Joey Barton is a person who has put out cigarettes in team mates faces, has attacked team mates in training and he has been convicted twice on charges of violence. Unfortunately my blog does not have enough space to list the amount of offenses Barton has made over the years and quite frankly, I do not give a damn. Arsene Wenger is not buying Barton and if you respect Arsenal football club then you
I hope Arsene Wenger managed to get through to Arshavin during the end of last season, and during these summer months he is working hard to get his body ready for the demands of the Premier League. He is approaching the years where he should be reaching his peak. He reputation for his country has diminished and it is down to Arshavin and Arshavin only to get everyone back
Wenger had been talking about the 4-2-3-1 having problems against defensively organised sides a few weeks prior to that game and I wondered if another forward player would be one of his targets this summer. Now it seems likely that Gervinho will be joining our attack, I wonder if Gervinho will be that extra presence in attack, the one making runs for Van Persie and Cesc.
Many are suggesting that we move Thomas Vermaelen to left back but I just do not see that working in our system. I am sure he can do a job there, in fact he has played there for Ajax on many occasions but at Arsenal our full backs are required to be mobile and dynamic, sprinting forward to support our attacks whilst having the speed and energy to get back and defend. I do not see Vermaelen being that type of player. If he was to play full back, it would more than likely be in a
David Dein's name was mentioned a few times during the Q&A. This rather strange perception that David Dein was the messiah that brought us trophies is utter madness. David Dein did not push Arsene into buying players. David Dein did not send his personal scouting system around the world to find talents like Vieira, Petit, Anelka, Overmars, Ljungberg, Pires etc etc It was the manager. When David Dein was around we were not scrimping and saving, fighting against huge investment with one arm
With Pat Rice wavering over his future, shouldn't we just kick old Pat to the curb because as we all know and have sat in the training sessions, he offers absolutely nothing to Arsene Wenger. Usmanov is the man with the tactical plan. He knows where we are weak or is it that he has read the opinion of many an Arsenal fan around the blogs? This absolutely reeks of a man who has regurgitated as much information that he has been able to muster from a section of disgruntled Arsenal supporters.
I can envisage him sitting on his desktop PC late an night with only a pair of white Y-fronts on, copying and pasting views of Arsenal supporters and then using the information to formulate 'his'
One of Wenger's many questions during this summer should be how to produce winning football when the team is not clicking, either through lack of confidence or injury. This is part of the reason why Arsenal more than our rivals end up falling into a ditch without being able to climb out. Chelsea and Manchester United play more functional football that does not rely as much on combinations and movement and more importantly confidence so when they do not play well, they are still more than capable of beating the opposition. More often than not, we need to play well to win games.
Going back to Van Persie's comments, he is correct. It is down to the players to show that they can
Back in my school days I didn't have such beauties such as the Internet, Caught offside, Tribal Football and Twitter, instead I used to phone premium numbers. It wasn't premium numbers that young boys usually call either, it was for Arsenal gossip. Unfortunately back then I was stupid enough to believe what they were saying (in slow motion I may add) was somewhere near the truth instead of a money making scam to rip off gullible young folk. If Twitter was around back then, then perhaps I wouldn't have been banned from using the phone at home. Ah, those were the days. Days of Andy Sinton and
If he was from Norway and playing for a mid-table club he would have joined Liverpool for £3.5 million. Exactly the same talent and player but different circumstance. I wish more people would separate quality with price. I am surprised that this mix up still exists when Gooners are watching the likes of Cesc and Van Persie every week, or given their injury records over the years every three weeks
Players who have muscled their way into their clubs are the likes of Ryo Miyaichi, Francis Coquelin, Benik Afobe and Kyle Bartley to name a few. The likes of Afobe are still too young and will almost certainly go back on loan, perhaps at a higher level. Coquelin could return to Arsenal, perhaps dependant on the future of Emmanuel Eboue as the Frenchman has performed well in both right or central defensive