Arsene – It’s not hard to say sorry you know, give us something to believe in….

Well it’s not is it?

I have to say a little sorry today too – yesterday I wrote a post about the players we are being linked to, the players rumoured to be leaving, all as if this season was finished…

Then, Rocastle popped on and put me straight – he was right to do so too!

We sit second in the Premier League, we still have a chance of springing a surprise on the united side of Manchester, so why aren’t we focussing on that instead of the transfer window?

There are eighteen other sides in this who would love to be where we are right now in the league so maybe it’s time to think only about the next game, and that’s Blackpool on Sunday!

But, at this point I am going to suggest that Wenger needs to say sorry too – had he ventured into the transfer windows will a little more conviction over the last few years we possibly wouldn’t be sat in second place right now, we’d probably be on the verge of securing the Premier League title by now, if we hadn’t done already.

So come on Arsene, do yourself proud, admit that you have got it wrong sometimes and try give us some faith back in you and our club.

More Tea Arsene?

Anyway, back to our campaign, on paper we should beat Blackpool at the weekend, Ian Holloway has them playing the kind of football to give us a real chance of scoring a few goals. In fact Ian Holloway is one of the most refreshing managers in the Premier League right now – his side came up to the Premier League this season but not once has Holloway tried to change his philosophy on how to play the game. In fact Blackpool are similar to us, they score plenty, but sadly leak plenty too, so Sunday should be an absolute cracker of a game. Like I suggested yesterday, I think we may just nick it 7-6 😉

After Blackpool we face Liverpool at The Emirates – they have a few injury problems, Johnson and Agger are out for the long-term and Stevie Gerrard is also struggling with his fitness. They don’t have Torres but they do have a guy who will be desperate to prove his value, Andy Carroll. We’ll worry about that another day though.

Right now, let’s try and get behind the team, the boss and all that is Arsenal Football Club.

Despite how you feel, most of us have followed Arsenal through thick and thin, through the good times and the bad – things seem very much the latter at the moment but as said, we are still in with a chance of winning the most prestige trophy in England, the Premier League and let’s just hope that all our bad results, our blips and lack of focus have gone.

Let’s get behind The Arsenal for the next eight games, you never know they may just surprise us all yet…..

Then, we’ll look to the summer transfer window and all the in’s and out’s we hope for…. 😉

That’s it from me for today, have a good one……

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Potter
Potter
15 years ago

Admitting that mistakes have been made and eating a modicum of humble pie does not sit well with him. The fact that we are second and mathmatically still in it should be enough to get the fans behind the team. It is however the frustation of knowing it could have been so different had a few things been done in another way.

BTW any news on this rumoured announcement.?

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Morning Gooners, Hi Rico. Had a lot of catching up [reading] to do last night, some really good posts from yourself, Oliver and Stevie P.
We are still in a fantastic position and the Mancs have it all to do, so why do i feel so despondant???

El tel
El tel
15 years ago

Morning Rico

I am ever the optimist and believe that the Blackburn game could be the title winner rather than the end of our season.

It is probably the biggest kick in the bollocks this team have had so far this season and we have head plenty of them already the past two months.

These Players must know now that they are playing for their futures not only at the Arsenal but if they want to get a decent team when we unload them this summer.

The only thing I see fucking up the plan is the fake we have as goalkeeper.

Statistically you are wrong about us leaking goals as since the introduction of Chesney we have become more solid and we actually have the third best defence in the Prem.

The Mancscum result was perfect last night as it leaves the Chavs with a sniff of beating them and those old legs MUST be tiring at the moment.

Their best player this past month is also banned at last albeit only for two matches but that will help.

I believe the Mancscum will lose at least two of their remaining matches and draw a couple too.

It really will be up to us if this happens and in the old fashioned Arsenal way it will go to the wire.

I still think we need to change a few things next season but let’s get this one finished first.

It was also a boost to our fans seeing those Spud muppets get trounced by Real. We the fans need a lift far more than the players and this was a shot in the arm for me so I guess it did the same for other Gooners who believed the hype that those tossers had a chance in the CL.

Let’s help these players until the end of the season by giving them some help off the pitch too. We might not like all of them and we may even hate some of them but let’s keep things together us and them and see what happens.

Qudzy
Qudzy
15 years ago

Wise words chap! 4 nw th@s all we can do, get behind our team & pray 4 a miracle, so lets ntot fight amongst each as Gunners but be United like Manchester. The players also need 2 change their attitude as well & show us th@ our support means something 2 them as well.

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

I’ll tell ya what Rico, did you see Fergie last night, going out to the Manc fans and showing his appreciation of their support at the end of the game. It’s only a little thing and in the ‘Grand scheme’ shouldn’t mean F all, but i bet those fans loved the fact he took the trouble. Now when did Le Genius last ‘Work’ the fans the same way?? You know the ‘We’re all in this together’ nonsense that does mean a lot to us fans. There just seems to be something missing between the fans and the club…

Lee
Lee
15 years ago

Morning Rico/Kev, there’s talk of Dein coming back…. Good post Rico btw!;)

Lee
Lee
15 years ago

😉 even

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Absolutely Rico, he should take a leaf out of George Graham’s book, now he knew how to build that ‘Us against the world’ mindset and he included us fans into the mix. I sometimes get the feeling that Arsene treats us fans with distain and maybe contempt, as if we’re not allowed to criticise ‘The Great Arsene’. This of course transfers itself to the players who don’t ‘Show-out’ to us. Instead they’re busy dancing or waving to Auntie Mavis. Agree re: Theo, Jack is a good lad as well, maybe it’s a British thing?

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Hi Lee, man i hope your right about Dein…. All i want to hear is that Hill-Wood has retired and that Kroenke has sold-up [what is the point of Silent Sam????}

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Rico, i’m not sure George was any smarter, it’s more a case of respect. And it’s not as if it’s a ‘French thing’ because Thierry, Big Pat, Petit, they all ‘Played to the Gallery’, but then there was more of a British influence in the dressing room and they learned from TA, Razor and co

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Rico, Ursmanov gets a bad press from many Arse fans and blogs, and i don’t know why??? At least he goes to the games, Stans been to about 3…. What do you and others think out there, come on Lee…

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

And yes, i’d love DD back, he might be a bit of a spiv, but he was ‘Our spiv’. He worked the FA, went to all the Stiff & Youth games, was the drive behind our signing of players, he was/is a fan, doing what we’d all love to do… What is Hill-Wood? A Luddite, Kroenke, the Invisible man,and who the hell is Chips Keswick, where did he come from???

Lee
Lee
15 years ago

Rico/Kev that’s the point i think WATH/Will made in an earlier post, the majority of this squad dont fully comprehend the “playing for the red & white shirt” they play for a pay packet!!

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Rico, isn’t Urmanov richer than Abramovitch???
Anyway Gooners, i’m off to Rye Market. See ya all later.

Andya
Andya
15 years ago

we were suppose to beat Blackburn last week, what makes you think we’ll beat Blackpool away this weekend?

I have lost complete faith in this team, so many needless points dropped this season. i cannot see how Arsenal can win the leauge this season. If Wenger is going to stay then he must have a clear out, get rid of Diaby, Almunia, Bendtner, Denilson, Vela, Eboue, Rosicky, Sqalacchi and replace them with provern Quality players, we may then have a chance of winning a trophy. Agree Wenger should come out and apologise to the fans and admit his way was wrong.

The BearMan
The BearMan
15 years ago

The best we fans can do is not to put further unnecessary pressure on the team, for they are too fragile. It has proven they cannot strive under-pressure.

It would be good to see the players just go out and enjoy the remaining games of the season. Simply freely expressing themselves. Who Knows?

SD-London
SD-London
15 years ago

I wactched the Madrid vs Puds highlights again yesterday and noticed what we missed in Adebayor – The areal threat he has.

But when i saw his celebrations i then remembered how his arrogance slowly creped in at Arsenal and all the fans collectively started losing any affection for him .Then he made a mistake by peddling himself to AC Milan.

So i don’t miss Adebayor but i think we missed the arial threat he provides.

So my question is why didn’t Wenger stick to Chamarch ?
He was a direct replacement to what Adebayor gave us.
Wenger dropped him as soon as RVP came back and the rythm we had was distrupted.

When he wanted to bring Charmach back, he has already lost his confidence and we were in trouble now we are finding it hard to score againts negative teams.

So yesy I support Wenger and yes I think the players can win the league because 2nd is not a fluke (but I am still amazed) but Wenger made too many changes this season which seems like he didn’t but he did.

Those guys need to just find their rhythm which Wenger has tampered with by making the first team too obvious and leaving the other players dejected for being in a 2nd team.

So if Wenger can mix it up again , then the boys will find their rhythm.

For me , RVP and Charmach should start all games to the end of the season and Arshavin to feed them from the left and let Fabregas control the midfield right at the centre, I leave the rest of the headache to Wenger

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

morning all…nobody about, it seems. not that much is happening at the moment.

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

hi wath…little to talk about at the moment. i am encouraged by the apparent lack of chatter from our players, regarding how we can still we it…we do have a chance, but the time for talk has passed…better to keep quiet, hunker down and get ready to take care of business on sunday.

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Hi Gooners. where’s everyone?

SD-London
SD-London
15 years ago

Well sorry to dampen your optimism WATH ! but as soon as we beat Blackpool (God willing ) they will all start mouthing off on Twitter like pack of clustered wave making swallow birds ;

We are still in the race ,
We can still catch Man utd ,
We are focused ,
Bring on Liverpool
We have to win all our games now
We have being recharged
We were never in doubt of our abilities.
The Boss trusts us to do well

And so on and on and on and on they will all go like school girls in the school bus with their blackberries .

Then Liverpool comes and then we ………………………………

I left it open ended for the palyers to write their own stories .

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Oliver, you are so right, actions speak louder than words and our players spend far too much time bragging about what they’re going to do, instead of doing it AND then talking about it…

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Howdy all.Legendary quote ‘stay on your feet’…wilkins.

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Hi Wath, been in London working mate, ugh. How’s things amigo.
KT, what’s the SP on Mario Gavranovic then???

Lee
Lee
15 years ago

Kev, that working will interfere with your social life!!

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

I’m afraid i can’t avoid it Wath me o’ china.
Plenty of stories about new signings next summer, unfortunately all the players involved seem to be aged 15….

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Social life Lee… ha ha mate, it interferes with my gardening [ and my curries…]

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

FA uphold Rooneys 2 game ban. So he won’t be playing in the FA Cup Semi-Final, shame…..

agirlagunner
agirlagunner
15 years ago

Boo!

I like your optimism, rico. 🙂 I must admit, it hasn’t been any fun rehashing how rubbish AFC has been since the CC finals… 🙁

agirlagunner
agirlagunner
15 years ago

Oh, and poor Shrek… 😀 😀

Lee
Lee
15 years ago

Kev, a mate of mine has a club level season ticket…lucky git!! He said after the Blackburn game , there was young ladies with pdq machines asking people to renew their season tickets!! Now that is a fcking liberty!!!

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Got to say, that despite my antipathy for ManUre’ you have to admire the way they go about their business. Why Arse are fannying about, they don’t ‘mouth-off’ but do their talking on the pitch. Wish our players would just keep their gobs firmly closed and focus on the job instead.
How’s the retail therapy going agag?

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Lee, that isn’t a good sign mate… Are we really that skint???

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

We won’t beat blackpool…am serious about it.

agirlagunner
agirlagunner
15 years ago

Hey, AK. Howdy? Been on hols? Oh, our players have to stop tweeting their apologies… They just have to go win some.

The retail therapy is going according to plan, AK. 😉 I still need a few more sessions though.

Hey, Lee. rico, been out gardening??

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

AK am still not sure about Gavranovic but he looks decent so far.he would be a shrewd buy.

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Rico just wait and see.it will be billed as ‘Game of the season’ at the end of it and a ‘Great advert for the league’.best case scenario is a high scoring draw.

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Work agag. I drive, so it means i’m out of the loop. Yeah don’t apologise, just get angry and make sure it doesn’t happen again [whatever the balls-up was].

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Im so jealous of madrid/barca right now.they are playing with lots of pace,poise and technique-things we used to excel at but now we seem one paced especially when theo is out.

agirlagunner
agirlagunner
15 years ago

A right ray of sunshine you are, KT. 🙂 I certainly hope we win against Blackpool. It would be beyond depressing if we draw or heaven forbid, lose…

rico, I had to google “cuprinol”. Busy girl. Well, there’s really not much to say about our team that we haven’t already said before… Might as well grow ’em potatoes, eh?

allezkev
allezkev
15 years ago

Cheers KT.
Agag, you would have loved Rye Market…..

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

afternoon all…still pretty quiet, which is good…just focus on the task at hand for sunday…

hi rico, hi agag…

agirlagunner
agirlagunner
15 years ago

Thought you went off for sum sea and sun, AK. All our players talk about the great atmosphere in the dressing room, how they communicate, blah blah blah… It doesn’t translate on the pitch though does it? That’s what frustrates me.

Osi
Osi
15 years ago

Hi evening all, I don’t know where to start and with what to start with! But God I don’t like this club to be taken over by a Rich Foreigner. Takeover it not a solution giving this club back to fans is.

agirlagunner
agirlagunner
15 years ago

AK, Rye Market sounds like somewhere they sell raw materials for… vodka… Haha. I’m sure I’d love it. 😀

Hello, oliver. Howdy?

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

hi agag…all right, thanks…the off-season will be upon us before we know it…

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Hi oliver.

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

hiya k…

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Rico i really hope we win at the weekend.i was preparing a post but the team ripped apart my motivation to finish it.a win would probably help me finish it up.

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

two words
david dein…

nice uplifting post rico…
it wouldnt do wenger any harm to admitt his mistakes but as far as the rest of the season is concerned im not expecting any miracles…

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Hi jj.Dein won’t come back in the current set up.

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

We are facing the prospect of 4 El Grand Classicos in 4 weeks…i can’t wait!!!

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

if he buys ninas shares or dannys and teams up with usmanov or stan hes in..

or if usmanov buys ninas shares or dannys and takes dein back then hes in…

fuck gazidis hes done naff all for the club except taken on a whole heap of staff whove managed to do naff all as well..
i bet their getting good wages as well…they can pack their bags and go with denilson and the others…

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

weve supported them all year rico..
whats going to be the difference now…
we supprted them going into the cc final..
didnt do naff all did it..
im just sitting back quiet to see what happens..

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Haha rico.it will be a pleasure to watch madrid vs barca 4 times in the next couple of weeks.

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

JJ having watched barca maul shaktar i came up with an observation;none of barca’s goals were scored by a forward.their 5 goals came about through late midfield runners-llegada-who are very difficult to track.alves especially posed them no end of problems in the entire game by running on the blind side of the shaktar defense which also made me wish our fullbacks would contribute more offensively.this tactic can be very effective against teams that park the bus.

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Theo and Song may be out of the weekend’s clash against Blackpool-Guardian.

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

ktr
we are nowhere near barcas standard
barca have a team full of catalans and have the heartbeart and desire of a team that works hard for the club they love..they are accompannied by superstars and it makes a good mixture
we have a team full of mercenaries..no gooners and surrounded by over paid no hopers…

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Rico are you playing mind games with me?…

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

this is getting silly now..
apparently weve signed this charlton kid..
first it was jon torel..then it was this 15 year old german defender, now jenkinson??
wtf
how many kids have we got already???
so why are we buying more is our academy that empty arsene ffs stop it with the babies sign some proper players..
wasting money on kids when weve got enough already..

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

theres no point boasting about your academy when you have to buy players to put in it..

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

weve become the chelsea and citeh of the under 19s..

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

JJ leave Arsenal out of the picture at the moment.i was asking about the tactic.

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

I can understand why we are signing this one.we have very few upcoming RBs.

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

i will not buy a superstar cos it will kill my kid
so i wonder who’s place jenkinson is taking??
point is, ANY SIGNING kills another play so if your going to make one make it a PROPER ONE and not a future prospect..
here, look everyone, ive replaced a kid with…another kid..
im getting bored now…

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Rico thats not a fair question.its like asking you to have 1 pair of shoes or 1 handbag.i would get bored of following 1 team only even if its Barcelona.

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

kerrea gilbert
eastmond
coq
hoyte

if they aint good enough then buy someone who is not someone whos played a handful of reserve games for a lower league club who prob of the same standard…

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Coquelin is a CM jj.the rest are crap.

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

anyone heard the rumour that lille have offered us hazard but want him back on loan?/
whats the point in paying 20+mil for a player and not being able to use him for another year??

agirlagunner
agirlagunner
15 years ago

Hi, JJ and bye JJ. 😉 I’m off. Good night, kids! rico, have a tall, cool drink after all of today’s exertions. KT, you have shoes-handbags issues, too? I commiserate. 😀

Osi
Osi
15 years ago

our academy is great as we produced Wilshere, Gibbs and others like Chuck ankeky, afobe are on their way. The idea about the academy is not that it has to produce all or even half of the first team it’s good if it produces a few world class players for the club so that the team can be built around it. I’m sure that we can do that in a few years.

Osi
Osi
15 years ago

Rico I get your earlier point

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

hi agag
bye agag 😉

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

thats just it rico

K-TR7
K-TR7
15 years ago

Rico its very rewarding to watch other leagues.i have been a follower of özil for almost 4 years now and i’ll get his jersey but many fans had not heard of him prior to the worldcup.Shearer looked like a mug for suggesting that no German would make the England team a game which England got a hiding.its good to pick up the remote and watch other leagues.am currently enjoying watching Borussia Dortmund in Germany.am also learning so much about football in the former Soviet union countries and their up coming stars by just watching the Bundesliga as most players from those countries end up playing there.

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

jj, i think part of it is that not every kid we sign is expected to make the first team. i think every kid is expected to be developed to a certain standard – with the arsenal-brand label attached – and many are expected to be sold on for profit…i am pretty sure i have heard the term “self sustaining” used in reference to our setup, and running a youth academy which can supply some players for the first team and sell others for a profit, while having a steady stream of younger incoming players sounds self sustaining to me…

that is not to say i personally agree with this approach – i think it overlooks many of our present issues – but i suspect that may be at least some of the rationale behind the constant purchases of kid players.

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

nite rico…

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

the rational of constant kid purchases no longer washes when youve got the money we have and its our first team in need of repair not our reserves..

no one cares anymore about a player who may come good or may make a profit in 5 years time..

we want players to win us trophies its that constant obessession with profit at this club thats holding us back…

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

jj, i am not disagreeing with some of what you are saying. i do think we need to be self-sufficient, and this is one of the chosen means. but it appears to be part of a strategy where player development and self-sustainment are emphasized over tangible (i.e. winning things) success.

again, i don’t have a problem with running a strong youth setup, with a proverbial conveyor belt of players to supplement the first team squad, or be sold for profit…but this approach does not adequately address the here and now…i am concerned that this season may be our best opportunity to win things in the past few – perhaps next few – years.

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

weve got a strong youth set up already weve got 16 players out on loan..
we have over 60 players on our books
and we feel the need to add more to the academy??

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

theres no problem in self sustaining
especially when self sustaining makes you 52 mil profit in one year..
but if you make 52 mil and spend 51mil of it you still make profit so why the need for more kids to make you more profit in the future when youve got the kind of money for established players and still make profit now??

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

based on recent player acquisitions, it would seem we do. perhaps that is part of the “conveyor belt” strategy – keep the pipeline flowing into the academy, and add the nearly-finished players to the first team squad and sell of the rest…

again, i think we need ready-made quality, experience, track-record-of-recent-success players in several squad positions, but our current emphasis appears to be on youth. i think our club are not doing a good job of balancing these competing demands at the moment, but as i have no input into it, there isn’t much i can do about it…

oliver
oliver
15 years ago

i would surmise that the club probably does not view 1 million as adequate profit…i cannot speak for them, only give an opinion as to what i think is happening…but recent actions seem to show that youth purchases and development have priority over all other player issues…

the club can explain this long term strategy far better than i can…

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

which is the problem..

JonJon
JonJon
15 years ago

spend what you make..
dont spend a bit of what you make on making more in 10 years time..

its fine if your strengthening the team every year as well but when your not and your just buying kids from around the world it takes the piss..

lack of ambition and lack of respect for your fanbase..

Joaquim Moreira
Joaquim Moreira
15 years ago

European League. Just watching F.C. Porto. Falcao it’s fantastic!
Like I have told you before: Spaniash and Portugueses teams are superior of others ones. And Barga draw in Kiev..
Probably Benfica, Vila Real and Porto will be in the next round

Lee
Lee
15 years ago

Yo Rico, just read that Eto’s had a burglary at his family home and his wife has urged him to leave Italy…..he’d do for starters!!! 🙂

Will
Will
15 years ago

Anyone else bored with this season?

Lee
Lee
15 years ago

Dunno what he’d cost tbh….what an addition he’d be!straight swap with nb