Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016

Bobby Baccala

Skylinehead wrote: »

Coquelin is suspended.

Is he suspended from both the league and the cup?

Skylinehead

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Is he suspended from both the league and the cup?

Yeah FA cup games are included.

tayto lover

5star02707 wrote: »

saw arteta on training pics too he could be on the bench tonight? If we somehow win tonight it'll be another FA Cup game on the weekends.

Arteta was a great player and one of my favourites. However he is past it now. The last time he played he looked like one of Fr Ted's over 70 team he has got so slow.

Quazzie

Is the match on TV?

jester77

Quazzie wrote: »

Is the match on TV?

Eurosport are showing it here in Germany, not sure if they have the same schedule in the UK

Pacifico

BT Sport 1

Ol' Donie

jester77 wrote: »

Eurosport are showing it here in Germany, not sure if they have the same schedule in the UK

Really? Oh, thank you for that. Great news.

Ol' Donie

Now, i don't care if some people are determined to run it down, 3 cups in a row would be magic.

Plus, I think we may have copped ourselves on against Spurs (Coq aside). I think the rest of this season is gonna be pretty good.*

Very much looking forward to tonight.







*not the CL. That doesn't count.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

tayto lover wrote: »

The Cup is no substitute for the League so I don't really care what team he sends out. The League is where it's at.
We will probably get a very strong team anyway as Wenger might think another Cup win will keep the fans off his back. It won't. though.

Lads. The league is gone. For us to win it we've to win 7 out of our last 9. That's even allowing for Leicester to lose 4 and win 5...bearing in mind Leicester have only lost two all season. Tottenham are most likely to catch them. Do you really think after everything we've seen this season that we are capable of winning 7 out of 9? That's best case scenario.

The league is gone. Let it go.

Ken Shamrock

The Hunky Monster wrote: »

Lads. The league is gone. For us to win it we've to win 7 out of our last 9. That's even allowing for Leicester to lose 4 and win 5...bearing in mind Leicester have only lost two all season. Tottenham are most likely to catch them. Do you really think after everything we've seen this season that we are capable of winning 7 out of 9? That's best case scenario.

The league is gone. Let it go.

I see what you're trying to do here

I agree, the league Is over, we have no chance.

omega man

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Now, i don't care if some people are determined to run it down, 3 cups in a row would be magic.

Plus, I think we may have copped ourselves on against Spurs (Coq aside). I think the rest of this season is gonna be pretty good.*

Very much looking forward to tonight.







*not the CL. That doesn't count.

Of course it would be, normally. Not if Leicester or worse, Spurs win the title. FA cup will mean sweet FA (pun intended!) in that scenario.

tayto lover

The Hunky Monster wrote: »

Lads. The league is gone. For us to win it we've to win 7 out of our last 9. That's even allowing for Leicester to lose 4 and win 5...bearing in mind Leicester have only lost two all season. Tottenham are most likely to catch them. Do you really think after everything we've seen this season that we are capable of winning 7 out of 9? That's best case scenario.

The league is gone. Let it go.

I've been saying it's gone for ages now. We were not playing well enough and consistent enough.

Ol' Donie

tayto lover wrote: »

I've been saying it's gone for ages now. We were not playing well enough and consistent enough.

Jesus, you say it every three posts!

tayto lover

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Jesus, you say it every three posts!

As opposed to your "Wenger is infallible" posts.:pac:

Ol' Donie

tayto lover wrote: »

As opposed to your "Wenger is infallible" posts.:pac:

Aye aye aye.

Not getting into now. Not infallible, but still the best man for the job, is what I would have said. And I still say that.

Can we agree we all love a daycent bag of bleedin Tayto? Can we agree on that?!

wandatowell

Ol' Donie wrote: »

but still the best man for the job, is what I would have said. And I still say that.

WHAT!?!?!?



But ya, lets not get into it.

greendom

tayto lover wrote: »

The Cup is no substitute for the League so I don't really care what team he sends out. The League is where it's at.
We will probably get a very strong team anyway as Wenger might think another Cup win will keep the fans off his back. It won't. though.

It's not a substitute. Still nice to win tho. Especially 3 in a row!

Cup is all there's left to play for. That's the best we can do in March apparently.

gosplan

The Hunky Monster wrote: »

Lads. The league is gone. For us to win it we've to win 7 out of our last 9. That's even allowing for Leicester to lose 4 and win 5...bearing in mind Leicester have only lost two all season. Tottenham are most likely to catch them. Do you really think after everything we've seen this season that we are capable of winning 7 out of 9? That's best case scenario.

The league is gone. Let it go.

I think we're at the stage where Leicester have to throw it away.

That said, one dodgy result for them in the next couple of games will heap pressure on. The problem is we need to take 3 points from every match and that's the unlikely bit.

But with my positive hat on, a slip would put pressure on Leicester and you could see easily how they'd have a wobble in the run in.

However with my realistic hat on. We could be playing a relegated team fielding teenagers on the last day and if it was for the title we'd find a way to blow it.

keano_afc

Thats the problem. The team dont have the belief. Even Sanchez said it.

Godge

gosplan wrote: »

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However with my realistic hat on. We could be playing a relegated team fielding teenagers on the last day and if it was for the title we'd find a way to blow it.

You've been studyng the fixture list, we've Villa at home on the last day, could be useful to make up goal difference.

Bobby Baccala

keano_afc wrote: »

Thats the problem. The team dont have the belief. Even Sanchez said it.

Any source for this? Be interested to see what he said.

DeclanRe

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Any source for this? Be interested to see what he said.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/03/alexis-sanchez-arsenal-lack-self-belief-premier-league-champions

Ol' Donie

Don't count us out of the league.

I might go and throw a tenner on a remarkable run of results leaving us only needing to draw with Villa at home to win the league.

And then losing.

Own goal most likely. Maybe a peno. Defo a red or two.

gosplan

gosplan wrote: »

I think we're at the stage where Leicester have to throw it away.

That said, one dodgy result for them in the next couple of games will heap pressure on. The problem is we need to take 3 points from every match and that's the unlikely bit.

But with my positive hat on, a slip would put pressure on Leicester and you could see easily how they'd have a wobble in the run in.

However with my realistic hat on. We could be playing a relegated team fielding teenagers on the last day and if it was for the title we'd find a way to blow it.

I still don't quite fancy Leicester to win it tbh.
At the same time, let's be "optimistic" and say we get 25/27 points for the rest of the season which would bring us to 77 points. For other teams to get there they need:
Leicester - 17/27
Spurs - 22/27
City 27/30

There has been absolutely nothing to suggest we're about to go on such a run of form and if we were to do so we need other teams not to have form. Us v City is the only match left among the top 4 so no 6 pointers or double-points dropped for the other side. 4th should be safe, 3rd is probably the height of what we can do, we'll need City to not find form for that to happen I think.

5star02707

Strong bench

Bobby Baccala

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

I'd like to see a lot of changes from Wenger tonight. The cup should not be our priority. I reckon we'll line up like this.

Ospina
Chambers Gab Mert Gibbs
Elneny Coq
Campbell iwobi Walcott
Giroud

Close enough

Flamini in for Coquelin as others said here.

Skylinehead

What is a "Chris Willock"?

tayto lover

5star02707 wrote: »

Strong bench

Can you bet on first substitute I wonder?

Ramsey for Walcott might be a good bet.

omega man

A positive result would be a another shot of confidence in what's going to be a tough league run in, not to mention ahead of that little game at the nou camp. 2 more wins and we're in Wembley and that's always a good thing in my book.

tayto lover

tayto lover wrote: »

Can you bet on first substitute I wonder?

Ramsey for Walcott might be a good bet.

60 minutes. :P

Quazzie

Deleted User wrote: »

60 minutes. :P

69 minutes. Wenger loves his sexual innuendos.

Classic Walcott

omega man

Good finish despite the offside

omega man

3000 Arsenal fans, fair fcuks to them

Quazzie

I hate this pitch. It's always destroyed. Kip

Basil3

Basil3 wrote: »

Classic Walcott

Quazzie

Quazzie wrote: »

I hate this pitch. It's always destroyed. Kip

Was actually gonna say it's like a rugby pitch even before I saw it...

Jesus Campbell and Chambers.

omega man

Rugby league played there

Quazzie

omega man wrote: »

Rugby league played there

How can the club ever aspire to play a better standard of football when they've to play on that. The ball can't even be played straight along the ground.

omega man

Ah Campbell that was poor

Quazzie

Quazzie wrote: »

How can the club ever aspire to play a better standard of football when they've to play on that. The ball can't even be played straight along the ground.

#MagicOfTheCup

omega man

omega man wrote: »

Rugby league played there

I'm a big Rugby League fan so my last comment was a tongue-in-cheek comment about a tongue-in-cheek comment I was going to make. :pac:

omega man

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'm a big Rugby League fan so my last comment was a tongue-in-cheek comment about a tongue-in-cheek comment I was going to make. :pac:

Sorry about that, awful sport. It's no Union........

omega man

omega man wrote: »

Sorry about that, awful sport. It's no Union........

You're right, the ball can stay in play for more than 20 seconds before someone kicks it into touch.

Bret Hart

How is the game playing out so far ?

Bret Hart

Bret Hart wrote: »

How is the game playing out so far ?

Arsenal with all the ball, doing nothing with it.

Seems familiar.

Why would they not put a bandage around Mert's head?

tayto lover

Tower 1 collides with Tower 10. Both down. Saw it before somewhere.