Tony

We really missed Rasputin, and there were some howlers of performances. Almunia is having a stinker this season, and Clichy seems to have forgotten the art of defending.

Positives? Erm…

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Tony

One thing to keep in mind before the mass suicide begins is that the league is won in May not September, and how keeping two players who wanted to leave would have helped us this season is plain stupid and so crass, the lanky boy was always going to play like he’s never played for Arsenal and so was Toure, it’s just a pity that we no longer have a player like Giles Grimandi who would have put Adebayor over the advertising hordings in the first few seconds of the game, bitch would have have seconds thoughts about playing the way he did and sticking the boot into RVP’s face.

My last comment is about Arsene Wenger, will someone please slap the man not hard mind you just a tap and whisper in his ear that Bentner is not a winger / wide player and never will be, we have Wilshire or Bazerite who can play that roll in the absense of Wallcot, they are first team squad players so use them.

You can understand the below par performance at times because games (especially away games) after international breaks are tough. I think pretty much every time we come back from international duty we lose points.
So playing against a good team away from home right after international break, you can forgive the players for “lacking sharpness” as Arsene put it.
But you can’t forgive the silly mistakes that our defenders made. How Adebayor made that run boggles the mind. Were we afraid of him?
And then Clichy loses the ball 3 times in 10 minutes and the game is over.

Adebayor is a huge cunt. I never said a word against him until I saw his attack on RvP. But having said that he was immense today. Seemed like he wanted to win more than anyone. And he got his wish.

I guess when Wenger comes knocking for a player, its like George Soros sniffing out an investment; the stock automatically soars.

But I guess he either got priced out of the market, or he plans to run this team till the January transfer window, and then see how it’s shaping up, and what the injury situation is.

Anyway, I think the perennial Old Trafford game rigging carry on does our players’ heads in a bit.

Also a lot of people reckon Almunia is not strong enough…….

I would liked to have seen Wenger buy a decent back-up defender, say, the young French guy. With Djourou out we look a bit short at the back.

Hopefully we can put this behind us and string some good results together.

Personally, I feel we were the better team for much of the game against City. We had more shots (23) but only 7 on target. Plus we had 60% of posession. Compare to City who had 10 shots, 5 of which were on target. I don’t think we were outplayed at all.

I think the weakness we have is the goalkeeper position (not saying Almunia needs to be replaced, but I do think a bit of competition or a break could be good for him) and players who don’t get back to defend (Diaby in particular). In fact, if Diaby had tracked back, I’m not sure if Bellamy would have even scored.

Other than that the team played ok, but we need improved accuracy from the strikers and nicer goal posts.

As for Adebayor, if he played like that for Arsenal he would have got the love. He’s a fool, and now the most hated former-Arsenal player by far. Well done you muppet.

he deserves a long ban for this (though i suspect he only gets 1 game to conveniently put him out of action against man u…)