Arsenal Transfer Rumours And General Chat

yahoo_moe

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

I'm afraid not, he's been left out of the squad. He must have been in action for the France U18 team last night.

A shame

Shame indeed - I love watching Traore, latest in a line of seriously good Arsenal left-backs and an awesome prospect...

could be a tough one (Sheff Utd always seems to be) but reckon Arsenal will have too much going forward for a side struggling to find its feet this season...

gosplan

Arsenal linked with Real Madrid's 15-year-old Spanish striker Pablo Sarabia.

...so young he's not even on youtube

yahoo_moe

gosplan wrote: »

Stick it up your hole Platini!!!

Looks like we can add 'The Thing From Tring' to that too... talk about mountain out of a molehill and nothing's even happened yet!

The Premier League has no qualms over referee Howard Webb officiating an Arsenal game for a second week running. Former referee Graham Poll is worried about the pressure Webb will be under: "Never before have you seen a referee in the Premier League get appointed to the same team in consecutive weeks.

"It doesn't happen. What's Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson going to make of that?

"Is Howard Webb going to have to prove his impartiality and will that mean he is going to favour Manchester United?

"There are all sorts of connotations with it. It's unfair pressure on a very good referee."

The Premier League spokesman added: "Graham Poll is entitled to his opinion but it is not particularly helpful."

ErinGoBrath

God Blatter and Platini are really starting to annoy me now. K-nobs.

Really looking forward to the Carling Cup tonight. Will be great to see how Diarra and Gilberto get on starting in centre mid. Would also be nice to get half an hour or more of Fran Merida to see what everyones blowing on about!

Giving the strenth of our 2nd team we should have the beating of Sheffield United.

Come on ye gooners!

AnCapaillMor

Its seems like everyone outside england has it in for the Prem.

Galvasean

"Graham Poll is entitled to his opinion but it is not particularly helpful."
I wouldnt worry about the ref who dishes out 3 yellow cards to one player.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Team to play Sheffield:

Arsenal

* 21 Fabianski
* 31 Hoyte
* 17 Song Billong
* 08 Diarra
* 34 Gibbs
* 02 Diaby
* 15 Denilson
* 19 Silva
* 32 Walcott
* 26 Bendtner
* 09 Eduardo

Substitutes

* 40 Mannone,
* 39 Lansbury,
* 41 Hoyte,
* 42 Perez,
* 43 Barazite

Good to see Fran Merida on the bench. Don't know how the team is gonna line out really. I'd imagine it'll be Hoyte-Gilberto-Song-Gibbs at the back and then the rest is fairly routine at this stage

Bounty Hunter

fabianski not gilberto captain?

Pacifico

Yeah very strange!

~Rebel~

playa3 wrote: »

Team to play Sheffield:

Arsenal

* 21 Fabianski
* 31 Hoyte
* 17 Song Billong
* 08 Diarra
* 34 Gibbs
* 02 Diaby
* 15 Denilson
* 19 Silva
* 32 Walcott
* 26 Bendtner
* 09 Eduardo

Substitutes

* 40 Mannone,
* 39 Lansbury,
* 41 Hoyte,
* 42 Perez,
* 43 Barazite

Good to see Fran Merida on the bench. Don't know how the team is gonna line out really. I'd imagine it'll be Hoyte-Gilberto-Song-Gibbs at the back and then the rest is fairly routine at this stage

Am i missing something? I dont see his name there...Does he go by a nickname or something?

Pacifico

~Rebel~ wrote: »

Am i missing something? I dont see his name there...Does he go by a nickname or something?

Yeah Perez is his last name

~Rebel~

Ah gotcha, I've only ever seen him referenced as Merida (mind you now that i think of it, people could easily have been talking about perez and i wouldn't have put 2 and 2 together).

Jeez the bend on Denilsons goal, after the deflection was really weird! after it hit the player and spun off it looked like it was headin for where the keeper was diving for, then suddenly out of nowhere it started curling back off left. crazy.

keano_afc

Aside from Song as usual, an excellent performance form the young guns. Thought Diarra was brilliant at right back, Denilson and Gilberto were superb also. Bendtner looked very out of sorts, constantly gave the ball away. Some finshing from Dudu. Getting back to Alex Song, how do other Gooners feel about him? Personally I think he's one of the worst players I've ever seen in an Arsenal shirt.

Pepe LeFrits

I don't see what Alex Song did wrong tbh.

Perez is Merida's mother's name, it shouldn't be used. It'd be like calling Cesc 'Soler'.

Denilson was our best player tonight, kept things ticking over nicely. Bendtner did quite well I thought. Diaby was poor.

Lansbury being the first sub on despite being the youngest was telling.

keano_afc

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

I don't see what Alex Song did wrong tbh.

Perez is Merida's mother's name, it shouldn't be used. It'd be like calling Cesc 'Soler'.

Denilson was our best player tonight, kept things ticking over nicely. Bendtner did quite well I thought. Diaby was poor.

Lansbury being the first sub on despite being the youngest was telling.

But what did he do right? He gave away countless fouls, and would have put a less skillful player than Diarra in trouble with his distribution. Maybe I'm being harsh on him, but i really cant work out what it is he does.

gosplan

A couple from Cesc, Denlison's last night and Hleb's in the last champions league game.

Has anyone noticed how many lampard-esque goals we're scoring these days?

It's all good but wher the hell were they last year?...and don't say we weren't taking shots.

PHB

gosplan wrote: »

A couple from Cesc, Denlison's last night and Hleb's in the last champions league game.

Has anyone noticed how many lampard-esque goals we're scoring these days?

It's all good but wher the hell were they last year?...and don't say we weren't taking shots.

The thing is, Lampard goals happen a lot because of his technique. He hits the ball incredibly straight and incredibly hard, so if it does get a deflection, it nearly always hits the player creating the right type of spin. Also, I'm 100% sure that Lampard when he is deciding where to shoot takes into account the other player.
I would imagine that Cesc and Denilson and Hleb have improved their shooting technique.

Mr Alan

PHB wrote: »

The thing is, Lampard goals happen a lot because of his technique. He hits the ball incredibly straight and incredibly hard, so if it does get a deflection, it nearly always hits the player creating the right type of spin. Also, I'm 100% sure that Lampard when he is deciding where to shoot takes into account the other player.

PHB, i reckon that is nonsense tbh, a lot of his goals are defelected because quite simply he shoots, A LOT.... he is like the Riise of the centre of midfield.

PHB

You make your own luck. Lampard shoots a lot, although nowhere near as much as Ronaldo, but also gets a crapload of assists. He shoots when he has a decent chance of scoring, and the fact that you rarely see his deflections deflect wide would tell you something. If you are aiming at the goal, if you strike the ball with enough power, it's still gona go in. The weaker you hit it, the more likely it is that the direction of the ball is gona change. Lampard hits the ball incredibly hard, which is why lots of his deflections go in.

yahoo_moe

keano_afc wrote: »

Aside from Song as usual, an excellent performance form the young guns. Thought Diarra was brilliant at right back, Denilson and Gilberto were superb also. Bendtner looked very out of sorts, constantly gave the ball away. Some finshing from Dudu. Getting back to Alex Song, how do other Gooners feel about him? Personally I think he's one of the worst players I've ever seen in an Arsenal shirt.

Actually I thought Bendtner did quite well - kept showing for the ball, held up possession really well and occupied SU defenders all night... i was actually quite encouraged to see him work for the team without a goal always being the only thing on his mind - showed good maturity and a bit of humility that I wasn't sure he had

Agree about Gilberto and Denilson, both superb - Gilberto's sense of positioning obviously isn't going rusty with less game time and Denilson showed again that he's got toughness and a great temperament to go with his skill

As for Song, didn't think he was particularly wonderful or awful - Diaby probably gave the ball away more and I didn't really notice a huge amount of frees from Song. I would've rated him as fairly average, about on a par with Hoyte (bear in mind they were both out of position too)

lordgoat

Mr Alan wrote: »

PHB, i reckon that is nonsense tbh, a lot of his goals are defelected because quite simply he shoots, A LOT.... he is like the Riise of the centre of midfield.

Except he actually scores goals.


And isn't ginger.


Gilberto and Den is a lovely little partnership alright. Compliment each other nicely.

Galvasean

Confident performance from the young Guns. Dominated from start to finish away from home with no fear at all. Our long term future is looking bright.
Speaking of the future, how about the short term? United on Saturday. Predictions?

Evil_Clown

I think(hope) Arsenal might just sneak it 2-1

It will be very tight and promises to be a great game (although many games have promised this before and failed to deliver)

I wonder if wenger will start Eduardo after his performance mid-week or will he stick with the 5 man midfield like the liverpool game

My gut says at home he will go for 2 out and out strikers

kryogen

against us i can see you playing two up front as unlike liverpool united will go to play attacking football, the game will be more open and i imagine it will be better for you to have two up front as playing adebayor up on his own seems like a waste of time

Pepe LeFrits

4-5-1 again, fuppit.

ZorbaTehZ

Great game. Was a bit worried when he took off hleb and eboue though. Sagna was immense.

Royale with Cheese

A draw was probably the right result. Van Persie is still being badly missed. Adebayor may work hard and hold the ball up well but he hasn't scored in ages and pretty much all his goals this season came in one week. Thank god for Fabregas or Arsenal would be sliding down the table fairly rapidly right now. One of the other strikers needs to come good with goals. Not to worry at the minute now though as the rest of the team are more than helping out, but I feel that's the kind of game Arsenal would have won with a world class striker on the pitch.

Almunia has proven he's not good enough, again. What was he doing for the second goal, and it wasn't the first time he came rushing out of his goal for no reason in the match. Lehmann's Arsenal career is probably over, he'll be leaving at the end of the season at the latest. Maybe Fabianksi is decent? If not Arsene would want to bring in a decent, established keeper. Can't afford to be unsure in that position.

Pepe LeFrits

Fabianski didn't look ready to me, but how much can you tell after one game?

Almunia seems on a mission to lose us the game every time we played United. That's three seperate games against them that he's ****ed it up for us.

Irish Gunner

Got to love this pic

Pacifico

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Got to love this pic

Haha class

Remember seeing that when he went to take the corner