Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

shano_88

The booing was embarrassing imo. Ridiculous really.


Giroud again wasn't good enough. His finishing isn't up to scratch at all. No composure when he has time to think...

tayto lover

emergingstar wrote: »

I'm not too disappointed with a draw would hVe pissed with a loss though

Our season will be defined about how we do against the lesser teams

Building?
Building me as**. Fed up of that talk.
We are in the Top 4 every season and it's time we were actually challenging to WIN something.

Alfred Borden

Giroud had two league goals in his last 9 games, both in the same game, one a present from Boruc and one was a penalty playing infront of the best midfield in the league, a big top top striker is needed.

Mickeroo

Every team in contention for the title has had much worse results than tonight and more often than we have so far this season bar maybe Liverpool.

emergingstar

tayto lover wrote: »

Building?
Building me as**. Fed up of that talk.
We are in the Top 4 every season and it's time we were actually challenging to WIN something.

We scraped 4th last year 19 points off top

Big ask to make that jump in one season

tayto lover

emergingstar wrote: »

We scraped 4th last year 19 points off top

Big ask to make that jump in one season

There seems to be more than a 19 point gap in their heads though.
You close that gap by beating those top rivals but we can't seem to get our heads around that.

Mr Blobby

tayto lover wrote: »

Building?
Building me as**. Fed up of that talk.
We are in the Top 4 every season and it's time we were actually challenging to WIN something.

Yeah because joint top at Christmas isn't challenging.. :rolleyes:

tayto lover

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Yeah because joint top at Christmas isn't challenging.. :rolleyes:

beating them would have been really challenging but we didn't do that and were very poor :rolleyes:

emergingstar

tayto lover wrote: »

There seems to be more than a 19 point gap in their heads though.
You close that gap by beating those top rivals but we can't seem to get our heads around that.

This time last year we were 13 points off top
This year werd down in goal difference

Progress

tayto lover

emergingstar wrote: »

This time last year we were 13 points off top
This year werd down in goal difference

Progress

Well if not beating any of the Top 3 and only beating the poorer teams then it must be progress.
But won't win you any leagues contrary to what some lads think.

emergingstar

tayto lover wrote: »

Well if not beating any of the Top 3 and only beating the poorer teams then it must be progress.
But won't win you any leagues contrary to what some lads think.

I think we will be fine once were consistent against the lower teams

Any of the top 6 will take points off each other

dvemail

Shows how crap the game was that 90% of the analysis is on that Arteta/Mikel tackle.

jonneymendoza

When the post match comments by neville and Jamie arguing and discussing over whether makel should have seen read is more entertaining the the match itself then you know the match was proper ****

emergingstar

No one bar me mentions the pen??

Game like this prob would have made all the difference

Mike Dean strikes again

shano_88

emergingstar wrote: »

No one bar me mentions the pen??

Game like this prob would have made all the difference

Mike Dean strikes again

Shouldn't have to rely on refereeing decisions.

It was a penalty but can see why the ref didn't give it aswell.

.jacksparrow.

emergingstar wrote: »

No one bar me mentions the pen??

Game like this prob would have made all the difference

Mike Dean strikes again

Getting used to been ****ed over by officials.

.jacksparrow.

shano_88 wrote: »

Shouldn't have to rely on refereeing decisions.

It was a penalty but can see why the ref didn't give it aswell.

Why?

shano_88

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Why?

Walcotts fall wasn't natural.

emergingstar

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Why?

Exactly why

emergingstar

shano_88 wrote: »

Walcotts fall wasn't natural.

He was clipped in front of the ref

Stonewall pen

tayto lover

First Arsenal shot on target in a home game -- 85th minute.

dvemail

Hope Podolski and Cazorla start against West Ham. Rest Ozil and Ramsey.

shamrock55

I didnt see the game but is drawing at home to one of the league favs such a bad thing,you are still joint top tbf,or is it the way you played tonight thats worrying

Gringo180

Listen lads that Chelsea team were out to stifle us tonight and try hit us on the counter, the first part worked but thankfully they didn't nick a goal and beat us like previous years. A point isn't the greatest result but its not the end of the world either. I still feel there is something missing from this team to be real title contenders, a real leader on the pitch that can lift us when things aren't going our way. A world class striker and top midfield player in the mould of Vidal off Juventus is needed. Another point I wanted to make is, what do we think of Ozil tonight is it just me or does he just look disinterested at times in a match? He is a real luxury player but I feel he should be putting in a bit more graft.

Utopia Parkway

Mourinho throwing some hand grenades at the after match press conference.

Arsenal's complaints about referee decisions:

They like to cry, that is the club's tradition.

On jeers at the final whistle:

Boring? I agree. I play them 10 times and I never lost.

.jacksparrow.

shano_88 wrote: »

Walcotts fall wasn't natural.

How do you know?

Lets keep to the facts, William didn't get the ball and tripped theo.

Penalty.

Gringo180

tayto lover wrote: »

First Arsenal shot on target in a home game -- 85th minute.

Not good enough indeed, against the likes of Utd and Chelsea teams that will sit back and invite us onto them we just seem to look dangerous up to a certain area of the pitch and when we get to the final 3rd we just cant seem to break them down. Were missing a real top top class striker.

emergingstar

We only played two teams from the bottom half at home so far

Win all them games and we will sustain a challenge

.jacksparrow.

gunnerblog ‏@gunnerblog
AW on refereeing: "We are used to it."

Hehehe.

Ozil gets a boot in the head and receives a yellow.

shano_88

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

How do you know?

Lets keep to the facts, William didn't get the ball and tripped theo.

Penalty.

How do I know??

Because I watched the game and he clearly only went down because he felt contact and not because he was taken down.

Listen, I already said I though it was a penalty aswell but just saying why I though it was a tough decision from the refs perspective...

MaxPower89

Looking forward to getting Podolski back, he would have stuck Giroud's chance.

I thought Vermalen did well, thought he was going to push on out of defense a few times, when midfield was free, but he played it safe mostly.

Focus now on West Ham, Cazorla and Flamini to come in for Arteta and Ramsey perhaps. Podolski for 20 mins maybe.

gandalf

tayto lover wrote: »

Well if not beating any of the Top 3 and only beating the poorer teams then it must be progress.
But won't win you any leagues contrary to what some lads think.

We did beat the current leaders of the league :rolleyes:

Lads. We're joint top of the league at Christmas! **** the begrudgers! Lot of ball to be played!

After the first game of the seaaon I would have taken this in a heartbeat. Remember that!

tayto lover

gandalf wrote: »

We did beat the current leaders of the league :rolleyes:

Ha ha I meant the real Top 3.:D

Fuzzy_Dunlop

tayto lover wrote: »

Well if not beating any of the Top 3 and only beating the poorer teams then it must be progress.
But won't win you any leagues contrary to what some lads think.

You win the league by getting the most points. It doesn't matter who you get the points against and you don't get bonus points against the top 3 teams as you seem to think.

Obviously we should be doing better and it helps when you make your challengers drop points but we're still second on goal difference at Christmas so we must be doing something right.

gandalf

tayto lover wrote: »

Ha ha I meant the real Top 3.:D

I think you'll find that could be changing this season!

tayto lover

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

You win the league by getting the most points. It doesn't matter who you get the points against and you don't get bonus points against the top 3 teams as you seem to think.

Obviously we should be doing better and it helps when you make your challengers drop points but we're still second on goal difference at Christmas so we must be doing something right.

Maybe but in my opinion we won't win the league if we don't win the odd game against the Top 3.
Chelsea came and got their point against us.
We went to United and City and got nothing.
It is my opinion that when City and United come to us they will aim at getting a point and probably succeed in doing so.
I believe that if we want to win the league we have to get something from those teams.

bad2dabone

A striker like Diego Costa in January is a must. Spend the money win a trophy.

greendom

bad2dabone wrote: »

A striker like Diego Costa in January is a must. Spend the money win a trophy.

Easier said than done. Can't see Costa leaving until the Summer.

GavRedKing

greendom wrote: »

Easier said than done. Can't see Costa leaving until the Summer.

If he continues at this pace his price will be big, not to mention if he has a good WC as he'll be more then likely starting for Spain ahead of Negredo.

smileyj1987

GavRedKing wrote: »

If he continues at this pace his price will be big, not to mention if he has a good WC as he'll be more then likely starting for Spain ahead of Negredo.

He is the best Spanish striker at the moment so he should be starting for the national team in the world cup .

Mickeroo

GavRedKing wrote: »

If he continues at this pace his price will be big, not to mention if he has a good WC as he'll be more then likely starting for Spain ahead of Negredo.

Apparently he has a release clause of 32 million. Expect a generous 32,000,001 bid.

Legwinski

Isn't he brazilian? Oh wait no he changed, that's great!

dvemail

Aha Shake wrote: »

Isn't he brazilian?

Not any more

extra gravy

Aha Shake wrote: »

Isn't he brazilian? Oh wait no he changed, that's great!

He became a Spanish citizen this year and then declared for them. Only played for Brazil in a couple of friendlies. I wonder will he regret it if Brazil win the World Cup.

wonski

extra gravy wrote: »

He became a Spanish citizen this year and then declared for them. Only played for Brazil in a couple of friendlies. I wonder will he regret it if Brazil win the World Cup.

I don't think he will. I assume that being Spanish citizen makes it all easier for him. You don't just change citizenship to get the trophy.

Missed opportunity tonight guys. Cant believe Wenger didn't use a sub especially with all the tough games ahead. Ramsey and Walcott were poor enough i felt. Ramseys passing lets him down against some of the big teams.

wandatowell

I wouldnt worry about Ramsey. He will have learnt more tonight that he would have if he was playing against jokers.

Galvasean

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

You win the league by getting the most points. It doesn't matter who you get the points against and you don't get bonus points against the top 3 teams as you seem to think.

Obviously we should be doing better and it helps when you make your challengers drop points but we're still second on goal difference at Christmas so we must be doing something right.

I hope we win the league without beating City, United or Chelsea just to see the confusion on the faces of the Match of the Day pundits.

Nemeses2050

Galvasean wrote: »

I hope we win the league without beating City, United or Chelsea just to see the confusion on the faces of the Match of the Day pundits.

I was optimistic with the start we had but the last few games remind me that we're still not up there and we're lacking real fighters to win dirty and mix it with flair we have when things are not going our way.