Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 12/13 MOD POST #232

tayto lover

Wenger should have the team on the training ground tomorrow morning addressing the placed ball issue. I have been saying this for some time now and how the manager cannot see the obvious is baffling.
It is embarrassing at this stage.

gnfnrhead

tayto lover wrote: »

Wenger should have the team on the training ground tomorrow morning addressing the placed ball issue. I have been saying this for some time now and how the manager cannot see the obvious is baffling.
It is embarrassing at this stage.

I think we all would but Wenger doesnt seem all that interested in set pieces. I'd be shocked if we even practice penalties. Personally, I think we should play it short every now and then for someone to cross in. A lot of players are better at crossing when the ball is moving as apposed to stationary.

tayto lover

gnfnrhead wrote: »

I think we all would but Wenger doesnt seem all that interested in set pieces. I'd be shocked if we even practice penalties. Personally, I think we should play it short every now and then for someone to cross in. A lot of players are better at crossing when the ball is moving as apposed to stationary.

Some great corners on MOTD and they are a great weapon if rehearsed and worked properly. Why would any manager not be interested in set pieces, that's amazing if true. Has he said that?

DB10

They highlighted the lack of closing down today, and how Wilshere was the only one and soon got annoyed with the lack of help. Something must be done before we let Wilshere slip through the clubs grasp. Really feel sorry for him playing under Wenger and with some of the other dross who cant be bothered to even run and close down.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Wenger: "We didn't make enough of our corners, enough of our free kicks, enough of our chances."

I think he knows in fairness.

tayto lover

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

I think he knows in fairness.

He should have been saying that for months and actually dealing with the issue. It's not a new problem.

emergingstar

DB10 wrote: »

They highlighted the lack of closing down today, and how Wilshere was the only one and soon got annoyed with the lack of help. Something must be done before we let Wilshere slip through the clubs grasp. Really feel sorry for him playing under Wenger and with some of the other dross who cant be bothered to even run and close down.

You feel sorry for jack for playing under our greatest ever manager????

gnfnrhead

tayto lover wrote: »

Some great corners on MOTD and they are a great weapon if rehearsed and worked properly. Why would any manager not be interested in set pieces, that's amazing if true. Has he said that?

Dont think so but as you said, its been happening for years and nothing has changed. Wenger is far too smart to not have noticed it but yet has done nothing so to me it seems like he simply has no interest in that aspect.

monkey9

Deleted User wrote: »

The winners of the Champions League get to defend it, so if Spurs finish 4th we can stop them from qualifying once again.

That would be hilarious if that happened two years running for Spurs.

Gringo180

monkey9 wrote: »

That would be hilarious if that happened two years running for Spurs.

Cant see it happening tho as I reckon Spurs will finish 3rd quite easily this season, best we can hope for is 5th with this current team. Its sad to say but I think Spurs will be title contenders next season if they add to there squad in the summer which I think they will.

Mickeroo

Really is hard to be optimistic after today. Really can't see Spurs collapsing like they did last year.

Gringo180

Gringo180 wrote: »

Its sad to say but I think Spurs will be title contenders next season if they add to there squad in the summer which I think they will.

Ahahahahahahahaha! No f*cking chance. Liverpool have a better shot :pac:
The Mancs (between City and Utd) have it sown up until Fergie retires. Then City until something drastic happens.

Financial fair play is a load of boll*x, and it won't matter a thing to the money-top clubs.

gnfnrhead

Deleted User wrote: »

Ahahahahahahahaha! No f*cking chance. Liverpool have a better shot :pac:
The Mancs (between City and Utd) have it sown up until Fergie retires. Then City until something drastic happens.

Financial fair play is a load of boll*x, and it won't matter a thing to the money-top clubs.

This. Chelsea are the only team with a chance of breaking the top two any time soon and even they need a fair bit of work. With a few players we could push but probably not break in.

I'm still confidant of getting fourth as we're a better team than spurs, Liverpool, Everton and whoever else you wish to include.

Gringo180

I dont know how we can say were a better side than Spurs at the minute because were not, the league table doesnt lie lads and as much as it pains me to say it they are the better team now with better players in there team. Missing the mercenary Adebayor, Vertongen and Sandro today and they still battered Utd off the park I cant remember the last time we did that can yous?? Ill be absolutely amazed if were playing Champions Lge football next season.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Gringo180 wrote: »

I dont know how we can say were a better side than Spurs at the minute because were not, the league table doesnt lie lads and as much as it pains me to say it they are the better team now with better players in there team. Missing the mercenary Adebayor, Vertongen and Sandro today and they still battered Utd off the park I cant remember the last time we did that can yous?? Ill be absolutely amazed if were playing Champions Lge football next season.

Fortunately the season is 38 games long, not 23. They were 12 points up on us last season. Talk of them title challenging next season? Not a chance.

Gringo180

Gringo180 wrote: »

I dont know how we can say were a better side than Spurs at the minute because were not, the league table doesnt lie lads and as much as it pains me to say it they are the better team now with better players in there team. Missing the mercenary Adebayor, Vertongen and Sandro today and they still battered Utd off the park I cant remember the last time we did that can yous?? Ill be absolutely amazed if were playing Champions Lge football next season.

You're right, but you also don't know the score of a match by it's first half.

Spurs will f*ck up.


Somehow.

Gringo180

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

Fortunately the season is 38 games long, not 23. They were 12 points up on us last season. Talk of them title challenging next season? Not a chance.

There in a better position to be challenging for the title next season than us in my opinion. Were a team that suffers from footballing bipolar, great one minute and just lowest of the low the next. I mean watching the first half of that match today I am pretty sure a championship side would of looked better than us, especially defensively.

Yeah somehow they will fcuk up, I hope so myself, but ask yourself is that good enough for Arsenal FC?? Hoping other teams implode to make the top 4. It all seems rather to frequent and familiar to me.

Chucky the tree

Arsenal probably(although debabtle aswell) have a better first 11 but Spurs have a better squad,and on current form, manager tbh. I think Spurs under Harry and AVB are very different. Spurs under Harry today as manager would have collapsed when they went 1-0 and probably lost 3-0. Different beast under AVB now unfortunately. Harry spending the the last half of the season whoring himself for the England job certainly didn't help either.

FearDark

We won't even finish ahead of Everton.

keano_afc

Spurs have taken 4 points off United and really should have beaten them again yesterday. We cant even kick off a match looking like we want to win it. There's no doubt they're a beter side than us at the moment as they are motivated. We are not.

Relying on them to collapse again and other teams to do us favours against them as early as January shows how pathetic we are at the moment.

Frisbee

Yeah I don't think we can hope for a Spurs collapse again this season and I'm not confident of us even matching their results over the rest of the season, never mind bettering them.

Worst thing is it won't suddenly push Wenger into buying. We'll be told there's no money as we don't have the CL revenue coming in and that our squad is super qualitee and next season Diaby is going to play 800 games.

meriwether

I think the Spurs v United game is an interesting representation of the decline of Arsenal.

Once upon a time, we were hoping for Spurs to do us a favour against United.

Now we are hoping for United to do us a favour against Spurs.

FearDark

QPR are in for M'Villa.... the bottom club in the league is getting our targets. We are pathetic right now.

andrew241983

FearDark wrote: »

QPR are in for M'Villa.... the bottom club in the league is getting our targets. We are pathetic right now.

He has agreed to join Rubin Kazan and Rennes have agreed fee of 9.6m

FearDark

andrew241983 wrote: »

He has agreed to join Rubin Kazan and Rennes have agreed fee of 9.6m

My point remains. Rubin Kazan are hardly a European superpower. Why don't we get the players we need? We have a ton of dead wood in the squad, decent'ish first team but we couldn't beat a Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea team to save our lives. In fact whenever we play a team in the top half of the table I'm not confident.

AnCapaillMor

FearDark wrote: »

My point remains. Rubin Kazan are hardly a European superpower. Why don't we get the players we need?

Because more than likely Rubin threw stupid money at him, money talks and unfortunately we don't have a sugar daddy and are tight as a ducks ass when it comes to money.

Drexel

There must be a reason why the likes of Ruben and QPR are in for M'Vila. Last thing Arsenal need is someone with a bad attitude.

Cant see us getting 4th unless something drastic happens soon. Either a player or two or a serious change in attitude from the players we have. I think we need both!

Its mental how we can be so Jekyll and Hyde. They were like a different team in the second half so whatever Wenger said to them worked but why cant he get them going for a full match?

andrew241983

M'vila is not thr player we need anyway he has the same attitude as Balotteli would be suspended more times than playing so better of letting him go elsewhere... havent a clue who we will sign at this stage if anybody

Redzer7

andrew241983 wrote: »

M'vila is not thr player we need anyway he has the same attitude as Balotteli would be suspended more times than playing so better of letting him go elsewhere... havent a clue who we will sign at this stage if anybody

Has he not only got like 2 yellow cards in his 22 or so games this season? (Including cup games)

andrew241983

Redzer7 wrote: »

Has he not only got like 2 yellow cards in his 22 or so games this season? (Including cup games)

did you just google that????:D:D:D