Poll results and not much else....

So, the poll i did asking what trophy we were most likely to win has finished, the results were;

Premier League	4 (7%)
FA Cup	20 (39%)
Champions League	9 (17%)
Carling Cup	18 (35%

So out of the 51 people that voted, 20 of them think our most realistic piece of silverware is the FA Cup. I happen to agree with them as well, i think Wenger will take it more seriously this season and not field a few kids, though we were unlucky we drew Manchester United.

I do find it quite ironic that as soon as we won yesterday, the 1 vote on the 'Premier League' turned into 4 votes!

People may think that the Carling Cup is the easiest cup of them all, i don't happen to agree for a couple of reasons;

1. The mid table teams will fight for it as its really their only realistic peice of silverwear.
2. We field very young sides, lacking experience, as we found out last season.

I have found another article about William Gallas with Dixon speaking out against his captaincy.

“I was at Fulham last weekend and spent 10 minutes watching Gallas,” he told the Daily Star.

“He just walked around, never said anything and his body language was very poor.

“That scares me because, though I support the manager’s policy of bringing in young players, they must have a leader on the field.

I happen to agree with him, Gallas is not captaincy material, i think he may have lost the teams respect and that is bad news.

Anyway theres nowt else really, il be back tomorrow evening with an update.
Lets hope RVP is ok.

Match round up.

Final Score: Arsenal 3-0 Newcastle
Scorers: Van Persie x2 Denilson

I felt that was a terrific display, the fluent passing was back and Van Persie was truly exceptional. He looked his old self and you could see his relief at scoring, Eboue had a very good game and the name Fabregas just speaks for itself. One day he will be the Worlds Best Player, im sure of that.

If we were more clinical we would have finished 6 or 7-0 winners, Adebayor was a handful, Nasri was very good and Denilson was alot better but im still not convinced of his defensive qualities. Song was good at breaking up the play when he came on too.

Vela got his league Debut and looked very lively, you can see why fans rave about him because he is young and has bags and bags of talent in those boots.

Overall im very pleased with the display but additions are still needed.

One last word, Im all for 2nd chances but Joey Barton should not be on a football field, he should be locked up behind bars still. Nasri got booked for giving him back some of what he recieved.

I will give an update on Robin's injury when i hear about it. Hopefully it was a precaution but i cant help but worry.

Update:
Wenger said;

"He is having an x-ray and we have to check his ankle. Hopefully nothing is broken but I dont know yet."

Thats all, back soon.

Why are we always in a 'crisis' and Sp*rs not? + News.

Now, a team that loses its first choice left midfielder, one of its greatest ever players, a couple of defenders and its goalkeeper could well be considered to be in a 'crisis'. But for Tottenham its not. Its considered 'building a top 4 team' for some bizarre reason!

I just don't get it. We lost Flamini and Hleb and were all of a sudden in a crisis even though Nasri had signed! Ok, Abebayor's future wasn't exactly clear but does that sound like a crisis? Does is fuck!

The spuds even face losing their best player, that means their two best fucking players will probably leave, that's what i call a crisis! And, add to that 0 points in 2 games isn't the best of starts is it?

I know Arsenal haven't had the best of starts but it takes the slightest thing for this club to be labeled as 'in crisis', i know we are not the most popular club but it is totally ridiculous sometimes. Tottenham are a media favorite, bigging them up, saying how they will break the top 4 but i really don't think they will, they are not good enough. Ok, they beat us 5-1 last year and they played very well, but it was not our strongest team by far! and they are still going on about it!

If anyone is in a crisis, its Tottenham without a shadow of a doubt!

Now, Patrick Vieira has done a great job of pissing people off since he went for a little Italian adventure. He loves sticking his ore into Arsenal's business and having his say; today its no different.

"This season they need to sign a midfield player, a big leader in the middle. Arsene has made good signings over the years and I hope he will find somebody right for the club.

"They may struggle at the crucial moment in the season when they need to win the big games. They have the quality and potential but lack the experience to be competitive in all of the big games."

Now, i think if your good enough you are old enough. We have lots of experience if you look at it, Fabregas has played a lot of games, Rosicky is experienced, Toure and Gallas have experience, Van Persie has experience, CLichy has been around a while now and Sagna has played a good deal of football in France. Adebayor has been to a Champions League final as well.

So, i really do think we have a decent amount of experience. I agree with the leader part though, we really need one.

Update: We host Sheffield Utd in the Carling Cup.

Anyway, not much else today, Newcastle later;

Prediction: I think we can win this 2-1. Newcastle have had a good start to the season and a win today would make it their best ever. They have let Milner go and Obi Martins is out injured. But, Owen is hitting form. The squad is the same as Wednesday night so expect a similar team. I think Walcott will drop out the side and the midfield will be Nasri, Denilson, Fabregas, Eboue.

But, i may be wrong.

Lets just hope for a better result than last weekend!

How (i think) Theo can become a fantastic player...

There is one think that frustrates me more than Theo's sometimes blind running, and thats his decision making. Van Persie has torn into him on at least two occasions because of his poor decision making, thats whats holding him back at the moment.

My take on it is that he thinks too much, he muddles himself up and therefore makes a decision in a split second whilst he is also thinking about the other options, he is maybe trying to be a bit too clever and also lacks a tiny bit of self belief that makes you world class.

I feel he is a game away from really kicking on, maybe a brace against a top 6 club will make him think that he can really be one of the best players at the club because he is universally thought of as our best young player (bar Cesc).

I would really like to see Theo go to the next level, like Ashley Young has done and like Lennon hasn't. Walcott could be something this country has not really seen before and if he can go one step further than the majority of English youngsters he will be a very very special player.

Later, i will add my Spudling rant.

Tricky CL draw

Well, im still recovering from my exploits last night. I feel like im going to puke any minute.

But anyway, it seems that we have a very tough Group draw with games away against Fenerbahce and Dynamo Kiev. We have to get points out of those away games as both games vs Porto will be tough as well, Chelsea's luck just makes you feel sick to the back teeth, time and time again they and Liverpool get easy groups. This group makes failing to get to the last 16 very very possible. This is Danny Fizman's view, his worry is the travel.

4-0 was a good result on Wednesday night and the team seemed to be better passing wise and played as more of a unit. Here are the goals, Nasri's goal was brilliant, along with Walcott's strike that was somewhat 'Henryesque'. Bendtner's goal was the result of strength on Bendtner's part, vision and skill on Denilsons part. I didn't watch the game but from what ive heard it was a good performance all round.

News afterwards though said that Gallas and Theo were doubts for Saturdays game, both have slight knee knocks.

Guzman was linked with us this morning but his cunty agent has since said that its very unlikely that he will move

I think thats all the news from the last couple of days, i will do the Spurs article soon.

Not long to go in the poll now so get your vote in and keep reading Goons!

We dont want you to spend 40 million Arsene!!

We just want a couple of proven quality players in midfield. Now we all think we could manage Arsenal in our own right and if i managed Arsenal i would buy Cana and Alonso. But, im not the Arsenal manager and we will probably get neither player!

Arsene said at his press conference;

“There are no names and there is no news,”

“We do not have to worry about too many other players. I believe we have the needed squad and a strong squad. "

Im sorry Arsene but we do not have the needed squad, if Fabregas gets injured again we are in the shitter, who can replace him? nobody. Who can even partially replace him? nobody. No, not even Eboue!

Sorry, but this is starting to get a little fustrating!

Arsene also said;

“I do not know why we are always under pressure to buy £30 or £40m players,”

Arsene you are not under pressure to always buy those sort of players. The real fans want players the calabre of Sagna and Eduardo, who were bought for about 3 - 8 million, i dont want to risk the clubs long term future for some brazillian nob thats more interested in shagging birds than playing football.

I can understand letting one of Hoyte or Senderos go. But, i feel we really lack a couple of players that are prepared to sit on the bench and wait for their 5-6 games a year, players like Brown (before last season), Fletcher and O'Shea. They are not bad players to come in in an emergency. Chelsea, they have a depth of world class players.

Lampard is injured? Oh well, lets give Ballack a run out.
Terry's dead? Oh no, better get Alex ready to play.

See what i mean? who replaces Fabregas?

Denilson? - not good enough

Diaby? - will be on his sickbead

Ramsey? - hes barely old enough to spout pubes!

Wilshere? - he will have to leave halfway through to be home for tea.
Come on Wenger, its clear we need Midfielders!

Now ahead to tonights game. I think we will line up similar to the weekend, with Fabregas possibly coming in.

Prediction: I think we will win, but the result will flatter our performance. A 2 or 3 nil win is probably on the cards but what we need to do is play well and give them a big kaning. Sadly though, it will probably not happen. We will go through with something to spare though.

Final score: il push the boat out and go 3-0. Van Persie to grab one with Adebayor and Walcott getting the others.

I will be back sometime tomorrow (not before 6pm) as i will probably still be pissed from tonights exploits.

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Just as i thought we were adding depth...

When Silvestre arrived i finally thought Wenger had decided to add depth to the squad, preparing us for when the games will come think and fast after Christmas...
But no, it seems we were all wrong and one of the club's potential filled, and one of the most criticized players is on his way out.

Senderos was hyped up as the next Tony Adams, who at his age was probably a worse player. He is most certainly a confidence player and i can't help but think that William Gallas' rants got to him, i think he is a thoroughly shit captain and needs to be dropped and stripped of the duties.

Arseblogger makes a brilliant point when he said that he had problems with Drogba, but, there was not a centre back in Europe that didn't have problems against him!

Now, unlike me, I'm going to look on the positive side. He is going to AC on a 12 month loan and Wenger has confirmed that he is not sure if he will move there or come back to Emirates Stadium. If he returns here, he will be a better player, of that i am sure. He is a very very intelligent bloke (speaks more than 5 different languages), and he will have learnt more about defending from some of the Italian defensive greats ( Nesta, Maldini). The slower football and emphasis on defending will help him out too. So just maybe, it could be a Wenger masterstroke. We will find out in just less than a years time.

Interestingly Tony Adams is sticking up for William Gallas;

“If he thought William was the best captain for the club then he is the man to call it. I am not really there. A lot of people throw stones but I am not prepared to do that, because I don’t know the situation. He thinks he is the best captain for the club and I am not going to argue with his record.”

He has got a very valid point at the end of the day, Wenger has not made many mistakes over the years and who knows what Gallas is like behind the scenes?

He also makes another good point;

“They need a bit of experience, a couple of players, You are looking at Diaby and Cesc.

“He believes in his squad and the talent he has got there. I just think you need a couple more winners who have been there, seen it and done it.

“For me they made a big error and the big mistake was not keeping on Sol and Ashley a little bit longer.

“I know they had the situation, if you speak to Arsene, Ashley wanted to go and whatever, but I would have got them in my office and handcuffed them! Even though they weren’t performing.

“It was just for the transition, all the kids come in and all the kids are there together. Everyone retired together, the back four retired pretty much together, Patrick went, Dennis [Bergkamp], all the people who knew the club inside out and knew how to be winners, knew what to do.

“All the kids, they are tremendously talented, probably technically better than he has ever had. It is the most technical squad he has ever had but they need to learn to become winners. There is no-one really who has made the transition.

“The turnover has been really quick. They say the turnover of squads is five years on average, he has turned it in about two I think.”

I think he sums most people's feelings and thoughts up there.


Arsene Wenger also needs to sort his signings out now, Inler has signed a new deal at his club and options are fast running out. Lornik Cana has been suggested in the past, and the other day Stephane Mbia was linked. But that was with Djourou going in the other direction.

I would just like to say this to all the fans that have called for Wengers head. Would you like to see a title first thing in the morning saying 'Wenger walks out'?

I doubt it. So shut the fuck up.

I will do that spuds article at some point. Honest!

Wenger is either brave, or stupid.

I woke up, had some munch and turned on the computer. I then clicked on my Mozilla Firefox icon and selected my shortcut to Arsenal.com.

And when i saw this i was in total and utter shock;

When you lose a game the solution is not always to buy, Did we play at our best? I say no and so we have to look at why?

“We had problems to win our first few games last year but we won them. This year we did not win - that is the reality. We had 60 minutes to come back on Fulham and we did not do it. Is that down to Fulham’ s quality or the fact we were not good enough? Only the future will tell us that.”

Now Arsene, are Fulham a top side? no.

If we were playing a top 4 side we would have got absolutely battered on Saturday. I agree that the solution is not always to buy but its clear to a blind man that this team lack something, im not going to waver on my expectation to win the league, this is Arsenal Football Club and i expect us to win the league at least once in 4 years. He has built up the expectation and he has to deliver it, this season he has to buy and thats the end of it.

Even though after that, i do expect him to buy someone. He cant be that stupid... can he? leave me a comment on what you think....

Now, he might be a talented player but i don't think we need Gervinho. We have Vela, Van Persie, Adebayor and Walcott for starters with many young players looking good such as Barazite. He is not what we should be looking for, although its nice for the club to be held in such high esteem.

Armand Traore talks about how many teams were after his services and it just shows how talented other managers think he is. Hopefully he is allowed to take his time and develop ala Gael Clichy, who was not too great at first.

Im really scraping the barrel here but im not going to look in the papers as i believe they write big bucketloads of shite.

Now onto something im a tad worried about. Fabregas being rushed back for Wednesday. I really hope he doesn't play, we have a comfortable margin and with a midfield paring of Song and Denilson i think we would be fine, Song would make a good DM and is a very strong runner with the ball with people saying he was 'Beckenbauer like in his runs' in the game against Blackburn in the Carling Cup. I see no reason not to play him, after all, everyone else is probably injured. Denilson should, and probably will, get another chance on Wednesday, his confidence can't be high now and hopefully that would help if he had a decent game.

Apart from this there is not much else going on so il be back soon with the article promised yesterday.

Urgent: Signings Needed.

Yesterday was poor. Very poor. As Arsene said.

If im honest we have stepped back 2 seasons on that performance. It seems we are back at the stage were we were when we were losing away to the likes of Bolton, West Brom, Blackburn, Everton etc.

There was no grit in the defence, they didn't know where to put themselves, who to mark and what to do when the ball was delivered. The midfield was shocking, in not sure that that midfield would win an away game in the Championship, let alone the Premiership, Denilson was hopeless, Nasri wasn't in the game at all, he lacked the final ball, Eboue was probably the best of a poor bunch. At least he threatened on occasion, Walcott was poor again, he seems to just run and run, no matter what the direction, his development is starting to worry me.

The strikers were poor too, Adebayor dropped deep to try and influence the play but it didn't work, Van Persie was selfish with the set pieces, even his corners were poor. As i said yesterday, i don't know where he has gone.

Now when it comes to our prize assets it seems that we struggle to keep them, sod their age, class is perminant and a 33 year old pires is better than a 22 year old Eboue. Vieira was missed when he left, yes Cesc stepped up but we missed that force in midfield, Henry is missed, he was that special special player that could change a game in an instant.

Now we suffered after losing those players, but if we lost Fabregas we would be in dire dire straits, thats why we have to appease him. If he wants Xabi Alonso, give him Xabi Alonso. We could do a hell of a lot worse than buy this player i tell you, he is younger than you may think at 26 and would add another dimention to our attack, 3 midfielders that are good from range is a dangerous proposition for any defence. His passing is also fantasic.

Cesc also said;

"For me, Arsenal is Arsenal and this club has something special that no others have.

"We have to take care of it, that's why you have to be intelligent in your decisions "

Wenger can't afford to make a mistake now. We need an addition or 2, theres no denying that. Cesc trusts Wenger and believes he can guide the club to success. Arsene, don't fail him, for the sake of the club.

Now, onto something that really interests me. Tony Adams has again said how much he would like to manage Arsenal one day. And i think he would be a fucking great manager, we know Arsene wont be around forever and i think that recruiting TA back into the ranks would be a masterstroke, he can learn from the great man and it can only improve his management.

Don't laugh but I believe I am stronger in some areas and in others he is far greater than me."

Hes a confident guy and i think, in the future, he is a cert for the Arsenal management.

Theres also news of yet another Rosicky injury setback, he is set to miss the Czech's World Cup qualifier. I recon he is made out of breadsticks.

Now i don't trust BBC Sport, but this worries me, Maybe Wenger is just playing his usual games?

The Gossip columns are turfing out their usual shit. A paper claims that Djourou might me on his way to France on loan... I dont trust a source that cant spell his name right to be honest.

Also, apprently Xabi Alonso will cost 16 million.

Note: There is a poll currently going for 6 more days. Please take part and i will write about the results when it closes!


I would also like the thank the people that have helped me since i set this up.


Il be back this week with the latest news and why i think Spurs are immune to a 'crisis'.

Is this really RVP? + Show that cash AW!

I dont think ive seen Van Persie this poor before. Honestly. He was poor today, and last week too. Ok, he has not had many games over the last two years but he looks a shadow of his former self. On the two games so far this season he has seemed to have lost a bit of pace, become fustrated and therefore maybe tried too hard. This showed when he took freekick after freekick and put them either in the crowd, or the wall.

Remember against Ajax in the Amsterdam tournament and he had a go at Walcott? He did it again yesterday. I think he is trying to re-pay the faith put in him, and re-pay AW and the fans for being injured so much.

Robin has the talent to be one of the best in the world but it seems to have literally disappeared in the last month or so.

Now, it might just be the time for Arsene Wenger to get his cash out and buy a proven class player, be it Alonso, Barry, whoever. Just get your chequebook out Arsene because another trophyless season is just not on. Denilson isnt/wont be ready, he looks like a rabbit caught in the headlights. We need cover for Cesc because without him, we are much much weaker. Nasri may be that player that can replace him but he didnt look too great today either, he still has to adapt, like any other foreign player needs to. Adebayor was good in the build up, he has really improved this side of his game, but the chances were wasted in the end.

Today i think Eboue played well. He ran at the defenders, caused problems and that led to freekicks in our favour. I like the player. He adds a bit of personality (all be it OTT at times) and is very loyal to the club, he gives his all and that is all you can ask of a player.

Now, before i get dismembered by people calling me a pessimist, i really do think that the international break screwed the team up. Denilson and Almunia were the only players training last week and that showed in our passing today, players didnt really know where each other were and we lacked the player to drive the team on when it was needed.


There is something missing from this team and Wenger has days to fix it.

Earn your Money Arsene, and SPEND IT!

Back tomorrow with all the transfer speculation and Arsene's thoughts on the loss at Fulham.