Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2018

keano_afc

Anyone following the AGM? A spicy meatball indeed.

beer enigma

keano_afc wrote: »

Anyone following the AGM? A spicy meatball indeed.

Nah same old stuff spouted, was more interested in a couple of newspaper headlines...

"Arsenal could complete a double swoop of Ajax's top two stars, Kasper Dolberg and Matthijs de Ligt, ahead of Barcelona if they appoint Marc Overmars as their new sporting director."

And

"Arsenal have reportedly struck a deal to bring influential Barcelona chief Raul Sanllehi to the Emirates."

Knex*

This was posted over on Reddit. Thought ye might enjoy.

https://streamable.com/vv5d2

"The tape Giroud can show his grandchildren"

yknaa

beer enigma wrote: »

Nah same old stuff spouted, was more interested in a couple of newspaper headlines...

"Arsenal could complete a double swoop of Ajax's top two stars, Kasper Dolberg and Matthijs de Ligt, ahead of Barcelona if they appoint Marc Overmars as their new sporting director."

And

"Arsenal have reportedly struck a deal to bring influential Barcelona chief Raul Sanllehi to the Emirates."

Getting misty-eyed thinking of Marc Overmars returning to the club. Right up there as my favorite Arsenal player.

emmetlego

Tim Stillnan’s report into the AGM is shocking. It’s up on Arseblog for those that haven’t seen it. Shows how much contempt the board and Kronke has for us supporters and indeed the shareholders! Club is a shambles.

Link here, to save anyone looking for it. I stopped reading Tim Stillman's stuff a good while ago as I felt he was trying too hard to be a clever wordsmith....this is an easy enough read, though.

In reality, the events of the other day won't have any impact. Still pretty embarrassing for the club/owners.

http://news.arseblog.com/2017/10/arsenal-2017-agm-the-chips-are-down/

tayto lover

The article shows how impossible it is to get rid of this shower.
We are in big trouble as a football club but as a business we're flying.

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/924259503788478464

Same lineup. Just gotta find a way to watch it now.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Just heard on the radio we're after winning every single game this season at home in all competitions..I didn't realise that.

Fortress Ashburton Grove?

Hunky Monster

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Just heard on the radio we're after winning every single game this season at home in all competitions..I didn't realise that.

Fortress Ashburton Grove?

Yeah, we have the best home record of all teams since the start of the year.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Basil3 wrote: »

Yeah, we have the best home record of all teams since the start of the year.

I don't like your positivity.

Wenger out.

Gizmo55

Merse giving it loads on SSN. He’s spot on.

tayto lover

Very good minutes silence, barely a sound.
We get an early free kick in a great position to put in a good cross and we kick it back to the CB ???

tayto lover

Useless feckin stream.

Shocking.

tayto lover

Our porous defence and keeper strikes again.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Lol

wandatowell

Boring ****e so far.

tayto lover

The snail's pace build ups are ruining us.
Far too lateral and slow.
Allows them loads of time to cover back.

Royale with Cheese

Booooooooo etc.

Soups123

Should be two down.

Shocking half and performance at home. On the back of Spurs losing today we should have been well up for this.

Swansea have the beating of this team every time which is a shocking indictment of Wenger 'tactics' approach to games

Alfred Borden

Hate this formation

wandatowell

Sooooo sloooooooooow.

Skylinehead

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Hate this formation

It's grand in big games for the most part, but absolutely no need for 3 CBs against Swansea.

Good man, Kolasinac. Let's keep it going now.

Urgh, they sliced us open and could have been 2-1 up. Ridiculous stuff.

Royale with Cheese

Can anyone else see what Xhaka is doing to keep Wilshere out of the team? Surely he's worth a shot now at this stage.

tayto lover

We keep giving the ball away too easily.
Should be putting these to the sword now.

pudzey101

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Can anyone else see what Xhaka is going to keep Wilshere out of the team? Surely he's worth a shot now at this stage.

prob injure him in training :pac::pac:

tayto lover

Very poor from Kos there. Easy chance.

2-1 Ramsey. Nice one.

tayto lover

Lovely goal :D
Quick ball the secret.

Soups123

Great response

emmetlego

Good 2nd half so far. Could do with a few more goals to boost the + difference on the table and need to boost morale by putting these to the sword.

One thing I liked about Ramsey's goal is that he took it nicely with his wrong foot.

Sanchez there with the outside of his right foot does my head in. You're a professional footballer, if you're that much worse with one foot than another, then practice!

Really hope Kolasinac isn't injured.

tayto lover

Is this going to end 2 all?
We are letting them back into it here.

Skylinehead

Ah 4th. We're home :cool:

greendom

Mot a great performance but I'll take the win against a team we often struggle against.

Main worry is the injury to Kolasinac

wandatowell

Looked stronger in the 2nd half. Happy with the 3pts

tayto lover

We're not putting games to bed when we're well on top.
Job done though even if we looked edgy enough near the end.

KaiserGunner

Yeah a win is a win, so I’ll take it. Obviously there is a lot of improvement to make. Big game now next week away to Man City, will be a massive test to get anything from there.

Wheeliebin30

This place goes eerily quite when we win...

Alfred Borden

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

This place goes eerily quite when we win...

Speaking for myself, a win just doesnt feel the same anymore. The joy has been sucked out of following Arsenal and its just not fun anymore.

CatInABox

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Speaking for myself, a win just doesnt feel the same anymore. The joy has been sucked out of following Arsenal and its just not fun anymore.

Indeed, I feel like "what's the point?" This victory is just holding off another inevitable ludicrous defeat to a team we should be annihilating. The season isn't half way done yet and we're in a dogfight for fourth at best.

I know other teams supporters would love to have the problems that Arsenal have, but I can't help but feel that we should be competing in the league, we should be winning it.

Wheeliebin30

Still a good win.

Hopefully Sanchez starts scoring again, seems to be trying too hard at the moment.

Wheeliebin30

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Still a good win.

Hopefully Sanchez starts scoring again, seems to be trying too hard at the moment.

Yeah...pretty sure our 3 highest scorers this season so far are Lacazette, Welbeck and Ramsey.

KaiserGunner

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Speaking for myself, a win just doesnt feel the same anymore. The joy has been sucked out of following Arsenal and its just not fun anymore.

The next two league games though will tell a lot. Man City away and then Spurs at home. Wins in them and it becomes fun again.

tayto lover

KaiserGunner wrote: »

The next two league games though will tell a lot. Man City away and then Spurs at home. Wins in them and it becomes fun again.

I really hope i'm wrong but I just can't see us winning either. We are far too stop / start, like yesterday we had loads of possession in the first half but were content to play sideways or even backwards when in good positions. We have lost the speed in attack. It was a bit better in the second half alright as we became more anxious to score.
I think City will win the title with Spurs second.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

I can't see anything other than a 3 or 4 goal win by city next. We're a mediocre team at the moment. City will win handy.

emmetlego

tayto lover wrote: »

I think City will win the title with Spurs second.

Agree with all your post, except the bit above. Yes City should win it outright, but I can see Spurs having a problem, especially so if Harry Kane is sold on to Real Madrid, which is probable! Spurs have only played 2 teams from the top 6 so far, and lost 1-0 to one of them last Saturday.