The Official Arsenal - 12 x FA Cup Winners - Thread [Vol 3]
Discussion
Black can man said:
Alfahorn said:
So predictable.
You can't bend the truth old boy , in fact it's -£10M with the sale of Defoe to the Canadians How we do it is a mystery .
Ok, creative accountancy aside, what our spuddy disputants will find harder to counter is the one chance they had for squad improvement has been well and truly wasted. The superdane isn't bad but no world beater and as for the rest - well looks like Dodgy Danny is determined that the manager pull some justification for signing Lamela in the ashes of another season (hereafter to be called the Great Leap back)
Cheib said:
Ozil in the squad tomorrow. Good to see!
Be very hard on Poldi if he gets benched after his brace against WHU but I'd imagine that's likely. Suddenly there's competition again in midfield!
@ £43M & £170K a week i think he bloody well should be playing.Be very hard on Poldi if he gets benched after his brace against WHU but I'd imagine that's likely. Suddenly there's competition again in midfield!
Dissappointing season really for the money.
Black can man said:
Cheib said:
Ozil in the squad tomorrow. Good to see!
Be very hard on Poldi if he gets benched after his brace against WHU but I'd imagine that's likely. Suddenly there's competition again in midfield!
@ £43M & £170K a week i think he bloody well should be playing.Be very hard on Poldi if he gets benched after his brace against WHU but I'd imagine that's likely. Suddenly there's competition again in midfield!
Dissappointing season really for the money.
Without doubt he's found it tough as Wenger said this week.
When I've seen him live this season he just does things other players can't....he's able to leave other players flat footed and buy space like very very few players I've ever seen. He's got that X factor that Bergkamp....very different player but can do things of a similar vein. If we get the right guy to play in front of him and Ramsey and Walcott stay fit to make runs off him next season we'll do very well.
MrMagoo said:
Always amuses me when the spuds pipe up about not spending anything
Absolutely. Shows they know f
k all about business. For a business to make £100m on the sale of assets and the piss it away is outrageous. In any other business the board would have been held to account for their financial missmanagement, however it in football it's dismissed as one of those things.
Tottenham found themselves in a fantastic position to strengthen following the sale of Bale and they totally f
ked it. Cheib said:
When I've seen him live this season he just does things other players can't....he's able to leave other players flat footed and buy space like very very few players I've ever seen. He's got that X factor that Bergkamp....very different player but can do things of a similar vein.
Please don't mention Bergkamp in the same breath as Ozil. I'm hopeful Ozil will come good, especially if we add the right players this summer. However, Ozil isnt fit to lace Bergkamps boots! Alfahorn said:
Cheib said:
When I've seen him live this season he just does things other players can't....he's able to leave other players flat footed and buy space like very very few players I've ever seen. He's got that X factor that Bergkamp....very different player but can do things of a similar vein.
Please don't mention Bergkamp in the same breath as Ozil. I'm hopeful Ozil will come good, especially if we add the right players this summer. However, Ozil isnt fit to lace Bergkamps boots! Cheib said:
Not saying he's in DB10's class but there's something about his ball control and the way he can just leave other players for dead with a drop of the shoulder which you don't see very often. We've not seen anyone in an Arsenal shirt since Bergkamp that had his first touch IMHO.
Id be inclined to agree. I thought he was more of a 'flair' player when he joined to be honest, but he's much more subtle than that and his work off the ball that you don't see on camera is very important. He hasn't set the league alight in his first season but it has been a pretty solid start. Best not to forget just how highly regarded he was when at Real Madrid - he was genuinely seen as one of the very best in the world. We may not remember him in a decade in the same way we remember Bergkamp now, but he has the potential and talent to be at that level for us. Hopefully he can stay injury free next season and with hopefully a couple of additions around him (as well as certain players coming back from injury) he'll be up there as one of the best in the league.
Alfahorn said:
Please don't mention Bergkamp in the same breath as Ozil. I'm hopeful Ozil will come good, especially if we add the right players this summer. However, Ozil isnt fit to lace Bergkamps boots!
Rather unfair on Ozil there - he hasn't even finished his 1st season with us so we have no idea how he will end up compared to Bergkamp (my favourite ever Arsenal player by the way). Bergkamp didn't start as well as Ozil did in the first few months and by the end of season I expect their first year stats will be pretty similair. And just like Bergkamp's arrival heralded something of a new 'era' at the club - if Arsenal buy a player of Ozil quality every year then his arrival could be seen in the same light. Maybe I'm just being overly optimistic but I have every confidence that Ozil will be a great player for Arsenal.
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