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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Premature and unnecessary if true. He's here until 2017 anyway so why not wait until the end of the season to talk about contract extensions, based on where we finish? Seems to me the board is striking while the iron is hot, getting their guy secured for all the wrong reasons - money, money and money. They want him to stay forever because he makes them money. I doubt they give a shit about the football, beyond the necessity of at least the minimum level of performance to keep the cash flowing. Premature. Unnecessary. Could have waited to see how we do this season, there was no rush.

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This is ridiculous tbh, we've achieved nothing but they are getting in there because we've had a few good results and feelings are good arond the club at the moment, should never get a new contract offer right now, it could all go very pear-shaped and we could end up with nothing but 4th place again by the end of the season.

Wengers greatest trick is digging us into a hole and fighting back to get out of it.
Bottom of a CL group containing Olympiakos and some obscure eastern European club. What we need is another 5 years of this. Why the rush. Its not as if he`s going anywhere.

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Originally Posted by mastermind84

Oxlade's makes the wrong runs a lot. Its why he and Ozil/Santi have never connected.

Chris Waddle was full of it because we saw Theo make brilliant runs to free space for himself and teammates. We saw this when he was a teenager. Oxlade doesnt show that.


Im taking all of that into account with Ramsey so long as you take into account that even in that bad run he found himself in goal scoring positions and stayed true to the tactical shape of the team. THats intelligence. These are things Ox doesnt do.

Ox has a lot of individual talent but he doesnt seem to fit into the team.

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I think you're saying too much and too soon about Ox. A lot of people on here didn't recognise Theo's off the ball movement and still don't if we're being truthful. Don't be so quick to write Ox off.

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Originally Posted by Globalgunner

Wengers greatest trick is digging us into a hole and fighting back to get out of it.
Bottom of a CL group containing Olympiakos and some obscure eastern European club. What we need is another 5 years of this. Why the rush. Its not as if he`s going anywhere.

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This is very true, when we're behind he's very good at getting the best out of what we have, when we're in front however it's a different story, it's like the team only really believes they are good enough for last 16 in the CL and 3rd/4th in the league.

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Originally Posted by Özim

it's like the team only really believes they are good enough for last 16 in the CL and 3rd/4th in the league.

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I don't think that is true at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Letters

I don't think that is true at the moment.

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For once Letters. I do hope that you are right. maybe they've looked around, seen how jammy United are, How dire Chelsea are and how fragile City can be and thought to themselves. "We can do this".

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Originally Posted by Letters

I don't think that is true at the moment.

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You can't really tell as nothing is there to be won right now, when we get closer to the winning line we'll know more.

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Originally Posted by Özim

You can't really tell as nothing is there to be won right now, when we get closer to the winning line we'll know more.

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You can't really tell anything right now, I agree with something they said on MoTD recently that the critics will only be silenced if we're actually consistent through the whole season and either win the thing or properly challenge. But there are some pretty good signs right now. We got off to a poor start last year and gave ourselves no chance, once we got going though we went on a long, consistent run that has continued into this season.

We've got a good run in, if we're in touch with 10 games to go I trust this lot more than I would have with the side a few years ago. We've got a few really world class players in the spine of the team now which gives us the quality to properly challenge. You can see the difference Cech is making, Ozil apparently has the best games/assist ratio of any player in PL history and while Giroud won't win you the league (although he's not as bad as some on here make out), Sanchez might.

We've got a couple of tricky games coming up but the table is shaping up now and we're up there, that's all you can ask for now.

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

I think you're saying too much and too soon about Ox. A lot of people on here didn't recognise Theo's off the ball movement and still don't if we're being truthful. Don't be so quick to write Ox off.

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this is Chamberlain's 4th year tho.

I just dont see enough to say he will be as great as many of us thought he could be. Hope im wrong.

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Originally Posted by Letters

You can't really tell anything right now, I agree with something they said on MoTD recently that the critics will only be silenced if we're actually consistent through the whole season and either win the thing or properly challenge. But there are some pretty good signs right now. We got off to a poor start last year and gave ourselves no chance, once we got going though we went on a long, consistent run that has continued into this season.

We've got a good run in, if we're in touch with 10 games to go I trust this lot more than I would have with the side a few years ago. We've got a few really world class players in the spine of the team now which gives us the quality to properly challenge. You can see the difference Cech is making, Ozil apparently has the best games/assist ratio of any player in PL history and while Giroud won't win you the league (although he's not as bad as some on here make out), Sanchez might.

We've got a couple of tricky games coming up but the table is shaping up now and we're up there, that's all you can ask for now.

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I am very worried about the squad though. Our numbers in midfield look really bad due to injuries.. I didnt know how bad it was till I was deciding what my starting XI should be for the capital one cup. If any of Le Coq, Santi or Ozil gets injured, we are really fucked!