Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016

sonic85

Seen martin keown in a shop earlier - made my day! Legend

keano_afc

sonic85 wrote: »

Seen martin keown in a shop earlier - made my day! Legend

I met him in Oxford castle a few years back. Top bloke, even slagged my nephew for being a Liverpool fan.

Bobby Baccala

Mr Blobby wrote: »

So Di Marzio confirmed that Arsenal are interested in Álvaro Morata but it will rely on Madrid's buy-back clause.
Can't say i'm too excited about the thought of signing him. He's not much better than Giroud.

Morata is far better and far younger than Giroud, this "not much better than Giroud" line gets thrown around in this thread way too often.

Also I wouldn't listen to a word out of Di Marzio

We're 6/1 to win the league. Even the most optimistic among us thinks they're unfair odds. I'd say we should be about 10/1 as fair. God 4 more points and we'd be money-on.

L'prof

[Deleted User] wrote: »

We're 6/1 to win the league. Even the most optimistic among us thinks they're unfair odds. I'd say we should be about 10/1 as fair. God 4 more points and we'd be money-on.

I dunno, Spurs have only dropped 3 less points and they're 5/2. Should they be longer odds too? Should Leicester be shorter than 8/13?

wonga77

I dont think id be even slightly tempted by 10/1

L'prof

L'prof wrote: »

I dunno, Spurs have only dropped 3 less points and they're 5/2. Should they be longer odds too? Should Leicester be shorter than 8/13?

Well this is it. We've the easiest fixtures but we're too far back. Bear in mind every prediction you do for Leicester, you've been wrong every time so far

runnerholic

keano_afc wrote: »

A collapse by Leicester and the Spuds cant be ruled out. The likelihood of us being able to capitalise on it is very small though.

I think this title race will go to the last day and we will be in with a shout.

Ol' Donie

runnerholic wrote: »

I think this title race will go to the last day and we will be in with a shout.

This is it. Last day home to the Villa.

Anyone who thought they'd seen "Peak Arsenal" ain't seen nothin yet.

emmetlego

Very insightful and well written by Tim Stillman on Arseblog. Well worth a read:
http://arseblog.com/2016/03/iwobi-trick/

runnerholic

runnerholic wrote: »

I think this title race will go to the last day and we will be in with a shout.

Welbeck....charging through the midfield........ITS UP FOR GRABS NOOOWWWWWW!!

wawaman

Deleted User wrote: »

Welbeck....charging through the midfield........ITS UP FOR GRABS NOOOWWWWWW!!

Oh no! He's pulled his hamstring! And the ref blows for full time, a heartbreaking draw for Arsenal.

L'prof

Deleted User wrote: »

Welbeck....charging through the midfield........ITS UP FOR GRABS NOOOWWWWWW!!

Sorry, but Villa have absolutely no chance of being in the mix at that stage of the season. The highest they can finish is 14th!

I'll get my coat!

gosplan

We have to win our next 4 (Watford, West Ham, Palace, Brom).

Then we'd be on 67.

In the same time Leicester play Southampton, Sunderland, West Ham.

If they picked up 4 points there, they'd be on 70 and under massive massive pressure.

But if they get through those, they can afford a couple of losses in the last 4 games.

Really 2 of Saints, Sunderland, Ham have to take points off them while we win 4 from 4.

6-1 is insane. I'd say like 20.

Quazzie

gosplan wrote: »

We have to win our next 4 (Watford, West Ham, Palace, Brom).

Then we'd be on 67.

In the same time Leicester play Southampton, Sunderland, West Ham.

If they picked up 4 points there, they'd be on 70 and under massive massive pressure.

But if they get through those, they can afford a couple of losses in the last 4 games.

Really 2 of Saints, Sunderland, Ham have to take points off them while we win 4 from 4.

6-1 is insane. I'd say like 20.

Our next 4 games, we've already lost to 2 of these already this season. Whatever happens anywhere else, we won't be winning our next 4.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Lads, for the last time. The league is over, stop tormenting yourselves.

gosplan

The Hunky Monster wrote: »

Lads, for the last time. The league is over, stop tormenting yourselves.

Not over. We need everything to go right in the next 2/3 games.

If it doesn't, it's over then.

Now it's very unlikely.

I'm really looking at Leicester's next match against Southampton. I'll still hope unless they win that game. Then I'd be calling it.

Mr.Micro

The Hunky Monster wrote: »

Lads, for the last time. The league is over, stop tormenting yourselves.

Agree. I will eat my proverbial hat if I am wrong. It is most likely Leicester, Spurs may well nick it. We need to get real and watch our back to at least have CL football.

gosplan

Quazzie wrote: »

Our next 4 games, we've already lost to 2 of these already this season. Whatever happens anywhere else, we won't be winning our next 4.

I never said otherwise.

But would you lay a 20-1 bet?

DenMan

Sanchez starved of any ball really last night. Vidal a huge loss for Chile. Well done Argentina.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35898290

Bobby Baccala

In terms of replacements for Arsenal what would be the general consensus here on Bilic? I'd have no problem with him taking over at Arsenal after seeing how hes done with West Ham. A hard case who knows how to play quality attacking football and has shown he isn't afraid to spend a few quid. I think he'd be a very apt appointment.

newbie2

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

In terms of replacements for Arsenal what would be the general consensus here on Bilic? I'd have no problem with him taking over at Arsenal after seeing how hes done with West Ham. A hard case who knows how to play quality attacking football and has shown he isn't afraid to spend a few quid. I think he'd be a very apt appointment.

Agreed,
been a fan of his for a while

Quazzie

gosplan wrote: »

I never said otherwise.

But would you lay a 20-1 bet?

Probably not, but more so because I'm tight bastard than anything else.

gosplan

Quazzie wrote: »

Probably not, but more so because I'm tight bastard than anything else.

Yeah. I'd even have trouble backing them at that.

Obv you could lay it but I can't see it happening.

Like I said, any tiny hope we have will either be extinguished or ignited after the Southampton game.

greendom

Apparently Ospina played very well for Colombia last night, but he picked up a knock and had to be helped off the field at full time.

Have to say he's done really well, much better than I expected since Cech got injured. Would rather Cech in goal of course, but we haven't missed him much imo.

Anyone have any news on the Cech injury? - will be very bad news if they're both out for any period of time.

Boskowski

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Morata is far better and far younger than Giroud, this "not much better than Giroud" line gets thrown around in this thread way too often.

Also I wouldn't listen to a word out of Di Marzio

Agreed. Better or not better who knows. He's not a mug though. For 60+ minutes Bayern were absolutely not able to contain him. I know the didn't score but he should have and he ran riot in the Bayern defence. Actually taking on 1 or 2 players and still getting crackers away that Neuer had real work to do with.

I know that doesn't make him a better player than Giroud or anything but he looked a handful and very competent at that level. Which is no small thing. I remember thinking during that game this is not the first time this guy is catching my eye. Thats exactly the kind of player Arsenal should be looking at.

Alfred Borden

14 goals in 57 games for Juve since he moved there. Id rather go with Welbeck next season.

tayto lover

Alfred Borden wrote: »

14 goals in 57 games for Juve since he moved there. Id rather go with Welbeck next season.

Don't worry you'll get your wish.

Alfred Borden

tayto lover wrote: »

Don't worry you'll get your wish.

There league games in fairness so I'm doing him an injustice, he has 25 in 86 games for them. Im usually all for splashing the cash on new players but he would be an absolute waste.

king Henry 14

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

In terms of replacements for Arsenal what would be the general consensus here on Bilic? I'd have no problem with him taking over at Arsenal after seeing how hes done with West Ham. A hard case who knows how to play quality attacking football and has shown he isn't afraid to spend a few quid. I think he'd be a very apt appointment.

What about koeman. Has done a great job at Southampton even with the players they seem to lose every summer. Can organise his team very well which is something we could do with and would have the respect of the players with all he achieved in his playing career.

Bobby Baccala

king Henry 14 wrote: »

What about koeman. Has done a great job at Southampton even with the players they seem to lose every summer. Can organise his team very well which is something we could do with and would have the respect of the players with all he achieved in his playing career.

Definitely, we'd be laughing if we got Koeman

Bobby Baccala

Alfred Borden wrote: »

There league games in fairness so I'm doing him an injustice, he has 25 in 86 games for them. Im usually all for splashing the cash on new players but he would be an absolute waste.

He has 10 goals in 11 league starts this season which isn't bad at all. Have you actually seen him play at all this season or are you judging him purely on stats?

runnerholic

king Henry 14 wrote: »

What about koeman. Has done a great job at Southampton even with the players they seem to lose every summer. Can organise his team very well which is something we could do with and would have the respect of the players with all he achieved in his playing career.

I wouldn't get rid of Wenger for Bilic or Koeman. If he has to go, Ancelloti or Simeone are the only two with the pedigree to replace him. If we can't get either of those then I say stick.

Bobby Baccala

runnerholic wrote: »

I wouldn't get rid of Wenger for Bilic or Koeman. If he has to go, Ancelloti or Simeone are the only two with the pedigree to replace him. If we can't get either of those then I say stick.

You mean Ancelloti that's on his way to Bayern and Simeone who doesn't look like leaving Atletico any time soon?

Alfred Borden

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

He has 10 goals in 11 league starts this season which isn't bad at all. Have you actually seen him play at all this season or are you judging him purely on stats?

Seen him about five times this season coupled maybe with ten other times over the last few seasons and really dont think he is anything special and certainly not worth 40 million. Hes not good enough to be a full time starter for Juve with Dybala there and I dont think he is for us either. Id rather we went for Higuain like we should have done last summer.

Alfred Borden

Xhaka playing in the game later on.

extra gravy

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Xhaka playing in the game later on.

Was looking for a reason to watch it cheers

Bobby Baccala

Giroud grabs himself a goal for France against Netherlands

greendom

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

Giroud grabs himself a goal for France against Netherlands

Nicely finished too, on the volley. Quite a difficult finish that he made look easy. Griezemann got the first. Love to see him playing for Arsenal!

emmetlego

Anyone know where I can get the "Cech 33" goalkeeper jersey/kit (home) for a kid? There's no home goalkeeper jersey available on Arsenal.com and my neighbour's kid wants one for his birthday and the poor old sods don't want to disappoint him. It's partially my fault he like Arsenal, so I feel guilty!

greendom

greendom wrote: »

Nicely finished too, on the volley. Quite a difficult finish that he made look easy. Griezemann got the first. Love to see him playing for Arsenal!

Giroud gets alot of flak but there is no way id have him as the poster boy for this seasons failure. Bully on AF tv is dead against him but tbh he throws himself about at least. I personally wouldnt get rid of him. He is an excellent squad option and has a brilliant attitude.

tayto lover

Deleted User wrote: »

Giroud gets alot of flak but there is no way id have him as the poster boy for this seasons failure. Bully on AF tv is dead against him but tbh he throws himself about at least. I personally wouldnt get rid of him. He is an excellent squad option and has a brilliant attitude.

I like him but he does miss a lot of chances.
What annoys me is his staring up at the sky with his hands on his head every time he misses. I roar at the tv.

tayto lover

tayto lover wrote: »

I like him but he does miss a lot of chances.
What annoys me is his staring up at the sky with his hands on his head every time he misses. I roar at the tv.

At least he shows something resembling frustration. It would be worse if he started ROFLLING all over the place

He has hit near or over the twenty mark every season without fail. While it isn't mercurial stuff, its pretty impressive all the same. He even managed 19 last season despite being missing 3 months

gosplan

Deleted User wrote: »

Giroud gets alot of flak but there is no way id have him as the poster boy for this seasons failure. Bully on AF tv is dead against him but tbh he throws himself about at least. I personally wouldnt get rid of him. He is an excellent squad option and has a brilliant attitude.

I'd be curious too see his conversion rate in comparison to other strikers.

My feeling is he's not that bad but he's not great either. Doesn't create stuff for himself and finishing isn't fantastic.

However for that awful Jan/Feb run, my memory is that we just stopped creating chances full stop. Like there was no finishing to be done.

I'm really not sure of all the reasons for that but it's all on Wenger.

I feel a more rounded striker may have carried us a bit more than Giroud but it's unreasonable to put it all on Giroud.

emmetlego

emmetlego wrote: »

Anyone know where I can get the "Cech 33" goalkeeper jersey/kit (home) for a kid? There's no home goalkeeper jersey available on Arsenal.com and my neighbour's kid wants one for his birthday and the poor old sods don't want to disappoint him. It's partially my fault he like Arsenal, so I feel guilty!

Other than Aliexpress, id say your out of luck in terms of looking at the mainstream sport sites. Im sure a young kid wouldnt know the difference if it came from aliexpress and it would come for half the price then from one of the main Rip-ublic off ireland retailers

The Hunky Monster

The Hunky Monster wrote: »

Lads, for the last time. The league is over, stop tormenting yourselves.

we joke ffs. If you havent developed a sense of humour after all these years of following the Arsenal then what the hell else is left.

gosplan

gosplan wrote: »

I'd be curious too see his conversion rate in comparison to other strikers.

My feeling is he's not that bad but he's not great either. Doesn't create stuff for himself and finishing isn't fantastic.

However for that awful Jan/Feb run, my memory is that we just stopped creating chances full stop. Like there was no finishing to be done.

I'm really not sure of all the reasons for that but it's all on Wenger.

I feel a more rounded striker may have carried us a bit more than Giroud but it's unreasonable to put it all on Giroud.

I agree with you tbh. Im not saying he's top class but he is a very good squad player. To be honest though i would doubt he knows his luck being number 1 striker at Arsenal for so long.

wawaman

wawaman wrote: »

Oh no! He's pulled his hamstring! And the ref blows for full time, a heartbreaking draw for Arsenal.

ha ha ya aul negative b@stard

x PyRo

Giroud also did this. The sexy bastard.

https://twitter.com/FutballTweets/status/713478227415670784

Alfred Borden

Alfred Borden wrote: »

14 goals in 57 games for Juve since he moved there. Id rather go with Welbeck next season.

He has good all round vision and hold up play id say but im literally judging him on one lay off against Bayern.