Hat-trick hero, Defensive problem revealed and Gazidis sends out the wrong message!

Ivan Gazides has yet to learn how to moderate his rather large gob…..
Unhelpfull, would be how i would sum up his misguided comments.
Are his comments a suprise???
Is The Pope a Catholic?????
Does Wath like a drink?????
Answers on the back of a pin….

Yes Rico, you sum it up very well re:Pers…
I like him, despite MotD/Press trying to do a hatchet job on him. Wonder if they’d both do the same on Cahill???
One German, one English…. Closet racism on Motd & the British Press, surely not…. :opps:

To me Arsenal will recover… But not that I blv they can really win anything with the present quality in the squad… I still think the champions league is still within reach.

yes verm has settled quickly bought the bed at dreams

The difference between Mertesacker and Vermaelen is that the latter was signed in June…..thus allowed enought time to settle during preseason. Mertesacker was bought in the last hours of September. No time to settle. Furthermore, TV5 was in a better team than the one there is at the moment on the pitch. He had Gallas, Clichy and Sagna with him. From that defence, PM4 has only Sagna with an ever changing partner in the centrehalf position. That takes its toll on the development of understanding between the back four. Currently this year we have had Sagna, Jenkinson, Koscielny, Djourou, Gibbs, Santos and even Song all playing musical chairs with PM4. That hardly allows understanding to develop does it.

Rico, Sky do a lot of business with Liverpool and ManUre, TV channel/ InterNet Business etc.
Therefore they see see the Mancs & Scousers as biz partners and are unlikely to slag them off, rather than that, they bum em up!
Kroenke has control of Arsenal’S InterNet interests and the club doesn’t give Sky any priority on news etc {transfers}.
Hench they go easy on the Mancs & Scousers but love to stitch AFC up…

I’d play RVP & Theo up front, and if Theo doesn’t crack it i’d bring Oxo/Park on to partner RVP.

Arteta as well, of course.

Morning DG.

Morning again Rico.
How is Fido???

Morning Rico, typical of this Arsenal board, all they want to do is show off about how financially well run they are without thinking about the football consiquences. Thing is who will want to sponsor us and what good player will want to play for us if we don’t compete for the top prizes. Seems like each day the club gets further and further away from the fans..

A very good balanced readhttp://blog.emiratesstadium.info/archives/15355:

Veggie soup i hope…… hmmmmm i love soup…
And pizza….. 🙂

Swiss Ramble:

http://swissramble.blogspot.com/

When is the next CC game? Really want to see some of the youngsters in action, we have a decent crop of young players. Ryo Miyaichi, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Francis Coquelin, Chuks Aneke, Benik Afobe, Oğuzhan Özyakup, Ignasi Miquel.

And two on loan I really want to see play for us soon, Joel Campbell and Wellington Silva.

Any I forgot worth mentioning?

Butternut Squash. Don’t know what it is Rico, but save me some… 😉
Yeah boss, i’m having a job understanding it as well.. 🙂

According to rumours coming outta the Academy ESP, goalkeeper Damian Martinez [Arg] has the potential to be better than Szczesny….
Hopefully we might see Campbell next season.

To think we’re only just into October and wenger has already come out and told us we can’t win the league and now gazidas is telling us we can cope without the champions league.
I wonder what the next cracker is gonna be, maybe as from 2012/13 we will be moving all our home games to Underhill as we feel it makes more financial sense.
Its pretty ironic that we have the new badge this season with ‘forward’ printed on it and all we seem to be doing is going backwards.
Instead of ‘forward’ it should have been ‘swim for your life’

Hi guys….the interlull couldn’t have come at a better time for us. This ll give the players a few days off all things arsenal and hopefully they ll return in a better state of mind….we ve got stoke and sunderland after the break hopefully we should take the maximum six points available. They are both home games,right?

Don’t think we’ll see campbell for a while yet, he’s probably been pencilled in as Park’s replacement in a couple of years time.

Yeah goonster, sunderland first, another 6 pointer.

Stan, i think it goes;
Sunderland [h] EPL
Marseilles [a] CL
Stoke RFU [h] EPL
Bolton {h] CC
Chelsea [a] EPL
Marseilles [h] CL

Hiya Stan. I’m good amigo.
Yes i’ve been a good boy. Done all my chores. And thus, have been allowed my PC back.. 😀

Thanks ak…trust you to come up with stats,fixtures and results. Feeling the intetlull yet? Am not!

Hey mama….miss me?

I wonder if wenger will move gibbs or santos to right back for the sunderland game ? or stick with jenks.

Ah, never knew that goonster.
Chris powell the charlton coach was on the box the other day saying how he thought jenks would only get a run in our CC side this season, the lad has been thrown in at the deep end.
Coquelin looks to have something about him alright.

Micko he reminds me of flamini in his last year….ahhh flamster what I ll give to still have you wearing the red and white….he would have made a great captain too.

Yeah yeah ak….thanks rico I ll be more careful but it ain’t my fault. I can’t let you good people have all the fun…the goonster needs fun too.

Nevermind about ‘yeah yeah’…… 🙄

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15169334.stm

Kev you still listen to talkshite…I thought we all agreed! Those mugs ll only get ya BP up. Like me dad used to say”leave them to their own folly”.

If your girlfriend, puts up with you Stanley…. Then i reckon you should make sure you keep her… 😉

Ok man….I promise I ll cut down the amount of time I spend blogging….but that’s not fair on rico. She needs me too*grinning*

Stan, you stay on here as long as you like mate, we all enjoy your contributions, but don’t take any risks.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/arsenal-interested-in-martin-montoya/topic/ansicht_180_1260_page1.html

Talkshite is anti arsenal yet I wonder what an arsenal legend like ian wright is doing hanging around those lot. He’s a disgrace. Why can’t all our ex players be like Dixon keown and henry? Why? You never hear that prick roy keane slagging off manure or redcrapp bad mouthing spurs or Liverpool. Its appalling!

Great another catalan with barca DNA…..we don’t want him. Kick him back to catalooner.

Yeah but not to the extent of calling us shit. We all know collymore is a moron and will say anything to get at us for taking the title away from them at anfield but wright should stand up for us. He’s always spouting shit most times and its always about arsenal. This is the club that made you, you mug!

Afternoon oliver….park scored both goals! You don’t say! Why won’t wenger give this guy a chance. We only have him for two years! He ll be gone to serve in the korean military so why not milk him now. Sometimes I wonder how arsene makes his decision.

i think it was fab – i cannot say for certain…he has had so little recent match action, however…

other than our two goalkeepers, jurek dudek and artur boruc, i don’t know who the other poland goalkeepers are…i doubt dudek has been anywhere near the national team in the past several years, and i am not sure boruc figures either, since he left celtic…

the match finished 2-2, btw…

Yeah but he ll only get better with regular football…..keeping him on the bench ll only make him match rusty. We don’t want to run the risk of him becoming another chamakh….whom by the way I think is a good player being played out of position.

Stan, i reckon Park will get a start against Bolton in the Carling Cup, and then AW will take it from there.
Possibly a couple of apps from the subs bench, but Afobe is gonna be a better player anyway imho.

and i’ve confirmed that fab did start in goal for poland…so both ju’s goals were against one of his arsenal team-mates…

Oliver, i suspect that a half-decent offer [PSG ?] could see Monsiuer Chamakh onto the EuroStar train and back to continental europe…

Warren Buffet. Billy Beane…..
Tell me something about them Oliver.
They seem to be fans of AW.

Gourcuff has been linked with us for a long time Oliver.
I have read comments about him not being robust enough to cope in the EPL.
Not sure of the validity of those comments, but as far as i know, Arsenal have not firmed up any interest in him.

I think he’s a quality player, but surely Chamakh shouldn’t need him to hold his hand. And if ‘that is’ the case, then it’s all stations to Paris for Maroune methinks….

hiya AK.

Kif Int DG… 😉

Oliver…. Oakland 2006, Arsenal 2006.
Must be something lacking in the process both clubs are engaging in?

Moneyball Oliver..? Not to my knowledge mate.
But i will definately look out for it now.

Moneyball is what Wenger uses to get the best players (statistically speaking) and everyone raved about it for years but it is now being found out….just like Wenger. Unfortunately Kroenke loves it too, hence why we are screwed until Usmanov buys the club

Personally I never liked Hulk.

The problem with the last Wenger teams in the past 6 years is that everything always has to go through one player. First it was Henry, then it was Fabregas now it is RVP. When we were winning and had leaders everywhere you never knew from where the ball was coming. left right or centre. but now its always through one person. and that is the crux of the problem.

You guys have issues, gazidis has a lot to answer for.

As subtle as a sledge hammer wath, we all needed this weekend off.

The board have got one foot in the frying pan and the other one on thin ice.

I’m not talking about the players rico, us fans are suffering as well.

Rico, i wouldn’t be unhappy but I think wenger may go next summer anyway, the club needs a good shake up from top to bottom, a new manager would bring in his own staff and inject fresh idea’s, its like we’ve just gone stale, things have to change, we can’t carry on like this, in the past when we weren’t winning people would say yeah but we play the most attractive football, we can’t say that anymore, now the same people blame injuries when its obvious the squad isn’t strong enough, excuse after excuse.

Wath, do you use charmin toilet tissue, as all the bears seem to? 😀

Good read rico,
I.Gazbo has put he’s foot in it again. he would be better off saying Nothing gives out all the wrong vibes, Arsenal may be running smoothly at the moment,Money wise, but it has to be said that the reason Wenger brought late was that the smooth running Arsenal never released funds and Wenger was press ganged by Barca so the funds came late, Wenger only spent what he got in but he spent it really quick. Gazides is wrong the champions league is important, maybe not for the smooth running of the club, but for supporters to see their team in the top flight. It seems to me that Wenger and the board are playing down our chances so as to pre warn us, if we don’t win anything. Our form has been poor but a run of results could boost our position rather quickly, personally i would like to see our youngsters used, they all seem to be playing fairly well, and should be rewarded while Theo and Chamakh miss chance after chance, we are now in a position where we can use these youngsters who are in form and uninjured without it affecting our position in the league, Maybe Theo and the others could muster a bit of support from the stands

micko, reading his comments at face value, i don’t think it is unreasonable to have a contingency plan in case we miss out on the top four…but i would question the timing of discussing this – a few days after we lost the derby to a team that figures to compete with us for that spot (although at the moment we are the ones who are not exactly competitive)…

i also think that what he didn’t say – specifically what areas will suffer if we have to compensate for the loss of potential cl revenues – is significant…

i don’t think we should be under any illusions that it will impact some key areas…my suspicion – admittedly unfounded – is player purchases and wages (including new deals for current playing staff) will be one of the areas affected…

politician that he is, our chief executive probably could have sold the message better if he expressed it in the context that the club will do its utmost to achieve at least a top four finish this season, but if that failed, contingency plans exist that will ensure a season or two out of the champions league will not be catastrophic…

instead, it came out more like missing out wouldn’t be much different from business as usual, and anyways, it is foolhardy to build a model which takes qualification and associated revenues for granted…i think this is what makes the message so unpalatably to many…not that missing the top four and associated contingency planning exist, but that they are discussed in almost “no big deal” terms…

if we step back, perhaps we’ll see that planning for life outside cl is prudent, if nothing else…but there also have to be plans to ensure we reclaim that status as quickly as possible…

if nothing else, it gives the impression that financial strength is the only relevant metric certain people use to measure our club’s relative health…but it is only part of it…if we are not financially strong, the rest of the model – sponsorship, player recruitment, results – will be affected…

conversely, if we are financially strong, but the squad is under-strength (and this can come in many forms, such as lack of experience, lack of a winning culture, etc), then results will suffer and so will our brand name and associated revenues…they are all bound together, whether our majority shareholder and chief executive like it or not…if we lag/underachive in one area, it has a horizontal effect across our model…some areas may be hit worse than others, but few are unscathed.

Champions league nights are fantastic, barca at home last season was outta this world, will stay in the memory for a long time.

Hi Steve, how are ya doing mate?

Right, offski to the pub.
See ya Gooners

Theres a lot of whys there rico but who expects a keeper to be beaten by a 25 yrd shot certainly not me and i would expect the Arsenal defenders felt the same, WHY did he miss it

And as far as our chances, why have Chamakh and Theo missing chances one after another when our youngsters are scoring for fun for their contries

Steve, the squad is good but soul less. There is no leader who can get the team by the scruff of the neck and kick up the player’s ass. The players are not afraid from one who is above them. There is no one who leads the team onto greater things. Wenger has destroyed that passion. Anyone can tell me that we need world class players. yes we do…but not in the technical department. its in the heart department that we need world class levels. players whose head does not drop with the first or second goal conceded……look to the 2nd scum goal for that. we need players who if you score against them will vent their fury on you for having dared to cross the line. We need more like that. We need a keeper who if he does not get the ball gets an opponents head for having dared to try and head the ball or venture into the six yard box. Fabianski is easily intimidated. Seaman and more appropriately Lehman were never intimidated. I still remember the CWC semifinal vs Juventus in 1980 when Zoff went for the ball, missed it and punched Bettega’s head instead. His own mate That type of language means that this is my area. Dont dare venture into it. Remember when Neville et al destroyed Reyes??? We were angry then no. But how many leagues have PLC won since then and how many have we won. That is the type of attitude I would like to see at AFC……not artistry of the noble art type. We are not Barca, we will never be them. We are Arsenal. And the problem is that AW has tried to turn us into a carbon copy. Hell he even takes some of their youngsters in the hope of doing so. But he will not succeed. It’s like God telling Moses that the Jews will eventually reach the promised land….but not under his tenure.

In the meantime we need someone who kicks up a couple of assholes who sit poshy waiting for their fat-cheques and doing fuck all.