Arsenal Fan Thread: For Gunners Only. In Wenger We Trust!

Are you kidding me ? He does that everytime. This was the line up last weekend Name the English player there

Manuel Almunia, Gael Clichy, William Gallas, Thomas Vermaelen, Bacary Sagna, Cesc Fabregas, Vassiriki Abou Diaby, Andrey Arshavin (Emmanuel Eboue, 78), Alexandre Song, Robin van Persie (Aaron Ramsey, 86), Nicklas Bendtner (Da Silva Eduardo, 37)

Maybe an englishman would have played if not that he was taken out by a fellow english man by a tackle,which was described by the same english press as a 'strong, old fashioned one'.
Anyway, save your breadth dude,
An English man would be left back for the next one month
Hope that pacifies u

We are all different.
Didnt Drogba lose his mojo when his granny passed on.?
With all we hear about Essien, if his mother should die he may quit football altogether.
We don't know if Manuel's mother in law paid for his first football boots or gloves
Or seriously, maybe the mother in law meant the whole world to him.
We are all different

You forgot Eboue is virtually British with his posh accent. 

Platini is an idiot - keep talking about Arsenal and talking nonsense. English players do not necessarily improve anything, if they did Tottenham would be class but they are a wobbly pile of horse manure. 

With Clichy injured, Gibbs will get a run in the side, nullifying the rubbish about not having English players in the side.

I'm saddened by Clichy's injury though, I think he played one of his best games in recent times against Spurs. Let's hope Gibbs has improved from last season and continues to get better.


Thunder fire your keyboard. 

Who is going to be our heading point man in his absence? Oh. . . I forgot we have Gallas and Vermaelen. 

Seriously though, we seem to have an 'injury quota' that must always remain at the same level. Almunia returns and Fabianski is injured again, Eduardo returns and Bendtner is injured, Rozzi returns and Clichy is injured. That's not counting Denilson, Djourou and Walcott who are all out as well.

Seems we will always need a bigger side than most teams due to our never ending injury issues.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Sorry Dayo,but I wont be denied

Why didnt Platini stay in France for the entirety of his career. When he went to Turin, Juve were doling out cash to their players. Why didnt he just remain in france and keep french football french. F**king hypocrite.

Suara, please dont come here and be trying to postulate your rumors as fact. Sonderos never earned that ridiculous amount you are quoting there. Arsenal does not have a disgustingly wide margin in player wages. Where popular players are earning eye-bulging amounts and the less popular ones are being paid chicken feed.

When Ridgewell took down walcott the stupid english media were creaming themselves about how grit should remain in the english game. They dont want to be softies. The other day a foreign analysts was expalining to them, they will continue to underchieve if their players continue to turn up at tournaments recuperating from being bruised and battered.

Ruskie abeg dont invite that loser here. Let him not come and stain us with his mediocrity. Teams are flying high right left and centre. He is there glorying in the UCl he won when Obama had not yet started politics.

http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/0,16368,1766_5672406,00.html

Fabregas collects October gong
Arsenal skipper Cesc Fabregas has been crowned October's PFA Fans' Player of the Month in the Premier League.

 Not least his team-mates and manager who hold the midfield genius in such high esteem. He's getting better with age and, considering he's still only 22, that's quite frightening.

The Spaniard is the heartbeat of an Arsenal team that many believe play the best, most attractive football of any side in the country. Again, no arguments there.

The architect of the majority of Arsenal moves, Fabregas also has the ability and vision to get himself on the end of some of them.

Such a knack has prompted manager Arsene Wenger to liken him to Chelsea's Frank Lampard, whom Fabregas edged out in the October voting.

Wenger said of his skipper: "He's a bit like Lampard in that he wants to structure the game.

"Cesc likes to be at the start of things and then get on the end of things, and he can push forward more this season because he has two players around him who can defend."

Fabregas has many fans, hence his latest award, but few are bigger than his Arsenal team-mate Theo Walcott who fully appreciates what the captain brings to the team.

Walcott said: "He is fantastic to play with because he spots everything on the pitch and times his passes to perfection, so that you don't even need to break stride.

"He is still so young and, as captain, has a lot of pressure on his shoulders yet he continues to deliver. He is a fantastic person to learn from. It's hard to believe he is still only 22."

After Fabregas and Lampard, Chelsea hot-shot Didier Drogba third in this month's voting, with Manchester City's Craig Bellamy fourth and fellow striker Darren Bent of Sunderland fifth.


Congrats Fab4

I’m really angry this morning! First it was Bendtner pulling off with a groin injury, then Eduardo missing a sitter he should have scored. The news that we play Man City in the Carling cup wouldn’t have been hard to take except that our game in hand will now have to be pushed further away and we’ll have to wait even longer before we can even think of going top pending a capitulation by the Chelski or Manure!

As if that wasn’t enough, I found out that the flashes and floaters in my left eye were not as a result of a hex by dayokanu or obertan but that the gel had moved and the light was reflecting of something it shouldn’t be. Then the doctor tells me she sees no breakages and I have wait it out unless it gets worse! Geez, I bet she wouldn’t have said that if it was here eye. She left me so dilated I couldn’t even cross the street properly.

Speaking of crossing, I haven’t been too impressed with Gael Clichy’s crossing this season and I feel he could be doing much better. He’s not going to have the chance anytime soon though as he’s had the unfortunate luck of pulling up with a stress fracture of the back. How does one get that? One man’s misfortune is usually another man’s blessing as Kieran Gibbs has the nod to start at left back for the next few weeks.

While we didn’t learn anything new about Spurs on Saturday. Apart from the fact that the win made it 1000 points for Wenger, it would be nice to remind ourself of a few things we already know about them.

1. Robbie Keane is a twat
2. Spurs are a sh*t team
3. Harry Redknapp has got a twitch!

Fancy them talking themselves up about a win at the grove just yet after how many (16?) years of trying! Bollocks! They need to get their heads checked every now and then when they come down the Seven Sisters Road.

Manuel Almunia was fantastic in goal apparently spurred on by a three-way race for first spot with Mannone and Fabianski. Oh and Eduardo should have lobbed Gomes when he was one-on-one with him. He had three options; lob, dribble or sidefoot. He took the easy option and unfortunately didn’t do a very good job. Smells a bit of a lack of sharpness. With Bendtner’s injury, he should start against AZ as the boss doesn’t yet reckon that Rocky is ready to start.

On some footie results last night Bayern lost at home to Bordeaux (Dayokanu where art thou!) and Chelsea and Man Utd came away with draws at home and away respectably respectivly!

Now Silent Stan has been at it again! He’s gone and bought another 427 shares to increase his stake in Arsenal to 29.6 per cent. The shares were purchased from the estate of Ernest Harrison, the British industrialist, at a cost of £3.6 million. All he needs is another .3% and he’d have to make a formal bid to take over the club offering not lower than the highest price he paid for the shares in the last 12 months.

Consequently, the Arsenal Supporters Trust has released the following statement. It is quite lengthy, but worth the read.

“When Stan Kroenke first invested in Arsenal the AST sought a dialogue with him and visited Denver to inspect some of his other sporting operations. We saw first hand the sports marketing and property development expertise he could offer and successfully called upon the club to invite him to join the Board.

“Yet whilst the AST welcome Stan Kroenke’s involvement, we agree with the sentiment of Peter Hill-Wood’s statement at the most recent AGM that there is no need for any shareholder to launch a takeover of the club. The AST believes in plurality of ownership.

“If a takeover is launched by any party, we would seek urgent discussions with those involved.

“The AST has a good relationship with both Stan Kroenke and members of his team at Kroenke Sports Enterprises (KSE). We have stressed to them the importance of custodianship and that the club will be stronger if it has supporters directly involved in its ownership model. While we cannot vouch for their future actions we are encouraged that they have said they see the AST having an important role to play at Arsenal.

“The AST has repeatedly stated that we are generally opposed to a takeover and would fight any plans that require the club to incur debt to pay for a takeover as has happened at Manchester United and Liverpool.

“Two red lines that cannot be crossed are the use of debt secured on the club’s assets to fund a takeover and an ownership structure which excludes small shareholders.

“The AST’s own assessment of today’s development is that a takeover is not imminent and that today’s purchase is the consolidation of an existing position.

Well said! Now let’s get on with the football. Diaby was at the press conference with Arsene, so I assume he’ll be starting. Although the boss seems to have noticed what a majority of the Arsenal fans are upset with Diaby about.

“I must say he is attracted like a magnet by the opponent’s goal,” said the boss. This usually leaves us short at the back nevertheless, his good behaviour in the last few games may have something to do with Arsene having a private word with him. He continued;

“You do not want to take that out of the players when they are at such a young age but what we can be as well is a little bit more controlled. We do not need to have seven players running forward when you are 1-0 or 2-1 up with five minutes to go. That is something I have told him to take responsibility for in the team.”

I believe the lineup will be largely unchanged from the one that played Tottenham except for Kieran Gibbs at left back and Eduardo up front in place of Bendtner. The boss may also choose to rest Sagna for Eboue with more games coming in November.

I don’t expect anything less than a resounding victory over AZ tonight – more like a teach you a lesson kind of game! Still it’s important not to underate any teams in the Champions League as was the case with Manure vs CSKA and Bayern(!) against Bordeaux.

Apparently, Robin Van Persie has been watching AZ and says they are unpredictable. He said;

“It’s going to be strange because they are unpredictable. “They drew against an amateur side [recently] and lost at the weekend to Ajax. “They had a good first half but not so good second half. It is hard to know what to expect from them. If we win, we have ten points and have basically qualified.”

Juventus seem to have taken a fancy to Bacary Sagna while Benik Afobe and Fran Merida seem to be on their way to Spain if you believe the papers. Apparently, Barcelona are still seething from the loss of Cesc Fabregas and Fran Merida that they have set their sights on revenge by signing up the England U17 star for their reserve team. Apparently, a £5,500 deal has been reported.

If I were you Benik, I’d sit my arse at Colney and wait for my turn cos you’ll end up waiting for much longer before you get a look into that Barcelona first team! The Merida to Atletico Madrid story is old, but worth watching as he might just do a Flamini on us. Beware of the curse of the departing players. Only very few have ever done better elsewhere!

For some reason, Eboue wants to play for PSG, while great train robber Ronnie Biggs feels well enough to see Arsenal play at the Emirates. Cesc Fabregas has also been crowned October’s PFA Fans’ Player of the Month for top-flight…I wonder who will be the EA Sports Arsenal player of the month for October…Vote or Die!

The game is live at 19:45 GMT on Hi Sports

Till tomorrow…Victoria Concordia Crescit!

Really why do we keep gettig the same kind of injuries in a lump. Last season  thigh injuries were the vogue, this season back injuries. 

As a matter of fact
Immediately after the International break next week
there will be 2 matches a week for the Arsenal till mid January
The period will surely define our season!

Not sure
I will have to check sauron's famous graph

slimshay

nice write up for the pre match preview agst the spuds
just read it today as i was not near the net for like 4 days

went to cali for the u17 match up holland vs gambia very interesting youth fottball tjhough the stadium atmosphere was poor,  i see y Jack warner is screaming his balls off

victory for the gunners tonite
i hope we overcome our injury worries

dayo wat is hapn with bayern muchachos 

I doubt EDUARDO, ARSHAVIN & RVP will all start at the same time 

as per Bendtner, thank God Verminator and Gallas have taken over his head-scoring duties from him  , and I dont see him having done any better than any of Walcott and Eboue in that right wing position AW has been playing him often this season 

I am highly optimistic that this game will be wrapped up with early goals in our favour, that should settle it, I also hope Diaby does well enuff in the game, if not we should have a glimpse of Nasri if he is not squeezed into the starting line-up 

i agree AA23 has not shown himself dating back now for like 4/5 games

westham, rovers, spuuds, az and fulham

its like his mind is no more there

i wont say much cos even the game against fulham, fab had a bad game but just one touch and it made the difference

AA23 its not enuff to yab the team, std up and be counted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't even tempt fate. . . . . .Arshavin is miles better than 20 Cescs.
What are you guys smoking up in here? Without a doubt, he is Arsenal's best player and if y'all are going to win the league, AA is the KEY.
If he plays well, Arsenal play well. QED!!!

Nice game, Cesc always shows why he is the captain, the boy is just too much.
all in all everyone was fine, i still dunno why Eboue likes falling down even when he should not, i mean small touches he finds the turf
Arshavin was missing in most of the match IMO Nasri's celebration was crazy lol, like he was saying  am now new born am clean
Diaby is still a darling  Duduspace i loff him
Almunia that goal was really not necessary , Though the other save was very impressive,
Everyone else tried, and i was glad i didnt get to watch Silvestre

Good game guns, we keep this momentum till we meet the chavscum and teach them a lesson too