EPL Talk - Latest Comments in Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

FredTheRed — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:27:52 -0000

If you want to read an article on Arsenal, try this one for size.

http://www.epltalk.com/weng...

And written by a Spurs fan!

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Patrick — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:10:35 -0000

*cough* only six points from 1st *cough*
*cough* Cesc, Roskicy, key injuries *cough*
*cough* a draw away in the Cup against Cardiff that played in the final last year not that bad *cough*
*cough* still playing in the CL league *cough*
*cough* your a moron *cough*

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

The Doodle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:59:08 -0000

http://arsensox.blogspot.com/

These things come in cycles. ? maybe?

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Simon Burke — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:56:30 -0000

Not a good week for you Richard, you have the City fans after you for your comedic piece and now the Arsenal fans after you for another piece.

The article slates Samir Nasri - in his first season he scored a brace to beat United so I assume thats the alternative universe he has a use in.

As for drawing with Cardiff away in the Cup - look around - Burnley/Derby/Nottingham Forest/Barnsley and Southend have all very recently provided a great deal of surprise results. Arsenal will be going back to the Emirates and will probably win that and the next game and suddenly find themselves in the 6th Round.

When Arsenal won the Cup in their double year (1998) they got by Port Vale on penalties in the 3rd round. i only hope (and I am sure there was) some hack there
was slaughtering Arsenal and some fella called Wenger only to eat a lot of humble pie in May.

I am not suggesting Arsenal are currently the greatest team in the world but drawing at Cardiff didnt phase me at all. Samir Nasri is a French international with some telling goals this year. I await your next comedic effort - go do one about Liverpool, i dare you.

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Richard Whittall — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:38:47 -0000

Going to have to step in here again. I'm but ONE author of many on EPLTalk. If you don't like the article there'll be plenty more down the pipe; torrents of abusive bile on one author's take will not yield yet another flat, rehashed match-report, no matter how many vile things you anonymously type. If you want turgid, stale analysis, there's plenty to go around at the BBC. But I'm glad to know who's been commenting on Justin TV all this time...

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

The Gaffer — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:33:03 -0000

Hi Dioforce, hang in there. We're planning on interviewing Fox, Setanta, ESPN and GolTV in March in addition to several representatives from other broadcasting companies.

Cheers,
The Gaffer

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

shooy — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:58:52 -0000

Did you nick that car Damian, or is it just that English is not your mother tongue?

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Joe — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:12:26 -0000

Take a look at our net spend over the period and compare it to the other teams you mention. That will tell you everything you need to know.

If you want a laugh compare it to Sp*rs net spend over the same period.

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

dioforce — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:16:40 -0000

Blaming Arsene, and being cheeky, does not a great article make. If I wanted to read banal editorials, I'd go to the bleacher report. Here I expected insight into the EPL and broadcasting, which is why I setup an RSS feed, which I must say, has not paid dividends in the last couple months ;/

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Good luck moron — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:17:29 -0000

Retarded people shouldn't blog.

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Kaiser — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:24:32 -0000

first time i'veread ur boring blog.. will be the last time. The problem we have is long term injury to key creative players and a tendency for all teams except for the top 4 to just come to defend defend defend which imo is slowly killing the premiership. Once Rosicky and Walcott return or alternatively we get other creators in we'll start to open up teams again.. oh and we should sell Adebayor if we get 30 million in the summer,

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

DJ — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:56:56 -0000

what the hell is wrong with Arsenal? what the hell is wrong with you should be the question for writting this bull.

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Damian — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:28:35 -0000

The 70M is an over daft ie. a lone so he has it but doesn,t

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Damian — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:23:52 -0000

David i own a 40000 car not cause i like holden more than Ferrari,s its not Wenger he has no money u think all of a sudden he thinks Eboue is Ribery or Ronaldo 4 3 years & maybe 3 more he has to work with 20m a year plus activity

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Jeremy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:22:57 -0000

There is absolutely no doubt AW has transforemd Arsenal from a boring team to an exciting one.The problem is he insists on playing his own brand of swash buckling attacking soccer.For this to happen ,the other side must play the game.However most teams believed in safety first and this frustrates AW calling it anti soccer.
His methods of making Arsenal a leading team were working until he decided to buy babes. Yes I know at highbury he was constricted and now Arsenal are one the top five richest teams in the world.Yet he still insists on that babe and farm out policy forgetting that time is of the essence.
Even if he were to manage RM I doubt he will be able to get awat with medicre results.
We weill never know whether he has that gbp 70 million or 7 million.Assuming he has
70 million doen't mean h his splurge will guarantee returns. But it is better than to buy players with potential.

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Stone — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:56:49 -0000

I don't agree with this article and like somebody pointed out, Chelsea had a very hard time against Southend.

But what pisses me off are those arrogant pricks who think that just because they are british they are somehow much more of a fan than those who don't. I live in Iceland and have never even been to Britain. I'll go to the Emirates next season as much as I can but that doesn't mean I'm any less of a supporter. I wished I was raised in Islington and my dad was a life long supporter who had brought me to Highbury year after year. But that's just not the case. There are two kinds of supporters I don't like: The one I just described and the ones that think they are so much better than the rest because they lived the sixties while all we remember is Dennis Bergkamp and Cesc.

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

dan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:52:19 -0000

not sure what of thats meant to be serious and what humour, im guessing the bit about not bothering to keep the best manager weve ever had was the joke (most successful team in prem, man u kept manager for ages, liverpool only now starting to look like true challengers after 4/5 yrs under benitez, chelsea won nothing with 2 or 3 managers since maureen)

slating nasri, 6 goals,played well in most games, just moved to new league, still only 21, is completely off the mark

and why choose to slate song when hes had one of the best games hes had for us :S

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Bolo Yeung — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:35:44 -0000

Its always better when bloggers base their accusations on actual facts, not hyperbole and sensational hit generating headlines (in a cheap bid for internet 'glory'). The facts, as they stand are as follows:

1. Arsene Wenger by virtue of achievement is one of the top 3 football managers in world football

2. Samir Nasri is a 21 year old International who for a midfielder in his 1st season has an unusually high proportion of goals in crucial games and therefore cannot be considered a poor player (see R Keane, R Pavyluchenko etc for value/output comparisons)

3. The season is not over yet. 6 points seperate the top 6 teams and translating that into games is 2 wins.

4. Your claims are not backed by ANY evidence or facts.

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Tyler Drake — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:03:28 -0000

Mate, i have to say, as an Arsenal fan i thought that blog was brilliant. Well organised, factual and hilarious to boot.

I'd never lay in to Arsene Wenger tho! i suppose for you, as a non-arsenal fan, its easy to do so...

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Richard Whittall — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:01:18 -0000

*cough* I'm Canadian for one, and I've indeed been to a few Premier League matches in my life, although the man standing behind me at the Valley screaming profanity for an hour and half could teach you something about insults! My feelings aren't even hurt yet!

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

ron — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:33:15 -0000

I dont think it anything to do with the coach, the players need to stand up and be counted, they complain that they never get enough money and they are worth far better than what they get paid for.
I dont think so, these are greedy over rated players at Arsenal that think that they are too good for the likes of Cardiff, they think the only have to show up and it a win, i would gladly pay each player 100 thousand a wk if i knew we would go to places like Cardiff and win 5-0. Cmmon AW, stop making excuses and start kicking some ass, the Reserve team has more balls than this one, why ? cos they are not greedy over rated players. lets swap the team around, i think if the Reserve team would have gone to Cardiff it would have been 5-0 to the Gunners....

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Chris_Walker — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:27:39 -0000

Martin O Neill only managed Leicester in the premier league before Villa in between this he gathered a fair bit of silverware at Celtic. I dont think you spend 200 million far from it. But Arsenal still have a budget of about 20 million hence the bids for arshaving and whatever he spent in summer such as Samir Nasri (was ramsay in summer? I forget), incidentally Arsenal actually turnover 1 million pounds every home league game (astonishing statistic!) and that wont all go into to paying the stadium debts which will take another 18 years or so to pay. The point is that there are times when you have to get the blend of youth and experience right. I watched arsenal the 'reserves' stuff my team 6-0 in the caring cup and there is no doubt that those kids are magnificent and will save the club millions but they still need guidance in premiership. Like i said, i ahve no doubt Arsene can win you trophies again

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

m.callanan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:19:12 -0000

Would be nice to have some grown up ,considered response than just abuse.Lets try.

Firstly 0-0 at Cardiff isn't a disaster . That said if people think we played well. then I despair. Song may indeed be improving but at current rate we wont win the league with him for a couple of years, and despite Wengers protestations about media criticism of Denilson personally I doubt he'll ever be more than a good reserve. You cant judge the defense when what is in front of them is so underwhelming. We have no one but Song emerging as a serious defensive midfielder;and if he's not ready, thats where we must buy, and let Song win the place over the next few years if he's up to it. We also totally lack pace compared with 4 years ago. Nasri may prove to be a good player, but i guarantee you it wont be on the wing. Hopefully Asharvin will help in that department.

As to Wenger much as I love him I am beginning to have doubts , but equally I dont know if he is being denied resources or is seriously deluded about the current squad.,

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

Norm — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:18:45 -0000

Stop Press!

Cardiff refuse request from Arsenal to take Eboue + 5 million pounds. They will agree to take the 5 million as long as Eboue isn't part of the deal.

Re: Just What the Hell is Wrong with Arsenal?

sam — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:17:21 -0000

so who shall we go far marinio who only buys trophies, Ramos who is a useless twat, Martin O,Neil, won 1 cup, or Rafa no we have the best man there is, we are no more then 2 players away from being a team that can seriously challenge for the premier league and i honestly believe if we sign arsharvin we are one strong defensive midfielder away. The problem is Wenger's hands are tied. until the majority of the flats are sold and completed at highbury we will not have the money, the whole world is fucked for money and we are no different, or maybe we should go and spend 200m like the laughing stock hotspurs and fight relegation. it is frustrating at the moment but if anyone can get it right it will be Arsene Wenger i promise.