They can have Walcott for Cech and 40 million. Just throw like 15 million at Barcelona for Pedro and move Alexis to the right.
They can have Walcott for Cech and 40 million. Just throw like 15 million at Barcelona for Pedro and move Alexis to the right.
Is pedro really that good or is he a bit jesus navasy? The thing that makes players like Cesc, Alexis and Costa work here is that they're naturally scrappy, powerful players. Can't wait for fairweather players to adapt, we need to win in the next couple of years or Ozil and Ramsey are off. A fully fit Walcott is ready to make an impact on a title challenge. Just a question of fitness and injuries, same with a few others.
Even a fart like Woy gets momentum, last night he said the intensity needs to remain even when the beat San Marino and qualify. We already have the players to challenge for the title. It would be nice to add some more top quality, but I don't think it's necessary to at least mount a serious challenge. Our manager is the impediment. He doesn't understand or value momentum, he prioritises games when in reality only the next game (whatever it is) is important, he doesn't know how to rotate a squad to take best advantage of the players available to him (which could also be a key factor in the injuries we suffer). We won't sustain a challenge with Wenger at the helm no matter who goes or stays. Maybe if we chucked £100mill to get multiple top tier additions the players themselves could drag out a title charge despite the manager. But we won't and shouldn't do that. We have to persist near the top and keep hold of our players until 2017 when Wenger leaves. That's the challenge ahead.Originally Posted by Syn
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I don't think it's Wenger's management that causes injuries. But it's well publicised that we have made changes and things have started to pick up recently, players like Ozil and Jack have come back looking a lot stronger. There was a Jeremy Wilson article about it recently.
Wenger's fine. He's 65 and doesn't have that long himself - everything about the last couple of years have signalled he's ready to give it a proper go right now. No more building for the future, all the best players - Alexis, Koscielny, Ramsey, Ozil are about to reach their peak years as footballers, even the fillers like Monreal are at their peak. He's no longer compromising on quality for loyalty. Jenkinson was quite ruthlessly shown the door, and clearly if this Cech interest is real, he doesn't have worries about pissing off Szczesny. We look more competitive in big games now too. Think there's a lot of proper reason for optimism and it's not the same as before. Think we'll snare the league next year.
Add Gervinho, Santos and Podolski to that list. He's not wasting much time and showing players the door. Just hoping he's looking closely at his legacy and takes the opportunity to rub Mourinho's comments in his face. However long left he has at Arsenal he needs push for the league and Champs League. He doesn't want to look back on his career and find himself defending certain decisions and the lack of trophies when people ask him questions. It will sting and no matter how much he'll try to define his legacy on his own terms, it won't happen and people will keep referring to that barren run.
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Dzeko looks set to leave the gypos. We're not dumb enough to sign him surely?
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He's very, very good. He's start over
Giroud. Better than Higuain and other strikers we'll be linked with. But part of me hopes his career goes down the pan. He chose money, now deal with being irrelevant you greedy little cunt.
You don't??? I think directly or indirectly he's clearly responsible. We have a long history of buying injury prone players and as Wenger is the man solely responsible for choosing transfer targets than he has to be deemed accountable for that. Also he knew as far back as February last year (before the World Cup) that Koscielny had a tendon problem in his foot and kept on playing him because he didn't want to play Vermaelen because he knew he was going in the summer.
I think it's the fact that Shad Forsythe has been able to actually do his job as a fitness coach is the reason attributable for Ozil and Wilshere.
The injury with Koscielny made no sense. Went into the season with a crocked player and his partner tired from an exhausting world cup. Still makes no sense why he'd go into the season with only Chambers and Monreal as our backup defenders. It shouldn't have taken him by surprise considering he knew about the injury and world cup.
He has done the same with Jack and Ramsey before. Overplayed both players and rushed them back from injury for them only to suffer longer layoffs. I can only hope he's finally learned his lesson this season. 3rd year in a row he's gambled on a players fitness.
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