The Arsenal Thread XX

Thing is, Wenger is over loyal. Sometimes it pays like with Rambo, RVP etc but then you have Arteta, Almunia, Senderos situations. And Arteta is the model professional, and seems to really get on well with Wenger personally so it's one of those really.

Why has Wenger gone off Flamini anyway? Start of last season he was really dynamite but after Xmas AW just seemed to lose faith, or at least he refuses to drop Arteta for him. Flamini is a much much better prtner for Ramsey than MA.

I really hope Diaby somehow finds fitness, maybe Chamers can play DM?

Lol flamini is absolutely awful tell me one thing he excels at other than running round like a moron

At his best, he hounds opposition players and generally makes things difficult for them. Decent tackling and good tactical awareness etc.

He's not good enough to be a starter, but he's ahead of Arteta surely.

So he just runs around a bit a French lee cattermole?

His tackling isn't decent he picks up stupid cards every game

His tactical awareness is awful he's been dropped because of his unintelligent pressing and inability to understand how to block off a passing avenue by covering a certain space seen wenger losing his **** at flamini many times for this.

Lol@arsenal fans who believe some mystical DM exists that sits back and stops all counter attacks and breaks everything up. It's the ****ing system for **** sake. An upgrade on arteta is needed fair enough but I've even heard people want wanyama for **** sake

What top team in world football plays with this destroyer?

doesnt have to be a destroyer, just a disciplined and tactically aware CM who covers the space and can mix it up physically

Who is this player?


Was interesting to see fabregas hit the ground running as I predicted today. Was it you who said ozil was the better passer than him recently? Laughable assertion. Fully expect him to cement his place as the best CM in the league this season now he isn't being wasted at barca

You tell me who's available? Gilberto used to do it for us. Matic does it, Martinez does it, Schweinsteiger can do it etc etc

Burnley is nice, but Mesut Ozil's been busy winning the World Cup and that.

I don't know who's available who's better than arteta in that role

Unfortunately I dont give a ****ing **** about Germany so I don't care what ozil does there I want him to do something in the premier league and
I waited 40+ games for ozil to have a performance on that level and fabregas has provided one on his first game back

Nah mate, he's just keeping her warm for me.

you watching titanic tonight brah?

Chelsea look like they can really anally penetrate us against our will this season. I.e. We look like we're in for another raping. They look very clinical and mentally tough. Honestly don't think we have the quality to match them unless we bring at least a striker and a CDM.

this basically, some sexy play/goals but burnley will finish bottom of the table anyway.

Some one who sees my point

There was a reason why we led the league last season for so long and that was because of our fixture list. Essentially we won the games we were meant to win and lost the ones which were acceptable bar a few hiccups (which happened to every team).
To be considered actual title contenders we need to have a squad strong enough to be able to grab more points off our rivals.
Sanchez is a good upgrade but I don't see us improving our big game record from last season bar gaining 4 extra points from UTD and Everton.
Chelsea will most likely storm the league this year and the same to be said with City if Aguero managed to stay fit. Even if he didn't they have Dzeko, Jovetic and Ngredo where as we'd fall on Sanogo (I don't count Sanchez and Theo as strikers as of yet).

Burnley will survive, their first game against Chelsea who had strengthened majority of their squad(Bar RW which we need to improve) when they weren't used to the prem.


I guarantee that Burnley will survive.

They didn't do too badly, they just encountered a better team and were blown away when we upped the tempo. There will be more of the same from the Chelsea behemoth.

Burnley will survive, their first game against Chelsea who had strengthened majority of their squad(Bar RW which we need to improve) when they weren't used to the prem.


I guarantee that Burnley will survive.

They didn't do too badly, they just encountered a better team and were blown away when we upped the tempo. There will be more of the same from the Chelsea behemoth.