Winter Transfer Despair and Bafflement.

[Niall_Quinn]

Lovely stuff, can you imagine David Luiz in our defence?

Unfortunately, yes I can.

[Niall_Quinn]

He did his usual song and dance of bideing his time until someone else actually took the risk and slapped some cash down.

Kompany has been the butt of a lot of NQ's jokes but he's easily been one of the best CB's in the world since he was a teenager and is one of the most respectful non Arsenal players about Arsenal you'll find. He would have taken all the traditions and values of the club well on board.

tbf, if he'd joined us instead I would have heaped praise on him. But he didn't, he joined the gypos. So turns out I was right.

[LDG]

Unfortunately, yes I can.

Gets sent off a lot
Always out of position
Wants to be a CF
Can pass sideways and punt one long

Perfect for us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Agree with this. We’re in a position where we can’t afford the risk.

Risk?

We're risking the whole club with this clown in charge of things. Look at the fuck-ups he's making, over and over again. We can't even get a settled team or system under him. The transfer windows are pure comedy. He shows no indication he has any clues on how to pull us out of this dive. He can't see he's even wrong, he continues to think of himself as a big force in football - he said as much the other day when he was slapping backhanded compliments at the new guys coming in.

The biggest risk of all is keeping this loon for another day, let alone another season. There's NOTHING while he's here.

Di Matteo came in and won the CL. Not because he's the greatest coach that ever walked the earth - plainly he's not. But because he liberated a decent squad and did the common sense, blatantly obvious things. He applied what limited coaching knowledge he had and, no doubt, used the experience around him to build an environment that allowed the players to thrive and achieve at the highest level.

There are plenty of people who could come in and unlock the potential in our squad. Provided they weren't expected to pick up every thread that egomaniac Wenger demands to have a hold of. Leave the transfers to the new guys. The running of the club to the CEO. And get the coach out on the training ground with a decent staff to focus on the football.

Of course Arteta would be a better bet than Wenger. Are you kidding me? He knows the basics, what more do we need at this point? We have to put an end to this Wenger business, that's the absolute priority. Arteta knows the club, he's been getting experience under a coach that knows what he's doing, he'd be a perfectly reasonable stopgap while we found the right man for the job long term. Trouble is, Arteta would know that too so he wouldn't come here anyway.

But theoretically, for sure, sack Wenger today and get Arteta in. The whole place would be transformed overnight. The fans wouldn't know what to do with themselves, watching players play in their correct positions, seeing proper tactics, watching sensible substitutions and not having to watch an old goat stick his nose into and wreck transfer windows. It's be like Christmas every weekend.

[Niall_Quinn]

Gets sent off a lot
Always out of position
Wants to be a CF
Can pass sideways and punt one long

Perfect for us.

He's got stupider hair than Bellerin. It would kill Bellerin's hair if we signed him.

[Niall_Quinn]

One of his first challenges as manager was to overturn a 3-1 first-leg deficit against Napoli in the last 16 of the Champions League. In a bid to do so, he made four changes to the side beaten in Italy, recalling John Terry, Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and Michael Essien to the starting line-up. It was a move that worked wonders as Lampard and Terry both scored, along with Didier Drogba and Branislav Ivanovic, and Chelsea won a sensational game 4-1 in extra-time.


“I selected a group of players with a lot of experience, who were comfortable playing with each other,” explains Di Matteo. “It was one of those nights that will be remembered as one of the greatest European nights at Chelsea.”


While the odds were stacked against Chelsea that night, Terry says the arrival of Di Matteo had given the Blues the lift they needed at the right time.

Di Matteo, overturning a 3-1 deficit to Napoli in the CL. His first challenge.

http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...teo-at-chelsea

[Power n Glory]

Risk?

We're risking the whole club with this clown in charge of things. Look at the fuck-ups he's making, over and over again. We can't even get a settled team or system under him. The transfer windows are pure comedy. He shows no indication he has any clues on how to pull us out of this dive. He can't see he's even wrong, he continues to think of himself as a big force in football - he said as much the other day when he was slapping backhanded compliments at the new guys coming in.

The biggest risk of all is keeping this loon for another day, let alone another season. There's NOTHING while he's here.

Di Matteo came in and won the CL. Not because he's the greatest coach that ever walked the earth - plainly he's not. But because he liberated a decent squad and did the common sense, blatantly obvious things. He applied what limited coaching knowledge he had and, no doubt, used the experience around him to build an environment that allowed the players to thrive and achieve at the highest level.

There are plenty of people who could come in and unlock the potential in our squad. Provided they weren't expected to pick up every thread that egomaniac Wenger demands to have a hold of. Leave the transfers to the new guys. The running of the club to the CEO. And get the coach out on the training ground with a decent staff to focus on the football.

Of course Arteta would be a better bet than Wenger. Are you kidding me? He knows the basics, what more do we need at this point? We have to put an end to this Wenger business, that's the absolute priority. Arteta knows the club, he's been getting experience under a coach that knows what he's doing, he'd be a perfectly reasonable stopgap while we found the right man for the job long term. Trouble is, Arteta would know that too so he wouldn't come here anyway.

But theoretically, for sure, sack Wenger today and get Arteta in. The whole place would be transformed overnight. The fans wouldn't know what to do with themselves, watching players play in their correct positions, seeing proper tactics, watching sensible substitutions and not having to watch an old goat stick his nose into and wreck transfer windows. It's be like Christmas every weekend.

Calm down, calm down. That's not me saying we can't afford to risk a change of management. That's me saying we can't just pick anyone and give someone their first job. If we finish outside of the Top 4 again and then appoint a manager that has no draw and has players around the world questioning our ambition, we're going to be in serious trouble. We're not Barca or Madrid. We can't spend our way out of trouble and we don't have enough talented players here to just hand the job to someone and expect them to do a Pep or Zidane.

Edit - We don't have a decent squad. Not now and not by the time Wenger leaves.

[Niall_Quinn]

Calm down, calm down. That's not me saying we can't afford to risk a change of management. That's me saying we can't just pick anyone and give someone their first job. If we finish outside of the Top 4 again and then appoint a manager that has no draw and has players around the world questioning our ambition, we're going to be in serious trouble. We're not Barca or Madrid. We can't spend our way out of trouble and we don't have enough talented players here to just hand the job to someone and expect them to do a Pep or Zidane.

Edit - We don't have a decent squad. Not now and not by the time Wenger leaves.

We have a better squad than Wenger makes them look. A new coach might, for example, work with defenders on defending. Or work with midfielders on how not to pretend to be strikers. Or work with wide players on how to go forwards instead of backwards. Many possibilities.

Our reputation? Alexis and Ozil are clawing the door with bloody fingernails trying to get out. The club is either being laughed at or pitied.

Our ambition? We could scoop a turd out of the bowl and smear it across the dugout and it would show more ambition than letting a senile old goat see out his days because he once knew what he was doing.

[Cripps]

I’d rather go for someone young and ambitious than the plethora of recycled average managers that do the rounds like Pulis, Pardew, Hughes, Allardyce, Moyes etc.

I think someone like Arteta could be the head coach of a large coaching team rather than the micromanagement we have currently. It’s definitely a big risk and it would be far, far from my first choice. But definitely more open to it than I was a year ago, Wenger is a slow rot and the longer he stays the less any other choice becomes a significant risk.

And as NQ points out, any guy that comes after Wenger will be sacked if they don’t cut the mustard because there isn’t the deference that they have towards Wenger

I agree someone young and ambitious would be good but that doesn't mean Arteta. And why are you referring to managers like Pulis, Pardew and Allardyce? They are clearly levels below us and would never be at the helm here.

We are a top club (albeit more of a sleeping giant), we have a fairly young squad, flashy new stadium, decent training facilities.. managers would love to be in an environment like that.

Allegri's closest advisor last season said Allegri would like the chance to manage Arsenal because of those factors. Ancelotti has also said it in the past. So don't be so quick to put us down.

[Cripps]

Risk?

We're risking the whole club with this clown in charge of things. Look at the fuck-ups he's making, over and over again. We can't even get a settled team or system under him. The transfer windows are pure comedy. He shows no indication he has any clues on how to pull us out of this dive. He can't see he's even wrong, he continues to think of himself as a big force in football - he said as much the other day when he was slapping backhanded compliments at the new guys coming in.

The biggest risk of all is keeping this loon for another day, let alone another season. There's NOTHING while he's here.

Di Matteo came in and won the CL. Not because he's the greatest coach that ever walked the earth - plainly he's not. But because he liberated a decent squad and did the common sense, blatantly obvious things. He applied what limited coaching knowledge he had and, no doubt, used the experience around him to build an environment that allowed the players to thrive and achieve at the highest level.

There are plenty of people who could come in and unlock the potential in our squad. Provided they weren't expected to pick up every thread that egomaniac Wenger demands to have a hold of. Leave the transfers to the new guys. The running of the club to the CEO. And get the coach out on the training ground with a decent staff to focus on the football.

Of course Arteta would be a better bet than Wenger. Are you kidding me? He knows the basics, what more do we need at this point? We have to put an end to this Wenger business, that's the absolute priority. Arteta knows the club, he's been getting experience under a coach that knows what he's doing, he'd be a perfectly reasonable stopgap while we found the right man for the job long term. Trouble is, Arteta would know that too so he wouldn't come here anyway.

But theoretically, for sure, sack Wenger today and get Arteta in. The whole place would be transformed overnight. The fans wouldn't know what to do with themselves, watching players play in their correct positions, seeing proper tactics, watching sensible substitutions and not having to watch an old goat stick his nose into and wreck transfer windows. It's be like Christmas every weekend.

NQ I love you. But you have lost the plot.