Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread Summer 2015

greendom

Be interesting to see if we're home or not in the league following the trips to Zagreb and Athens. Probably long away trips with a Saturday morning kick off !

RedemptionZ

Decent group. Second place shouldn't be too difficult and first up for grabs of the ball bounces right.

kronsington

should be getting through that group quite handy lads. maybe get a better draw in the L16 as well. I fer another all too familiar season ahead.

Odd comments from wenger re last minute striker solutions in the transfer windwow.

cson

greendom wrote: »

Be interesting to see if we're home or not in the league following the trips to Zagreb and Athens. Probably long away trips with a Saturday morning kick off !

Zagreb's about a 2h flight, Munich about 1.5h, Athens about 3.5h.

That's nothing tbh considering it'll all be done in a private chartered jet.

When you consider we could have been going to Russia, Ukraine, Israel or Kazakhstan :eek:

Ken Shamrock

greendom wrote: »

Be interesting to see if we're home or not in the league following the trips to Zagreb and Athens. Probably long away trips with a Saturday morning kick off !

Getting the excuses In early this year.

greendom

Ken Shamrock wrote: »

Getting the excuses In early this year.

You know me too well. I prep Arsene following every loss!

You wouldn't describe coming home on a Thursday morning to have to travel up North 1st thing Saturday as ideal though, would you ! For the supporters if nothing else!

gandalf

Yep not a bad group and at least they won't be racking up the air miles like Chelsea will be :P

cson

Love CL draw day btw (or as they call it in the Spurs and Liverpool threads; Thursday).

Always get the feeling that the season is properly kicking off now.

bad2dabone

Decent group. Should be great getting ko'd in the last sixteen again

gandalf

bad2dabone wrote: »

Decent group. Should be great getting ko'd in the last sixteen again

Ah well it gives us more money not to spend on transfers next year

bad2dabone

gandalf wrote: »

Ah well it gives us more money not to spend on transfers next year

Another win for Silent Stan!

brianregan09

So pardon my ignorance here but are Dinamo and Olympiacos any good , Obviously on paper there not going to look tough , But as we've found out in the past ...or been found out would be a better would

We have often lost and drew over in Greece against Pana and Olympiakos

Bayern is Bayern thats going to be tough, But maybe not as tough as it would was it a knockout tie

Alfred Borden

10 points from the 2 bottom teams and maybe a point against Munich should see us through in second. Nice to get a big team.

cson

No they aren't. We should be beating both home and away.

Probably want to be wary of Olympiacos as they beat both Atleti and Juve last year but a lot of their decent players from that team are gone (Afellay, Mitroglu and Santana).

Ken Shamrock

greendom wrote: »

You know me too well. I prep Arsene following every loss!

You wouldn't describe coming home on a Thursday morning to have to travel up North 1st thing Saturday as ideal though, would you ! For the supporters if nothing else!

Of course not, but you would except a CL team like ourselves to be able to deal with It considering we've been doing It for like 15 years straight.

As for the fans, If you can afford to go abroad to watch us play and then come back and see us In London well **** ya, ya rich bastard :pac:

Looper007

bad2dabone wrote: »

Decent group. Should be great getting ko'd in the last sixteen again

We'll finish second for sure that's if we turn up (it's really sad to say it, that we have to worry if the side turn up and are ready to give it a go), we won't be beating Bayern in either games. So its important we get 12 points from the 4 other games. Get second and as you said get knocked out in the last sixteen. I rather we gave the League a go this year, with no signings more then likely not coming in. We can't be fighting over two fronts, the side isn't strong enough.

efb

Bayern delighted with the draw- can't blame them!

gosplan

If Monaco are out, we should really move for Martial ... Or someone else similar.

Not world class but bags of potential. We won't be shopping in a bracket above that for a few years IMO.

Looper007

efb wrote: »

Bayern delighted with the draw- can't blame them!

They should be, should be coming out of that group with 18 points.

csallmighty

Going to be a fun group. It will be a big task for Coquelin and the defensive system to get at least 1 or 2 points off Bayern. Im confident that they can get enough points off the other two teams to qualify (most likely 2nd)

symbolic

Ken Shamrock wrote: »

As for the fans, If you can afford to go abroad to watch us play and then come back and see us In London well **** ya, ya rich bastard :pac:

Just become a rich bastard! Don't settle for any less


Does anyone know when they release the fixtures?

brianregan09

I think we'll beat Bayern in one of the games

Don't know why we couldn't beat Bayern in one leg. Pretty sure last 4 matches against them has been 1 win where we hammered them 2-0, 1 draw and 2 losses.

Alfred Borden

Too early to call it a season defining couple of weeks?

https://twitter.com/DeanLDN22/status/636956961842589696

cson

Bayern haven't beaten us at their place since 2005 :pac:

Nothing to fear.

Marty McFly

I'm delighted with the draw playing Bayern at least we have good games to look forward to, think we'll take points off them to in at least one the games.

symbolic

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Too early to call it a season defining couple of weeks?

https://twitter.com/DeanLDN22/status/636956961842589696

How do they know this?

Alfred Borden

symbolic wrote: »

How do they know this?

Fixtures are in. Bayern at home for the last game, Olympiakos at home for the first game.

symbolic

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Fixtures are in. Bayern at home for the last game, Olympiakos at home for the first game.

Ah cool, could you link me to them?

Alfred Borden

symbolic wrote: »

Ah cool, could you link me to them?

Here you go man



Which is very different to that tweet!haha

symbolic

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Here you go man



Which is very different to that tweet!haha

Is that official ? Not doubting you but...

Alfred Borden

symbolic wrote: »

Is that official ? Not doubting you but...

Bayern put this up

http://www.fcbayern.de/en/news/news/2015/champions-league-group-stage-draw-270815.php

But this was taken at Uefa, so Ill guess the picture one is more reliable :pac:

wawaman

Yeah it's confirmed we play Zagreb away first, then the rest as the picture above

Alfred Borden

And its official Looks like Bayern had it wrong :pac:

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20150827/arsenal-learn-champions-league-group

symbolic

Alfred Borden wrote: »

And its official Looks like Bayern had it wrong :pac:

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/20150827/arsenal-learn-champions-league-group

Now I believe!

Alfred Borden

symbolic wrote: »

Now I believe!

Fixtures worked out well! We always end up finishing our group out in Turkey and Greece :pac:

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Mmm Turkey grease.

Cmon Wenger. Sign Lewendowski then let him help us beat Munich home and away.

emmetlego

Great piece by Tim Stillman
http://p1r.es/1hhHrnD
Explains transfer season very well for Arsenal fans!

wandatowell

Wtf is going on with the draw being on a Thursday???

emergingstar

emmetlego wrote: »

Great piece by Tim Stillman
http://p1r.es/1hhHrnD
Explains transfer season very well for Arsenal fans!

This is soooooooo good

brianregan09

Fantastic read

Pierce_1991

Anyone know can Red members get tickets for European games? That Munich home match is looking tasty...

gandalf

emmetlego wrote: »

Great piece by Tim Stillman
http://p1r.es/1hhHrnD
Explains transfer season very well for Arsenal fans!

Dammit that makes too much sense. We can't have that sort of talk around here, it ruins the entertainment value of the thread

Gonna win the league

I love how people use "oil money" as an excuse yet aren't bothering to mention how things have changed since our last title wins.

greendom

Deleted User wrote: »

I love how people use "oil money" as an excuse yet aren't bothering to mention how things have changed since our last title wins.

We have you for that !

(Although I must admit, I'm not actually sure what you mean) - care to expand?

greendom

greendom wrote: »

We have you for that !

(Although I must admit, I'm not actually sure what you mean) - care to expand?

Back then we competed against one team so maybe the "cohesion" argument would make sense. Now there's also "oil money" to compete against.

I don't particularly buy it anyway, we had "cohesion" last season and dropped 2 points and lost to Monaco.

symbolic

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

Anyone know can Red members get tickets for European games? That Munich home match is looking tasty...

It is isn't it!

Buttonftw might know

Fuzzy_Dunlop

emmetlego wrote: »

Great piece by Tim Stillman
http://p1r.es/1hhHrnD
Explains transfer season very well for Arsenal fans!

Tim's articles are always fantastic, he talks a lot of sense generally and is very good at analysing things rationally. Whether or not you agree with him, it's hard to disregard his thoughts especially when he provides so much context.