Who Will Win The League - 2

[Niall_Quinn]

I understand your humour NQ as well as the seriousness of the point you are making. But wouldn't you agree that it's better to just get behind the team until the season closes? After that extreme inquisition and relentless persecution of the fools in charge should commence, assuming that we predictably make a big mess of things.

The fans will get behind the team on match days, I'm sure. The same can't be said about the team getting behind the fans though, so far. The manager has let everyone down, for the 10th season in a row so he can do one.

[selassie]

I wouldn't be amazed at all. I'm certainly not brimming with confidence but you have to look at it both ways. The Spurs players will be under enormous pressure themselves. As much as we are undoubtedly deserving of the title bottlers, you can only say it doubly against them. Sure, they have looked very tidy this season but to think they are going to just walk it the rest of the season is unlikely I would say. I can see a lot of cracks appearing in all our rivals, just as we have seen with ourselves.

Spurs go into Saturday's game as overwhelming favourites given their current form which stretches back to January. Spurs and Leicester are odds on to finish above us if we base current form as an indicator to who finishes where at the end of the season.

We are in a real pickle at the moment, not only are we not putting a winning run together but we're struggling in the games we are winning, we haven't won convincingly for a long time. We are seriously going to need to pull something special out of the bag to win the title this season.

You say you can see cracks appearing in all our rivals? Spurs have won what 8 games on the trot in PL, how are cracks appearing for them? Leicester's record this year is near flawless aside from their defeat to us.

The only team that is showing cracks is Arsenal, we are in a mess and the only way to get out of it is for us to win the remaining games from now on in.

[Marc Overmars]

Leicester and Spurs are showing cracks? If that's the case we must be bloody showing craters.

[GP]

Since the win over City in December we're played 10 won 4.

that's disastrous.

[LDG]

Since the win over City in December we're played 10 won 4.

that's disastrous.

City was the last time we played well too.

We've struggled in every match since.

Wenger just doesn't know how to balance his team.....we're waiting for him to stumble upon a new fix....which will probably happen with a few games to go, and start us off to a flyer next season, before we lose players to injury and the whole mess starts over again.

[Kano]

City was the last time we played well too.

We've struggled in every match since.

Wenger just doesn't know how to balance his team.....we're waiting for him to stumble upon a new fix....which will probably happen with a few games to go, and start us off to a flyer next season, before we lose players to injury and the whole mess starts over again.

Putting Cazorla centrally and Ramsey out wide worked very well. That's what inspired the confidence from midway through last season. But since losing Cazora, we've had no-one else who can do that well enough, Ramsey is too kamikaze in the middle and our wide players are absolute turd.

[LDG]

Putting Cazorla centrally and Ramsey out wide worked very well. That's what inspired the confidence from midway through last season. But since losing Cazora, we've had no-one else who can do that well enough, Ramsey is too kamikaze in the middle and our wide players are absolute turd.

I agree, but being in charge of a top team, you would hope that the manager would either be able to rebalance his team within a few games, or set it straight in the transfer market (even if it's a stop gap).

He fucks around with blind faith, and it keeps falling apart.

Or course, the injury to Cazorla came at the wrong time (it always does), because we never have plan B. Never.

[Kano]

I agree, but being in charge of a top team, you would hope that the manager would either be able to rebalance his team within a few games, or set it straight in the transfer market (even if it's a stop gap).

He fucks around with blind faith, and it keeps falling apart.

Or course, the injury to Cazorla came at the wrong time (it always does), because we never have plan B. Never.

That is true. The Flamini/Ramsey thing should've been sorted a month ago and the same goes for Ramsey/Le Coq now too. We do have other players who can distribute but it takes until we are in the real shit to think of them as an alternative.

[Niall_Quinn]

I wonder does Wenger pay any attention to what has happened in the past? When you hear him speak it's as if everything is new and unusual. Yes, we have had a bad week, but we must bounce back. Doesn't he get that these "bad weeks" are seasonally routine? How many pivotal weeks have we fucked up now? How many times have we gone from being treble contenders (theoretically based on the fact we haven't been knocked out - yet) to, "Oh well, I hope we at least finish above the spuds!"

It really is disingenuous of him to pretend these are isolated setbacks that could happen to any club at any time. "Other clubs will drop points", he states. Yeah, we hope so because we're relying on other teams to fuck up because we're not good enough to stake a claim ourselves. At least he hasn't had the brass balls to complain about Cazorla's absence. I'm not surprised. Everyone and his wife told him he needed to bring in quality in the midfield. He knew better and here we are as usual, well not even as usual because we're trailing Leicester and the spuds

It takes some fucking doing to go backwards having spent £85mill on players of the calibre of Ozil, Alexis and Cech. Fuck me. That's hard to comprehend. With his apparent inability to recognise the past, let alone learn from it, his inability to leverage quality when it comes through the door and his unwillingness to go the extra yard and round out the resources to push us on then I guess yes, £70million in the summer would be an outrage. Zero would be appropriate. Only thing is I can't stand the idea all that money might leech into Stan's wallet over time. I;d rather pay £100mill for Kalou than see Stan rob it.

[LDG]

That is true. The Flamini/Ramsey thing should've been sorted a month ago and the same goes for Ramsey/Le Coq now too. We do have other players who can distribute but it takes until we are in the real shit to think of them as an alternative.

What most managers would do, if they didn't have a solution in the first team, would be to fast track a kid into the position. That person may be in-experienced, but at least it would retain the balance of the side. We have had plenty of those diminutive technical players in the u18s etc. Just bring one of them in for a few matches as short term solution....you never know, it might work out like Rashford for Utd, or Bellerin for us just recently.

But no. He simply must play what he thinks is an alternative, rather than understand what made the team tick in the first place.

That said, the Coq/Santi thing was starting to fail before either of them got injured. Teams worked it out.