Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015

emmetlego · 11-03-2015 11:16PM

efb wrote: »

Lightening strike twice?

Well, PSG beat Chelsea with 10 men for the vast majority of the game…. Anything is possible, that's what makes sport so addictive. You just never know what will actually happen!

DenMan · 11-03-2015 11:17PM

Chelsea are out of the Champions League while we're still in it!

Gringo180 · 11-03-2015 11:37PM

Specialist in failure

efb · 11-03-2015 11:37PM

Watching Chelsea and United makes me even more glad Arsene is our manager

WoollyRedHat · 11-03-2015 11:39PM

I think we should really go for it at Monaco after seeing the results from the last two days. We just need to press Monaco from the off and force errors and I think we could get the 3 away goals needed ( although I envisage we might need four as they will inevitably get one back).

If we were to perform what would be an unlikely comeback we could get the likes of PSG, Porto or Juve (if they get past Dortmund)in the Quarter, who I'd fancy our chances against.
Real, Bayern, Barcelona and Atheletic to avoid.
PSG will be without Ibrahimovich and Motta for the Quarter Final.

I think it would be worth trying Sanchez up front with Giroud, what do people think of that?
Then Walcott on the flanks

Looper007 · 11-03-2015 11:40PM

efb wrote: »

Watching Chelsea and United makes me even more glad Arsene is our manager

Arsene aside from a moan at the sidelines, doesn't insult his fellow managers or speaks down to teams like Jose.

Ol' Donie · 11-03-2015 11:42PM

Jesus lads, I still hadn't stopped smiling from Monday.

This is the best week ever.

Looper007 · 11-03-2015 11:42PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I think we should really go for it at Monaco after seeing the results from the last two days. We just need to press Monaco from the off and force errors and I think we could get the 3 away goals needed ( although I envisage we might need four as they will inevitably get one back).

We can't play as bad as the 1st leg, I imagine Monaco playing it safe and very defensively and breaking out. If we up our game we can get those three goals back but its defensively I worry for us.

Ol' Donie · 11-03-2015 11:45PM

efb wrote: »

Watching Chelsea and United makes me even more glad Arsene is our manager

Lads a serious point here...as it stands this year, no English team is going further than Arsenal in Europe, and we are the top non-sugar daddy club in the league.

I really, really don't think changing manager is a good idea.

Kirby · 11-03-2015 11:56PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Lads a serious point here...as it stands this year, no English team is going further than Arsenal in Europe, and we are the top non-sugar daddy club in the league.

I really, really don't think changing manager is a good idea.

This is a logic fallacy that many people fall into. Your rivals being a bit sh*te does not make you any better. It would be foolhardy to think so.

For a perfect example of this, look at Fergies last year at United when they won the league. They won the league with a sub standard squad, playing poorly and getting winning goals from RvP when they didn't deserve to win games. They weren't good enough to win a league that year but they did due to a freak occurrence of Chelsea, City and Arsenal all imploding in the league simultaneously.

This led some silly United fans to think all was well in the garden when it was obvious that serious, serious work was needed with their team.

Being knocked out in the last 16 and scraping top 4 again is no reason to celebrate for an Arsenal fan and Chelsea getting their comeuppance doesn't change that fact.

Alfred Borden · 12-03-2015 12:54AM

:pac:

https://twitter.com/soccergunz/status/575806386614898689

kronsington · 12-03-2015 01:28AM

I'm delighted to see Chelsea out. An utterly contemptable club from top to bottom. Has any team ever overcome a deficit like we face in the CL knockouts before? I don't think so as far as I know. Despite all the logic, I think we can do it. It would be amazing and one of our great nights if so. Tactics will be so crucial obviously. Who knows how Monaco will approach the game, we will definitely score.. If this round had shown us anything so far it's that last going for it can reap rewards as it did for psg and nearly Schalke

12-03-2015 01:34AM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Jesus lads, I still hadn't stopped smiling from Monday.

This is the best week ever.

Tipp beat Kilkenny on Sunday along with Ireland taking another step toward a grand slam it will have been some week.

12-03-2015 01:43AM

kronsington wrote: »

I'm delighted to see Chelsea out. An utterly contemptable club from top to bottom. Has any team ever overcome a deficit like we face in the CL knockouts before? I don't think so as far as I know. Despite all the logic, I think we can do it. It would be amazing and one of our great nights if so. Tactics will be so crucial obviously. Who knows how Monaco will approach the game, we will definitely score.. If this round had shown us anything so far it's that last going for it can reap rewards as it did for psg and nearly Schalke

The thing is i actually dont really mind Chelsea or Man City normally. Hated City with Mancini over them and absolutely hate that Mourinho.I like Pellegrini though. Seems like a classy guy. And Chelsea have won the few trophies since Billy big head returned under Rafa, Ancelloti (league and cup double), Di Matteo (CL and Cup) and Hiddink (Cup in 09). They were quite unlucky that season under Avram Grant too tbh where they got to two finals and lost the prem title on the last day of the season. He aint so special really.

As for overcoming deficits the last time it sticks out in memory was Deportivo beating Milan 4-0 back in 2004 after being 4-1 down from the first leg. We nearly done it against Milan in 2012 but other than that i cannot remember any game that sticks out in the mind although someone will point it out to me and the memories will start flooding back

Roddy23 · 12-03-2015 01:56AM

kronsington wrote: »

I'm delighted to see Chelsea out. An utterly contemptable club from top to bottom. Has any team ever overcome a deficit like we face in the CL knockouts before? I don't think so as far as I know. Despite all the logic, I think we can do it. It would be amazing and one of our great nights if so. Tactics will be so crucial obviously. Who knows how Monaco will approach the game, we will definitely score.. If this round had shown us anything so far it's that last going for it can reap rewards as it did for psg and nearly Schalke

Only team I can think of is Deportivo hockeying Milan after losing the first leg 3 or 4 nil, back when Depo had some good players.

TimeToShine · 12-03-2015 02:00AM

Roddy23 wrote: »

Only team I can think of is Deportivo hockeying Milan after losing the first leg 3 or 4 nil, back when Depo had some good players.

We've a few lads who can kick a ball so you never know.

Pierce_1991 · 12-03-2015 03:21AM

kronsington wrote: »

I'm delighted to see Chelsea out. An utterly contemptable club from top to bottom. Has any team ever overcome a deficit like we face in the CL knockouts before? I don't think so as far as I know. Despite all the logic, I think we can do it. It would be amazing and one of our great nights if so. Tactics will be so crucial obviously. Who knows how Monaco will approach the game, we will definitely score.. If this round had shown us anything so far it's that last going for it can reap rewards as it did for psg and nearly Schalke

Liverpool overcame a bigger deficit in half a champions league game, we can definitely do it with 90 minutes!

Spanish Johnny · 12-03-2015 05:06AM

That's a crazy tie for Chelsea to lose in the circumstances. 11 v 10...at home and conceding after scoring. It was would be utter chaotic armageddon type meltdown if that happened us...mentally weak we'd be portrayed again and be bottlers. And rightly so!

I just dislike the innate conservatism that Mourinho instills in his teams. Costly tactics last night.

byrneg28 · 12-03-2015 10:07AM

Roddy23 wrote: »

Only team I can think of is Deportivo hockeying Milan after losing the first leg 3 or 4 nil, back when Depo had some good players.

That was the same year Shelbourne drew with Deportivo 0-0 in Landsdowne

WoollyRedHat · 12-03-2015 02:51PM

Chambers takes over from where Jenko and Ox left off.

tayto lover · 12-03-2015 08:50PM

Arsenal reps watching this No. 6 Dragovich playing for Dynamo Kiev against Everton tonight.
Live on 105E.

emergingstar · 12-03-2015 08:54PM

Olivier Giroud was injured August-December. So around 14 games missed.Costa only has 4 goals more than him in all comps. Make what you will.

efb · 12-03-2015 09:00PM

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

Liverpool overcame a bigger deficit in half a champions league game, we can definitely do it with 90 minutes!

That was a neutral venue

Pierce_1991 · 12-03-2015 09:14PM

efb wrote: »

That was a neutral venue

You're awfully negative about this tie, there's always a chance!

efb · 12-03-2015 09:34PM

Pierce_1991 wrote: »

You're awfully negative about this tie, there's always a chance!

I'm so annoyed over the first leg? I dunno I'm just not getting my hopes up

12-03-2015 10:49PM

Would love to see us getting 3rd, Liverpool 4th and Everton winning the EL!

Alfred Borden · 12-03-2015 11:17PM

AdamD wrote: »

Would love to see us getting 3rd, Liverpool 4th and Everton winning the EL!

Southampton instead of Liverpool and Im happy :pac:

Ajfunky · 13-03-2015 04:43AM

Hector bellerin signing a new 4 year deal according to Arsenlog (l'equipe).

What an outstanding development this guy has had so far. Even though there is not much back up right now, nobody bats an eyelid when bellerin is first on the team sheet at the moment, he has really earned his place and I think Wenger will have a headache trying to decide whether to watch hector grow or let debuchy back in straight away.

Exciting times with some of the youth we currently have in our team ( bellerin ox Coquelin gnabry Martinez zelalem) and that's not including our fairly young established players in Ramsey Ozil szcezny and Sanchez. Exciting times ahead it feels like- crazy how a season can take shape!

On that note also- are arsenal starting to look like the only team who was happy with their transfer business (absolute hyperbole ha) but falcao, costa, di Maria, balotelli, lovren.. Lots of disappointed fans in the other threads at the moment - we seem relatively happy about our new boys!

KaiserGunner · 13-03-2015 04:55AM

Yeah I'm happy with our transfers that we have made this season so far. Obviously it's too early to judge Gabriel, it's a signing that we should have made last summer as we knew we would need proper central defender cover for this season. Delighted to see Coquelin playing so well and being that central midfielder that we badly needed. Hopefully he can keep it up long term.

Imo we are close to a complete squad, still think that to challenge for a league we probably need a world class striker to compete with/replace Giroud, not dissing Giroud btw. Although you can argue that we should get enough goals with Sanchez, Walcott, Welbeck etc. Depending on Coquelin form and that we could do with bringing in another midfielder to compete for that position or take over.

Then depending on how well Gabriel fits in we could be set at centre half with Kosc, Mert, Gab and Chambers there. Looking at our squad on paper it looks quite strong. Obviously getting top 3/4 and winning the cup is the aim for the rest of the season. Then next season with a signing or two and quite a bit of luck with injuries, we could look well set for the season ahead and try and push on.

bad2dabone · 13-03-2015 08:44AM

Arseblog today :

"And the other day Arsene Wenger said that Gabriel, who strained his hamstring against QPR, could be back in training this Sunday and may be available for Monaco. Now, I’m not suggesting that we’re injecting them with growth hormones and stem cells and spinning their blood like other clubs might possibly do but I’m not saying which ones but it’s the ones where the players are hardly ever injured and they have EPO orgies and stuff, but could it be possible that things are improving on the recovery front? I guess we’ll see."

Hmmmm

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