So it begins...
Should have signed him back when we had the chance then, eh? Not enough change down the back of the sofa, I suppose.Quote:
Arsenal blow as Lyon forward Alexandre Lacazette agrees to join Atletico Madrid
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So it begins...
Should have signed him back when we had the chance then, eh? Not enough change down the back of the sofa, I suppose.Quote:
Arsenal blow as Lyon forward Alexandre Lacazette agrees to join Atletico Madrid
Should have signed Lacazette ages ago but instead we went for Welbeck. Had another opportunity last summer and we went for Lucas. Kill this thread. It doesn't matter who we sign. Wenger is a complete idiot. 16 goals from Giroud, 19 from Walcott and he's still playing Danny Welbeck. Even when having to scrape the quality barrel he makes the wrong decision.
Welbeck has not instincts needed for a striker. He stands there in the box, 1 yard out and is totally unprepared for the ball to come to him. How many outrageous swings and misses yesterday?. He is a good athlete and at least can run with the ball a bit. But hit a cross in to him from wide and 5 times out of 6 he will not get a hit on it. there are reflex trainings where people stand in front of lights and you are required to touch the light that comes on in front of you. racing drivers do this all the time. Danny should spend the next 3 months on this machine.
I really think we should go for Balotelli. There is a good striker in there, however the good striker is locked in a life or death battle with a raging psycho.
I was with you up until the Balotelli part, then it was just mental.
Balotelli? There's only one conceivable reason for bringing him in. He'd drive Wenger into a mental ward.
Lacks the instinct along with the technique. When in the box he reminds me of Gervinho and Sanogo. Bambi like. Very clumsy. In fact, I'd actually have more patience for Sanogo and Gervinho up front because their movement creates chances and helps link play with the other forwards and attacking midfielders. Welbeck moves more like Giroud up front. Very static and stays central but he's worse than Giroud because he'll cock up the rare opportunity he has on goal. Not only will he miss, he'll swing and miss the ball completely. Giroud isn't the most clinical but he won't screw up a simple tap in.
Balotelli is talented and seems to be dong ok in Italy but there is no way he could step into this sort of environment and have a positive impact. I once thought Arsenal had the right sort of environment for him this season has shown otherwise. It's been a car wreck. We don't have the characters or staff. But all this doesn't matter. Wenger can have the right players and stats staring him right in the face and he'll fuck it up.
Why is anyone surprised about Wellbeck not being a good goalscorer, he was hopeless at Man U and yet Wenger goes out and gets him because he's relatively cheap, sick of his cheap buys like Giroud, Wellbeck etc rather than spend it on someone top notch he goes for these nobodies who clearly don't have what it takes, if you do that it eventually comes back to bit you.
Lacazette is 10 times as good as any of our strikers out then Sanchez and we should have snapped him up a long time ago instead of going for cheap nobodies, let's be honest Mbappe and co is pure fantasy, if it wasn't before it will be now, I mean why would he sign for a club on it's way down like ours when he can have his pick of the best clubs in the world?
Yeah we're well and truly screwed thanks to Mr Wenger, he doesn't know the meaning of love for the club, the way he treats the fans is a disgrace and it frankly amazes me people still stick up for this chump and say he deserves respect for what he's done. He deserves zero respect now, he had respect but flushed it down the toilet with his behaviour, if he gets hounded out of the club few will be sorry.
Wenger saying we're only a couple signings away:
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1862/pre...d-to-challenge
Does the guy do it on purpose, he knows the fans aren't happy and as if to laugh in the face hints that he's staying and that we're not going to be very active this summer. Someone please tell the guy some home truths about what's wrong with this club, noone seems to ever say what the fans are thinking!
This is Wenger all over, half a dozen wins at the end of the season and he thinks we're good enough, embarrassing.
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“But first I think we have to keep 90 per cent of these players together and find one or two more who strengthen the group but we don’t need a lot. We don’t need many. But we need maybe top quality.”
Straight back into the routine without missing a beat :haha:
2% away :haha:
Ultimate wind up merchant. Has t be. Not even he can believe the same old shit year after year after year.
He's as predictable (and boring) as there is, he can't even come up with something original to feed the fans, same old same old, he's forgotten about the disaster than took place this season already thanks for a handful of meaningful games, you have to ask what's wrong with him.
We have a squad who should be challenging already so basically he's right. We're under-performing because of Wenger, not because the squad isn't good enough. It's not that far away.
He's not right at all, we need a top striker (we can't rely on dross like Walcott, Giroud and Wellbeck and Perez wil be gone), a quality winger (we need someone who can take on and beat players at long last), a proper DM (Xhaka isn't the answer, he can't tackle), a new CB (Mertersacker is finished, Gabriel isn't up to scratch) and LB (to replace Monreal and give us some decent cover as Gibbs is dogshite) at least. We'll need another keeper as well as Ospina will be on his way.
That's more than two right there, those results at the end of the season mean little, they were results when basically the pressure to achieve anything had gone, results we seem to get every season when it no longer matters.
Within that group of new players we need some leaders with a bit of bottle who are winners and don't go missing when things go against them like the current lot. Major surgery needed right now.
and yes we need a new manager as well, which looks more and more unlikely, that's on top of making changes to our youth setup, owner, medical team and losers mentality that runs through the club.
The club is in a mess from top to bottom right now, let's not pretend otherwise.
Exactly. How long has it taken him to switch to switch formation? But even when he does switch formation he plays the wrong combination of players or when he finally stumbled upon something that works, one injury to a key component sets us backwards. Over the past 4 or 5 seasons we've been heavily dependent on individual talent to get us over the line.
Again wrong, two signings won't be enough to challenge the big boys, we don't have enough quality, it's been demonstrated year after year. Take Sanchez out of the mix this year and we'd probably be in real trouble, we need more players who have the quality to win you matches.
Who are the "big boys". Leicester? Spurs? :lol:
We have plenty enough quality to be challenging them without any new signings. Bayern and Barca fine, we're nowhere near that quality, but let's address the immediate problem which is we're not competing in our own league.
We don't need more than a couple of signings, and a new manager, to put that right.
You know I thought this at the start of the season but right now I find it hard to judge the performance level of a lot of our players. Not only do I question the quality, but I question the mentality of a lot of the group. It will take a real hard lined manager to implement a winning mentality into a lot of our players, we're in a big mess right now IMO.
Agree about mentality but I think a change of manager can bring about a change of mentality.
Can but many of these players have been brought up with a losers mentailty, hard to change. Anyway I don't agree, this team isn't much cop for me, there's plenty that needs changing, the point is we're not just trying to win the league we're trying to build a team who can win the CL as well.
I'd personally change quite a lot, the style of play has to change to a pacier style as well.
Chelsea and the other big boys aren't going to stand still, they're going to go out there and sign top quality players to strengthen their position, two players definitely won't be enough, we'll get left behind like we have been in the past.
Knowing us we'll end up with dogshite 2nd rate players and watch the quality players move to other clubs, happens every season.
Most managers bring in a few players before their 1st season and don't often achieve success then, the following season they then add a few more and as the team takes the shape they want they become more successful. If we change manager I'm pretty sure changes in the team will be widespread in the next few years, no manager wants to inherit someone elses team and keep it that way.
I actually think most of the players we have, a better manager could be getting more out of them
Aside from left back which is a real weakness we have a good defence in personnel terms.
Both Ramsey and Xhaka have shown in the last few games they have more ability than they've shown most of the season. I actually think that would be a good midfield partnership (although both too slow to be used game in, game out).
I actually think the team doesn't need absolute route and branch change. Just doesn't need Wenger.
I agree, I don't actually think we will get back into top 4 until he is gone.
When the likes of Chelsea fell out of the top 4 they sacked their manager, they do not and will not accept failure, they are in it to win it. They put things right by strategically spending to resolve the issues in their team. When Conte was struggling at the start of the season after a couple of defeats against their rivals he changed formation and now they are champions, he wouldn't accept a sub-standard season, he made the necessary changes ASAP.
Levy at the Scum wasn't happy with his managers until they achieved regular top 4 finishes, he sacked manager after manager until he found Poch, he wasn't happy finishing outside of the Top 4.
Last season they got a taste of a title challenge and all their talk in the summer was of challenging for the title, they got laughed at but I know which team's position I'd rather be in right now. They are dissapointed they haven't won the title, let this sink in guys, the Spuds are dissappointed they didn't win the title.
Meanwhile at Arsenal we have Wenger telling everybody we had a good season because we surpassed our points tally of last season, it wasn't disastrous he said...we would have gone through against Bayern in CL he said if the 2 legs were over after 45 minutes. We only need two new players he said yesterday, the squad is fine, we have the quality. We play in difficult conditions he said, difficult conditions? You created this mess you stupid idiot...you created this hostile atmosphere by refusing to strengthen the team over various windows, by refusing to adapt, by refusing to listen to anyone and creating a culture at the club where you rule the roost and are surrounded by puppets, by people that are not allowed a voice.
Wenger makes me sick, I actually despise him.
Let the top signings begin!
http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...side-kas-eupen
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We've found our level.Quote:
Everton, Southampton and West Bromwich Albion were keen.