Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

Mickeroo · 24-03-2012 5:31pm

Souless wrote: »

Dunno if anyone has posted about this already but Aneke went and joined preston on loan on the last day of the Loan window.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/reserves-news/aneke-joins-preston-until-end-of-the-season

Lets hope he gets a good bit of first team football under his belt as he's apparently been immense in the reserves this season It's nice to see all the young fringe players going out on loan and picking up valuable first team football

He just scored!

amacachi · 24-03-2012 6:00pm

Since the start of this current run of 7 wins I think Van Persie has only scored 7/22 of our goals, not bad going for the rest.

Galvasean · 24-03-2012 6:02pm

Good day at the office. We win while Spurs, Chelsea and Liverpool(to be honest I coukdn't tell you how far behind us they are now) all drop points. Even the loanees did well. Aneke scores on his debut and Miyachi, I hear, was immense for Bolton today.

Galvasean · 24-03-2012 6:03pm

amacachi wrote: »

Since the start of this current run of 7 wins I think Van Persie has only scored 7/22 of our goals, not bad going for the rest.

Jut shows you how we were over-relying on him when playing poorly. Now that the team is playing well it doesn't matter if he isn't scoring in every game. Takes the pressure off him to carry the team single handedly.

HazDanz · 24-03-2012 6:03pm

amacachi wrote: »

Since the start of this current run of 7 wins I think Van Persie has only scored 7/22 of our goals, not bad going for the rest.

It's great to see, it's the most wins in a row since 2007 for us I think as well, which is impressive

Galvasean · 24-03-2012 6:10pm

van Persie 33 (26)
Walcott 9 (6)
Arteta 5 (5)
Vermaelen 5 (5)
Gervinho 4 (4)
Oxlade-Chamberlaine 4 (2)
Benayoun 3 (1)
Ramsey 3 (2)
Henry 3 (2)
Gibbs 2 (1)
Arshavin 2 (1)
Koscielny 2 (1)
Rosicky 2 (1)
Santos 2 (1)
Chamakh 1 (1)
Park 1 (0)
Sagna 1 (1)
Song 1 (1)

(league goals in brackets)

First league goal of the season for Gibbs

RvP still miles off in the league but good to see a bit of a pack forming behind Walcott to challenge for #2.

Galvasean · 24-03-2012 6:14pm

Arteta beaut!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpnure_av30_fun#from=embed

Reekwind · 24-03-2012 6:38pm

That's the best I've seen Arsenal play in a long time. Granted, Villa were useless but it was the first time this season that Arsenal have seemed their old ruthless and swaggering selves

cathalio11 · 24-03-2012 6:40pm

Galvasean wrote: »

Good day at the office. We win while Spurs, Chelsea and Liverpool(to be honest I coukdn't tell you how far behind us they are now) all drop points. Even the loanees did well. Aneke scores on his debut and Miyachi, I hear, was immense for Bolton today.

This exactly sums up my feelings. Delighted with the loanees and of course the results.

Yennaris played 60 minutes as did Afobe.
Aneke, Myaichi and Bendtner were all good from what I gathered.

A great weeks rest until we play QPR, great!

Won every Saturday 3pm game as well this season

wandatowell · 24-03-2012 6:45pm

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/894110-arsenals-wojciech-szczesny-pays-for-kids-birthday-party-after-joining-celebrations?

What a sound fella.

Great win today!!! 7 in a row. Hitting fantastic form at the perfect time.

Times are good

emergingstar · 24-03-2012 6:52pm

cson wrote: »

Nasri gets a harsh deal from the fans here I think. The reason he left is the clubs fault; similar parallels to the Ashley Cole saga, let him run down his contract and he gets oil money waved at him. He was pretty professional about it until the end - I know he maintains he was misquoted about slagging the club off. Lets be honest; we got huge money for a player that had been woefully out of form for about 9 months.

Wrong, nasri verbally agreed a contract and changed his Mind when he seen the oil money

emergingstar · 24-03-2012 6:54pm

Galvasean wrote: »

Good day at the office. We win while Spurs, Chelsea and Liverpool(to be honest I coukdn't tell you how far behind us they are now) all drop points. Even the loanees did well. Aneke scores on his debut and Miyachi, I hear, was immense for Bolton today.

I was listening to talksport or radio5 one of them English stations anyway
They were raving about ryo

cathalio11 · 24-03-2012 6:58pm

Ryo is a great player. Next season we have these at the wing:

Gervinho, Walcott, Ox, Ryo, Arshavin...

Arshavin will surely go though. But even so, the other 4 are just...wow.

cson · 24-03-2012 7:00pm

They aren't.

Walcott and Gervinho are very very average by and large. Ryo and Chamberlain are still only good prospects at the moment.

Galvasean · 24-03-2012 7:41pm

Walcott and Gerv are hot n' cold. Hopefully Gervinho will do like Koscielny and have a super second season.

Mickeroo · 24-03-2012 7:58pm

wandatowell wrote: »

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/894110-arsenals-wojciech-szczesny-pays-for-kids-birthday-party-after-joining-celebrations?

What a sound fella.

What a gent, don't see enough of that kind of thing from the pros these days. There's plenty players who'd be charging for the autographs.

Underground · 24-03-2012 8:02pm

wandatowell wrote: »

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/894110-arsenals-wojciech-szczesny-pays-for-kids-birthday-party-after-joining-celebrations?

What a sound fella.

Great win today!!! 7 in a row. Hitting fantastic form at the perfect time.

Times are good

He's like our own little Balotelli.

DB10 · 24-03-2012 8:17pm

Good performance today, brilliant goals. Very poor Villa side.

Still think though the team needs to have 3-4 new signings if they want to challenge for a League title. And also about 6-7 players to leave.

Good run but I still would be wary about the summer transfer window. Hopefully we seal 3rd this year will be a major achievement.

Oranage2 · 24-03-2012 8:19pm

Underground wrote: »

He's like our own little Balotelli.

Apparently not a lot true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbY-JkdlpvA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbY-JkdlpvA

Galvasean · 24-03-2012 8:30pm

City drop points too. It will be interesting to see if we can knock a few points off that gap between us between now and the end of May.

Mickeroo · 24-03-2012 8:35pm

Galvasean wrote: »

City drop points too. It will be interesting to see if we can knock a few points off that gap between us between now and the end of May.

Anythings possible, the form Arsenal are in, all the remaining games are winnable.

emergingstar · 24-03-2012 8:37pm

DB10 wrote: »

Good performance today, brilliant goals. Very poor Villa side.

Still think though the team needs to have 3-4 new signings if they want to challenge for a League title. And also about 6-7 players to leave.

Good run but I still would be wary about the summer transfer window. Hopefully we seal 3rd this year will be a major achievement.

I agree

But let's enjoy this now and worry bout the summer then

KeithAFC · 24-03-2012 8:48pm

Van Persie not scored in 2 games now.

Overall, a very good efficient performance.

greendom · 24-03-2012 9:14pm

I think he might fit in well at the Emirates

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Reekwind · 24-03-2012 11:40pm

Galvasean wrote: »

City drop points too. It will be interesting to see if we can knock a few points off that gap between us between now and the end of May.

I wouldn't even bother thinking about it. There's no possible way that either Manchester team will drop twelve points in the remaining games

greendom · 24-03-2012 11:49pm

Wow this report is maybe just a little ott - loving the photos tho...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2119714/Arsenal-3-Aston-Villa-0-Gibbs-Walcott-Arteta-help-Gunners-consolidate-third.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

gnfnrhead · 24-03-2012 11:53pm

Reekwind wrote: »

I wouldn't even bother thinking about it. There's no possible way that either Manchester team will drop twelve points in the remaining games

I dont think he was suggesting we could catch them, just finish a little closer to them. That, plus a few signings in the summer, would sent a clear message of intent for next season.

DB10 · 25-03-2012 12:26am

Ideally Podolski will sign, can anyone tell me where his prefered position would be. Is he a goalscorer, what are his weaknesses?

Where else should we be looking to strengthen? In my opinion, ideally we would bring in 4 experienced players. While shipping out alot of the older loaned players, and others such as Almunia, possibly Chamakh. Other certain squad players.

Sign Benayoun for a small fee possibly. Podolski.

Then 3 others hopefully of experience. Its asking alot I know, but if we want to reach the level of the Manchester clubs, more experience is needed.

I think we need to sign another WF/ST depending on where Podolski plays. Hopefully a big name.

Then maybe a Vertonghen type who can play DM or CB comfortably. After that I would like an experienced combative CM player with pace, possibly a Flamini type player. Would be good for squad depth.

Its all fantasy talk at this point, but this summer is huge.

KCAccidental · 25-03-2012 12:45am

not sure Benayoun will sign if regular football is available somewhere else, He's lost years of his career being a sub at Liverpool, Chelsea and here. I'd like him to stay as a member of the squad though. He is a very good player.

cson · 25-03-2012 1:51am

Very rosy picture of Benayoun being painted; the last start he got he was demolished against Swansea.

Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

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