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
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But rather than let all of that weigh heavy on your mind like a jagged granite hat I’ve decided to provide a list of 101 things that I consider to be more fun, useful or, indeed, imaginative than needlessly stressing about what has already been an annoying and sigh inducing transfer period. I’m sure from the content of the list you will be fully able to work out a) how excited I am about the
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
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As is the case with the exploitation of natural resources, the less developed the region, the cheaper you can buy the resource and the more profit you can ultimately make. As such it is never in the best interest of those buying the resources to develop the region of origan. And this much can be said to be true in a footballing sense. While teams do want to improve a certain amount of the footballing
Firstly everyone's favourite Arsenal midfielder (Denilson, not Cesc) has rubbished talk of wanting to leave because of our lack of trophies, instead clarifying that he wanted to try a different league. He wants to find a good European club and if not he wants to go back to Brazil for six months. I don't
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A well rumoured signing is Real Madrid's Karim Benzema, I really like Benzema and see him as a replacement ofr Thierry Henry not just in goals but style he drifts to the left wing often to pick up the ball has a great turn of pace and brilliant first touch also a clinical finisher and a threat in the air. Many Arsenal fans would love to see an imitation of the Henry Bergkamp front line that brought us so much
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Perhaps I take the quality of Cesc Fabregas for granted and when Cesc is not quite at his best, he is still often one of the better performers on the pitch. I also think that when Cesc has been good this season, he has contributed to many of our goals and that has boosted up his ratings. His highest rating
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So that's six years without a trophy. Let me think, who does that remind me of? Hmm, let's see, oh yeah, Arsenal. We have gone six years without a trophy whilst we have invested in youth such as Fabregas, van Persie, Walcott, Song and Wilshere but to name a few. Just like Barcelona did in between 99 and 05. This was the time when Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Pique and Messi were coming
The guy has everything he needs to be one of the best here at Arsenal. He has intelligence, creativity, shooting and a treadmill. Once he uses all of those then he can be what he wants. I would love to see more of him in a central role, it is from there that he does most of his damage