Got my Red membership renewal e-mail today.

Since i'm an overseas fan and don't go to matches, there's zero reason to renew considering the lack of any ambition shown by the club.

Stuff it, Stan...

Just have a feeling that as tonight the whole year will end up being summed up by "only team in Europe not to buy an outfield player".

The question begs, why is Özil so good for Germany, and so average at Arsenal?

Easy, that tippy-tap, slow buildup, kindly let let the defense set up before we even think to shoot singular tactic Wenger uses is minimizing his effectiveness.

I wouldn't sell him, I'd use him more effectively and ...

Sad thing is without all this nonsense, we were playing well and could have conceivably won this one.

Peeman wrote:It was a straight red so 3 games

A straight red for walking backwards and nudging a player who reacts like he's been punched?

Disgrace. Plus I'm disgusted at how the ref handled the player who speaks English over the player who doesn't.

Brilliant goal by Giroud, top corner.

Don't get the criticism of Theo so far, he's a lot better on the ball today. He's not played in 6+ weeks, you can't turn on shooting form like a light switch.

Hope he bags one in the second half, would help his confidence immensely.

I hope Theo gets a run out soon, the last few matches seeing him warm up and being left off has to be tough to deal with, especially today where Wenger seemed to change his mind at the last minute.

IMO he'd be a lot more effective with Webeck up top, as we saw what Welbeck's pace can do tonight ...

Just awful.

I'd rather us lose to these clowns playing our game at our best than letting them have the run of play all day, and then look surprised when they score.

The 4-1-4-1 behind the bus approach should be reserved for teams better than us, not teams we can beat.

Ozil needs a break, playing through his slump out of position obviously isn't working.

Wenger needs to stop worrying about players complaining about not playing and instead setup tactics that actually works regardless who's playing.

Gunner Rob wrote:I wish we had a stadium like Dortmund.
Designed with the supporter in mind.

To be fair, Germany never banned standing. I love the German stadiums.

Casillas

Sokratis
Manolas
Vlaar
Nastasic

Carvalho
Khedira
Schneiderlin
Bender
Milner

Fabregas
Vela

Falcao
Cavani
Cerci
Remy
Hernandez
Welbeck
Balotelli

Plus some I've surely missed.

All were/are available. All linked. Most would have improved us.

Remember this for the following windows ...

If he's healthy, I wouldn't mind seeing Ospina get a start at Leicester.

If not then it will have to wait for Villa or Southampton for the league cup.

I'm really torn about tonight.

I would rather see a win and the chance to spend some more of the "war chest" due to CL Group Stage income on our obvious needs.

But scoring will be difficult with the available options and being dumped into the Europa League would be big time chickens coming home to ...

Have a sneaking feeling we might land both Kheidra and Cavani.

What do fellow gooners make of these two articles:-

http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2014/08/21/balague-on-khedira-mourinho-reluctant-because-of-personal-deal-w/

and the fact that PSG seem desperate for Di Maria but will need to raise ...

This bothers me almost as much as Fabregas.

Player we need wants to come here and we let him go to a rival for peanuts.

Wenger's spendthrift ways and devotion to older, ineffective players is going to end us up in 5th