Arsenal

[Beefymcfc]

Just seen that they are tenth!

Fraud?

[Blue Philistine]

Just seen that they are tenth!

Fraud?

Or has the cenile old tramp in a sleeping bag lost the plot?

[Blue Philistine]

They did get battered by Swansea at home. Not watched much of them in domestic games otherwise. Still have love for Oxlade-Chamberlain though!

[Swales4ever]

Given Chinners on part strike, think this is on topic and well worth a laugh...

Wenger wouldn't swap Arsenal for City .... arf!
ESPN
December 3, 2012


Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger would not swap places with Manchester City even though the Gunners find themselves languishing in tenth place in the Premier League with Roberto Mancini's men second in the table.

Wenger, who has taken a youthful looking squad to Greece to play Olympiakos in the final group game of the Champions League, said that City's elimination from the competition before Christmas means the current Premier League champions are not in such an enviable position.

"I wouldn't swap places with Manchester City," Wenger told a press conference. "We have 23 games to come back on them in the league, but in the Champions League you're in or out."

He also played down reports that defensive coach Steve Bould had lost his cool with the squad in the dressing room after Saturday's 2-0 home defeat to Swansea.

"Nothing really happened after the game," he added. "But the players were not happy. You want them to dance? This group of players is highly motivated and if they don't win, they are upset.

"I'm more worried if I see players in the shower who laugh after they have lost. The most important thing is to win the next game and show how good you are."

Wojciech Szczesny was also at a loss to explain the Gunners' poor form.

"It's good for us we have a Champions League game three days after [the Swansea defeat] and we have something to focus on," said the Polish goalkeeper. "We were obviously frustrated and disappointed after the game but now it's about Olympiakos and we will do our best to move on.

"The players give 100% in training and on a Saturday afternoon. I didn't say the players didn't want it enough. I'm definitely surprised by our position in the league. When you look at the quality of our players we should be fighting for the league.

"We have one of the best teams in the league, but it's our responsibility to put things right. What's gone wrong? That's not for me to say."


http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/182248.html

[Nigels Tackle]

wenger watches the players in the shower?!!

with a bag of sweets
and a cheeky smile

[DoomMerchant]

wenger watches the players in the shower?!!

with a bag of sweets
and a cheeky smile

Like you wouldn't have a peek just once to see how you measured up. Come on now. I'd take the sour s'ghetti for my sojourn down shower row.

Cheers

[john68]

Wenger confuses me, since the idea came into my head that he looked like Sam the Eagle from the Muppets doing an impression of Staedler and Waldorf but in the wrong accent....I just can't take him seriously.

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

We seem to get him quite rattled don't we?
This 'well run club' nonsense really "gets up my goat", it seems to be forgotten how they have been in the vanguard of all the changes that have tilted the game in the big clubs favour. They have no right to get all self righteous.
Bastards.

[Ted Hughes]

Tbf to Wenger, I think this is one of those occasions where the press have asked him a specific question about City & he has responded to it.

Why the press are asking a manager of a London team questions about Manchester City is an interesting point. Inviting Wenger to slag us off. Why would they do that ? We are not in their group.

Oh yes: we play Utd at weekend.

No agenda though; nobody trying to help Ferguson stir up shit. Just coincidence that he too has been talking about City in Europe & us being under pressure. Pathetic, sycophantic, wanking, hacks.

Wenger btw, is now a fucking accountant pretending to be a football manager.

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

Watching Wenger's career at Arsenal has been like watching an episode of Fawlty Towers. It starts off all urbane and civilized but gradually the main character becomes more and more unhinged until he turns into a drooling 'basket case'. I predict a similar denouement at the end of the season.

[paulmclaren]

You have to admit if they were not forced to sell there players i.e Fabregas, nasri amongst ba few more they would very much be up there with us.
They have lost alot of top players, any team would struggle if that happened.

[walmai]

You have to admit if they were not forced to sell there players i.e Fabregas, nasri amongst ba few more they would very much be up there with us.
They have lost alot of top players, any team would struggle if that happened.

They took a pragmatic view on Fabregas, because it became slowly clear that he'd sooner be in his country of birth than London (even though I wonder whether he in fact expected a bigger role in Barca's first team).

Nasri isn't in the same class - or perhaps he's just less consistent - and he ought to have been replaced more adequately.

The thing in truth is that Wenger's principles of bringing through players, as opposed to splashing at the height of the market, will only take them so far if he is the only person adopting such a pure approach.

You either go for the Harlem Globetrotter approach - by bringing in the 'creme de la creme' - or you build a local(ish) core to your team, so that people will run through walls in honour of the badge. Gerrard and Carragher were for many seasons the emblems that rallied the troops at LFC and, to a large extent, Terry, Lampard, Ashley Cole did the same for Mourinho and other managers. Giggs, Scholes et al are your local examples.

Arsenal are in no-man's land - they have a few local lads in their squad, but no real battlers. Having seen them, THFC and Chelsea play us recently, whereas we were beaten by the same scoreline by both North London clubs, THFC represent much the better bet to qualify this season for CL football. Arsenal have got some spending to do, if they want to compete until the 'business end'.

[zuricity]

Wenger confuses me, since the idea came into my head that he looked like Sam the Eagle from the Muppets doing an impression of Staedler and Waldorf but in the wrong accent....I just can't take him seriously.

he reminds me of Dr. Suess's Cat in the Hat

[Fergiesnose]

Selling us nasri was good business for them, we got mugged off with this nugget

[john68]

Selling us nasri was good business for them, we got mugged off with this nugget

Do you have any positive thoughts about City?

[Swales4ever]

Selling us nasri was good business for them, we got mugged off with this nugget

Do you have any positive thoughts about City?

haha. I did bite my fingers not to post the same. as I've already had several goes at that nose... funny, isn't it?

[City64]

Arsenal are the perfect example of how to ruin a top club.

A, Build a state of the art stadium (the emirates is magnificent btw)

B, Sell all your best players to fund it.

C, Win fuck all whilst selling all your best players to pay for the stadium.

D, Sell all your best players to give club directors extravagant and extortionate bonuses.

E, Make your loyal fans who have watched their team win fuck all for seven years pay through the roof for season tickets.

F, Make your club a corporate entity.

G, Keep hold of your manager after he has sold all his best players and won fuck all for seven years.

couldnt happen to a nicer club really ! :)

[paulmclaren]

Hardly Wengers fault, it's them greedy fucking business men at work as useual.

[london blue 2]

Thought I'd put it in here but why oh why do Arsenal fans decide to pick a fight with us?

[feedthegreek]

probably cos weve bought most of their players, anyway theyve no divine right to be up near the top like noone else as, they keep discussing arsenal on radio as if the world will end if they fail to make top 4, just like they did with liverpool, theyll have to get over it their only average.