Will we bottle the Fa Cup ?

[Letters]

Ive had so much crap taken the piss out of me this week from all sorts of fans that its gone beond banter!

Really? How old are you? Maybe I'm getting old but I've just had a few mates take the piss a bit, I'd have done the same to them, and that's that.
All fairly good natured, that's how it goes. It's not going to ruin my next week.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Yep, winning it has nothing to do with the rot we currently have at the club.

this rot you talk about. if we do win the cup this season, we will have a trophy, will probably finish top four and not too far off the champions either, added to the fact we signed a world class player this season, that is clear progress from last year. Perhaps Arsene might not be the right man from next season onwards, but calling this a rot is just a bit spoilt brattish

[Ollie the Optimist]

Yes. I do not see us moving forward with Wenger in charge. Lot of reasons and it primarily has to do with 'not giving a damn' about the shirt. I do not see passion in our game, I do not think Wenger has it in him to motivate the players to take the next step and for us to become one of the best teams in Europe.

I do not see him being tactically astute enough to match with the top managers in the world. Every match against top teams look the same.. lack of imagination, motivation and desire. Let me not go into our style of play, which is absolutely dire.

As for signings, I havent trusted his transfer acumen for a while but the Kallstrom signing just summed it up for me.

Yes, he HAS done many things for Arsenal. Yes, he WAS the reason why we have high expectations. But time is here for us to make the next step and move on. Time to stop living in the past and pass on the reigns to someone else. Football has sadly passed him by almost a decade ago.

in the last three years he has signed, Mertesacker, Ozil, Giroud, Podolski, Cazorla, Oxlade Chamberlain, Arteta, Flamini, Monreal

I know he has signed others like santos who have been clear failures but those signings above are pretty decent players and have made a difference to us. Bar Ozil, they aren't world class players, they have given us a pretty solid base and yes there are better players out there then those ones but with the new money coming in, the club can sign better players. His transfer record recently is better so i don't really know what the kallstrom signing sums it up for you, especially given the last signing before that was Mesut Ozil. A genuine world class player

[Niall_Quinn]

It was Rioch who signed Ozil, not Wenger. And George Graham signed Kos and Merts.

[fakeyank]

in the last three years he has signed, Mertesacker, Ozil, Giroud, Podolski, Cazorla, Oxlade Chamberlain, Arteta, Flamini, Monreal

I know he has signed others like santos who have been clear failures but those signings above are pretty decent players and have made a difference to us. Bar Ozil, they aren't world class players, they have given us a pretty solid base and yes there are better players out there then those ones but with the new money coming in, the club can sign better players. His transfer record recently is better so i don't really know what the kallstrom signing sums it up for you, especially given the last signing before that was Mesut Ozil. A genuine world class player

Out of those, none bar Per and Santi stand out. Podolski never plays, Ozil hasnt proven his worth, Giroud (I love this guy) is above average at best, Oxlade still has a lot to prove, Arteta is garbage, Flamini is above average at best.

While I believe everyone's rating for a player is different, our conversation regarding that can go on and on. What I meant by not trusting his transfer acumen is more about what is needed and what is actually being done. Example: We need pace in the team yet all we sign are attacking midfielders, no pacy wingers. Ozil IMO is/was not what we needed. We needed a striker desperately to cover for our team, we sign Kallstrom. We desperately needed anybody to replace Almunia in Goal yet we persisted. Buying Arteta and playing him in a position in which he sucks.
AW will instead play JW on the left, Ramsey on the right, Arshavin on the wings and then be surprised why its not working. Get what is needed for the team. Horses for courses!

FYI, there are also signings like Santos, Gervinho, Hasselhoff, Arshavin in recent seasons but thats not the point. The point is that he buys players we dont necessarily need, to play in positions in which they are not good at!

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

It was Rioch who signed Ozil, not Wenger. And George Graham signed Kos and Merts.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

prepare yourself, just in case

i have, i have :-)

first class plane ticket to switzerland....one way

[milla]

It was Rioch who signed Ozil, not Wenger. And George Graham signed Kos and Merts.

Cripps

[Özim]

It was Rioch who signed Ozil, not Wenger. And George Graham signed Kos and Merts.

Everyone knows it was Stojković who signed Ozil

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I signed Ozil, i told him of all the halal butchers and restaurants in north london