Arshavin speaks his mind

projoe · Post by **projoe** » Sat May 16, 2009 9:23 am

interesting interview here from arshavin. he talks about 'scary' Wenger, the United 'machines', 'boring' Chelsea and women drivers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... elsea.html

RaM · Post by **RaM** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:18 am

So funny that he mentions Hleb and the Barca bench.

Post by **Belfast Boy** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:20 am

RaM wrote:

So funny that he mentions Hleb and the Barca bench.

Yeah bought the Mail this mornin for work and that brought a smile to my face too

theothehero · Post by **theothehero** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:21 am

"Chelsea have a good team but it is not football with emotion: one goal and then (blows raspberry, folds arms) boring again. Always. I like teams that are more open. I like style."

brilliant!

theothehero · Post by **theothehero** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:23 am

ive just read a bit further and i think its been topped by 'I would never give driving lessons to women. We need to build new roads for them. Why? Because you never know what to expect from a woman on the road. If you see a car behaving weirdly, swerving and doing strange things, before you see the driver you know it is a woman. It is always a woman.'

lol excellent!

JakeN13 · Post by **JakeN13** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:35 am

A chicken is not a bird and a woman is not a man...

Famours russian saying apparently

Dan_85 · Post by **Dan_85** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:54 am

lol legend, he's a crazy one that Arsha...

xDAVEYx · Post by **xDAVEYx** » Sat May 16, 2009 12:04 pm

theothehero wrote:"Chelsea have a good team but it is not football with emotion: one goal and then (blows raspberry, folds arms) boring again. Always. I like teams that are more open. I like style."

brilliant!

that is so up there with 'i am gooner' and 'pavlyuchenko is not my friend'

Post by **I Hate Hleb** » Sat May 16, 2009 3:04 pm

"We must buy in the summer. Not more potential, but players who are ready to do it now, players like me. We need two or three. If Arsenal want to win, they have to do it. We are tired of waiting.

'I believe that out of the top four English teams, when it comes to football, Arsenal are the best. They have the best style and the best coach. At the moment, young players come to Arsenal because they see it as a very big team, but if we carry on like this without winning trophies, young players will not want to come. Everyone likes the appeal of Arsenal, the football of Arsenal, the young players of Arsenal, but if there is no result they will stop.

'Arsenal have not achieved good results in the last few years, but that is easily explained because the team is so young. I believe we are now at a point where it will begin to work for us and enable the team to start scoring and move on as Manchester United did.

'A few years ago, they had young players like Wayne Rooney and Ronaldo, who were very promising, but they did not win the league and achieve the right results. Now they are older, they cannot stop winning. Arsenal have been recruiting players for two years, so I do not predict results a long way in the future: I predict them for next season, if we can add some others to our team.'

This is the most interesting part of the interview. He's only been at the club a few months but our Russian Superstar can already see the picture clearly.

mcdowell42 · Post by **mcdowell42** » Sat May 16, 2009 3:07 pm

I Hate Hleb wrote:"We must buy in the summer. Not more potential, but players who are ready to do it now, players like me. We need two or three. If Arsenal want to win, they have to do it. We are tired of waiting.

'I believe that out of the top four English teams, when it comes to football, Arsenal are the best. They have the best style and the best coach. At the moment, young players come to Arsenal because they see it as a very big team, but if we carry on like this without winning trophies, young players will not want to come. Everyone likes the appeal of Arsenal, the football of Arsenal, the young players of Arsenal, but if there is no result they will stop.

'Arsenal have not achieved good results in the last few years, but that is easily explained because the team is so young. I believe we are now at a point where it will begin to work for us and enable the team to start scoring and move on as Manchester United did.

'A few years ago, they had young players like Wayne Rooney and Ronaldo, who were very promising, but they did not win the league and achieve the right results. Now they are older, they cannot stop winning. Arsenal have been recruiting players for two years, so I do not predict results a long way in the future: I predict them for next season, if we can add some others to our team.'

This is the most interesting part of the interview. He's only been at the club a few months but our Russian Superstar can already see the bigger picture.

He should show it to other people

Yankee_Gooner_Dandee · Sat May 16, 2009 4:42 pm

best player on the team