All the people wanting Giroud to start got what they wished for :-)
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All the people wanting Giroud to start got what they wished for :-)
Wilshere - apart from the shot he put over from 6 yards. :baghead:
Sanchez - turned into a crab with his sideways running across the pitch.
Koscielny - turning into a Keystone Cop defender. That ****e defending in the 90th minute...
Welbeck - why?
Iwobi - what exactly is the point of him?
In summary, WENGER OUT.
Maitland-Niles played well, tbh.
Maitland-Niles has the highest cross completion rate in the team...that’s a right footed central midfielder playing at left back.
Explains so much imo
Well there is the rub with Giroud innit.
He is the footballing personification of the phrase that “absence makes the heart grow fonder”. Remove him from the starting 11 and his brief cameo appearances make you think “ooh he should start”, and then he starts and his deficiencies within the team system come to the fore.
He’s a sub, nothing more. A reserve to be rolled out when others need a rest in lesser competitions.
See also “TJ and the impressive 5 minute spell in a meaningless dead rubber match” which admittedly is a working title for his latest book.
Wenger's longevity probably. How do players respond when they know that, whatever they do; win, lose, play well or badly, their manager's job is safe? And how does a manager deal with his players when he too knows his job is safe?
Highly unusual situation in football, I'd suggest.
If we win the 3 Cups the AKBs will claim victory and call for 5 more years.
That doesn't excuse the crap effort on the pitch Rich.
Those teams all had a crap periods too, a time where we could have tried to win Leicester won of all people as they played as a team.
also I find the contract situations of Ozil and Sanchez quite frankly embarrassing for a club who allegedly does things the 'right way'
Don’t forget we’re on the Leicester City model.
I think we are at a really tough time for the club.
Cech cannot have that much longer left, Mertesacker is gone, the chronic injuries we often read about will surely take their toll on Koscielny who anyway is 31/32 and again heading towards the end, not sure Wenger rates Mustafi else why go through the summer trying to move him on, not sure what is going on with Holding who is trusted for major matches then nowhere to be seen despite being an age where most Prem managers would have him in weekly, I am not sure why we re-employed Chambers at all. That is just the defensive area.
Ozil and Sanchez are surely gone at this point, Walcott should go if he has even one shred of professional integrity, Ramsey will be next in the 12 months from free bracket.
I am sure there is others we could identify – Wilshere free to talk to clubs in 17 days, Elneny and Coquelin are both mince ……
Yet we are 7th and probably 4th by tea time on Saturday.
I am not sure if my glass is indeed half full or half empty, however a new round is called for.
The only solution is a new manager a clear out and a few years of rebuilding.
Wenger has his favourites and his projects that he insists on carrying on with whilst he is here it won't really change.
Also the whole Wenger contract *******s last season was another farce.
Did you see Ozil scorning himself after he put a little bit too much on a through ball? That made me think he wants to stay and if you believe the rumours, he's going to sign for another 2 years.
Sanchez doesn't seem liked by his team mates and can go. I think we're better off having guys like Wilshere and Iwobi in the team who genuinely want to be there and are at the right age.
Also - you missed Cazorla from your list who is both old and broken.
Add to all that the realistic likelihood of failling to make the top four again at the time the commercial deals are up for renewal and we could lose out on quite a bit of monies, if one assumes that monies are a factor in a club's ability to succeed on the pitch. Maybe a few years in mid-table and falling share price will persuade the wig-botherer that it is time to sell up, and some slaver state or corporate gangster will step in and bankroll us to glory.
It’s all very weird A, from the season high of the Spurs victory it has kind of faded away so quickly, or faded back to bland reality as opposed to “faded away”.
I know a lot has been written about the valiant brilliance of the United defeat and yes we deserve some credit for the performance but I am probably alone in my firm view that we fully deserved to lose that game, football is a game played at both ends of the pitch and we defended for all 3 goals like rank amateurs. Southampton then was abysmal and for all the good fortune some will claim was absent from the United game was there in spades on the south coast.
Even Monty, our resident defend Wenger at all costs contributor, yesterday twice admitted the manager is failing in his most basic task of preparing and motivating the players. Yes ballsed it up in a nonsense drivel about Man City but the criticism was there.
Still, there is January and the window of opportunity to try and improve things though the status quo will remain while Wenger remains.
This problem goes further than nuns. As dairies were guarranteed sales to schools I suspect that the milk they delivered was not the freshest they had available to start with. To this day Ms A refuses to have anything milkier on her cereal than the dyed-white water in the red lid containers.
Despite having to endure this off-milk torture not only at school but at home as well (the old, rancid milk would have to be drunk before the fresher stuff) I somehow survived into adulthood without a fear of the nutritious goodness of a liquid designed to make small cows double in weight every few weeks.
I don’t appreciate the aggressive tone of your e-mail and given your professional background I am shocked. Let this be the proverbial shot across your bows.
Now, no idea.
I had a quick look the other night to see who we were going to sign and I am informed we will go again for Lemar though shrewdly we will offer less than before, we are going to sign Leon Goretzka despite him being wanted by others including United/Bayern/Barca and indeed a deal is struck at €35m for Steven N’Zonzi (the ex-Stoke and Blackburn player).
Now I defy you to read and absorb the above and not accept that the future is rosy?
p.s. N’Zonzi is actually quite / very good, the Stoke thing was merely for effect.