Pre-season Friendlies Thread

[g88ner]

NOW can we sign a central defender please, Arsene???

Why do we have to be in crisis to get that stubborn old fool to do anything?

[jaggygooner]

Cos like all managers that hang around too long, he thinks it's his money

[Midz]

Don't worry...remember we have a ream of scouts working 24hrs a day. With that level of dedication they must have a huge dossier of players. All we need to do is pick the highest rated CB (or 2) from the list and bid for them. Easy isn't it?

For any other club, yes, but you know how our lot operate.

[northbank123]

The poor guys injured and all that, but just watch Gabriel's positioning and awareness for their 2nd goal, tells you all you need to know

Didn't exactly cover himself in glory for their first, getting dragged horrendously out of position and then standing off to give Delph all the time in the world to pick a cross.

Chambers and Monreal must surely be the spindliest CB pairing in PL history

[Rosie_titters]

You know Wenger won't buy anyone. He will just rush Koscienly back, like he did with Sanchez and wonder come October why Kos is out for 8 weeks. And moan about there's too much football.

[Leyton Gooner]

You know Wenger won't buy anyone. He will just rush Koscienly back, like he did with Sanchez and wonder come October why Kos is out for 8 weeks. And moan about there's too much football.

100% this

[augie]

If we needed one centre back before tonight, and now we will need another one to cover Gabriel's injury, how much smaller has our chances of landing a top quality striker got ? Not saying I believed that we were going to buy one anyway, but if this miserable senile c.unt is afraid to spend money to bring in two quality players, what are the chances of him spending money to bring in 3 quality players ?

I have gone on record as saying that I do not rate Gabriel as a defender, but obviously I feel really sorry for the guy right now You never like to see any player suffer a bad injury (and it did appear to be a bad injury) and all we can do is wish him well and a speedy recovery However you would like to think that he will spend whatever time he is out injured, actually learning to speak the language of the country he is living and working in

[Nos89]

Enjoyed the second half. Great finish from Theo and another goal for Akpom. I'd love to see Akpom given a run of substitute appearances this season as he sure knows how to score. Could make a difference from the bench.
This team is crying out for a central striker!!
Hope the Mustafi deal is pushed through. Unfortunate for Gabriel, but shouldn't detract from his culpability for City's second. It did look like Yaya Toure was saying to Carzola that it was a stupid challenge by Gabriel. Might be a blessing in disguise.

[augie]

I knew we'd have a chance once that overrated gobshite Joe Hart was brought on

Iwobi is surely going to be sold if he keeping daring to shoot like that

I'm tired of seeing us make the same mistakes. Why the fuck do we pass it around in the defensive third? Cech gets way too many touches with the ball with his feet. Our sideways passing in our half always ends up with a desperate pass back to Cech. We have invited pressure on ourselves too many times with that shit. We still refuse to defend crosses either.

Guardiola was breaking the rules by giving in-game instructions to his players

Arsenal Player coverage is laughable. I feel sorry for anyone who has to watch that shit for every game. North Korean state TV has nothing on them. Pure propaganda and laughably incorrect when they assume that Bould is allowed any input and that TOF says anything more than 'Go and play your game'. No wonder we always make the same mistakes every season. I suppose offering our ex-reserves and youths jobs with Arsenal Player makes them too grateful to justifiably criticize the team.

Another defender out for months

Internal Solutions!

I think that whoever is in charge of barca's transfer negotiations has a smile wider than anyone else tonight - I think that ter stegan's price for citeeh to buy him, just increased by £10m within 10 minutes of joe hart being brought on

[DB10GOONER]

I knew we'd have a chance once that overrated gobshite Joe Hart was brought on

Post of the week right there!

How the fuck is Dandruff Hart still in the PL??? He should stick to what he is slightly less shit at; Hair adverts.

Although, if you look closely you will note he is thinning and receding like a motherfucker, so even those days are coming to an end for him.

[SteveO 35]

I knew we'd have a chance once that overrated gobshite Joe Hart was brought on

Post of the week right there!

How the fuck is Dandruff Hart still in the PL??? He should stick to what he is slightly less shit at; Hair adverts.

Although, if you look closely you will note he is thinning and receding like a motherfucker, so even those days are coming to an end for him.

Lets enjoy Comedy Joe while he lasts because I'm sure Pep will have his arse out of there quicker than you can say Head and Shoulders......unlike our goon who made Average Al captain and backed him up with Flapper and Mannone for a couple of years

[mcdowell42]

Unconfirmed reports from a very reliable source says Gabriel will be out for 3 weeks.

[augie]

Unconfirmed reports from a very reliable source says Gabriel will be out for 3 weeks.

That's all ?? Jeez he cried like a bitch last night and I figured he definitely gonna be out for months

[DB10GOONER]

Unconfirmed reports from a very reliable source says Gabriel will be out for 3 weeks.

That's all ?? Jeez he cried like a bitch last night and I figured he definitely gonna be out for months

He will be. Our "medical" team haven't really had a chance to "work" with him yet...

[Rugby Gooner]

Unconfirmed reports from a very reliable source says Gabriel will be out for 3 weeks.

That's all ?? Jeez he cried like a bitch last night and I figured he definitely gonna be out for months

He will be. Our "medical" team haven't really had a chance to "work" with him yet...