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.
Yankee_Gooner_Dandee wrote:Thought he played well in the Barca game, and his goal was wonderful. Much better than Ramsey.
This ^. His goal was a beautiful strike. Also nice to see a midfielder hit the fucking thing rather than continually trying to walk the ball into the net after 56 passes. He has done okay since he joined. He may not be a world beater but I'd play him ahead of Ramsey any day.
Damning with faint praise?
Agree with the thinking that he's doing pretty well considering he's just signed for Clusterfuck FC - and the goal the other night was a thing of beauty.
I should have qualified that by stating I would also play my dead grandmother ahead of Ramsey these days...
Yankee_Gooner_Dandee wrote:Thought he played well in the Barca game, and his goal was wonderful. Much better than Ramsey.
This ^. His goal was a beautiful strike. Also nice to see a midfielder hit the fucking thing rather than continually trying to walk the ball into the net after 56 passes. He has done okay since he joined. He may not be a world beater but I'd play him ahead of Ramsey any day.
Damning with faint praise?
Agree with the thinking that he's doing pretty well considering he's just signed for Clusterfuck FC - and the goal the other night was a thing of beauty.
I should have qualified that by stating I would also play my dead grandmother ahead of Ramsey these days...
I'd play Almunia in CM ahead of Ramsey these days Too far?
Just thought i'd bump this thread to get peoples impressions so far.
I know he is not what we wanted, nor is he what we needed but for me he has been quietly efficient and pretty hard working so far.
Personally hope he gets to continue for the rest of the season to see if he can begin to cut it in this league, and for once as we're pretty much out of everything he can settle in without too much expectation or pressure
He has done fairly well but just like Gabriel is an average player who benefits from not being Mertesacker, Elneny is halfway there just by being the complete antithesis of Ramsey.
I think we're suffering residual arrogance when it comes to signings these days, we're often too quick to write off players before they even get a chance.
Mo may not be world class but he has the potential to be a good or even very good squad player.
The problem is we're so desperate for top quality because quite a few of our first team aren't good enough we often overlook the potential in some players.
I really think no matter my love for Arsenal i'm not so sure we're such a big draw for players these days.
Let's be honest it's twelve years since we won anything significant and to world class players that's almost 3/4 of a career and even worse if many of us can see our deficiencies so can those within the footballing world outside the UK.
I hope this guy can make a mark at this club as it would be nice to be enjoying a player for once rather than constantly criticising them
northbank123 wrote:He has done fairly well but just like Gabriel is an average player who benefits from not being Mertesacker, Elneny is halfway there just by being the complete antithesis of Ramsey.
He has done a really decent job so far and looks a good addition to the squad.We could of done with getting him in the summer as we would of been spared Flamini and especially Arteta (WBA away) as back ups to le Coq who was having a really good season until injured at WBA.
Likes to shoot from distance but that as above will be coached out of him.Santi Cazorla when he signed had an impressive record of scoring spectacular goals from outside the box for Villarreal and Malaga but that soon got coached out of him!
Topside Northbank wrote:He has done a really decent job so far and looks a good addition to the squad.We could of done with getting him in the summer as we would of been spared Flamini and especially Arteta (WBA away) as back ups to le Coq who was having a really good season until injured at WBA.
Likes to shoot from distance but that as above will be coached out of him.Santi Cazorla when he signed had an impressive record of scoring spectacular goals from outside the box for Villarreal and Malaga but that soon got coached out of him!
Spot on
I remember Cazorla scoring a screamer against West Ham. Hardly saw the likes of that again (other than Wembley 14). Then there was Arshavin, who single-handedly got us the draw at Anfield. Some superb long range goals in that game, whilst our joke of a defence screwed us over yet again. Arshavin was never the same after those first few months, when he was successfully blunted and played out of position on the left wing until he was dropped and let go. Shocking treatment of an excellent player. Then there was Podolski. A thunderbolt of a shot on him, but wasn't allowed to displace the lamppost up front, before eventually being Arshavin-ed out of the club. TOF hates anyone who doesn't do sideways, ineffective football. Bastard. I'm sure his holy grail is 1,000 completed passes and no shots on goal. It's torture.
Elneny has done well for us. It was a relief to have someone other than Ramsey have a go at goal. Now he's been Wenger-ed and his forward play will be totally blunted once he goes through a pre-season with us, like the aforementioned players. It's so typical that the ONLY bit of coaching advice TOF will give a player is to not shoot. He won't coach the defence, he won't buy a good striker, but he will tell the players not to shoot. Wanker!
I've seen Elneny dive in a couple of games, I do hope he cuts that out.
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