Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

cson

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Kevin Davies has to be the dirtiest player in the Premiership!

A tinker of the highest order.

OPENROAD

Great result in the Stoke match, can see the pressure slowly getting to Liverpool which keeps us in with an outside chance, what sort of result do we want in the man utd/Chelsea match?

Royale with Cheese

Um I'd be more worried about getting 4th than winning the league .

Galvasean

Bender to the rescue eh?

I had no idea the match was on Setanta Ireland today. And to think I started work at 3. It's such a nuisance that arsenal.com doesn't mention when matches are televised on Setanta Ireland.

OPENROAD

Galvasean wrote: »

I had no idea the match was on Setanta Ireland today. And to think I started work at 3. It's such a nuisance that arsenal.com doesn't mention when matches are televised on Setanta Ireland.

Different country I suppose.

Green Hornet

I suppos it's good that we now have 2 premiership clean sheets in a row.

Frisbee

DenMan wrote: »

Get Arshavin in and possibly N'Zogbia too quickly.

Why would you want N'Zogbia?
He's a plank we don't need a left back or left winger so it would be pointless getting him in.

Royale with Cheese

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Um I'd be more worried about getting 4th than winning the league .

In terms of the league, I say, why not? Man United wouldn't give up at this stage and Chelsea were worse off this time last season. if we can get the right men in to help the youngsters this month, were as good as anyone. ill keep believing until its mathematically impossible.
However, the work rate needs to improve drastically in midfield. Diaby is like an old man at times. giving the ball away cheaply and lusterless fighting to win it back. Eboue is not good enough to play for us. Despite another late show from bendtner i don't think he has the technical ability either.
I have been very impressed with Denilson the last few weeks despite my earlier criticisms of him. I admire the fight and desire he's been showing for example when we were under the cosh vs Villa. A battler in midfield would help an enormous amount and would provide that foil for the more creative players like Denilson and Cesc.

TheNorthBank

Its such a shame that Diaby's passing is muck because he has bags of ability, but I don't think he's going to cut it at Arsenal. If lack of transfer funds is an issue at Arsenal at the moment surely we could offload Eboue, Diaby and Bendtner as they really are deadwood and bring in someone of real quality. Eboue was rubbish again yesterday, I watched the whole game on Setanta and I don't remember him getting a single cross in from the right. Instead he kept cutting inside and cluttering up the box, to the point where Adebayor ended up on the wing the whole time trying to get crosses in.

keane2097

What's happening with Arshavin now?

Galvasean

keane2097 wrote: »

What's happening with Arshavin now?

Well apparently Arsenal offered £10million up front with a further 5million in appearance clauses, but Zenith want more money up front so now Arsenal are gonna try £12million.

tony1kenobi

keane2097 wrote: »

What's happening with Arshavin now?

Zenit rejected a 10 million bid. No one else is after him, or no one is showing an official interest. I think 10 mill was a bit of a cheek but I guess if they get no other offers we might get him for under 15....

Galvasean

Wenger says what everyone is thinking:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/7823174.stm

Frisbee

TheNorthBank wrote: »

Its such a shame that Diaby's passing is muck because he has bags of ability, but I don't think he's going to cut it at Arsenal. If lack of transfer funds is an issue at Arsenal at the moment surely we could offload Eboue, Diaby and Bendtner as they really are deadwood and bring in someone of real quality. Eboue was rubbish again yesterday, I watched the whole game on Setanta and I don't remember him getting a single cross in from the right. Instead he kept cutting inside and cluttering up the box, to the point where Adebayor ended up on the wing the whole time trying to get crosses in.

Eboue - Good cover for RB and RM. If we sold him we'd have to bring in someone else that can do both jobs or two people to do each.

Diaby - CM is our problem position and you want to get rid of our best offensive CM after Cesc?

Bendtner - Don't want him sold. Maybe put him out on loan or something, but he's useful for battering defences.

Galvasean

Anyone else in a similar predicament to me?
Me and a mate are thinking about visiting the Emirates to watch a match but are scared that we may end up watching a game similar to the Bolton one, ie: the opposition setting up camp in their own half and making it boring..

Frisbee

Galvasean wrote: »

Anyone else in a similar predicament to me?
Me and a mate are thinking about visiting the Emirates to watch a match but are scared that we may end up watching a game similar to the Bolton one, ie: the opposition setting up camp in their own half and making it boring..

I was so close to being at the Pompey game.
Thank god we decided against it...

Galvasean

We were thinking March but the only home game is against Blackburn and I can imagine that being much of the same. In early April we have Man City, they might play some ball, BUT I fear in desperation for points they might not. Next home game aint til the 25th and thats Middlesborough, whom I cant imagine coming out to play against us away from home.
Think I'll have to hope we beat Roma and have a Champions league game.

Royale with Cheese

I'm heading over to the Sunderland game. The bus will probably be on the pitch alright.

redout

There is this little side called Roma coming to visit the Emirates on the 24th of february. I could be wrong but I dont think the will set up camp in there own half especially when a priceless away goal will be up for grabs but thats just me.

Frisbee

redout wrote: »

There is this little side called Roma coming to visit the Emirates on the 24th of february. I could be wrong but I dont think the will set up camp in there own half especially when a priceless away goal will be up for grabs but thats just me.

Hard enough game to get tickets for though...

TheNorthBank

Frisbee wrote: »

Eboue - Good cover for RB and RM. If we sold him we'd have to bring in someone else that can do both jobs or two people to do each.

Diaby - CM is our problem position and you want to get rid of our best offensive CM after Cesc?

Bendtner - Don't want him sold. Maybe put him out on loan or something, but he's useful for battering defences.

Eboue-
Cover for RB maybe, wouldn't go as far as to say good cover though. And he's proven time after time that he can't play in midfield. In the season and a half that he's been playing at RM he hasn't had a good game there yet.

Diaby-
(...our best offensive CM after Cesc) That doesn't mean he's any good, it just goes to prove how poor our squad actually is. As I said in my earlier post, I want to get rid of him and replace him with quality because he's not the answer. I don't mean to just sell and leave a big hole there.

Bendtner-
2 premiership goals all season, both against Bolton. Enough said.

These guys just aren't good enough to be in our Arsenal team, and as long as they are we'll win nothing! Out of these 3 players, which of them do you think would be good enough to get into the Utd, Chelski or Liverpool teams? NONE of them would! So then why should we (Arsenal fans) be content with sub-standard players lining out for us week after week. Remember Its not that long ago that we had the best players in the world all throughout the team, now Diaby is our best offensive Midfielder while Cesc is out? I'm sorry, and maybe I'm alone in my thinking, but I think thats Pathetic!

Frisbee

TheNorthBank wrote: »

Eboue-
Cover for RB maybe, wouldn't go as far as to say good cover though. And he's proven time after time that he can't play in midfield. In the season and a half that he's been playing at RM he hasn't had a good game there yet.

Diaby-
(...our best offensive CM after Cesc) That doesn't mean he's any good, it just goes to prove how poor our squad actually is. As I said in my earlier post, I want to get rid of him and replace him with quality because he's not the answer. I don't mean to just sell and leave a big hole there.

Bendtner-
2 premiership goals all season, both against Bolton. Enough said.

These guys just aren't good enough to be in our Arsenal team, and as long as they are we'll win nothing! Out of these 3 players, which of them do you think would be good enough to get into the Utd, Chelski or Liverpool teams? NONE of them would! So then why should we (Arsenal fans) be content with sub-standard players lining out for us week after week. Remember Its not that long ago that we had the best players in the world all throughout the team, now Diaby is our best offensive Midfielder while Cesc is out? I'm sorry, and maybe I'm alone in my thinking, but I think thats Pathetic!

It's silly to say get rid of Diaby because he is poor and he doesn't deserve to be in the team. If we get rid of him then we only have Ramsey to go in there as a creative spark and he's far too young. I'd rather have Diaby in there myself.

As for Bendtner getting both his goals against Bolton. If we hadn't have had Bendtner yesterday we wouldn't have scored. The fact that he's scored twice against Bolton obviously shows he's handy to have around as backup for when a team throw ten men behind the ball against us.

We don't have the money to go buy a replacement RB/RM or RB and a RM if we sell Eboue so selling him makes no sense, and if we sold him we'd certainly have to bring in a RB as injury cover for Sagna.

Bounty Hunter

one negative if arshavin does sign imo is it will probably further limit Vela's time on the field and I already feel he is deserving of more of a chance.

Frisbee

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

one negative if arshavin does sign imo is it will probably further limit Vela's time on the field and I already feel he is deserving of more of a chance.

Agreed, at least he's getting on around the 60 minute mark now. And it's obvious he's making a big difference to the game when he comes on.

SlickRic

With all due respect, how anyone could make a case for keeping Bendtner in the arsenal team is beyond me. Yes he scored yesterday, but he was appalling the rest of the time.

Basically, a really really bad version of Berbatov

Frisbee

SlickRic wrote: »

With all due respect, how anyone could make a case for keeping Bendtner in the arsenal team is beyond me. Yes he scored yesterday, but he was appalling the rest of the time.

Basically, a really really bad version of Berbatov

We need to hold onto Bendtner because when playing teams like Bolton who sit ten men behind the ball he's handy to bring on as his physicality is good for lumping balls into the box.

Roddy23

What's the story with van Persie's contract. Read somewhere online this morning, that he only had 6 months left to run. Surely would have thought we had learnt our lesson last year (if it's true).

L'prof

Roddy23 wrote: »

What's the story with van Persie's contract. Read somewhere online this morning, that he only had 6 months left to run. Surely would have thought we had learnt our lesson last year (if it's true).

I doubt that very much, he would be able to talk to clubs about a free signing right now if that were the case! Not sure how long he has left though.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Reckon it must be bull**** http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4588692.stm

Royale with Cheese

Van Persie is under contract until 2011.

Edit: Dang, I lose.