Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread Summer 2015

Ol' Donie

Think so. Looking forward to this. Get in Naysmith!

Ol' Donie

Jesus Christ we better turn up against these punks next week.

efb

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Think so. Looking forward to this. Get in Naysmith!

I was like, I haven't watched MOTD, we must have been on it!

Seeing the Expert in Losing this season is up first!

efb

The world is against Jose it seems...

Ol' Donie

The Newcastle game was on a Sat. But I didn't catch that MOTD if we were on it.

Anyway, it's not all about us today. That feckin computer, eh Jose?

keano_afc

How frustrating will it be when we dont turn up next week and hand Chelsea 3 points?

It's a game we should win but these are the kind of matches we tend to balls up.

Ol' Donie

This is a bit disappointing.

It seems us beating Chelsea in the Charity Shield was not the big deal I thought it was.

All you need is 11 players and a pitch to beat them these days

Ol' Donie

keano_afc wrote: »

How frustrating will it be when we dont turn up next week and hand Chelsea 3 points?

It's a game we should win but these are the kind of matches we tend to balls up.

Ah, jaysus.

We'll give them a proper go next week. We're better than we have been in years. They're much better than they've shown this season, but we'll give 'em a really good go.

Bring it on, I say.

Ol' Donie

Unfortunate for this Martial lad he won't be playing The Pool every week.

I can't believe we didn't beat them.

greendom

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Unfotunate for this Martial lad he won't be playing The Pool every week.

I can't believe we didn't beat them.

The loss of our centre back pairing at such short notice was the main reason for that imo

Ol' Donie

greendom wrote: »

The loss of our centre back pairing at such short notice was the main reason for that imo

And the fact that the only goal in the game was not allowed.

That's going to piss me off for years.

efb

Great shot by Kos

efb

Sweet sweet pass by Özil!

efb

Clever by Olivier

Woohoo! We won!

(I was doing Hell and Back today so missed everything!)

Woohoo! I'm alive!

Muirshin Durkin

Chuffed for Giroud after that crap week he had, needed that goal.

efb

Deleted User wrote: »

Woohoo! We won!

(I was doing Hell and Back today so missed everything!)

Woohoo! I'm alive!

Fair play

emergingstar

No way we're winning next week at the bridge

A dirty 0-0, or they will score late on, on the break

gosplan

emergingstar wrote: »

No way we're winning next week at the bridge

A dirty 0-0, or they will score late on, on the break

That's the spirit!

If we did win, it would be a massive result for both teams.

emergingstar

gosplan wrote: »

That's the spirit!

If we did win, it would be a massive result for both teams.

You think mourinho will even try attack bus will be parked big time, a draw won't be a bad result from them

emergingstar

Watched the game back

Bellerin is class, so so good

gosplan

emergingstar wrote: »

You think mourinho will even try attack bus will be parked big time, a draw won't be a bad result from them

They need points I think but they'll approach the game same as always. Try and keep it tight and nick a goal. But the longer it goes, the more they need to attack.

I think if we play the same, the onus is on them to come out.

Stat yesterday that the best a team with Chelsea's start have managed is 3rd. They're fast running out of wriggle room. The only way they could prosper this season is by replicating their form of last season from now till the end of the year and hoping we all do the same. But Utd look solid if perhaps unspectacular, we look better and have no injuries and City are practically out of sight for Chelsea already. Really every dropped point now cements a '4th place at best' season for Chelsea.

I'm not saying this is what will happen, but parking the bus will not do for them right now. They need to beat us.

Pudders

Well that was a strange one.
I reckon there could have been up to 10,000 seats empty in the ground especially upper tiers even though as usual a complete sell-out. The club need to do more with the ticket exchange.
Atmosphere relatively muted but no protests nor no wenger support chants.

Stoke were terrible. Also very unlike Stoke as with all these foreign recruits they tried to play football rather than kick us off the park.
We really should have won 4 or 5 nil. Both Theo and Giroud missed gilt edge chances.
Ramsey, Sanchez and Ozil all fairly poor but what a ball from Ozil for the goal.
Cech fapped at a few where I thought he should have done better and let them bounce off him but still strange to see him in goal for us.
The defenders were immense. Kos was awesome alongside Bellerin. Gabriel getting better by the week.
Coq was fabulous. I lost count the amount of times he tackled, blocked or intercepted Stoke. Good also to see Wenger decide to tighten things up bringing Arteta on - very un-Wenger like.
Main thing was 3 points and hopefully Theo and Oli get some confidence from the goals.
A happy crowd leaving the Emirates.

Now let's go and kill off the Maureen. 3 points nothing less please.

emergingstar

Just had a Utd fab compare Martial to Henry

Jesus

gosplan

Pudders wrote: »

Cech fapped at a few

Well that's hardly going to help keep them out!





One of the funniest mental images in a while though. Ball sailing into top corner, Cech watching it all the way but rooted to the spot fapping like crazy.

greendom

Pudders wrote: »

Well that was a strange one.
I reckon there could have been up to 10,000 seats empty in the ground especially upper tiers even though as usual a complete sell-out. The club need to do more with the ticket exchange.
Atmosphere relatively muted but no protests nor no wenger support chants.

Stoke were terrible. Also very unlike Stoke as with all these foreign recruits they tried to play football rather than kick us off the park.
We really should have won 4 or 5 nil. Both Theo and Giroud missed gilt edge chances.
Ramsey, Sanchez and Ozil all fairly poor but what a ball from Ozil for the goal.
Cech fapped at a few where I thought he should have done better and let them bounce off him but still strange to see him in goal for us.
The defenders were immense. Kos was awesome alongside Bellerin. Gabriel getting better by the week.
Coq was fabulous. I lost count the amount of times he tackled, blocked or intercepted Stoke. Good also to see Wenger decide to tighten things up bringing Arteta on - very un-Wenger like.
Main thing was 3 points and hopefully Theo and Oli get some confidence from the goals.
A happy crowd leaving the Emirates.

Now let's go and kill off the Maureen. 3 points nothing less please.

This has to be the priority for me over the next 7 days. In Croatia on Wednesday I'd be inclined to start Debuchy, Gibbs, Mertersacker (if fit) Arteta and the Ox to have has many players fresh for the Saturday am kick-off as possible

jpboard1

Looking for some help guys. Just wondering what the arsenal defence situation is now. Who is nailed on etc?

KaiserGunner

It's a real pain that we have Chelsea away in an early Saturday kick off, right after a Wednesday trip to Zagreb. Not ideal with very little time to prepare.

greendom

KaiserGunner wrote: »

It's a real pain that we have Chelsea away in an early Saturday kick off, right after a Wednesday trip to Zagreb. Not ideal with very little time to prepare.

At least Chelsea are playing Weds too - without the travel though unfortunately

Alfred Borden

Chelsea (A), Leicester (A) and United (H) are our next three in the league. What do we need from that? 7?

tayto lover

KaiserGunner wrote: »

It's a real pain that we have Chelsea away in an early Saturday kick off, right after a Wednesday trip to Zagreb. Not ideal with very little time to prepare.

The flight is only about 3 hours.
Travelling is not what it used to be and the players have 3 days until the Chelsea match.
Plenty of time to recover. Hope we incur no new injuries.
Agree with Greendom that we should use the squad on Wed.

tayto lover

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Chelsea (A), Leicester (A) and United (H) are our next three in the league. What do we need from that? 7?

We will probably only get 5 points from those games.
Draw with Chelsea and United and beat Leicester.
I'd like 9 though

Alfred Borden

tayto lover wrote: »

We will probably only get 5 points from those games.
Draw with Chelsea and United and beat Leicester.
I'd like 9 though

I'm weary of Chelsea next week but definitely think we should be aiming for 6 from the other two fixtures. United look alright, nothing special like ourselves at the moment but its at home and these are games we need to win. Leicester are playing well but would definitely think we can go and get three points there too.

tayto lover

Alfred Borden wrote: »

I'm weary of Chelsea next week but definitely think we should be aiming for 6 from the other two fixtures. United look alright, nothing special like ourselves at the moment but its at home and these are games we need to win. Leicester are playing well but would definitely think we can go and get three points there too.

Our track record against Chelsea and United is poor though.
We lost to a very poor United last season at home with a strong team out.
It seems to be a psychological thing.

Alfred Borden

tayto lover wrote: »

Our track record against Chelsea and United is poor though.
We lost to a very poor United last season at home with a strong team out.
It seems to be a psychological thing.

Hopefully the cup win might change that and Wenger getting the Mourinho monkey off his back will do us wonders. Id be less confident for Stoke away tbh then either of these teams right now :pac:

tayto lover

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Hopefully the cup win might change that and Wenger getting the Mourinho monkey off his back will do us wonders. Id be less confident for Stoke away tbh then either of these teams right now :pac:

We beat United in the CS last season but it made no difference in the league unfortunately.

greendom

tayto lover wrote: »

We beat United in the CS last season but it made no difference in the league unfortunately.

That was City and we beat them at the Ethiad too !

tayto lover

greendom wrote: »

That was City and we beat them at the Ethiad too !

Correct. We just can't seem to beat United though.

gosplan

tayto lover wrote: »

Our track record against Chelsea and United is poor though.
We lost to a very poor United last season at home with a strong team out.
It seems to be a psychological thing.

But we've drawn one and won two against those teams since.

tayto lover

gosplan wrote: »

But we've drawn one and won two against those teams since.

2011 since we beat Chelsea and United in the league.

gosplan

tayto lover wrote: »

2011 since we beat Chelsea and United in the league.

Granted but there's been a lot of progress against the big teams in the last year.

tayto lover

gosplan wrote: »

Granted but there's been a lot of progress against the big teams in the last year.

Hopefully we can continue to improve. We need to.

emergingstar

We should def use the squad Wednesday, the lads need a run out and we should still have a fairly strong team out

Looking forward to GAB and Costa battling on Saturday will be tasty

keano_afc

6 points would be acceptable. 3/4 are more likely.

I find reading this thread is a great cure for when I ever find myself in a good mood. The negativity of some people is positively contagious....turns me back into a miserable b*stard in no time

CatInABox

Have to admit, after the win I didn't think we'd finish the weekend behind Leicester.

Mr Blobby

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Giroud is gonna score. I can feel it in my bones.

Should have placed a bet.

Good performance overall.
Still can't help but feel Wenger ****ed up by not bringing in a forward. You look at Liverpool,Chelsea,Spurs and United and all of them are weak in a number of positions. The only position we're weak is CF and yet we didn't strengthen.

I'm liking the Kos - Gab partnership. Having another pacy defender beside Kos really lets him come forward without worrying what'll happen to Mert.

Don't really like Walcott as a striker. Yes, he scored but it took him 4 clear cut chances for him to do it. If all he offers is pace up front then why not just sign a pacy forward who is actually a striker.

gosplan

We are weaker than we'd like at CF but it's been one game since Wenger put his faith in Giroud and Walcott and they both scored.

Giroud needed that goal. Walcott needs a run of games at CF.

Royale with Cheese

Walcott just isn't a centre forward. I'd much rather Giroud was starting games to try and play himself into some kind of form. Having Welbeck as an option would be very handy right now but the injury record at the club is beyond a joke now.

tayto lover

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Walcott just isn't a centre forward. I'd much rather Giroud was starting games to try and play himself into some kind of form. Having Welbeck as an option would be very handy right now but the injury record at the club is beyond a joke now.

I think Walcott works against many teams.
Teams don't play a high line against us because of his speed onto a ball over the top. This allows our creative midfielders more room and more possession.
I would like to see him get a run of starts. I think his goal to chance ratio would increase with games.
He is a great option to have. I'd prefer him to Welbeck up front.