Arsenal Transfer Rumours And General Chat

~Rebel~

I think 1-0 to Arsenal. Sunderland wont offer much going forward, but they'll be steadfast and resiliant in defence. Keane might have them an extra little bit fired up for this one as well

Royale with Cheese

3-2 to Sunderland.

leninbenjamin

i think a score draw, maybe 1 - 1 is on the cards.

Nunu

I have a real feeling a shock is on the cards tommorrow. Probably just the Keane factor clouding my judgement though.

0-1 Sunderland or score draw.

DSB

4-1 Arsenal.

PDN

Nunu wrote:

I have a real feeling a shock is on the cards tommorrow. Probably just the Keane factor clouding my judgement though.

0-1 Sunderland or score draw.

2-0 to Arsenal.

I agree the Keane factor might play a part though, so make that 2-0 to Arsenal with Sunderland having two men sent off for dirty tackles.

PHB

I'm going for 4-0 to Arsenal I think the Sunderland defense is very weak now without Anderson.

PHB

Looking like I'm going to be right

I can't help but feel weird. Like I want Arsenal to lose so United can go top, but at the same time, I can't help but cheer them on cause of how they play. It's a funny situation

Pacifico

Did someone get sent off?

edit: nvm booking

Pacifico

2-0 Senderos

ROCKMAN

game over after 13 mins 2-0

Arsenal are playing some fantastic football this season

God saying that hurt my UTD heart.

PHB

It looks like I'm gona be wrong the way it's going

Im_No_Superman

Should have been 3-0 there, terrible offside decsion.

ROCKMAN

ROCKMAN wrote:

game over after 13 mins 2-0

Arsenal are playing some fantastic football this season

God saying that hurt my UTD heart.

2-2

YOU MUPPET, just stay quiet in future...:D

Roddy23

Royale, hope your prediction does not come to fruition.

Dave!

God damn you van Persie :mad:

Im_No_Superman

DaveMcG wrote:

God damn you van Persie :mad:

God bless him! He is my captain in my FF team!

AnCapaillMor

Im_No_Superman wrote:

God bless him! He is my captain in my FF team!

i know, switched from Fabs to RVP 11:00 saturday morning. fair play to sunderland gave us a good game.

Arsenal werent firing on all cylinders today. Maybe a little lucky to get the breakthrough in the end. Sunderland tho to their credit were very good. i suppose the significant thing is, if you were to rewind the clock back 12 months and ask yourself how would arsenal cope in this type of game when questions were being asked, and the main thing is they grinded out a win against a team who set their stall out to keep it tight from the beginning. K Jones for them looks a good player, a sort of Adebayor clone in terms of physique. Technically not that bad either

Galvasean

Deleted User wrote:

the significant thing is, if you were to rewind the clock back 12 months and ask yourself how would arsenal cope in this type of game when questions were being asked,

Quoted for great truth.

gosplan

Taken from F365:

Arsenal are set to offer goalkeeper Rune Almenning Jarsteina a trial at the Emirates Stadium, according to reports in Norway.

Almenning Jarsteina has been in impressive form for Odd Grenland this season and his displays earned him a call-up to the Norway national side to face Argentina.

And the 23-year-old admits a move to the Gunners would be too good to turn down, though currently he is focused on helping his club avoid relegation.

"They have seen me before and of course I want to go. Without doubt" he told Varden.no.

"Anyway, I have to concentrate on Odd Grenland first, then other offers. Arsenal is a great club and they play fantastic football.

"Of course I would say yes if they offer me a trial when the season here is over."

Is this basically saying a Janurary bye bye to mad Jens?

AnCapaillMor

Wish they'd buy someone more established and possibly english. would love to see them spend big on Green.

Royale with Cheese

Yeah no more obscure youngish players. They need an established reliable keeper. The one position on the pitch you probably can't afford to use young unproven players as your first choice in. Even a keeper like Rob Green (not that's he's crap, just not world class) would make a huge difference. I'm fed up of seeing goals conceded because of Jens/Almunia.

Pepe LeFrits

lol, you'd rather have Robert Green instead of Lehmann?

AnCapaillMor

At the moment i'd rather Helen Keller instead of lehman.

Pepe LeFrits

Who needs enemies eh?

Personally, I wouldn't give up on the European Goalkeeper of the Year after 2 howlers.

leninbenjamin

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

Personally, I wouldn't give up on the European Goalkeeper of the Year after 2 howlers.

neither would I tbh.

but if another keeper were on the cards, what do people make of Given? he's some who might well be available come January at the rate things are going for him under Allardyce.

AnCapaillMor

He's made a few clangers this season too.

PHB

I can't see how people would rate Green over Lehmann, crazy stuff.

Royale with Cheese

Lehmann's career is almost over. He had one great season but apart from that at Arsenal he's been a solid keeper prone to making stupid mistakes. You won't see many goals conceded where you think Lehmann could have done better, just goals that are 100% his fault... and goals that he couldn't have done anything about obviously.

Mr Alan

Micah Richards is interviewed in the latest issue of Nuts and says that he was a boyhood Arsenal fan, and that if they ever came in for him, he'd go to them.....think yous would be interested?

jank

Would be a very good addition but would cost **** loads

AnCapaillMor

What jank said, before thaksin took over we might've had a chance and has'nt he signed or is close to signing a new deal. Plus the fact that he's english will add another couple of million to his transfer fee.

Mossy Monk

Lots of Arsenal games on tv this December

Arsenal email wrote:

Please see amendments to December’s fixtures due to TV coverage:

Saturday 1st December 2007
Aston Villa v Arsenal
Villa Park
Kick Off 5.15pm
Live on Setanta Sports

Wednesday 5th December 2007
Newcastle United v Arsenal
St James’ Park
Kick Off 7.45pm
Live on SKY Sports

Sunday 9th December 2007
Middlesbrough v Arsenal
Riverside Stadium
Kick Off 1.30pm
Live on Setanta Sports

Sunday 16th December 2007
Arsenal v Chelsea
Emirates Stadium
Kick Off 4pm
Live on SKY Sports

Saturday 22nd December 2007
Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur
Emirates Stadium
Kick Off 12.45pm
Live on SKY Sports

Wednesday 26th December 2007
Portsmouth v Arsenal
Fratton Park
Kick Off 7.45pm
Live on SKY Sports

Saturday 29th December 2007
Everton v Arsenal
Goodison Park
Kick Off 5.15pm
Live on Setanta Sports

Pepe LeFrits

Makes a change considering we've been on very little so far.

AnCapaillMor

They'd us written off as soon as Henry left, before even, hense the shocking coverage we've had so far.

ErinGoBrath

Out of interest does anyone know the percentage of premiership support in Ireland?

i.e. How does Man U and Liverpool compare to Arsenal?

I assume we are a tiny percentage...

Galvasean

Based on the amount of jerseys floating around here in Dundalk support for us seems pretty high.

Lehmann played pretty well for Germany today. Just sayin'

keano_afc

Galvasean wrote: »

Based on the amount of jerseys floating around here in Dundalk support for us seems pretty high.

Lehmann played pretty well for Germany today. Just sayin'

Apart from the mad dash out of his goal in the second half. Very solid under the high ball, contrast to watching Almunia punch everything!

yahoo_moe

Galvasean wrote: »

Lehmann played pretty well for Germany today. Just sayin'

The man himself, never shy of a word, is also just sayin'...

BBC Sport wrote:

Lehmann banks on Arsenal recall

Lehmann claims injury is the reason he has not been playing for Arsenal
Keeper Jens Lehmann expects to return to the Arsenal team for the Premier League game against Bolton on Saturday.
The 37-year-old's mistake in his last Arsenal appearance on 19 August led to a Blackburn equaliser and he has not played the last 10 games in goal.

He played for Germany in the draw with the Republic of Ireland on Saturday and claims his absence for the Gunners was an injury and not a selection issue.

"I am fully fit and expect to be back against Bolton," said Lehmann.

"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has not told me anything but I am here now and I expect him to play me, so no worries."

Manuel Almunia has played in nine of the last 10 games for the Gunners, with Lukasz Fabianski featuring in the Carling Cup win over Newcastle.

Lehmann aggravated an Achilles tendon problem when on international duty for Germany in August but has since has treatment for an elbow problem.

He stated: "This has been the first time that I have been injured since I was at Arsenal but sometimes the body takes a break."

Lehmann was in superb form for Germany as they held the Republic of Ireland to a goalless draw in Dublin.

But the keeper was booked for time wasting and is consequently suspended for Wednesday's match against the Czech Republic in Munich.

Lehmann let a shot from David Dunn slip through his fingers for Blackburn's equaliser in his last appearance for Arsenal.

The keeper played for Germany against England at Wembley three days later but aggravated an Achilles injury during his team's 2-1 victory.

He played for his national team against Wales on 8 September but Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger continued to select Almunia.

Personally, I think Arsene will stick with Almunia - there's been an unfamiliar amount of clean sheets recently and while he can be prone to the odd Lehmann-esque shocker, he's yet to drop an absolute clanger (or at least yet to get punished for one )

astrofool

He's also not as easily aggravated as mad Jens.

cson

Nice to see Almunia get a go, excellent shot stopper and he has great anticipation although having said that against the tiny tots he had Toure to thank that time when Berbatov went through on goal. What a piece of defending.

AnCapaillMor

Richards is ment to have turned down the most recent contract offer, so fingers crossed.

yahoo_moe

But what first choice back four would Wenger have if he buys Richards? I've been delighted with Sagna, I think Toure and Clichy are two of the best defenders in the league so it's only really Gallas that'd be at risk... but he's our new captain for the season (fitness depending, obviously).

Richards is young, incredibly fit and has fairly solid England prospects (most immediately at right-back) so no doubt he'd feel justified in wanting to play every game and avoid a Shaun Wright-Phillips scenario... I'm not sure Arsenal can guarantee him that at this stage so I'm not sure it'll happen

AnCapaillMor

Feck was going to say at RB, but then you said sagna, who's really impressed so far this season.

Evil_Clown

It would be next summer if Richards was to come, and Gallas would be 31 then I think
So I would have no problem in selling Gallas to another club (non premiership of course) to make a few bob
Make Toure captain and have a centreback pairing of Toure and Richards
That would be sweet

PHB

I think Richards would come in as 3rd choice CB, and then begin to take over from Gallas as he gets older. He'll need a bit of training, as if you watch him, his pace makes up for his suspect positional sense. I'm pretty sure Wenger can train that into him, and then he could be as good as Rio in time.

It's hilarious to think that apparently Jose had a deal tied up for 5 million for him, but Grant et al didn't think it was worth it.

ErinGoBrath

Would be great to see him at CB with Kolo. Gallas has yet to prove his worth at Arsenal and appears to be made of glass. I'd have no quams putting Richards ahead of a fit Gallas.

I'd say he's be looking for a massive contract but would be a valuable addition to the back 4.

Pepe LeFrits

I've seen little recently to suggest that Richards will be leaving Man City any time soon. Why would he?

Furthermore, I don't think he's really what Arsenal need. He is the same mould as Gallas and Toure and probably wouldn't make a great partner for either of them - Gallas and Toure don't seem to be a great pairing either, as they have the same strengths and more importantly, the same weaknesses. He would make a great central midfield partner for Cesc but with Flamini in such excellent form and Diarra looking like another gem, there is no need for him there, while Sagna has been a revelation at right-back, so that avenue looks closed off too.

Arsenal need another centre-back, either from outside or from within, but it needs to be a 'number 6', the type of centre-back who reads the game well and is dominant in the air. That was meant to be Senderos, but he doesn't seem to be able to iron out the kinks in his game. I think Wenger may just make do with Gallas and Senderos until he can bring a young player through (Nordveit possibly).

cson

We need a Vidic of some sort.