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Arsenal: 2008/09 Season

i do find the close season very annoying - wenger plays his cards close to his chest, so you never really know about a confirmed bona fide offer or interest until the deal is pretty much done. It's also annoying when other teams seem to be splashing a load of cash, and we still have one eye on the purse strings.

hoepfully we will still buy another midfileder: have seen rumours of miguel velosa, which could be a good signing for us...
 
Gingerman said:
http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?...-+My+squad+is+fully+stocked+with+strikers+now
No new strikers then
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I don't see any reason to stock up on strikers. Adebayor and RvP are some of the best in Europe when fit and on form. Carlos Vela, Bendtner and Walcott will be fantastic stand-ins when needed (Vela and Bendtner in particular have looked good in pre-season). And then there's still Eduardo.

Beyond that it looks like we have a surfeit of playmakers so I wouldn't be surprised if we saw more of the 4-4-1-1 or 4-5-1 formation with only one orthodox striker this year.
 
Can't believe it, i said to my mate Arsenal would get Fc twente in the CL qualifying, i always believe these draws are somewhat fixed, and fucking hell i was right.:D
 
TrippyLondoner said:
Can't believe it, i said to my mate Arsenal would get Fc twente in the CL qualifying, i always believe these draws are somewhat fixed, and fucking hell i was right.:D
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Why could'nt we get one of those unprouncables from E.Europe?Fc Twente wont be a pushover.
 
hektik said:
Kolo Toure looks as though he will be out for the beginning of the season with malaria: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/jul/23/arsenal.premierleague

We DEFINATELY need another central defender now.
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I do like (if thats the right word) when footballer-or sportsmen genrally- who get proper injuries. I mean I remeber when Matt Jansen got the squits the night before his England Debut and then never gets called up again and just gets laughed at

With Toure its more fucking hell.
 
First *proper* pre-season friendly for us today. Should be a walkover considering where Juventus are in their preparations. Vela, Bendtner and Wilshere looked great in Austria. Hopefully will see them today.
 
i'm quite impressed we have four games live on sky before the season starts. more than any other club.

against both juve and real we looked fluid on the ball but same as ever in the final third the tempo drops and we seem to hit a brick wall, not creating enough chances and getting in behind them
 
Alonso for £15-16m looks a possbility. Would you Gooners be happy with that? I think Arsenal's style of play would suit him.
 
He's been playing at about 60% for the last season or two now. A move would probably stimulate him back to full form. If Rafa doesn't have to sell to fund the Barry move he may keep him until January and try Spain and Italy for interest again. I'd be sorry to see him go.
 
This Alonso thing has been doing the rounds for some time but i think it's dependent on the barry transfer, which doesn't seem likely to happen. it would be good though. i would be happy with anything under £20m
 
Looks like a good analysis in today's Guardian. A couple of example quotes:

In short, though Arsenal's first-choice XI will still be able to pass even the very best teams to death - they scored more goals than anyone else in the last 15 minutes of matches last season because opponents were so tired chasing them - the shallowness of their squad means a recurrence of last season's savage spate of injuries could well provoke another collapse.
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Again, it's difficult to envisage Arsenal emerging from a full season ahead of Chelsea, in particular.

Mind you, it's even more difficult to imagine them slipping out of the top four, and if we turn to their positives, we may even conclude that they're more likely to move up than down. For a start, as Wenger and the players repeatedly insist, they are a season older and a season wiser. They should be more composed, and more ruthless. We're unlikely, for example, to see a reprise of the Birmingham fiasco, when Emmanuel Adebayor spurned a match-clinching goal by refusing to pass to Nicklas Bendtner, and Gallas infamously imitated a thwarted teenager sulking in his bedroom to a My Chemical Romance soundtrack.
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predictions for wednesday?

I think we should probably win, although it will be tighter than people would imagine: i'd go for a 2-0, with the goals coming late in the game.

rumours that we might buy inler, from udinese. We definately need another midfielder - diaby is out for a month (when is he ever IN the team - permanently injured).
 
Lets not forget Twente beat Ajax a few weeks back in the European play offs. So they'll be no pushover.

I wouldnt be surprised if it ended in a draw. Our big Guns are still way off match fitness.

Fingers crossed....
 
Potential banana skin job I think,what happened to Rangers last week keeps comming back to me or maybe Im just an old worrywort.
 
in light of all the injury worries, I am going to revise my optimism downwards, and go for a 1-1 draw.

In happier news, I have got a ticket to the West Brom game :D
 
I'm nervous as fuck about this.

A draw will do me fine and we can sort them out at The Grove....That's if we've got any players left.
 
i should have stuck with my first answer :)

Was a pretty boring match: one of the worst I have seen in a long time. We looked awful for pretty much all of it.
 
TrippyLondoner said:
You guys have accepted boro's bid for hoyte...what are your thoughts on that?
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i'd be sad to see him go, but lets be honest: he's always going to be back-up, and even last year when sagna was out, he preferred toure at right-back, with senderos in the centre, so if he wants to leave to get first-team football then good luck to him.

it does mean we are short in defence though.
 
hektik said:
i should have stuck with my first answer :)

Was a pretty boring match: one of the worst I have seen in a long time. We looked awful for pretty much all of it.
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rubbish match, aye; but I'd rather see arsenal win as ugly as chavski thazn as pretty as well, us last year, in a match of that significance
 
The last thing we need at the moment is to lose more players. Hoyte is a competent stand in. Every team needs one or two of them.

Anyhow, thought the Twente game was encouraging in that Ramsey and Denilson did well and the defense looked organised. Like a lot of people are saying we need to learn how to play ugly and win.

Looks like Denilson and Ramsey are likely to start tomorrow. That'll be a proper test.
 
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