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Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
Footballers are guaranteed jobs after their playing career, no matter how much it would appear to be beyond them.
Gits.
Absolutely spot on from FrankQuote:
ARSENAL legend Frank McLintock has hit out at the Gunners after last-ditch panic talks to keep Theo Walcott.
McLintock, the skipper who lifted the Double at Highbury in 1971, is amazed that the club has got itself into another transfer mess.
Arsenal appear to have clung on to Walcott — for the time being at least — but their selling policy has left former Scottish centre-half McLintock perplexed and angry.
The shocking Emirates exodus is perfectly illustrated by the team photograph above, which was taken ahead of the Champions League quarter-final second-leg home clash with Villarreal on April 15, 2009.
Just THREE players, Walcott, Kieran Gibbs and Lukasz Fabianski, are still at Arsenal — while seven of the remaining eight stars have been flogged for a combined £145million.
Robin van Persie, Cesc Fabregas Samir Nasri, Alex Song, Kolo Toure, Emmanuel Adebayor and Emmanuel Eboue were all sold. Defender Mikael Silvestre was let go on a free in August 2010 by manager Arsene Wenger.
McLintock said: “The photo sums it up perfectly. There’s only three players left after only three years.
“You can’t keep changing your team every year and that’s what has been happening.
“It’s almost as though there has been a crisis every time the transfer window opens and I don’t think it’s fair to the supporters.
“We’ve always been two or three players from really challenging for the title but you can’t be changing most of your team every two years.
“When we’ve not spent money, the reason given is because we are still paying for the new stadium and everyone’s gone along with it.
“But how long do we have to wait until we say ‘Right, the debt’s cleared and now we can compete with City, Chelsea and United’?
“Arsenal fans would like to know whether the club will ever do that again.”
McLintock, 72, even doubts his own view that the Gunners can still be ranked among the world’s best teams.
He added: “I’ve always regarded Arsenal as one of the biggest clubs in the world but maybe I’m wrong now.
“We seem to be selling all the time, especially to Manchester and it’s something that myself and the supporters don’t like to see.
“Maybe times have changed in the last three or four years and we’re the also-rans fighting for fourth place behind United, City and Chelsea.
“We’ve sold for a lot of money and seemed to get players who are not quite as good as the ones who have left.
“You can’t keep on doing that all the time because supporters will get annoyed and wonder why.”
The move to the Emirates in 2006 is estimated to have cost Arsenal around £390m.
Financing the switch from Highbury has been blamed for the lack of investment in the squad.
McLintock said: “The Emirates was meant to help us compete with the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona but you can’t keep losing the players we’ve lost every year.”
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz24z0MA5PS
You can see hes hurting.
Why say that now? We lost our best players after Song and RVP left. Walcott is no worse than losing Vela. It shouldn't trigger this bullshit from a has-been.
Oh dear
Bullshit? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by V-Pig
Its facts.. shouldnt have moved out of Highbury tbh.. biggest mistake AFC ever committed. We are fucked!
The understanding of the situation from Frank is a bit simplistic, but in essence, he is only questioning what all gooners are questioning right now.
That said, FY, if you think staying at Highbury would have kept us in the title hunt, you're havin a fuckin laugh mate.
Rubbish. If we were still at Highbury we'd have even less chance of competing in the modern game.Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
Thank God we moved otherwise wed be competing with Spuds Westpam and Leyton orient for the olympic stadium. Some would say back to our roots. In fact the spuds would have even loved to pay us money to move out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
No our problems have little to do with the stadium move and more to do with the fact that we are managed by a bunch of pin headed amateurs.
There's no chance we'd be in the top 4 now if we stayed at Highbury because our revenue stream was dwarfed.
Frank McLintock is a moaning old girl. I remember watching him when he was on Soccer Saturday and he was moaning back then about Petit and Vieira. PETIT & VIEIRA!!
The bottom line is we've lost two world class players in RVP and Cesc and a very good player in Nasri. The rest of them were not good enough to win things IMO.
No way we'd be better off staying at Highbury we'd be spending even less then we fo now on transfers. The move was not the problem the planning was.Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
Where Wenger and the board went wrong was putting CL footie above a trophie and not going for both.
TBF to him he just wants to see Arsenal win a trophy and more importantly win the league and feels hurt by the way things are going. He is diffrent to the younger legends like Parlour/Winterburn who seem more calmer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
Well someone needs to tell him there's been a game changer - Oil money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
True, very true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-ne...walcott-179734Quote:
Stewart Robson believes Arsenal should cash in on Theo Walcott as he’s simply too inconsistent.
The England international looks set for a surprise move away from the Emirates after talks over a new deal at the club became deadlocked.
And ex-Gunners star Robson claims Arsene Wenger should get rid of the former Southampton man.
He told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast: “If you’re spending £75,000 a week on a player then you need him to be consistent, he needs to be one of your main players. I’m not sure Theo Walcott is that player.
“He’s been too inconsistent during his time at Arsenal. Is he getting better? Is he going to be a top class player? I’m not so sure.
“He’s at his best when the game is stretched and he can come on as an impact player, but you can’t pay an impact player £75,000 a week."
Manchester City and Liverpool have been linked with the 23-year-old and Robson believes the Gunners can cope should Walcott leave the club before the end of the transfer window.
“Arsenal could get a bit of money for him now,” he added. “I don’t think Walcott will be missed if he leaves.
“If I was the manager or on the board, I’d be looking to sell him anyway because I don’t think he’s improved during the time he’s been at Arsenal."
Read more at http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-ne...fvLcwsY4jDW.99
Robson :lol:
Can't really argue with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...r-arsenal-starQuote:
Former Arsenal midfielder Robert Pires is confident that all of the club's new signings will prove to be successful, and feels that Olivier Giroud can fill the void left by Robin van Persie.
With the Dutch striker now at Manchester United, the pressure is on attacking summer recruits Giroud, Lukas Podolski and midfielder Santi Cazorla to bring goals to the side.
The Gunners have so far drawn both of their opening two Premier League fixtures 0-0 against Sunderland and Stoke, but Pires is confident that with time and patience, Arsene Wenger's new additions will come good.
"It takes time to adapt, and it is especially hard for attacking players, but I am optimistic that both Giroud and Podolski can be a success," he told the Sunday Mirror.
"I have seen Giroud playing in France and he has the qualities you need in England. He is strong and he has a good touch. He can be like Van Persie in my opinion.
"Podolski is very mobile around the pitch and he is a Germany international with many caps. They will adapt. Santi Cazorla is someone I know well. He has adjusted to England very quickly and the fans will love him."
Arsenal have once again lost some of their biggest stars with both Van Persie and Alex Song moving on, but Pires believes that the past few seasons have shown that they know how to adapt to losing key players.
He added: "This is a difficult time for Arsene Wenger. He has lost important players in the last year like Gael Clichy, Cesc Fabregas, Van Persie and Song.
"But he has lost players in the past and replaced them and I am sure he will do it again."
Pires missing the point
I completely agree with Robson. I've said it for ages, Theo isn't good enough at this level and we should have cut our losses on him years ago. He's deluded if he thinks he deserves £75k a week. Good luck to the mugs that are willing to pay him that.
How would he know? He hardly played at Highbury. **** needs to STFU and dieQuote:
Cesc Fabregas says that he hopes Barcelona stay at Camp Nou, stating that former club Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium "is no Highbury".
Arsenal left their famous ground in 2006 to move to the Emirates Stadium, and are yet to pick up a trophy since the departure, with some suggesting that a lack of atmosphere in a big stadium can be detrimental to on-field success.
The Spain international expressed the hope that the Blaugrana remain at Camp Nou for the foreseeable future, citing the belief that there was a loss of atmosphere after Arsenal left Highbury for the Emirates during his time in north London.
"Camp Nou is a beast of a stadium," he was quoted as saing by Diari ARA. "I wouldn't want the same thing to happen as with Arsenal. The Emirates is not Highbury.
"Highbury was very tiny, but it had its charm. Emirates is a great stadium, modern, but it's not Highbury."
Spot onQuote:
Former Arsenal defender Nigel Winterburn has told talkSPORT that the club needs to change its stance on renewing players’ contracts.
This summer the club lost Robin Van Persie to Manchester United as the player threatened to play out the last year of his deal and leave on a free transfer.
Meanwhile, right-back Bacary Sagna has admitted that despite only having a season left on his current contract, he hasn’t received any word on a new one even though he would like to stay at the Emirates.
And this has concerned Winterburn who wants this worrying habit, of allowing players to get into the last year of their deals, to come to an end.
“I would think that there has to be an internal review at the football club as to why several players are getting right down to inside the last year of their contracts,” he told Kick Off.
“Really you need to start nailing them down when they’ve got a year-and-a-half to go.
“When you drop inside that last year, in players’ minds they’re starting to question if the clubs still want them, a little bit.
“From Arsenal’s view that is something that needs to be looked at.”
Read more at http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-ne...Zz2E6aIChbK.99
The board is gutless. They should just come out and tell these players they are being sold. This could stop the silliness with players speaking in the media and the bad feeling that surrounds each transfer. A simple statement made once, "Yes, we are selling all our players, yes we only care about personal profit, yes, the fans can go and do one - but send us all your money first!"Quote:
“When you drop inside that last year, in players’ minds they’re starting to question if the clubs still want them, a little bit.
Football has changed. Wenger has been incapable of coping with that change and we are left behindQuote:
Arsene Wenger has been left hurt by Arsenal fans that don’t trust his managerial methodologies, says Nigel Winterburn.
The Gunners boss has been in charge of the club for 16 years overseeing three Premier League title wins and four FA Cup triumphs.
But the trophies have dried up and after seven barren seasons there has been unrest between the team and its fans.
Winterburn, though, believes they need to back their boss as he looks set to earn a new contract.
He told Drive Time: “Arsene Wenger is a very loyal man. If he says he’s staying until the end of his contract, he will stay. He’s said many times he’s had offers to move to other clubs.
“I think he has been hurt by some of the supporters who haven’t trusted his judgement. They could say they have a right to question him because we haven’t won anything.
“But people say to me, ‘why do Arsenal not spend £30million on players’, but even when Arsenal won things under Arsene Wenger they never spent that amount of money. He always spent relevant money and brought young players through.
“I’m not worried that he hasn’t signed a contract. I think Arsene Wenger is a very proud man and he wants to feel that he has a team that’s capable of achieving something.
“I think he’s just going to sit back, look at it and say, ‘can I re-energise this club? Can I re-energise this crop of players? And can I push them somewhere, even if we can’t win the title, can I at some stage put us in a position where we can challenge for the Premier League?’ I think that’s important for the supporters.”
Read more at http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-ne...jMjErTdb016.99
Or has he been Stubborn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
And thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...gba-at-arsenalQuote:
Former Arsenal forward Ian Wright has stated that he would relish the opportunity for Shanghai Shenhua striker Didier Drogba to sign for the north London club.
The Ivory Coast international has been linked with a move away from his current side amid issues revolving around the club's boardroom.
Wright, who scored 128 league goals for the Gunners, has spoken highly of the striker who scored the winning penalty in last season's Champions League final.
"I'd love to see Didier Drogba at Arsenal, I'd like to see him come back to England," he told Absolute Radio. "And not play against Arsenal because he's always demolishing them and the back four!"
"Of course you've got to play that kind of thing down. I think if Drogba's coming back to the Premier League I'm sure there'll be a queue and I think if Arsenal are in and around it, I don’t think that's a bad thing. That's not a bad signing.
"Hopefully Arsene can make that happen, if it can happen, because I think he will be a definite positive move in respect of Arsenal and I think he's still got something to offer in the Premier League. So fingers crossed that something can come of that."
Wrighty :bow:
Wrighty still thinks we lose at Bolton every week too.
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Originally Posted by Master Splinter
Anybody who takes Wright Seriously deserves to be laughed at.
Too much disrespect for Wright. The guy served us well.
Wright the player. :bow:
Wright the pundit/failed TV presenter is a c***.
He's just outspoken and that's been him from day one. He doesn't sugar coat the fact that we're not at that level anymore.
He is incredibly thick. If he was a poster on here his views would be roundly mocked (well, they already are). Plenty don't sugarcoat, but he shitcoats.
He's too outspoken for someone who doesn't think. I don't think he's negative, I think he's very fickle (not in terms of his support of the club, but of his opinions). If we avoid defeats to Man City and Chelsea, I bet he'll be championing our title challenge.
The guy at Nando's has Served me well for the last 5 years don't mean to say he is not a bell end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
He probably still thinks Jermain Defoe is the English David Villa who would fire Arsenal to the title. Or Arsenal should bid for Hart and Kompany to get back at City nicking our players. I don't see what's wrong with disrespecting/not taking him seriously.
:haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
I can usually decipher Charlie quite well. But I don't even know what that is supposed to mean. :lol:
The guy at Nandos, has served me well for the last 5 years. Thas not to say he is not a bell end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syn
Wrighty is a fan and speaks like one.
No problem with what he says whether i agree with him or not.
He is the voice of the voiceless tbh