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Når - ikke hvis - Spurs slutter over os i år (væn jer til tanken), så vil det sgu være et lavpunkt i Wengers tid som træner for os. Så vil han reelt både have kapulteret os foran Spurs - og andre klubber - i en imponerende enorm årrække, og derefter formøblet det igen.

PS: Jeg kan SLET ikke rumme tanken om en Øzil/Sanchez transfersaga til sommer.

PPS: Jeg vil elske at tage fejl mht. Spurs.

Korrelation er ikke kausalitet.

Det afhænger af form og kvaliteten på aktuelle sølvpapirshat. Jeg folder min egen, så adjø min gode herre. Du kan ikke snakke dig ind med flere dommedagsscenarier.

Jeg er heller ikke med på Roger Schmidt. Han er bestemt en interessant træner, men der er for meget gung-ho til min smag. Howe kunne være interessant, omend det vil være et kæmpe spring for ham. Han lader til at være dygtig! Tidligere har jeg dog også set Lambert og Rodgers som potentielle toptrænere....

Simeone kan jeg SLET ikke se fidusen i. Jovist, han står for nogle dyder vi savner, men den spillestil han foretrækker er bare så langt fra hele vores setup, herunder hvordan vi har skolet vores talenter, at jeg tror springet vil være for markant.

In other news, så er der løse rygter om at Kroos er en del af den oprydning Real Madrid vil i gang med. Hvis det er sandt bør vi være opmærksomme.

Jeg havde personligt ret stor fidus til David Moyes, for 5 år siden...

Mon Remi Garde er i spil? Har tit set hans navn nævnt, rundt omkring, vist pga. forbindelsen til Wenger...

Fra football365 "winners and losers". Den gør ondt.

Losers
Arsenal: The ‘what if’ club

1-0 up at home to the team in 16th position. 1-0 up at home to a team with two league away wins since May 2015. 1-0 up at home to a team that made six changes, effectively prioritising the weekend fixture against Norwich. 1-0 up at home to a team without their manager, consigned to hospital with a chest infection. 1-0 to the Arsenal. 2-1 to the Swansea.
The most damning thing about Arsenal and Wenger is that there are no new words left to write. We have been here so, so, so many times before that the criticisms have become as predictable as Wenger’s continued insistence that his team are still mentally strong. It’s all so bloody tired.
Yet there is a key difference during this season: This failure will all be on Wenger. There are no mitigating circumstances or excuses to cling to, no stadium to pay for, no transfer budget to stare at and wish it was ten times larger, no players being tapped up. Wenger chose to go into this season with this squad of players and push for the league title. It is his wilful blindness to the issues that not only make this his problem, but threaten to ruin his Arsenal legacy.
Arsenal have now become the club of ‘what ifs’. What if Santi Cazorla had stayed fit? What if Jack Wilshere was available? What if that shot hadn’t hit the post? What if that foul on Ozil had been given? What if the Champions League draw had been kinder? What if Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott come good after we’ve sold them? What if Olivier Giroud gets upset about a new striker signing?
It’s an unacceptable position for a club of such magnitude, embarrassing for Arsenal, their manager and their angry fans. Winners turn ‘what if’ into ‘so what?’, overcoming adversity. Arsenal allow it to shape their entire identity.
There is now one ‘what if’ that is being shouted far louder than any other: ‘What if we had a different manager?’ Should they miss out on the league title again this season, it’s time to find out the answer.

Arsene Wenger
‘Football is football, it is cruel,’ reads the current headline at the top of Arsenal’s official website, reflecting Wenger’s post-match thoughts after the defeat to Swansea.
Except that football isn’t cruel, because it isn’t sentient. Football is exactly what you make of it.
If you have better strikers, you take more chances. If you take more chances, you are more likely to hold onto leads. If you have better defensive midfielders, you are less likely to get caught on the counter attack. If you have quicker central defenders, opposition attackers are less likely to run in behind. If you have a manager who is prepared to spend money on his squad, admit and address the weaknesses within his team and his own management style, you are less likely to go a decade without a title.
Crucially, Wenger’s greatest strength has now become his weakness. He was a manager who established his reputation on making a group of Arsenal players greater than the sum of their parts. He’s now doing the opposite; Arsenal have wonderful talent within their squad, but Wenger is failing to get the best out them. When the reason to keep faith has gone, so too has hope.
Football is not cruel, Arsene. You are just making it seem so. As one fan in the Mailbox said: ‘It takes a special kind of manager to disappoint a fan base that had already given up all hope to begin with.’ Oh, Wenger.

Playing to the whistle
“The players stopped playing as they were sure the referee would blow for a foul” – Arsene Wenger.
Are Arsenal’s players fucking eight years old?

Per Mertesacker
Wenger has been very vocal regarding Mertesacker’s leadership qualities of late.
“Per Mertesacker is a great leader, a very respected one in our dressing room,” the manager said on February 12.
“He’s a very important leader in the dressing room, Per,” Wenger said on January 24. “And a respected one as well, and maintains focus he wants to do well. He’s one of the guys who can help us.”
Mertesacker is currently leading by example: Ponderous and indecisive. He looks less like a Premier League winner and more like a central defender struggling to cope with the pace of the league.
Find a video of Swansea’s equaliser, and just watch Mertesacker. As the ball finds the feet of Jack Cork, the defender is dragged up the pitch, but not into a position where he can look to intercept a pass or make a tackle. Instead he is no man’s land, his increasingly natural habitat.
At the moment Cork’s through ball is played, Mertesacker is actually the one playing Wayne Routledge onside. Rather than turn and sprint towards his own goal, the German instead breaks into a skip before falling back to walking pace. He never moves faster than 5-6mph throughout the entire move, flat-footed and unresponsive.
If Mertesacker is a “great leader” capable of dragging his teammates to the title, Theo Walcott is Lionel Messi.

Ser os gerne nappe den kære rødtop Ronald Cowman. Han har på imponerende vis holdt liv Pochettinos gamle Southampton og endda med et mandefald uden lige. Han opererer med en badass flamsk accent og er stadig ung i trænerfaget. Den ligger lige til højrebenet.

Henry har fortalt pressen, at ".. Arsenals fans er vredere end nogensinde", hvilket Wenger så på pressemødet lige nu, afviser med, at Henry ".. ikke kan måle den kollektive vrede af 60.000 mennesker, når han sidder på stadionets bedste plads".

Nej, der sidder du, Arsene.


Derudover er Wilshere tre-fire uger fra comeback. Ligesom han var 1. februar. Det er helt til grin.

Cech havde åbenbart en lyseskade før Swansea-kampen, men fortalte, at han var fit nok til at spille og fik lov. Og nu er han så ude i 3-4 uger, hvor vi heldigvis ikke spiller vigtige kampe overhovedet. Hvornår helvede er det blevet spillernes ansvar at bestemme at de er spilleklar? Jesus Christ.

Fucking tosseklub.

Haha, Arsenal fans er bare de bedste.

Det ville være det sjoveste i lang tid hvis Arsenal nu vinder mesterskabet mod alle odds, bare tænk på reaktionen fra dem på Arsenal Fan TV!

Edit: I kunne godt bruger Sanogol lige nu til at komme med lidt kaosfaktor og få rusket op i tingene, er der en tilbagekalds klausul ved lånet?

https://vine.co/v/M9zZeZiKdIm

Ja skide skægt. Det er jo ikke fordi de mange frustrationer handler om at mesterskabschancen igen igen er tæt på 0, på trods af gode forudsætninger,

I må håbe på at Arsene får sin lynlås galt i halsen på et tidspunkt

Jeg beder for jer..