The Arsenal Thread XXI

Perhaps. But see my reply to AR, I feel as though we're that "nearly" team right now and if we don't start winning soon our players will begin to leave.

I got a dirty feeling that maybe in the season after next, Bayen will try and swoop for Ozil. He's German. And basically because they can they will get him.

Pretty happy that Wengers got a strong spine of British players though, they tend not to be snakes.. But I do feel we're entering that make or break era again. And typically it's been a break for us

90% of the players we lost in the austerity era were because of finances. We aren't going to have that kind of issue with most of the players we have now. The other 10% were down to a lack of ambition (and Cesc wanting to go home) shown by the club. I'm not sure you can say spending 16m on Welbeck and 35m on Sanchez in one window is lacking ambition?

Problem with that is Hodgson will get your English players injured during internationals...

Fergie got 6 points off the record with a relatively poor squad. If he had a team comparable to 04-05 Chelsea he would've broken it.

In terms of getting the most out of players it's clearly SAF over Mourinho.

Perhaps. But see my reply to AR, I feel as though we're that "nearly" team right now and if we don't start winning soon our players will begin to leave.

I got a dirty feeling that maybe in the season after next, Bayen will try and swoop for Ozil. He's German. And basically because they can they will get him.

Pretty happy that Wengers got a strong spine of British players though, they tend not to be snakes.. But I do feel we're entering that make or break era again. And typically it's been a break for us

I think Ozil's past his best.

do you think you'll score any goals next week? honest question.

Seems realistic, who scores?

Because Mourinho builds a top team most of the time and bar at Barca(which is understandable) he's dominated in every league he's been in, breaking the points record in 2 out of 4 leagues he's managed in while remaining unbeaten at home for 150 league matches?

Mou is just as effective as Fergie when it comes to league titles. As much as I hate to say it though, Guardiola is probably the best wrt league titles, he had a lot to do with that Barca revolution so you have to give him credit. Would love to see him in the prem one day, top manager. A project like Arsenal would be pretty tasty for him.

They'll go for Ozil when they have a better player in Gotze and Muller. Especially when they play 4-1-4-1 so don't actually require Ozil in the formation?

Anyone else think Mesut had a class game yesterday? Our best player imo.

Flamini is a disgrace.

Nah not for any reason in particular. Simply because they can. They love having the best German talent right? They don't even have a particular need to go for Reus, and yet arnt they odds on to get him? Ozil will probably get really pissed off with all the hate that he gets here too.

Reus is potentially going bayern because Ribery is getting on and so is Robben. They're both 30 so needs replacing. Plus there's also the weakening of their team as he's clearly Dortmunds best attacking player.