The Arsenal Thread

[DJ Alborz]

poor result but it's preseason so meh...

+rep though

[1Heesham1]

the ship is sinking arsene.

[Shervin.]

the ship is sinking arsene.

chelsea are our only rivals this year, lets see how you cope without van der sar for the start; an injury which is nothing compared to what we have suffered.

[1Heesham1]

chelsea are our only rivals this year, lets see how you cope without van der sar for the start; an injury which is nothing compared to what we have suffered.

not too bothered fosters the future anyway and hes been proven.

[The-Iron-Ghost]

not too bothered fosters the future anyway and hes been proven.

Lol dude are you serious, you are going to bad mouth arsenal when your club is falling apart its self, you sold your 2 best performers from last year. Our losses were not our best performers.

See difference is we did not purchase our players for ridiculous amounts, they are youth all coming up, in reality we are just a team with a bunch of high preforming youngsters that get really good results.

The fact that you are taking a 2-0 loss to Valencia (Preseason) with 2 late goals and 8-9 subs used shows that your football IQ is non existent.

[raminio05]

Guys i'm usually not a pessimist, but i see us having an abismal season defensively.

[1Heesham1]

Lol dude are you serious, you are going to bad mouth arsenal when your club is falling apart its self, you sold your 2 best performers from last year. Our losses were not our best performers.
See difference is we did not purchase our players for ridiculous amounts, they are youth all coming up, in reality we are just a team with a bunch of high preforming youngsters that get really good results.
The fact that you are taking a 2-0 loss to Valencia (Preseason) with 2 late goals and 8-9 subs used shows that your football IQ is non existent.

its complete rubbish if u think tevez was a best performer.

a football team is never revolved around 1 man, and that can only be proven to you over the course of this season.


anyway, i dont take the valencia loss as a prequisite. Infact i havent even watched that video. However based on the previous seasons and the fact u havent won a trophy in how many years only cements the undeniable reality that arsenal has been for sometime been descending into mediocrity and there are no signs of it recovering when other teams strengthing and catching them up, and it doesnt need a football IQ as high as yours to work that out.

Just last season you would not have been in the cl had aston villa not have had such a small squad, and the season before a stroke of luck against tottenham.

[raminio05]

its complete rubbish if u think tevez was a best performer.
a football team is never revolved around 1 man, and that can only be proven to you over the course of this season.
anyway, i dont take the valencia loss as a prequisite. Infact i havent even watched that video. However based on the previous seasons and the fact u havent won a trophy in how many years only cements the undeniable reality that arsenal has been for sometime been descending into mediocrity and there are no signs of it recovering when other teams strengthing and catching them up, and it doesnt need a football IQ as high as yours to work that out.
Just last season you would not have been in the cl had aston villa not have had such a small squad, and the season before a stroke of luck against tottenham.

lol. so in other words "you would not have been in the Cl if your team was not better than aston villas".

hala well see how manchester fares without ronaldo and tevez.

[chuck bass]

the ship is sinking arsene.

funny how that is coming from a united fan. lol

[Team Melli Fan]

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/edi...009-10-preview

formation sucks though

[1Heesham1]

funny how that is coming from a united fan. lol

u dont take over a club in the midst of a crisis.. take it to 11 league titles, cl's, fa cups and then allow it to crumble.

lol. so in other words "you would not have been in the Cl if your team was not better than aston villas".
hala well see how manchester fares without ronaldo .

first of all, i made a slight adjustment.

second... that wasnt what i meant. I mean to say that it was very fortunate that villa combined with injuries and a small squad ran out of steam in the closing stages of last season allowing arsenal to bridge the 7 point gap in the end. And thats two close calls in two successive seasons.. u may not be third time lucky this time round. And anyway ur chairman said something along the lines of "it won't be a disaster if we don't make it into the cl"... and this was last season. Says alot.

[raminio05]

first of all, i made a slight adjustment.
second... that wasnt what i meant. I mean to say that it was very fortunate that villa combined with injuries and a small squad ran out of steam in the closing stages of last season allowing arsenal to bridge the 7 point gap in the end. And thats two close calls in two successive seasons.. u may not be third time lucky this time round. And anyway ur chairman said something along the lines of "it won't be a disaster if we don't make it into the cl"... and this was last season. Says alot.

how is it fortunate for us that villa has a small squad (i'm guessing that your talking about depth when you say small squad). thats like saying that ManU are lucky because they have a large squad (depth).

And lol about Arsenal being lucky that villa had injuries. Apart from RM, we had to be the most injured teams last season. We bridged the gap because we went on a 21 game streak without losing, even with all of our injuries.

And its not gonna be us needing the luck this time around. I'm going to love finishing ahead of manU this season.

[1Heesham1]

how is it fortunate for us that villa has a small squad (i'm guessing that your talking about depth when you say small squad). thats like saying that ManU are lucky because they have a large squad (depth).
And lol about Arsenal being lucky that villa had injuries. Apart from RM, we had to be the most injured teams last season. We bridged the gap because we went on a 21 game streak without losing, even with all of our injuries.
And its not gonna be us needing the luck this time around. I'm going to love finishing ahead of manU this season.

My point is this. Arsenal made hard work of gaining that 4th spot two years running. With teams below them strengthining, while arsene sticks to his young gunners (pun intented), the liklihood of them retaining that spot will be all the more difficult this coming year, let alone finishing ahead of the champions (glad i quoted that 1).

[babak_australia]

My point is this. Arsenal made hard work of gaining that 4th spot two years running. With teams below them strengthining, while arsene sticks to his young gunners (pun intented), the liklihood of them retaining that spot will be all the more difficult this coming year, let alone finishing ahead of the champions (glad i quoted that 1).

Those young gunners are now all grown up and are mostly world class players.

Arsenals defence of Clichy - Gallas - Vermaelen - Sagna can easliy be one of the best in Europe

A misfield with Nasri - Cesc - Diaby - Rosicky can also be up there

Let alone our forwards....RVP, Arshavin, Eduardo, Walcott, Bendtner and Vela can be amongst the strongest team in Europe with forwards.

If Arsenal are luck to have a low injury season then we are not worried about 4th spot. Other teams should be worried about us not winning i rekon.

Granted we need another defender and a holding midfielder which i think we will get before the transfer window closes but i wouldnt call us a weak team this season who will only fight for 4th

[raminio05]

babak don't forget about Song, who in my opinion was one of our best players last year.

heesham, those young guns (as you call them) are pretty much mature now.