Morning all,
A ‘light’ post this morning, well the start of it…..
Just what is Santi up to and why is David Beckham laughing so much?
Wouldn’t you love to know?
I can’t find it Becks..!
Whatever his problem, it didn’t go away!
It’s there, I know it is, it’s just tiny like me….
And nor will the rest of the problems go away by the sound of it.
According to reports, we are going to have one last try at signing David Villa and that’s it. Well I wouldn’t bother personally, not if it’s true that Manchester City now want him to replace Balotelli. We can’t compete with them for wages and at his age, I suspect Villa wants a bumper salary.
Oh well, the dream was nice while it lasted!
If Walcott had left, everybody would have said, ‘You lost a top striker.’
“Giroud is getting there, I believe. He has started 11 Premier League games and scored eight goals. In all competitions he has 14 goals. Overall, he is slowly getting there.
“If you look at the Africa Cup of Nations, the best striker is Gervinho and after [him] we have one or two good young players who will get a chance.
Then Podolski! I forgot Podolski, who we bought to play as a central striker, so we have quality strikers.
Walcott has been with us a long time now and after a handful of games playing centrally, Wenger suggests he’s considered to be a top striker. He says he signed Podolski to play to play as a striker too, so why has he been sticking him out wide on the left and watch his struggle?
Gervinho, well it will take me and suspect most fans more than a goal or two at the ACON’s to convince he is a quality striker.
Anyway, let’s hope the three we do have right now find the back of the net tonight, we need a win, for no other reason than we all want to see an Arsenal side win. Top four, well what will be will be and if we don’t get there in May, then blame Kroenke and his cronies below him, including Wenger.
Thomas Vermaelen is fit for selection tonight so he should slot straight back into the side, Coquelin, Arteta and Fabianski remain on the sidelines although the latter is ready for a couple of matches for the reserves now..
Whisper it, but Diaby is still fit too……
Wenger needs to get his team focused for tonight, Liverpool will still be seething from their FA Cup exit and of course from earlier in the season when we beat them at Anfield.
I’ll end on some positive news, the club have announced that they won’t be increasing tickets prices next season.
I’m surprised they didn’t keep that bit of news up their sleeve, or maybe it’s an attempt to appease fans for no transfers this month…
If so, it won’t work!
Have a good day all….
Don’t do that to us. I bet i’m not the only one to nearly sh*t a brick at the headline.
Morning all…
Sorry Steve, a bit of fun intended…. 😉
Morning Rico. As soon as I saw the picture captions I knew it was one of yours. 🙂
You’ll be posting that rowers pic again soon I should imagine.
Funnily enough, I think we will make a signing. 🙂
Headline gave me scare
why would u do this? I nearly had a heart attack when i read z headlines.
Dude…seriously,dat headline got me panicking!funny pics though…lol.
Freezing prices ? A pre-emptive strike to try to garner some good publicity before the end of the window.
Morning Adam and all…. no signings are coming!
Me too, with a massive must-win game today?
Morning Adam, Lee & Potter
Ha ha, oh those rowers…..
Sorry Dobromir
why would u post a headline like this? Nearly had a heart attack!
Morning Lee. Hope springs eternal…and all that.
Lee – you are far too negative these days, you must be getting ready for your night out with Adam 😉
Welcome to those joining, we needed something lighthearted….
Maybe there is some guts to this story?
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1300/Eredivisie/article/detail/1557166/2013/01/03/Alderweireld-naar-Arsenal-Heitinga-vervanger.dhtml
Thanks for the stupid headline grabbing
Rico. Let me assure you that there is never a dull moment when you have dinner with Lee. 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Alderweireld
Thats from a decent Belgian sports rag earlier on this month …
Feeling pretty dull of late…
I saw that one too Syg, apparently many clubs are looking at him
Apparently shiteh want Villa….
I’m sure Adam….
Dry January to blame Lee?? 😉
Surely the big announcement tonight will be that Arsenal are to play Indonesia on July 14th!
Better than a signing more filthy lucre for the mammon chest. A new syrup jar for our absent friend! But no other new signings this tme.
And they are prepared to pay £1 billion for him too.
Top comment Remy, glad you have a sense of humour!!
Hiya Adam ……
“Arsenal defender Sebastien Squillaci could be on his way to Brighton. The Championship side are keen on a loan deal for the 32-year-old whose contract expires in the summer. Bastia were said to be keen along with Marseille, Nice, Monaco, and Ajaccio but his £45,000-a-week salary has proved a barrier and he could be on his way to the south coast in a deal subsidised by Arsenal.”
Rely. You must be a bundle of fun to be around.
Sorry, I meant Remy.
SYG. Sad but somehow inevitable.
http://www.fichajes.net/noticias/north-london-derby-por-alderweirel-20130129.html
http://www.ajaxinside.nl/items/lees/10716/Alderweireld-voor-vele-miljoenen-naar-Arsenal
Remy find a dead bear!
Did you know that anal sex is still illegal in Iceland? Not sure if it’s the same in Farmfoods so be careful…..
Whichever you look at it, even world stars like Messi or Ronaldo will always treasure their clubs to sign reinforcements just to boost the competitiveness of the squad. Which explains why ambitious managers often seek to elicit the support of their senior squad members over their prospective signings. Arsenal players remain docile and taciturn. They seem to care less about new signings. Barcelona as loaded as the club is, whenever their manager is pursuing a new signing, the senior players come out to encourage the player. Wayne Rooney, Giggs and Ferdinand did so when Man U were courting RVP. Why do Arsenal players keep mute and care less about what their manager does when they know they are injury prone. No Arsenal player gets injured and comes back within one month. So, why don’t they encourage AW to improve the squad and play the players in their natural roles, instead of shuffling them to roles they are not gifted. This is responsible for Ramsey’s weak performance, playing him in his unnatural role. Please go and strengthen your team now. Stop this frugal behaviour. Perhaps, Arsenal will learn their lesson when they fail to qualify even outside the Europa league.
SYG. Yet more tunnel connections. I saw Michael Portillo the other evening being shown around the tunnelling machine for the Crossrail project. It’s about the length 17 buses I think and has an on board kitchen and mini railway itself that helps transfer the rubble. Do you know the machine? A truly incredible thing.
Change in betting on sky……..
David Villa to sign before 1st February 2013
Manchester City 5/4
Arsenal 5/1
Edinson Cavani – now Arsenal are out to 16/1
Marouane Fellaini – now Arsenal are out to 12/1
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According to the bookies our best hope is signing Beckam at 7/2 or the ex-Wigam mercenary Diame at 5/4
Hiya Adam – Last time I saw Michael Portillo was at a cagefighting event in Nottingham… I think he was there doing some kind of TV show…
The machine? Is that the Herrenknecht? They advertise with us… A German company that have a UK office in Sunderland – really nice people ….
Syg, well they wouldn’t want Merts after his display in Sussex 😉
I almost fainted at the headline, pls don’ do such again.
i just fail to understand it – we know impressive signings are needed for all sorts of reasons not least of which is our slide out of the top 4 now being a real possibility – Wenger gives it big before every bloody window filling us with belief he has got the situation covered. Why our we panicking 2 days before close, what sort of business men are this lot for christ sake
Hiya SYG. I understand that Portillo was a brutal cage fighter in his younger days. Do you like that stuff then?
Can’t remember the name of the machine I’m afraid but it was mightily impressive. Inserted Pre-formed concrete sections as it went.
SYG. You must have seen Jordan’s ex Alex Reid pounding people senseless then. I prefer him as his alter ego Roxanne myself.
Morning all.. So its confirmed…. The best striker at the waste of time ACON’s, Gerboue, will be like a new signing for us when he comes back. Great stuff. Can’t wait to see him marauding cluelessly down the wings again.
Why the fuck did we not just take a chance on Lewis Holtby. £1.5 million is hardly breaking the bank.
Adam… You like seeing Alex Reid as Roxanne being pounded senseless?! Wow… some video that must be!
Rico – you have been warned by Remy that you must never, on your own site, post something that clearly upsets him ever again. Please refrain and desist form such silliness.
Rocky. 🙂
Morning Rocky, I couldn’t believe the Gervinho comment from AW either…
And yes, I have taken on board the early comment and have severely chastised myself…..
Rocky, Gervais …… ha ha… Rocky Gervais ….. cool
Rocky, Wenger says Gervais the BEST striker at the ACON……
What does that actually mean? Gervais is brilliant? or all the other strikers there in the ACON are shite or playing shite?
I would like to think the former, but it’s most possibly the latter ….
The natural raw skill is there – it’s a shame all he’s good for is thirty step overs per game, losing the ball and flashing his choppers when he does ….
Gervais !!!!!
But in France he was meant to be the bees knees, what has happened to him since he’s been with us goodness only knows….
SYG – He MUST mean that the others are absolute gash. Or maybe he meant that Gerboue was the best striker out of all of them to always pick the wrong option, had no end product and always craps his pants when in a one on one situation? Maybe… Just maybe…
Gervais ….!!!! Best striker at the ACON
I ope you have Rico… You never know when Remy the Forum Nazi will drop in again to tell you off
The English media needs to stop making us the bad guy because of ticket prices and go after the real bad guys, those team who inflate the markey by spending money they have not made.
Rico in France Hazard was the Bees Knees… Wenger knew that … The difference was in the value ….
…Chelsea bought fillet steak and we got the fcukng horse burger
yeah he was done deal if you believed the press South – same as mata, another one missed
almost fainted
rico says:
January 30, 2013 at 10:56 am
But in France he was meant to be the bees knees, what has happened to him since he’s been with us goodness only knows….
Could it be the fans who players every sinlge smallest mistake?
Arsenal Football Club has announced that the head of its world renowned youth academy, Liam Brady, has decided to leave his current role by May 2014 after 25 years with the Club.
Brady, 56, a former Republic of Ireland International midfielder who starred for the Gunners in the 1970s, has established Arsenal’s academy as one of the leaders in the game over the past 17 years. He has now given early notification of his desire to leave his role in order to help recruit a successor and ensure an orderly handover period.
Brady had a glittering playing career, starring for Arsenal in the 1970s before moving to Italy, where he enjoyed spells with Juventus, Sampdoria, Inter Milan and Ascoli. He finished his playing career with West Ham United. He also had spells as a manager with Celtic and Brighton and Hove Albion, and more recently assistant manager with the Republic of Ireland.
During his time as Arsenal’s head of youth development and the academy, he has been responsible for developing numerous professional players including Jack Wilshere and Kieran Gibbs. The Club will be discussing potential roles with Brady to ensure he stays involved.
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis said: “Liam has a deep understanding of what it takes to discover and develop a talented youngster into someone who can perform at the highest level. He has made a massive contribution to Arsenal Football Club. It will be difficult to find a worthy successor but we will be looking for someone who can build on what Liam and his team have created.”
Liam Brady is leaving the Youth Academy in May 2014
Lovely guy Liam and was very supportive of our move to establish the Arsenal Youth Academy here in the west – sad to see him go
Oops, I was too slow there Lee….
Jumped or pushed I wonder?
I’ll see if I can find out Rico….
i pray we should win these 9t match oooo. And we still need replacement 4 sagna also. So help us beg arsenal maneger.
But Hazard praised Gerv too Syg, and suggested he was one of the best. But yes, Hazard was the one we needed, and all wanted….
TG, most of his mistakes are hardly small, there has been sitters he has missed that have cost us dear. One I believe would have secured our place in the CO Cup….
Hazard is his mate, Rico. He’s hardly likely to bad-mouth him. As re: he’s the best?? I don’t know how true that is..
As I said, the natural skill and raw talent is there ….He just needs an on-board computer to make it work i.e brain
TG – He has been awful for us. I can’t remember a single match where he has been great. And lets not forget our Dear Leader said that he only wants signings that improve us. Gerboue signing for us did NOT improve us. I’d take Podolski over him any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Thanks Rocky, will be interesting. Maybe Brady doesn’t like what is happening to his youth players?
There’s a witty (semi-offensive) remark that could be said in response to your comment…. But I’ll refrain, for the good of the forum!!
Lee says:
January 30, 2013 at 11:24 am
Liam Brady walked out on the club in 1980 and all we got was £600,000. We struggled for years after that.
Wonder how much the club do to help him Syg, we have a few with raw talent that don’t seem to make too many steps forward.
And then we sell them, especially went they are younger, Lansbury springs to mind and I’m convinced Frimpong is set to follow soon…
The bit about the youth players Rocky, if so, I think I can imagine…..
agree Rico – the statement ‘world renowned youth academy’ seemed a bit over the top to me 🙂 What has it produced of our own, 2 players for the first team?
Nice one Rocky … no Jimmy Saville type comments on here … ever… Rico WILL bitch you out about it lol !!!
It’s weird what can happen in a few months ….
…When the news of his death came I was as upset as anyone … My mate who’s one of the most brutal blokes you could meet even wrote him a letter to “Fix it”..
He was part of our Saturdays …… Football Focus & On the Ball – Dickie Davies with his ITV Seven and Wrestling or Frank Bough on BBC- The vidi-printer – the BBC footy scores – Basil Brush – Jim’ll Fix it – Generation Game – Mike Yarwood – Two Ronnies –
Haha sorry guys I awoke with sleep in my eyes to chiteh in for villa and cazorla injured. I hold my hands up. Backlash truly deserved!
just doing some quick sums we have made give or take over 40m in profits from transfers alone in the last 4 seasons – interestingly United only have a net spend of just over 20m – what a difference ploughing lost stars money back into the team makes hey?
It was Rico…. SOrry! I did show refrain though!! If this was curry club, it would have been said without a moments hesitation!
SYG – sort of….! Not JS though. Me and my mate were saying for years (long before the Louis Theroux documentary) that there was something weird about Saville and it wouldn’t be long before something came out. Took a lot longer than we imagined, but we didn’t believe it would be to the extent that it has!
No probs Remy! Glad you stuck around and took the backlash… Many would have just sulked and got stroppy. Credit where credit’s deserved!
SYG – Frank Bough was another massive deviant though!!
it that Joel Campbell guy at the AFC?
I liked Henri Lansbury. How ever he got overlooked during the Denilson -Song-Eboue-Diaby phase I will never know.
I have a mate who was on Barnsley FC’s books whem Machin and Allan Clarke were the manager …. Eric Winstanley was the coach… He used to moan and groan about how Winstanley used to favour the mediocre yes-men over the talented lads … Nicky Eaden was one of them ….. Eric Winstanley knew Eaden’s family (mum) well … My mate said it was tragic how he kept on getting the nod over better players …
One isn’t it Oz, Jack…
I’m not that much of a prude Syg/Rocky, honest 😉
Nicky Eaden! You’d be gutted to miss out on a place to him no matter how good or bad you are!
I echo that Remy, good to see you back here, stick around and you’ll see we are quite a humorous bunch 🙂
Rico – wasn’t gibbs one of ours?
I know Rico… others may have found offence to me talking about our Deal Leader in such a way though….!
Didn’t Luton produce Jack, technically?
So did I Syg, he was one of my favs….
He’s on loan Oz, we will apply for a Visa again in the summer I think….
BBC report that Diame is set to sign a new contract at West Ham
rockyrocastle07 says:
January 30, 2013 at 12:01 pm
I think Frank Bough just liked sex Rocky …. nothing deviant about that …!!!
As for JS – a lass who was our ex-neighbour anf friend always maintained that when he died all sorts would come out about him …. she wasn’t wrong….
Its only a matter of time before Aneke, Afobe, Tennaris etc all leave as they won’t get cames. Is Eastmond still at Arsenal? If so, time to move on son. You won’t get a game. We hear so much about the youngsters that are promising, which come to nothing. How long before Miyaichi goes too?
Not just sex SYG…. he loved getting all hot and heavy, all dressed up in leather with a load of brasses!
at 12:09 pm – that’s great news Rico …. Maybe he’ll look to the real deal now …. We all know you want Stephen Capoue signed …. maybe we could beat the Shepherd’s Bush lot to his signature?
I see QPR want Capoue.. While we sit around fiddling our thumbs..Rocky the only way I know that Eastmond is still at Arsenal is due to him tweeting his exercise regime.. Another treatment table warrior.
Really, Rocky?
I’m assuming you mean like the “Gimp” in “Pulp Fiction” and not like Al Pacino in Serpico ….
Hiya ESP. You’ve just missed the fact that we’ve lost out to Diame and are now looking at Frank Bough to fill the huge void in our defence …
Denilson -Song-Eboue-Diaby , all cost money and got played in front of homegrown players. I heard some time ago that the relationship between Brady and the club was not happy due to the academy kids not getting the same chances.
SYG sign him up, just the big name we need!
Frank Bough would fill that huge void with a not-so-carefully placed 12 inch rubber dong I’d imagine, SYG. Still, I’d rather that than Kozzer at the nmoment…..
Oh, and definitely NOT like Pacino in Serpico!
Michael Johnson talking up Butland on Twitter. LOYALTY
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21258729
Dead funny Rockster. You’re on fire.
Feel like it at the mo SYG… Got a Deep Heat back patch on the base of my spine at the moment which is making me so hot its ridiculous!
Who knows what would have happened if Arsenal had offered Barcelona £15Mil, to shut the Barca President up , like 3 weeks ago for Villa? Maybe he would have moved 2 weeks a go , registered his wife in London hospital , could have given birth been born in England and so on and still available for the Liverpool match.
Now Man City might be interested and they will offer Villa £194k(my guess) and pay Barcelona £17Mil.
Wenger missed out on Zaha as well , all his talk about never , never was a lie. Wenger got outsmarted by Fergie.
Doesn’t Wenger get tired of been out played by managers, even Alan Padew of Newcastle.
Movement in betting
Edison Cavani is 5/1 to join Arsenal – BetVictor … same odds as Beckham – and he’s training at Colney and is FREE
I genuinely believe that the structure of releasing funds is in the hands of people that are not quick at reacting. I think we go in with a price but whoever is negotiating doesn’t have an upper parameter to go to should the offer fail and they have to go back to the board for permission to make another offer.
SD – Wenger couldn’t have managed Zaha properly – Ferguson can.
Afternoon all, If we were serious about a striker then go lump 30mil on Suarez…! Prem lge proven and would score a bucket load for us. The fact that we could of shown intent and gone and got Sissoko or Capoue and Fellaini would of shown ambition not only to the fans but to the other players at the club. It would of shown the Board see our weaknesses and have decided at long last to address them BUT no…. wishful thinking lets just carry on with our heads in the sand and talk up what we have……
It stinks of negligence and if they were in the corporate world they would of been fired ages ago.
I have a feeling you will be right about Miyaichi Rocky, and a few of the others, especially if AW stays.
But surely if Kroenke isn’t releasing any money then the only way we will have a full squad eventually will be with those coming through…
Capoue to Qpr??
Says it all really…..
Syg, you are right, i do, but i bet we dont get him. Ever.
Totally right WATH re showing intent to not just the fans, but the players too… and yeah, buy Suarez. A nasty, spiky PL proven player who would do anything to get 3 points.
As you only get one diamond in a batch the chances are that by relying on those coming through and patching in with cheaper imports the quality will go down because as you gain one you will lose one and the one that goes will be the good one.
Hi Wath.
Negligence is the perfect word…..
Samba is on his way to Qpr…
oh well thats the summer window sorted as well then Rico hahah
i smiled at a recent Walcott statement and it kinda says it all about Arsenal really – “the trouble is we don’t realise just how good we are” OMG! I wonder where he’s heard that crap
good post WATH – i agree as well
😆 Oz…
Exactly Potter and until we have change at the top, there will no change on the pitch
Arsenal’s recent history certainly backs your claim Potter
SYG, I think Zaha made a wrong move, he is not going to get a chance in Manure Utd.
Fergie is going to panic again and will buy another winger from Europe.
Welbeck , with all his promises last season , Fergie still went on to buy RVP.Welbeck is now warming the bench.
Wenger would have managed Zaha very well but the dude made his choice.
I dont care if we dont buy Villa but if he eventually goes to Man Shity, this will really put a downer on fans which will eventually make then impatience that if Giroud should miss a plain sight goal and we loose the mach then Wenger will once again be targeted.
The best we can hope for is Diame because that is the one Wenger is not talking about.
A TRULY AMAZING FACTOID
EVERYTIME Arsenal have beaten Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield … something good seems to happen to the club ……. EVERYTIME.
In 1928 We beat them 6-3 in the return fixture at Highbury and Tottenham got relegated
In 1934 we beat them 8-1 in the return fixture at Highbury and we WON the league … Oh and Tottenham got relegated … again
In 1935 we beat them in the FA cup by that score and went on to WIN it.
In 1973 we beat them 2-0 at Anfield went top of the league after Alan Ball (pen) and Radford had run hallf the length of the muddy pitch and rounded Clemence and scored …
In 1989 we WON the league after goals from Smith and Thomas – our first for 18 years
In 1992 we WON the cup double beating Sheff Wednesday on both occassions 2-1.
Must mean this year we finish 4th then SYG and get that trophy..!
Either that or Tottenham go into free fall and get relegated !!!!
Can’t see that happening SYG although I’d love it but it ain’t gonna happen is it…!
That put the mockers on tonight’s result then Syg
Well least now we all know who to blame 2moro Rico… 😀
“I dont care if we dont buy Villa but if he eventually goes to Man Shity, this will really put a downer on fans which will eventually make then impatience that if Giroud should miss a plain sight goal and we loose the mach then Wenger will once again be targeted.”
Yup… I can definitely see that happening SD.
We should sign that Swansea striker who wants out, Danny Graham isn’t it??
Behave Rico, can we not set our sights a little higher than Danny Graham…. Go wash your mouth out…!
I keep on telling you Rico – History as a tendancy to always repeat itself…. We’ll probably get a bit of 1973 tonight as opposed to any of the others !!!!!
Long before the internet I wrote to Bob Wilson and credit to him – he wrote back – and asked why we never made the UEFA Cup in 1973-74 after throwing away the league in 72/73 and coming runners-up 3 points behind the champions Liverpool after beating them 2-0 at Anfield just over two months earlier …
He said that in those days it was one club per city in the UEFA Cup and Spurs had done Norwich 1-0 in the League Cup so they took preference …..
Not me Wath 😉
Can’t believe we didn’t try harder to sign Cesar….
5 MINUTES AGO
http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/30/stoke-swoop-for-arsenal-defender-carl-jenkinson-3374607/
😆 Wath..
Well I hope it does tonight Syg, I hate the Dippers nearly as much as the Totts..
Rico – Gus Cesar?! Is he playing again?! I’d take him right now over Sagna!
I guess you were kidding about Danny Graham!!
https://twitter.com/YoungGunsBlog/status/296613376929443842
That was rumoured a few weeks back too about Jenks… Think we’d be crazy to let him go out on loan.
Pullis is also about to sign Brek Shea, the American we had on trial last Jan….
€6 million is nothing in today’s game….
Cop this
it’s excellent
https://www.youtube.com/embed/h_f1N51Gv9c
That move would suit Jenks. They know how to defend up there.
There’s only one thing I enjoy about watching the deadline day action on Sky Sports…. The chance to watch hours of the wonderful Natalie Sawyer. mmmmmmmmmmm. Well worth putting up with that gobshite Jim White!
Morning all.
Signings galore???
Ha ha Rocky, Qpr keeper, he’s a top keeper…
Graham, well he managed to score against our top quality defence a few times this season…
But yes, was slightly tongue in cheek….
I never imagined that I would think this, but I am beginning to come around to the view, that I hope Arsenal don’t make the top-four, and not just this season, but for maybe 2 or 3.
Nothing will change otherwise…
Kev, how goes it mate?
The question i have is if we miss top 4, will Stan feel the need to invest, or to cut spending even further?
I have my doubts.
Ahhh Kev! We should never be thinking those thoughts mate! As much as it may kick-start something, I still want us to finish as high as possible. Lets face it, our Dear Leader will only have 1 more season after this….. I’m prepared to see it through another season of average at best until we get someone new.
Kev. Don’t you fancy Siberia FC on a Thursday night then?
Rocky. Do you trust Gazidis, Josh Stick and the Syrup to find and appoint a new manager then?
Liam Brady and Arsene Wenger leave together at end of respective contracts -May 2014.
Any coincidence here?
As far as not being in the Champions League affecting Arsenal’s ability to sign top top players is concerned?!
Well Arsenal don’t sign top top players anyway.
In fact they don’t even sign ordinary players…
The only person it would hurt, is the Syrup.
That’s if they are all still around then Adam. I live in hope they’ll all be fucked off one way or another.
It is not a given Wenger will leave after his contract is up.
they sign foetus’ Kev. Apparently ones that improve our squad.
I think he will Scott. Maybe not leave the club, but he won’t be the manager anymore. I really think he’s had enough now, but is doing his “I always honour my contracts” thing. Which these days, is pretty rare, and something you have to give him credit for. Unless he knows he’ll never have the free run of another club like he does here!
Rocky. They will milk the cash cow until it’s dry. It’s gonna be the fans who let them know that they are not wanted.
Kev, we got Santi and Podolski……not much wrong there 🙂
On my way home from a massive night in Australian boxing.
I will be home in an hour, off to bed, 4 1/2 bours sleep, then the mighty Arsenal are on.
Love it!!
Oh, and the good guy won a unanimous points decision?!
Either way Adam, I still live in hope something happens in the next 2 years on that.
Hi Scott…
Rocky, usually I would agree, but nothing is gonna change otherwise.
Adam, the Europa League will be a blast.
Looking forward to all of us visiting Odessa, to see the Glorious Gunners take on Lokomotiv Gulag…
Rocky, i think he will also, but who bloody knows?
I thought it was a certaonty he’d get some players in this month, despite his history, but alas, wrong again.
But what happens if Sagna gets injured Rocky, otherwise I’d agree big time. Unless of course Yenarris fills in…
Hi Scott…
The teat will be withered then Rocky. There will be division between the fans in the stadium both pro and anti Wenger. The problem is that even those who are anti aren’t really. They are just anti what is going on. Eventually it will start to affect the team and their already inconsistent results and this will draw the world’s media to the club every day. The pressure will be enormous but we can see that, unless something gives, then nothing is going to change. Whether. Wenger is around or not, something will have to change otherwise there will be protests at every game. People, who can still bothered, are talking openly about it now. Some have just walked away quietly believing that it’s all just the way modern football is. Where big money is concerned and especially American businessmen with no sense of the club and what it means are concerned you will most likely not get change without fan power.
Still have Yennaris Rico!
Kev. Fair enough. I know what you mean, but I can’t want us to finish below the spuds! And lets face it, they will finish no lower than 5th.
True Scott. Wenger never does the right thing usually….
If jenkinson goes to Stoke then I’m a dutchman!
Have you seen the source Metro! Do I need to say more? Journos eh?
Hi Ak and Adam…
I have to pop off for a while, dentist. And no Lee, it’s not at 2.30, it’s 3pm….
Happy dentistry Rico!
Kev. Odessa in the winter sounds great.
Maybe so Adam. I’m sure we will be ok for another couple of years. I think Stan will go, taking Gazides with him. Fan power will no doubt help that happen. But where is it at the moment? People go on about marches to “show them what we think”. Then only a couple of hundred bother to turn out for it. If you were Stan, and 200 out of a possible 60,000 did that, you would think the same as me…. “Fucking idiots. Is that the total of the people that hate me? I must be doing something right”> It’s hardly awe-inspiring! If, and hopefully when, the numbers swell, and become more vocal, something is bound to change. But then again, people wanted Bates out of Chelsea LONG before he went, and there were always protests against him. And nothing changed. Fan -power is a very dangerous thing, and can backfire quite drastically. It just brings dis-harmony if it doesn’t work. And the players are caught in the middle. Which won’t help their poor, fragile little minds
But it was in The Sun a while back too Wavy and that paper is always right 😉
And at least he’s back training Rocky….
Laters…
9 minutes ago … what joy
http://www.sambafoot.com/en/news/42326_fenerbahce_linked_with_late_bid_to_resign_arsenal_left-back_andre_santos_-_report.html
I’ve done Ekaterinbug in Siberia in February, Adam… minus -12 and that was without the wind
Have fun Rico
Rocky. Then the status quo will remain. Bates was some time ago though and if you had felt the atmosphere in the stadium lately you would sense which way the wind is blowing. It even caused Wenger to appeal to the fans to liven up and get behind the team, something that I don’t remember ever happening before. An Arsenal manager complaining about the home support? The fans are saying “show us some ambition and we will support you”. The marches won’t achieve much though, I agree.
Have fun at the dentist Rocky? Good god
SYG. Can’t wait though I might need a new pair of gloves.
Adam, don’t get me wrong, I’m in total agreement, but I just can’t see anything changing for a couple of year. Will that damage the club? Probably. Will fan power change that? Probably not. I just feel we’re fucked wither way, but I still do not want us not getting Champions League football.
And it’s obvious to every single human being on the planet that we need new, quality players… Defenders and midfielders mainly. I think forwards is pretty covered. It’s well documented in every paper that the fans are up in arms. But nothing changes. It’s just frustrating that our Dear Leader has got this way and refuses to budge. I really hope he proves us all wrong tomorrow and pulls a couple of amazing signings out of the bag. But even if he does, why the fuck has he waited til the last day again! But I feel tomorrow night, after we get home from devouring meat, we’ll all be on here or texting/emailing each other in a rage about the lack of action and ambition shown by us again!
Sorry SYG! I’m not a sadist or anything!! Don’t start calling me Frank Bough!
Rocky. Yes, I agree. That’s a step too far for me too and yet it would probably be the best for the club in the long-term. With the media interest these days the pressure can be ramped up quite quickly. Already it has aged Wenger about 10 years in the last two seasons. Perhaps the deathly silence and furious texting that pervades most games says enough. All this is why Wenger’s negative stance on improving the squad seems perverse to the point of self destruction to me. Also, I remember himself saying that he would not work the last year of his contract as manager’s that do are really dead men walking as everyone is thinking and planning for what comes next. It’s a tricky one sure enough.
Arsenal have ALWAYS had fickle fans Adam …. Check the attendences in the mid-sixties and mid-seventies …. Under 10,000 in some cases
…A lot of Arsenal fans are either from the deepest darkest corners of the globe so don’t have that “Personal Rivalry and hatred” with other clubs or have grown up following us post 1998 and have never really seen failure … even in our barren last eight years we’ve reached four cup finals – inc. Champs league and have twice been in the running for the league …… It’s hardly failure …
Cast your mind back to 2nd October, 1973
…..or 26th January 1985 .
…… or 19th October 1975 when Tottenham beat us 2-0 at White Hart Lane and we were bottom of the league ……
That is failure at its most fcukng bleak …..
Back then we could only dream of now ….
I remember being elated when we beat Villa 2-0 at Highbury in 1981 and we won nowt but made 3rd place and the UEFA Cup …… Brian McDermott scored !
Wrong one Rocky – to enjoy the Dentist you’d have to be a masochist….
…Watch Maggie Gyllenhaal in the Secretary ….. dead cool
Fraser from Dad’s Army sums Arsenal up…..
I know that the fans got Billy Wright the sack SYG but I am talking more about recent years and the current swathe of ST holders. Wenger has had unbelievable support. I know as I have attended virtually every home game during that time and more. The goodwill towards Wenger is still great but you can’t ask people to close their eyes. The club are treading water and what’s the point of that if you are charging the highest prices in the land? Too much just doesn’t add up.
I meant SM SYG, but just couldn’t be arsed to write the whole thing! And I wasn’t sure which it would be out of the 2…. Had a funny feeling you’d know though…. Experience telling there?!
SYG, failure and expectations are also governed by the Club and how they spin the fans, we pay top dollar to get into the ground, we were made promises by the club that have not been kept and when the side is raped of it’s assets and then the squad filled with mediocrity you can see why even the old uns like us are pissed off. I have seen far worse shit over there than this lot and swore blind I am not going again yet the next week I was over there, WHY because I knew deep down we were crap, the club didn’t raise our expectations by telling us how great we were or what a brilliant side we had, I didn’t get ripped off to walk onto the Clock End and the other thing was as bad as the players were they never ever played like they didn’t care or give 100% for the shirt.
“[But] You need to buy a player who can compete with them for a position in the team. I have to try not to get caught up in that in January. People expect us to buy someone of top quality.
“I have to be strong enough to resist or you have a player for four or five years who will never play a game, just because you bring in an average player who you know at the start is average.
“If I do that, I don’t do my job.”
I know it wasn’t January, but does the above comment make Park spring to mind immediately?!
Rocky. Nobody would understand that better than Arsene Wenger one would imagine. Still a very lame excuse indeed. Identifying AND buying the right players is a huge part of his job and surely our weaknesses have been evident for long enough now?
Rocky, the problem is Wengers comments one day completely contradict what he said the day before so we all know to basically take no notice of anything he says whether we like what he says or hate what he says, most is not utter nonsense and complete drivel.
Agreed Adam. It seems a strange thing for Wenger to say. He must think we have short memories. He can’t have thought Park/Santos were worthy of a starting berth. And in Parks case, he is doing exactly what Wenger said he wouldn’t be doing his job properly if it happened. Clown.
Someone should point out to him the very average players he’s bought and how can he make such a comment on only buying quality..?
I know wath. But surely he must know he’s making himself look like a complete c**t.
Right, I’m away for a coffee and quick meeting with my manager. Back in a bit.
Looking at it again it is almost as if he is suggesting hat the fans are clamouring for him to bring in average players. We have enough of those surely.
You’d think so Rocky but is part of his 7million to take all the shit and the flak and to cover up for buying such plums… Surely half those players should just not of been bought in the first place. Talk about can’t get rid but surely the 5/6 knobs would of bought 2 decent players..?
Adam will you be getting the Squillaci tattoo out during our Siberian away leg, in Feb??
What he’s doing Adam is talking up the average players we have and making the fans think they better than they are…! Delusional in the extreme…!?!?
Wath. I hear what you say but I can’t believe that is the case. I was speaking to a mate last night who is a huge Gooner but who used to play for Chelsea in the old 1st Division. We grew up together. I gave him my take on it but his was much simpler and less involved. He reckons that whatever Wenger had that was so very good, has gone. “He’s lost it” he said. “I’ve seen it happen before”.
A simple notion, but the evidence does tend to support his view.
Lee. If the Squill goes to Brighton I will have to get the tatoo amended to look like Andre Santos, another very underrated player in my opinion.
I won’t disagree Adam….!
Has he lost it or hasn’t he…? that’s a very big question and one that most of us can’t answer as we don’t know we just assume
Wath. T’was ever thus.
I know exactly what both you and Adam are saying WATH…
The years of fielding or perservering with Almunia-Denilson-Diaby-Song-Eboue-Bendtner-Djourou did my fcukng head in. I couldn’t understand how a man who had shaped what was a brilliant side between 2002-4 could consider these as Arsenal players …. Chamakh-Park-Squillaci-Santos fall in the same category …..
I could replace eight of our first team squad now with better players
24 Mannone – Butland
11 Santos – ?
20 Djorou – ?
18 Sqillaci – Jagielka
2 Diaby – Gourcuff
22 Coquelin – Capoue
26 Frimpong – Paulinho
29 Chamakh – ?
Being really picky
21 Fabianski
27 Gervinho
three of them are “get-able” now
Adam says:
January 30, 2013 at 3:15 pm
THAT’S A LAUREL & HARDY SAYING …. The Laurel & Hardy Murder Case ….
Lee, My mate is down for the game 2nite, I told him to take his boots he might get a run… He laughed and said cant do much worse can I….! Ur mate would do ok at centre half as well even at his age 😀
I’d out all of them SYG, maybe keep Coq as a decent squad player, add a few in the reserves who are also now never gonna make it and thats a lot of wages you’ve made available as well.
I think it is Shakespearian in origin SYG. But no doubt Stan and Oliver did use it too. Perhaps Gervinho could incorporate it when he has defenders rolling about with laughter upon his return? As he swings his right boot towards the ball and it deflects it onto his left knee then into his cobblers before causing him to go down in a heap on the goal line he could utter those very words.
Such happy campers in here. 😀
rico, I could tell it was meant to be a funny one. 😛 Shame some people have no sense of humor (Remy). Ha!
Hiya Agag. I hope that Tiger beer is on ice for the football later ….?
We all know why Gervinho looks so good, he’s found his level… Crap defenders in a pony tournament even make him look decent..!
We drink San Miguel in the Phils, SYG. 😀 I’m still of two minds whether I want to watch. These days…AFC isn’t the thing you want to wake up at 230 am for. 😕
Hey, Adam and WASH. 🙂
WATH, my mate said that beating a shite hamsters so convincingly was a really bad thing….now you know he bleeds red and white! Sad indictment of what’s happening!
sorry agag … Youd said….. They drink the same gear in Benidorm …..
Hi Agag. San Miguel? Why is that Agag? I would have thought another brand would hold sway out in Manila.
I’ll give you wash you cheeky wench…! 😛
Spot on Lee, he bleeds like we do mate…!
Lee. We could all see the writing on that particular wall couldn’t we?
When people like that make the point they should be heeded.
Reading Wenger’s latest doctrine is really weird. He seems to be saying that people are urging him to buy average players who won’t get a game. This is news to me. I don’t remember a single person saying that he should buy Park do you? Or Santos? etc..I thought he did those deals himself.
San Miguel is a Filipino brand, Adam. People mistake it for a Spanish product though. 😉 Me, I like GG (pink). 🙂
I find myself depressed about the comings and goings in our club. Oh wait, there are no “comings”. Ugh.
Lee next time my mate down and i get him out on the raz we must organise a meal and get them two together… Could be good fun..!
Butterfingers, WATH. 😛 I know it’s winter where you are, but don’t forget to take a bath. Lol.
That’s a done deal….we’ll invite HH curry club too!
There’s a good point made by Adam – “whatever Wenger had that was so very good, has gone – He’s lost it.
It does happen.
BRIAN CLOUGH.
An utter genius with the charisma to go with it between 1969-80.
How did it all end?
Agag. I thought it was Spanish. Mrs Adam likes a San Miguel occasionally but she’s a pink champagne girl really. I have to monitor her intake or she gets very rowdy and confrontational. As a hairdresser I quite like Rose water with lemonade because it has lots of ice and is tall and pink.
And don’t forget to wash behind your ears Grandson..
Great example there SYG, Cloughie…..!!
Sorted Lee, will keep you informed and yep HH curry club night out or afternoon depending on the availability of the two guests..!
Oops. Double bubble there.
Sorted Adam…! 😉
Here we go, Granny AGAG and Grandad Kev… what a duo…!
Shame he wasn’t on the B.O.D!
Ha ha. Somehow, I cannot imagine you with pink drinks, Adam. How is Ms Adam. Please get her to blog, too. 🙂
I demand that the Curry Club convene when I go there. Ahem. 🙂
Kev, what’s ne with you? 🙂
adamant………..
Touchy, are we, Uncle WATH. 😀
Goonie, how was the wedding? What did Mrs Goonie wear? 🙂 🙂
oh boy, not you too AGAG, its just a bloody business venture! and don’t call her mrs goonie! no way, her name is cassie! sheesh!
Oh, hi, Lee. So rude of me.
Wath – you snubbed us last time you were invited for a meal with us!!
I only touch GG AGAG you should know that 😛
It’s obviouly Mrs cassie goonie then…………..
Ah, Euston Road on a crisp, sunny, January afternoon…
Is there anywhere better than this???
Well I suppose the Maldives is quite nice. And St Moritz is decent as well. Whilst Goa is a bit of a go’er…
But i’m an old-fashioned boy, give me Euston Road, as the sun sets over Paddington Basin.
It brings tears to yer eyes…
Where’s the photo of Mr & Mrs Goonie, Stan?! Has mama Goonie been informed yet?!
WATH, you re cruising for a bruising! grrrrrrrrrrr one of these days pal, one of these days!
hahahahaahah mama goonie? who’s that?
I still think he should hijack QPR’s bid for Samba. Is it a done deal yet?
I don’t do Curry Rocky, the Thai up the road was much better and you lot were not wrecking the place…!
😀
cruisin 4 a bruisin…!!!! fuck me you’ve been over there far to long already Stan….!
AGAG of course you’re invited…there’s talk of Adam hiring a team of wild stallions to drag Rico up to London too!
Goonster.
AK, you should go to El Nido. 🙂
Goonie, tsk tsk. You do realize Cassie has the option to use your surname, don’t you?? Mrs Goonie, it is. 😀 How did you celebrate? And where is the honeymoon?
Honeymoon…………….. AGAG are you mad……………? She will be lucky if she gets a burger n chips…!
hey adam, how’s it going my friend? how’s mrs A? men home cook meal is the shit. i think i ve added a few pounds since last saturday. sign me up guys, am about to get porky like devilgunner!
Right I’m off need to see a man about a dog and then off up the pub to watch the game, take care all and enjoy..!
Lee, just tell rico, there would be a buffet of brussel sprouts, parsnips, carrots, and kale. 😀 She’ll be driving herself over!
WATH 😆
shut up WATH, we had some tacos i ll have you know.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/30/qpr-close-on-peter-crouch-but-told-to-forget-about-signing-etienne-capoue-3374760/
Lee. Wouldn’t that be great? All the HH’ers together. Agag tottering along on 5 inch heels, Rico up from the country with her carrots, Goonster pouting away, blond locks blowing in the wind. Wath insisting that we go to a Thai that caters for veggies for Rico. Kev driving the Coach and leading us in “my Old Man’s A Dustman” and Rock and I pouring the pink drinks oh and Arsene explaining to us why he refuses to buy the average players we are all crying out for. Not to forget SYG negotiating a special rate for our Dartford Tunnel crossing and just about anybody else who cared to turn up.
I would rather enjoy that.
Bye, WATH. Go get a poodle. 🙂 😛
Oops. I almost forgot that Lee could give us all a player by player assessment, delivered in a style that only Lee can carry off.
Believe me. 🙂
That’s the dream Adam…. We could take over Tayyabs!
Sounds like a plan, Adam. 🙂 🙂 Lee, now I grow ever more intrigued about that “speech”. 😀
Goonie, you should take Cassie on a proper honeymoon. She deserves it. She’s putting up with you, after all. 😉
agag – you only need one word. starts with a C. Ends in a T and has UN in the middle…..
I think Wagamama’s might suit Rico better Rocky.
Yeah, we could all sit along one big bench! Sure they do tofu stuff there and other veggie choices!
That word will send him to the sin bin in here, rocky. Ha!!
putting up with me? what in the world?? have you seen her? have you seen me? gosh the tripe i listen to on this blog. putting up with me she says! what part of am a “blonde adonis” dont you get?
Stan. If you posted a wedding pic that would silence everyone who may doubt your animal magnetism to women.
I, for one, am already convinced.
I have no doubt
When it comes to the pout.
goonie, you’ll be henpecked soon enough. Mark my words. Girls rule!!
When is your next HHCC meeting, gents?
big Brazilian international signing to be unveiled at the Emirates tonight ….
http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/article/165/8456225/liverpool-seal-coutinho-deal
https://twitter.com/skysports_bryan/status/296657715097395202
https://twitter.com/samuelj29060/status/296654965139730432
tomorrow agag. Very excited about it.
Count….what’s wrong with that?
AGAG, we try and meat (sorry Rico) once a month(ish)…
The word is……. David Villa to Spurs…
afternoon all
Gourcrouff probably a. Madrid
Kev… I thought Grease was the word…..
Kev. Don’t wind us up. 🙂
Please.
Oh, my old man’s a dustman,
He wears a dustman hat,
He wears Gord Blimey trousers,
And he lives in a Council flat.
He looks a proper nana,
In great big hob-nailed boots,
And when he goes to pull them up,
He calls them Daisy Roots…
Gord bless ya Adam…..
Agag, how are you.
Granny Agag…. 🙂
The cheek of it.
I don’t know??? 😀
If Villa signs for the spuds I’ll send a special present to Ivan…..
Villa rumour is off Talk Rubbish…
Barca want first refusal on Bale…
Close the end of the season we will all listen AW “we have a strong squad for figth for all the titles. judge me at the end”.
Adam, I wish I was simply winding you up, but nothing would surprise me.
And nothing would give Barca more pleasure…
The Liam Brady announcement is interesting…
Abandon ship maybe?
Evening all…
😀 I have been told by remy to tell Rico of for that headline… ha ha ha… sense of humour ahhh?
So Brady is leaving 2014, Steve Rowley says he is out too… and AW’s contracts ends 2014. You can’t make this up can you?
When the ship sinks the crew all drown with the captain.
But will the syrup be able to keep his/the lid on it? Or………….
COYFGS!
have anyone seen the team list?
JM – “judge me at the end”, how many times have we heard that?
So no new signings for a squad which already can’t compete.. There is zero ambition at the club, really sad to see its come to this.
Anyway looking forward to a good result tonight, lets make the best of a bad situation.
Good evening guns!
@ Eastsidepaul
Well mate this is a cliche. “Judge me in May”. AW is not a liar. He did’t refer to a specific year.. 🙂
No line-up yet?
Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Ramsey, Wilshere, Cazorla, Podolski, Walcott, Giroud.
Subs: Mannone, Jenkinson, Koscielny, Santos, Diaby, Rosicky, Oxlade-Chamberlain.
I’m watching English League TV Burley is in the pitch talking about Arsenal problems.
Adams is invite for the program
Evening folks, have we signed anyone??
Diaby benched. Real test for Ramsey as a DM. He is in fine form though. I ‘d rather see Arshavin instead of Santos however.
Morning all.
Still nothing on the transfer front, hey.
Leaving it late…….
Rico our marquee signing will be unveiled at mid Feb. Yes you guessed right.. We are going to sign Africa cup’s best striker!
COYG!!!!!
The stadium is empty at the moment…
So late Scott, it might be summer….
G’net, dreadful isn’t it….
Let’s hope those out tonight start the game as they finished the one against Chelsea….
Crikey JM, wonder if that will change before ko….
Wigan want Jenkinson on loan, as well as Stoke…
I’m surprised that Diaby is on the bench. Oh, but hang on, if he got injured, Wenger would feel forced to sign a replacement…
If my theory is right, that is shocking!!
COYGS!
Good Evening my Esteemed Fellow Gunners.
AA will be gone tomorrow inmo g’net….
H/T folks
Four defensive howlers in one move gifts them a goal 🙄
oh shit. Even the under 14 would not have done that disaster.
We don’t need any players….sagna and tv fucking crap!
We are mucking everything up….
The fans are noisy though….
Just seen what Ches did, what a twit!!
Jesus Christ!! I firmly believe that we are cursed.. Sagna twice at fault at goal, no comment for TV. Very open game. Arsenal should control it and not panic otherwise we coulbe in serios trouble.. WTF is Schezny doing?? Comical stuff.. When do elephants enter the pitch??
This is so so much better – now get a goal….
Theo, all the hard work done and then…..
COYGS
Ramsey shoot the fcking ball at once. Why an extra touch there. 🙁 Theo best player by far till now.
Defensively we are crap…
Thank you for everything wenger. Now scra,m!
R I D I C U L O U S
Agree Lee.
Toffees are 1-0 up and pilling away from us….
Santi and Jack are doing ok too G’net…
Keystone mops in defence!
See how slow Merts was trying to get back, even i could get back quicker and I have not long eaten….
He just strolled back like he didn’t give a s***e!!
Santos warming up FECK!!
Great. Santos might come on. yabba dabba dooooooooooooooooo
And Santoff on! From bad to worse. Pathetic..
We have two players for every position….didn’t say how good they are, did he??
This ref must have been born in Liverpool!!
Might as well switch off now, Sturridge will love Gibbs going off and the fat lardy boy on!!
hhahahaahahaha here comes santos……..you just cant make this up can you?
Should have brought Kos on and moved TV left… Or even Jenks….
you tell him lady……..
Even Smudger says Santos looks unfit!!
Ches has yet another rush of blood!! What is it with our keepers!!!
one word…….”wenger bottle water” it has to be!
I’d rather Fred Flinstone than that fat lump Devil…
Spend some fucking money?
Spend a lot of fucking money…
Enough of this nonsense.
lol @ Rico 8:30 🙂
ESP spending the fucking more is a bit too late now amigo…….we need a total overhaul. starting from the very top! wenger that is.
Replace the whole effing back 4!!!
Come on Bouldy, give them them a bollocking and get something special for the second 45….
We’ll never win anything with Wenger as coach and the board we have… Might as well stop hoping
oui lady. Fred Flintstone would play better than Santos. Unless the latter has a rush of blood and scores a hat-trick!!!!
cassie just couldnt understand why a guy who can kick the ball 60 yards cant even hit it in from 6 yards, instead passes!
OK woeful first half again. We had the chances the final ball, but bad decision-making especially from Ramsey and Podolski and in one occasion by Walcott. Just shoot the fcking ball if u are in a position to do so! About defence i am again speechless.. HOW THE FUCK are we going to defend against Bayern??
hey DK, where did you crawl out from? how’s denmark? i missed you pal.
In AW we trust.
Hey goonster my man! I am always here, im just not that good at internet debates! Denmark sucks at this time at year, right now im sitting in an english pub, enjoying a pint. How’s you?
Even Jamie Redknap could coach this team better than Wenger !
Just seen their goal again, our defending was gutless.
How many internationals were involved, and Merts. Well I stand by what I said a couple of days ago. He is poor!!
Mind you, TV isn’t much better….
hahahahah DNA you creep…….i ll rather gambon’s version. in arsene we rust!
Love your sarcasm dna…
Blame Stan for the poor first half. Stan probably don’t even have a football Chanell.
Adk, I am not sure you are far wrong there..
Hey goonie, that was Spectrum, not Gambon 🙂
am good DK, lucky you. am stuck here trying to explain “soccer” to a hippie!
You just can’t write this script. Shit in the first half and come out blazing in the second. Szeszney is having one of those days. SANTOS what was wenger thinking. Why not TV5 on the left and kos pair with Mert
was that spectrum’s? blimey, i thought gambon coined it. oh well, in arsene we rust!
Spot on re Santi gooner, but how many times have we said that about our players?
They arrive, they shoot, they train and then they only pass…
They are coached to pass and encouraged not to shoot imho…
Goon how the wife mate, take good care of her bro..lol
Gibbs probably out for 3 weeks… hopefully Santos stays in 😉
Ramsey-Wilshere-Cazorla again and look at the score. How many times I must say the same thing?
Far wrong about what rico? The back 4? I think its more down to terrible coaching…
Rico i can’t believe this circus performance is stemming from inability. Sagna was the best RB a couple of years ago, Vermaelen was excellent till he renewed his contract and Mertesacker was our most reliable guy in defence for large part of the season so far. It is clearly psychological. Ramsey though is having a good game. We need a huge classic second half performance now.
In Kroenke we are scrapped….
Wenger is going to be pretty peed off, he should know now that he has to take a risk and bring Diaby on and get Ramsey off!
They are playing us just as we played them the last time, obviously they watch some videos.
Im off againg guys and girls, see you tomorrow
Inmo g’net, it’s since they all applauded Bould. From the day AW commented, they have changed.
here comes the second half……..COYGS!
Go steady Adk….
any consolation????………we are just 0-1 down and usually we play better and score in the 2nd half. And we rarely concede. So we should do a lot better. We wait and see.
The last day of the transfer day tomorrow, for clubs with ambition or for Arsenal supporters its Thursday! Fucking joke!
and guess what? the spuddies are losing to norwich!
No devil, none..
I feel and share your anger Lee!
Doesn’t make me feel any better goonster, I care about what we are doing more….. much more..
That was a penalty on Podolski
Get Ramsey off, he is so so negative tonight….
I wasn’t convinced re the pen devil…
Giroud is off his game….
That was naughty Jack!
And AW said………for you to score tonight first you must do 200 passes before any dipper touches the ball and try to tread it through the eye of a needle, Then you can score,
hahahhhaha that ll learn you, you bloody scouse!
😆 goonie
AW must get gun shot
F*****N Heck!!!
Merts yet again, Santos yet again and gutless from Ramsey!!
Do this board and manager give a S**T???
I doubt it!!
hhahahahahahahhhhaahahhahahahahahahahaa what a team of clowns! you just cant make this up. hahahahahahahahaahhahaha. 3 players yet he scores!
0-2 against this shit team, at home?? Shows how bad we truly have become……
Oh Lord. I cannot believe this.
Even the under 12 would play better than that.
We will not score tonight
At least Podolskli is giving us a good game.
Wenger supporters u all must be ashamed OMG the guy is too old
Bould looks like he could cry…..
Half an hour to sort this out. Will they??
Now feckin come on!!
Wenger, get Ramsey off and Diaby on….
Girouddddddddd
For all of you to know…….Cesc scored in the same minute as Giroud. I am seeing both games at once.
2-2 What a goal Theoooooooooooooooooooooo
WHAT FUCKING BEAUTY THEO!!!!
2-2……..come on now we can win this. We have them on the ropes
What a lucky mother fucka
When are we as fans actually going to stand up and force change? This can’t continue! The board don’t care, they need to go. Sry to say it but Arsene is absolutely clueless and needs to go. Liverpool, after years of being shite are now better than us and They are still an average side. But they do have 1 world class player, which we don’t.
Stunner Lee, a feckin stunner!!
You negative git G’dna 😉 😉
Ooo egg on my face.
Walcott has grown a pair since he signed a new contract. Maybe his performances are because he knows he’s settled…..
He is one of our best sometimes……
And Jack, well, he’s just Jack… Love him…
COYRRG’S!!!!
gerard is such a thick skinned, muck faced bastard. wish i pull his balls from behind with a pair of pliers!
Who is this ‘Norman’ guy who plays for them, never heard of him before….
I’d pay you to do that goonie 😉
spurs equalizes! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
so so so close…… 🙁
Coronary every time Liverpool attack 🙁 Especially from a dead ball…..
Giroud should have done better then….
COYRRG’s
yes maam, i almost shit myself there!
we wont win tonight though
😉
Ref got that right with Giroud.
Is it still 2-2…?
How the heck did Giroud miss that, that was as simple as the one the Gerv missed!!
Argggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hahahahahaah giroud trumps gerwanko!
Yes Ak… Don’t know how though…
Gervinhionism all over again..
AW out AW out AW out, no fucking change at home looking for a win. RIP AW
One thing to say Wenger.
Sort the feckin defending out!!!!!
Liverpool have history, we have history, we are above them in the league, yet Sky Sports talk about 4th spot and us but not them….
Wankers!!
G’dna. If AW could sort the defence out, we’d be good…..
Rico it doesn’t matter top 4 is not a trophy..lol
This simply isn’t good enough, two points dropped. Not looking likely we’ll win our 4th place trophy this year.
hate how he can tell us that he is happy with this squad, is anyone happy with a squad where Santos gets minutes on the pitch, he is a disaster.
And when we’re pushing for a win, why not bring Diaby or Rosicky on?
Our defence has to be addressed, are they just subpar defenders, or is it down to the coaching, i’m leaning to the latter.
Wenger’s unwillingness to strengthen the squad is unforgivable.
Rico it’s 8 yrs now AW trying to sort out our defense and he fails, the only way forward is AW out. How AW can only teach pass and ignore defense, the guy ain’t good, he needs to resign he is to old and dumb.
Frustrated despite spirited 2nd half performance. Giroud was great but missed a sitter. Cazorla had disappeared late in the game. We needed fresh injection from the bench, but guess what? Not a change whatsoever. And if Gibbs had’t got injured then no change surely. The lads were tired. In fact i believe that Gerv-mad moment of Giroud was due to tiredness. Ramsey at least could be off. Diaby could have an impact on the game.
Those goals by Giroud & Walcott have probably meant that Wenger will definately not spend tomorrow….
dont know who is worst SANTOS or SQUILLACI? Why does it take us until second half to start playing
I suspect that Diaby wasn’t fit enough for this game, yet Wenger named him to the bench. Rosicky should have played as well. Poor managing in my opinion.
Evening all,
Pittyful absolutely pittyful.
Of course we don’t need anybody, everything is going to plan Wengers plan that is pittyful
I know guys, I am not defending them…
Just highlighting that if we had a defence, we’d be a top side…
But we don’t and that’s down to either coaching or personnel.
If we sold Merts and TV tomorrow and replaced them with Mats Hummels and Sakho, I’d be bloody happy…..
Allezkev the problem is not our offence. But our defence is shambolic. If Gibbs is sidelined for over 1 month we need a proper left back tomorrow. Santos is woeful defender. Our defencive trio Mert TV and Sagna alongside Sczeny need to pull themselves together. We make childish mistakes..
Santos at left-back is gonna make it an exciting 3 or 4 weeks…
Anyway, The Europa League will make a change from the boring old Champions League…
Got my flights to Odessa, Vladivostok and Sebastopol booked already.
Not sure about the hotels though. The NKVD Travelodge had me wondering?
I’m not convinced that we won’t add one tomorrow….
Anyway, Eastenders calls me, so night all….
Santos really needs to bugger off back to Turkey. Kebabs seem his thing….
Night all……
Gunner net, you missed my point mate.
If theo doesn’t score, the pressure and criticism goes up and we might buy.
Now we won’t…
But tbh, I’m almost past caring…
I feel sorry for Adam. He paid out hard cash to watch that lot..
They will play the same Rico, AW has become stale at afc, I’m surprised that 60 thousand people still go to ems to support a this dude, it’s unbelievable
Talk in Turkey tonight that Fenerbahçe will try for Santos tomorrow. Offer worth listening too. From JS! I wish it was true. I am done as well. See you around gooners.
Put a dictator in charge and you get just enough to get by. Put a leader in charge and you win wars.
Sell Santos ASAP…..
Play Coquelin at left-back….
Simples….
Watched the first half only…work called.
Bloody terrible in defence, and forget coaching….no coach can stop some those bloody brain snaps.
What Wenger CAN do is buy some decent defenders.
Disappointing result.
AW to panic buy a defender tomorrow? 🙂
Thursday night football on Channel 5….
I ain’t got SKY TV, so it works for me…
Hey Scott, don’t be so negative mate…
The Europa League rocks… 😉
Why didn’t AW make a replace in the last 10 minutes? He hasn’t any confidence in players on the bench?
AW: we have 2 players for each position… really? he only can say that if we have 2 players with identical performances. Have we?
In the theory every team has the same; the difference is in the quality of subs. when call, the improve and performance of the team the same. Obvously, is not what happens with Arsenal.
Without Gibbs, our left wing is unsecure an unbalanced.
The Europa League? We must be 5th or 6th… nothing more
try Fabio Coentrao on loan fom R. Madrid AW
goonster says:
January 30, 2013 at 9:12 pm
And you let this go, Rico?
Tut tut.
JM, you are whistling in the wind…
Nothing is gonna change.
if Santos was in conversations to Fernerbahce Ii think we have any idea in minfd for left back…
Man of the match: Santos
Joaquim Moreira says:
January 30, 2013 at 10:14 pm
Great player. A lot of Francs for Arsene
I think Madrid paid eur.30M for him.. I think…
Syg, you are right to pick me up on that, I thought I had deleted it…
Sorry devil……
but Mourinho wants he out AW failled Sahin (:-) ufff!) now he can get Coentrao…
JM … Coentrao is a top player … Very quick … Even Rico liked his haircut
I must be the only person who is pleased with how we played. I thought the way we conceded was more unfortunate than poor. Liverpool weren’t allowed to play and we were positive.
You obviously know me too well Syg 😉
In the grand scheme of things – in Aug 2012 I would have taken 4 pts off Liverpool and a 4-2 gd…… Really
FACTOID here
The only time we beat Liverpool 2-0 at Anfield and drew at our place was in 1973 …..
That year we were robbed of a European place by Tottenham … and not by points …..
History has a tendency to repeat itself ….
sometimes, in the wrong way
Just got home from the game. Andre Santos anyone? Pantomime stuff really. Laugh? We almost cried.
Will, we looked decent going forward, but crap in defence.
This comment is repeated way too often for us to contend for anything other than 4th spot.
One day, Arsene, one day.
I am keeping the faith, but my resistance is weakening!!
Haha Kev…..i am turning negative…..been talking to you lot for too long 🙂
Hiya Adam. Sorry about your night mate. You and the missus deserve better….. I’m knocking off now … I’ll do some Sweeney with John Thaw in 5mins…. My comfort blanket … I have several … Auf Weider, Sopranos, Steptoe and the Likely Lads …. Also When the Boat Comes In …..
Suggestions. Cheers mate. If Wenger was in the army he’d be Court Marshalled for dereliction of duty. This Liverpool team is one of the worst I have seen. A total bunch of wankers. We even made Jordan Henderson look like a player. Very depressing and folks, there’s more to come.
Wenger really needs to go and spend some money on coaching lessons from Ferguson – he needs to learn all over again what mind set is required to win in this league. “we showed real quality and spirit”????? 2 nil down at home or are we forgetting that bit?
I know Oz, it almost feels as though they are all on some weird sadistic quest to make us all feel like fucking mugs! To say this team has enough quality to compete is retarded, what did we have on the bench tonight that could go and win us that game once it was 2-2. Nothing, so how the fuck is that a good enough squad to compete?! I’m not spending another penny on AFC until we see some proper investment in the team and all the shit that is carted out week in week out is shifted out of the club. Not just on loan, OUT!
Guys, watching the weekly round up of goals this season, even the last few seasons, it seems there are very few decent defenders about.
No, we are not good enough, but are We really so bad by comparison….no.
Is the rule changes which are very much tilted towards attacking players now?
Even the sides above us give up disgraceful goals, goals you’d expect kids to defend against.
Players do not suddenly forget how to defend, but with the current rules and the likes of Suarez, Young, Bale and others, defenders are obviously very hesitant to even get close to them.
This doesn’t explain simple mistakes such as failing to make a clearance, positional errors, or does it?
If your mindset is one of anxiety, then it will carry through your every move, every thought and every decision.
Again, i guys are up there with the worst, but there are plenty of possible factors involved.
Dennis to replace Liam Brady….what are the odds??
That’s looking like a done deal Scott..
Anyways it’s the final day of the transfer window for all ambitious clubs looking to add players BUT for us Gooners it’s just another Thursday! (sorry for repeating myself!)
Santos at LB well that’s a disaster waiting to happen!That was a perfect opportunity to close the gap on that shower of shit up the road…
Gibbs apparently out for three weeks…
I suppose we had no LBs and no RBs and Wenger did fuck all about it so he’ll continue with that philosophy…..loves a gamble our glorious leader!
Morning all,
I admire you Scott, honestly for still being the positive light… 😉
I guess it is an Aussie thingy, that is why about 1 in 4 SAS soldiers are from your patch.
Keep the faith Scott because, being the realist things will definitely get better…
And Ramsey was awesome, but SC19 was useless for 75 minutes of the match but fans still sang his name and diss Sagana for a slip that can happen to anyone. I thought Sagna put in a magnificent shift going for every header and tackle with 100% commitment but hey…
Have a good day.
wow how is this for stepping back five years – he lived off this kids excuse for years and here we go again haha
But Wenger backed his young Guns and pointed to a positive future, saying: “This squad is top, top level. We have to learn to trust these players again and to keep faith in them”
My interest in what AW spouts is dwindling….the man is a deluded meglomaniac!
‘We will try to be active,’ Wenger said. ‘It won’t be easy but at the moment I have nothing to give to you unfortunately.’
Asked if it was likely to sign defensive reinforcements, he added: ‘Yes. That’s how quickly football changes
‘Three days ago people told me we need strikers. Now, this time, we’re speaking about defenders. We’ll see what we can do.’
The Gunners boss has changed his tune over Arsenal’s attacking options in the last few weeks, and recently said he feels he has enough resources, despite Olivier Giroud being his only recognised striker.
Good Morning my Esteemed Fellow Gunners.
I have a hunch that AW will bring in a German defender who plays on the left. I feel it will be one between Dennis Aogo and Konstantin Rausch. Both play the short passing game and play in a similiar style to ours.
AW………”I cannot promise you any transfers. We work on it. We want an official extension of the window for one week.”
Again……….We want an official extension of the window for one week.”
Did I read correctly???
Does he know what he wants???
Morning Devil, Lee, Scott, Ts and Oz and all 🙂
Have we signed anyone 😉
It’s Thursday….and that’s about it! HH bald meeting ce soir!
You won’t find any hair in your food then 😉
New Post is up….
Morning all,
As far as i’m concerned Wenger has till the end of the day, and if he has not made this current squad stronger he has to go. He has had a month, a month of hit and miss, we all know we need talent which he could have done at the start of the window, and maybe would have given us a few more points on our tally. I realise that many millions could be saved by negotiating in the last few hours but that doesn’t dismiss the points dropped. If we have to stay with who we have till the summer, what he saves in this window will cost in excess of £30million in lost revenue from champions league. will he buy to try and save our place in Europe, i think he has too.