McDowell its over dude...no more - Hallelujah

[1989]

BBC African journalist confirms talks underway with Chavs over Essien.

[Arsenal Till I Die]

And now in advanced talks with Llorente as well.

Says who?

Also,

Manchester City have rejected Arsenal's £18million for Edin Dzeko.

Twitter: @MyClubArsenal

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

Fuck all this bollox......I was watching ssn but switched over to the cricket......that's better......sanity restored

[mike_stefan]

Chesney had the worst shots to saves ratio IN THE DIVISION last season.

Where did you get this stat from?

[1989]

And now in advanced talks with Llorente as well.

Says who?

Twatter who else?

[swimmer1]

ssn outside scum training ground arsenal fan reveals his shirt .

[spendsum4uckingmoney]

city have signed Javi Garcia for a measley 15m. FFS Wenger do you even try? Are you even awake or are you asleep?

[Herd]

Sell them all ,sell children,the car the house yes just sell sell sell !

[Arsenal Till I Die]

@JohnCrossMirror: Essien is NOT joining Arsenal. It's not something they've been pursuing today.

[Gimmeshelter]

tick tock tick tock..........

[Gimmeshelter]

Bendtner´s gone. Deal is finished.

Still have some deadwood in the squad...

11pm is gonna be interesting.

[spendsum4uckingmoney]

Did you know Stoke city have spent more money on transfers than every club in the prem in the past 5 years except for City and Chavski? Bloody Stoke have spent 120m more than us in the last 5 years. Astonishing.

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

flicked over to ssn, talks between the spuds and moutinho have broken down.......

[Gunnersaurus]

Our fist 11 is still strong enough to compete if they all stay fit but it never happens so we are fucked as we are gonna be very light in quality back ups.

I know people are not sure about Giroud or Podolski but heaven help us if they get injured.

Sorry but though I used to think this in 2009, I no longer think that is the case now.
In terms of a first 11, Man United, Chelski, Citeh, Spuds and Newcastle all have - on paper at least - better teams than Arsenal. I would go as far as to say I think the Everton first 11 is on paper almost as good as Arsenal's.

Look at the Arsenal first 11 and wh in that teamdo you look at and think 'he is gonna do it'? Sure Cazorla looks good. Then again, Denilson looked awesome at Shite Lane in the League cup and a few games after that. Cazorla has starred in two 0-0 bores in which the team could not score, and he skied a few shots. Fact.

Arsenal's first 11 has ridiculous weaknesses all over the shop. Look here

KEEPER: Chesney had the worst shots to saves ratio IN THE DIVISION last season. He is mediocre, although with that mouth he thinks he is Lev Yashin There's many better keepers in the league.

DEFENCE: Bould has been brought in to work on the defence but I do no buy the hype after two 0-0s against two of the weakest attacking teams in the league. This is STILL the same personnel that conceded 49 goals last season. I think it's ridiculous to expect them to suddenly turn into a competent unit.

MIDFIELD: Abou Diaby is the great hope in midfield. Arteta's knee will it hold? It's a shocking midfield with Gervinho or Wally starring regular. Only Cazorla offers hope, in his opening eason, in a new rough league. Oh dear.

ATTACK: Deary deary Me. All I will say here is that Giroud has continued his shocking ineptitude in a France shirt and in the short games played, has demonstrated shockingly bad hold-up play, a poor first touch, a complete lack of awareness (pass to Ramsey v Stoke?), a penchant for trying super-difficult skills when a simple one will do (trying abicycle kick v Stoke when a simple volley was on) and a propensity to miss absolute sitters. He also fails to gamble near post and get ahead of defenders.

Podolski? Lots of hype around him too but again. Relegated with Koln. I still cannot remember the last top quality striker who was relegated with a team. Think the only ever exception was Hasselbaink and he scored 25 league goals in a proper league that season, not Ligue 1. How many did Podolski score last season again?

Arsenal's first 11 is actually to my eyes, the weakest it has EVER been under Wenger.
There has always been at least 1 or 2 world class players you could point to - these have all been sold now and you're left staring at Diabolical and Gervinho. How have the fans let it come to this???

To go all football manager on it I would say our first 11 is...

Scezeney, Sagna, Koscienly, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Arteta, Wilshere, Cazorla, Podolski, Giroud, Walcott/Chamberlain.

To me that is still a strong team BUT he's gambling on Wilshere coming back, Sagna returning to the form before his 2 leg breaks and the rest of them staying fit for a whole 9 months and Podolski and Giroud finding their feet (another reason why it was a scandal them not going away on the pre season tour), that just don't happen, he's not living in the real world if he thinks it's gonna be as easy as that and it's unforgiveable that he's let this window pass without adding to it.

Baba, I'm joining your gang at 23.01 when it is all but confirmed, I can't defend him or even try to see both sides anymore, the man is a fucking idiot.

The only plus for me is that he's got rid of a lot of shit who will never play in important games again, players like Bendtner and Denilson etc but there's still plenty of shit left incase (no, when) injuries happen.

EDIT. Don't agree about the defence, always felt it was shit because we didn't have a defensive player defending the defence, you can see from the first 2 games that it has changed now as we have diciplined people knowing their role ie Arteta.

Your comments re Giroud and Podolski don't deserve a response, sorry.

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

Did you know Stoke city have spent more money on transfers than every club in the prem in the past 5 years except for City and Chavski? Bloody Stoke have spent 120m more than us in the last 5 years. Astonishing.

Best value for money I have ever witnessed........