Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

Oranage2 · 24-03-2012 1:51am

Galvasean wrote: »

Interesting how that source spins it as Wenger not spending big, but arsenal.com spin it as Wenger in search of 'top quality'.
In fairness to him we probabaly dont need many signings to compete next year, just hang on to our current star players and make a couple of excellent signings.

Well it certainly spinned the Podolski story as Wenger said nothing is done.

Not sure it does say anything about the not spending bit though - Wenger said he'll bring top quality players if they're available but wont be adding 'quantity' as Diaby ans Wilshere will be like new signings in the interview.

batistuta9 · 24-03-2012 1:52am

Galvasean wrote: »

Interesting how that source spins it as Wenger not spending big, but arsenal.com spin it as Wenger in search of 'top quality'.
In fairness to him we probabaly dont need many signings to compete next year, just hang on to our current star players and make a couple of excellent signings.

the sun seem to have went with 'not spending big' to mean that he won't be buying a lot of players, so not spending much

but they mention the quality bit + it in the video and quality will cost money

keano_afc · 24-03-2012 1:54am

Still baffles me that after all this time, he still thinks Diaby is capable of going a sustained period of time without getting injured. Have they suddenly discovered a miracle cure?

batistuta9 · 24-03-2012 2:00am

keano_afc wrote: »

Still baffles me that after all this time, he still thinks Diaby is capable of going a sustained period of time without getting injured. Have they suddenly discovered a miracle cure?

I see your point but raise you RVP

gnfnrhead · 24-03-2012 2:04am

Hmmm, he says quantity wise we won't do much. I assume that means roughly the same amount of players, so if we sell four players, we'll replace them but won't be looking to get extra players. We have some dead weight that we can get rid of without affecting the quality of the team. Replacing them with better players would be a great start.

As for Diaby, Rosicky and van Persie both suddenly found a way to stay fit for long periods (touch wood), it's not impossible that Wenger reckons Diaby can do it too.

Oranage2 · 24-03-2012 2:09am

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Hmmm, he says quantity wise we won't do much. I assume that means roughly the same amount of players, so if we sell four players, we'll replace them but won't be looking to get extra players. We have some dead weight that we can get rid of without affecting the quality of the team. Replacing them with better players would be a great start.

As for Diaby, Rosicky and van Persie both suddenly found a way to stay fit for long periods (touch wood), it's not impossible that Wenger reckons Diaby can do it too.

Here's the full interview. Sounds like Wenger is saying that the players out on loan will come back and be good enough, whether he believes that or not. There's also a nice bit on Muamba too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfIODOq1c1c

L'prof · 24-03-2012 10:04am

£25m for van Persie??? **** off Madrid!!!

Radharc na Sleibhte · 24-03-2012 10:10am

RE shipping out dead wood, if you'd have asked me to define the players that are dead wood six months ago, I would have included Rosicky in that and he's been a major reason for our recent run.

Why are our players so undervalued in the transfer market?

Marty McFly · 24-03-2012 10:29am

Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »

RE shipping out dead wood, if you'd have asked me to define the players that are dead wood six months ago, I would have included Rosicky in that and he's been a major reason for our recent run.

Why are our players so undervalued in the transfer market?

Ive been thinking the same myself, maybe its because we have a history of being a soft touch when it comes to negotiating and letting players go on the cheap clubs tend to bully us almost?? Now I know we got 25 million for Nasri, but there also Fabregas, Henry etc who went way to cheaply.

greendom · 24-03-2012 11:40am

L'prof wrote: »

£25m for van Persie??? **** off Madrid!!!

Remember that he only has a year left on his contract. In a year's time he can go for free, so I suppose they're banking on him wanting to leave. Come on RVP sign a new contract at the Emirates

Souless · 24-03-2012 11:42am

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

emergingstar · 24-03-2012 11:48am

The club won't sell RVP if he won't sign leave him run down his contract and rightly so
He will be taking all the gamble by not signing

greendom · 24-03-2012 11:53am

emergingstar wrote: »

The club won't sell RVP if he won't sign leave him run down his contract and rightly so
He will be taking all the gamble by not signing

Whatever they have to do they must be decisive. Make a decision and stick to it. The mess the team was in at the beginning of last season was all down to indecision with the on/off transfers of Fab and Nasri.

cathalio11 · 24-03-2012 12:16pm

I'll state the obvious here by saying that if we don't get to the Champions League, he will want to leave and I would understand that...

L'prof · 24-03-2012 12:20pm

cathalio11 wrote: »

I'll state the obvious here by saying that if we don't get to the Champions League, he will want to leave and I would understand that...

We'll be in the champions league, 100% confident of that now. 3rd would be massive as there'd be no fannying about with players waiting to see if we get through the qualifiers or not!

cathalio11 · 24-03-2012 12:41pm

L'prof wrote: »

We'll be in the champions league, 100% confident of that now. 3rd would be massive as there'd be no fannying about with players waiting to see if we get through the qualifiers or not!

Aye, after the last 2 games, confidence has really shot up!

I'm quite pessimistic though and am weary about coming 4th and Chelsea winning the Champions League :rolleyes:

Oh well, it's looking good and today will really tell more!

L'prof · 24-03-2012 12:45pm

cathalio11 wrote: »

Aye, after the last 2 games, confidence has really shot up!

I'm quite pessimistic though and am weary about coming 4th and Chelsea winning the Champions League :rolleyes:

Oh well, it's looking good and today will really tell more!

If we finish 4th it'll be because Chelsea finish 3rd. We won't miss out on Champions League if they win it, which they won't.

cathalio11 · 24-03-2012 1:02pm

L'prof wrote: »

If we finish 4th it'll be because Chelsea finish 3rd. We won't miss out on Champions League if they win it, which they won't.

Great to see you're so sure :rolleyes:

Hopefully though! 3rd is obviously ideal. Let's start with a win today against a very weakened Villa side!

Mickeroo · 24-03-2012 1:37pm

emergingstar wrote: »

The club won't sell RVP if he won't sign leave him run down his contract and rightly so
He will be taking all the gamble by not signing

I wouldn't be so sure, they said they'd let Nasri's cntract run down rather than sell him too. Having said that, I don't think RVP really wants to leave which is the most important thing.

amacachi · 24-03-2012 2:01pm

I'm still not massively confident of getting into the CL, 2 more wins in the next 2 matches and I'll feel a lot more confident.

As for Rosicky being deadwood 6 months ago, pretty sure I said it around then that he needed a run in the team and more or less in position. Hopefully he keeps it going after getting his contract. Looking at him against Milan and Newcastle he looks like he's here to do his best again.

HazDanz · 24-03-2012 2:04pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

I wouldn't be so sure, they said they'd let Nasri's cntract run down rather than sell him too. Having said that, I don't think RVP really wants to leave which is the most important thing.

He looks happy being captain of the club and he seems like a settled man in his social life so if we get the champions league position and inject the team with a boost of players over the summer I say he'll stay.

I do think keeping him will be a big thing for other players thinking of coming to the club. Keep RVP it show's we are serious and not the new feeder club for the likes of city and barca. The board need to be resilient over the summer so that the best player at our club stays, which will encourage the best players at other clubs to come and play with him as he is such quality

gnfnrhead · 24-03-2012 2:58pm

Thing with Nasri is he wanted to leave, and we got a huge offer. It's have been stupid not to accept. The only thing they did wrong was leave it so late. Had he left at the very start of the window, we'd have had enough time to find a suitable replacement, or at least look for one. Losing him and Fabregas so close together left us in a bit of a hole.

Unless we get a bid of £50m for van Persie, I can't see him going anywhere. Assuming he stays, I also think he'll sign a new contract before Christmas.

cson · 24-03-2012 3:36pm

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.

djan · 24-03-2012 3:42pm

Well Spuds and Chelsea draw 0-0 so hopefully we can take advantage of it and rack up some goals in case it gets to goal difference.

Mickeroo · 24-03-2012 3:42pm

Boom. Good result for us at Stamford Bridge today. A win against Villa will go down nicely now. 8 points clear of fifth sounds nice.

amacachi · 24-03-2012 3:44pm

Win this evening puts us 8 points clear of 5th with 8 games to go. How many would've thought that a few months ago?

jank · 24-03-2012 3:57pm

Come on Arsenal!!

greendom · 24-03-2012 4:02pm

Bang goes our stable back 4. Kos out with an injury in warm-up. Hope its nothing serious. Hope Djourou has a good game :eek:

efb · 24-03-2012 4:16pm

Gibbs- woot!

Galvasean · 24-03-2012 5:30pm

Chuks Aneke scores on his Preston debut

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.

Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

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