
A few seasons back Arsenal moved away from the 4-4-2 formation, after experiencing limited success with the lightweight Fabregas and Flamini occupying the two central defensive midfield roles. To accommodate the growing number of less physical but highly technical central attacking midfielders in the squad at the time, Arsenal appeared to change their formation to a 4-1-3-2 setup. In that particular season, Flamini took on the lone central defensive midfield role with Rosicky (left), Fabregas (central) and Hleb (right) operating in central
Gervinho is indeed correct, we are putting a little too much emotion into the Cesc and Nasri saga. Both players are very good players, one of them world class but as far as I know, many teams have won trophies and been successful without Nasri and Cesc in their set up. We will have to build our team a slightly different way, one that may or not be more productive.
While the obvious questions still remain, i.e. will Nasri walk away on a free and shouldn't we just sell now? I just cannot bring myself to think that far ahead now. This coming season is very important to our club, given the insane amount of pressure fuelled by the media and subsequently the Arsenal fan base. It is vitally important that we improve from last season and hopefully win trophies and to do that
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.
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Story number 3 Clichy to leave, last year of his contract, hasn't signed a new deal and no updates on progress of negotiations. This one might have legs, Clichy is Arsenal's longest serving player and so clearly has some loyalty to the club. The story goes Clichy wants Arsenal to sign big name(again) players before he signs a new deal but hang on a second has Clichy even been offered a new deal? no one at Arsenal or Clichy himself said anything about talks over a new deal.Clichy has according to all sides regressed over the last 3 years, just when he was starting to fulfil his potential he turned around
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