So where will we be in 12 months time then? Champions or widely admired also-rans? First signing of the summer today: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13695799.stm Promising, right position to strengthen in but not quite the transfer market solution to encourage our stars to stay or immediately augment our squad.
Also-rans. I think Wenger is shitting bricks wrt next season, he know's he's not infallible anymore and another season without silverware will be the end of him. Dunno about Fab - could well be that he fucks off, but even so you desperately need some steel back in your team. Could well see Nasri fucking off too.
cant see arsenal finishing above 4th or below 6th. Should be an interesting battle between the goons, liverpool and spurs to see who qualifies for europe this year. Arsenal really really need to sort themselves out defensively and find someone other then RVP who is prepared to shoot. dave
Fabregas would be heading for Barcelona atm if they had the 54m or whatever Arsenal valued him at, can see big bids coming in from City and Real for him very soon. Nasri apparently also unsettled and has been linked with a possible move to United, tho Wenger on record saying they wouldn't sell him to us. Only one year left on his contract tho so if he decides hes not signing another one then they'll have to cash in somewhere. Thats two of your main players gone. Desperately need a goalkeeper and one or two centre backs, plus obviously replacing whichever of those above that leave with suitable replacements.
just get bloody buying Wenger! we need a striker, a backup keeper, a CB and a DM. and we need to ship out denilson, bendtner, Squillaci and diaby
We don't need another youngster, we need someone who has had a good few seasons experience. Hopefully this is just cover.
england missed out on a promising talent there, by the look of it. Now if we could do thye same, BUT WITH MORE EXPERIENCE!!!
If Cesc goes to Real Madrid i'd be surprised - they've also got Alonso, Ozil and Sahin. All depends how willing he is to go and how much Arsenal hold out for. £40m seems about right.
Real will do pretty much anything to try and catch Barca, if taking their main target helps in that all the better.
OK, but to me the point is 'the fee the market will take'. Chelsea and Real both pay stupid money for players at their peak, whereas barca and us have a better rep for developing young talent. So - I reckon Real can be every bit as daft as the dodgy russian!
Fuckin this^^^^^^^ Another dismal run like the one we endured over the last 3 months of last season and he'll be under severe pressure
6 points the gap between the goons and Tottenham last season, 5 the year before. With both squads likely to be revamped it should be an interesting season . . .
God I hope the squad has some good additions! I have no literally no idea what Wenger will do (I guess none of us to be fair but still...) in the transfer market, we would all expect him to sort it out, but did he replace Almunia when we could all see what he was like or get in more good defenders for cover before 10/11 started? No. Odemwingie is a rumour I heard, then I youtubed his goal against us and was delighted to see Almunia at his finest. GK, 1/2 CB, DM, CM and a ST, all at a good/high standard is the bare minimum surely?
To me it's simple in terms of analysing the last season. 60% of goals against us were from set plays. If we deal with this by getting a Samba (for instance) or actually training our defenders to defend, we'll stand a chance of winning the league next year. Also I want to see the likes of Lansbury/Frimpong/Afobe/Chucks/Bartley/Freeman/J.E.T/Henderson (to start with) a chance in the first team.
http://justarsenal.com/tom-cruise-and-mark-randall-released-by-arsenal/8200 Tom Cruise released,still got his movie career to fall back on.Shame about Randall,the club had high hopes for him a few years ago.
Breaking news; Sergio ramos and Gervinho look to be coming our way, and he's still chasing Cahill. Now we just need samir to sign the bloody deal, a Dm and a backup keeper
First 3 games: away to Newc, home to Liv, away to Manure... ouch! The new batch of underdeveloped foreign lads (whoever comes in) are going to have a tough start. (Was hoping to go and see Arsenal v QPR as my dad is a QPR fan but that's new years eve and I'm in Bangkok then..... shame).
QPR is team which we have the worst record against in the four divisions. We've only won around ten percent of match's against them, apparently. Tough start to the season but we've got to play them all sooner or later and I'd rather it be sooner...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13853577.stm Usmanov buying more shares up. I wonder what the gameplan is?
