Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

brianregan09

Is it on tv?

Fuzzy_Dunlop

brianregan09 wrote: »

Is it on tv?

Think it's on stupid feckin BT

Frank Garrett

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

Think it's on stupid feckin BT

Better then streaming it on an American channel with American commentary/post-match analysis. Also, I can watch it on Sky because I have BT/Setanta for the month.

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If yous want to know whether an Arsenal match is on TV, just look at the fixtures on Arsenal.com

Mickeroo

BT was only a euro for the month.

jonneymendoza

in the UK?

Alfred Borden

Match Thread is up!
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88161521#post88161521

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Mickeroo wrote: »

BT was only a euro for the month.

That's only of you have sky (as opposed to upc)

HazDanz

Back on top! The seat still has our groove in it....

Mr Blobby

Great to have this man back!


We showed good fight to get back.

Awesomeness

Top Of The League

efb

That's better

Maire2009

So great to have Poldi back - what a cracking strike. Santi and Ozil both played well as well. Nice to see Theo scoring. Hope Giroud and Santi get a goal soon - they are both dying for one.

Mickeroo

Job done, should stay top tonight too. Cazorla had his best game of the season for me. Team showed they've still plenty of fight left in them.

Pod looked great when he came on and gave us that "something different" the team have been lacking the last while.

tayto lover

Great to get the win but we could easily have been 2 or 3 down at one stage because we didn't take our own chances.
Some of our final balls were very sloppy and one led to WH scoring.
We really have to be more clinical because we will meet teams a lot better than West Ham.

.jacksparrow.

Its clear that Santo is best in the middle, no more stuck on the wing.

HazDanz

tayto lover wrote: »

Great to get the win but we could easily have been 2 or 3 down at one stage because we didn't take our own chances.
Some of our final balls were very sloppy and one led to WH scoring.
We really have to be more clinical because we will meet teams a lot better than West Ham.

Beat the lower boys and get that consistency going again and we'll be there.

Newcastle will be a challenge after their thumping of stoke today.

Hank Scorpio

Neutral point of view here. Was very impressed with Arsenal today, everyone showed great fight which I think has been lacking in the last few seasons. I know Ramsey has scored alot of goals this season but I was never really impressed with his overall play. Having someone as influential as Cazorla not in the middle holds back the side abit imo. You could really see the difference in the Arsenal play when he switched positions after Ramsey went off

Soups123

nuxxx wrote: »

Neutral point of view here. Was very impressed with Arsenal today, everyone showed great fight which I think has been lacking in the last few seasons. I know Ramsey has scored alot of goals this season but I was never really impressed with his overall play. Having someone as influential as Cazorla not in the middle holds back the side abit imo. You could really see the difference in the Arsenal play when he switched positions after Ramsey went off

Ramsey's overall play during his fine form was exceptional it wasn't just goals. He has been off the boil last 3/4 games though.

Spanish Johnny

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Its clear that Santo is best in the middle, no more stuck on the wing.

This - 100%. We are much more of a threat with him there. I enjoyed watching us again today bar the frustrating finishing.

Mr Blobby

Podolski is ridiculously clinical!
If his hold up play was better he'd be another option at CF.

Walcott's been great as well.

.jacksparrow.

Spanish Johnny wrote: »

This - 100%. We are much more of a threat with him there. I enjoyed watching us again today bar the frustrating finishing.

Dare I say when Ramsey went off santi really came to life in the middle.

the1andonly1

Yeah, Ramsey didn't have a great game today - probably needs a break, he's played pretty much non stop since the start of the season. No harm if he's out for a couple of games now that Jack is back

HazDanz

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Dare I say when Ramsey went off santi really came to life in the middle.

Ramsey out for Christmas period confimed by Wenger.

Opportunity to keep Cazorla there now without fall out.

Mr Blobby

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Podolski is ridiculously clinical!
If his hold up play was better he'd be another option at CF.

Walcott's been great as well.

I honestly think we'd far benefit from playing both him and Giroud up front and now Rambo is more than likely out it would be worth trying over the next few games. In a way Rambo getting injured might be a good thing for him as he looks jaded and in need of a rest. For a 21/22 year old player he has played loads over the last few months. The rest will do him good.

No way could any team commit too many up front with a Giroud/Pod 2 pronged attack. Pod's goal at Anfield coupled with Santi's personal performance that day was very similar to today.

Personally i would like to see Giroud rested at Newcastle or the Cardiff game and perhaps try Bendtner and Podolski up front. If Bendy Boots could keep in the right frame of mind he'd be a valuable squad player but its a huge if.

The problem these last few weeks is that the big games have been coming thick and fast and some of the players look jaded hence the sloppiness.

Walcott's finishing has been good the last few weeks but i just think he looked a bit hungrier last year.

My player of the year so far no doubt and i thought i would never say this but the BFG Mertsacker has been a collosus. Incredible reader of the game.

Mickeroo

HazDanz wrote: »

Ramsey out for Christmas period confimed by Wenger.

Opportunity to keep Cazorla there now without fall out.

But is it not Ozil that Cazorla would be displacing if he moved into the middle?

HazDanz

Mickeroo wrote: »

But is it not Ozil that Cazorla would be displacing if he moved into the middle?

Tbh I wouldn't mind it to get mixed up a bit at the moment.

We need to reboot - we've looked a bit stale lately and if we can get one or two sparking by switching them about I wouldn't say no to trying.

Mickeroo

Mickeroo wrote: »

But is it not Ozil that Cazorla would be displacing if he moved into the middle?

There is so much freedom and movement that its hard to really pinpoint who plays exactly where but to me it would seem Ozil is just that bit slightly wide whereas Rambo has been playing in that hole behind the striker.

Id imagine there will be a great deal of rotation but i notice Ozil seems to be brilliant at spotting a pass from the corner of his eye

Quazzie

So Walcott has come back from injury and scored twice. Podolski has come back from injury and has scored and got an assist. Cazorla has been in and out of the team recently and plays a stormer.

My question is, how is any of this possible when we don't have a good enough squad.

Spanish Johnny

Spanish Johnny wrote: »

This - 100%. We are much more of a threat with him there. I enjoyed watching us again today bar the frustrating finishing.

Essentially your right. But Rambo was absolutely tearing it up in there these last few months so it would have been hard to shift him out of there.

Quazzie

Quazzie wrote: »

So Walcott has come back from injury and scored twice. Podolski has come back from injury and has scored and got an assist. Cazorla has been in and out of the team recently and plays a stormer.

My question is, how is any of this possible when we don't have a good enough squad.

Your hitting on something there. Its the freshness of these players that has been key. Definitely still think we should add to the squad. We've done amazing to be top on December 26th (hoping LFC v MCFC will end a boring 0-0 draw)

tayto lover

The defence looked a bit shaky at the start of the second-half and we could have conceded a few more.
We need Koscielney back as his partnership with Mertezacher is best.
Chez needs to steady up too. Very poor ball to fumble.

jonneymendoza

well done **** city. hate them. if arsenal dont win the league i want pool to do it. sod city. COME ON LIVERPOOL

greendom

tayto lover wrote: »

The defence looked a bit shaky at the start of the second-half and we could have conceded a few more.
We need Koscielney back as his partnership with Mertezacher is best.
Chez needs to steady up too. Very poor ball to fumble.

Think that's a little strong on Szez. It was a poor handling error that cost him dearly. But when did he last make a mistake?

HazDanz

greendom wrote: »

Think that's a little strong on Szez. It was a poor handling error that cost him dearly. But when did he last make a mistake?

It was his first in a long time. He was shook for ten minutes after it but got his act together again which was good to see.

greendom

greendom wrote: »

Think that's a little strong on Szez. It was a poor handling error that cost him dearly. But when did he last make a mistake?

Id tend to agree with you that it might be harsh because there was power in that shot and his body wasn't in the right position in terms of knocking it to the side. Arteta who doesnt make many mistakes put the ball into a dangerous area but that is because he was under pressure. It was sloppiness at the other end that put us on the back foot so our defence cant be blamed in those circumstances.

dvemail

Would love to see this someday.

................Arteta
.............Ozil....Cazorla
......Walcott...........Podolski
..................Giroud

Not much in the way of defensive cover, but would be a fun watch.
Think we saw today Cazorla is much better central.

dvemail

Christmas football is over for Ramsey.


Arsenal FC ‏@Arsenal 1m

Team news update: AW on @aaronramsey: "I don't know how serious the thigh strain is but the Christmas period is certainly over for him."

AdamD

Missed the match, good to see we're top though.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Thats a tough game on Sunday.
If we are top at New Years I will be very very very satisfied.

tayto lover

greendom wrote: »

Think that's a little strong on Szez. It was a poor handling error that cost him dearly. But when did he last make a mistake?

I think he will be a fine keeper in time and I do like him but he makes mistakes fairly regularly.
Coming to punch balls away and missing has happened a few times recently.
His mistake today would have been the main talking point if we had not scored in the game.
We can't afford basic errors and that shot was straight at him.

dvemail

This is such a tight league, we would currently be 5th in the league if we lost today.

gosplan

Great attitude after the first went in today.

Not easy to get it together and score the goals you need to send you top of the league. Shows good character.

Spanish Johnny

Mickeroo wrote: »

But is it not Ozil that Cazorla would be displacing if he moved into the middle?

Yes it would and we would be much the better for it. Ozil hasn't been been producing the goods. We didn't win in our last 4 games when he played there and looked poor in attack in all the games. Should we just leave him there for his reputation rather than the good of the team? Santi is much more controlling of a game and more dangerous there.

greendom

dvemail wrote: »

This is such a tight league, we would currently be 5th in the league if we lost today.

4th, Everton only have 34 points, we'd have 36 had we lost today.

greendom

tayto lover wrote: »

I think he will be a fine keeper in time and I do like him but he makes mistakes fairly regularly.
Coming to punch balls away and missing has happened a few times recently.
His mistake today would have been the main talking point if we had not scored in the game.
We can't afford basic errors and that shot was straight at him.

He's been a fine keeper this season imo. One mistake today hasn't changed that.

tayto lover

The Newcastle game is now massive but I think we can go there and win.
Anyone know how long Ramsey is out for?

greendom

tayto lover wrote: »

The Newcastle game is now massive but I think we can go there and win.
Anyone know how long Ramsey is out for?

Wenger's early assessment would suggest at least until Spurs in the cup

EuropeanSon

tayto lover wrote: »

I think he will be a fine keeper in time and I do like him but he makes mistakes fairly regularly.

Utter nonsense.

There have been few better keepers in the league this year.

tayto lover

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Utter nonsense.

There have been few better keepers in the league this year.

You're saying he doesn't make mistakes? That would be utter nonsense.
That was a howler today and not his first.

EuropeanSon

tayto lover wrote: »

You're saying he doesn't make mistakes? That would be utter nonsense.
That was a howler today and not his first.

He does not make mistakes "fairly regularly". He has made fewer mistakes than almost any other keeper in the league, I would say.

Every keeper makes mistakes, don't give me that straw man ****e "are you saying he doesn't make mistakes", it's childish.