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Peps quitting

Timbob

In terms of his footballing abilities and attributes Cesc does fit like a glove at Barcelona. People were talking about his almost telepathic link up play with Messi just weeks after joining the club. Guardiola even said earlier in the season that the training staff were having to do a lot of work with Sanchez to get his all round game and technique up to Barcelona standard whereas Cesc has had no problems fitting in on that front at all.

Positionally he's struggled a bit because Barcelona dont really have room for a proper number 10/attacking midfielder in their set up, which is why he's ended up playing both at centre forward and on the left at times. I think he's struggled a bit with the tactical demands of playing in central midfied for them. But he's one of the best footballers on the planet and will get it right sooner rather than later.

Captain

His conditioning looks poor. I'd say he is overweight at the moment.

Tony Montana

What? He's skinny as a rake.

Biggus

Nela wrote:
Cesc 😆

😆 He looks like he's about to burst into tears in that photo Nels.

Biggus

A good read here.

http://arsenaltruth.squarespace.com/arsenal-truth/2012/4/29/once-a-great-manager-now-a-sorry-clown.html

However in fairness as the blogger admits- Wenger was not always like this when he was younger, and Guardiola is still young so plenty of time for football to contort him into the twisted tortured creatures we all are.

Klaus

That is the worst rubbish I've read this year.

lorddulaarsenal

Captain wrote:
His conditioning looks poor. I'd say he is overweight at the moment.

He looks slighter than he's ever been if you're talking about cesc

Claudius

7-0 victors without Cesc, Xavi or Iniesta tonight. The team's a bloody Hydra.

flobaba

I refuse to be impressed.

They had Messi still. That's cheating.

JazzG

To be fair Pep has played a big part in Messi's development, just look at his goal tally before and after Pep took over. He fine tuned their system and got Xavi and Iniesta playing at even higher levels than before. He deserves a lot of credit for the work he has done there.

Burnwinter

Biggus wrote:
A good read here.

http://arsenaltruth.squarespace.com/arsenal-truth/2012/4/29/once-a-great-manager-now-a-sorry-clown.html

However in fairness as the blogger admits- Wenger was not always like this when he was younger, and Guardiola is still young so plenty of time for football to contort him into the twisted tortured creatures we all are.

Klaus wrote:
That is the worst rubbish I've read this year.

That was a very poor article, but it is true that Wenger's behaviour on the touchline and at press conferences has deteriorated dramatically during the past five years.

However, carrying on about George Graham's sheer class is a laugh. Graham, who resigned amid a bungs scandal and then toddled off to manage Spurs a couple of years later, was a great Arsenal manager. But he was not the epitome of personal class.

Coombs

Heh. Miserable article. If I were Pep, I'd never manage again. He'd inevitably fail in England, probably even in Middle Eastlands, and everything would just be a step down anyway. Wenger's antics on the touchline are annoying, but for me it shows he still gives a shit more than anything. Pep just stood there when Chelsea rolled and screamed their way through that semi final because he was quitting, not because he's some kind of demi-god soaking in sweet, manly, musky "class".

😆 @Cesc, btw. What a tool.

Biggus

Burnwinter wrote:
However, carrying on about George Graham's sheer class is a laugh. Graham, who resigned amid a bungs scandal and then toddled off to manage Spurs a couple of years later, was a great Arsenal manager. But he was not the epitome of personal class.

😆 Thats true, but he did wear snappy suits.

However lets wait and see what happened to all the money we should have been spending on players before we give "the fail guy" the halo.

Burnwinter

Graham was impeccably dressed, yes. His long black trenchcoats were leagues ahead of Wenger's Nike snuggies, which evoke a segmented blue worm terminated with the head of a French aristo awaiting the guillotine.

Biggus

And I hate when he sits with his legs apart and you can see up it.

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