Bob Jones says:

Agreed

The BearMan says:

Where should the Bear start: A Defensive coach, a defensive coach, a defensive coach. Again I repeat Squallaci has not improved since his first game in an Arsenal shirt for the reserves. Wenger’s pride will not allow him to admit he squandered £5M on this player, who will let down the team again and again, but Wenger will go on playing him and even if it cost us games.

Rosicky is back to his old habits, whenever he is stretched and out of control will always resort to the usual back flicks and giving the ball away.

Carl Jenkinson must learn quickly from this game. Keep it simple! There are certain games when a shorter pass will be all that is required, to often he found himself in no man’s land. When the back line is not solid or unreliable his defensive duty is more important. By going to far forward he leaves a greater hole at the back and the team will be severely punished.

Gervinho is full of running, but he cannot single handedly win the game on his own. He has to conserve energy during the game otherwise there will be no end product to his darting runs.

Ramsey, long to take on the Fabergas role. Playing alongside Rosciky he will have a mountain to climb. What he has to do is practice holding the ball and creating space for himself where he can make more accurate and telling crosses. His first duty is to be aware of what is happening around him. Find a place where his colleagues can find him and he have time enough to deliver the telling ball. Get hold of some video’s of Cesc at his best. See him always looking around and moving away from the crowd, plus knowing where everyone of his colleagues are on the pitch and making those telling passes.

Arsene played a bad hand yesterday, however it prove an excellent taster to the youths of what’s to come.

Chis Samba n Mertesaker
Barton
Mata n Williams
Lukaku n Joel

End the fiasco with Cesc n Nasri and Chamakh on loan.

Judith Le'Strange says:

The only thing I’ve learnt from our distastrous so called friendlies was tht Wenger should have been sacked six seasons ago when we started going downhill, and from what I’ve seen so far doesn’t fill me with hope for the forthcoming season. No players apart from two brought in, no defenders and unless Fabregas & Nasri are sold within the next few days we will not be signing anyone soon. It appears we have to seel before we can buy, which is in contradiction to what was said at the beginning that “we had ample funds” to enter the transfer market in a big way, lies once again. Except that this year I think we may be out of the CL after the two legs to Udinese, which might wake the board up to do something in the management line. We should sack Wenger & bring in a strong manager who will actually tell the board I want this player, that player etc & I need £x ms to purchase them. All we have is a weakling who can’t accept that two players want to leave the club & he’s basically keeping them because for one Barca won;t stump up the £40 m & Nasri for $22-25m who is wanted by Man City & in the meantime we’re stuck with the useless dross we’ve had for the past few seaons, simply because other clubs can see that the players we have to offer i.e. Almunia, Bendtner & the rest are not up to it & not worth the money we’re asking.

Goons_with_Guns says:

If Wenger plays Squid one more time, they will BOTH be marked for death.

rvpking says:

I dont understand why everyone goes on and on about who we havent signed yet . Wenger said august (yes i know he also said earlier at one time) and its now august and we all know he is going to bring in a few players .
people go on about centre backs . wenger has said he wants one and is getting one .
players we were linked with , cahill , samba, jagielka , scott dann , none of them have gone anywhere so there is no reason we wont sign one or two in next few weeks.

its crazy , there are hundreds of great players in the world , so just sit back and let him do business . thats my opinion anyway ,

COME ON ARSENAL .

grimmswengertales says:

wenger will go down in the history books as the man that ruined arsenal unnecessarily……cesc will tell the story and so will nasri…..there is a lot of stuff to come out about the strategy of the club…it will be told in years to come that he failed to stop the slide when he had the resources(money) to do it. He chose to make money rather than invest in the team. Dont believe the shit about self sufficiency…..man utd are in 700m debt…chelsea are a credit crazy club, man city spend like theres no tomorrow……liverpool spending amd in debt….so why are they all spending????