LU Arsenal Brigade II

[CC_Eagle]

not very good from what I hear, especially if you're in a goons shirt

let me know if you are after tickets, there is a way

Now I wouldn't be that careless would I ;-)

Definitely would be interested in tickets mate. Any advice or help would be immensely appreciated. PM me with any details

Never seemed to get out of third gear against Wigan, despite a few scares I thought we were well the better team.

I for one don't see how Gervinho leaving for the ACON is a downside? Rotating Theo/Ox on the right is a far, far better option than the Forehead.

 

[CC_Eagle]

yea but its taking penalties to get home, all off dives aswell, thats not the Arsenal way at all

Theo's wasn't a 'dive.' Cazorla's was, but that's something I hope to never see from an Arsenal player again.

If there is genuine contact (regardless of how hard) and a player goes down, I have no problem with it. There's nothing in the rule book stipulating how hard a challenge must be before it's deemed illegal.

If what's perceived by some to be a 'dive' is the difference between one and three points, at the moment I'll take a 'dive' any day of the week.

 

[AusKnightRKO]

but thats my point, remeber when we actually played great one touch football, like i know thats when it was Nasri,Fabregas,RVP,Arshavin,Diaby back in 08 - 10 but now we have none of it.

i hope in the summer we can buy 1 or 2 Midfielders that can Recreate that magic again

----Capoue----
--Wilshere---Arteta----Cazorla
---Gotze-----
--Lopez---- Podolski---

 

[BunniesMan]

We played good football the week before. In the conditions last night even Barca wouldn't have been as good as they usually are.

 

[AusKnightRKO]

Reading were horrible, man utd would have put 4 in each half.

We need to kill the dead weight on this roster

Chamakh
Bendtner
Denilson
Squillaci
Arshavin
Fabianski
Park Chu Young

Plus some others so we can reduce the wage bill

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Who cares how crap Reading were? We put 5 past them. City took 93 minutes and a push in the back to even get 1 this morning.

Everyone knows we need to clear players. Why do you think we've loaned 4 of those players out in the last 12 months? We tried moving Fabianski on before he got injured and Chamakh and Squillaci are happy enough to f**k their careers and pick up their 50-60k a week instead of playing. There isn't actually too much more we could be doing in that respect imo.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Just on a side note. If there's one player we should look at getting this or the next window it's Isco. His release clause is only 17.5 mill pounds and with Malaga banned from the CL next season we could maybe entice him with a starting spot, (hopefully) champions league and a chance to play with Cazorla and Arteta.

 

[BunniesMan]

We did a United. Conceded 3 but still won. Walcott and Wilshere were outstanding. Really hope we sign Walcott up asap.

 

[AusKnightRKO]

he will sign in mid Jan, hes been in better talks lately and i think hes agreeing to a 92k a week deal

 

[BunniesMan]

He deserves it. He's not doing a Nasri and just selling himself to the highest bidder. If he is asking for between 90 and 100k as reports suggest he is that's perfectly reasonable and less than he could get elsewhere as a regular England international.

We persevered while he was mediocre. This season he has 14 goals and 9 assists in 20 games. He's finally putting it together. If we lost him now it would be criminal.

 

[AusKnightRKO]

we need him to stay, and i think his Bond with Jack,Keiran and Alex will keep him here aswell

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Apparently on his match ball Ramsey wrote "Sign, you mug" haha.

Decent game. Can imagine it was good for the neutral.

Thought Podolski had his best game for us. He's a lot better when he's cut in and he has Gibbs overlapping. On Gibbs, he was woeful defensively, definitely at fault for Ba's second and maybe could have read the situation better for their second, thought he got into good positions in the second half when they were tiring.

Having the boxing day game off was a massive help. They were f**ked in the last twenty minutes.

Hopefully Wenger doesn't read too much into it and think we don't need anyone in Jan. Ba met with Chelsea officials apparently so i'm guessing he's off the market, but if we sign Theo up, which i think we will, then i won't mind. Would much rather a defensive midfielder (Diame, M'Vila etc.) and another left back (Shaw).

 

[AusKnightRKO]

For LB id rather Jetro Willems, Sell Diaby and Loan out Coq and bring in Capoue or Sissoko

Re Sign Walcott 5 years 90k
Re Sign Sagna 3 years 70k

In the Summer, let go of the deadwood, bring in Isco or Gotze and a young Cb 17 - 19

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

All of that sounds good to me.

 

[BunniesMan]

We need a left back. Gibbs is our only one and he needs competition. Vermaelen, Koscielny etc are not left backs.

A leftback, and a DM to play for the 90% of each season that Diaby misses. Those are our two primary needs. And maybe another goalscorer would be the icing on the cake.

Leftback: Shaw/Baines
DM: Capoue/M'Vila etc
Forward: Any proven player that can put the ball in the goal.

In other news, we have Southampton overnight. We've won a few in a row now and they're a relegation contender. I've got a bad feeling we're due a loss.

But it would be awesome to go into the Chelsea-City back to back games on a winning streak and full of confidence.

 

[boxhead]

Well, not a loss at least.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Feels like one haha.

 

[andrew057]

David Villa would be nice.

 

[Twizzle]

seen articles linking you guys to him and another article from Barca saying they wont release him mid season

 

[andrew057]

Bookies have him at 6/4 to join Arsenal.