The Arsenal Thread XXIII

You still haven't answered the question, why are you already disregarding the team that walked the league this season?

I'm calling you out because you constantly try to link us with the most ridiculous transfers possible. If they're ****ty rumours from DailyMail or Metro why the **** are we talking about them, they aren't going to happen. Some personal favourites over the months which you have said:

Whether it be in the January transfer season:
"Schneiderlin and Hummels would be perfect in Jan, along with maybe a top-class striker (Benzema?)"

"gundogan plz come to us srs no joke"

Or my personal favourite just 3 months after he'd moved to Athletico, "Mandzukic would be a nice alternative to Giroud"

"Arsenal to launch £63M bid for Hummels and Gundogan http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...tmund-duo.html"

"Wouldn't mind a player near his [Defoe] age tho (Ribery, Robben )"


And in the last few months:

"need to buy verratti and hummels tbh"

"Just invest in Reus and Vidal tbh"

"Griezmann/Verratti playing for us would be just "


You have literally linked us with every CDM under the sun and all is does is make our rival fans think all Arsenal fans are deluded


Also inb4 Obsessed, sorry not sorry

Last thing you need is Hummels imo. Guy is over-rated absolutely defined.

So you genuinely think that Arsenal or Manchester United have a better chance of winning the league than Chelsea?

I do? In reality anything other than that is a failure on their parts. But you got two specialists in that in Van Gaal and Wenger. So I wouldn't be surprised if both of them fail this season coming and somehow Chelsea retain the title against all the odds.

Please stop with the little horse bull**** it is getting tiresome

It's not bull****. Stefano is right.

Reasons?

Reasons?

Wenger "no superstars" possible implications?

Wenger "no superstars" possible implications?

Means he won't be looking until we suffer another 3-1 home defeat first game of the season

We've been in decline second half of the season, we have very little squad depth and of our little squad depth Mourinho refuses to use. Our football has become glaringly predictable, while Hazard is a great player, he has shown that he does not have enough goals in him to dig Chelsea out of a hole, at best Hazard is a 1 in 2 player, he can dictate a game and maybe score a goal but he's not a machine like Ronaldo to dig us out of holes with a goal a game.

Costa needs to have a supply. There's only so much he can do when he's feeding off scraps and with Fabregas' second half fade that basically means that the supply to Costa is cut off.

I don't think our defence will get anywhere near as many goals this season and people will wise up to our set piece routines.

We will likely get far in the CL this season coming due to our seeding while Arsenal and United won't so that then means that we will have to rotate the squad, something Mourinho is not good at doing so will just lead to us declining in the second half of the season, our fitness levels are nowhere near the old Mourinho Chelsea team, or that of his Real Madrid/Inter teams who play in less physically demanding leagues anyway so he could afford to do that.

Financial Fair Play rules are being eased too so that basically means we cannot compete financially with Manchester United and Manchester City(i.e. key players will be taken)

If we had a CM, a Winger/Forward I'd be more confident of somehow retaining the title. However at this moment in time there is no possible way we will win the title next season with the current squad we have.

Looool, that was a good day, up there with 5-1 and 6-3 for me. The butthurt reaction after we beat them at emirates this year was good too, wanted to win 1-0 with no shots on target though.