Forgive me but isn't a forum about debating different points of view as well as showing our support of Arsenal?Magic Hat you are clearly just arguing for the sake of it now!
In your opinion, do you think that of all people who disagree with you?Your knowledge of football is limited quite clearly and all you are doing is turning comments and fact to make half cocked answers to try and use as replies!
True, I have only watched him sometimes for Ajax and Holland U21's where I haven't been greatly impressed. I should have said in my opinion, he won't be a great player and that he wasn't worth the price he was sold for.What the fuck do you know about Babel's price and development so far? Part of the Dutch youth set up are you? No thought not! Been folllowing him for some time now? No! Youth coach qualified to assess a player? No!
I missed the Reyes thing but this covered the others because we sell them while ageing rather then when they can be useful to us?. Managers know they are getting people with only a few years left in them so won't pay over a certain price, no matter how good the player. With Reyes, his wish to only in Spain and Real's refusal to get him greatly limited who we could sell him too and since most clubs who wanted him won't pay that much, we had to take what we could get.You then answer about the price tags! You answer the easy ones like Edu and Sol but do not answer the more controversial. It is widely accepted that we have let players go cheap. Dont try and argue the toss otherwise.
Given his small transfer fee, I'm willign to take a decent reserve defender for that. Now I'm not sure why Arsene would have gone such lengths and it does seem a misjudgement though it was months before he played.Next more absolute pearls of wisdom! Stepanovs was a decent reserve defender! Pint of what Magic Hat is drinking please! Reverve players do not have signing press confrences like Stepanov's did and they are not given the number 3 squad number!
I said talented, I never said he played well for us.The Beast was good in the second half of the season was he? What Beast was you watching? Was you on Bodmin Moor as the one we all saw was shite which is why months before the end of the season Arsene made it clear he was being shipped back with a thanks but no thanks tag round his neck!
It is possible, he is old and at the least we would have had to change our entire over 30 policy which I would rather we didn't do.Pires? Pires getting injured was a coincidence! By your logic even if we signed Pires for a further season he would have still damged his knee playing on a different pitch in a different country? Joke!
and if a keeper is that bad, it would be impossible for us to get that far. It didn't overly harm our chances till we found a new keeper, Jens, at which point we let Seamen go.You even say then that Seaman was in decline but its ok cos we won a cup and came second! Is that how a goalkeeper is judged? No again!
because Arsene thinks we can win things? In terms of talent, we can win things, had we taken half the chances we created last season we might well have done so and I highly doubt we are going to miss so many great chances this time around.On to the next beauty! Arsene thinks we have a squad which will emerge in the next few seasons hey? Well then why is he saying we can win it this year? Why did he mention super super class?
that Arsene told the truth and that once Henry had decided to leave, the situation changed? I was challenging the claim that he had lied. With the loss of Henry, it may have been impossible to get those top top players or the need to make a few changes to the system was more urgent. Get a new right back to push Eboue forward to the wing so we can play 4-4-1-1 more often, add a natural finisher who can finish off our chances, that sort of thing.Oh yes the super spuer class thing! You suggest that Arsene says he is using the money elsewhere now as at the time he didnt know TH was going! He said before TH was going that he wanted to bring in super super class which means he had the money then to do that or at least wanted us to think that! Even if he had to use that super super class cash to replace TH there is still then the odd £23 million and slashed wage bill floating about from the combined TH/FL/AA transfers. So how does your arguement stack up?
and even with short term knocks to our attack, we could still play 4-4-1-1 or put Bendtendar or Walcott up front. It is strong enough over the course to the season to get goals, the suggestion that RVP, Silva, Ade won't get goals this season is for me, amazing.Now the strikers! What about two games in and injured? The fact is at the start of the season one of our strikers was proven in the Premier leage and only one of them had scored in the Premier league! To suggest that is strong enough is folly and in fact complete bollocks!
So your comparing starters when everyone is fit to what, Eboue (two starts out of two) due to Hleb being up front, Bentender (three sub appearances), Flamini who only starts three games due to injuries and Song who has a grand total of two sub appearances this season.Now you go on about unfair comparisons! Yes I am comparing first team players who featured heavily four years ago with players who are featuring heavily now! If the comparison is unfair that is only to do with the golf in class between the players!
Brummie (my apologies for not trying to full name, dyslexic and a real pain to try and spell) where expected to get promoted so there should be a lot of chances to be had for a striker to take. This season Brummie are expected to struggle so the busy players will be the defending ones, not the attack. 'm not saying they will get relegated in first few months but they will be facing a lot of strong teams where the defenders will have to be good to avoid them having a difficult task by Jan.Now please tell me what the fuck Djorou learns which is so valuable by being in a relegation battle? If the a relegation battle is the place to learn why did he send Bentdner to the same club when they was in a promotion chase last season?
Why are you so obsessed with dream team?Utter utter made up Dream Team clap trap!
As you wish, "lollipop at the back stick, giving it the eyes".I have given up the ghost with you Magic Hat as even though I am sure your a nice bloke you also come across as one of these people you hear in pubs talking like they are Ron Atkinson! Full of shite and football catchphrases! I fully expect to hear you say "lollipop at the back stick giving it the eyes" in your next reply!
Your so kind oh great gus, the man who knows all to allow a humble pleb like myself to learn from your fountain of wisdomBy all means challenge and disagree with what I say but have the decency to back it up with fact and reasonable arguement not the fantasy football you have swimming around in your head!
I really wans't impressed by him at the woild cup and would prefer Hleb on the wing with Sanga getting forward. I think Eboue could be a decent winger and all Theo needs is confidence that he had at start of last season when he gave Bolton, Germany U21's and Aston Villa trouble.you are not a fan of Ribery.Are you happy that we are playing a failed full back on the wing or Theo who is not ready. Ribery is an out and out winger who can do the job that Eboue and Walcott cant.Ribery has proved himself at European level and at the world cup.You know nothing about football as your comment that Stepanovs was a decent defender proves The man was SHIT. As for your comment about Pires even with one leg he would have played better than Hleb and Rosicky last season.
Yes, saying that the Man U game aside, a Latvia defender's other 16 appearances were not awful is a little controversial. Hleb was pretty good last season, 3rd in the Fink Tank and I enjoyed watching him play., needed to be able to shoot was my one complaint last season with him.
question is why hasnt a big club com in for him 
id like anelka back,, he,d get us goals
