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

emergingstar · 20-01-2013 06:03PM

Pappa Dolla wrote: »

As sad as it is, I think it's time to lower expectations with this team. We aren't on the same level as Chelsea, City or United. We never sold RVP to a rival.

Sad day today.

Think most of our expectations are lowered were hoping to be best of the rest

tayto lover · 20-01-2013 06:13PM

Quazzie wrote: »

A decent ref and we might have win today. I think people are getting hysterical over a result that we were robbed in. We looked a much better team than Chelsea the second half despite having no decent sub's to bring on.

Bitching and moaning here isn't going to change things art the club so we can back what's there out settle for being unhappy when days like today happen. After the second half display I'm trying to see the positives in the situation.

We had a good enough second-half against City too but we didn't get any points, just like today. The table doesn't lie.
Both City and Chelsea could have been out of sight at half-time to be honest.
People are entitled to complain about that. There are two halves to any game and performing in one of them won't win you anything.

We got few refereeing decisions today but we never do get them.

tayto lover · 20-01-2013 06:15PM

HazDanz wrote: »

How many times have we seen that happen though? It's all gotten a little tiring.

Shouldn't take a sh*t first half performance to light a fire under the teams ass. They should be driving from the start to enforce themselves on the match.

I posted something similar before the game. We needed to focus and attack from the start and stop being reactionary as usual.

Marty McFly · 20-01-2013 06:26PM

AS much as I hate to admit it because hes a useless pundit Jamie Redknapp just talked the truth about Arsenal.

20-01-2013 06:30PM

Quazzie wrote: »

Coward might be the right word, but he doesn't give it all for the club like he used, so maybe uncommitted is a better word, and one you might agree with more, and I think although we might phrase it differently the fact he doesn't apply himself to the task anymore is evident for all to see.

I honestly put it down to him just not being the same player as he was. 2 broken legs plus a host of other injuries catches up with you at some stage.

sonic85 · 20-01-2013 06:30PM

Marty McFly wrote: »

AS much as I hate to admit it because hes a useless pundit Jamie Redknapp just talked the truth about Arsenal.

damn i missed it. what did he say

DenMan · 20-01-2013 06:32PM

Bring on the Europa League next season. We're going to win it.

Marty McFly · 20-01-2013 06:36PM

sonic85 wrote: »

damn i missed it. what did he say

Ah he was just talking about how were falling further and further behind, how Van Persie would have buried that chance Giroud missed, how were lacking in quality and that Arsenal fans must be screaming for some quality signings.

20-01-2013 06:37PM

DenMan wrote: »

Bring on the Europa League next season. We're going to win it.

If we can actually qualify for it.

20-01-2013 06:42PM

DenMan wrote: »

Bring on the Europa League next season. We're going to win it.

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

darego · 20-01-2013 06:50PM

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.

we won't even get past bayern on current form lol :pac: :pac:

gnfnrhead · 20-01-2013 06:59PM

darego wrote: »

we won't even get past bayern on current form lol :pac: :pac:

While I agree, wasnt the same said for every round in 2006? A bit of luck in the final and we'd have won the lot.

jonneymendoza · 20-01-2013 07:01PM

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.

lol would not surprise me one bit if that happened again.

remember the food poisoning incident they had that cost them 4th spot?
remember last season chelsea won the CL against all the odds?
Remember this season when Arsenal fluked their way to CL success and finished 6th in th e league?

:pac::pac::pac:

gosplan · 20-01-2013 07:34PM

While we could have done better at points today, the only reason we were in the game at all is through Chelsea's fragility at home and a weird persistence in playing Torres.

Chelsea let us into that and we should have done better but Chelsea are a far superior team to us. They got hazard, we got gervinho!!

greendom · 20-01-2013 07:38PM

gosplan wrote: »

While we could have done better at points today, the only reason we were in the game at all is through Chelsea's fragility at home and a weird persistence in playing Torres.

Chelsea let us into that and we should have done better but Chelsea are a far superior team to us. They got hazard, we got gervinho!!

Gervinho is bad but you can hardly blame him for today :pac:

20-01-2013 07:49PM

Ye were very impressive in that 2nd half today so I think Wenger might be onto something with regards belief. Giroud and Cazorla are new to the league and have had some good games. I think their quality will shine through next season if Giroud is made first choice for the rest of this one. You can't expect a player to start once or twice a month and be at optimum performance level. Walcott is doing a good job through the middle but that role is new to him too. I reckon there will be a few more moves in the Summer and if you are patient with Wenger you will reap the rewards.

andrew241983 · 20-01-2013 07:54PM

No rumours of bids for both gotze and hummels can't see it happening myself I think a few arsenal fans are getting desperate

Nuri Sahin · 20-01-2013 08:11PM

andrew241983 wrote: »

No rumours of bids for both gotze and hummels can't see it happening myself I think a few arsenal fans are getting desperate

:pac:

As a Dortmund supporter this is news to me.

andrew241983 · 20-01-2013 08:12PM

Supporter ?? Thought you where a player ha

gosplan · 20-01-2013 08:23PM

Liam O wrote: »

Ye were very impressive in that 2nd half today so I think Wenger might be onto something with regards belief. Giroud and Cazorla are new to the league and have had some good games. I think their quality will shine through next season if Giroud is made first choice for the rest of this one. You can't expect a player to start once or twice a month and be at optimum performance level. Walcott is doing a good job through the middle but that role is new to him too. I reckon there will be a few more moves in the Summer and if you are patient with Wenger you will reap the rewards.

Wenger's always said that players need 6 months to adjust to England. Hopefully we'll see Santi and Giroud push on as Mata has this year.

What i'd love is some fluidity with the formation though. The thing i have the most respect for Fergie for is that he can line up with pretty much any formation he chooses. I'd like to see us get a bit more direct with poorer teams and force the defenders into mistakes as opposed to the slow methodical build up every time.

Also taking corners by chipping the ball into the hands of the goalie when you're playing the best counterattacking team in the league isn't too great. We should not do that any more.

greendom · 20-01-2013 09:01PM

Wenger's been snapped at Heathrow, apparently Germany bound....

gnfnrhead · 20-01-2013 09:04PM

greendom wrote: »

Wenger's been snapped at Heathrow, apparently Germany bound....

We do play Bayern in a few weeks time. Could be as simple as first hand scouting.

emergingstar · 20-01-2013 09:09PM

Tim stillman had a go at arshavin in his match report for been fat

greendom · 20-01-2013 09:09PM

gnfnrhead wrote: »

We do play Bayern in a few weeks time. Could be as simple as first hand scouting.

Apparently it's a fake - damn you twitter !

farna_boy · 20-01-2013 10:15PM

The corners were probably the most depressing thing today. Everytime we had one it turned into a goal scoring opportunity for Chelsea. I would much prefer us to just pass the ball back to Szczesny from a corner than just give it away like we did today. At least if we just passed it back, we would retain possession.

emergingstar · 20-01-2013 10:44PM

I'm heading to the Liverpool match if I don't see a big fcuker in the middle of the field kicking someone I won't be happy esp after paying 115 euro for a ticket

greendom · 20-01-2013 10:52PM

emergingstar wrote: »

I'm heading to the Liverpool match if I don't see a big fcuker in the middle of the field kicking someone I won't be happy esp after paying 115 euro for a ticket

For €115 you should be allowed onto the pitch to do some kicking of your own

dvemail · 20-01-2013 11:05PM

Mbiwa to have medical at Newcastle tomorrow. Thats him gone it looks like.

20-01-2013 11:07PM

Crazy how both M'Vila and Yanga-Mbwia are both going for fairly cheap yet we seemingly aren't even interested, when if we were we'd be favourites to sign them both.

dvemail · 20-01-2013 11:09PM

Think Wenger is a bit dubious to sign either as they might actually improve our squad.

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

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