Arsenal v Leeds Monday 9th January ESPN 19.45

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I think the point is that Utd is trying or have tried. AW on the other hand is not even trying to sign players. SAF signed the gay, young and jones. Most of them do not look like setting the world on fire atm but SAF brought in players to improve the squad. AW IMO wouldnt have signed Arteta or Mentos, had we not got that tonking at the hands of Utd.

Look how that turned out, SAF wasted money more like on silly signings who will win him nothing this season. You have no proof aw has not tried to sign players thats a silly statement to make.

[Coney]

Look how that turned out, SAF wasted money more like on silly signings who will win him nothing this season. You have no proof aw has not tried to sign players thats a silly statement to make.

Plus I'm pretty sure that Arteta and Merzsaker would have been bought anyway. Arteta was bought in as a result of the finalising of Cesc and Lesbo - nothing to do with the manu game.

[fakeyank]

Look how that turned out, SAF wasted money more like on silly signings who will win him nothing this season. You have no proof aw has not tried to sign players thats a silly statement to make.

I agree they are not setting the world on fire but did SAF try? Yes. As for saying that AW didnt try to sign players being a silly statement... remember 'waiting period'? Like LDG mentioned earlier, AW has done a few things right (not a lot IMO) but his faults recently far outweighs the rights! AW couldve settled the Nasri and Cesc issue long back and had Per, Mentos, Arteta in the pre-season games. What we had instead were panic buys that didnt gel till October! And this kind of transfer behavior by Arsene is not only this season, it is also similar to the last 5 seasons.. kind of the reason why top players like TH14, Cesc, Nasri and other players feel disillusioned about winning anything with us!

[fakeyank]

I don't doubt that we're not as good as Utd at getting things done. But then again, I do agree with AW when he says it's difficult to find the right player, for the right price. I would suspect that Fergie isn't overwhelmed by his goalkeeper thus far, and I would point to the furore surrounding us when Almunia was clearly shit. We didn't go and buy someone for the sake of it, and let Ches do his stuff. That's worked out quite nicely.

Like I've said in countless other threads. AW gets some things wrong, but he does get some things right too. The business of running a top footbal club is far more difficult in current times due to the inequality in the market. We've got to push on, no doubt, and we've fucked up big time, but we're clawing our way back, and I'm relatively happy with the balance of the team for the forst time in ages.

Hopefully we'll add to that over coming weeks...that said, Wilshire, and our fullbacks returning will be massive for us.

Agree with most of the stuff on your posts. While Szczesny has been immense, the fact cannot be denied that we needed a GK when Almunia was letting in goals left right and center. Had we signed a decent keeper then, who knows what we couldve won or acheived... Szczesny doing well now does not take away the mistakes AW has made and continues to make to this day..

Cant agree more about JW and Sagna. Think they are truly world class and will add a lot to the team!

[-Xs-]

I don't doubt that we're not as good as Utd at getting things done. But then again, I do agree with AW when he says it's difficult to find the right player, for the right price. I would suspect that Fergie isn't overwhelmed by his goalkeeper thus far, and I would point to the furore surrounding us when Almunia was clearly shit. We didn't go and buy someone for the sake of it, and let Ches do his stuff. That's worked out quite nicely.

Like I've said in countless other threads. AW gets some things wrong, but he does get some things right too. The business of running a top footbal club is far more difficult in current times due to the inequality in the market. We've got to push on, no doubt, and we've fucked up big time, but we're clawing our way back, and I'm relatively happy with the balance of the team for the forst time in ages.

Hopefully we'll add to that over coming weeks...that said, Wilshire, and our fullbacks returning will be massive for us.

Whilst I agree, I can't help think AW is still making more mistakes than corrections to this day, mainly around investment though.
How can we rely on Gibbs at left back? He is always injured and never able to string more than a few games together. Sant's is out for the season.
Signing Henry is great and all that, but in 2 months he's gone and we are back to having only 1 player who can score

No we don't really need another playmaker, we create enough chances. We still have the same issues though, lack of strength up front and at the back. Wenger is supposed to be a top manager, Arsenal are supposed to have one of the best scouting systems going; how hard is it to find another striker who can score? And another full back who can defend?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Whilst I agree, I can't help think AW is still making more mistakes than corrections to this day, mainly around investment though.
How can we rely on Gibbs at left back? He is always injured and never able to string more than a few games together. Sant's is out for the season. Signing Henry is great and all that, but in 2 months he's gone and we are back to having only 1 player who can score

No we don't really need another playmaker, we create enough chances. We still have the same issues though, lack of strength up front and at the back. Wenger is supposed to be a top manager, Arsenal are supposed to have one of the best scouting systems going; how hard is it to find another striker who can score? And another full back who can defend?

Sants is not out for the season no where near that he will be back in a few weeks.

How hard is it to fine a stiker who can score goals, not hard but this time of year and this year most don't want to move because of the Euro's. Lets be real we can't afford the likes of Ageuro etc because of their wages, so after them who is their that is world class, not many.

as for a Fullback i do agree wenger should be buying another 1.

I agree they are not setting the world on fire but did SAF try? Yes. As for saying that AW didnt try to sign players being a silly statement... remember 'waiting period'? Like LDG mentioned earlier, AW has done a few things right (not a lot IMO) but his faults recently far outweighs the rights! AW couldve settled the Nasri and Cesc issue long back and had Per, Mentos, Arteta in the pre-season games. What we had instead were panic buys that didnt gel till October! And this kind of transfer behavior by Arsene is not only this season, it is also similar to the last 5 seasons.. kind of the reason why top players like TH14, Cesc, Nasri and other players feel disillusioned about winning anything with us!

Wenger has done alot of wrong things too right, no one is saying he is innocent far from it, it really gets on my goat why it takes him and the club an age to tie up player contracts/transfers in.

Ok so wenger comes out with silly nonsense too which he needs to stop and start being straight with the fans, we deserve that much at least. Problem with the club is from top to bottom it still needs a clensing imo.

even if wenger went tommrow with the board still there not much will change, once they go things change.

[Cripps_orig]

Sants is not out for the season no where near that he will be back in a few weeks.

So naive.

They said he was out for a few weeks when he first got injured. Its been months. Same with Jack, Verm last season and lots of others

[Olivier's xmas twist]

So naive.

They said he was out for a few weeks when he first got injured. Its been months. Same with Jack, Verm last season and lots of others

Well then more fool me then.

[LDG]

He's supposed to be back in March. Which means April.