Match Reaction: Newcastle 0-1 Arsenal

[Özim]

No. No it isn't And you know it isn't. You accuse me of changing my argument (which isn't true, and I think you know that) but I at least believe my argument, I don't think you believe yours for a minute.

Our results so far don't show anything. And four convincing wins wouldn't show anything either. If it did then City are champions, Chelsea have no chance, let's all give up and go home and try again next year. You've been watching football long enough to know that over a long season things change as clubs have purple patches or poor runs.
We lost it last year in the first 12 games, we got it together after that but it was too late. This year we've got off to an indifferent start but so have the rest of the potential contenders, bar City. If we end up after 12 games 15 points behind as we did last year then yes, it's all over, Wenger Out, etc, etc. But it's 4 games in and we're in touch so stop all the hysteria.

I don't understand why you can't distinguish between Chelsea and us, Chelsea have a manager who's won trophy after trophy, including Champions Leagues, domestic titles, Chelsea have won a host of major trophies in the last 10 years, Chelsea have shown that when it matters they can put a run together and win titles, they're proven competitors in every respect........we on the other hand have proved in every single case in the last 10 years that when it comes to major trophies neither the manager nor the personnel have what it takes to deliver and go on runs when the major trophies are up for grabs. Chelsea's start is awful but you know because they've proven it, that they are capable of delivering championship winning form, what we know about us is that we either start badly or finish badly and put the odd winning run in in between (not necessarily with convincing performances) but that when the pressure to win major titles is there we can't produce.

You might believe things could be different if we'd gone into the transfer market this summer with intent and signed our targets without any fuss and made clear efforts to improve the squad, but we haven't, we've signed a good keeper but that's not significant improvement on last season, we all know what we need and we all know we haven't got what we need, because for some reason the manager cannot bring himself to buy players all summer and instead seems to spend the last day of the transfer window trying to pull off transfers at a time when realistically there's the least possible available, as clubs then can't find replacements. What's more it appears that this summer there's even less available than usual.