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The Wenger Thread!

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Claudius

Wenger's crazy. Isn't the team that wins the stamina league the one that lifts the trophy tomorrow night?

You guys ever watch 10,000m races? They always send out a pace-setter guy who huffs and puffs and falls out after 3000meters. That's us. Pace-setters for City and Pool. Not sure what Chelesa were playing at

Captain

We fell out a third of the way through the season? Nah.

Don't know why you guys get so worked up by what a football manager says in a press conference.

Claudius

Mr. Overly Literal.
We didn't fall out at 3000m, but we were irrelevant 6 weeks ago or more.

Ricky1985

More like we were, at best, fourth favourite for this imaginary 10,000m race and yet unexpectedly led the race up to the the 8000m mark until we pulled a calf muscle and limped the rest of the way home. Mo Farah, after overcoming a close call or two due to a bit of jostling from the other competitors, came through with his superior fitness and experience to win the race.

Gunner89

We were 4th best because the manager failed to use his resources

Daz

Captain wrote:
We fell out a third of the way through the season? Nah.

Don't know why you guys get so worked up by what a football manager says in a press conference.

Oh I don't know, maybe because he happens to be our manager? And maybe because he's not just been spouting this shit in press conferences, he's also followed it through by failing to address the obvious gaps in the squad season after season.

Dillinger

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10821601/Arsenal-manager-Arsene-Wenger-offered-Monaco-job.html

yessss get in.

Rex

Dillinger wrote:
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/306055.html

Same old same old. Basically OLD.

He is right though; we don't need an overhaul of the squad. We need to keep the players we have and add 2 or 3 class players to it.

Dillinger

Sagna is going, so will a one or two others. We always sell someone ... so 3 to 4 players really. That IS an overhaul. Of course we will end up getting 2 players max, so again short .... that is the OLD.

y va marquer

Who did we sell last summer?
I can't remember. Nobody significant then.
We've signed pretty much every key player to longer contracts during the course of this season so who exactly, apart from Sagna, would be leaving that would negate the impact of any new arrival?

Klaus

y va marquer wrote:
Who did we sell last summer?
I can't remember. Nobody significant then.

Gervinho. And Arshavin left on a free transfer. None of them were very important though.

Klaus

Dillinger wrote:
Sagna is going, so will a one or two others. We always sell someone ... so 3 to 4 players really.

Which player who made more than ten starts this year do you expect to leave apart rom Sagna?

Claudius

I saw a Liverpool mate post on Facebook that they should come and pick apart our squad - we're just a development squad for City, etc.

I think opposition fans are going to be surprised. Due to FFP and old players retiring/moving on, we will have the most stability amongst the Big 5. What we now need is a bit more super quality

Qwiss

Claudius wrote:
I saw a Liverpool mate post on Facebook that they should come and pick apart our squad - we're just a development squad for City, etc.

Typical Pool fan. I'm so glad they missed their one big chance to become a successful club again.

Captain

Daz wrote:
Captain wrote:
We fell out a third of the way through the season? Nah.

Don't know why you guys get so worked up by what a football manager says in a press conference.

Oh I don't know, maybe because he happens to be our manager? And maybe because he's not just been spouting this shit in press conferences, he's also followed it through by failing to address the obvious gaps in the squad season after season.

So you don't know. Cheers.

JazzG

qs! wrote:
Claudius wrote:
I saw a Liverpool mate post on Facebook that they should come and pick apart our squad - we're just a development squad for City, etc.

Typical Pool fan. I'm so glad they missed their one big chance to become a successful club again.

A lot of them seem to think they will spend big while retaining their players, am intrigued to see how that will work out. They are a loss making club and their owner has already put millions into them. If they had qualified for Europe this season they'd have breached FFP rulings and possibly have been fined. So am interested to see how they will spend big while keeping compliant to FFP. Also don't forget they need a £100m investment into their stadium as well!

DKGooner

Thought the stadium investment would be excluded for FFP purposes and that's capital expenditure anyways. Next season, everybody's tv income goes up massively and with added CL income, their turnover should be much improved to move their "losses" in a positive trajectory. Doubt they will spend big without selling first though. Think they will look to improve defence as a priority and reckon that potential free transfer moves for Sagna and Cole would be pretty appealing to them to allow for 1-2 relatively big signings.

Daz

Captain wrote:
Daz wrote:
Oh I don't know, maybe because he happens to be our manager? And maybe because he's not just been spouting this shit in press conferences, he's also followed it through by failing to address the obvious gaps in the squad season after season.

So you don't know. Cheers.

Interesting summarising Captain.

Qwiss

Captain wrote:
Daz wrote:
Oh I don't know, maybe because he happens to be our manager? And maybe because he's not just been spouting this shit in press conferences, he's also followed it through by failing to address the obvious gaps in the squad season after season.

So you don't know. Cheers.

You should read it again. Everything he said was perfectly logical and made absolute sense.

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