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.
supergeorgegraham wrote:Good to see Welbeck playing well though
It is, but that's the excuse wenker needs to not buy a proper striker...so yet again next season we will be stuck with the Championship level Lampost, Walcott and Campbell - Iwobi has great promise - But wenker seems to excel in ruining young players with potential - The Ox being a prime example.
Unless BFGW (big f'ing gash wound) leaves we will have to endure another year of our team with a shyte defence...Young Bellerin began really well but seems to have gone off the boil - I wonder how long before he reverts to wenker fullback type - ala: Sagna, Gibbs - run - stop - pass back - slow the attack....
SteveO 35 wrote:^^ Exactly right. Wenger and Kroenke hold us all in absolute contempt and no amount of boos and banners will break their little cartel. He's here to stay
Juventus will target Arsenal's 29-year-old French striker Olivier Giroud if they fail to sign Paris Saint-Germain forward Edinson Cavani, also 29. (Tuttosport - in Italian)
OneBardGooner wrote:Juventus will target Arsenal's 29-year-old French striker Olivier Giroud if they fail to sign Paris Saint-Germain forward Edinson Cavani, also 29. (Tuttosport - in Italian)
OneBardGooner wrote:Juventus will target Arsenal's 29-year-old French striker Olivier Giroud if they fail to sign Paris Saint-Germain forward Edinson Cavani, also 29. (Tuttosport - in Italian)
Ohhh! PLEASE Let this be true.
Are they mad, they have seen him play surely!
Fanfuckingtastic! Can we all let Juventus know that they might want both Cavani and Giroud? I mean, better to be safe than sorry, surely?
OneBardGooner wrote:Juventus will target Arsenal's 29-year-old French striker Olivier Giroud if they fail to sign Paris Saint-Germain forward Edinson Cavani, also 29. (Tuttosport - in Italian)
Ohhh! PLEASE Let this be true.
Are they mad, they have seen him play surely!
Stevie Wonder heads up their Scouting Team - All good for us I say!
GoonerMuzz wrote:Hate to say it but the only thing which would make Stan turn on Wenger is sustained damage to the brand, and a poor run of results and a bit of dissent in the ground is not going to massively effect the brand.
Bear in mind that even were we not to get the CL money next season we'd still break even with the new TV deal.
Sorry lads but i think some of you are popping your corks a bit too early
There is alleged to be £75m to spend this summer, from the £150m cash surplus, the rest of the money hoarded is in case we don't get CL for a couple of seasons, so the big tv deal this summer is all gravy for Stan.
It amazes me when I read fans saying thinks like "it's close to the end for Wenger". As much as we would like it to be, in what way is this different to any other Wenger fuck up? We have an owner who said last week he didn't buy the club to win things, and whose only priority is top 4 finishes and spending as little as possible to achieve that aim. As for the supposed media witch hunt against Wenger, well they are all sheep who will go a long with each other to criticise Wenger when it's popular to do so, but you can be assured that when we beat Villa on the last day of the season, there will be stories about the war chest Wenger will be given in the summer, and how he will get things right to win the league at the 13th time of asking. As for fan pressure making a difference to Wenger, I would ask, what pressure? There have been a few anti Wenger banners, but there has been as much fans criticising the banner as there has been defending it. This wanker is here to stay for another few years at least.
Wenger is already compiling his defence for staying, despite the yearly 'judge us in May' mantra.
In case we are 2nd behind Leicester we have already been told that's the fault of other clubs not taking enough points off them.
To defend his CL league record you can bet the emphasis will be on his qualification record, and that we usually get dumped out by the eventual winners (apart from Monaco).
On the domestic front we have been treated to the sly 'I built the club' remark, you can be assured he is going to expand on that little nugget of bullshit in the attempt to justify his new contract. Tales of how poor the club was, playing in a quaint little out dated ground.
Until he rode into town and saved us.
Bradywasking wrote:Dean Saunders on Goals on Sunday is the latest football "celeb" to defend Wenger. He was talking about the amount of money Chelsea and the Manchester clubs were spending. He neglected to mention the amount Arsenal are hoarding.
Assume he didn't mention the fact that Leicester and the scum have nowhere near the amount of money that we have, yet they are the ones that are topping the league
foxinthebox2001 wrote:Wenger is already compiling his defence for staying, despite the yearly 'judge us in May' mantra.
In case we are 2nd behind Leicester we have already been told that's the fault of other clubs not taking enough points off them.
To defend his CL league record you can bet the emphasis will be on his qualification record, and that we usually get dumped out by the eventual winners (apart from Monaco).
On the domestic front we have been treated to the sly 'I built the club' remark, you can be assured he is going to expand on that little nugget of bullshit in the attempt to justify his new contract. Tales of how poor the club was, playing in a quaint little out dated ground.
Until he rode into town and saved us.
In fairness, Wenger's impact on our club has been huge so I wouldn't dismiss it as bullshit if he wants to remind people of what the club has done over the last 20 years, and the restrictions he's worked under, as he deserves a hell of a lot of credit.
But that's a side issue. The problem is that he's stayed too long and isn't doing a good enough job anymore but no way should we attempt to rewrite history by dismissing his contribution.
foxinthebox2001 wrote:Wenger is already compiling his defence for staying, despite the yearly 'judge us in May' mantra.
In case we are 2nd behind Leicester we have already been told that's the fault of other clubs not taking enough points off them.
To defend his CL league record you can bet the emphasis will be on his qualification record, and that we usually get dumped out by the eventual winners (apart from Monaco).
On the domestic front we have been treated to the sly 'I built the club' remark, you can be assured he is going to expand on that little nugget of bullshit in the attempt to justify his new contract. Tales of how poor the club was, playing in a quaint little out dated ground.
Until he rode into town and saved us.
In fairness, Wenger's impact on our club has been huge so I wouldn't dismiss it as bullshit if he wants to remind people of what the club has done over the last 20 years, and the restrictions he's worked under, as he deserves a hell of a lot of credit.
But that's a side issue. The problem is that he's stayed too long and isn't doing a good enough job anymore but no way should we attempt to rewrite history by dismissing his contribution.
That's true g88ner. We played brilliant football kin the late 90s early noughties until we sere sussed and possible financial constraints came in with the new stadium. That's why I feel sad sometimes, he should have had a brilliant send off, but he has stayed too long and it clouds the past.
foxinthebox2001 wrote:Wenger is already compiling his defence for staying, despite the yearly 'judge us in May' mantra.
In case we are 2nd behind Leicester we have already been told that's the fault of other clubs not taking enough points off them.
To defend his CL league record you can bet the emphasis will be on his qualification record, and that we usually get dumped out by the eventual winners (apart from Monaco).
On the domestic front we have been treated to the sly 'I built the club' remark, you can be assured he is going to expand on that little nugget of bullshit in the attempt to justify his new contract. Tales of how poor the club was, playing in a quaint little out dated ground.
Until he rode into town and saved us.
In fairness, Wenger's impact on our club has been huge so I wouldn't dismiss it as bullshit if he wants to remind people of what the club has done over the last 20 years, and the restrictions he's worked under, as he deserves a hell of a lot of credit.
But that's a side issue. The problem is that he's stayed too long and isn't doing a good enough job anymore but no way should we attempt to rewrite history by dismissing his contribution.
The longer he stays the more those fond memories are going to be remembered as nightmares. I am so, so, so, tired of him. I genuinely think he is completely and totally deluded, maybe even slightly unbalanced. Some of the stuff he comes up with, is out of the manual of tyrannical despots. Bear in mind despots never get questioned either.
foxinthebox2001 wrote:Wenger is already compiling his defence for staying, despite the yearly 'judge us in May' mantra.
In case we are 2nd behind Leicester we have already been told that's the fault of other clubs not taking enough points off them.
To defend his CL league record you can bet the emphasis will be on his qualification record, and that we usually get dumped out by the eventual winners (apart from Monaco).
On the domestic front we have been treated to the sly 'I built the club' remark, you can be assured he is going to expand on that little nugget of bullshit in the attempt to justify his new contract. Tales of how poor the club was, playing in a quaint little out dated ground.
Until he rode into town and saved us.
In fairness, Wenger's impact on our club has been huge so I wouldn't dismiss it as bullshit if he wants to remind people of what the club has done over the last 20 years, and the restrictions he's worked under, as he deserves a hell of a lot of credit.
But that's a side issue. The problem is that he's stayed too long and isn't doing a good enough job anymore but no way should we attempt to rewrite history by dismissing his contribution.
G88ner i agree to a certain extent but i'm not convinced by this argument put forward in some quarters that seems to indicate he was the only manager who could have seen us through the lean times.
I'm semi-convinced there are at least a few Managers out there who could potentially have done as well as him and possibly achieved more even with the restrictions placed on him. During the lean years we had reasonable teams at times but they were let down by his management on the pitch even if the club was held together by his management off it.
