Arsenal Player Of The Month

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Santi Cazorla is the EA SPORTS Player of the Month for February.
The Spanish playmaker was neck and neck with Jack Wilshere in our official Club poll but just pipped his team-mate to the prize by a handful of votes.
Cazorla has been a revelation in his first season with Arsenal and he was hugely influential in February as Arsène Wenger's side won three times in the league.
The Spaniard scored the winner at Sunderland and then netted a brace to see off Aston Villa at Emirates Stadium.
Cazorla beat Wilshere by just 0.8 per cent and the England star can consider himself unlucky after some outstanding displays in midfield.
Lukas Podolski was a distant third in our February poll after scoring against his former club Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
February Player of the Month - Results
Player % of votes
Santi Cazorla 44.2
Jack Wilshere 43.4
Lukas Podolski 2.9
Other 9.5

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Revelation :lol:

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The recent international break restricted Arsenal to four games in March but they ended the month with three straight victories.
Per Mertesacker was on target as Arsène Wenger's side began March with a narrow north London derby defeat but they bounced back in style to win 2-0 at Bayern Munich with goals from Olivier Giroud and Laurent Koscielny.
That wasn't quite enough to keep Arsenal in the Champions League but they improved their chances of qualifying for next season's competition with another professional display at Swansea City where Nacho Monreal and Gervinho were on target in a 2-0 win.
And the goals flowed in Arsenal's final game of the month with Gervinho, Santi Cazorla, Olivier Giroud and Mikel Arteta finding the net against Reading.
As ever there are a number of contenders for the Club's official Player of the Month award. Lukasz Fabianski impressed between the posts and Monreal showed how quickly he has settled in English football. Koscielny added steel to the back four and, further forward, Cazorla and Gervinho were among those who impressed.

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No stand out player in march.

Or Feb, Jan, Dec, Nov, Oct, Sep and Aug.

Aaron Ramsey is the EA Sports Player of the Month.

Well deserved.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...he-month-award

been superb recently, well deserved

Can't fault his workrate but technically he can be found wanting at times.

Agreed, but he seems to have been better at that too just recently.

Wouldn't disagree. He's upped his game at the business end of the season so deserves some recognition for that. Plus he's put up with constant criticism from certain people here who will remain nameless. :run:

I honestly thought it was a joke when i first read it, Aaron Ramsey actually makes us worse as a team his inept passing his lack of awareness his inability to track back or tackle despite being stupidly played in a defensive position...it poisons everything. Clearly one of the worst if not the worst Arsenal midfielder of the premier league era (yes worse than denilson, least denilson could pass and run)

The guy is not only not Arsenal quality he is not premiership quality and arguably shouldn't be a footballer at all.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

I honestly thought it was a joke when i first read it, Aaron Ramsey actually makes us worse as a team his inept passing his lack of awareness his inability to track back or tackle despite being stupidly played in a defensive position...it poisons everything. Clearly one of the worst if not the worst Arsenal midfielder of the premier league era (yes worse than denilson, least denilson could pass and run)

The guy is not only not Arsenal quality he is not premiership quality and arguably shouldn't be a footballer at all.

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Yes, we know. But hardly anyone else on the the pitch is Arsenal quality either (or is typical Arsenal quality depending on which way you look at it). Ramsey has been improving while others have been going backwards. This has been masked by a set of very shaky results but positive results nonetheless. But you look out or passing, shooting, crossing, ball retention, effectiveness in the final third, decision making, the pace of our play, the inventiveness and ability to break down organised opponents. You can't point to anyone and say they have been stand outs. Rosicky had a couple of good games but also some stinkers. Kos has been a bit more solid at the back but we're not calling him a world beater quite yet. Ramsey stands out from a bad bunch. Doesn't mean he's the next Messi but if everyone in the squad has put in as much effort to up their mediocre games we'd probably be in a more comfortable position in the league now.

comparing Ramsey as a footballer to those around him is a joke, they may be playing poorly but he is consistently bad....as for this improvement you speak of, i've seen nothing out of the ordinary fare of miss placed passing putting us in problems by giving the ball away or conceeding a free kick with a poorly timed tackle.....other players don't give him the ball because they know they won't get it back....look at how when he plays with Wilshere, Wilshere won't pass to him.
The reason these other players are underperforming in midfield is because they are playing with Ramsey, every time we break on the ball the whole move is undermined by Ramsey who cannot run, cannot pass and cannot read the game....and i have not seen anything that suggests to me that there is any improvement no matter how small on that.

To be honest I just see him as a water carrier now. He seems to have carved out that role for himself so good luck to him, every team needs one.

He was ordinary against West Brom, terrible against Norwich, terrible first half against Everton....just about average second half, he was an abomination against Fulham and United....and he was a shambles against QPR any kind of analysis of how we played in these games would prove this and yet he's given player of the month....ignoring the player who has been player of the month and has been consistently protecting us despite these lukewarm performances and that man is Laurent Koscielny.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

To be honest I just see him as a water carrier now. He seems to have carved out that role for himself so good luck to him, every team needs one.

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But he can't even do that.....he's about as much use as a water carrier as a colander would be

Remove him from the next game play a midfield three of wilshere, arteta and cazorla and you would definitley see an improvement in performance.....the fact that he is being rewarded for lowering the standard of our football and being a constant burden to us for me is nothing short of masochism.

The award is not for the most skilful player, is it? It's for the player who has contributed most. I think Ramsey has been doing fewer stupid things, has moved the ball quicker than he usually does and has been slightly more accurate with his passing. But the key thing is he's put a lot of effort into each game and I'm afraid that's where we are now as a team. Water carriers can stand out just by being on the ball a bit more and not going missing.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

Remove him from the next game play a midfield three of wilshere, arteta and cazorla and you would definitley see an improvement in performance.....

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do you remember most of our performances with that midfield, before wilshere went out injured in march?

The Wheelchair-Arteta-Cazorla midfield is why our season died on it's arse.

They just don't click.

Things slowly improved when Cazorla started playing further forward/wide and Wheelchair got injured.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

The award is not for the most skilful player, is it? It's for the player who has contributed most. I think Ramsey has been doing fewer stupid things, has moved the ball quicker than he usually does and has been slightly more accurate with his passing. But the key thing is he's put a lot of effort into each game and I'm afraid that's where we are now as a team. Water carriers can stand out just by being on the ball a bit more and not going missing.

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But the only thing he is contributing to us is making our performances worse with his incompitence and making it harder for us to win, he isn't a water carrier he is a dead weight around our ankles. Not only does he not have the skill on the ball, he doesn't have the skill to contribute in the way you seem to be claiming he has been contributing. He hasn't....the defence is doing better because it sits deeper and it sits deeper because of who is playing in front of them, the team has changed the way it plays football to a much less expansive form of the game because they cannot trust their own dead weight team mate not to put them in a predicament by giving away the ball. So i can understand what your saying all i'm saying is that there is no evidence for it, the only thing he contributes is making the players around him play with the hand break on because he is so poor.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

The Wheelchair-Arteta-Cazorla midfield is why our season died on it's arse.

They just don't click.

Things slowly improved when Cazorla started playing further forward/wide and Wheelchair got injured.

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No it didn't, that midfield three hasn't played singularly together because Cazorla has been forced to play wide out of position most of the time and Arteta and Wilshere have been forced to play alongside Ramsey.

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Originally Posted by Terry Tuffnutz

do you remember most of our performances with that midfield, before wilshere went out injured in march?

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As i've pointed out that midfield three hasn't actually played together......arteta and wilshere have always had to accomodate ramsey which means that cazorla has been played wide left or right.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

No it didn't, that midfield three hasn't played singularly together because Cazorla has been forced to play wide out of position most of the time and Arteta and Wilshere have been forced to play alongside Ramsey.

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You're forgetting that Podolski was a regular at the start.

It was Theo-Giroud-Podolski. With the aforementioned midfield behind and we were shit.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

As i've pointed out that midfield three hasn't actually played together......arteta and wilshere have always had to accomodate ramsey which means that cazorla has been played wide left or right.

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not true. wilshere was deeper next to arteta a lot of the time. only on a handful of occasions has caz been pushed out wide. as marc says above, lukas was a regular starter on the left, as was gervinho when he scored a few before the striker experiment.

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Originally Posted by Terry Tuffnutz

not true. wilshere was deeper next to arteta a lot of the time. only on a handful of occasions has caz been pushed out wide. as marc says above, lukas was a regular starter on the left, as was gervinho when he scored a few before the striker experiment.

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At the start of the season the midfield trio was arteta, cazorla and diaby and it worked well.....we were just playing two strikers who hadn't adapated to the premier league. And you noticed how things went down hill as soon as diaby got injured against chelsea and you know who came back into the side.

Since September Ramsey has been a regular starter in the Arsenal side and it's coincided with poor performances and poor results....and no link up between defence and attack.

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Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm

Aaron Ramsey is the EA Sports Player of the Month.

Well deserved.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...he-month-award

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Seconded. Credit to him for persevering.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

At the start of the season the midfield trio was arteta, cazorla and diaby and it worked well.....we were just playing two strikers who hadn't adapated to the premier league. And you noticed how things went down hill as soon as diaby got injured against chelsea and you know who came back into the side.

Since September Ramsey has been a regular starter in the Arsenal side and it's coincided with poor performances and poor results....and no link up between defence and attack.

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since caz and jack have stopped playing together, things have improved and ramsey is still there.

he's no world beater but absolutely nowhere near as bad as the picture you've painted.

don't get me wrong compared to arsenal sides of the past we are comparatively average, but frankly anyone who thinks Ramsey should be starting games should be accompanied to the emirates stadium by a guide dog. He is I reaffirm the worst midfielder who has put on an Arsenal shirt in the premier league era and the idea that this walking travesty is given player of the month ignoring the heroic efforts of Laurent Koscielny who single handedly has been bailing us out makes me wonder what kind of people are supporting this club.

The reason Cazorla and Wilshere can't play together is a seperate issue....it doesn't help that Wenger tries to play Wilshere far too deep because we don't have a proper defensive midfielder just a welsh retard. I think had we decided to buy someone who could marshall the midfield properly like a Diame whose price-tag was literally begging us to sign him instead we start with someone who should be playing for a football team sponsored by Scope

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

The Wheelchair-Arteta-Cazorla midfield is why our season died on it's arse.

They just don't click.

Things slowly improved when Cazorla started playing further forward/wide and Wheelchair got injured.

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Pretty much. Lets remember how much we have improved defensively with Ramsey in his proper DM position. We have been average going forwards lately but that's not Ramsey's fault. Its more that other than finishing Walcott on the right offers us nothing; because Rosicky's more dynamic than Carzola centrally, Carzola's less effective on the left, and we have either not had a striker or not played to Giroud's strengths.

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Originally Posted by IBK

Pretty much. Lets remember how much we have improved defensively with Ramsey in his proper DM position. We have been average going forwards lately but that's not Ramsey's fault. Its more that other than finishing Walcott on the right offers us nothing; because Rosicky's more dynamic than Carzola centrally, Carzola's less effective on the left, and we have either not had a striker or not played to Giroud's strengths.

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Giroud's strength is posing in his underpants for homo mags, tbf.

Ramsey is also a product of Wenger's deranged psyche i know he is awful as a defensive midfielder but getting him to spearhead the attacks when Ramsey and Wilshere were playing in the same team like he was doing in January/February was near on suicidal.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Giroud's strength is posing in his underpants for homo mags, tbf.

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Originally Posted by IBK

Pretty much. Lets remember how much we have improved defensively with Ramsey in his proper DM position. We have been average going forwards lately but that's not Ramsey's fault. Its more that other than finishing Walcott on the right offers us nothing; because Rosicky's more dynamic than Carzola centrally, Carzola's less effective on the left, and we have either not had a striker or not played to Giroud's strengths.

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We have improved defensively because of Ramsey I agree, but it's because the back four is dropping deeper because they only have that muppet protecting them....and as i have said players aren't charging forward as much and playing with the hand break on because they know if they leave gaps at the back they only have that cretin to protect them.

I have noticed in the last few games that only Rosicky (who has stunk up the place just as badly himself in the last few games) is passing to Ramsey....because the rest of them know that invariably passing to Ramsey is asking the move to break down.
I'm sorry i still can't get over this, how dreadful he was against United and people giving him player of the month....it was only because Phil Dowd must have felt sorry for his totally inability to tackle that he didn't get himself sent off....which frankly would have been a relief.

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Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie

I have noticed in the last few games that only Rosicky (who has stunk up the place just as badly himself in the last few games) is passing to Ramsey....because the rest of them know that invariably passing to Ramsey is asking the move to break down.
I'm sorry i still can't get over this, how dreadful he was against United and people giving him player of the month....it was only because Phil Dowd must have felt sorry for his totally inability to tackle that he didn't get himself sent off....which frankly would have been a relief.

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Alert: Mayday, Mayday - total credibility loss!!

I think Rosicky has been another recipient of the "not so awful" reaction. He's been okay, good in patches, anonymous on occasion. So he stands out as looking great by comparison to those around him. He can do stuff like retain a ball and pass five yards without turning over possession. He plays the ball forward some of the time. He sometimes runs past an opponent. Bog standard stuff but pretty remarkable for our bunch. He probably doesn't play that much because he disrupts the tippy tappy shite we favour and does crazy, positive shit that sometimes comes off.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

I think Rosicky has been another recipient of the "not so awful" reaction. He's been okay, good in patches, anonymous on occasion. So he stands out as looking great by comparison to those around him. He can do stuff like retain a ball and pass five yards without turning over possession. He plays the ball forward some of the time. He sometimes runs past an opponent. Bog standard stuff but pretty remarkable for our bunch. He probably doesn't play that much because he disrupts the tippy tappy shite we favour and does crazy, positive shit that sometimes comes off.

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I take the comparative point - but he has definitely been one of our better players - and (whisper it quietly) far more effective at setting up goals than Jack has been, even when fit.

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Originally Posted by IBK

I take the comparative point - but he has definitely been one of our better players - and (whisper it quietly) far more effective at setting up goals than Jack has been, even when fit.

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Rosicky for me was sub-standard against United and QPR, shooting on sight against United when there was no cause to and passing to Sagna who was atrocious.....and being responsible for the amount of times United broke against us in the second half by constantly giving the ball away (well almost as responsible as Ramsey) and against QPR was forever trying passes that weren't on and allowing our promising attacking moves to break down.
I do personally like Rosicky and think there have been times where he has massively improved our game with his passing and runs.....but i think a lot of those times have been when he has come off the bench so to do, but for me was tripe in the last two matches.

For me there is one player whose performances seem to merit a place in the starting XI but never gets it and that is Oxlade-Chamberlain....rarely puts a foot wrong and gives us an extra dimension to our attacks.

Koscielny has been by far our best player, yes. Much like last season. He gets a run in the team and in most games he's virtually faultless. Forget the Gervinho/Walcott striker experiments, the Ramsey on the wings experiment, the lopsided midfield or the fact that horrendously out-of-form players seem to be rewarded with starts every week, Koscielny not being the first name on the team sheet was WengBOT's most costly mistake this season. There's been the usual WUMger smokescreen about him apparently having niggling injuries, but every player who is out of the team always seems to develop these. And even if he was, Wenget has had no problems playing certain others if they're carrying a little ankle/knee/shoulder. Nearly everyone here pointed out that Vermaelen's captaincy would be a hindrance, but I suppose a stubborn BOT is gonna BOT until even his stats machine points out to him that he's made a mistake.

Regarding Ramsey, you could apply many of those criticisms to most our players. As talented as Cazorla is, his application of it has been woeful recently and he makes more suicidal passes than Ramsey at times. Arteta has made too many mistakes lately for someone who is usually reliable. Sagna, Wilshere, Podolski and Vermaelem have all regressed for varying reasons. Monreal is not wholly convincing so far. Giroud and Walcott are mostly blunt, ragged, instruments of rare destruction. Gervinho is Gervinho. When you have a team made up of almost-men, journeymen and never-men, you get what we have now. To constantly criticise an individual who has mostly eradicated his early season foibles and has become a prime component of a more defensively solid team comes across as needlessly petty and obsessive. Yes, he's average at best. But so are most of our squad. At least Ramsey has contributed positively to results, while more talented offensive players have gone missing. It's not pretty watching Arsenal anymore, but to continually single out Ramsey is ridiculous. Blame the person who selects him and has brought us to this situation where we're mostly relying on wholesale water-carrying to get results.