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:A Southampton thing? Feo is at his best in big games.
how many goals does he have against City, United, Bayern, Barcelona ?
one against the chavs doesn't cut it...
Not saying he has a great record against top teams but it's not just 1 against Chelsea he's scored.
He's scored against Chelsea in each of the last 3 seasons and United in the last two, as well as 2 against Spurs in 2011/12 and one in 2010/11 (not a top team but a huge game and a side we've got a poor record against considering our dominance and how rarely we win away).
I meant one per season mate.
if you look at his record - 90% of his goals are part of goal fests against lower level teams that play wide open - toon, southampton. etc. same for england. 5 goals in 34 (i looked it up) , 3 in a 5-1 thrashing of croatia.
very much like bale.
he's not your overmars or pires who in a tight game will nick you that 1-0 away at United or City or Everton. tis all...
Again I'm not necessarily saying he's a big game player but of 9 out of 40 have come against the top 5 teams (Chelsea/United/Citeh/Spurs/Liverpool) - bearing in mind that inevitably we score more as a team against cack teams then that's quite a healthy proportion and doesn't really back up the argument that he only scores against shit teams when it doesn't matter.
He's been impotent throughout his England career and how he still starts the vast majority of games with such a poor return is beyond me - but scoring a hat-trick in the trickiest game in a qualifying group (away to a team that had prevented England from qualifying for the last tournament) isn't exactly like scoring three at home to San Marino.
That's lazy and simply untrue clockender. 90% of Theo's goals aren't part of batterings. He has scored some important goals in tight matches. Udinese at home to get us into the CL as well as Chavs and Spuds. Good assists also.
RioGooner wrote:Gustavo wants 1st team assurances and he's getting £115k a week at Wolfsburg, not £150k.
I really don't get the fuzz people make about him, he's average as they come. His passing is not very good and he can offer little beyond marking. Do we need a holding midfielder? Of course we do! Is he the only answer? no, I'm sure there are a handful of players that could do his job.
What we do need is a player that would come and boss the postition, as sami Khedira, who wants out of Madrid. But it's Wenger so we're getting the mighty Flamini, at fucking best.
Spurs have loads of very overrated players, Sandro could never get ahead of lucas fucking Leiva for NT call ups and when blew his acl suddelny he became a great enforcer? oh c'mon.
Paulinho will add a lot to their game, he's a good box to box player. But he made his name in a very slow league where he had the time to pass the ball to a winger and slowly get himself into position. When Corinthians tried a fast break game, he couldn't offer them their last third product and had a mare of a string of games. He''ll be consistently dangerous in the air, tho.
Soldado is better then Giroud, but that shouldn't tell you much. He's a finisher and needs service. Who provides that for spurz?
Good post mate, so Gustavo isn't all that good?
He's very average,imo. He shone in the confederations cup for Brazil and that's why brazilians tend to rate him ( since he never played in Brazil , he was unheard of). I've seen him for 3 seasons now in the Bundesliga and whilst he did good for Hoffenheim he never added much to Bayern's side. You might say Poldi was the same but then again I don't think podolski fits our system quite well...
RioGooner, what is your opinion on Chelsea's Ramires?
RioGooner wrote:Gustavo wants 1st team assurances and he's getting £115k a week at Wolfsburg, not £150k.
I really don't get the fuzz people make about him, he's average as they come. His passing is not very good and he can offer little beyond marking. Do we need a holding midfielder? Of course we do! Is he the only answer? no, I'm sure there are a handful of players that could do his job.
What we do need is a player that would come and boss the postition, as sami Khedira, who wants out of Madrid. But it's Wenger so we're getting the mighty Flamini, at fucking best.
Spurs have loads of very overrated players, Sandro could never get ahead of lucas fucking Leiva for NT call ups and when blew his acl suddelny he became a great enforcer? oh c'mon.
Paulinho will add a lot to their game, he's a good box to box player. But he made his name in a very slow league where he had the time to pass the ball to a winger and slowly get himself into position. When Corinthians tried a fast break game, he couldn't offer them their last third product and had a mare of a string of games. He''ll be consistently dangerous in the air, tho.
Soldado is better then Giroud, but that shouldn't tell you much. He's a finisher and needs service. Who provides that for spurz?
Good post mate, so Gustavo isn't all that good?
He's very average,imo. He shone in the confederations cup for Brazil and that's why brazilians tend to rate him ( since he never played in Brazil , he was unheard of). I've seen him for 3 seasons now in the Bundesliga and whilst he did good for Hoffenheim he never added much to Bayern's side. You might say Poldi was the same but then again I don't think podolski fits our system quite well...
RioGooner, what is your opinion on Chelsea's Ramires?
First of all, I didn't write this to make anyone feel better 1989, They are stronger but they haven't added that much quality as some say, at least that's how I see it. We have the means and the opportunity to do much better then them in the market and it's a fucking shame we don't because we could build a good base to challenge for the league with actual chances next season.
Ramires is a very good player. He wasn't in the confederations cup because when he got injuried he didn't go the the NT doctor to prove is injury and for that he was punished by being left in the cold. As far as I am concerned he's Brazil's best defensive midfielder, even being more of a box to box type, as Paulinho is. Paulinho would never be the holding midfielder. If he plays alongside dembele in a 4231 spurs are going to have a few issues there in the bigger games.
And how did they manage to get all these players that you'd take at Arsenal ?
They missed out on qualifying for the Be All and End All League yet again? Don't they know the rules by now? Finish 4th retain all your best players and sign tons of world class players with the income it generates......finish 5th, curl up into a ball and die and lose every single quality player you ever had
CHUMPIONS LEAGUE........SHOVE IT RIGHT UP YER FUCKING A-HOLE
That is exactly the kind of risk we should be taking, although on the financial scale above. Spurs are prepared to take a risk to try to force themselves into the to the top 4.
Yes 35 on Higuain or 50 on Suarez would be risky but those are the risks we simply have to take if we are ver going to compete for the title into the last weeks again. If we were REALLY an ambitious club we would have looked at last season, thought ok we have a half decent setlled squad here, already decent enough to get top 4, lets splash a 100m on three outstanding players, yes including those in their late 20s if necessay, and have a crack at the title. As long as you get slightly closer than last seasons 16points, we will give you another contraact and another 50million or so next summer.
If only.
Spurs are shit they have alway been shit and they always will be shit If u watch them then u too are a shit .
Its like cock watching in the toilets some people cant help doing it even though they know its wrong !
Higuain at 30-35m represents miles better value than Soldado at 26m.
Given the disparity between the wages and the fact we don't actually use our CL position to sign players is having an efficient wage bill more important than finishing 4th? Or is the CL really worth circa £50m to us?
northbank123 wrote:Higuain at 30-35m represents miles better value than Soldado at 26m.
Look at it another way Soldado cost just a bit more than we paid for those two turkeys Gervinho and Giroud.We would rather buy shite for £12m than gamble £25m on a half decent player
