Well of course the meaningless friendlies are just crazy at this time of year. Another bunch of cunts with snouts at the trough.
Well of course the meaningless friendlies are just crazy at this time of year. Another bunch of cunts with snouts at the trough.
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Wojiech Szczesny - A player who 18 months ago had the position locked down is giving ammunition to his doubters with displays of costly eccentricity
Lukasz Fabianski - Arguably a player that should have been cleared with a lot of the other dead wood, injury prone and unreliable on crosses
Bacary Sagna - You don't know what your going to get from him anymore, we know that he is a capable and gifted full back but his concentration and his willingness to support his fellow defenders raises huge question marks.
Per Mertesacker - Absolutely useless when it comes to dealing with any side that has any pace although is arguably our best performer when it comes to defending set pieces.
Laurent Koscielny - Has shown in many games that he has all the attributes to make for a top defender, has a tendency to blot his copybook with rash decision making at times.
Kieran Gibbs - Good defender but often has a tendency to leave us exposed by being a little too keen to get forward
Thomas Vermaelen - Seems almost like he is distracted on the pitch, undoubtedly a player with great ability but you have to question his motivation currently
Nacho Monreal - With the exception of the QPR game last season where he was atrocious, hasn't really done much wrong and makes me feel left back is a position where we are more than adequately covered.
Carl Jenkinson - Was rather unfairly dropped from the side last season when Bacary Sagna returned to full fitness but he's done himself no favours with absymal displays in pre-season.
Aaron Ramsey - I think we all know that this guy is someone i have total loathing for and perhaps i give him more abuse than he deserves at times but when i think of the players who have been part of the Arsenal midfield in the past, i think a player that forever seems to get his passing wrong and has zero pace has no place in the Arsenal first XI
Jack Wilshere - Makes me wonder if a player that has been out injured for as long as Jack has will ever get back to being the player he was in 2011.
Mikael Arteta - I don't think anyone other than Arsene Wenger would have had Arteta playing as a defensive/holding midfielder, i don't think anyone other than Arsene Wenger would have thought playing him in that role was anything other than a terrible idea. He is an attacking midfielder and i think at best a squad player who can probably give us something decent from dead ball situations.
Tomas Rosicky - Again another player whose potential has been stunted by long-term injury, undeniable quality his vision and range of passing is excellent but again he is too old, too inconsistent and too injury prone to be playing for us week in, week out.
Abou Diaby - A player i've always liked and the sentimental side of me has always wanted him to make something of himself despite his injury blighted career but you cannot flog a dead horse.
Santi Cazorla - Can score goals, can create goals, has bags of pace, is excellent on the ball and is a gifted passer of the ball....so why is he being played on the sodding wing?
Theo Walcott - I think we accepted years ago he was never going to be more than a "good player" not world class, but sometimes you have to wonder where the consistency is. There are times even when he isn't on the scoresheet that he puts in a shift and works his bollocks off, but more often than not you see a lazy player who puts in diabolically bad crosses and more or less gives us nothing going forward.
Alex Oxlade Chamberlain - Doesn't get played enough.....Arsene speaks of putting his faith in youngsters and developing them but this isn't borne out when the Ox is benched for most games and when he comes on is played through the middle where he will invariably be less effective.
Lukasz Podolski - I don't know what's happened with him...where is the player that was busting a gut for us at the beginning of last season not only to get forward and make things happen but also track back and assist the midfield and defence. Maybe he's got fed up of never being given a full game...can't decide whether Arsene Wenger has completley mismanaged the guy or whether his attitude just stinks.
Olivier Giroud - Have a lot of time for him and i think he gets a lot of undeserved criticism because we are comparing him unfavourably with other strikers before him that were endowed with pace something he just isn't....i think if the midfield quality was there the guy would make hay in front of goal.
Yaya Sanogo - Have absolutely nothing to say about him, have not seen anything of him apart from one game in the Emirates cup where he looked dreadfully out of his depth.
I have a nasty feeling Wenger sees him as the new Arteta. Perhaps a year out while Wenger clears off and a new manager will get Ox back on track.Alex Oxlade Chamberlain - Doesn't get played enough.....Arsene speaks of putting his faith in youngsters and developing them but this isn't borne out when the Ox is benched for most games and when he comes on is played through the middle where he will invariably be less effective.
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We've somehow managed a miraculous recovery of all players except AOC /s
In total our sick bench looks like this:
Thomas Vermaelen
Mikel Arteta
Ryo Miyaichi
Abou Diaby
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Note how quickly players who aren't fresh or are picking knocks are been shoved back in.
We should have a first choice back 4 for the Fenerbahce game, I'd imagine podolski on the left instead of AOC. Beyond that, the team pretty much picks its self these days.
One of them will pick up a long term injury.
Monreal is in the squad as well.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop ignoring injury news coming from the club. So the long terms injured are back and the short term injured (2 weeks) Ox is out for half a year?
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Op updated to reflect the new signings of Mathieu Flamini and Bendtner.
There's really no call to rub it in.Originally Posted by AKBapologist
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Will update this later today... But in the meantime, what happened to Park?
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