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We could've done with another midfielder but our squad is decent otherwise. We managed to keep our two "world class" players, added two good players and got rid of quite a lot of ********s. Now all we need to do is go back to the old formation and play the best players in their proper positions.
Next summer we're ****ed though.
Yes, the other things that everyone wanted - a new CB and a new CM - would require Wenger to admit that his current options aren't good enough and that was never going to happen. Ramsey straight back into the team against Bournemouth, nailed on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
Next summer Ozil and Sanchez will be off and with the current manager in place we will be well and truly shagged. The only hope for optimism is a truly awful season that sees Wenger resign at the end of it and we get a new manager who can get the best out of the players we have and possibly spend some money next summer.
:nod: If Sanchez plays like he can we'll be fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
Hopefully Wenger will stop pissing about now making strange tactical decisions.
even if Kos is injured I would hope Holding and Mustafi would be more than enough.
However with wengers ideas who knows.
It's a bad window because our squad has not been reinforced and because there has been no forward planning for next summer's exodus.
In football terms it could have been worse if we'd lost Alexis without a replacement.
The great beneficiary could be Alex Iwobi.
Is Jack still with us?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mo Britain less Europe
Yes. Suspended.
Suspension only counts for U23 fixtures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mo Britain less Europe
Good God! Did you get out of bed on the wrong side?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
That's all he's going to get for quite a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
it's weaker team than last season and Alexis can't be trusted anymore.
The club are lucky that's an international break...gives the fans a chance to calm down
As has been the case before I think it is a B-, good but could and should have been better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
The last week or so was a fúcking circus and the manner in which Sanchez has been made stay is surely not ideal for either party.
That B- rather generous imo. Our midfield has not been strengthened. Weakened, one might even argue, in terms of numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Yes possibly or indeed probably.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Yesterday, if we are to believe the sequence of events as told, was a bit of a balls up. I am of the personal opinion that keeping a disenchanted player is not healthy.
Alexis will be fine, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
But regarding other areas of the team, imagine if we had a real football genius of a Sporting Director working alongside Wenger; a Capello, say. Or Monty. And he knew fully well that Wenger was in charge of tactics, selection and preparation, would he even bother trying to strengthen the squad? Surely he'd just accept that simply buying more and better players wouldn't actually change anything, wouldn't he? He'd just pocket his bonus share of the surplus cash and keep quiet.
A farce, really. If the players really wanted AS7 gone as has been reported there is a case for selling, but the inevitable shítstorm required a big replacement. Obviously just the three months to sort that out wasn't quite enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Fear not. All we need do is stay in touch until Christmas, when the return of Wilshere and Cazorla will give us the push we need to complete the run for the title :champions:Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Perhaps players brought in outside of AW's choice are the ones that get ignored, shunned and rejected whether they are any good or not. I don't see them in training every day blah blah but Perez and even Campbell didn't strike me as being any worse particularly than the rest of the little shít****s that banter us off with regular awayday thrashings.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Alexis had agreed terms with City, passed his medical and did a photo shoot in a City top...him and City were just waiting for the Lamar deal to go through.
He's going to be useless for the next month or so while he processes and vibes to terms with what happened.
I have no doubt we shall recover however I think we have perhaps fallen further behind than we ended last season, albeit with 2 additions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I'm not sure it's a good idea to allow the players to pick the team in any case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
He's furious apparently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
Good. He can take his frustrations out on the rest of the league.
Doncaster are very, very worried.
Probably no worse than allowing the state of contract negotiations to pick the team tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
The players are pu ssies mate.
Look at Giroud, Kos and Laca...couldn't talk Lamar around.
If they wanted Alexis out they should've gone all Full Metsl Jacket on him and beaten him with a soap bar in their socks :nod:
I think this is why Ramsey says Kos ain't a real captain.
It's a good point. Do you think we'd have won otherwise? If not, then maybe the match was a bit of a free hit. Albeit a most bitter one for all of the Arsenal persuasion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Giroud wanted to go to Everton. His wife vetoed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
You mean by trying to persuade a guy who wants to play in midfield to stay by picking him as a wing back?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
:hehe: Yep. Stroke of genius, that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Surely we were already trying to persuade him to leave by that point?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Getting Mme. Giroud to pick the team is clearly the way to go then. Silly boy, Olivier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mo Britain less Europe
I'm getting a little sick of Sanchez's emotions. To think that we even considered letting him go is an insult. He was a second stringer at Barca, we turned his career around. He can chill the hell out and not be a little rat.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
But really, we should at least have gotten Mahrez. That's what rankles.