Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

Ardennes1944

Soooooo...this is supposed to be the Arsenal FC thread yeah?

Alfred Borden

I see United are doing an Arsenal with half their team out injured. Still expect to lose on Saturday though.

Ardennes1944

Yeah Blind will be a blow for them alright, once Sanchez is ok we might be too

Alfred Borden

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Yeah Blind will be a blow for them alright, once Sanchez is ok we might be too

They have something over us mentally.

Ardennes1944

Raf32 wrote: »

They have something over us mentally.

Many teams do and I have no real faith that this will change this weekend. I think it will be a draw

jonneymendoza

efb wrote: »

It's not fooled- they were the bottom team in their group in the WC

Some of those teams you listed diddnt even make it to the WC!

England also had one of the hardest groups in the tournament and all 3 games england marginally lost/drew.

England also breezed into the WC with ease while most of the teams you mentioned struggled. Even portugal had to go through a knockout game against sweden to qualify for the WC.

Not to mention Portugal getting spanked at the WC too!

Cant remember the last time England got spanked whoever they have played and have alway been at a major tournament for the last 15+ years.

efb wrote: »

Name them- it's easy day half and not say who

why repeat what others have said? people have already listed teams that are not as good as england

efb

What does the last 15 years have to do with the current England side?

Bobby Baccala

I can't see the united back 4 scaring Sanchez this weekend, wouldnt be surprised if he grabbed a couple more. In saying that our back 4 won't scare Rooney or rvp or di maria, could be in for a goal fest but I'd rather it wasn't!

efb

Just realised I'll miss Saturday's match cos I'll be at the Aviva, thought it was Sunday

byrneg28

jonneymendoza wrote: »

Some of those teams you listed diddnt even make it to the WC!

England also had one of the hardest groups in the tournament and all 3 games england marginally lost/drew.

England also breezed into the WC with ease while most of the teams you mentioned struggled. Even portugal had to go through a knockout game against sweden to qualify for the WC.

Not to mention Portugal getting spanked at the WC too!

Cant remember the last time England got spanked whoever they have played and have alway been at a major tournament for the last 15+ years.




why repeat what others have said? people have already listed teams that are not as good as england

If only you had that same positivity towards Arsenal

jonneymendoza

jonneymendoza wrote: »

Cant remember the last time England got spanked whoever they have played and have alway been at a major tournament for the last 15+ years.

Thought England didn't qualify for Euro 2008?

England also don't get spanked without having a big enforcer of a DM, and nobody is constantly complaining about it....go figure

RedemptionZ

efb wrote: »

What does the last 15 years have to do with the current England side?

Comfortably better than Greece, Ukraine and Switzerland. Probably better than Portugal too results wise.

That would put them top 7 in your list and there's certainly not a huge gulf in class between themselves and France, Belgium and Netherlands, much of a muchness there. They are in the top tier, still serial underachievers in the grand scheme of things but let's be honest.

byrneg28

Listen this is ridiculous, this is an Arsenal forum and we are talking about the England national team. Let's move on.

What's the injury news for the weekend? Everyone positive or negative about it??

Any word on Koscielny/Giroud??

greendom

byrneg28 wrote: »

Listen this is ridiculous, this is an Arsenal forum and we are talking about the England national team. Let's move on.

What's the injury news for the weekend? Everyone positive or negative about it??

Any word on Koscielny/Giroud??

No updates on those 2, last I heard was that Kos might not make Man U but that Giroud was back in full training last week. Giroud might make the bench for Saturday I imagine.

Debuchy has said that he will be playing again sometime in December

WoollyRedHat

Great news about Debuchy and Giroud.

Anyone know much about Laporte who plays in La Liga? Been linked with a potential move for him.

Mr Blobby

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Anyone know much about Laporte who plays in La Liga? Been linked with a potential move for him.

Probably the best young defender out there.

No chance we go for him.. Would cost at least 30M.

GavRedKing

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Probably the best young defender out there.

No chance we go for him.. Would cost at least 30M.

Hes got a €28million release claue I'm sure, although with Spanish law, that can be a huge issue, like when Javi Martinez went to Bayern.

jonneymendoza

Basil3 wrote: »

Thought England didn't qualify for Euro 2008?

England also don't get spanked without having a big enforcer of a DM, and nobody is constantly complaining about it....go figure

i think they diddnt but have been at every single WC since the WC in America. 1994 was it? 20 years ago and since then been to every single WC tournament and missed out on just one euro's in that same time frame.

Diddnt france miss out on one of those tournaments?

Case point England are one of the best european sides in the last 20 years.

jonneymendoza

byrneg28 wrote: »

If only you had that same positivity towards Arsenal

i have same amount of positivity.

england, like arsenal, piss me off. But i am not the one saying arsenal are div 1 type of club much like the person who said england are a div 1 team LOL

WoollyRedHat

I read Chelsea are also tracking Laporte, seems like he is very promising, and could easily play alonside Kos or Varane(in the french team) in the future. But if he's 28 million euro or more, then can't see us getting him in Jan. Hummels has apparently slapped with a pricetag of £48 million, yeow, that'd be us out so.

wonga77

That would be everyone out, cant see any club stumping up 48 million

greendom

Sanogo 2 Kane 2 in the France, England U21 game

efb

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Comfortably better than Greece, Ukraine and Switzerland. Probably better than Portugal too results wise.

That would put them top 7 in your list and there's certainly not a huge gulf in class between themselves and France, Belgium and Netherlands, much of a muchness there. They are in the top tier, still serial underachievers in the grand scheme of things but let's be honest.

Greece have a trophy in the recent past tho :-P

Lukker-

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Hummels has apparently slapped with a pricetag of £48 million, yeow, that'd be us out so.

Only United would be stupid enough to sign him for that.

keano_afc

Any confidence for a victory on Saturday? Personally I think United could stick 11 traffic cones out there and we'd still lose. Mentally we can't seem to rise to their challenge.

extra gravy

keano_afc wrote: »

Any confidence for a victory on Saturday? Personally I think United could stick 11 traffic cones out there and we'd still lose. Mentally we can't seem to rise to their challenge.

I'm expecting Lindegaard to come in and play like Neuer for 90 minutes

greendom

keano_afc wrote: »

Any confidence for a victory on Saturday? Personally I think United could stick 11 traffic cones out there and we'd still lose. Mentally we can't seem to rise to their challenge.

They are as mentally fragile as we are at the moment. Anything could happen!

tayto lover

United always seem to believe they can beat us while we never seem to believe we can beat them. Going to back the draw.

Soups123

We'll beat united this Saturday 3-1

extra gravy

According to Wenger, Diaby could get new contract "if he proves his fitness."

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/17/abou-diaby-arsenal-arsene-wenger?CMP=twt_gu

kronsington

Was listening to Arseblog earlier and they eluded to some "salacious" rumours about Rosicky and why he seems to have fallen out of favour with AW. Anyone know more on this? It's probably bollovks, I'm just curious

Quazzie

kronsington wrote: »

Was listening to Arseblog earlier and they eluded to some "salacious" rumours about Rosicky and why he seems to have fallen out of favour with AW. Anyone know more on this? It's probably bollovks, I'm just curious

Why not just say what was said?

kronsington

Quazzie wrote: »

Why not just say what was said?

They didn't say any details of these rumous. This is why I asked the question

keano_afc

extra gravy wrote: »

According to Wenger, Diaby could get new contract "if he proves his fitness."

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/17/abou-diaby-arsenal-arsene-wenger?CMP=twt_gu

He also hilariously said Diaby "wasnt injury prone". Tip of the cap Arsene, you master troller.

greendom

keano_afc wrote: »

He also hilariously said Diaby "wasnt injury prone". Tip of the cap Arsene, you master troller.

It was basically a dig at the thug who essentially destroyed Diaby's career

DenMan

kronsington wrote: »

Was listening to Arseblog earlier and they eluded to some "salacious" rumours about Rosicky and why he seems to have fallen out of favour with AW. Anyone know more on this? It's probably bollovks, I'm just curious

Didn't Wenger have a huge falling out with Wiltord too! Huge arguments in his office.

keano_afc

greendom wrote: »

It was basically a dig at the thug who essentially destroyed Diaby's career

Well, as you say AW essentially admitted that tackle destroyed his career. Which begs the question, why was he handed so many squad spots and contracts if the manager knew the gig was up?

greendom

keano_afc wrote: »

Well, as you say AW essentially admitted that tackle destroyed his career. Which begs the question, why was he handed so many squad spots and contracts if the manager knew the gig was up?

How many contracts has he been given since then? At the time I imagine no one realised quite what an impact it would have on his career. I don't know for sure. Maybe he just liked Diaby and wanted to make sure he was well off ?

Pierce_1991

kronsington wrote: »

Was listening to Arseblog earlier and they eluded to some "salacious" rumours about Rosicky and why he seems to have fallen out of favour with AW. Anyone know more on this? It's probably bollovks, I'm just curious

Apparently he's writing One Direction songs on the side

emmetlego

He's 34 lads, and no, he's not Peter Pan either... This was always going to be a bit-part season for Tomas... He is a legend though!!!

gandalf

With regard to Diaby there is no way we should be offering him another contract unless he is going to be able to play for us regularly which I doubt he will be able to. The resources should be allocated to a more reliable player at this stage. I feel for the guy but if he wants to continue on in football then he is better moving to a less physical league at this stage.

Pierce_1991

gandalf wrote: »

With regard to Diaby there is no way we should be offering him another contract unless he is going to be able to play for us regularly which I doubt he will be able to. The resources should be allocated to a more reliable player at this stage. I feel for the guy but if he wants to continue on in football then he is better moving to a less physical league at this stage.

Could offer him one of those pay for play jobs

gandalf

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

Could offer him one of those pay for play jobs

The poor lad would be penniless !!!

TBH I think he needs a clean break, I think he is a very skillful player and in a less frantic and less physical league he could do very well for a team. I just fear that we will renew his contract and three games after that he will come down with another serious setback.

Pierce_1991

gandalf wrote: »

The poor lad would be penniless !!!

TBH I think he needs a clean break, I think he is a very skillful player and in a less frantic and less physical league he could do very well for a team. I just fear that we will renew his contract and three games after that he will come down with another serious setback.

Probably would be best for him alright. That said, there is a small part of me that thinks his wages aren't coming out of my pocket and I would be very very annoyed if he went off somewhere else and became a huge success...

efb

I don't begrudge the lad a contract. better than some daddy's boy appointed by rich uncle in admin

salmocab

Whats the story with Diaby regards the squad what is his designation? Does he block someone else because presumably he does and really we need to add to our squad and there is no place for sentiment.

extra gravy

efb wrote: »

I don't begrudge the lad a contract. better than some daddy's boy appointed by rich uncle in admin

The daddy's boy wouldn't be taking up valuable space in our squad though while offering nothing season after season. When will enough be enough?

bad2dabone

There's no way diaby should be offered a contract. End of.

Nice guy, good player, I admire his mental strength. But he's a crock.

Seriously? We're still discussing whether or not Diaby should have a contract yet again?

omega man

Ox scores against Northern England ;-)