Seb Larsson

Number 5 · Post by **Number 5** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:31 am

Bring Back Pires wrote:
Bradywasking wrote:Would have been a very good addition to the squad...on a seperate subject..How many ex Arsenal players have scored against us in the Premier League.?..I make it four. Larrson, Anelka, Adewhore and Bentley...
Kevin Campbell, Paul Merson, Jermaine Pennant...

Andy Cole must have scored against us, not that I can specifically recall it.

OneBardGooner · Post by **OneBardGooner** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:00 am

1989 wrote:Yep, a class act. Why did Wenger let him go only to torture us with Denilson and Diaby all these years?

Wouldn't mind to see Seb back at Arsenal at some point.

Thing is he was up for grabs on a Free Transfer....we need a right footed free kick specialist...especially after seeing Walcott's PATHETIC attempt on the week-end... Also he has a bit of 'steel' about him unlike those soft bellied inept wankers diaby, djourou, arshavin

Bring Back Pires · Post by **Bring Back Pires** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:04 am

Number 5 wrote:
Bring Back Pires wrote:
Bradywasking wrote:Would have been a very good addition to the squad...on a seperate subject..How many ex Arsenal players have scored against us in the Premier League.?..I make it four. Larrson, Anelka, Adewhore and Bentley...
Kevin Campbell, Paul Merson, Jermaine Pennant...
Andy Cole must have scored against us, not that I can specifically recall it.

Yep. According to Wikipedia, he scored for Man Utd at Highbury in the 1996/97 season.

paperclip · Post by **paperclip** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:08 am

hanny73 · Post by **hanny73** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:24 pm

I was gutted to hear the booing when he was subbed.

He was very dignified when he scored, perhaps the fans could have been equally respectful.

RaM · Post by **RaM** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:40 pm

I'm definitely a fan of Larsson.

Every time I see him play I wonder why we didn't keep him.

Would love to see him back.

kiwomya · Post by **kiwomya** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:56 pm

OneBardGooner wrote:
1989 wrote:Yep, a class act. Why did Wenger let him go only to torture us with Denilson and Diaby all these years?

Wouldn't mind to see Seb back at Arsenal at some point.
Thing is he was up for grabs on a Free Transfer....we need a right footed free kick specialist...especially after seeing Walcott's PATHETIC attempt on the week-end... Also he has a bit of 'steel' about him unlike those soft bellied inept wankers diaby, djourou, arshavin

I don't think he was prepared to be a squad player. He wants to be playing every week and Arsenal wouldn't have given him that.

mikehutch86 · Post by **mikehutch86** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:32 pm

Fair play to the guy, at his age and a Sweden international he is better off at a team like Sunderland where he is a stand out performer than being a squad player and watching shit like diaby, denilson and co play in front of him.

GoonerN5 · Post by **GoonerN5** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:10 pm

Hes shit, so would fit in well, sign him up Wenger

Steviegooner · Post by **Steviegooner** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:59 pm

Bring Back Pires wrote:Was appalled that there was booing when he was subbed off on Sunday.

He was an Arsenal man, didn't leave with any controversy, forged his way into a PL side, scored an amazing goal and didn't celebrate.

And the Emirates tossers boo him off. It's reasons like that why I simply can't go to the place anymore. Fucking wankers - certainly not the same fans I grew up with at Highbury.

Well said!!

safcftm · Post by **safcftm** » Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:06 pm

mikehutch86 wrote:Fair play to the guy, at his age and a Sweden international he is better off at a team like Sunderland where he is a stand out performer than being a squad player and watching shit like diaby, denilson and co play in front of him.

He'd look totally out of his depth at arsenal. He's a canny lad and all that but set pieces aside he offers very little even for us, he's far from a stand out performer tbh, a hard worker but very limited other than at set pieces.

rigsby · Post by **rigsby** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:17 am

Didn't he have a dig at us ala Bentley hence the booing.

safcftm · Post by **safcftm** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:24 am

rigsby wrote:Didn't he have a dig at us ala Bentley hence the booing.

Can't say I'd heard about that (although it may have been a while ago). As far as I know he only ever has good things to say about Arsenal, especially since he supports them. This is his interview from before the game: (from http://www.safc.com/news/20111013/larss ... 13_2479905)

Sunderland's Seb Larsson still has a soft spot for former club Arsenal but will be going all-out for his first away win as a Black Cats player this weekend.

The winger is fresh from achieving qualification for Euro 2012 with his native Sweden and now can't wait for Sunday's game against his old employers at the Emirates.

Arsene Wenger handed Larsson his chance in England, bringing him to North London at the age of 16.

Larsson made 12 appearances for the Gunners in all before joining Birmingham, then managed by current Sunderland chief Steve Bruce.

"It is the club I still support and I always like to see them do well," Larsson said.

"I've been back there quite a few times now and to be honest I was never a regular in the first team.

"But it is always a nice game to play in simply because they are my old club. I want them to do well in all the other games, but not against us."
And Larsson, who has scored twice for Sunderland so far this season, has sounded a note of caution ahead of the trip to the capital.

Arsenal sit just a point above Sunderland in 15th position in the Barclays Premier League but the winger says Sunday's opponents remain a potent threat despite their up-and-down start to the season.

"Obviously they have had a poor start considering their standards - it's not what we're used to from Arsenal," he said.

"People are saying it's a good time to play them. It might be, but at the same time everyone knows what they can do and it's never easy to go to the Emirates.

"You know that to get something at Arsenal you will have to perform to the very highest level."

rigsby · Post by **rigsby** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:29 am

Fair enough, I just remember something but this may be me being a paranoid old fucker!

OneBardGooner · Post by **OneBardGooner** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:22 pm

rigsby wrote:Fair enough, I just remember something but this may be me being a paranoid old fucker!

yes, we think so as well.