Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015/16 ( Mod Note linked in OP 29/12)

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Mod Note 29/12/15 - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=98223661&postcount=5252

Panthro

Hon Chelsea

efb

We're gonna win the League

Quazzie

Over react much?

#WENGEROUT

tayto lover

Penalties.:pac:

efb

Jose, specialist in,... Mickey Mouse competitions...

Summer?

Marty McFly

Panthro wrote: »

Hon Chelsea

Congrats you just done the equivalent of a YouTube "first" comment :rolleyes:

efb

Deleted User wrote: »

Summer?

Sun splitting the rocks out there!!!!

efb

Marty McFly wrote: »

Congrats you just done the equivalent of a YouTube "first" comment :rolleyes:

I thought he wS cheering them on in their best chance of silverware this season???

liam7831

Great win by Stoke on pens, might turn around their season

emmetlego

What channel are these games on?

efb

emmetlego wrote: »

What channel are these games on?

Sky Sports 5????

emmetlego

efb wrote: »

Sky Sports 5????

No, just SSN HQ there too!

gandalf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQgQIMlwWw

Feck it lets be positive

efb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr0tTbTbmVA

emmetlego

Early thoughts on twitter is that Theo and Ox are out for 2 weeks each....

liam7831

emmetlego wrote: »

No, just SSN HQ there too!

Sky Sp NewsHQ

tayto lover

Chelsea out.

emmetlego

Jose.

Specialist in failure! :-)

Sorry Mickeroo!

emmetlego

Better off ourra them cups... Unless you're near the bottom of the table! :-)

Alfred Borden

We should keep an eye on Butlands development at Stoke. Could be a long term replacement for Cech in 5 years.

gandalf

United and City are going to have to match ours and Chelseas results now :P

tayto lover

Would like to see Everton win this cup now.

efb

tayto lover wrote: »

Would like to see Everton win this cup now.

Come on Wednesday!



only 1 hour and 25 minutes to go! :P

acquiescefc

Suns coming up here in Asia,
I can confirm it wasn't a dream,
Wednesday did win 3-0

#CarlosHadADream

efb

acquiescefc wrote: »

Suns coming up here in Asia,
I can confirm it wasn't a dream,
Wednesday did win 3-0

#CarlosHadADream

Da fuq???

Gringo180

Agree with Wenger that the youngsters that played tonight are nowhere near up to the standard, not yet anyways. Always disappointed to lose, especially by 3 goals, but it was our defensive performance that annoys me the most. Just abysmal defending from set pieces. No creativity either in the side, Giroud would of as well being in the stands because the lad go no service whatsoever, Campbell was very tame but to be fair to him I think hes is a player that needs a run of games in the team.

gosplan

Misses the game as was playing football. All about the injuries really, couldn't give a sh1t about the result.

How was Campbell? Can he play RW for a few weeks?

Or can Bellerin move further forward.

Other option is Flamster but moving Santi out of the middle might apply the infamous handbrake I fear.

I reckon start Campbell ... But I didn't see tonight. But surely with a fresh Ozil and Caz working with him...?

Really down to the bare bones now. Need to avoid any more injuries.

In case you're getting depressed about it though, remember that early last year, we started with teams like tonight's in the league.

tayto lover

Gringo180 wrote: »

Agree with Wenger that the youngsters that played tonight are nowhere near up to the standard, not yet anyways. Always disappointed to lose, especially by 3 goals, but it was our defensive performance that annoys me the most. Just abysmal defending from set pieces. No creativity either in the side, Giroud would of as well being in the stands because the lad go no service whatsoever, Campbell was very tame but to be fair to him I think hes is a player that needs a run of games in the team.

Me too.
Even if it was a friendly it was not good enough and they let the jersey down.

Alfred Borden

Move Sanchez right and put Gibbs to the left? Dont think we should be moving players around that are doing well in their positions lately (Bellerin,Santi,Ozil)

2ndcoming

Not overly bothered about anything other than the injuries... hopefully they're minor. Was painful enough viewing such an unfamiliar team in an unfamiliar jersey, honestly a million miles from the exploits of the past week in every way but just goes to show you can't get away with that many changes against a top half Championship team no matter who you are.

Also, it's safe to say summer is over by now, can we get the title fixed or what?

Soups123

Alfred Borden wrote: »

Move Sanchez right and put Gibbs to the left? Dont think we should be moving players around that are doing well in their positions lately (Bellerin,Santi,Ozil)

I think we have no choice but to start Campbell, the more we move around the more we disrupt.

We need Cazorla deep otherwise nobody sets the play.

Would hate to see the wheels come loose because of injuries again

Gringo180

tayto lover wrote: »

Me too.
Even if it was a friendly it was not good enough and they let the jersey down.

A far cry from the passion on display from our defenders against Everton. The only plus tonight is that it wasn't a league game and stronger players can come into the line up for whats a massive game v Swansea the weekend.

tayto lover

Gringo180 wrote: »

A far cry from the passion on display from our defenders against Everton. The only plus tonight is that it wasn't a league game and stronger players can come into the line up for whats a massive game v Swansea the weekend.

Would hate to see Monrael or Bellerin injured if we have to rely on what we saw tonight though.
At least we have Gabriel for the middle.

Alfred Borden

Soups123 wrote: »

Would hate to see the wheels come loose because of injuries again

We really have nothing on the bench to change the game saturday if we need to

CatInABox

emmetlego wrote: »

Jose.

Specialist in failure! :-)

Sorry Mickeroo!

Eh? Mickeroo is an Arsenal supporter.

Gringo180

tayto lover wrote: »

Would hate to see Monrael or Bellerin injured if we have to rely on what we saw tonight though.
At least we have Gabriel for the middle.

Gabriel is surely first choice along with Koscielny now?

Soups123

Alfred Borden wrote: »

We really have nothing on the bench to change the game saturday if we need to

Yep that's a worry, we need to try keep it together until Nov 8th, then by the game after that Nov 21 we should have Theo, Ox, Ramsey and Arteta back you hope.

If we can deal with the next 3 games I'd be confident of what we can do this season

Soups123

Gringo180 wrote: »

Gabriel is surely first choice along with Koscielny now?

It's heading that way but Mert has had great games recently, he always looks poor in a second string defense.

Him Kos and Gab are 3 excellent options

shano_88

Theos didnt look too bad but still obviously a major doubt for this weekend.

Its a disaster injury wise. Really dont care too much about the result!

Soups123

shano_88 wrote: »

Theos didnt look too bad but still obviously a major doubt for this weekend.

Its a disaster injury wise. Really dont care too much about the result!

What makes you think Theo is not too bad? His looked worse than Ox I thought

shano_88

Soups123 wrote: »

What makes you think Theo is not too bad? His looked worse than Ox I thought

Was it? I was watching it in the pub so could be wrong. Just though it looked precautionary.

KaiserGunner

Biggest disappointment about tonight is the injuries, hopefully they aren't too bad. Defensively we were very poor, but the team just didn't look bothered. We have been flying in the league and that's the main thing.

It is worrying that certain squad players were so poor, so as always injuries will be key to see how well we do this season, but you could say the same about any team. We were never going to win this cup anyway, so no real loss for me. Fair play to Sheffield Wednesday though, not taking anything away from them.

Bobby Baccala

As said in the above post, fair play to the Wednesday. Played us off the park.

JustTheOne

Worrying its only October and injuries already getting big.

Just want one season free from it. Ugh.

gosplan

Ah OK, we recall Gnabry for the next few weeks.

Still an awesome first team but little or no midfield or attacking subs.

Start the usual team but with Gnabry on right.

Then defensive subs

Flamini > One of the mids
Gibbs > Sanchez

In terms of injury crises, it's not that bad.

Just no more!!!

L'prof

gosplan wrote: »

Ah OK, we recall Gnabry for the next few weeks.

Still an awesome first team but little or no midfield or attacking subs.

Start the usual team but with Gnabry on right.

Then defensive subs

Flamini > One of the mids
Gibbs > Sanchez

In terms of injury crises, it's not that bad.

Just no more!!!

Can we? If he is recalled, no point sending him back there!

Has it come out that the ox was struggling with his hammy before that match? He always does a few hamstring stretches before coming in to the pitch, but last night he was doing some crazy single-leg deadlifts in the centre circle right before kick-off. Struck me as pretty strange.

Roaster

The one thing I got out of tonight is Debuchy couldn't give a toss. Flamini wasn't far behind either. You look at that back four and there's two England internationals, a French international and a world cup winner there. Now I know they don't play together each week but we couldn't even do the basics last night. The first two goals were bad but the third just took the biscuit. If I saw my 8 year old nephew leave someone totally unmarked like your man was for the third he'd be grounded for a month - SHOCKING DEFENDING and I think it was very wrong of Wenger to say that the young players aren't up to it. His experienced players let him down big time last night.

ectoraige

All these added injuries will be putting pressure on the medical staff - Arsenal should troll Mourinho by hiring Eva :pac: