Song - Worst signing of the season in Spain

[brazilianGOONER]

overmars and petit were injury prone (for them at least), hleb was shit, song is shit, gio was average - i wonder why they still bother to sign arsenal players

[I Hate Hleb]

None whatsoever Augie.

Physically strong player, powerful tackler.

But too often for a top flight professional he was not clinical enough and would get too much of the man and so give away a foul.

Disagree Quartz. Song was NEVER a good or powerful tackler. He often got there then just stood still and, if he was lucky,the opponent would run into him. Unfortunately too often they ran either side of him or he gave away a foul through not positioning himself properly / misjudgment when making a 'challenge'. Another player that Arsene showed too much faith in and who shouldn't have got any where near the amount of Arsenal games under his belt that he did do.

[Its Up 4 Grabs Now]

Song was a truly abysmal tackler. Honestly one of the worst I can remember. Trundling headfirst into anything and everything like a horny bull in a vagina shop. Before the Madrid/Barca game a few months back Sky were showing some examples from previous games to highlight how vulnerable Barca were defensively. Literally every single clip out of 7 or 8 featured Song making a horrific error – worse even than I remember him making with us. To think they paid £1m less for him than they did for Henry is one of the funniest/saddest things in human history.

[Barriecuda]

No surprises with Song, anybody who actually watched Arsenal with half-an-eye for anything more than just the highlight reel moments would quickly tell you he was one of the most overrated players in the Premiership (or at least at Arsenal).

Modric I feel is a very talented player, but not talented enough to make an impact at a mega-club like Real Madrid. He would have been a great addition to Manchester United IMO, they could use him a lot more than RM. I suspect he'll make his way back to England soon. Or maybe a team like Inter will take a shot at him.

[QuartzGooner]

None whatsoever Augie.

Physically strong player, powerful tackler.

But too often for a top flight professional he was not clinical enough and would get too much of the man and so give away a foul.

Disagree Quartz. Song was NEVER a good or powerful tackler. He often got there then just stood still and, if he was lucky,the opponent would run into him. Unfortunately too often they ran either side of him or he gave away a foul through not positioning himself properly / misjudgment when making a 'challenge'. Another player that Arsene showed too much faith in and who shouldn't have got any where near the amount of Arsenal games under his belt that he did do.

Must have been watching a different player from you or Augie, because I think he was one of our most robust tacklers of recent years, and one of the few physical players we had in a lightweight team.
I think he had more tackling skill than you or Augie or IU4GN give him credit for.
Readily admit he gave away quite a lot of fouls, and seemed to pick up a lot of yellow cards.
I was keen to sell him.
But he was not as overall as bad a player as is being made out; had a terrible start at the club but got to a 7 out of 10 level in 2010 - 2011, then tailed off in his last season.

[Its Up 4 Grabs Now]

None whatsoever Augie.

Physically strong player, powerful tackler.

But too often for a top flight professional he was not clinical enough and would get too much of the man and so give away a foul.

Disagree Quartz. Song was NEVER a good or powerful tackler. He often got there then just stood still and, if he was lucky,the opponent would run into him. Unfortunately too often they ran either side of him or he gave away a foul through not positioning himself properly / misjudgment when making a 'challenge'. Another player that Arsene showed too much faith in and who shouldn't have got any where near the amount of Arsenal games under his belt that he did do.

Must have been watching a different player from you or Augie, because I think he was one of our most robust tacklers of recent years, and one of the few physical players we had in a lightweight team.
I think he had more tackling skill than you or Augie or IU4GN give him credit for.
Readily admit he gave away quite a lot of fouls, and seemed to pick up a lot of yellow cards.
I was keen to sell him.
But he was not as overall as bad a player as is being made out; had a terrible start at the club but got to a 7 out of 10 level in 2010 - 2011, then tailed off in his last season.

Guess we'll have to agree to disagree mate. What was most annoying about him for me was that physically he did have the body strength the be what you're suggesting, and he'd quite often produce one outstanding tackle in a game that showed he could do it, but then spent the rest of the time making the most ridiculously amateur attempts at a tackle imaginable. Same goes for his ability to make "powerful forward runs" - occasionally he'd do just that but he never ever looked like being the driving force we were so desperately crying out for (and still are tbh).

[Barriecuda]

None whatsoever Augie.

Physically strong player, powerful tackler.

But too often for a top flight professional he was not clinical enough and would get too much of the man and so give away a foul.

Disagree Quartz. Song was NEVER a good or powerful tackler. He often got there then just stood still and, if he was lucky,the opponent would run into him. Unfortunately too often they ran either side of him or he gave away a foul through not positioning himself properly / misjudgment when making a 'challenge'. Another player that Arsene showed too much faith in and who shouldn't have got any where near the amount of Arsenal games under his belt that he did do.

Must have been watching a different player from you or Augie, because I think he was one of our most robust tacklers of recent years, and one of the few physical players we had in a lightweight team.
I think he had more tackling skill than you or Augie or IU4GN give him credit for.
Readily admit he gave away quite a lot of fouls, and seemed to pick up a lot of yellow cards.
I was keen to sell him.
But he was not as overall as bad a player as is being made out; had a terrible start at the club but got to a 7 out of 10 level in 2010 - 2011, then tailed off in his last season.

Guess we'll have to agree to disagree mate. What was most annoying about him for me was that physically he did have the body strength the be what you're suggesting, and he'd quite often produce one outstanding tackle in a game that showed he could do it, but then spent the rest of the time making the most ridiculously amateur attempts at a tackle imaginable. Same goes for his ability to make "powerful forward runs" - occasionally he'd do just that but he never ever looked like being the driving force we were so desperately crying out for (and still are tbh).

Usually find myself agreeing with Quartz, but on this one I have to say I think Song, despite his potential and occasional indulgence, wasn't a frequently reliable tackler. Spent too much time meandering forward, meaning guys like Cesc and Arteta spent much of their time dropping deep to cover for him (wasting their creative talent). Song was not enough of a classic "enforcer" to back up the backline and frequently escaped criticism when his mistakes cost us goals.

[1989]

Song is pony.

[flash gunner]

Just shows you can't polish a turd. He was shit for us and he is shit for Barca. Fuck him

[Supagoon]

Song was never that bad and was even a good player, the problem came when he started to go forward and far too much. But i've seen him for Barca he sits. This is Arsenal he went forward because he'll never get reproached for doing so and because we had no creatvity in midfield.

The barca consensus on Song from their fans is that he has been good in parts but only as a CM, not as a CB which they thought he could do, in fact most of his problems were at CB. He is ahead of Mascherano in midfield, who is by all accounts a CB now.

Song's tackling wasn't great and he was far to cumbersome to try and win the ball and ended up committing predictable fouls.

Oh and we were meant to buy a midfielder to replace him, and no i dont like our midfield at the moment.

Modric is a very good player, but he came into a team of top top players. His ability stands out in the PL but not so much in the more technical la liga. In any case he must have been prepared for bench time by moving to madrid and he has to be patient.

[SteveO 35]

Don't rule out the possibility of him coming back here on loan. Just like Flamini before him I was fucking amazed to think that a leading European club would want to sign a player of such limited talent......how can a team with the most accurate slick passing game in world football want to sign a man with the pace of an asthmatic tortoise and with the grace of Emile Heskey.

[littlefire]

"T-a-ckling"? Ah yes we used to do that sometimes at The Arsenal. A long time ago now.

[olgitgooner]

£15million for Song.
Just a few million more for RVP.
I just can't see any logic in this.
Fuck Barcelona. They got a top notch player from us in Fabregas. Other than that, they have paid us well over the odds for unsuccessful players. Long may we continue being a feeder club for those *word censored*.

[DB10GOONER]

He was absolute rubbish for us. But yippee - he set up 3 or 4 goals in one season for VanJudas!!

Never mind that the other 40 Hollywood passes he tried all pissed off into touch. Also, if you look at some of those "amazing" passes it is very obvious that a player of less talent than the Dutch Judas wouldn't have been able to do fuck all with them. Yet some people were lauding Song as some kind of passing genius!

He was seriously one of the worst tacklers I've ever seen. Hardly ever took the ball cleanly, mostly just colliding with the oppo player. He also gave away stupid unecessary free kicks around the edge of the box, had a turning circle like an oil tanker, had no positional sense, was slow, cumbersome, got caught in (and losing) posession far too often, had the terrible habit of getting caught dawdling on the ball and then firing the fucking thing at a well-marked team mate thus endangering them... Christ, I could go on and fucking on...

How we got 16 million from the Whores for him will go down in the history of the game as one of the most bizarre and amazing bits of tranfer dealing of all time.

[ThomasMitchell]

Seeing the back of Song was the closest thing to winning a trophy in recent years. He will end up where he belongs - somewhere like Bolton.