Since we’re doing the Wenger retrospective, how about great mysteries of his era?

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04-23-2018, 01:34 PM
Burney

Since we’re doing the Wenger retrospective, how about great mysteries of his era?

For me, it was the fact we employed Jeremie Aliadiere for eight years despite him never appearing to be anything more than ordinary.
04-23-2018, 01:40 PM
Billy Goat Sverige

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Originally Posted by Burney

For me, it was the fact we employed Jeremie Aliadiere for eight years despite him never appearing to be anything more than ordinary.

Has to be the Korean lad, surely?
04-23-2018, 01:42 PM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Burney

For me, it was the fact we employed Jeremie Aliadiere for eight years despite him never appearing to be anything more than ordinary.

Gervinho. Just... Gervinho.

What could he have been thinking?
04-23-2018, 01:43 PM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige

Has to be the Korean lad, surely?

Nah, that was a market penetration move, surely?
04-23-2018, 01:44 PM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

Allowing that fumbling, bungling inept butter-fingered clown's cock Almunia anywhere

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Originally Posted by Burney

For me, it was the fact we employed Jeremie Aliadiere for eight years despite him never appearing to be anything more than ordinary.

near the team.

As for Alliadere, I had actually forgotten that he existed.
04-23-2018, 01:48 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Sir C

Nah, that was a market penetration move, surely?

Is the South Korean market that important to us? Surely if we were all about the market penetration, we'd have got a sh1t Chineser in instead?
04-23-2018, 01:49 PM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Burney

Is the South Korean market that important to us? Surely if we were all about the market penetration, we'd have got a sh1t Chineser in instead?

:shrug: Like there's a difference?
04-23-2018, 01:49 PM
Luis Anaconda

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Originally Posted by Burney

For me, it was the fact we employed Jeremie Aliadiere for eight years despite him never appearing to be anything more than ordinary.

Made of balsa wood obviously but a real talent there. His movement was absolutely top draw, finishing wasn't bad and given the players he was surround by I would say it was more of a surprise he didn't make it
04-23-2018, 01:55 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

near the team.

As for Alliadere, I had actually forgotten that he existed.

The inability to see what a liability Almunia was is genuinely mystifying, it's true.

Mind you, we also had a succession of centre halves who took some fvcking explaining, too.
04-23-2018, 01:55 PM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Burney

For me, it was the fact we employed Jeremie Aliadiere for eight years despite him never appearing to be anything more than ordinary.

MANUEL ALMUNIA.

I'm off to cut myself...
04-23-2018, 01:56 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Made of balsa wood obviously but a real talent there. His movement was absolutely top draw, finishing wasn't bad and given the players he was surround by I would say it was more of a surprise he didn't make it

EIGHT FVCKING YEARS, though, la!
04-23-2018, 01:56 PM
Pat Vegas

Kallstrom loan.

And Viviano that was a strange one.

and Armoury Bischoff though worth a try I suppose.
04-23-2018, 01:57 PM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by IUFG

MANUEL ALMUNIA.

I'm off to cut myself...

It might have been the last away game I attended. Birmingham. I swear the ball actually passed through his body, as if he were porous. :-(
04-23-2018, 01:59 PM
Luis Anaconda

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Originally Posted by Burney

EIGHT FVCKING YEARS, though, la!

Yes - fair enough, b
04-23-2018, 02:00 PM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Sir C

It might have been the last away game I attended. Birmingham. I swear the ball actually passed through his body, as if he were porous. :-(

That fúcking West Brom game at home, despite a penalty hitting him :nono:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/9024632.stm
04-23-2018, 02:00 PM
Tony C

How good was Alberto Mendez?

Rumour had it he was making mince of Dixon and Winterbuen on the training ground and was faster than Overmars...before he broke his leg.
04-23-2018, 02:01 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

Kallstrom loan.

And Viviano that was a strange one.

and Armoury Bischoff though worth a try I suppose.

Buying a player with a broken back was pretty special, tbf. :hehe:
04-23-2018, 02:02 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

Yes - fair enough, b

We've had players we now consider legends who didn't play for us that long, la. :shakehead:
04-23-2018, 02:02 PM
Tony C

Can’t wait for him to confirm that Stuart Taylor was indeed too tall to be a goal keeper.
04-23-2018, 02:03 PM
World's End Stella

I was going to say Almunia however our resident goalkeeping expert Peter assured us that he was excellent and who are we to differ? :shrug:

So Reyes then. As much as I loved the little gypo, it's hard to argue that given Wenger's reputation for spotting talent at the time, and given all the stories re how much we scouted him and what Wenger thought of him, in the end it was very surprising that he wasn't quite a bit better than he really was.
04-23-2018, 02:04 PM
Viva Prat Vegas

Why he wasted more time berating the 4th Official than hollering at the team on the pitch was always a mystery to me
04-23-2018, 02:06 PM
Rich

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

Kallstrom loan.

And Viviano that was a strange one.

and Armoury Bischoff though worth a try I suppose.

Chamakh was a strange one. Arsene pursued him for a couple of years prior to getting him. This was despite there being no evidence of his pedigree & there being no other clubs interested in him.

I also understand that we paid him upwards of £60k a week (which was partly why he was so difficult to shift).
04-23-2018, 02:06 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Tony C

Can’t wait for him to confirm that Stuart Taylor was indeed too tall to be a goal keeper.

:hehe: Actually, the Richard Wright thing was still a bit of a mystery.

And that little seal-headed fella who couldn't get a game with us and went on to play for Real Madrid.
04-23-2018, 02:08 PM
Tony C

Also can he clear why the following players never signed and how close were we:

Hackman 6
Trabelsi
Mexes

That’s all...don’t care much for rehash of Suarez and I never really liked / cared / rated Benzema...completely overrated and a donkey for me.
04-23-2018, 02:08 PM
World's End Stella

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Originally Posted by Burney

:hehe: Actually, the Richard Wright thing was still a bit of a mystery.

And that little seal-headed fella who couldn't get a game with us and went on to play for Real Madrid.

FFS. :rolleyes:

Porpoise headed, Burney. Porpoise. Get it right.
04-23-2018, 02:09 PM
Rich

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Originally Posted by Burney

:hehe: Actually, the Richard Wright thing was still a bit of a mystery.

And that little seal-headed fella who couldn't get a game with us and went on to play for Real Madrid.

I think he left us for Portsmouth before Real decided he was quite good. He played many times for them, i believe. More recently, I believe that he was plying his trade with PSG.

When I think of cases like this and Oxlade Chamberlin I wonder if Arsene is really a very good manager at all :-(
04-23-2018, 02:09 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Tony C

Also can he clear why the following players never signed and how close were we:

Hackman 6
Trabelsi
Mexes

That’s all...don’t care much for rehash of Suarez and I never really liked / cared / rated Benzema...completely overrated and a donkey for me.

Trabelsi. Every fvcking summer for about six years we were going to sign him. Pricktease.
04-23-2018, 02:10 PM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Burney

:hehe: Actually, the Richard Wright thing was still a bit of a mystery.

And that little seal-headed fella who couldn't get a game with us and went on to play for Real Madrid.

Lassana Diarra. How the fúck did he happen?
04-23-2018, 02:11 PM
Just Trent

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Originally Posted by Burney

For me, it was the fact we employed Jeremie Aliadiere for eight years despite him never appearing to be anything more than ordinary.

Sanogo deserves a mention. Especially as he turned up when we started getting more money to spend on players. Remember when he started that Champions League match against Bayern? :hehe: WD Arsene
04-23-2018, 02:11 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by World's End Stella

FFS. :rolleyes:

Porpoise headed, Burney. Porpoise. Get it right.

:hehe: That's right. I knew it was a sea mammal of some sort.

What was his name again?
04-23-2018, 02:13 PM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Burney

:hehe: That's right. I knew it was a sea mammal of some sort.

What was his name again?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...and_Diarra.jpg

I bet Mesut cries himself to sleep most nights nowadays...
04-23-2018, 02:15 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Just Trent

Sanogo deserves a mention. Especially as he turned up when we started getting more money to spend on players. Remember when he started that Champions League match against Bayern? :hehe: WD Arsene

Sorry, but if we're doing bizarre selections, that time he dropped Henry and played Aliadiere in the semi against United still rankles. I know he got away with it a couple of years before with Wiltord, but Aliadiere wasn't Wiltord.
04-23-2018, 02:16 PM
7sisters

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Originally Posted by Burney

For me, it was the fact we employed Jeremie Aliadiere for eight years despite him never appearing to be anything more than ordinary.

Franny Jeffers ? Just what was he thinking. Kim Kallstrom, the broken back wonder. That sh*t defender we signed from United, who was so far past his sell by date, his must have had green mould in his hair.
04-23-2018, 02:16 PM
Pat Vegas

I liked the lookalike/likeforlike replacement approach Idea he had for a while. I mentioned this several times over the years.

Adebayor for Kanu.
Theo for Henry
van Persie for Bergkamp
Eboue for Lauren
Clichy for Cole
Rosicky for Pires,
Diaby for Vieira

all similar in stature.
I am sure there were more.
04-23-2018, 02:17 PM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Burney

Sorry, but if we're doing bizarre selections . . .

Those 100+ matches his bizarrely selected Manuel fúcking Almunia
04-23-2018, 02:17 PM
Pat Vegas

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Originally Posted by IUFG

Those 100+ matches his bizarrely selected Manuel fúcking Almunia

we got to CL semi final with him goal.
04-23-2018, 02:18 PM
World's End Stella

Steady on here lads. This thread is moving from a revealing of mysteries thread to a slating of our soon to be departed beloved manager thread.

Tread carefully now.
04-23-2018, 02:22 PM
IUFG

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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas

we got to CL semi final with him goal.

Yes, and he conceded a fúcking 40 yard free kick at his near post during it.
04-23-2018, 02:23 PM
SWv2

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Originally Posted by Just Trent

Sanogo deserves a mention. Especially as he turned up when we started getting more money to spend on players. Remember when he started that Champions League match against Bayern? :hehe: WD Arsene

To be fair Sanogo joined us at a time when he was a key member of a brilliant French U21 side with players like Umtiti, Pogba, Kondobgia and perhaps Griezemann.

We appear to have simply went for the lad that was free, or cheapest, without asking why.
04-23-2018, 02:23 PM
Pat Vegas

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Originally Posted by IUFG

Yes, and he conceded a fúcking 40 yard free kick at his near post during it.

he played in a final too. so he's basically done the whole thing.

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