Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

tayto lover

Our defence is still not good enough imo.
We gave a bad team lots of chances tonight.
Kos will strengthen it but I think we need to buy a good CB in Jan along with of course a good DM.

Soups123

Looper007 wrote: »

Is it fair to say Suarez carried them for the whole of the season last season. Apart from Gerrard's free kick they offered nothing going forward and Basel could have beaten them by more.

Possibly from all reports Basel Brush'd them aside

enfant terrible

Soups123 wrote: »

He has earned it but I think Arsene has him marked for the exit door

Tough one but I'd like to see Giroud and Welbeck start together.

Think they link well together.

Looper007

tayto lover wrote: »

Our defence is still not good enough imo.
We gave a bad team lots of chances tonight.
Kos will strengthen it but I think we need to buy a good CB in Jan along with of course a good DM.

Tayto on to give it a good moan :pac:
We all know we need to buy a Centre back that record is repeating itself by now.
We played very well and they only scored thanks to a brilliant free kick.

Soups123

tayto lover wrote: »

Our defence is still not good enough imo.
We gave a bad team lots of chances tonight.
Kos will strengthen it but I think we need to buy a good CB in Jan along with of course a good DM.

We need a top class CB, Debuchy and Kos are fine, Gibbs would be a lot better beside a commanding CB

bad2dabone

batistuta9 wrote: »

i think we should all put our differences aside for a minute (of riotous laughter) and think of our good friends from the liverpool thread who used to pop in every so often.

I'm thinking of a guy who is not 32nd or 34th and takes every opportunity to make his tired old jibes about arsenal.

I'm thinking of his hurt and feeling happy.

yipeeeee

batistuta9 wrote: »

yeah monaco, then porto in the quarters would be nice

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i think we should all put our differences aside for a minute (of riotous laughter) and think of our good friends from the liverpool thread who used to pop in every so often.

What are they smoking at the emirates.

bad2dabone

Looper007 wrote: »

When is Mesut back anyway?

January

LuckyGent88

Delighted podolski got 2 goals for yee tonight. Met him last week at his charity in Cologne and he was really nice to chat to. Supposed to be back here in Cologne tomorrow so I'll pass on your plaudits lads!!!

emmetlego

tayto lover wrote: »

Our defence is still not good enough imo.
We gave a bad team lots of chances tonight.
Kos will strengthen it but I think we need to buy a good CB in Jan along with of course a good DM.

Agree on the purchases required, but seriously, the bolded bit?? We played with a makeshift back 4 tonight for the best part. Not worthy of comment

extra gravy

batistuta9 wrote: »

i think we should all put our differences aside for a minute (of riotous laughter) and think of our good friends from the liverpool thread who used to pop in every so often.

Might as well enjoy it now I suppose before we get beaten at Anfield Sunday week

Alfred Borden

Its kind of weird how ourselves and Chelsea might be the only english teams left after tomorrow night.

tayto lover

emmetlego wrote: »

Agree on the purchases required, but seriously, the bolded bit?? We played with a makeshift back 4 tonight for the best part. Not worthy of comment

I strive for excellence always.

WoollyRedHat

I wonder how Schar performed tonight.

emmetlego

tayto lover wrote: »

I strive for excellence always.

You're starting to sound like my wife….

Looper007

Raf32 wrote: »

Its kind of weird how ourselves and Chelsea might be the only english teams left after tomorrow night.

I don't think City will beat Roma without Augero, he really is carrying them at times. Good luck to them but they shouldn't be struggling in CL year in and year out with the amount of money they spend on players.

batistuta9

Looper007 wrote: »

Is it fair to say Suarez carried them for the whole of the season last season. Apart from Gerrard's free kick they offered nothing going forward and Basel could have beaten them by more.

missing sturridge is a big problem for them as well. they'll still have a good season if they get back in the top 4 - from an outside perspective anyway

the signings haven't worked for them at all, might yet however.
v.persie (assisted by hollywood song a lot) carried arsenal to 4th, the year he left after giroud, pod & cazorla pretty much matched his goals and got back in. even spurs only finished 3pts worse last year w/o bale. sometimes you get away with selling your best players by not falling too much

Gringo180

Soups123 wrote: »

Possibly from all reports Basel Brush'd them aside

They were fawlty to one to go through tonight.

Alfred Borden

Looper007 wrote: »

I don't think City will beat Roma without Augero, he really is carrying them at times. Good luck to them but they shouldn't be struggling in CL year in and year out with the amount of money they spend on players.

Agreed, no excuses to be honest. cant say I feel sorry for them in the slightest!

Soups123

emmetlego wrote: »

You're starting to sound like my wife….

I think we might be sharing the same woman.........

emmetlego

Soups123 wrote: »

I think we might be sharing the same woman.........

Nah mate, all those logs were split by the same axe!

Looper007

batistuta9 wrote: »

missing sturridge is a big problem for them as well. they'll still have a good season if they get back in the top 4 - from an outside perspective anyway

the signings haven't worked for them at all, might yet however.
v.persie (assisted by hollywood song a lot) carried arsenal to 4th, the year he left after giroud, pod & cazorla pretty much matched his goals and got back in. even spurs only finished 3pts worse last year w/o bale. sometimes you get away with selling your best players by not falling too much

But they really are struggling for goals aside from missing Sturridge. You can't depend on poor Sterling and an aging Gerrard to pull it out of the bag every week. The Defence is prone to mistakes and their GK is shakey to say the least. I don't think they get fourth to be fair. Like Spurs, Liverpool bought a lot of crap out of the big sell of Suarez.

Looper007

Raf32 wrote: »

Agreed, no excuses to be honest. cant say I feel sorry for them in the slightest!

They are an aging team too. I can't see them going to far in the CL. But we better be careful they might be sniffing around soon enough on our young players.

wonga77

Great result, Lets be honest though, Galatasaray were absolute muck, as poor and open a team as your likely to meet.
Great to have Debuchy back, he has abit of toughness about him anyway, Per was meh, asleep at times but made a great goaline block too. Ramsey showed flashes of his best form, hopefully that wondergoal will kickstart his year. Poldi has a thumping left boot, his first set the tone for the game. Campbell has a good touch but I must admit i expected a tiny bit more of him, pity he didnt score that chance in the first half.
Im not so sure that Sanogo is ever going to be anything more than awkward, no bit of a touch on him at all.
All in all a great nights work and 3 new faces get abit of european experience



https://twitter.com/TransferSite/status/542420119155011584

Sanogo is thinking, how the fcuk did he do that

gosplan

bad2dabone wrote: »

Absolutely. If he works like that he'd be back in favor.

Mesut back soon too.

A good night for sure

To be honest I think if we're playing any sort of a suspect defence that might give him the sniff he needs, he should play. I wouldn't play against a good defense because they'll just keep him off his left foot and then he can't do much.

He and Giroud were a nice combination for a while too. We should get back to that.

Let Giroud just set up Pod and Sanchez with his deft touches.

Alfred Borden

Looper007 wrote: »

They are an aging team too. I can't see them going to far in the CL. But we better be careful they might be sniffing around soon enough on our young players.

Changed tomes now hopefully though and we never sell to a rival again. We can only hope

greendom

Sanchez 14 (9)
Welbeck 6 (3)
Ramsey 6 (3)
Giroud 3 (2)
Podolski 3(0)
Ox 2(1)
Cazorla 2 (1)
Gibbs 1 (0)
Koscielny 1 (1)
Wilshere 1(1)
Ozil 1(1)
Chambers 1 (1)
Arteta 1 (0)
Sanogo 1(0)

Just watched the Ramsey goal on tv3...holey moley what a goal, surely goal of the season

brevity

Looper007 wrote: »

Is it fair to say Suarez carried them for the whole of the season last season. Apart from Gerrard's free kick they offered nothing going forward and Basel could have beaten them by more.

Starting to look that way I'm afraid. Had we spent the money properly we might have had a better chance this season. We needed improvements but went about it all wrong.

Ulysses Gaze

May as well just give Ramsey the Puskas Award for next year.

That was a stunning strike.

wonga77

brevity wrote: »

Starting to look that way I'm afraid. Had we spent the money properly we might have had a better chance this season. We needed improvements but went about it all wrong.

Made the same mistake as spurs and bought too many players, im not sure so that many were needed but overspent on a few too, Lallana being the obvious example

emergingstar

Id keep ox in the centre the weekend my team

Scez

Debuchy. Kos. Mert. Gibbs

Flamini

Ox. Ramsey

Welbeck. Giroud. Sanchez

fulmer1984

greendom wrote: »

Sanchez 14 (9)
Welbeck 6 (3)
Ramsey 6 (3)
Giroud 3 (2)
Podolski 3(0)
Ox 2(1)
Cazorla 2 (1)
Gibbs 1 (0)
Koscielny 1 (1)
Wilshere 1(1)
Ozil 1(1)
Chambers 1 (1)
Arteta 1 (0)
Sanogo 1(0)

Sanogo not get an assist for Pod tonight?

brevity

wonga77 wrote: »

Made the same mistake as spurs and bought too many players, im not sure so that many were needed but overspent on a few too, Lallana being the obvious example

We needed a good few players(or a few good players hur hur), I'm not sure we needed them all at once.

Anyways...good night for Arsenal tonight! Cracking goal by Ramsey

jamescd

emergingstar wrote: »

Id keep ox in the centre the weekend my team

Scez

Debuchy. Kos. Mert. Gibbs

Flamini

Ox. Ramsey

Welbeck. Giroud. Sanchez

Same but drop Giroud for Podolski


Podolski Welbeck Sanchez

Quazzie

fulmer1984 wrote: »

Sanogo not get an assist for Pod tonight?

The brackets aren't assists, they are league goals

byrneg28

fulmer1984 wrote: »

Sanogo not get an assist for Pod tonight?

they're league goals in brackets

Pierce_1991

batistuta9 wrote: »

atletico madrid
real madrid
monaco
bayern
psg/barca
porto

monaco you want

4 goals in 6 group games, I'd definitely take them. Or Porto. I'd really love to get the the quarters this year. I think with the team we have we'll get our act together soon enough, could go on a decent run in the CL.

greendom

fulmer1984 wrote: »

Sanogo not get an assist for Pod tonight?

yeah sorry I should have made it clear - league goals are in brackets

Jaafa

Lads does no one else think that the Ox, for all his drive and determination and good runs, just hasn't had any end product this season? Something just doesn't seem to be clicking for him so far, no doubt he's good for it at some point though.

jamescd

Jaafa wrote: »

Lads does no one else think that the Ox, for all his drive and determination and good runs, just hasn't had any end product this season? Something just doesn't seem to be clicking for him so far, no doubt he's good for it at some point though.

He got an assist tonight for Ramsey's 1st goal.

enfant terrible

Jaafa wrote: »

Lads does no one else think that the Ox, for all his drive and determination and good runs, just hasn't had any end product this season? Something just doesn't seem to be clicking for him so far, no doubt he's good for it at some point though.

Walcott was same at his age, he'll kick on and be a serious goal threat soon but he needs consistent games to do it.

Jaafa

jamescd wrote: »

He got an assist tonight for Ramsey's 1st goal.

Fair enough didn't notice that actually.

greendom

jamescd wrote: »

He got an assist tonight for Ramsey's 1st goal.

I like Ox but that's a bit like taking credit for the Mona Lisa for handing Da Vinci his paint brush.

Pierce_1991

greendom wrote: »

I like Ox but that's a bit like taking credit for the Mona Lisa for handing Da Vinci his paint brush.

1st goal wasn't the long range effort

greendom

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

1st goal wasn't the long range effort

whoops - apologies Jamescd

jamescd

greendom wrote: »

whoops - apologies Jamescd

Ha no worries. I was scratching my head there for a minute after seeing your post. I was like what the hell does that have to do with what I said. Then I realized you must have got his 2nd goal confused with his 1st :pac:

WoollyRedHat

Ox had one or two shots on goal thatricocheted off the top bar in the last few weeks, he is hitting the target which is progress and just needs a goal to boost his confidence and go on a run. Thought he was great in the middle in the first half, but a bit missing in the second, but that a very untried midfield in fairness to him.

When's the draw for the second round take place and when do the knockout stages begin?

jamescd

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Ox had one or two shots on goal thatricocheted off the top bar in the last few weeks, he is hitting the target which is progress and just needs a goal to boost his confidence and go on a run. Thought he was great in the middle in the first half, but a bit missing in the second, but that a very untried midfield in fairness to him.

When's the draw for the second round take place and when do the knockout stages begin?

Draw is Monday, starts in February.

kronsington

Hopefully his match kick starts Ramsey's season now. Show us that last season wasn't a once off