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Boss Confirms Deal Will Be Done! Tiote Linked & Hold Your Horses Theo!

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Morning all.

So, Theo Walcott thinks that right now, our attacking force is superior to to when he first arrived…

Talking to the official site, he said:

When I came, it was Pires and Ljungberg, Bergkamp, Thierry and Reyes – that’s some attacking force as well. I think this squad probably does beat it, but we need to prove it first.

When we go and achieve a little bit more than winning the FA Cup, then I think we can stand up and say this is the best attacking line up we’ve ever had.

Get yourself up off of the floor, stop laughing and give it some thought…

Reyes, a lovely player but thanks to the Neville sisters at Utd, he never settled in England. Well, that and the odd Gallic stare from Thierry when he fluffed something up which was a great shame because he really cold have been good for us. Alexis is kind of playing his role in today’s game and our Chilean wins that vote.

Sir Bobby and Freddie – well talk about the right players for the right era, they were both superb for Arsenal. How many times did one or both arrive late in the penalty area to grab goals? Too many to recall I’d say and that’s something we don’t see much of these days, goals shared around the team so our two old boys get my vote easily.

Dennis Bergkamp – well as much as I love Santi and Mesut, Dennis was a better number ten, in fact possibly the best ever and he had great players alongside and ahead of him, players who just knew what he was going to do and where he was going to place his pass. So the old boys get my vote again.

Finally Thierry Henry, another great footballer – Theo Walcott was meant to have modelled his game on Thierry, and perhaps he has but sadly, either fitness or his lack of ability has only proved he was never ever going to get close to carrying his dreams onto the pitch. We’ve seen glimpses of greatness from him but two hands would suffice whilst counting those.

Ollie and Danny boy – well they have their moments but…….

I personally believe our attacking force is not stronger today by a long way, if it was, Alexis Sanchez wouldn’t be our main goal scorer. It might be deeper in numbers and very different to back in 2006 but stronger, nope.

What do you think?

Transfer gossip:

Gabriel Paulista’s name won’t leave the back pages and this is what Villerreal boss has reportedly told El Larguero:

I hadn’t considered selling Gabriel, it’s bad news from a sporting point of view .

If both Gabriel and the club believe that his sale to Arsenal is the best for all parties, we will accept.

In other words, offer the right money and Villerreal will sell. Paulista is reported to have been in outstanding form this season and has been an ever present for his club, who currently sit in sixth-place in La Liga.The player said:

Whether I go to Arsenal or stay at Villarreal, I won’t lose my head. (good, you’ll need it)

I’m very calm. My head is at Villarreal and I’m very focused. My agent is working on making sure I continue being calm.

Well, £8 million for Winston Reid or £15 million for Gabriel? That’s the figures quoted by the sports writers but whether that’s true, who knows.

Cheick Tiote’s name has popped up today! I’ll leave that right there….

Finally, just a few stats as I know you like them.

Francis Coquelin, who is rumoured to have been offered a new contract, has won 3.70 tackles per 90 mins, compared to Flamini (1.95) and Arteta (1.79) and he’s won 73.08 per cent of aerial duels, compared to Flamini with 61.76 per cent and Arteta on just 50 per cent.

Signer la chose Le Coq!!

That’s it for today, have a good one all….

rico

128 thoughts on “Boss Confirms Deal Will Be Done! Tiote Linked & Hold Your Horses Theo!”

  2. Bt62 Gooner says:

    Rico, nearly burst a side when i read the Theo quotes, last night……

    Try staying fit first Theo and then prove it on the pitch…

    Walk the walk, don’t just talk the walk….

  4. rockyrocastle07 says:

    Morning all Another outrageous comment from a member or our current squad. If they’re not taking selfies, they are in the press saying how we can still win the league (ridiculous from Rambo the other day) or generally spouting complete guff about how “we need to do better (Ox and Merts are notorious for these comments this season). They should just concentrate on playing and keep schtum.

  15. Adam says:

    What is it with these ex-players once they have their feet under the table with Sky or BT? Listening to Jamie Carragher having a pop at our players taking pics and using social media to communicate with the fans who spend huge money to support the team it struck me what a complete and abject tosser he is. Once these blokes are on the end of a microphone or a TV camera it is as if their behaviour on the pitch is somehow washed clean and they arise, white than white and spiritually cleansed to pass a rather superior judgement on those still playing. Thus we have the thuggish Gary Neville (or his ghastly brother) becoming the new voice of football, though no doubt his nose has been knocked out of joint with the arrival of TH on bigger bucks. On another station we see Robbie Savage or Danny Mills, both thugs, dishing out the approbation and condemnation with Saint-like gravity. Do me a favour. Now there is Carragher, a virtually incomprehensible and moronic pundit who has decided that selfies don’t fit his way of doing things. Perhaps he would prefer players to spend their time dragging their opponents to the floor like he spent much of his career doing or getting outpaced by opposition strikers and whining to referees about imaginary fouls.
    Tell you what, talk about the football by employing what limited intellectual abilities you might be able to muster and shut the fcuk up about the rest. Oh and be grateful that somehow you have lucked into this job. But spare us the sanctimonious crap.

  18. rockyrocastle07 says:

    I particularly liked that arsehole Carragher saying about Arsenal to stop taking photo’s – we’re not even in the top 4, blissfully ignoring the selfies that the Bindippers have posted, from a lowlier position than us in the league.

    Carragher is the worst pundit since Gazza was a pundit on ITV at the 2002 World Cup.

  19. rico says:

    You do have a way with words Adam..

    I’m not too upset when the players use social media, they are just being ‘out there’ with the fans and why not be thrilled after beating City, we all were.

    But the talk is all a bit odd really, especially some of the bizarre stuff they come out with…

    As doe Carragher and co, I switch off…. Mind you, I nearly did when Henry said we need Alex Song back… lol

  20. Adam says:

    Rocky. I predict that he won’t look quite as good in a few weeks after the camera has learned to love Thierry. He is already coming out with some rather silly statements like the one about this being make or break for Man City. The old paraffin lamp sitting next to him, called Souness, was taken aback with the flimsiness of his argument. Still, he is better than Andy Gray I suppose.

  21. rockyrocastle07 says:

    I really like Neville (the pundit – the player was a cnut). Henry is spouting bollocks already. How Souness gets a gig is beyond me.

  24. Darren Dommett says:

    no team can beat the invicables of 2004 sorry Theo hope we sign paulista but how will we get past the work permit issue any ideas

  26. Adam says:

    I believe Souness, in a vain and rather pathetic attempt to look younger, has adopted the ways of the hipster with his rather odd beard and matchstick-man trousers. Still, anyone but Jim White I suppose. Now there IS a fully fledged dork.

  27. rockyrocastle07 says:

    Agreed Adam. Alkthough the biggest Uber-cnut of them all these days is Jeff Stelling. The snazzy young persons hair, the perma-tan a-la Phil Brown / Big Racist Ron and his dimeanor these days…. Man has got above his station VERY quickly.

    Although “Party Hands” Lineker the other week with that ridiculous bum-fluff on his Chin during the Arsenal-Hull match was embarrassing.

  28. eduardo says:

    nice to see Theo’s comments totally misconstrued, Theo said that our attack now is as good as it was with Pires, Ljunberg, Bergkamp, Reyes and Henry when he arrived in 2006, now he did not say that attack when they were at their peak, no he said when he arrived and if any of you care to check it out only Henry was firing on all cylinders in 2006, Pires, Ljunberg, Bergkamp and Reyes only managed 18 goals between them in all competitions in 2005/06 season, Pires 7, Ljunberg 2, bergkamp 3, reyes 6
    Henry was still on his game with 33 goals.

    It never ceases to amaze me how fans confuse what a player was at their best compared to what they were in certain seasons or when we actually signed them. There is no doubt the players we have now will have to go some to hit the heights achieved by that lot, which includes for me 3 of the best players to ever play for Arsenal – Bergkamp, Henry and Pires – but the players we have now compare favorably to what Pires, Reyes, Bergkamp and Ljunberg were in 2005/06 season, so for me anyone who laughs at Walcott’s comments on the matter really has missed the actual basis of his comments and really are the ones who should be laughed at.

  29. Adam says:

    Rocky. Agreed. I swear I saw the foundations of a teased Mohican on Stelling a short while ago. 🙂
    No doubt the make-up girls were taking the piss and having a good laugh though.

  30. rockyrocastle07 says:

    Theres no way we’ll get a DM in now (hope not Tiote). The fact le Coq has been given a new deal (based on 3 performances), and this new Bielik chap have put paid to that….. bit strange how we let him nearly run his contract down as Wenger clearly didn’t rate him, then he has a few good games and it seems Wenger and a host of the players all want to suck him off as the next big thing again.

  31. rockyrocastle07 says:

    Eduardo – Glad you know exactly what he meant and have enlightened us mere mortals.. How do we know YOU haven’t misconstrued what he says?

  33. eduardo says:

    well said adam re: pundits, the scouse idiot ignores not only the amount of photos lfc players put up now, but the fact lots of photos of himself in the lfc dressing room were put up over the years,
    then we have savage and co being total hypocrites, they blast Monreal for going down for our penalty and in their discussions of the very next game they blame a Hull player for not going down once he felt the slightest contact, many of us know its one rule for Arsenal and a whole different set of rules for everyone else with these pundits and the media in general.

    we had match of the day advocating that opponents kick lumps out of Arsenal to stop them, this has been the party line for years, it is not ever put forward as a way to stop any other side, its a disgrace.

  34. rockyrocastle07 says:

    Arsenalk on TV once in Marc, compared to Man City, Utd and the Dippers all being on 3 times each. The media bias for Liverpool across ALL sports channels is ridiculous.

  36. eduardo says:

    rocky I know cos he actually said “when I came”, which was 2006, by the way the quote is in the article above in case you missed it.

  37. AndrewH says:

    Morning all. To be fair to TW, he cant really say ‘our attack now is poorer than any previous era’. It would not go down well with his team mates. And with the Adams & Co defence and Viera and Petit/Silva, I think we would still do pretty well.

  38. rockyrocastle07 says:

    Well you must be correct Eduardo with that amazing logic! How do you know from “When I came” he was talking about players in general that were there o their current performances? Sorry, but unless it was YOU that actually said it, you have no way of knowing. In case you missed it, it doesn’t specifty in his comments.

  39. rockyrocastle07 says:

    As if Begrgkamp, even though he had so few goals when Walcott came, isn’t a better player than all of them?!

  40. tsgh says:

    Excellent post rico..

    Is Theo’s contract up already seeing as he is making noise… 😛

    I am pleased to read folks on hear think the legend TH14 has caught the punditry disease too i.e talking ‘Bollox’…

    Afternoon all btw…

  41. rockyrocastle07 says:

    Sure sounds like that, Ts – Or he Is trying o butter Arsene up so he can get back in the first 11 a little quicker!

  47. bradster says:

    i see Ox been head and shoulders above Walcott as neither will play striker but Ox has skill to dribble and runs at players instead of on the shoulder to sprint past the defender.

  48. rockyrocastle07 says:

    Again, agreed Brad. I was just thinking very. Ox is great in midfield but rarely offers much goal threat.

  49. bradster says:

    i see that part of his game developing. He does take on the shot from outside the box and some near misses.
    A few times his technique has been spot on and the ball has just gone wide or over the bar.

  51. tsgh says:

    Personally, I am still uncertain with the progress Ox has made since he joined us…

    Ox, hardly has a bad game, but he rarely shows what he is capable of doing consistently.

    As Brad, has alluded to earlier, he offers little goal threat and in my view is not a specialist at anything yet…
    I guess that epitomises majority of the players in the squad. Only a few a masters in an area on the pitch…

    In my view from what I have seen of Wellington in La Liga this season he is ahead of OX; I also thing Sege is a better all round player…

  52. Lee says:

    Olivier Giroud says strikers at the highest level need to have “cold blood in their veins” in front of goal.

    The French forward has impressed for Arsenal this season, scoring seven goals in 13 appearances including a second-half header at Manchester City on Sunday.

    Giroud was inspired by Thierry Henry when he was younger and feels that to reach the top, strikers must work tirelessly on the training pitch.

    You need to have something that all strikers have in them. You need to keep lucidity in front of goal

    “You can always improve yourself but you need to have talent,” he told Arsenal Player. “Talent is not sufficient on its own, though. I always repeat that because it’s important for young players to know it.

    “You need to have something that all strikers have in them. You need to keep lucidity in front of goal and have cold blood, like we say in France, in your veins. You need to be a born striker with a killer instinct.

    “I looked up to Andrey Shevchenko and Jean Pierre Papin [when I was younger]. Eric Cantona as well, but the one who scored so many goals was Titi Henry.

    “He played for my team, Arsenal, so I was impressed by his performances. He has done really well in his career, especially at Arsenal. If I can do half of what he has done I will be happy.”

  54. bradster says:

    I worry that Gnabry won’t get a chance to shine for us and get similar to Campbell’s treatment.

    Wasn’t Silva ahead of Neymar and Coutinho with the Brazilian U/17’s? I think that’s when Wenger bought him. Do you know if he can get a work permit ts?

  59. Rick says:

    Good Afternoon Rico and the House.
    Just a short visit to wish you a very happy Birthday Rico ,hope you are having a great day. See you latta.

  61. allezkev says:

    Just read the post…

    Theo is talking absolute nonsense…

    The only player from out present attack, who who get anywhere close the Bergkamp/Henry era, would be Sanchez…

    Theo wouldn’t even get into that team in front of Wiltord, let alone Bobby n Fred…

    Talk about being delusional… 🙄

    Afternoon All
    Afternoon Young Rico… 😉

  63. rockyrocastle07 says:

    Watch it Kev – Eduardo will shoot you down for that sort of talk as you have CLEARLY misconstrued what he is saying. How dare you.

  68. allezkev says:

    Thanks Rocky…

    Eduardo is just a pussycat… 🙂

    Maybe it’s just me (it often is 😉 ) but I wouldn’t be too bothered or too suprised for that matter, if Master Walcott departed this parish in the near future…

    With his injury record and his never-ending contract saga, is he really an asset?

    Righto, I’m off as I can hear the birthday girl coming after me with a rolling pin… 😛

  70. agirlagunner says:

    Happiest birthday, Lady!! 22?? Huh? I thought it was your sweet 16th!! 😛 😉 I hope you enjoy every minute of it. Have some champagne!! And fry that chicken!!

  80. rockyrocastle07 says:

    I bet it is AGAG! I went shopping to Tesco last Saturday night and spent £100 on fruit and veg for this detox. Just for 1 week. I felt violated.

    Right, I’m off to buy some baby milk! Seriously… my life nowadays…..

    Catch you tomorrow

  82. agirlagunner says:

    That was my lunch. 😉 Good luck with the detox. Hi to Mrs Rocky and the baby. 🙂

    rico, or chicken birthday noodle soup for long life and all that. 🙂 🙂

  88. Rick says:

    Youth Cup.
    In the 2nd min of the game againstNon League Royston Town Mavididi hit the post.
    On 4mins Royston took a shock lead and after 25mins are still in lead.

  94. scottfromoz says:

    Guys, THAT era saw the first real wave of overseas players dominating teams in numbers.
    Sorry, but watch the games……put our attacking I it against those defenders, and they rip them to shreds.
    Now, as i said earlier, I’d never try to compare the two groups, because those guys were just freaks, but even trying to compare players or groups of players from different eras is just ridiculous, especially if you don’t take the opposition into account.
    People say how slow Merts is…….he’d deadheat with Adams over 20 metres but that was a different era, and the game was nothing like it is now.

  101. tsgh says:

    I guess if the finishing prize is a gallon of GG you will set a world record Wath… 🙂

    Morning all btw…

    £6m bid in for Paulista when his buy-out clause is supposedly £20m… lol

    The chavs are going for Cuadrado… 🙁

  103. Wath says:

    Ts you been doing stats on Wellynoot whilst watching him on tv 😉

    Mate if GG at the finishing line i’ll break all records known to man…!

    Morning to the Lady of the House…..

  104. rico says:

    Ts, just been reading about that, it’s £15 million and the £6 million is cash up front with the rest to follow.. 😉

    Then there’s something about the work permit rule change in the summer (Telegraph) so this deal could go through.. Confused? Me too… lol

  108. tsgh says:

    Ah, thanks for the clarification…

    Could that deal plus swap for CJ brought in Reid instead?

    Does Kosser or the BFG speak Spanish or Portuguese? we know Bellerin and Monreal are now bi-lingual but do we need another adaptation period?

  109. rico says:

    Thanks Lee, I wish…

    Wath, so does that mean any player costing above £10m needs a work permit, or just those from outside Europe?

  120. allezkev says:

    I’m a bit suprised by the Tiote rumour from yesterday.

    Either an Agent inspired story.

    Or a shot across the bow of Coquelin for him to sign or we’ll replace him pronto?

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