Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

gosplan

jasonorr wrote: »

But, don't you realise that Wenger has confidence in the team? We won't be buying anybody!

I think that declaring publicly that you have full confidence in the group of players that you need to play well twice a week for the next two months is different from privately realising that you need to strengthen a bit.

If this Blaise Matuidi guy is as good as the talk about him and settles like Sagna or Nasri did, that should solve the DMF problem for the moment. I'd still like to see another player, perhaps a 30-something year old that we can trust to anchor our performance against these crappy teams we've been slipping up on.

So any ideas on the central defender?

gosplan

Oh yeah, on another note. How comically ironic is it that we're short strikers for Man U.

If there was one area that I thought our squad was robust enough, it was in attack.

Irish Gunner

Over for the man utd game and I fear the worse or is that the grimness coming out lets hope not

This is our biggest test so far and lets just hope we do not get the November jitters again

Hope to see Vela play at some stage on sat and hope Bendtner proves himself and not stroll, although his ball to Ade v the hammers was fantastic

I believe that Wenger believes this young side can do something but this or next year who knows. I dont think that the likes of Rice etc are yes men to him but AW can be blinkered sometimes, no jokes about he did not see it :rolleyes:

As for tonight we need to play as offensive as we did in the away league give us some confidence and a vast improvement is needed in defence, but thats the story of our season

c'mon you gunners

Frisbee

Im guessing this is the guy your talking about...

He would be a relatively good buy. Although the only big teams he's played for are Twente and Schalke 04. While he did play ok during the Euro's I dont think he has the experience. Not the answer to our problems...

leninbenjamin

Frisbee wrote: »

Im guessing this is the guy your talking about...

He would be a relatively good buy. Although the only big teams he's played for are Twente and Schalke 04. While he did play ok during the Euro's I dont think he has the experience. Not the answer to our problems...

i thought Engelaar looked pretty ordinary during Euro08 and is greatly over rated in my book. Holland only got as far as they did because of their forwards, in midfield they looked very ordinary, De Jong and Engelaar didn't impose themselves well and their passing didn't look great either, certainly no where near existing Arsenal standards. he'd be a decent squad player perhaps but not a solution to the current woes.

Frisbee

From the Arsenal Website:
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-vela-is-one-of-the-best-i-have-seen

Suspension and injury may have robbed Wenger of his first-choice strike duo but he is sure he has ‘the answer’ in Carlos Vela.

The Mexican burst onto the Arsenal scene with a superb hat-trick in last month’s Carling Cup victory over Sheffield United and the absence of Emmanuel Adebayor and Robin van Persie could hand him further first-team opportunities in the next few weeks.

Wenger is aware that Vela must adapt to the physical nature of the Premier League but the Frenchman is certain that he has enough quality to fill the void.

“Vela is one of the answers,” said Wenger at Tuesday’s press conference. “Carlos is an outstanding striker, he will be a top goal-scorer and is one of the best finishers I have seen.

“He is 19 years old and playing at a top, top club. We don’t believe that he needs to improve his finishing or his technical quality, we just need him to adapt to the combative side of the English side of the game.

“He is responding very well at the moment and it will give him something more and make him a top-class striker.”

Really hope he gets some good game time tonight...

Evil_Clown

Frisbee wrote: »

Really hope he gets some good game time tonight...

So that you can sing your sig I bet

yahoo_moe

leninbenjamin wrote: »

i thought Engelaar looked pretty ordinary during Euro08 and is greatly over rated in my book. Holland only got as far as they did because of their forwards, in midfield they looked very ordinary, De Jong and Engelaar didn't impose themselves well and their passing didn't look great either, certainly no where near existing Arsenal standards. he'd be a decent squad player perhaps but not a solution to the current woes.

Exactly - it was Sneijder and Robben on the break from deep that did most of the damage. Certainly not a gameplan that could be considered an advertisement for the DM involved to my mind (the play was generally breaking down around their box too, rather than in midfield).

gosplan

yahoo_moe wrote: »

Exactly - it was Sneijder and Robben on the break from deep that did most of the damage. Certainly not a gameplan that could be considered an advertisement for the DM involved to my mind (the play was generally breaking down around their box too, rather than in midfield).

Not really sure of his quality to be honest. Just mentioned him as he was young, big and I liked the look of him. As regards Holland's euro challenge, you really have to look at the quality of their back four IMO - not a single player starting for a really good club IIRC.

DenMan

I remember when Arsenal were linked with Marc van Bommel (before and after Vieira left). Why didn't we go ahead with it? At the time he was one of the world's best midfielders and surely would have benefitted from joining Arsenal.

leninbenjamin

gosplan wrote: »

Just mentioned him as he was young

he's 29... not exactly young, especially by Wenger's standards.

Pepe LeFrits

I wasn't impressed by Engelaar either. His passing was worse than Gilberto's.

I wouldn't be so sure that we won't sign anyone in January. Wenger tried to sign a DM and a CB over the summer but couldn't get anyone for what he considered a reasonable price so we ended up with no DM and Silvestre. Prices drop a bit in January and I think he'll try again, especially with Song and Denilson still being some way off the finished article.

tony1kenobi

Is the match only on sky tonight?? I'd like to see bendtner and vela together. They were awesome pre season.

Frisbee

Setanta Ireland aswell

newbie2

Think I'd prefer to watch it on sky. Ireally do hope we get result tonight. We need a 'pick me up' before the game this weekend. I agree bendtner and vela were class preseason, so lerts hope they go mad at fenerbahce.

Frisbee

Assuming they start together.
I'd like them to. But tbh I think RVP is going to start considering he's out of the Premiership for the next 3 weeks.

Green Hornet

Almunia "ill" apparently.......................Fabianski to start.

Pepe LeFrits

Team apparently is:

Fabianski Touré Silvestre Djourou Clichy Ramsey Denilson Cesc Nasri Bendtner van Persie

Pacifico

Nice to see Djourou & Ramsey in there. Shame theres no Vela though!

DenMan

I know RVP is suspended for the next 3 domestic games. Is the Carling Cup game against Wigan included? (I think it is). That would make it that game and the next two Premier League games (Man Utd, Aston Villa). Or is it three league games? (Man City as well)

Frisbee

Next three domestic games.
So CC is included

Odd team choice.
Guessing Denilson will go on the left with Ramsey and Fab in the middle.
Was really hoping for a Vela start...

EDIT

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Fabianski

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Toure--Djourou--Silvestre--Clichy
Ramsey--Fab---Denilson--- Nasri
---RVP

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Bendtner---


Apparently Almunia pulled out of the team. Doesnt sound good

Gareth37

Its very bad to be missing a keeper. How many players do Arsenal have out now?

Does anyone know if Adybeour is out for the weekend, Im doing a fantasy football thing for British football ?

Green Hornet

Frisbee wrote: »

Apparently Almunia pulled out of the team. Doesnt sound good

Yeah. I think his confidence must be shattered after the last week. He's taken a bit of a hiding in the press.

Maybe he really is sick but it smacks of Mad Jens "injury" last year when he was essentially dropped.

Frisbee

Gareth37 wrote: »

Does anyone know if Adybeour is out for the weekend, Im doing a fantasy football thing for British football ?

Yeah he's out for the next three weeks

Green Hornet wrote: »

Maybe he really is sick but it smacks of Mad Jens "injury" last year when he was essentially dropped.

Different channels are reporting it differently.
RTE say Almunia withdrew himself from the Squad.
Sky are reporting him as 'ill'.

Wreck

Arsenal to win comfortably tonight, hopefully with a clean sheet.

Frisbee

Rossetti is the ref. Think he's a quality ref myself. Usually tries to let the game flow.

(Watch this game stop every two minutes now...)

Green Hornet

Hell of a lot of booing going on!

Frisbee

Green Hornet wrote: »

Hell of a lot of booing going on!

It's the Fenerbache fans. Arsenal fans don't make any noise....

This is starting to look all too familiar. Bucketloads of possession with no goals to show for it after a couple of squandered chances.
Bendtner really isn't having a great game.
We were fairly lucky twice at the start of the half when Djourou got his head on a ball over the top after Guiza had beaten the offside trap because there was no-one tracking.
Ramsey's looked lively though. Fabregas would drive you insane sometime. Couple of times in that half where he was in the position to take a shot and went for the eye of a needle pass instead

Pepe LeFrits

Our attack is too one-note, six creators and no runners.

OPENROAD

Green Hornet wrote: »

Hell of a lot of booing going on!

From the Fenerbache fans