WILLIAM GALLAS HAS OFFICALLY SIGNED FOR SPURS.

[marcengels]

Sorry I don't believe he didn't have a decent partnership with TV5 considering it was their first season together.

Even if they were shakey, would Thomas not be as responsible for this or not so because he never plyed for Chelsea?

I actually think it was Kolo and Gallas MKII - both decent defenders in their own right but very similar in qualities and just didnt blend together very well. But even after one season id say TV is more of an asset to us than Gallas is/was personally.

Hopefully Kos will be a dominant CB in the air as thats what we are missing, leaving TV to do the pacy stuff and work on the floor.

I think you'll be waiting a long time.

[elpelsarmy]

He is a quality cb who we NEED at the moment! What i dont get is Wenger would not give him a 2 year contract at 80k a week costing 4 mil a year but he will apparently want to buy an untried in the prem 30 year old replacement for 12 mil + wages on a 3 year contract [squillaci]???? Thought we were trying to not waste money at the minute? As said before our squad is a lot weaker without Gallas which will prove costly this season

[Bendtners Drinking Buddy]

Sorry I don't believe he didn't have a decent partnership with TV5 considering it was their first season together.

Even if they were shakey, would Thomas not be as responsible for this or not so because he never plyed for Chelsea?

I actually think it was Kolo and Gallas MKII - both decent defenders in their own right but very similar in qualities and just didnt blend together very well. But even after one season id say TV is more of an asset to us than Gallas is/was personally.

Hopefully Kos will be a dominant CB in the air as thats what we are missing, leaving TV to do the pacy stuff and work on the floor.

I think you'll be waiting a long time.

You basing that on some friendlies and one league game?

From what ive seen in pre-season (Milan esp) and from what I saw on Sunday - he looked good!

[Its Up 4 Grabs Now]

I get the fact that we need more experience to guide our younger players but honestlt gallas is not that type of player. He is not the type to cajole and encourage and his frustrations always struck me as more selfish than anything else. If we gave him a 2 year deal after losing better and more committed players during wenger's reign as a result of that over 30's rule then I for 1 would be well pissed off

Agree with that. Credit to Gallas for the way he knuckled down after losing the captaincy but he still appeared to be in a strop of sorts, he seemed to go out of his way at times to remove himself from the group & rarely used his experience to help others as far as I could see. It was almost as though he’d taken the kid-in-a-huff approach of “fine, if you wont let me be captain I wont show any leadership at all.â€

[USMartin]

Not good...not surprisng...but NOT GOOD


http://www.sportinglife.com/football/ne ... MHD=soccer


"Gallas' wage demands - reported to be £80,000-a-week - were said to be one block to a new deal with the Gunners, who were also understood to have only been offering a 12-month extension.

Wenger was keen for Gallas to remain to add experience to the young squad, but accepted it was just bad timing which saw him turn attentions elsewhere, eventually signing 24-year-old promising centre-back Laurent Koscielny from Lorient and it now appears a move for veteran Sevilla defender Sebastien Squillaci could soon be completed.
"It was more down to timing why William left," Wenger reflected.
"We had not found an agreement towards the end of the season and then I turned somewhere else.


You get what you pay for and when you pay nothing you get nothing.

[I Hate Hleb]

Redknapp said in an interview today that he heard that the only problem with Gallas in the past is that he gets upset when others don't show the same professional attitude and determination to win that he does.

So what does that tell us about our current crop? Is the fact that the younger players are much richer, more 'pampered' and less hungry to want to get better one of the major reasons for our lack of success?

[Basil is a Gooner]

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... xaggerated

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... -departure

[BT]

Redknapp said in an interview today that he heard that the only problem with Gallas in the past is that he gets upset when others don't show the same professional attitude and determination to win that he does.

So what does that tell us about our current crop? Is the fact that the younger players are much richer, more 'pampered' and less hungry to want to get better one of the major reasons for our lack of success?

That's the impression i often get which is why i quite warmed to him. He seemed to be a bit pissed off that, in the twilight of his career, he was hungry to win and grew up in an era of respecting the older players, and didn't find others with that desire at arsenal.

I remember reading somewhere that when he was captain, he arrived hours before everyone else at training to answer emails and letters from fans and that he was also suprised about others not appreciating their position. I think he came from a generation that had to do apprenticeships, clean boots etc and work their arses off to be professionals and he saw a load of sheltered kids with huge egos and similar wages to him for minimum effort. That he was made captain was Wenger's decision, not his.

[GoonerN5]

Yet another fuck up from Wenger

[g88ner]

Yet another fuck up from Wenger

How so? I was under the impression Wenger wanted him to stay.

Anyway, we can't be sure that Gallas wanted to stay, or that his wage demands were within reason (and by "within reason", I mean within the pay structure; after all, he is 33 and injury prone)

Not only that, but our defence needed a new centre back, as it lacks balance. Vermaelen was never going to be sold, so perhaps Gallas leaving, and Koscielny taking his place, is a blessing in disguise? - time will tell.

[1989]

I always thought I would prefer someone like him in the trenches

You cannot be serious. He's a complete fanny.

Really?

You can call Gallas what you like, a lot of I would agree with, but a fanny?

The bloke is as hard as fucking nails! Would you fancy 10 minutes with him down a dark alley?

I'd defo fancy my chances, the fucker would probably bottle it and walk to the other end of the alley anyway.

[Vince]

That's what I'll remember of him



I made this picture ages ago

[1989]

A classic Gallas picture - Blaming others for his own fuck ups.

[I Hate Hleb]

I always thought I would prefer someone like him in the trenches

You cannot be serious. He's a complete fanny.

Really?

You can call Gallas what you like, a lot of I would agree with, but a fanny?

The bloke is as hard as fucking nails! Would you fancy 10 minutes with him down a dark alley?

I'd defo fancy my chances, the fucker would probably bottle it and walk to the other end of the alley anyway.

Well in fairness, he is French!!

[DB10GOONER]

He will deffo score against us.