vacats their Domestic spot which will be taken by the Europa winners not by another German side
All tyhis means our top 4 teams are safe.
Clear as mud isn’t it.
Evening Rick, I saw that with the cricket. Reminded me of when I played, the first couple of fixtures woul always be cancelled because of bad weather…
Thanks for clearing up the muddied waters… Lol
Who did you play for Rico.?
Just club and county Rick, loved it…
Hi Kev
Occasionally, but they prefer a more serene laid-back approach, and are more like a group of personal friends who wanted to break-away from the daily politics and unbridled attacks on Arsene Wenger, offered by Le Grove, which is understandable.
I used to visit ‘Bergkampesque’ as well, and left a tribute to Dennis Bergkamp ages ago.
The problem was that I’ve been anti-Wenger for some time, and it doesn’t always chime with people, particularly pro-Wengerites. You end up becoming embroiled in heated arguments over a football club we all love. Madness, and not good for the soul (or ticker!), so I try to steer clear and allow folk to reach their own conclusion.
But rather than go away, the problems are mounting because fans are beginning to feel cheated by the stadium move, there’s no urgency, desire or intelligence in our strategy to improve or do better.
Olivier Giroud is not good enough to play for a club with aspirations of PL or CL titles, yet we have persisted with him as our main striker since selling RvP. Therein lies the problem.
The manager either isn’t ruthless or intelligent enough to see this as a glaring stand-out problem, but I’ve long thought Wenger’s judgement of a player to be flawed.
He has never managed to build a solid defensive unit during our time at the Emirates, and most of his centre-forward signings have been embarrassing.
He is the Marie-Antoinette of football managers, unashamed and untouchable.
Spot on Herb…
Arsenal things I mean, not AA, I too knew them from Le Grove but departed for my own reasons…
Night guys, catch up tomorrow….
rico, apologies if I woke you up with my laughter last nite, still giggling now !
Cheers Rick for clearing that up……..I think, C’mon Bayern.
Citeh giving themselves every chance of reaching the final tonite.
Citeh vs Bayern final, it’s a win win for Pep.
Brings back memories of Thierry’s goal at the Bernabeu when he shrugged off half their team to score the winner, well that’s how I remember it anyway !
Herb;
Yes, I used to go on AA, some two+ years ago, and read the comments, but rarely joined in as I’m more used to the welcoming atmosphere of HH and it never felt the same over there.
But I always enjoyed reading your comments especially as you were usually the loan voice and fighting against almost everyone else.
Your view on Giroud will find many a sympathetic ear on here, particularly Adam who has espoused your same view, to me, almost the whole time OG12 has been an Arsenal player…
I tended to give him the benefit of the doubt, but not anymore.
This season, I blame Giroud, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Ramsey, all of them have patently failed to score the goals we’ve needed to compete, leaving us vulnerable and costing us points when inevitable defensive mistakes have been punished by our opponents.
Games, that should have been sewn up have been thrown away due, imo, to our second rate attack…
Wengers fault…
I also visit Bergkampesque, it’s quite friendly there, but not as lively as HH…
I hope you pop in more often mate…
The 38-year-old, who completed his Uefa A coaching licence in March, has been working with the Gunners’ youth sides but will now be given an official role
GOALEXCLUSIVE
Thierry Henry will become assistant manager of Arsenal under-18s next season, Goal understands.
The Gunners’ all-time record goalscorer completed his Uefa A coaching licence under the guidance of the Welsh FA in March, while also working alongside the Arsenal youth teams.
Henry is now able to manage at a team below Premier League level or youth academy and is expected to become Kwame Ampadu’s No.2 from next season.
Ampadu, who spent three years as player with Arsenal between 1988 and 1991, played twice for the first team and has impressed with his work for the under-16s this campaign.
Henry was at the centre of controversy over alleged favouritism after reportedly being ‘fast-tracked’ by the Welsh FA to secure his qualification.
The Uefa A licence should take 180 hours of study over the course of a year to complete and former Swansea City player Will Foley, who now works as coach, criticised the FAW for the short period of time it took Henry to complete his badges.
“There was no way humanly possible Thierry had even completed his UEFA B licence and could have finished all his assessments and tasks on the A licence when everyone else participating on the course has not even had the chance,” he said in March.
Crazy time to get back, but cheers Kev.
How many different ways can you paint this current malaise that is poisoning Arsenal? It’s horrible to have to talk about an Arsenal manager in this manner, and we all know the root cause of our problems. Raking over them daily and re-hashing the words soon gets as stale as Arsenal have become.
I’ve always thought HH to be a good site, and Rico does fantastic work keeping it all together.
It is more difficult at times like these when people are turning off in their droves, and those that do still tune-in find themselves locked in a mental battle having to defend the sheer lunacy that is currently our beloved football club.
The club doesn’t connect or communicate with supporters, there is no shared vision or ambition, and the most annoying aspect that under-pins this is that we all know that in the right hands, Arsenal would be on top of the world.
A lot of people forget where our original wealth came from, we’re not new money, we are entrenched in the Establishment, once owned by Old Etonians with direct links to the Royal family and aristocracy. Henry Norris, who moved us from south of the river was Conservative MP for Fulham, as well as having other considerably profitable interests.
By the time his money and Herbert Chapman’s revolution kicked-in, Arsenal were the biggest power in world football.
Whatever is currently going on at the club, it is a stark contrast to the Arsenal Norris built and it is deeply insulting to his legacy. I cannot think of any other major club in world football who would tolerate the slow lingering car crash that is Arsenal.
I really am struggling to understand the relevance of Arsenal’s continued existence, because they’re not even trying to win the PL or CL. They’re deceptively astute enough to be in touch at the top of the PL through most of the season, and manage to spin the CL out until March, but Wenger proved from a position of great strength, in January 2014, if he wants to throw the PL title away, he will, and what’s more, he’ll be rewarded with an insanely generous three year contract to keep repeating the same pattern over and over again.
These are long dark days for our Arsenal with no chink of light on the horizon, and if the right measures aren’t taken, we might be finished as a football force.
“I don’t know yet, I’m not in transfer mode at the moment, but I think he has gone through a bad spell,” Wenger talking about Walcott.
Well imo you should be in transfer mode NOW, identifying players and getting a list of current players that will be sold to help finance it!
Do your bloody job, no more lame excuses if not let someone hungrier have opportunity!!!
Morning guys..
Thanks re HH Herb, , kind words…
Looks like Saturday will be interesting..
http://www.onlinegooner.com/article.php?section=exclusive&id=3439#.VyBmovnyvIW
To be fair Lee, Wenger is hardly likely to discuss transfers in the media. We all know he’ll be busy tracking one player to sign on the final day of the transfer window… 😉
Morning Rico and all.
We’ll need to stand clear when Arsene clicks into “transfer mode”. We know how dynamic he gets.
The nightmare scenario is that he ignores the fans once again, buys some players and rolls on into next year when he will have Conte, Klopp, Pep, perhaps the Portuguese Prick, Pochettino and others to contend with. They will be tactically aware and he will persist with his ancient ways and Olivier Giroud before signing an extension to his contract.
Happy days.
Morning Adam.
But don’t forget, he’s ready to spend spend spend this summer….
To be fair Rico, he’ll be busy with the Euros in the summer…..
I think if we signed Lewandowski, Pogba, Xhaka and Hummels we’d still come up short with Wenger at the helm………….
That might not be a bad thing Lee, leave the transfers to Gazidis…
I don’t because they are all class players with a brain. Lewandowski would score more goals than Arsenal have together this season…
Yes but how many goals would he score whilst playing left back for Wenger? More than our current crop I hear you say!!!! 😉
🙂 Lee.
Rico. Yes I forgot. The list of ‘players I almost signed’ is about to get longer. 🙂
Around the 2nd September I suspect Adam… lol
New post up now…