Arsenal

[toni01]

I would chose Gianluigi Buffon I think. Ideally I would love Júlio César, unfortunately I am not sure he meets the necessary level of ugly.

[toni01]

Not sure what we have done to piss of the Sun, but they were more than a little harsh on us today. Possibly the worst ever article by the Sun, and I know thats a big statement, but that's how bad it is

I am gonna copy/paste they dont deserve the hits

New 25-man rule is just a fArse

ARSENAL and Manchester City helped turn the Premier League's brave new dawn into a farce last night.

Strict new rules designed to restrict foreign players in English football ? and encourage homegrown talent ? were shown up to be meaningless.

Instead of players being kicked out by their clubs, not ONE Premier League star ? foreign or otherwise ? was condemned to the scrapheap.

Even mega-spenders City easily kept inside the new 25-man squad limit, while Arsenal unbelievably held on to more than SEVENTY of their players as so many are still under 21.

Its almost as if they want to see us fail The annoyance voiced by the Sun there, in the fact no player lost their job on the basis of their nationality is pretty sick. The use of the word "scrapheap" as well makes me laugh, if a premiership player could not "fit" into their team's squad they would be sold to another team, not destined for a life sweeping the streets or working in Mcdonalds

Also amuses me how they criticise Arsenal for having 70 squad players, even capitalise it for dramatic effect   Now alot of those players are English ( I did a quick tally and the reserves currently are about 60% English, the younger players will probs be slightly higher than that, so i would be amazed if at least 70-75% of our youth players are not English) which is the exact thing the Premier League introduced the rules to encourage, they are criticising Arsenal for meeting the rules of the league. Fact is these stupid new rules will result in arsenal having to sell these promising young players as soon as they hit 21, because we wont be able to fit them all in the squad, but I guess the idiots at the Premeir League will realise that in a few years when a whole heap of promising youngsters never fail to make the grade cause they have to be sold to a shite team as soon as they hit 21 Regardless comparing us to Man City is a frigging insult...

[RVPlover]

toni was gonna post the exact same thing

[toni01]

Ridiculous aint it? Its clearly been thrown together, with no thought or research done to collaborate their claims.  What can you do, its the Sun afterall

[RVPlover]

Ridiculous aint it? Its clearly been thrown together, with no thought or research done to collaborate their claims.  What can you do, its the Sun afterall

well it is the sun...like my friend said the sun is only good for one page

[RVPlover]

anyway what are u supposed to do if the current crop  of English players "aren't good enough" or are too expensive, or stuff like that look at Milner man city brought him for 26 million or J.Cole who demanded 90k a week, this sort of stuff gives teams ammunition to inflate players transfer fees, so I understand why some managers look to youth/ foreign talent  after all football is a business.

[toni01]

English players tend to lack discipline as well. How many times do we read about them messing up, having affairs, impregnating/roasting/Granny prostitutes/mobile phone up arse/drug cheats the list is endless. There seems to be something up with the English footballer's mentality. I know all players mess up, it just strikes me the English seem to take the piss.

In other news, why the heck are arsenal allowing all our players to be on social networking sites again? They were all banned a couple of years back, but seems they are sneaking back in... Its going to end in tears imo!

[RVPlover]

English players tend to lack discipline as well. How many times do we read about them messing up, having affairs, impregnating/roasting/Granny prostitutes/mobile phone up arse/drug cheats the list is endless. There seems to be something up with the English footballer's mentality. I know all players mess up, it just strikes me the English seem to take the piss.

In other news, why the heck are arsenal allowing all our players to be on social networking sites again? They were all banned a couple of years back, but seems they are sneaking back in... Its going to end in tears imo!

yeha fabregas, denilson and squillaci all have twitter accounts apparently

wait until xavi gets a twitter

remember@fabregas you have barca dna never forget that
 @fabregas miss you when are you coming to barca

[RVPlover]

some foreign players to lack in discipline but it is mostly then English players our recent scandals were nicky no pants and jack being nicked

[mushi]

I honestly dont know why you still read a newspaper to be honest.    Its all just a mass anti-Arsenal conspiracy and no one ever has a good word to say about us.  Its all papers such as the Sun want.  A rise.  The more enraged people get the more they are going to give them hits and sell papers etc. 

What it is with footballers is that by the time they are like 20 they can be making absolute obscene amount of money.  In this country they seem to be reverred as semi-gods so they think they are a law unto themselves, but then looking at it legally they do seem to get away with absolutely everything.  Its also because none have never done an honest days graft in their life and believe the hype surrounding them.  Introduce salary caps I say.  Will hinder some perhaps but it will prevent total c**ts like Joe/Ashley Cole etc etc etc thinking they are worth £90,000 a week because they just wont be able to get it.  They aint coming up with a cure for cancer, only doing their hobby professionally.

[RVPlover]

I honestly dont know why you still read a newspaper to be honest.    Its all just a mass anti-Arsenal conspiracy and no one ever has a good word to say about us.  Its all papers such as the Sun want.  A rise.  The more enraged people get the more they are going to give them hits and sell papers etc. 

What it is with footballers is that by the time they are like 20 they can be making absolute obscene amount of money.  In this country they seem to be reverred as semi-gods so they think they are a law unto themselves, but then looking at it legally they do seem to get away with absolutely everything.  Its also because none have never done an honest days graft in their life and believe the hype surrounding them.  Introduce salary caps I say.  Will hinder some perhaps but it will prevent total c**ts like Joe/Ashley Cole etc etc etc thinking they are worth £90,000 a week because they just wont be able to get it.  They aint coming up with a cure for cancer, only doing their hobby professionally.

whilst i agree with you I do think some footballers deserve that amount they do generate ticket sales, merchandise, tv coverage if a club makes a profit its partly due to the players
some movie starts and musicians make obscene amounts of money on movies, or a a tour etc

[RVPlover]

so apparently we are holding on to fabregas against his will

"Barcelona did all they could to sign me but Arsenal told me I had to stay, that there was no way they were going to let me go," Fabregas is quoted as saying in the Mail.  "In the end I had to stay ? but the content of my conversation with Arsene Wenger will remain private."

source: http://www.eatsleepsport.com/arsenal/fabregas-reveals-barca-desire-1094617.html

Asked by FHM if City felt bigger than Arsenal, Adebayor replied, "Yeah it does feel like that? With the great new players we've got we have a wonderful chance to make history.

"But it's all about results.  If we can win ten games in a row, people will class Manchester City as bigger than Arsenal."

source: http://www.imscouting.com/global-news-article/Emmanuel-Adebayor-Manchester-City-are-bigger-than-Arsenal/10275/


 

 

[mushi]

Just two points:

1.  Man City will never be bigger than Arsenal.  Just because a team can bring in the best players doesnt mean anything.  Look at Madrid.  They couldnt even score against Mallorca in their first game.  Ade clearly still has an Arsenal obsession.

2.  What did Cesc expect?  We'd let him go totally under what he is probably valued at?  If Barca wanted Cesc so much they would have bought him before signing Villa and thrown a cheque book at us and offered a little bit more than £30m.  But alas they didnt and then they got Mascherano.  All Cesc is gonna do is piss off Arsenal fans by these comments because they annoy me.

Speaking of Barcelona.. what the hell is Hleb doing on loan at Birmingham City Good enough for him I suppose 

[RVPlover]

Just two points:

1.  Man City will never be bigger than Arsenal.  Just because a team can bring in the best players doesnt mean anything.  Look at Madrid.  They couldnt even score against Mallorca in their first game.  Ade clearly still has an Arsenal obsession.

2.  What did Cesc expect?  We'd let him go totally under what he is probably valued at?  If Barca wanted Cesc so much they would have bought him before signing Villa and thrown a cheque book at us and offered a little bit more than £30m.  But alas they didnt and then they got Mascherano.  All Cesc is gonna do is piss off Arsenal fans by these comments because they annoy me.

Speaking of Barcelona.. what the hell is Hleb doing on loan at Birmingham City Good enough for him I suppose 

but then again fabregas did say something on the lines of arsenal wanted me to stay no way was I going to refuse.

Ade acts like a jilted lover i could have i could have sworn last week he wanted to leave and also hasn't every ex city player slammed them for having no soul

[mushi]

Well if he said that as well it means Cesc is one confused soul because to me they are both contradictory statements. 

Barca wanted me, Arsenal wouldnt let me go.  Arsenal asked me to stay so I did.

Makes 0 sense to me.  maybe I'm just being stupid