Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2016/2017

domrush

gosplan wrote: »

I get ya but Spurs can't buy a goal st the moment.

I'd focus on being really solid in the middle rather than creative and rely on Ozil, Sanchez and Wally to get a goal or two from somewhere.

I'd nearly drop Iwobi if there was a better defensive option for that wing position.


It's crucial the way Spurs are defending that we don't concede.

If spurs can't score a goal all the more reason to play Caz. Also worried about Iwobi with Walker.

Gringo180

Form goes out the window in these derbies lads. Gonna be a tough game. If we can keep Eriksen quiet I think we will win. Hes Spurs best player imo.

gandalf

Jaysus I hope Mourinho isn't fired before we play United on the 19th

Gringo180

From Pat Rices book:


"Gervinho was bullied the most, three players Frimpong, Wilshire and Jenkinson all had warnings for calling him retardinho"

:pac: :pac:

Imagine Jenks calling you that when hes running around the pitch like Caesar from Planet of the Apes.

mansize

Gringo180 wrote: »

From Pat Rices book:


"Gervinho was bullied the most, three players Frimpong, Wilshire and Jenkinson all had warnings for calling him retardinho"

:pac: :pac:

Imagine Jenks calling you that when hes running around the pitch like Caesar from Planet of the Apes.

What utter scummy behaviour

emmetlego

Gringo180 wrote: »

From Pat Rices book:


"Gervinho was bullied the most, three players Frimpong, Wilshire and Jenkinson all had warnings for calling him retardinho"

:pac: :pac:

Imagine Jenks calling you that when hes running around the pitch like Caesar from Planet of the Apes.

Deplorable behaviour! I imagine Jack the lad was central to it!!!

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

gandalf wrote: »

Jaysus I hope Mourinho isn't fired before we play United on the 19th

Specialist in P45's.

Gringo180

emmetlego wrote: »

Deplorable behaviour! I imagine Jack the lad was central to it!!!

And Frimpong. No wonder he didnt make much of an impact under Wenger. Surprised at Jenks to be honest.

When I first read the story I thought it was fake.

brianregan09

Frimpong : let go by some league 1 team

Wilshire: let go to Bournemouth on loan

Jenkinson: Washing Bellerins Boots

Gervinho in china earning millions because the chinese are none the wiser I know who i'd rather be

brianregan09

brianregan09 wrote: »

Frimpong : let go by some league 1 team

Wilshire: let go to Bournemouth on loan

Jenkinson: Washing Bellerins Boots

Gervinho in china earning millions because the chinese are none the wiser I know who i'd rather be

Gervinho wasnt stupid enough to get caught smoking or get absolutely off his face in public.
Im kinda shocked with Jenks to be honest. Always seemed a nice lad. Probably led astray. The other two not so much though. Two tossers who will fall down the leagues like rocks in water. Jack is fairly rubbish for Bournemouth and Harry Arter is really outshining him.

Funnily i was thinking about Gervinho the other day, i always felt there was a good footballer inside there somewhere busting to get out. He had skill but mind and body werent in sync like they probably could be. He reminded me more of a kid than an adult playing. Unquestionable skills but lack of wisdom and coordination

Gringo180

Gringo180 wrote: »

Form goes out the window in these derbies lads. Gonna be a tough game. If we can keep Eriksen quiet I think we will win. Hes Spurs best player imo.

I would say of all the Eriksons, Kanes, Delli Allis, Diers, and whomever else Spurs have that Erikson is the most consistent player they have. The only lad id take for Arsenal tbh although we are stacked with top midfielders.

FixitFelix

Gringo180 wrote: »

Form goes out the window in these derbies lads. Gonna be a tough game. If we can keep Eriksen quiet I think we will win. Hes Spurs best player imo.

Hopefully he plays like he did the other night, couldn't pass the ball 5 yards. But yeah form is irrelevant in a derby they'll be well up for it. Although I think we should get the 3 pts

As long as Wenger can keep complacency at bay, which is my biggest fear, we should be ok.

It'll be an intense match as it generally always is.

Mickeroo

Traditionally the next two matches have been the types of matches that end runs of form like the one the team is currently on, be interesting to see how things play out. Sickened there's another international break in between. I reckon we're more likely to drop points against United than Spurs even though Spurs are much better.

greendom

Good news that Ozil has not been selected to play for Germany in the next international set of matches.

He totally deserves the break and it will do him good.

Ken Shamrock

If we could beat Spurs, Utd and PSG I will genuinely start to believe we have a chance this year.

Marcus Antonius

Ken Shamrock wrote: »

If we could beat Spurs, Utd and PSG I will genuinely start to believe we have a chance this year.

Me too, for the first time in years! That said I've no doubt we'll drop points, against Utd and their devil manager who holds a vodoo curse over us. Would love to be proven wrong. First and foremost gotta beat this lot on Sunday, that'd be a great start

I think I'm going to have to sign back up for BT/Eirsport on their current deal. Over the next couple of months they have our Tottenham, Everton and West Ham matches, as well as our Champion's League matches which are never chosen over whoever Celtic or City are playing.

On top of that, the All Blacks v Ireland tomorrow and McGregor next weekend. I tried to be strong, but they're sucking me back in, and HD beats dodgy streams every time.....

keano_afc

Ken Shamrock wrote: »

If we could beat Spurs, Utd and PSG I will genuinely start to believe we have a chance this year.

Nah I'm not going there again. I spent the entire Sunday evening after we beat Leicester back in February telling myself that we actually have a chance this year, we can do it. We promptly played like Sp*rs in the next 2 games and got our arses handed to us by United's youth team and Swansea. I'm too long in the tooth to start having expectations. If we're still within touching distance with 2 league games to go I might start to think we have a chance.

Dolph Starbeam

Marcus Antonius wrote: »

Me too, for the first time in years! That said I've no doubt we'll drop points, against Utd and their devil manager who holds a vodoo curse over us. Would love to be proven wrong. First and foremost gotta beat this lot on Sunday, that'd be a great start

I know it is a phrase that is over used but the United game will show the teams true character, we seem to have a kind of mental block when playing against both United and against Mourinho so it will be interesting to see how it goes. If we win that game it will show that we are a very realistic candidate for the title.

Sacksian

I can't believe people are tempting fate so publicly - it's the hope that will kill you! I just want to have 2 or 3 months without having that groundhog feeling of everything unravelling again. So, as a reverse jinx, I'm going with Arsenal to lose 56-3 on Sunday (several ogs, 2 sendings off with a Coquelin hat-trick in response).

Quazzie

Sacksian wrote: »

I can't believe people are tempting fate so publicly - it's the hope that will kill you! I just want to have 2 or 3 months without having that groundhog feeling of everything unravelling again. So, as a reverse jinx, I'm going with Arsenal to lose 56-3 on Sunday (several ogs, 2 sendings off with a Coquelin hat-trick in response).

I actually dreamt the other night we lost 9-4.

mansize

Quazzie wrote: »

I actually dreamt the other night we lost 9-4.

Don't eat cheese before bed!

Tempting fate? Didn't realise we had so many superstitious people on the forum

sReq | uTeK

Basil3 wrote: »

I think I'm going to have to sign back up for BT/Eirsport on their current deal. Over the next couple of months they have our Tottenham, Everton and West Ham matches, as well as our Champion's League matches which are never chosen over whoever Celtic or City are playing.

On top of that, the All Blacks v Ireland tomorrow and McGregor next weekend. I tried to be strong, but they're sucking me back in, and HD beats dodgy streams every time.....

Google ultimate mania:)

CatInABox

The Guardian have an article on "the evolution of Mesut Ozil", very good. Even the front page of the sport section is very good.

https://twitter.com/amylawrence71/status/794825930732634112

MonsterCookie

Agent Chambers doing his best to keep City at bay at the moment. It reminds me of the movie Zulu.

Awesomeness

MonsterCookie wrote: »

Agent Chambers doing his best to keep City at bay at the moment. It reminds me of the movie Zulu.

you had to jinx it

jamescd

Boro have equalised!!!

Arne_Saknussem

FT: City 1 - 1 Boro

CatInABox

That sets tomorrow up nicely now. It's turned into even more of a pressure game, a game that we've bottled in seasons gone. It'll tell us a lot about character of team now.

CatInABox

CatInABox wrote: »

That sets tomorrow up nicely now. It's turned into even more of a pressure game, a game that we've bottled in seasons gone. It'll tell us a lot about character of team now.

I sure hope that's not the mentality of the players.

mansize

Cheers Chambo!

Quazzie

Quazzie wrote: »

I actually dreamt the other night we lost 9-4.

Funny enough I dreamt Liverpool lost their next game 10-6

jamescd

Fecks sake, Chelsea 2 - 0 up already

jamescd

jamescd wrote: »

Fecks sake, Chelsea 2 - 0 up already

3 up and should be 5. Everton are beyond woeful

jamescd

Deleted User wrote: »

3 up and should be 5. Everton are beyond woeful

Yeah but Chelsea have been something else. All their players are on form.

Just glad we played them before they switched to this formation. I don't think we'd have put 3 goals past this Chelsea team.

jamescd

jamescd wrote: »

Yeah but Chelsea have been something else. All their players are on form.

Just glad we played them before they switched to this formation. I don't think we'd have put 3 goals past this Chelsea team.

They have come on an awful lot since then no doubt. They are playing well tonight to their credit. Interestingly he has Victor Moses playing alot of games

domrush

Az has been immense for them at the back

domrush

domrush wrote: »

Az has been immense for them at the back

5 up. thats some boost to the goal difference. Still 25 minutes left.... This could finish up ugly for the Toffees.

greendom

This made me laugh... #afc https://t.co/jHiqPC9x6J
(https://twitter.com/afcstuff/status/794998681598656513?s=09)

KaiserGunner

jamescd wrote: »

Yeah but Chelsea have been something else. All their players are on form.

Just glad we played them before they switched to this formation. I don't think we'd have put 3 goals past this Chelsea team.

Yeah but that's if my Aunty had......she would be my uncle stuff. We could easily say that if we had any of Koscielny, Mustafi, Mertesacker or Gabriel playing against Liverpool we wouldn't have shipped 4 goals, but you never know as that's what happened on the day. We beat Chelsea 3-0 and that flattered them on the day IMO. Fully deserved the win and doesn't matter how well they are now. That's just football. Beat Spurs tomorrow and we are looking great. No reason why Arsenal can't be up there and challenging for the league come May.

Nervous about today.

Everything's lined up in our favour.

Undefeated in a long while

A stronger team

At home

If it was us in Spuds position, I'd be raring to go. Derby's are crazy, form completely out the window.

And I hate 12 o'clock kick off's!!

Soups123

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Nervous about today.

Everything's lined up in our favour.

Undefeated in a long while

A stronger team

At home

If it was us in Spuds position, I'd be raring to go. Derby's are crazy, form completely out the window.

And I hate 12 o'clock kick off's!!

At least your confident

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/795219189392781312

Coq-Xhaka midfield

We have a nice bench, can mix things up if needs be.

greendom

Kate starting for Spurs. That has to be a gamble.

Dembele starting too but not Alli

KaiserGunner

Happy with that lineup. It's the one I'd have picked, obviously it's a pity Santi isn't fit. Then it's a coin flip between the Ox and Iwobi. First goal will be crucial in this I feel. Going for a 1-0 to the Arsenal.

Happy with that team. Hope xhaka doesn't lose the head. Bit worried about Kane and Son but I think the Kostafi axis of awesomeness will be ok.

Pudders

Just left the house walking to the ground. Coldest day of the year so far.

Hate 12/12.15 kick offs. Always seem to end up in boring draws.

3 points would be lovely. All my spurs friends very pessimistic. Think it's a trap.

COYG!

pudzey101

Why is elneny on the bench the coq is undroppable at the minute , but Xhaka is just back after his ban and is most likely to lose the head especially during a fiery derby game ?

mansize

pudzey101 wrote: »

Why is elneny on the bench the coq is undroppable at the minute , but Xhaka is just back after his ban and is most likely to lose the head especially during a fiery derby game ?

Rest?