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*Official* Arsenal Football Thread Season
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BoyBrumby
Englishman
If you listen carefully I think you can hear the sound of smug ****s gloating.
I'm so over football just now. It's ****ing depressing when your side has been playing Groundhog Season for six bastard years.
It's not like it's a secret what we need either. Come on, we all know the words: world class keeper, centre-half and centre-forward.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Be a nice change of pace, hey?
I've seen us linked with Buffon & Mertesacker, who would fill two holes very nicely, but obviously nothing will come of either.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
If only Arsenal had a stable, long term manager who would surely have identified such problems...
Jarquis
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Uppercut 1 - 0 GF
Van Persie is quality so not overly convinced a CF is of complete necessity. A change to 4-4-2 means we instantly lose one of Song, Fabregas or Wilshere. Plus it means shifting Nasri into a more traditional winger role where he's not effective. It also means Walcott is forced into becoming a striker and Ramsey falls way back in the pecking order.
I'm not sold on that completely.... yet :/
Van Persie is quality so not overly convinced a CF is of complete necessity. A change to 4-4-2 means we instantly lose one of Song, Fabregas or Wilshere. Plus it means shifting Nasri into a more traditional winger role where he's not effective. It also means Walcott is forced into becoming a striker and Ramsey falls way back in the pecking order.
I'm not sold on that completely.... yet :/
duffer
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Biggest issue for me isn't the manager won't do anything to fill the holes in the squad (heh, just so used to it now) it's that a lot of our underachievers are unsellable. We couldn't even move Traore because of the wages he's on so how are we going to sell the likes of Denilson, Diaby, Eboue, Bendtner and Chamakh who are all on insane wages?
This is going to be the problem for whoever comes in to manage the team next season. Been saying it for years, you coddle these young players all the way through their development and pay them big money before they've achieved anything and you create this sort of self entitled, low determination, highly overrated squad.
Also, no matter which defenders we buy (if we buy) nothing's going to change untill we have a manager who bothers to coach them anything about defensive organisation. 56% of our goals conceded from set pieces. Heh, and they talk about winning trophies.
For all Arsene and the former board have done for us, they've created a situation under which if they want to get out of this trophyless streak , they'll have to spend their way out, be it on transfer fees, wages and having to buy out current players they need to move on so they can comply with the 25 player rules. Get ready for a few more seasons of this unless there happens to be a Thierry Henry and Tony Adams somewhere in our youth teams.
This is going to be the problem for whoever comes in to manage the team next season. Been saying it for years, you coddle these young players all the way through their development and pay them big money before they've achieved anything and you create this sort of self entitled, low determination, highly overrated squad.
Also, no matter which defenders we buy (if we buy) nothing's going to change untill we have a manager who bothers to coach them anything about defensive organisation. 56% of our goals conceded from set pieces. Heh, and they talk about winning trophies.
For all Arsene and the former board have done for us, they've created a situation under which if they want to get out of this trophyless streak , they'll have to spend their way out, be it on transfer fees, wages and having to buy out current players they need to move on so they can comply with the 25 player rules. Get ready for a few more seasons of this unless there happens to be a Thierry Henry and Tony Adams somewhere in our youth teams.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
He is made of paper tho, so a more resilient player would be nice.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Van Persie is quality but has never played more than 28 games in a league season for Arsenal.
There's little use in having such a quality player who is almost guaranteed to miss half the season, every season.
Jarquis
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
28 is practically 75%. Only twice has he ever missed more than half of the season. There's also the fact he has every chance of having his best ever season for the club, makes no sense to sell him IMO. One of the few players who actually gives a **** about the club and when fit he's absolutely incredible.
Ikki
Hall of Fame Member
I kind of agree with GF's point on the whole though. Another quality forward would make Arsenal far better IMO. If Van Persie is fit and firing, great - more competition. If he isn't, you have options. This might be out there, but I reckon if you guys could take Drogba from Chelsea you would help yourselves big time. Big physical player, lots of goals, and a winning mentality. He also has this Henry-esque habit of drifting wide and play-making which is great for a team like Arsenal whose midfielders generally make very good runs towards the box.
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
He averages 22 games a season. That's useless for your first choice forward.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Well yeah, I'm acting on the crazy assumption that Wenger spots this massive weakness in his squad and buys a striker who'll be a first pick.
Fernando Llorente please.