i would think they are smart enough not to listen to the tripe he trots out to the media every weekOriginally Posted by Jeebus
i would think they are smart enough not to listen to the tripe he trots out to the media every week
He did say there is a chance though, end of the day who gives a shite what he says to the media means nothing, as long as he tells his players whats what that is all that matters.
The 'arm around the shoulder' tactic hasn't worked. He always protects his players after a massive disappointment and you know what happens? Within weeks we are out of every competition. That his been the story season after season. We have a crunch, season-defining week or 10 day period where everything just goes to shit. And then there's Wenger with "we will continue to fight" and "it's not over until it is mathematically impossible" - it becomes mathematically impossible immediately.
Yesterday I can't criticise him for criticising his players or for calling the performance the worst ever or any of that - because he's just calling it like it is. But I don't praise him either because I don't really care what he says. There have been many 'wake-up' calls that players have been allowed to sleep through.
Arsene feels the players have let him down. They probably did. He probably puts too much faith in them in the first place; we needed more seasoned pros who have done it (or are capable of doing it) at the top level, but nevertheless we are much better than what we showed last night. So Arsene called it like it was and we are not going through. If he named some of those players (Ramsey, Song, Arteta, Theo, Vermaelen, Sagna, Szczesny, Rosicky) an embarrassment, I'd back him on that too. It's got to that point. Fine, we might not be the best footballing side around, but we have to at least turn up. Players shouldn't need to be told to turn up in the knock-out stages of the Champions League in the San Siro. If you have any sense of perspective, you do that automatically.
meh, not surprised one bit. Lose two of the best midfielders in the world (Nasri on last years form) and not replace them?? this is the result. This team is pitfully average.
Gibbs, Ramsey, Arteta, Lolcott, Rosicky ...all average as.
Last edited by Sirjackofwilshere; 16-02-2012 at 11:27 AM.
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born between urine and faeces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.."
Not bothered at all.
We were never going to win the thing so what's the point? An extra £5m or so getting to the next round not to be spent on players? Yippeeee!!
Now we have to watch Djourou v Adebayor.....that's going to be fun.
Im not criticising him for admitting it was a rubbish performanceWenger's constantly criticised for molly-coddling the players and talking them up when they should be getting criticism for their performances.
For once he's come out and admitted it was a rubbish performance and he's still getting criticism.
Haters gotta hate.
Nothing wrong with what he said after the game. He would have been laughed out of town if he so much as alluded to the possibility of there being a turn-around.
We blew it. Everyone knows it and he said as much, although he did have to get some pointless percentages in for effect, you can't keep a good WUM down.
WUMger.
Agree but you can't say you would have felt this way had we won 3-0 yesterday.
We were going to beat Milan, but then we took an arrow to the knee.
True.
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