afc Now What Do We Expect

[Kompressor]

Benayoun's coming in with a point to prove, and Arteta will be hungry to impress in Europe again, reckon these two will have excellent CL campaigns at least,

[Seth Rollins]

Lol @ Theo leaving.

[MF Cunt]

Mario I just had a West Ham fan laugh at me and call Arsenal a sinking ship Well and truley Deflated\I also think we will have good cl campaignMan like.Ramsey prob thinks it's his last chance in a while to play on that stage, same goes for PerWe need Wilshere back asap

[Captain Planet]

Lol @ Theo leaving.

[JOHN DOE]

noone would buy him thats why

[Captain Planet]

lol exactlywell sign him for the wages he's on even for free

[Heero Yuy]

You lot are gassed, as inept as we know Walcott is he is highly rated within the football world.He could get a move easily to a good team no less all they'd do is play him up top.Actually think if you played Walcott off the last defender with a good playmaker/final ball man he could become a 20 goal man.

[Turkish]

Walcott's pace alone is something teams would pay money for. It wasn't to long ago Barca players were saying he is the trickiest player to play against cause of his pace.As much as people hate him and get onto him for not having a pinch of ball control, him and his pace have been vital during some big games. Off the top of my head:Liverpool, Champions League - The run that led to Adebayor's goal and the goal that should of put us through(2-2) Barcelona, Champions League - 2 - 0 down, comes on to help us get back into the game(1-4) Barcelona, Champions League - Vital for Bendtners goal and should of been through again if it was not for Diaby's lack of visionBirmingham away, 2008 - 2 goals to give us the lead in a game where some senior players chokedI'm not saying Walcott is the most gifted footballer but to say teams would not want him is laughable. I do agree that he has to play in a free flowing team to fully be appreciated as he is more of a player to latch onto a ball rather then take it on themselves.

[Flojo]

Wilshire out for 2-3 months?

[CarltonLeach]

f*ck Wilshere we got Arteta.

[Drift]

why do we always have one of these injuries?07/08 it was rvp08/09 it was rosicky09/10 rvp again10/11 it was vermaelen

[MF Cunt]

Is this possibly the reason that wenger went for 2 Attacking Midfielders rather than M'Villa?

[Badman]

Think its a good thing coz he was blatantly overused last seasonAlso means next man got a chance to step up and prove themselves i.e Ramseyblessing in disguise

[Aquaman]

Is this possibly the reason that wenger went for 2 Attacking Midfielders rather than M'Villa?

lol you don't get ITwe got whatever we could not what we wanted/lol badman STAP

[MF Cunt]

While that is trueWe could of got m'villa for 25 IMO and I think Wenger is willing to spend that kind of money on a player in the wake of Trafford Gate what I'm saying is i expect Wenger to finally try anything and everything that he has never tried before, E.g. Offering a 29 year old a four year contract.....I like to think Wenger used hindsight rather than blind scrambled bargain basementery esque shoppingIMO the reason he didn't go all out on the marque signing , is cus he didn't wanna blow his load on talent who have no perm experience

[Badman]

Is this possibly the reason that wenger went for 2 Attacking Midfielders rather than M'Villa?

lol you don't get ITwe got whatever we could not what we wanted/lol badman STAP

[Aquaman]

While that is trueWe could of got m'villa for 25 IMO and I think Wenger is willing to spend that kind of money on a player in the wake of Trafford Gate what I'm saying is i expect Wenger to finally try anything and everything that he has never tried before, E.g. Offering a 29 year old a four year contract.....I like to think Wenger used hindsight rather than blind scrambled bargain basementery esque shoppingIMO the reason he didn't go all out on the marque signing , is cus he didn't wanna blow his load on talent who have no perm experience

M'Vila was never moving, Blanc and the Euros means French players currently in Ligue 1 especially M'Vila are not trying to move until after this season. Willing to spend 25m he's said it before.You choose to interpret it this way and that says something about your judgement, it was pretty much a bargain scramble desperation shoppingWe didn't get a marquee signing because we could not. Both Hazard and M'Vila preffered to wait 1 year, contrary to all reports most of the informed and respect French journos said as much. Next summer I expect to be blown out the water for both by other clubs with more money.

[MF Cunt]

Why u gotta sh*t on my faith and optimism brah I have already become resigned to the fact that Theo will have a good season, continue to get goals then prob leave for Liverpool or Chelsea (or any other team with an need of inject off speed) And RVP will be in the man citeh carling cup team along with Kolo Toure and Owen Hargreaves

[Heero Yuy]

Arsenal forward Andrey Arshavin has spoken of club's decision to sell Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri, describing them as 'irreplaceable'.DON'T MISSHe told Russian newspaper Sport: "The loss of Fabregas and Nasri is very significant."When sitting on the bench during the Udinese game, I told Bendtner that we have no players who can feed van Persie or use the strong sides of other forwards. Bendtner said that only Xavi could have replaced Cesc. "I'm glad I had the opportunity to play with such a great footballer. Some are irreplaceable."He added: "With Arteta and other players in his position, we will play different football from that of Cesc and Samir period" Arshavin said he doubted whether the team would be strong enough however to challenge Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea."It's difficult to say whether Arsenal can fight with the Manchester clubs and Chelsea, but those teams look very intimidating"Arshavin also praised new colleague Per Mertesacker but admitted to knowing nothing about defender Andre Santos, who joined the club from Fenerbahce."I know Mertesacker, he is a good defender, and he will help us. "I don't know anything about Andre Santos apart from that he is a Brazilian international."Furthermore, the 30-year-old admitted that his side could do with a further addition in midfield."We could use another defensive midfielder, but unfortunately the bid for Yann M'Vila [the France and Rennes midfielder] didn't work out."Next up for the Gunners comes a home match against Swansea City, before they begin their Champions League campaign away to German champions Borussia Dortmund at the intimidating Westfalenstadion, a match which Arshavin is looking forward to."It will be interesting to play Dortmund in the Champions League. I've seen them play against Hamburg, and Gotze is amazing. That will make it a more curious game"

Agree with everything he said tbh especially within finding a new style of footballing identity. Hopefully we'll go back to the football we played during our more successful period.

[Aquaman]

f*ck arshavin, any tourist on holiday. sell asapepitomises everything i despise, just flatters to deceive. YOU are supposed to be the big signing contributing to the team.Turned out to be a massive fraud, send the c*nt to Dagestan

[Heero Yuy]

still doesn't stray from the fact everything he's saying is truth/fact/hardline opinionagree with your general view of Arsh btw

[Badman]

Arsenal forward Andrey Arshavin has spoken of club's decision to sell Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri, describing them as 'irreplaceable'.DON'T MISSHe told Russian newspaper Sport: "The loss of Fabregas and Nasri is very significant."When sitting on the bench during the Udinese game, I told Bendtner that we have no players who can feed van Persie or use the strong sides of other forwards. Bendtner said that only Xavi could have replaced Cesc. "I'm glad I had the opportunity to play with such a great footballer. Some are irreplaceable."He added: "With Arteta and other players in his position, we will play different football from that of Cesc and Samir period" Arshavin said he doubted whether the team would be strong enough however to challenge Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea."It's difficult to say whether Arsenal can fight with the Manchester clubs and Chelsea, but those teams look very intimidating"Arshavin also praised new colleague Per Mertesacker but admitted to knowing nothing about defender Andre Santos, who joined the club from Fenerbahce."I know Mertesacker, he is a good defender, and he will help us. "I don't know anything about Andre Santos apart from that he is a Brazilian international."Furthermore, the 30-year-old admitted that his side could do with a further addition in midfield."We could use another defensive midfielder, but unfortunately the bid for Yann M'Vila [the France and Rennes midfielder] didn't work out."Next up for the Gunners comes a home match against Swansea City, before they begin their Champions League campaign away to German champions Borussia Dortmund at the intimidating Westfalenstadion, a match which Arshavin is looking forward to."It will be interesting to play Dortmund in the Champions League. I've seen them play against Hamburg, and Gotze is amazing. That will make it a more curious game"

Agree with everything he said tbh especially within finding a new style of footballing identity. Hopefully we'll go back to the football we played during our more successful period.

Funny thing was....cesc/nasri weren't even around them times so boymake of it as you will

[Flojo]

who is around that was in your most successful period?

[Drift]

fabregas coming into the team was the beginning of the end of the good times.we didnt need that midget f*ck*ng with the programme, we had the tried and tested formula of 2 box to box athletic midfielders holding it down.

[Heero Yuy]

^^Pretty much, not to mention we played 4-4-2 with actual wingers (Pires and Freddy)Pires twisting up man countlessly/constantly>>>>>>>>>>>>