Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

tayto lover

Happy New Year to all Gunners fans and others too.

Backing Arsenal to win 2 -- 1 tomorrow at Southampton. Alexis first goal.
Start the New Year off with a few bob.

bad2dabone

Happy new year gooners!

byrneg28

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

Worth mentioning Gilberto left the same Summer as Flamini IIRC.

On Diarra I would never ever sign him, he sounds like absolute poison. Anyone who read Diego Torres' book on Mourinho at Real will know that. It seems Jose absolutely loved Diarra as a player and wanted to essentially build the Madrid team around him from midfield but Lass just didn't particularly like Jose and acted the absolute boll*x during his time there. At the end of the day if you're deemed good enough for Chelsea, Arsenal and Real Madrid but end up playing football in Moscow at the age of 29 there has to be something seriously wrong with your attitude.

Absolutely genius move financially when Wenger signed Diarra on a free and sold him 5 months later for 6 mil

emergingstar

Looks like Campbell might get his shot tomorrow and start up front

efb

Happy New Years Gooners

tayto lover

emergingstar wrote: »

Looks like Campbell might get his shot tomorrow and start up front

If so then Walcott is still injured and we're being spun some yarn as Wenger said he was fit.
I expect to see Ox or Rosicky on the left, Walcott on the right and Sanchez up front if Welbeck is out.

gosplan

tayto lover wrote: »

If so then Walcott is still injured and we're being spun some yarn as Wenger said he was fit.
I expect to see Ox or Rosicky on the left, Walcott on the right and Sanchez up front if Welbeck is out.

I'd love to see Sanchez up front with Walcott and Pod wide.

Sanchez's ability to cut inside a defender and tee up someone would be amazing if he were just setting up Pod's left foot.

emergingstar

tayto lover wrote: »

If so then Walcott is still injured and we're being spun some yarn as Wenger said he was fit.
I expect to see Ox or Rosicky on the left, Walcott on the right and Sanchez up front if Welbeck is out.

Going from his interview I think walcott will start on Sunday

pudzey101

hope we get 2015 off to a flyer tomorrow

Mickeroo

Happy new year lads, would be lovely to start it with a win tomorrow

DenMan

Happy New Year Gooners! Have a great 2015.

Let's get some proper form going now after the easy matches, smash into the quarters of the Champions League while we're at it.

Soups123

Happy New Year lads best of luck for 2015.

Up Arsenal

emergingstar

tayto lover wrote: »

Happy New Year to all Gunners fans and others too.

Backing Arsenal to win 2 -- 1 tomorrow at Southampton. Alexis first goal.
Start the New Year off with a few bob.

Bet just done

fulmer1984

Rumours that Flamini is out today. Apparently didn't travel with the squad

yipeeeee

fulmer1984 wrote: »

Rumours that Flamini is out today. Apparently didn't travel with the squad

And pod stormed out of training.

Have we any players left?

tayto lover

fulmer1984 wrote: »

Rumours that Flamini is out today. Apparently didn't travel with the squad

Might be time to give Coq and Chambers a job together in front of the back four then. OR Coq and Ox.

ronjo

tayto lover wrote: »

Might be time to give Coq and Chambers a job together in front of the back four then. OR Coq and Ox.

Would prefer Rosicky with Coquelin. Ox will probably be on right unless he feels Walcott is ready to start.

dvemail

yipeeeee wrote: »

And pod stormed out of training.

Have we any players left?

Podolski just poted this.

Lukas-Podolski.com ‏@Podolski10 5m5 minutes ago #lies #facts #stormgate #poldi

yipeeeee

dvemail wrote: »

Podolski just poted this.

Lukas-Podolski.com ‏@Podolski10 5m5 minutes ago #lies #facts #stormgate #poldi

That clears that up.

What an age we live in.

tayto lover

Poldi should do what I do.
Stop reading crap newspapers and completely ignore them.

yipeeeee

tayto lover wrote: »

Poldi should do what I do.
Stop reading crap newspapers and completely ignore them.

My mistake was reading arseblog.

emmetlego

I doubt highly that Pod buys any of the rags, but his much fabled Twitter account was plastered with questions about the mirror's story this morning... Pod being Pod, he had to reply to his followers #AHA

.....and Jack's tweet pictured with Pod and Flamini just now confirms its going to be an interesting line up today.

emergingstar

What way will we line up

Same back 5

Coq
Rosicky cazorla

Ox. Campbell Sanchez

Id rather see walcott instead of Campbell, we will see

greendom

emergingstar wrote: »

What way will we line up

Same back 5

Coq
Rosicky cazorla

Ox. Campbell Sanchez

Id rather see walcott instead of Campbell, we will see

Think Sanchez will start central

Its Only Ray Parlour

Good start at Stoke. We could be 3rd this evening.

emergingstar

greendom wrote: »

Think Sanchez will start central

Good shout

The way the front 3 rotate I don't mins where they start

Bobby Baccala

Yeah Sanchez will more than likely be in the centre seeing as Campbell and ox can play on both wings.

fulmer1984

Here's a list of 10 players on a free in the summer. Would like khedira, wages might be an issue though

jamescd

emergingstar wrote: »

What way will we line up

Same back 5

Coq
Rosicky cazorla

Ox. Campbell Sanchez

Id rather see walcott instead of Campbell, we will see

Is Welbeck injured ?

efb

@Arsenal: Arsenal XI v Southampton: Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Rosicky, Alexis

yipeeeee

efb wrote: »

@Arsenal: Arsenal XI v Southampton: Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Rosicky, Alexis

This is a big risk, could backfire horribly.

Probably no other option.

tayto lover

efb wrote: »

@Arsenal: Arsenal XI v Southampton: Szczesny, Debuchy, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Coquelin, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Rosicky, Alexis

Still no sign of Walcott and I wonder why.
He was due back a month ago.

emergingstar

Chambers at DM excites me

tayto lover

emergingstar wrote: »

Chambers at DM excites me

That's what I thought earlier.
Hope it doesn't come back to bite us though.

efb

emergingstar wrote: »

Chambers at DM excites me

Me too!

emergingstar

tayto lover wrote: »

That's what I thought earlier.
Hope it doesn't come back to bite us though.

Massive gamble alright

Colonialboy

Interesting comment from Jerry Flannery (ex irish intl rugby player... now strength and conditioning coach at Arsenal) in last weekends irish Examiner.

he said when he arrived first at Arsenal he was surprised by how poor the gym facilities were at Arsenal.
Things have imprved since with more focus and a new facility , but thats only recently.

yipeeeee

Colonialboy wrote: »

Interesting comment from Jerry Flannery (ex irish intl rugby player... now strength and conditioning coach at Arsenal) in last weekends irish Examiner.

he said when he arrived first at Arsenal he was surprised by how poor the gym facilities were at Arsenal.
Things have imprved since with more focus and a new facility , but thats only recently.

Thought we had the best training facility in England.

Irish Aris

Happy New Year everybody, hope you are all well and enjoy watching our favorite team!!

Interesting starting 11, indeed.
Feels like we gonna play it very safe and go for a narrow win.

Spanish Johnny

emergingstar wrote: »

Chambers at DM excites me

Always keen to see him there....I will however be shocked beyond comprehension if he doesn't get a yellow card if not two! He manages enough at RB and DM is challenging in that regard.

Hopefully he surprises me on the yellow card front as he looks a fine footballer in every area and he is young so the discipline will grow.

gosplan

Injured/Unavailable midfielders & strikers: Flamini, Arteta, Ramsey, Wilshire, Ozil, Pod, Welbeck, Giroud, Sanogo.

Look at our bench - it's astounding.

tayto lover

Who's on the bench lads?

emergingstar

Spanish Johnny wrote: »

Always keen to see him there....I will however be shocked beyond comprehension if he doesn't get a yellow card if not two! He manages enough at RB and DM is challenging in that regard.

Hopefully he surprises me on the yellow card front as he looks a fine footballer in every area and he is young so the discipline will grow.

A yellow is nailed on without doubt

CatInABox

tayto lover wrote: »

Who's on the bench lads?

Martinez, Monreal, Bellerin, Maitland-Niles, Campbell, Walcott, Akpom #SFCvAFC

fulmer1984

Colonialboy wrote: »

Interesting comment from Jerry Flannery (ex irish intl rugby player... now strength and conditioning coach at Arsenal) in last weekends irish Examiner.

he said when he arrived first at Arsenal he was surprised by how poor the gym facilities were at Arsenal.
Things have imprved since with more focus and a new facility , but thats only recently.

Link below. Good read. Interesting bit about the youngsters

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/columnists/michael-moynihan/the-many-hats-of-jerry-flannery-304150.html

Soups123

Walcotts been on the bench weeks now it's a strange one

Very interesting line up not sure how confident I am!!

Chambers at DM is exciting but he needs to show discipline beyond what he has shown so far

jonneymendoza

hiya can anyone pm me please or is it a bit too early?

Jaafa

Soups123 wrote: »

Walcotts been on the bench weeks now it's a strange one

Very interesting line up not sure how confident I am!!

Chambers at DM is exciting but he needs to show discipline beyond what he has shown so far

Wenger said he's fit but not competitive yet. I imagine the plan was to give him some game time in the last couple of matches late on in the games but because they both ended up being so close he'd couldn't do that. He hasn't played a competitive game in almost literally a year he can't just start him without any game time beforehand.