Comments on: Failure to replace Flamini is destroying Arsenal’s title hopes

By: Larry Brown

Larry Brown — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:20:05 +0000

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By: Olubodun Lukman

Olubodun Lukman — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:15:58 +0000

Arsenal you’ve shame almost all your fans especially in Nigeria, can you see that the devil you know (P. Sanderos) is better than the angel you don’t know (Sylvester). Please strenghten that our DEFENCE, give us good replacement for M.Flaninin/Hleb and look for a good natural striker.

By: Tunde Lawal

Tunde Lawal — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:55:52 +0000

Please for God sake, let Asene wenger revived the team, by strenthning the defence, I expect him if he can bring him Richard Michael for central defence and try to bring Osaze Odewingi from locomotive of Mosco to Arsenal, I beleived things we improved with the talented player already the team. Williams Gallas and Syvelster is the problem of Arsenal because they chip goals. For me, is Asene Wenger make me to be die hard Gunner. Let the management give him support to revived the Club during the January Transfer. Thanks Tunde Lawal, I remain loyal to the Club. Up Gunner

By: Dynamite

Dynamite — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:59:21 +0000

Bawinder, please what faith are we talking about?

By: Hannington

Hannington — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:05:57 +0000

I can understand all the pain we are going through. But let us be objective here. Flamini is gone, thats for Sure. Whom can we groom to replace him as we look to the Jan transfer Window??

By: Demetrio

Demetrio — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:51:05 +0000

I think Sidwell said it all when he said teams play Arsenal and know they can get something at of it, even when Arsenal is at home. No one is intimidated by Arsenal anymore. We have been way too soft for far too long. I also don’t think Wenger is the man to get us back to that level that teams go to Arsenal and know they cannot gain anything. I think an article i read said it best.

“The time has come for Wenger to dispense with fantasy and replace it with a game plan that will give his club the success it craves. The glory, glory football should only be on show when games are in the bag, but they are a long way short of considering any showboating on this evidence.”

Our style of beautiful football will always make us beautiful losers in today’s football. As the person who wrote the article said, there’s a time and a place to play beautiful football and in a close game, its not the time. We need to be able to dig out wins, in games we probably don’t deserve to win. Arsenal have not proved they can win ugly over the last 3-4 seasons and until then, no one will dread playing Arsenal. As i said, I don’t think Wenger is the man to get Arsenal to that point. Stubbornness is NEVER a good quality to have in a position of power. He is just too stubborn to change.

A draw at Man City would be a good result, but Man City is a team in real need for a win to take pressure off their manager, so i wouldn’t be totally shocked if we lose again. Esp if the squad consists of Denilson and Bendtner.

By: Spanish Fry

Spanish Fry — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:33:34 +0000

@ the mad megger – It was only a matter of time until you were here. Heh heh, we’ll see who’s higher up at the end of the season.

By: the mad megger of megsville

the mad megger of megsville — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:22:22 +0000

spanish fly, why can’t you just openly admit that Aston Villa are a far superior side than you, Martin O’neill is far superior than Arsene and we have won the European Cup which you will never ever win. And we have English players in our team to boot.

Up the Villa, Fuck the arse.

By: hartwick89

hartwick89 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:11:22 +0000

SF,
I disagree….Flamini is long gone and the game against villa is explainable. I knew within five minutes we would tie or even worse lose…Not because villa was good but because Cesc, Denilson, Sagna, Nasri, Bentdner could not put together a pass. Cesc, was not in form at all this game and still is not where he was last year(granted he is lacking 1st team minutes compared to last year.) Finally, our back four can’t pass or distribute at all. It’s that simple no mysteries here. Two years ago we had the same problem! We beat the shit out of the top three and lost to Man City, Sheffield United etc. And as far as the goals villa scored they were shit! They couldn’t even finish a penalty. Ablon-a-whore is dirty piece of shit. If I was any of the back four I would have sent him packing. As well that other little forward he would have been in the stands as well. So all in all the bloggers who put undue pressure on this team sort it out! It was a loss but not a big deal.

By: old timer

old timer — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:55:53 +0000

ianinja! I loved your comment. Bang on, mate. I’ve just read through the whole thread and there’s a lot of very good, intelligent debate and interesting suggestions about what’s wrong and how to fix it. I don’t happen to agree with the Flamini argument because although it’s plain to see that he’s missed – there’s a big hole where a Flamini should be – we didn’t actually win anything with him either remember. If you go back to our last title season – well the answers right there. We had Henry, we had Viera, we had Pires, we had Berkamp, we had Sol Campbell – etc. These were frankly outstanding players in defense, midfield and attack who were able to turn games, whatever kind of system or threat the opposition posed, with some great piece of individual skill or general performance that no team or system could cope with. Thierry and Dennis of course were the kings in this respect. Opposition teams couldn’t nullify Thierry Henry with tactics! They’d just hope he had an off-day or they got lucky. Today all those great players have gone – The Great Man, Arsene Wenger has gradually allowed a team of talented youngsters to replace them – it’s been a daring experiment – at times thrilling – at other times desperately frustrating (like saturday) but ultimately we see that, if the idea was to keep The Gunners up at the top, it has not worked. Now the game turners are with the other clubs. Gerrard, Torres, Alonso, Deco, Drogba, Rooney, Berbatov, Ronaldo and, though I hate to say it – even, ulp, Frank Lampost. Even when their teams are struggling those players will like as not produce something to make the difference. Today in my opinion we only have one player good enough to have made it into the 2004 title squad – Fabregas. I like the team – I think we’ve got some great young players who can turn it on. Theo hopefully will really become great – instead of just good. But they ain’t never going to be world beaters – or even EPL winners. Beating manure doesn’t prove anything. We did that home and away the season before last and still won nothing at the end of the day. The Great Man put his mouth where his money is – he bluffed and lost. It’s back to the drawing board now Arsene – I want you around for another 10 years. Build us us a new team and let’s win the league again.
Oh and ianinja – a new sock! Priceless!