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Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2015

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  • #2
    Kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    Woo! New thread.








    Same Sh*t :p


  • #3
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Mickeroo




    Mickeroo

    Oh thank god it's not that rat Gav :pac:


  • #4
    Roddy23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,473 ✭✭✭Roddy23


    Predictions for Sunday??

    City 2 Arsenal 3

    COYG


  • #5
    Alfred Borden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭Alfred Borden


    City 0-6 (six) Arsenal


  • #6
    Nemeses2050
    Registered Users Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Nemeses2050


    2-2


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  • #7
    gosplan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,828 ✭✭✭gosplan


    The corner has been turned!!!

    What we really need to celebrate this shiny new thread is a shiny new signing.


  • #8
    Pudders
    Registered Users Posts: 822 ✭✭✭Pudders


    gosplan wrote: »
    The corner has been turned!!!

    What we really need to celebrate this shiny new thread is a shiny new signing.

    Kalou?


  • #9
    gosplan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,828 ✭✭✭gosplan


    Pudders wrote: »
    Kalou?

    His is quite shiny. Though so was Cygan.


  • #10
    byrneg28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭byrneg28


    IT'S HERE

    This is were the run starts... well after we lose to City


  • #11
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Woo hoo new thread.

    @emmetlego: in hospital with a heavily pregnant wife. Just precautionary thankfully. Will reply to your post when I get out.


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  • #12
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Emmet, best wishes name the baby Arsene!


  • #13
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Man City 1-2 Arsenal

    Giroud and Sanchez


  • #14
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Oh BTW, #1 DB10 Henry threw a strop to leave


  • #15
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,099 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    efb wrote: »
    Oh BTW, #1 DB10 Henry threw a strop to leave
    DB10 has ignored us ever since, and has even flirted with a coaching role at Spurs.


  • #16
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Quazzie wrote: »
    DB10 has ignored us ever since, and has even flirted with a coaching role at Spurs.

    Really when? He is at AJAX Is my understanding


  • #17
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,099 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    efb wrote: »
    Really when? He is at AJAX Is my understanding
    And before the appointment of Pochetino him and De Boer were rumoured to be in talks about the management job and he refused to rule it out.


  • #18
    Ken Shamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    efb wrote: »
    Emmet, best wishes name the baby Arsene!
    I'm pretty sure it's Keano that's having the baby...


  • #19
    symbolic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭symbolic


    Bob.Carcass wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure it's Keano that's having the baby...

    What a man!


  • #20
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Lads I don't recommend it. The cravings alone are bonkers.


  • #21
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Quazzie wrote: »
    And before the appointment of Pochetino him and De Boer were rumoured to be in talks about the management job and he refused to rule it out.

    That's the extent of your beef with the great one?


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  • #22
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Best wishes to Emmet and keano on their baby 😘


  • #23
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Lads I don't recommend it. The cravings alone are bonkers.

    Best of luck


  • #24
    byrneg28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭byrneg28


    Lads Wenger is in flying form with the media lately. I don't like it too much positivity.

    Expect a lot of attacking play on Sunday with us loosing 4-2


  • #25
    Ken Shamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    byrneg28 wrote: »
    Lads Wenger is in flying form with the media lately. I don't like it too much positivity.

    Expect a lot of attacking play on Sunday with us loosing 4-2

    Sounds about right, although for some reason I see us getting a draw 2-2


  • #26
    Ken Shamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Lads I don't recommend it. The cravings alone are bonkers.

    You know what I meant :mad: :D


  • #27
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,099 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    efb wrote: »
    That's the extent of your beef with the great one?
    I have no "beef" with DB10. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy in your post.

    Theierry wanted to leave because he wanted to win some silverware before his career ended. His decision was totally justified in the end.


  • #28
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Quazzie wrote: »
    I have no "beef" with DB10. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy in your post.

    Theierry wanted to leave because he wanted to win some silverware before his career ended. His decision was totally justified in the end.

    How, his leaving was petulant all DB10 did was not rule out the Spurs position after he'd left arsenal

    I think you need to revise your understanding of the word hypocrisy


  • #29
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    3-1 to City this weekend.

    I'd be delighted with a draw.


  • #30
    Ken Shamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    efb wrote: »
    How, his leaving was petulant all DB10 did was not rule out the Spurs position after he'd left arsenal

    I think you need to revise your understanding of the word hypocrisy

    Two sentences :O

    So, DB is better than TH despite his inferior goal scoring record and fear of flying because TH left the club... At least give some good reasons for DB instead of that sh1te because there are some.

    If anyone needs to review anything it's you.


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  • #31
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Why I pick DB10

    He came at a very poor time in our recent history
    He helped change her culture of arsenal's playing style
    He scored magnificent goals and provided many more
    His presence encouraged other big names to join
    THAT goal against Newcastle


  • #32
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,383 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    keano_afc wrote: »
    Lads I don't recommend it. The cravings alone are bonkers.

    Nothing wrong with a nice rhubarb and custard sandwich :eek:


  • #33
    ronjo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,474 ✭✭✭ronjo


    Bob.Carcass wrote: »
    Two sentences :O

    So, DB is better than TH despite his inferior goal scoring record and fear of flying because TH left the club... At least give some good reasons for DB instead of that sh1te because there are some.

    If anyone needs to review anything it's you.

    Personally I believe Henry was a better player but to use Bergkamps goal scoring record against him really shows a lack on understanding on your part about what he brought to the club.
    I remember going to a game in Highbury when we beat Leicester 5-0.
    Anelka scored a hattrick but Bergkamp really was like a man against boys he was so much better than everyone else that day.


  • #34
    Ken Shamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    ronjo wrote: »
    Personally I believe Henry was a better player but to use Bergkamps goal scoring record against him really shows a lack on understanding on your part about what he brought to the club.
    I remember going to a game in Highbury when we beat Leicester 5-0.
    Anelka scored a hattrick but Bergkamp really was like a man against boys he was so much better than everyone else that day.

    Bergkamp is one of if not my favourite player of all time... I know exactly what he brought to the club and the team. I was making a point, and a goal scoring record is perfectly valid to use in any argument for or against a striker.


  • #35
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,383 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Incredibly hard to separate DB and TH.
    Different kind of players imo.
    I loved both but I also loved the way DB used the physical side of his game. Nothing soft about him at all. We could do with a player like him now although Sanchez has a nice "no nonsense, you won't bully me" approach.


  • #36
    wonga77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭wonga77


    Bergkamps signing was a huge statement, brought the same kind of excitement that came with the signings of Ozil and Sanchez. He wasnt a project or an unknown quantity, he was an established international footballer, with bucketloads of skill


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  • #37
    Ken Shamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭Ken Shamrock


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Incredibly hard to separate DB and TH.
    Different kind of players imo.
    I loved both but I also loved the way DB used the physical side of his game. Nothing soft about him at all. We could do with a player like him now although Sanchez has a nice "no nonsense, you won't bully me" approach.

    I think in nowadays systems DB would be used as a CAM, as most teams are reluctant to go 2 up top, and personally I think that would have suited him a hell of a lot better , especially in his younger days when he could run.


  • #38
    Soups123
    Registered Users Posts: 8,984 ✭✭✭Soups123


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Incredibly hard to separate DB and TH.
    Different kind of players imo.
    I loved both but I also loved the way DB used the physical side of his game. Nothing soft about him at all. We could do with a player like him now although Sanchez has a nice "no nonsense, you won't bully me" approach.

    Agree for me DB was my favourite player of all time but Henry was better!


  • #39
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    Anyone reckon Arsene will move after Arteta and Debuchy
    are ruled out for 3 months?


  • #40
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,383 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    wandatowell wrote: »
    Anyone reckon Arsene will move after Arteta and Debuchy
    are ruled out for 3 months?

    I don't unless we lose the next two games because of poor performances from Coq or Flam. If we lose ground and drop to 6th or 7th he might but otherwise I can't see it happening.


  • #41
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Soups123 wrote: »
    Agree for me DB was my favourite player of all time but Henry was better!
    Henry was more productive in a goals sense. However, technically speaking, there isn't and wasn't a player in the league better than Bergkamp.


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  • #42
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,383 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Henry was more productive in a goals sense. However, technically speaking, there isn't and wasn't a player in the league better than Bergkamp.

    Bergkamp was also the brainiest player I ever saw.


  • #43
    Nemeses2050
    Registered Users Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Nemeses2050


    wandatowell wrote: »
    Anyone reckon Arsene will move after Arteta and Debuchy
    are ruled out for 3 months?

    When questioned about Gundogan...He said he's more looking for Defenders...so I guess that rules out DM but I reckon we definitely gonna sign a defender.

    "on Ilkay Gundogan…
    He’s not a defender. At the moment we are more looking for the defensive department." - Arsenal.com


  • #44
    Nemeses2050
    Registered Users Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Nemeses2050


    on bringing other players in…
    We are out in the market and we are working very hard every day. All our scouts and our people are working very hard to find a defender. - Arsenal.com


  • #45
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    On Giroud and his fashion sense:

    But of course, it is fabolous no? Actually, ,me and Oliver are going shopping tomorrow, he's says he's going to find me a nice new coat, then we'll see what happens.


  • #46
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,383 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Nemeses2050 wrote: »
    on bringing other players in…
    We are out in the market and we are working very hard every day. All our scouts and our people are working very hard to find a defender. - Arsenal.com

    Thought they would have had the work done. They've had since August.
    Players should have been identified and bought at the opening of the window imo.


  • #47
    Pierce_1991
    Registered Users Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭Pierce_1991


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Thought they would have had the work done. They've had since August.
    Players should have been identified and bought at the opening of the window imo.

    I'd say they probably have got a shortlist of targets. That line about working day and night to find players is one Wenger uses all the time.


  • #48
    Nemeses2050
    Registered Users Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭Nemeses2050


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Thought they would have had the work done. They've had since August.
    Players should have been identified and bought at the opening of the window imo.

    United's Defence is more ****e than us...even they couldn't sign one so far...Good defenders are hard to get in January.


  • #49
    Bobby Baccala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,342 ✭✭✭Bobby Baccala


    our injury list is as long as wengers jacket :pac:


  • #50
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,383 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Nemeses2050 wrote: »
    United's Defence is more ****e than us...even they couldn't sign one so far...Good defenders are hard to get in January.

    Maybe so but the scouting thing should have been well finished.
    They should be working off a panel now.


  • #51
    Jaafa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Jaafa


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Maybe so but the scouting thing should have been well finished.
    They should be working off a panel now.

    A scouts job isn't done when he identifies a player worth getting. The scout is usually the primary point of contact between the player and club at least in the initial period. He has to hold discussions with player, managers and clubs to ensure they are all happy to move forward with official talks. Thats what Wenger is talking about when he says the scouts are still working.

    You'll also remember that Wenger said Ozil became available only shortly before we bought him, scouts need to stay on the look out for things like that.


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