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Originally Posted by Flavs
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Originally Posted by Flavs
Well Cahill is shit, so that's not much of a compliment.
From TwatterQuote:
"Koscielny has only lost 4 tackles all season. 93% success rate, making him best tackler in PL."
Bart :bow:
Superb player.
Has really turned his season around.
At the start he was fecking terrible.
Full credit to the lad.
He's been playing at a very high level this season, he had a poor game on Sunday tho.
thats what happens when you are covering a full back.Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
Good player, probably won't get the recognition outside Arsenal he deserves because of the amount of goals we concede.
He had a 100% record for a while at the beginning of last season too.
Our player of the season by a few miles. The only one who has stayed consistent while the team has gone mental and others (Szczesny, RVP, Song) have dropped off in recent games.
yeah but stats prove nohting. do you not remember the begining of last season :ach:Quote:
Originally Posted by Flavs
Beginning of last season? :unsure:
Dont you mean beginning of this and mostly all of last season where he had a shocker?
Fair play to him though, hes looked quality recently
Yep I agree. Fair play to Wenger, I admit I was skeptical about the signing of Kos last season and had pretty much given up on him halfway through last season but he's a player I really like now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
On current form he's in the top 5 CB's in PL this season IMHO.
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/...s-arsenal-bossQuote:
Arsene Wenger feels that Laurent Koscielny has developed into one of the best centre-halves in the Premier League this season.
The Frenchman was heavily criticised last season as Arsenal's season crumbled, culminating in a terrible error between himself and goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny in the League Cup final.
The 26-year-old failed to deal with what should have been a routine clearance, allowing Obafemi Martins to prod home late on for Birmingham to win against all odds.
This year has been a different story altogether for Koscielny though, who has been a mainstay in the Gunners' defence.
Wenger told Arsenal.com that the first time he saw him, he knew that his fellow countryman had all the necessary attributes to make it in England.
“We found him in France of course, from a smaller team. But you could see that there was something special there,” Wenger said.
“He played at Lorient but first he played with a friend of mine in Tours, who talked to me about him when he played in the second division. Then of course we monitored him with our scouts."
Wenger admits that at times last year Koscielny may have struggled with the physical side of the game in this country but now feels that is part of his overall game.
“I believe that last year you could already see the potential but he did not have that dominance in the duels that he has found this season.
“That makes him, I personally believe, one of the top-class central defenders in the Premier League.”
Wenger has to go
Great defender, no question.
Hes been great recently, no question of that but is a month of greatness after 15 months of being shite enough to merit the best CB in the country tag?
When i saw him play against Milan in the emirates cup, his first game, you could see he reads the game very well and had potential to do well, his first season in the most toughest league in the world would always be difficult for him, yet he kept messi quite in the 1st leg, he had the attributes to be a great defender and its SHOWING now, he can only continue, its no fluke or just a random patch of form.
The same Messi who had fuck knows how many chances in that game and fortunately missed them all?Quote:
Originally Posted by GunnerFan4Life
Wouldnt call that being quiet
If we had Squilacci in that position messi deffo would of scored.
Im not in the business of critisising one player to praise another
But Squillaci is shit.
This thread isnt about him
He is quite shit though aint he?
I am not in the business of critisising one player to praise another
:d
:haha: needed a good laugh todayQuote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Glad i could help
I think some folks need to swallow their pride and admit they were wrong on Koscielny . They didn't give hime time to adapt before making judgment . Koscielny has proved people wrong ,fans as well as the media . With the little we have seen for a defender coming from a low league it's amazing .Let's put credit where it deserves : Koscielny has become a top defender and if he keeps up working hard he will become a world class defender in the near future .I'm sure if he was playing for another team we could have seen how good he is . He is the only Pl defender to have made mighty Messi look ordinary and clueless while other famous defenders we know and praise got intimidated by the argentinian genius .
Even on a bad day Messi doesn't look "ordinary and clueless". :lol:
But vs Koscielny he was not the really Messi we all know and fear .Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
He had quite a few chances he missed so it was a poor game for him, those misses had nothing to do with Koscielny though and other than the missed chances he was still very effective against us in terms of the positions he got into.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
Messi did provide the assist for David Villa (the ball went past Koscielny).
No they werent. They were spot on with him as he was shit last season and we said he was. We'd be wrong now if we said he hadnt improved but he has. Not quite as much as Wenger seems to think but Wenger knows as much about football these days as a monkey so we can ignore himQuote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
Didn't he take out Messi for the penalty in the 2nd leg as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
YupQuote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Kos has been a animal all season and if it wasn't for Birmingham last he would of had a half decent one last his performance vs Barcelona should give everyone belief that he has what it takes ive only seen one other player play like that thiago silva.
Today vs villa our defence could be as strong as any in the lge depending on verms performance at lb.
He definitely did, though some argued it wasn't a mistake at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ne-Wenger.htmlQuote:
LAURENT KOSCIELNY has sensationally admitted that Arsenal’s players doubted Arsene Wenger at the start of the season.
The France ace gave a startling insight to the Gunners turmoil following the 8-2 loss at Manchester United after selling Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri late in the summer.
Boss Wenger and chief executive Ivan Gazidis came under fire for going into a panic-buying spree of five players in the last four days of the transfer window.
By mid-September Arsenal were still in 17th place but they have staged a remarkable turnaround and will finish third if they win at West Brom on Sunday.
Koscielny told today’s France Football: “The start of the season was catastrophic. We lost key players from our system. There was late recruitment of new players and the mayonnaise needed time to ‘take’.
“There was the thrashing at Old Trafford. The whole world buried us.
“But you don’t lose your football like that.
“It can happen that a small grain of sand jams the engine and after that you start to doubt your own qualities, the club, the coach and everything else. We needed to sort that out. Everyone got down to doing just that, the coach, the club.”
Koscielny admitted that the players were not giving their all and rallied after a series of tense team meetings.
He added: “The group was not giving enough for the club and we realised that.
“We got down to work and we said the things we needed to say. After that, one win, two wins, confidence returns and things follow on from that. The new players were immersed in the group and so on.”
He also credited 37-goal Robin van Persie — the double Footballer of the Year — for saving Arsenal’s season.
The centre-half added: “For sure we also had Robin van Persie. It is his season.
“I’m really happy for him. It’s the first time that injuries left him alone and we saw the difference.
“I try not to kick him a lot in training, I go soft with him. We try to be reasonable when you have such a long season.”
Koscielny singled out the North London derby with Tottenham as the key match of the season. The Gunners came back from 2-0 down to thrash their arch-rivals 5-2 and gain momentum in the race for a top-four finish.
He added: “I don’t want to have regrets.
“If we have a nightmarish start to the season it’s because we deserved it. Frankly I want to come out of this season having matured. The season I went through was tough but full of emotions. Tottenham at our place...
“We had pressure, we were five points behind Chelsea and everyone was saying ‘the Champions League is finished, Tottenham will win’.
“But we beat them 5-2 and we put together seven wins. Maybe we didn’t dominate all our matches but mentally we had something more.
“At Liverpool for example we always believed and Robin gave us the win at the end of the match.”
The one regret that still haunts Koscielny is the 4-0 humiliation at Milan which ended Arsenal’s Champions League campaign — despite a remarkable 3-0 win in the second leg.
Koscielny concluded: “The big regret is maybe the match at Milan that passed us by. A goal would have helped us.
“A club like Arsenal — its place is in the top four. The players realised that. Not a lot of people were with us in this comeback but we did it.”
Mayonnaise?
Wtf is he on about?
Also going easy on RVP in training? No wonder he goes easy on opposition players during a match
Kos for captain tbh :respect:
'the mayonnaise needs time to take'
Brilliant. You understand what it means intuitively from the context, but other than that, it's nonsensical. It's like magic.
Small grains of sand. :bow:
Mayonnaise. :bow:
Wenger has taught him well.