Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

astonaidan

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Would be nice to stick 4 or 5 past somebody. Haven't really been doing that this season, shows how good the defence has been. As usual would take a 1-0 win though.

Wow that hurts, Cant we just be friends and play out a 1 1 draw

L'prof

astonaidan wrote: »

Wow that hurts, Cant we just be friends and play out a 1 1 draw

How about a reversal of the season opener? That hurt too!

/awaits eagerly to hear team news....

Spanish Johnny

astonaidan wrote: »

Wow that hurts, Cant we just be friends and play out a 1 1 draw

Ye got 3 off us already this season - that's enough!!

bad2dabone

astonaidan wrote: »

Wow that hurts, Cant we just be friends and play out a 1 1 draw

Sorry dude we need the points badly. We need to win every week to stop the oil barons from winning the title. We're the plucky little underdogs vs the evil rich bullies.

Topbike77

How much of a transfer budget do we actually have?

bad2dabone

Ronan14 wrote: »

How much of a transfer budget do we actually have?

We're looking at a budget of 50-70m per season from now on. As I said, we're the plucky underdogs.

Though Wenger only spends when he gets what he considers to be value.

Topbike77

bad2dabone wrote: »

We're looking at a budget of 50-70m per season from now on. As I said, we're the plucky underdogs.

Though Wenger only spends when he gets what he considers to be value.

So that means that we only have between 5 & 25m for this month? Being that Ozil cost €45m in September.

Fooker

Ronan14 wrote: »

So that means that we only have between 5 & 25m for this month? Being that Ozil cost €45m in September.

Think it was £70m mentioned in the summer. There could be conceivable be more as there should be more money in the club from ticket sales etc. and the team itself is in a good position...

Irish Aris

Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Wilshere, Flamini, Cazorla, Ozil, Gnabry, Giroud

Subs: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Rosicky, Podolski, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ju-Young Park

Nice to see Ox on the bench!!

Spanish Johnny

Irish Aris wrote: »

Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Wilshere, Flamini, Cazorla, Ozil, Gnabry, Giroud

Subs: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Rosicky, Podolski, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ju-Young Park

Nice to see Ox on the bench!!

Delighted to see Gnabry get the start again.

Irish Aris

Irish Aris wrote: »

Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Wilshere, Flamini, Cazorla, Ozil, Gnabry, Giroud

Subs: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Rosicky, Podolski, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ju-Young Park

Nice to see Ox on the bench!!

No Rambo yet...

tayto lover

Deleted User wrote: »

No Rambo yet...

Seems like he's back but being given extra recovery time probably because of his injury history and the amount of games he has played already. We should win without him.

.jacksparrow.

Where's mikel?

Maire2009

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Where's mikel?

Someone on Twitter said he picked up a knock in the Spurs game - kick to the calf

Mickeroo

Delighted to see Gnabry starting!

tayto lover

Any word on who's on the bench? Hope Chamberlain is a sub.

AdamD

tayto lover wrote: »

Any word on who's on the bench? Hope Chamberlain is a sub.

Fabianski, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Rosicky, Podolski, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Park

tayto lover

Villa playing for a point. 5 across the back.

efb

Thank fook it's smudger co commentating

Nemeses2050

good to see Sagna putting some decent crosses

Maire2009

PHEW!

Soups123

Another good 3pts away from home.

Irish Aris

I would really appreciate it if they can all sit together and see the second half as an example on how not to play.

Another 3 points, another week on top, the saga continues!!!

djan

Very happy to get the 3 points but a very poor display by Arsenal. After the other top 7 team all picking up points we should have been fired up to play we didn't create many chances and were quite lucky to be 2-0 up then after the goals old arsenal came in and we were complacent which lead to the usual letting the other team in near the end. Defence and Szczez played well but the rest were hit and miss. Glad we got the points but against a Vila side that are playing poorly should have won by a much higher margin.

tayto lover

That second half was abysmal from Arsenal.
Took their foot off the pedal as they thought they had it won.
A game lasts 90 minutes plus.
Some of them need their arse kicked especially Santi with his silly give aways.

.jacksparrow.

Liverpool (A)
Man United (H)
Bayern (H)
Bayern (A)
Spurs (A)
Chelsea (A)
Man City (H)
Everton (A)

Arsenal fixtures February 8th to April 15th!

ronjo

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Liverpool (A)
Man United (H)
Bayern (H)
Bayern (A)
Spurs (A)
Chelsea (A)
Man City (H)
Everton (A)

Arsenal fixtures February 8th to April 15th!

Why not include alll the fixtures in that period?

.jacksparrow.

ronjo wrote: »

Why not include alll the fixtures in that period?

Oh sorry thought that was them all, my bad!

Still on for 90 points!


:pac:

greendom

It was a very lax performance tonight. I wonder if Ozil's nature is rubbing off on the rest of the team. It seems that the phrase "so laid back he's horizontal" was invented for him

Irish Aris

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Oh sorry thought that was them all, my bad!

We have Sunderland, Swansea and Stoke between Utd and the really difficult run.
But the "spirit" of your post is right (If I have understood you correctly): Between March 15th and April 5th we will know if we can win the league or not.

gandalf

To be fair to Ozil he was the only player trying to hold onto the ball for the final minutes whereas others couldn't wait to give it away to Villa!

Maire2009

greendom wrote: »

It was a very lax performance tonight. I wonder if Ozil's nature is rubbing off on the rest of the team. It seems that the phrase "so laid back he's horizontal" was invented for him

He made more key passes than anyone else tonight, that's his game. Others should stick to theirs.

tayto lover

Still on top with 17 games to go.
One game at a time.

DenMan

Fulham at home is exactly what we need on Saturday! A team with no confidence whatsoever! COYG

tayto lover

I think Villa tonight were the worst side we faced this season yet they put us under pressure when we allowed them back into the game.

We should take no team lightly from now on.

greendom

tayto lover wrote: »

I think Villa tonight were the worst side we faced this season yet they put us under pressure when we allowed them back into the game.

We should take no team lightly from now on.

They're a poor team but they have already beaten us and City this season.

Ed Winchester

tayto lover wrote: »

I think Villa tonight were the worst side we faced this season yet they put us under pressure when we allowed them back into the game.

We should take no team lightly from now on.

I think that's harsh on Villa. They showed great spirit and fight in the last 20 odd minutes. Could have snatched a draw.

Royale with Cheese

There were times at the end of the first half where retaining possession was so easy that the very thought of being under pressure in the last 10 minutes was laughable. I said earlier in this thread Arsenal haven't been hammering teams by 4 and 5 this season, they really should have put more past villa before Benteke got anywhere near scoring. Not ruthless enough, but thankfully didn't cost them again. They're getting the job done, I'll give them that. Making it far harder than it should be though.

tayto lover

Ed Winchester wrote: »

I think that's harsh on Villa. They showed great spirit and fight in the last 20 odd minutes. Could have snatched a draw.

I honestly think that this was due to us being too relaxed and thinking we had the game won. Players started trying fancy stuff when they should have been more precise with their passing. Their goal came from dreadful play by Cazorla when there was no need for the little flicks.

greendom

Mertersacker, Sagna and Wenger to sign new contracts :cool:

gandalf

greendom wrote: »

Mertersacker, Sagna and Wenger to sign new contracts :cool:

Where did you see that reported?

HazDanz

We won. Away. Let's move on to the next one.

Ozil I thought was very good tonight. So composed on the ball, always trying to make the ball go forward towards goal in an intelligent way.

Wilshere in the middle is just super at the minute. Ramsey will have to fight to get that place back if Wilshere keeps going as he is.

Also, Mert. Loving the rage towards Cazorla after that goal went in!

.jacksparrow.

Ozil is just frustrated, he has no one making runs in front of him to work his magic.

Ramsey and Theo were ideal for his play.

greendom

gandalf wrote: »

Where did you see that reported?

Emm yes, perhaps I should have mentioned that.... The Daily Star -:o

And also seeing that Rosicky has a possible broken nose and Monreal a potentially broken Metatarsal

gandalf

greendom wrote: »

Emm yes, perhaps I should have mentioned that.... The Daily Star -:o

I'll wait for a more reputable source before I get excited!

And also seeing that Rosicky has a possible broken nose and Monreal a potentially broken Metatarsal

Ffs more injuries! Get signing Arsene....

Galvasean

Ramsey 13 (8)
Giroud 12 (9)
Walcott 6 (5)
Ozil 5 (4)
Wilshere 5 (3)
Podolski 3 (3)
Mertesacker 2 (2)
Bendtner 2 (2)
Cazorla 2 (1)
Rosicky 1 (0)
Flamini 1 (1)
Arteta 1 (1)
Gnabry 1 (1)
Eisfeld 1 (0)
Sagna 1 (1)
Gibbs 1 (0)

That makes Giroud our top marksman in the EPL. Good on him.

FearDark

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Ozil is just frustrated, he has no one making runs in front of him to work his magic.

+1

Not just Ramsey and Walcott we miss making those runs, Giroud makes awful runs, loves standing behind defenders ready to flick a ball on or hold it up instead of making an intelligent run.

Y2KBOS86

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

Ozil is just frustrated, he has no one making runs in front of him to work his magic.

Ramsey and Theo were ideal for his play.

Yeah the lack of runners was always going to hurt Özil's game.

I thought Gnarby would provide some of those runs tonight.

Jack was the only one making any movement, with one through ball Özil shredded Villa open that lead to our goal.

Watching the game tonight, you can see why we are being linked with Draxler.Bit more pace and movement is badly needed.He reminds me of a young Kaka a bit too, similar build, power, can carry the ball long distances.