One minor adjustment has been made to our strike force and Robin Van Persie in particular. With the departure of [refrains from using obscenities] Adebayor

Well it has been a while since I last wrote a blog, I did manage to find time yesterday to write some thoughts on the Spurs game, but apart from that I have been somewhat quiet of late.

In am still feeling rather chuffed after the weekend victory over the dreamers, we are certainly looking in good shape right now. I have been reading around the sports pages and the blogs and although it is very predictable, it is annoying me how pundits and writers are shifting their originally very negative feet.

Before the season we were a team that were just about to slip down the table, a team that had lost Adebayor and Toure and hadn’t joint Manchester City on a massive spending binge therefore the only way was down. Outside the Champions League places and possibly being overtaken by the improved Aston Villa and Everton.

Now without shame, it is Arsenal have added this and added that, we are now looking in good shape to remain in the Champions League running behind Chelsea and Manchester United. What have Manchester United shown this season that automatically puts their chances above ours? If we are going by history then we may as well just throw in Preston North End as a team to break the top four next season.

As the weeks go by, those feet will once again be scuttling around to find a new position without any admittance to where they stood in the first place. We will be praised again real soon, just wait for it, and if I am being honest, I don’t really want to hear it, which contradicts my views. I hate when people stupidly slag off our club, players and management but then those same people jump from one bandwagon to the other it is almost even worse.

I suppose the reason why I find it so frustrating is because a large portion of these people know very little about the sport that they are getting paid to write about. Players are judged without taking a players age, position, tactical change etc into account.

Fans who say player x should be playing instead of player y without fully understanding the different roles that player x gives to the team gets my goat but I can accept it a little more because fans are fans. Fans are not getting paid to print information that people like myself have to buy. What makes this worse is that fans get influenced by brain dead pundits like Jamie Redknapp who is so utterly short sighted. Football can only be played one way, with one type of player in one type of formation. You can only create a team by spending vast amounts of money.

I think I have slight issues, I should be enjoying the football that I knew I would be seeing before the season started. You would be blind if you didn’t expect to see attacking quality with the likes of Arshavin, Van Persie, Cesc, Rosicky, Bendtner etc and that is not even including the players who have been suffering with injury this season like Nasri and Walcott.

If we win the league this season then I think I may just go back through the archives and copy and paste some of the rubbish that has been said about our squad and manager.

I look at Liverpool and I am truly amazed at what I see. A team full of expensive signings looking so mediocre. Even last season when they had their best ever Premier League season I told a good Gooner mate of mine that we are better than them. You cannot build a squad on only two players and this season Rafa is suffering.

That is the thing about football, last season pretty much the same squad were fighting for the league until the very end this season they are in a terrible situation. Early last season we suffered and this time round we are flying with goals coming out of our ears. The moral of this rather long winded story is that you don’t need to make vast amount of changes every season if you are not successful, sometimes it is only slight adjustments that work out best for you.

One minor adjustment has been made to our strike force and Robin Van Persie in particular. With the departure of [refrains from using obscenities] Adebayor, we needed someone else to take up that role and that opportunity was given to Robin Van Persie. Many believed that he wouldn’t be up to the task but he has adapted very well and is scoring plenty of goals.

Robin is clearly enjoying the new role and was speaking to Arsenal.com about it.

Van Persie said:

“In the last four or five weeks I’ve felt much better, I’ve had to get used to the new role because I previously played as a second striker and now I’m operating as a main striker, so I needed to find my way in.

“To my mind, earlier in the season I lost too much energy working defensively and needed to find the right balance. It’s really important for the team that I have enough energy to score goals and make assists, as well as helping out in other ways. I feel that in the last few weeks I’ve found that mix, of having the energy to do my offensive work and contribute defensively.

“It was hard in the first few weeks to really find my way – the second striker and striker are very close to each other on the pitch but at the same time there’s such a difference, a massive difference, between the two roles. I like it because it’s a new challenge for me and if you look at the results and the personal stats of almost every player, everyone has improved with the new system.”

It was only going to be a matter of time before he clicked into gear, you cannot have that amount of quality and not adapt well to that position. I wonder if Theo can inject Robin with a bit of his speed, even if he doesn’t I am still hoping for that golden boot. I have money riding on him.

Having the most creative, attacking team in the league is surely going to give him a decent shot at it especially when the likes of Torres are continually rubbing their groins.

I think Arsene also has a bet on Robin judging by his comments.

Wenger said:

“I don’t want to set targets but why not? If you look at the chances he has had since the start of the season you cannot say he won’t reach 25 goals. Robin has taken much more responsibility because he is up front. He has committed himself to the club for a long period and he is at an age, 26, where a footballer becomes really efficient, mature and wants to win things.

“That is why I believe he can be the best passer in the league and the best goal scorer in the league. When you look at the goals he scores they are always impressive.”

Robin has always been a scorer of great goals, now it is time to prove that he can be a great goal scorer. The goals against the inferiors prove that he is now getting into the right areas at the right time.

Hopefully his free kicks will be like the good old London Buses. Once he gets one then the rest will follow.

Away from the pitch it looks like Silent Stan is tip toeing closer to the finishing line to the club. He has increased his shares to 29.6% which is very close to the takeover threshold.

It is not really news anymore is it, I think we should just wait until he hits that magic figure and then we can see what takes place.

Right, gotta call it a day. Back tomorrow.

UPDATE: For gods sake, news has just come in that Gael Clichy is now out for a month with a back problem. Gibbsy, this is your time sunshine.

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