El Guapo: Two things i am Allergic to - Frustration and Barrenness!

You Guys are really Strong I swear -- 7years Of Marching towards Canaan

proudly9ja:
Eventually we will get there!

Words Of One Under a French Spell

El Guapo:

Words Of One Under a French Spell

proudly9ja:

I didn't say we will get there with the current circumstances still in play, I only know eventually, we will get there!

Remember it was Joshua who led the people into Canaan..

proudly9ja: ^^^
Moses did his best, the people were just too stubborn

El Guapo: Two things i am Allergic to - Frustration and Barrenness!

You Guys are really Strong I swear -- 7years Of Marching towards Canaan

coded guy:

Its just 7 yrs, there are still 33yrs remaining b4 joshua takes oVer.

DIES

proudly9ja:

I didn't say we will get there with the current circumstances still in play, I only know eventually, we will get there!

Remember it was Joshua who led the people into Canaan..

Read the Post i Quoted Above

From an Arsenal point of view there’s little of real interest going on. The Mirror runs a transcript of Wenger’s chat with the print media, after yesterday’s press conference and there are a few interesting snippets. The manager is quizzed about players who haven’t excactly set the world on fire, like Chamakh, Squillaci, Park and Gervinho.

Q: Some of those players were big buys. What’s happened to Park? It’s an extraordinary situation.

AW: “Who are the big buys?”

Q: Well, Gervinho?

AW: “How much?”

Q: £11m.

AW: “He was £8m.”

AW: “Chamakh was a big buy? He was free. Squillaci nearly free. You cannot say that we have a squad of no quality. They are international players.”


Q: I could miss from two yards, but Gervinho is not supposed to?


AW: “You can and everybody can.”

Q: What’s the difference now between this team and other teams which have won trophies?

AW: “The difference is that we have created a new team. I believe that some players have come in, some players have come back from injuries and we have to show now until the end of the season that we have the quality that I think we have.”



All of which makes everything as clear as mud. If the manager didn’t want to get into individual assessment of players then he probably shouldn’t be asking journalists to name names. I also fail to see the relevance of Gervinho costing £8m instead of £11m, other than it’s a bit less money wasted on a player who just isn’t of the requisite quality. Chamakh free? Thank goodness.

I don’t doubt that everyone at the club works hard, especially Arsene Wenger who, regardless of if you think he should stay or go, will be hurting about our current form.

I suspect he’s also a worried man because he’s been in the game long enough to know that this kind of inconsistency, the inability to produce from one game to the next, is symptomatic of a deeper malaise than just  a basic loss of form.

But once again the board bang the drum about how money is not withheld from the manager, how he decides how it’s spent etc. And that’s fine, that’s really how any manager should operate, but maybe the board need to insist that it is spent.


It was interesting to note Arse2Mouse touch on the issue of our scouting network in his post yesterday, and with the inevitable stories appearing about how Arsene has eleventy-billion pounds to work with in January, this is probably something we ought to be focusing on a bit more.


It’s fair to say that many of our recent signings haven’t worked out. There are successes like Koscielny, while buying established, professional talent like Arteta and Cazorla is something most managers can do, but we’ve had too many who have failed.


Worryingly, Arsene’s eye for a bargain, or a player who comes to the club on the cheap and improves immeasurably, seems gone. Chamakh, for example, is a miserable flop, despite his purple patch at the start of his Arsenal career. It seems that is as much down to his character as his footballing ability, but nevertheless it’s true.


The signing of Park will always, always baffle me. Never good enough, a waste of everyone’s time and money.


Our chief transfer negotiator spent the best part of 10 days trying to sign a kid from Costa Rica, getting the run-around from amateurs and semi-professional football people, and all for a player who still hasn’t kicked a ball for us.



Gervinho must have been watched countless times. Did nobody notice that he has a fatal flaw in his game, his shocking technique when it comes to the most basic of footballing skills – kicking the ball? It’s like a cricket team signing someone who can only bowl underarm.



Wenger’s knowledge of the French league and the hidden gems is gone. That advantage has disappeared, and it’s not as if the talent hasn’t been there. Newcastle have plundered Ligue 1 to much greater effect. We have scouts in Germany telling us players aren’t good enough for the Premier League only for them to rock up elsewhere and set the place alight with wonder goals.It’s goes to what I spoke about yesterday, about how it goes beyond just the manager and his day to day work.


We’re reliant on the same scouts who brought us the flops to save our January bacon. There’s an issue there which perhaps we can solve by having more money at our disposal. Not having to try and find budget priced gems could make life easier. We may still have to fashion some diamonds in the rough but that’s a whole lot better than the cubic zirconias we’ve had to work with in recent times.Still, January is a few weeks away yet, and there’s a lot of football to be played before then.



The reality is anything could happen on the pitch, and probably will. We just have to hope it’s mostly positive.

debosky: Every club signs 'duds' - the issue is whether the club wins trophies in spite of the duds or not. Fergie had them in Biram Diouf, Manucho, Chadwick, Djemba Djemba, Bellion, etc., Chelski signed Kezman, Sheva, Mereiles, Quaresma, etc., but nobody focuses on those because of the successes. When you don't succeed, every mistake is blown up, expanded and analysed under a microscope.

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Arsenal faces Reading today and a win is what is required.

Theo is likely fit, Giroud returns and Koscielny should also be back.

I don't care about who we signed/should've signed/should sign - all I care about right now is a win to take us to within touching distance of the top 4.

Those around us have done us a favour with West Brom, Everton, West Ham, etc. dropping points.

Come on you Red and White Army!

debosky: Every club signs 'duds' - the issue is whether the club wins trophies in spite of the duds or not. Fergie had them in Biram Diouf, Manucho, Chadwick, Djemba Djemba, Bellion, etc., Chelski signed Kezman, Sheva, Mereiles, Quaresma, etc., but nobody focuses on those because of the successes. When you don't succeed, every mistake is blown up, expanded and analysed under a microscope.

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Arsenal faces Reading today and a win is what is required.

Theo is likely fit, Giroud returns and Koscielny should also be back.

I don't care about who we signed/should've signed/should sign - all I care about right now is a win to take us to within touching distance of the top 4.

Those around us have done us a favour with West Brom, Everton, West Ham, etc. dropping points.

Come on you Red and White Army!

coded guy: The amount of rubbish debosky spews these days can trigger a tsunami in the middle of the sahara desert.

coded guy: The amount of rubbish debosky spews these days can trigger a tsunami in the middle of the sahara desert.

Other teams have duds that can be replaced with established/effective players when the dud has been given a chance and is messing up. But in Arsenals case, when u take out gervinho and replace him with giroud or chamakh, what's the difference?

4llerbuntu: Ur entitled yo ur opinion, just as everybody here.
And u do have dis absurd sense of entitlement n superiority that is as amusing as it is irritating.

Fyi I started following arsenal seriously around the 1996 world cup thereabouts wen my interest in football crystallized. Before that rothmans football on nta was showing prem n bundesliga. N I was not that young then. So if that qualifies me as a "new generation" fan, I guess I overrated ur intelligence.


Just because u prefer to kiss arsene's ar-se n blow the brighter tomorrow bugle does not mean we all have to toe that line. Even wenger himself would not expect that.

Ironically since the 2006 champions league final there has been one constant on this thread, u have always been wrong about all ur views, projections, n predictions. Since u started carping ur tripe this club has gotten worse, the football has regressed. But u think u have a right to yarn?

Wait till ur nirvana where FFP, youth policy, frugality etc wins a damn spoon before u mouth off hereabout. Muppet

A-40:

No mind Duduspace his head is so far up Wenger's a$$ he can probably can tell us what he had for breakfast and lunch

debosky:

Nah, it's the fanshare nonsense that got to Dudu - his 0.00000001 shareholding in Arsenal has blinded him somewhat.