Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only

stop this future crap u arsenal boys, tell una boss to go buy matured players.

UNITED i stand

@ Vieira,

You still spew tosh? I thought u should have changed by now. How can u say this was better than the last? Better in what sense? You finished without a trophy this season and u finished without a trophy last season. Besides, didn't Wenger play in the final of carling cup last season?

Isn't that a genuine 50-50 chance of winning something compared to this season when Arsenal was never favoured 50% chance of winning the league. When Arsenal were 5 points clear in February, the book makers still favoured Man United to win it so how has this season shaped better?

@ HNIC,

The last time i checked, Tottenham won the carling cup and beating Arsenal 5-1 and despatching Chelski 2-1 on their way to winning it. On this day, Tottenham has actually fared better than Arsenal. Let me make it worse, Portsmouth have done exceptionally well than Arsenal. Wenger will finish 3rd again next season as his best players will all leave by August.

@ Akolawole,

Adebayor ar 2k a week will cope with all those bills. For all u know, Ade's monthly repayment may be less than 1000 quid a month. Without taking anything away from the Togolese, i think he deserves 90k a week. Wenger is a spin doctor and very very clever for his own good. He manipulated the wage structure when Henry threatened to leave in 2006, tell me why he cannot bend it to keep Flamini or Hleb. Is Henry super-human?

@ Vicade,

Adebayor is not over-rated but i don't think 80k a week for the Togolese is a big ASK. Take out Adebayor's goals in Arsenal's goal haul and what do u have? In a season where he played as a lone striker for many months, what do u expect? When Tevez was doing the lone striker role alone(with Rooney injured), how many goals did he score? For Adebayor to have bagged 24 goals this season is a testimony to his brilliance. Drogba as a lone striker could only manage 20 league goals last season. Strikers miss goals from time to time(u cannot hang the Togolese for that) Where is the support from the midfield? Hleb, Rosicky, Walcott and Eboue did not contribute enough.

Adebayor will improve if he plays around quality players. As a striker, he needs quality delivery to thrive. Have u seen Eboue's crosses? Give Adebayor a break. Would u have believed if someone had told u Ade will hit 30 at the start of the season? You are slaughtering Ade here, what about Van Persie who has never scored 12 league goals in his entire career? What about Bendtner who scores only when the full moon is out? In my own opinion, Adebayor was outstanding this season. Plug him in a team like Man United and u will see the difference after being fed quality passes from Rooney, Tevez and Anderson.

Fernando Torres is the best striker in the premiership and not Adebayor. Fernando scored in most of the Big games and not just getting a huge bunch of goals against weaker teams like derby. Torres even scored 33 goals in all competition and this is his debut season.Adebayor scored 30-which is quite impressive.

Emmanuel Adebayor is second best.

As par eduardo, he scored 12 goals and 8 assits in his first season at february. Go and look at Adebayor's past records in arsenal.

YET again Adebayor is very good and i love his style of play as a player but his finishing has to improve and he needs to score  in big games.

Scroing a lot of goals against the bottom teams is very impressive but he needs to score against the big teams and score more goals in the champions league: where he has only scored 3 goals in like 18 appearances or something.

@ Vicade,

You are bent on disrespecting Adebayor and i won't let u do that even though i support Man United. Adebayor is a work-horse and a great finisher. He is even better than Cristiano Ronaldo in front of goal. Are u aware Ronaldo had 131 shots on goal in the league and scoring just 31? You begin to wonder what happened to the remaining 100 shots aimed at the goal. . . .  In the final OPTA stats. . . . Ronaldo has 24% goal/shot ratio same as Adebayor. Torres(25%), Santa Cruz(25%) and even Yakubu(29%) are more deadlier in front of goal than Ronaldo. Give Adebayor a break and stop comparing him to Eduardo who couldn't stay fit to rescue his team.

@ Hucarson
I am having a laugh  
So, the spuds have had a better season than us because they won the Milk cup
and Pompey too has done better because they are appearing in the FA cup final
Hell, Cardiff too has done better, may I include Barnsley also.
Take a look at the league table and see where the Spuds are.
Back in August, after they spent 16 million quid on Darren Bent and we let Henry go,the pundits said the Spuds will replace us in the 'Big Four'.What happened? The Spuds finished 11th(Couldn't even make top 10)
Its disppointing not to win a trophy, but last year we were 21 points off the pace and this season we were just 4 points behind the champions.
If we had won the milk cup, we would be a bit happy that we dint go trophyless, but for God sake, the CC is not what Arsenal should be aiming for.
I insist, it was a better saeson than the last.

I am not  disrespecting Adebayor but only saying the obvious.

He has scored only 3 goals in 18 champion league appearances

He scores more goals against the weaker teams and less against the stronger teams-when it really matters and some times his finishing and decision making can be very poor but only on very few and important ocassions e.g. against birgminham, liverpool and man u

Adebayor is very good and as an arsenal fan i think he will be the next african player of the year but giving him 80K per week is just ludacris.

Eduardo had his leg broken so this is not about him staying fit. There was little he could do about that martin taylor tackle.

Good thing is that martintaylor can now be breaking legs in the championship.

@ Hucarson
How can u say that about Eduardo
He couldn't stay fit to rescue his team
Please go and see that terrible tackle again from Taylor and revert.
What a shame?

@ Hucarson
How can say there is no difference between 3rd and 11th
Please someone help me out here.
Top 4 qualifies for the money spinning champions league.
and please which team has stayed trophyless for 4 seasons?Certainly not Arsenal!!!
Come on mate, u know it, AW couldn't have said this was his worst season.Maybe he said he was disappointed.
It was a better season and please I would rather my team in the CL than finish 11th

@ Loyika,

At the drop of the season's curtain, what the fans will be demanding is trophys and titles? Tottenham will show their cup, Man Utd will show their Premiership trophy, Pompey will certainly show their FA cup but will Wenger show his fans? 83 points? Are you kidding me? How many players score 30 goals a season like Ade did this season? I am beginning to see why players leave Arsenal. You guys don't appreciate what u have got until they leave u.
Ade deserves 80k a week!!!!

@ HNIC,

I saw Eduardo's injury but what has that got to do with Adebayor. Okay-ok, Saha would have scored 50 goals this season if he wasn't injured. Players should know when to make contact ball and when to withdraw their feet in tackles. I just don't enjoy players that hug/romance the bench due to one injury or the other. They dampen the spirit in their team.  

My friend, there's no difference between the 3rd and the 11th. Do u really think Tottenham was hoping to break into the BIG 4 way back in August? Maybe u need to listen to Keegan's post-match conference last week. Top 4 qualifies for what? Money-spinning what? You are obviously naive about these competitions. Over the past 2 years, the Premiership has eclipsed UEFA. Derby County will make more money relegating than Man Utd winning the champions league. I won't be surprised if the rich teams in Europe form their own super league in the coming years as the much talked about Champions league is now a hogwash. Apart from the prestige, money is no longer the motivating factor especially for English clubs.

I didn't say Arsenal has finished trophyless for 4 seasons. . . .I said 4 years.

@ Vicade,

It doesn't matter where Ronaldo plays. Most of the time in Europe, he was being used as a striker because Rooney had to do defensive duties to cover Evra or Brown.
Ronaldo does not track back so i know what i am saying. Adebayor needs to up his game(u keep repeating yourself) but would u have predicted he would score 30 goals in August when the season kicked off? Sheeeeeesh**********His 30 goals won u nothing because pasta-brittle boned players like Eduardo, Van Persie and Bendtner didn't contribute enough. United's attack(The Holy Trinity) have scored 77 goals this season alone, this is because Rooney and Tevez contributed their own quota. After Adebayor, who do u have next in line. . . Fabregas!!!! Contribution( miserly 13 goals all season).

@ Vicade,

Adebayor will score in big matches if his teammates do what they are paid to do. Adebayor has done his job, it is left for Hleb(doesn't contribute much as far as goals r concerned), Rosicky, RVP,(Another Saha), Bendtner(pants) and Walcott(over-rated) to do their jobs effectively. Adebayor added another dimension to Arsenal's attack. This season, i saw Sagna & Flamini putting quality balls in the box for Adebayor to head in. The lad has improved and Wenger should up the ante to motivate him. This is what Fergie does very well. Wenger should wager him scoring 40 next season and push his wages to 80k and letz see if Ade won't score. I don't see Ronaldo leaving Man United anytime soon, his next challenge is to score 50 goals next season. Ferguson knows how to keep them firing.

Yaya Toure at Arsenal? Forget it!!! One, he won't be cheap(Wenger loves em cheap). Secondly, he won't opt for Arsenal where Wenger treats some players as first-class season and treats the rest as 2nd class citizen. Expect players like Mputu, Ideye, Bala Ezekiel and Marcus Bent.

@Loyika

am not saying Adebayor is worth 80k . . .what I am saying is he is worth more than 30k  . . . .have you forgotten that he is African footballer of the year-elect   

so can we all lobby Wenger to go halfway . . .80 - 30 = 50 . . .way to resolve it add 50/2 = 25k

total it up 30 + 25 = 55k

55k sincerely can't be too much for him . . . .not that he is asking for it anyway . . .

P.S  how much does Obafemi cop at Newcastle   

Just like other Nigerian players, he's suffering because he was extravagant. . .
Kanu just left Arenal when he came to Naija and burnt money on his wedding, forgetting mortgage people don't understand 'i'll see you later'


Lol@women's team
They're champions you know, for like the umpteenth trophy
Anyways you've got to admit that Wenger's avoiding mistakes now
It's hard on him too, the club is owing, he can't just risk any money right now
Any bargain he strikes now must be in favour of the club's accounts, either by performance or by motivation(i.e Gallas)

Debosky

you make me laugh. The problem with us Arsenal fans is that once someone questions what Wenger is doing at the club he automatically is labelled a traitor.

that quote Arsene Knows is what Arsene WEnger has used to blindfold all of us. I am an Arsenal fan, thats why i care. if i didnt care iw ouldn't say shit. The fact that i am mad shows i have a passion for the club, with or without Wenger.

When ALex Ferguson went 3 seasons without winning the league, wasnt it suggested that the Glazers should sack him, that he had past his prime.
There is no coach that is immune to abuse when he fails. or else they get into a comfort zone the way Wenger is right now. When Nigeria plays rubbish, dnt you abuse the coach. Does it mean you are not a Nigerian. So debosky and co yur statements hold now water.


Wenger can only show a committment to win when he shows a committment to players.

Lets see him bring in Ben Arfa, Lets see him bring in Eto'o, LEts see him bid for a good defensive midfielder, then we will know he wants to win.  

Let me ask you Debosky what if WEnger doesn't win the league next season. WHat will Happen?

Let me tell You what will happen. He will sit put , Arsenal fans will back him and he will try the same stupid unwinning formula all over again.