arseven (Arsenal fan)TeamTalk
Posted 09/09/2009 @ 15:51 View all arseven’s posts

However much I may have liked Mr Wenger, he has failed to give us results that would have made Arsenal amongst the top 5 clubs of Europe during the last 5 years! His youth policy is only for a “feeder club” and not one in the Premiership. His failings has been in getting rid of experience too soon and not spending enough where it counts. Denilson will never be a Gilberto; Diaby will never be a Viera! Neither Bendtner nor Eduardo have the killer instinct! They are untility players, like most of the Arsenal team. Ramsey may take over from Cesc when the latter is absent, however he is not that good, yet! As for the defence we have 2 old French players, 2 not so good Swiss, 2 French full backs who are not “that good”! We have no decent goalkeeper! Where does that leave us? A Board who are only interested in the value of their shares; don’t want to risk any more capital or don’t want to borrow to create that extra achievement and wealth! How do I reach to this opinion? Well the Chairmean and the Chief Executive are both on record expressing their conviction tht not winning anything is not the end of the world! Just to remind them that Arsenal is the only team in the Premiership that has not been relegated and between 1971 and 1995 we were an average team while Liverpool and Man U shared the honours alternately! We were not a “top” team, until Arsenal brought into the club some “established talent” from 1993/4 onwards! We just extinguished them without replacement and fell from the top again! Youth without adequate blend of experience wins you nothing! So I would like to see this Board evicted; the manager let go!!!; bring in either Guus Hiddink or Martin O’Neill as manager and David Dein as Chief Executive! Sorry guys, but the truth always hurts thse who are serious about their love for the club and I have been a supporter for more than 60 years!

No! you are not a supporter. You have never been. A supporter does not comment the way you have done; completely bereft of facts. I suggest you go look at Dictionary.com or the Oxford English Dictionary for the meaning of Supporter or Fan.

I suspect that you are not even an Arsenal fan. You may be a Spud or ManUre or Chavski. Whichever you are, don’t return to this site. It is reserved for Supporters of Lord Wenger and Arsenal only. At the top it say “Untold Arsenal, supporting the Lord Wenger in all he does.” It is not and will never be for plastic fans, glory hunters or fans of other clubs.

Thank you and Good bye.

Here is the link if you want to have a look.

http://www.thegoalposts.com/showthread.php?t=81633

Cheers

One of the big problmes for alot of clubs are the moron fans who want to see brute force triumph over skill as they have been reared on a diet of mistrust of skillfull players, partly cos most skillful players they have seen are foreign and those that were English were run down in the media as the cause for England national side losing major games. Look how Matt Le Tiss was constantly overlooked by England, if he had been French, Spanish or Italian they would have built the side around him, and Le Tiss was not the first or the last great England talent who like so many English talents was mistrusted and so overlooked or blamed for the ills of poorer players. Enlanad would rather a hard running, hard tackling Bryan Robson type player than a Liam Brady or a Cesc.

Would have expeced more from Brooking but not suprised by Wilkinson. HAs anyone seen the poor standard of England coaches at underage level, with S Pearce the typical poor coach at the peak of the underage level(U21) just confirming that England, even with an italian in charge of the seniors, still crave power over gile

Gooner4lyf

During the times the bulk of our academy was made of foreign players and while Damien Comolli was at our club, our own methods of scouting and conduct were questionable. Cesc Fabregas was one such questionable signing after his parents persuaded Cesc to move on as his opportunities were limited at Barca, and only a “Part-Exchange” of Gio Van Brockhorst eased Barcelona’s frustrations as originally, Barcelona were not entitled to any compensation whatsoever. Merida’s case was quite different, and it was his parents that had contacted Cesc’s agent to engineer a move to Arsenal and break the pre-contract agreement – hence Fran Merida was the one who was fined, and not the club.

However, though intial stages could be questionable, Arsene Wenger was a “pioneer” in his work and provided young players with tremendous first team opportunities and potential, and his reputation is second to none in developing and nurturing them. Today, like how Samir Nasri has put it, it would be every young French player’s dream to play for Arsenal – might add for all youngsters around the world. We don’t need to go underground to sign young players, we can just approach officially and provide the adequate amount of compensation for the player to sign on mutually-agreed terms for both clubs. Clubs will be well aware that it is in the best interests of any young player to move to Arsenal for a quality education and to fulfill their potential, and will be willing to negotiate suitable terms – quite different to the story with other clubs. Platini’s constant citing of Arsenal as a club which “poaches” young players is absolutely as baseless as it is derogatory as we are one of the few clubs that does this all within the framework, and should be respected for that.

Clichy, Sunu, Coquelin, join a long list of French young players whose dreams are to play for Arsenal, and joined on negotiated terms. Luke Freeman, Jamie Edge other examples of recent purchases and our lists can go on. So let’s be proud to be a Gunner, and watch as other teams fall victim to their own questionable antics and behaviour.

In Arsene we trust.