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3 year deal!
It's a miracle :faint:
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http://www.teamtalk.com/arsenal/9422975/-?
3 year deal!
It's a miracle :faint:
Thank god - just given me the same feeling when you finally have a massive dump after being blocked up for days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Injury Time
We released him already anyway, he was just floating around.
Guess he just got flushed.
A bit of footage of that Greek lad we were being linked with from the WC...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRU63idhLP8
Well Wenger said the reason he didn't want to sign him was because he was a box to box attacking midfielder and we have plenty of them. You say the media and everyone call him a defensive midfielder, a quick google search and this was the first article and he is a quote from itQuote:
Originally Posted by Dein-machine
Sounds to me like he is an attacking midfielder not a defensive midfielder.Quote:
From a technical point of view, he is certainly more accomplished than Diarra who is his closest competitor at the Bernabeu while he also possesses a considerable aerial advantage over the Frenchman. He is not a hard tackling midfielder but he has no qualms about tracking back. What he does do that sometimes goes unnoticed is make regular runs forward. He doesn’t sit deep and shield the back four but instead, sees a decent amount of the ball in the final third. His movement into more advanced positions also allows Xabi Alonso the time and space in midfield to spray passes forward and invariably draw the majority of the plaudits.
About the money, since 2008 we have spent 200 million, the last purchase being Mesut Ozil (this summer's spending not accounted for on the basis that we are talking about last season), in the same period, liverpool spent over 300 million. (using http://www.transferleague.co.uk/prem...transfers.html )
How are Liverpool the benchmark anyway? If we swapped seasons with them last year I'm willing to bet a lot of money the same posters would be discussing how they managed to win a trophy and we ultimately managed to win nothing.
TBH by the same token others would say we're in better shape than them because we went closer to winning the league and how anyone can win a cup etc, which is what their fans have leveled at us.
Football fans. :lol:
Awful mentalists.
Have we lost yet? Or are we still waiting to kick off? With Walcott missing, Ramsey missing at crucial stages, Ox missing, we went within 7 points of the doping gypos (who have spent £175mill on signings and wage deals this week alone) and we won a cup. We have just beaten the gypos in a meaningless match they let us win, even though their manager tricked everyone beforehand by stating the Community Shield was a meaningful match they wanted to win. So we will soon have Walcott back, Ramsey is fit and firing, Ox looked great towards the end of last season, we have signed a genuine world class player in Alexis, Chambers looks great (he's EASILY old enough, if the shitty logic going around about age was applied to Tony Adams he'd have never made it at Arsenal), Campbell is a new option, Cazorla is staying. The transfer window isn't shut yet and Wenger has expressed the desire to sign another player (almost certainly a CB for cover).
How awful is it really? Yes we know Sanogo is a bit of a joke but he's far from our only option. Who do people want instead, Torres or an OAP Drogba? Eto'o? The chavs have as many problems as we do in that department from what I can see. Liverpool has lost Suarez and replaced him with Lambert. That's got to hurt. They are considerably weaker than last season. Utd has done fuck all of note except spend £11mill more than us to acquire a comparatively weaker player. All the van Gaal genius bullshit is just that, bullshit. He's done nothing yet. The gypos are strong, of course. Why wouldn't they be with cheat mode on full blast, not just buying up more playa but now whole teams so they can do their dodgy loan deals. What did we expect? Wenger to go and outspend them? When players like Cavani are being touted for £50mill then it is clear demonstration that things aren't nearly as easy in the transfer market as some would have us believe.
We're have a better squad with more depth than last season. Who could seriously argue otherwise? One game played, one win. Next match up tomorrow. So far so good. If we collapse then let's moan. But maybe we won't. And if we don't all the sterling moaning will have been wasted. Better to keep your powder dry. Something, somewhere will go wrong this season. It's just a matter of being optimistic and waiting patiently.
I do find it strange that the signing of Costa instantly remedies the fact that Chelsea's back-up options are dismal. Hazard is actually their only reliable forward player. If Costa flops like every other big-money striker they've signed not named Drogba, they'll be relying on Frankcesc Lampregas to post Lampard numbers for a full season. And he always seems to wilt in the second half of every campaign. Also, Chelsea's biggest problem last year was breaking through stubborn, well-marshalled defences. It's still only Hazard really that has the ability to produce the unexpected against that type of opposition.
It's also strange that United have struggled to bolster a squad that finished seventh, have lost massive personalities in Vidic, Evra and Ferdinand, yet many are tipping them to easily finish in the top four ahead of Arsenal and Liverpool because Van Gaal.
It proves that moronic pundits only look at names when attempting to assess anything.
Costa, Fabregas, Mourinho are big names = Chelsea domination 4eva.
Van Gaal is a big name = instant return to the elite.
no ones expecting us to outspend City - what I expect is to strengthen in the very obvious areas where we are weak. In the all important spine of the team this means Arteta as DM & Giroud as CF. None of these 2 woudl get anywhere near the teams we're competing with in the P.L or in Europe because they are not up to it. If Sanchez is a success as a CF then ofcourse that's a plus but they way Wenger has set the team up so far it doesn't look like it. Therefore we get into the situation I was discussing yesterday where Sanchez is playing wide right with Walcott on the bench or vice versa, Yes it gives us a stronger squad incase of injuries but it actually doesn't improve our starting line up because we still have Arteta & Giroud in it. Its all very well having better quality on the bench but in the games agianst the top teams & bearing in mind Wenger reluctance to ever make a sub before the 64 minute - sometimes these games will be lost by then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn