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An Arsenal Reminisce

Burnwinter

Hmm 16, counted wrong at work. Clichy I had pencilled in, I guess we'll see how Kolasinac pans out.

Gazza M

Clrnc wrote:
Can't believe that squad didn't win the premier league in 98-99, 02-03 and 04-05.

04-05 i'll forgive. chelsea were unbelievable that season

the other 2 definitely got away

it's funny looking back that even our best teams succumbed to meltdowns, but were able to pull out them due to the sheer quality of the players we had. the invincibles almost fell apart in april after being knocked out of the cups, and were minutes away from a CL group exit before rallying to qualify.

01-02 is my favourite title win still. the invincibles is a little tainted for me because we didn't batter united like we should have in that season. in 01-02, we outplayed them twice

Clrnc

Gazza M wrote:
Clrnc wrote:
Can't believe that squad didn't win the premier league in 98-99, 02-03 and 04-05.

04-05 i'll forgive. chelsea were unbelievable that season

the other 2 definitely got away

it's funny looking back that even our best teams succumbed to meltdowns, but were able to pull out them due to the sheer quality of the players we had. the invincibles almost fell apart in april after being knocked out of the cups, and were minutes away from a CL group exit before rallying to qualify.

01-02 is my favourite title win still. the invincibles is a little tainted for me because we didn't batter united like we should have in that season. in 01-02, we outplayed them twice

That's a fair point as well. Was thinking about it the other day, the amount of times we bottled it those days either due to a lack of quality squad depth or complete meltdown could have been alarming signs. We would have to depend on our squad quality or big name leaders to pull us through, which we have none now. Wenger could have been right up there at the top if he know when to quit and have that little more ambition to try his best to win everything on offer those days. Obviously Paris was the biggest miss, but I'm sure he would also have regrets about these 3 title miss + 07-08 league, 98-99/00-01/03-04 FA Cup, 00-01 Uefa Cup, 03-04/05-06/06-07 League Cups.

01-02 we were truly incredible away from home. Teams were shit scared to play us. Yeah thought we should have thoroughly thrashed a weakened United team at highbury. 04-05 we basically lost the league the month where we were cheated out of our unbeaten run. Dropped 9 points right after which was all winnable. That would have won us the title given that 3 more points was dropped from our weakened team on the last match against Brum after we already lost the title.

goon

Some good memories there. That champions league run was all the more remarkable considering how shit we were in league. If it wasn't for Thierry we'd have probably finished about 8th in the league.

flobaba

Intelligent runs, intelligent decisions.

Now we have 4, 5, 6 players bombing forward or hanging out around the 18 yard box, only to waste a majority of the opportunities. Sheisser!

goon

The team was significantly worse back then to be honest, we lost like 11 games in the league. But the CL run was a tactical miracle, while guys like Senderos, Eboue and Flamini at left back managed to put in some of the best performances of their careers. And of course the likes of Jens, Gilberto, Thierry and Cesc were fantastic too.

Gazza M

i'd say it was on par with the current team talent wise. henry was worth 2 players, cesc, hleb, rvp, and adebayor were on the come up, and bobby, freddie, kolo, jens, and gilberto were still dependable

Qwiss

goon wrote:
The team was significantly worse back then to be honest, we lost like 11 games in the league. But the CL run was a tactical miracle, while guys like Senderos, Eboue and Flamini at left back managed to put in some of the best performances of their careers. And of course the likes of Jens, Gilberto, Thierry and Cesc were fantastic too.

The Keown effect.

Klaus

😆 I always loved how the Keown effect could have us perform so badly in the league and so well in Champions League.

Qwiss

We were better defensively than the season before though.

Shady

Kolo was great that season too, especially when you consider Sol's mind seemed to snap for a couple of months.

Bold Tone

Considering how good he was for us, i am amazed at what he did at his peak (before joining us). :gape:

flobaba

Bergkamp or Ozil?

Bold Tone

You cannot be serious.
Even the Bergkamp we got who, arguably, was past his prime shits on Ozil from a great height.

Big Willie

Our Bergkamp was in no eay past his prime. Probably the best player in the wprld in 97/98.

Mirth

flobaba wrote:
Bergkamp or Ozil?

Henry or Sanchez?

Qwiss

Bergkamps best football was easily when he played for us. Obviously Ozil doesn't come close though.

Qwiss

Mirth wrote:
flobaba wrote:
Bergkamp or Ozil?

Henry or Sanchez?

Welbeck or Jeffers?

Bold Tone

Qwiss! wrote:
Bergkamps best football was easily when he played for us. Obviously Ozil doesn't come close though.

I would say that, as an Arsenal fan, but my Dutch brother in law says he was better at Ajax.
The main things we agree on is that Inter stalled his development and we resurrected him to a slightly different player from the striker he was when he played with Wim Jong.

Clrnc

Bergkamp was so much better for us and way more consistent.

I do think Ozil is up there with him but has never fulfilled his potential here.

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