As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
highburyJD wrote:be tempted to play
Song-Denilson-Rosicky tomorrow if he was available
The Brazilian is prob Tets most natural replacement
On the basis that the only fully fit and available other CM is Ramsey there is hardly much choice is there. If Wilshere, Abou, Arteta or Coquelin were available then Denilson would be back in his rightful spot i.e. unable to get a place on the bench
Now let me think which one of our exciting striking talents I would be tempted to play if RvP wasn't available......
highburyJD wrote:be tempted to play
Song-Denilson-Rosicky tomorrow if he was available
The Brazilian is prob Tets most natural replacement
On the basis that the only fully fit and available other CM is Ramsey there is hardly much choice is there. If Wilshere, Abou, Arteta or Coquelin were available then Denilson would be back in his rightful spot i.e. unable to get a place on the bench
Now let me think which one of our exciting striking talents I would be tempted to play if RvP wasn't available......
highburyJD wrote:so Red is a blind optimist, spinning things about his team to their most positive and taking the piss...
and this infuriates people??
It's called being a fan
I'd rather hear reality denying delusions of adequacy than abuse of our players and manager
which is pretty much commonplace here
If we come 3rd we've punched above our weight, 4th is par - to be furious about either is pretty strange
5th would be a problem financially but its relegation from the CL not the Prem
unless UEFA totally bottle it (quite likely)
the Oligarchs and Oil Barons miraculously find new fans (both have to advertise to sell tickets)
or they stop buying loads of players (they won't compete)
then I can see one or both of them being kicked out of Europe because of FFP being enforced
of the limitations it puts on their squad building
In the greater scheme of things we all thought we should have bought a striker in Jan
but there's still at least a fair chance Wenger may have won that gamble
We are currently owned by the 11th and 28th richest men in the world so blaming oligarchs etc doesnt quite cut it
highburyJD wrote:so Red is a blind optimist, spinning things about his team to their most positive and taking the piss...
and this infuriates people??
It's called being a fan
I'd rather hear reality denying delusions of adequacy than abuse of our players and manager
which is pretty much commonplace here
If we come 3rd we've punched above our weight, 4th is par - to be furious about either is pretty strange
5th would be a problem financially but its relegation from the CL not the Prem
unless UEFA totally bottle it (quite likely)
the Oligarchs and Oil Barons miraculously find new fans (both have to advertise to sell tickets)
or they stop buying loads of players (they won't compete)
then I can see one or both of them being kicked out of Europe because of FFP being enforced
of the limitations it puts on their squad building
In the greater scheme of things we all thought we should have bought a striker in Jan
but there's still at least a fair chance Wenger may have won that gamble
We are currently owned by the 11th and 28th richest men in the world so blaming oligarchs etc doesnt quite cut it
no we're not 'owned by them' they are just majority shareholders
an oligarch owns Chels and a Sheikh ManShitty
they can spend their own money on it as they wish, they are bought as simple loss-making vanity projects
obviously completely different from the investments Kroenke and Usmanov have made
Clinging desperately to third place with the ever growing danger that we capitulate again from a position of strength and find ourselves finishing 5th.
Smart money at the moment is on Arsenal finishing out of the top 4, especially now that Arteta is gone for the season. A central midfield of Song and Ramsey is just not going to cut it.
JD -- why on earth should we be settling for third or fourth, YET AGAIN? We have not finished in the top two in the league since 2005. This club under Wenger is totally stagnant, and fuck the excuses, fuck the poor start, this has been another season of mediocrity while paying the highest ticket prices in the world?
SWLGooner wrote:JD -- why on earth should we be settling for third or fourth, YET AGAIN?
dunno about 'settling' but expecting to finish above teams with exponentially more money seems naive to me
SWLGooner wrote: We have not finished in the top two in the league since 2005.
'06 was ten mins away from being arguably our greatest ever season - we didn't challenge for the league this year but we have several times in that period
SWLGooner wrote:This club under Wenger is totally stagnant, and fuck the excuses, fuck the poor start, this has been another season of mediocrity while paying the highest ticket prices in the world?
Chelski and Sperz pay the same as us the minute you include cups/europe. Both those two stadia are shit-holes. I hope both those two teams will finish below us. London's expensive.
