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Are you really asking if drunkenmaster supports Wenger and his decisions? If his posts are anything to go by he'll pay for the taxi taking Wenger back to France or wherever he wants to go and hang the cost.
I'm amazed that it's only two you think are made of glass, what's Van Persie then? Crystal?
I fundamentally believe that Wenger is one of the very few managers who actually improves the players he has.
Too often these days, managers trade up and spend under the guise of needing to stamp their mark on the club. Wenger, Mourinho and Moyes stand out as managers who get more out of their players that another manager could. Redknapp is a classic example of trading up. He comes in, spends a bucketload on new slightly better players, plateaus and leaves.
IMHO, the scary prospect for Arsenal is that few other managers could coax Top 4 performances out of the dross that Arsenal currently field. A Director of Football spending the money and Wenger playing with his kids would seem to be a great step forward.
Too often these days, managers trade up and spend under the guise of needing to stamp their mark on the club. Wenger, Mourinho and Moyes stand out as managers who get more out of their players that another manager could. Redknapp is a classic example of trading up. He comes in, spends a bucketload on new slightly better players, plateaus and leaves.
IMHO, the scary prospect for Arsenal is that few other managers could coax Top 4 performances out of the dross that Arsenal currently field. A Director of Football spending the money and Wenger playing with his kids would seem to be a great step forward.
I am a spurs fan- I couldn't write a wholly pro gooner post. It's illegal in Tottenham. You saw what happened when an ITK suggested we were about to sign Heskey and pair him with Crouch
Rags are suggesting we (Arsenal) are back in for Eden Hazard. Would welcome him to be honest. Through in Jadson from Shaktar and use Nasri's fees to pick up Mertesaker and Jan Vertonghen and I would literally ejaculate over my screen.
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Djourou and Gibbs, even when they were stuck in the reserves or as back up so not always being talked about in the press, have pretty shocking injury records in the past 4-5 years, they are constantly injured.
Going into the season with your best backup CB being both rubbish, and incapable of staying fit, and your first choice left back, who is also both rubbish and incapable of staying fit, is beyond psychotic.
THe only question is how did Djourou play so much and get away with so many cringeworthy mistakes last year.
Van Persie, Rosicky, Theo, Diaby are all injury prone, Theo got injured twice in preseason, Diaby got injured before the end of last season, played again in the last game or two, got injured again end of season. Again Diaby is just rubbish even when fit, let alone the fact that he is never fit.
Its a god damned shambles, winning rate with Cesc last season 64%, winning rate without 31%, thats title winning vs relegation fighting difference there.
That is how Arsenal get in the top four, it has NOTHING to do with Wenger, while Cesc might really like Wenger, Cesc was epic when he came into the team and just more epic now, Wenger had little to nothing to do with him being that good. You don't join the club after training for like 10 years, and turn around completely as a player in under 2 months.
Without Cesc we are very average, with Cesc we were top 4. I don't in any way trust Wenger now to replace with the quality, nor start the right team, nor play the right formation, nor even make the right subs.
Need a win against a very very poor Newcastle offence, bring on a DM and a CB, about to go away to Udinese, having been outplayed for much of the time, bring on a striker for one of the three who were woeful, no, bring on another DM, who gave them a great chance to score within seconds.
DO people not remember the "other" Wenger, down to 10 men, throwing on attackers, going for a win AND GETTING IT. ultra attack, no slow sideways passing for 80minutes of a game, talent, skill, creativity, style.
Hmm, does anyone know if Wenger has an evil twin, I'm starting to suspect foul play and that he's been replaced, its almost the only explanation.
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All signs are pointing towards an Adebayor loan deal.
I've never been a fan of his, and I'm not fickle enough to suddenly change my mind should he throw on a Spurs shirt.
He has been a tool at both Arsenal and City.
I've never been a fan of his, and I'm not fickle enough to suddenly change my mind should he throw on a Spurs shirt.
He has been a tool at both Arsenal and City.
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He's like one of many players who put in effort for a while, then they can't be arsed. A year long loan, would he bother the whole year, maybe, who knows.
Didn't like the guy when we bought him, when he tried to move, when he punched Bendtner, when he got his wages doubled..... loved him when City were stupid enough to want him though. Ok, love might be too strong.
I did think personality wise he was different at Real, again how much of it was looking out for himself/making himself buyable, and if he'd continue it. I was surprised when he went out of his way to not take a shot when he could help Ronaldo break scoring records, he gave up several easy chances really.
he was and probably is a ****, but he can almost certainly do a much better job than Crouch/Defoe, the real problem might be IF you bought him in say Jan or next summer after a good loan, and then he got lazy and doesn't try.
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Lille have put a £26m price tag on Eden Hazard as Arsenal step up their pursuit of the Belgian midfielder, according to reports in France.
Full story: talkSPORT
Not seen much of him but reminds me of Overmars. JUST BUY HIM WENGER!!!!
Full story: talkSPORT
Not seen much of him but reminds me of Overmars. JUST BUY HIM WENGER!!!!
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Diaby, RVP, Rosicky, Theo, Djourou and Gibbs are all insanely injury prone, we need MINIMUM of a left back, cb, central midfielder and if Nasri leaves one more winger. If Gervinho is absolutely as turd as he's been since we got him by the end of the window, I'd honestly be looking for another winger aswell.
Maybe he's just having a horrible month, it happens, but early impression is he's the worst winger we have at the moment, to be fair, if he's a striker and has just been pushed out wide once or twice but really sucks there, I'm all for giving him a go upfront, he's pacey and can run with it, his passing/crossing has been woeful, if his finishing is great, thats all I care about if he's upfront.
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That said... he did do this...
But didn't he also wear an Arsenal shirt while in an interview while actually being contracted to Man City? The guy is a complete idiot. I was so happy Arsenal got rid of him, and even better; They managed to get so much for him :O
Have you ran out of things to say now that you are just repeating yourself.
The fact if Arsenal I would be straight on here to see one of your rants
Not going to happen though
Your offence wasnt much better than ours. You could create chances but as soon as your forwards got the ball the thought it was a bomb and panicked and just swung a foot at it.
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Yeah, I know, old Wenger would have put on strikers though, even last years Wenger would have put on 12 strikers by the end in his now customary "panic attack" formation. Drop a fullback and DM, put on strikers, play the anyone do whatever you want anywhere formation. This year we've dropped even further into Wengers new emergency tactic which we'll call "desparately trying to hang on".
Old Wenger used to, when going down to 10 play the tactic I loved the best "the team is awesome, they'll just play better and win anyway".
Arsenal weren't really any better than Newcastle, its just, our reaction, well Wenger's reactions to these situations are changing. 7 years ago, we could have gone a man down against Utd, and we'd still go for the win, today, no offence but against a poor Newcastle, poor Arsenal decided to hang on for a draw, its embarassing.
Yeah I know what you mean and we did the same pretty much to be honest. I would have rather lost the game by trying to win it rather than just sit back and settle for a point.
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Not really, I don't think you went ultra attack but, you took off tired strikers for Best, Obertan and Lovenkrands.
We lost one striker, then took off Ramsey and Rosicky for Djourou and Frimpong, though they were late subs, its those last 10 mins that a fresh striker can make all the difference against a tired defence. We also took off Arshavin, our best player in the first half, for Theo quite early in the half, who was his usual pointless self.
Gervinho was ****, RVP hadn't done anything, Rosicky was crap, yet we take off Arshavin, the only guy genuinely creating chances(that RVP kept fluffing badly).
We lost one striker, then took off Ramsey and Rosicky for Djourou and Frimpong, though they were late subs, its those last 10 mins that a fresh striker can make all the difference against a tired defence. We also took off Arshavin, our best player in the first half, for Theo quite early in the half, who was his usual pointless self.
Gervinho was ****, RVP hadn't done anything, Rosicky was crap, yet we take off Arshavin, the only guy genuinely creating chances(that RVP kept fluffing badly).
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