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.
He wants money? jesus christ what a fucker lucky he isn't a londoner , born and bred arsenal supporter or wasn't a integral part of the team, then I'd feel hard done by. Why would he show loyalty to us? I don't want him back but still....
EDIT- You know who else you should hate? TH14. left us for barca, wonder why
Henry Norris 1913 wrote:He wants money? jesus christ what a fucker lucky he isn't a londoner , born and bred arsenal supporter or wasn't a integral part of the team, then I'd feel hard done by. Why would he show loyalty to us? I don't want him back but still....
EDIT- You know who else you should hate? TH14. left us for barca, wonder why
I think there is no comparison between the two situations.
£lamoney left for 101% financial reasons, had he stayed he could have become a much better more accomplished player.
When Thierry Henry leftthere were several reasons, he (and AW and We) knew his best days were over, he was coming to the arse end of a messy divorce - the media would have crucified him over here (divorce in Spain and Italy particularly famous faces is almost expected) - he wanted the (last saloon) chance to win a CL Winners medal - which he achieved. I have no idea if his wages at barca were higher, I presume so, but that's because we pay less to High Calibre players than most other clubs.
C***ini or Flamster as some call him had one decent season for us. Refused to sign a contract and it was widely reported that Wenger asked him 6 months before the end of his contract what he was going to do and he didn't give anything away, even though he knew full well he is a greedy c*** and was going to leave. If he was enough of a man he would have said "Arsene, I think I need a new challenge, with 6 months to go'. Wenger could have put Diarra in the side and we might be in a much better place today if that had happened. Flamini doesn't deserve shit and he certainly doesn't deserve to return. I don't give a toss about the fact he left, I think he's a very poor footballer, it's the way he did it.
But the bottom line is - he's a very poor footballer and Arsenal have an abundance of piss poor backups, we hardly need another!!
TeeCee wrote:C***ini or Flamster as some call him had one decent season for us. Refused to sign a contract and it was widely reported that Wenger asked him 6 months before the end of his contract what he was going to do and he didn't give anything away, even though he knew full well he is a greedy c*** and was going to leave. If he was enough of a man he would have said "Arsene, I think I need a new challenge, with 6 months to go'. Wenger could have put Diarra in the side and we might be in a much better place today if that had happened. Flamini doesn't deserve shit and he certainly doesn't deserve to return. I don't give a toss about the fact he left, I think he's a very poor footballer, it's the way he did it.
But the bottom line is - he's a very poor footballer and Arsenal have an abundance of piss poor backups, we hardly need another!!
TeeCee wrote:C***ini or Flamster as some call him had one decent season for us. Refused to sign a contract and it was widely reported that Wenger asked him 6 months before the end of his contract what he was going to do and he didn't give anything away, even though he knew full well he is a greedy c*** and was going to leave. If he was enough of a man he would have said "Arsene, I think I need a new challenge, with 6 months to go'. Wenger could have put Diarra in the side and we might be in a much better place today if that had happened. Flamini doesn't deserve shit and he certainly doesn't deserve to return. I don't give a toss about the fact he left, I think he's a very poor footballer, it's the way he did it.
But the bottom line is - he's a very poor footballer and Arsenal have an abundance of piss poor backups, we hardly need another!!
To be honest that situation reflects worse on Wenger than it does 'the money-grabbing' Flamini. Having not got the assurances that he wanted, and knowing he had as good - and in many people's eyes a better - player in Diarra getting pissed off because he wasn't getting a regular shirt, Wenger should have done the right thing and either dropped Flamini or sold him in the January window. Instead in a piece of magnificent man-management he lost both players and we've paid for that ever since!!
TeeCee wrote:C***ini or Flamster as some call him had one decent season for us. Refused to sign a contract and it was widely reported that Wenger asked him 6 months before the end of his contract what he was going to do and he didn't give anything away, even though he knew full well he is a greedy c*** and was going to leave. If he was enough of a man he would have said "Arsene, I think I need a new challenge, with 6 months to go'. Wenger could have put Diarra in the side and we might be in a much better place today if that had happened. Flamini doesn't deserve shit and he certainly doesn't deserve to return. I don't give a toss about the fact he left, I think he's a very poor footballer, it's the way he did it.
But the bottom line is - he's a very poor footballer and Arsenal have an abundance of piss poor backups, we hardly need another!!
Nail on the head mate. The *word censored* fucked us over in more ways than one. If he'd told us he was off then Diarra (5 times the player of Flamoney) would have gotten the nod over him.
Wenger is blameable too. He could have managed the situation far better.
lucky he isn't a londoner , born and bred arsenal supporter or wasn't a integral part of the team, then I'd feel hard done by. Why would he show loyalty to us? I don't want him back but still....
Having not got the assurances that he wanted, and knowing he had as good - and in many people's eyes a better - player in Diarra getting pissed off because he wasn't getting a regular shirt, Wenger should have done the right thing and either dropped Flamini or sold him in the January window. Instead in a piece of magnificent man-management he lost both players and we've paid for that ever since!! 
