re: Arsenal 2013/2014 Season Long Thread

Ugly game to watch. Ox needed to start, but hindsight, and such.

Giroud has gotten worse and worse as the season has gone on. We can't win a title with him as our CF. Teams are just muscling him now and even his back to goal play is regressing.

Sanogo is promising but not ready.

Lord, we need a world class CF. I know there aren't many, but jeez.

I'm not blaming him. We had no creativity behind him either.

But he played poorly and has been poorer toward the back end of the season (minus his brace the other day, which really wasn't a spectacular one).

Just venting.

again, poldi shouldn't start. that said, he could have made it worth it if santi had teed him up at the end of the first half. probably a goal there.

we didn't play well. was pretty shocked ozil and ox didn't start. it seemed like (though I'm sure it wasn't the case) that AW overestimated the correlation between the win last week and the XI he had chosen.

really frustrating they got away with a couple of stamps, and studs to the thigh on a contested header, and we get penalized harshly. you could say his hand was in an unnatural position but you couldn't convince me that was deliberate. freak bounce right into a raised arm at the edge of the box and they get all three points. adam should've been off once and couldn've been off or booked earlier and the ref punished neither action. then the crazy stamp on giroud where he was fouled twice and the foul called on him.

frick, I hate stoke.

yeah, giroud, and arguably per and arteta, are holding us back tactically. we need to upgrade.

pretty interesting quotes from JW Henry, particularly on the suarez buyout.

Yeah I was against Suarez cus his antics, but its obvious we need someone of his caliber. But they didn't beat us in the FA cup and he couldn't really get one off against us. So really I don't think that perfect striker really exists. You go from bergkamp to henry and no forward will be good enough. Even rvp at his best wasn't as good as those 2.

I was all for rosicky starting but without ozil giroud is left alone. Something has to be done. They weren't really a threat either, fricking push forward.

Graham poll says it shouldn't have been a penalty and Adam should be banned for his stamp.

I'm of the opinion that it will take a miracle to win the title now. We need someone to step up, but no one looks likely. I think we will struggle until Ramsey comes back.

The need to buy this summer becomes extremely important. We need to buy an excellent DM who at the very least is mobile and can pass the ball out of the back. We're losing Sagna so we need to buy an experienced RB. We honestly need 3 or 4 players at the minimum. Ideally we need 5 or 6. I hope Wenger stays and I hope we spend.

I really want Wenger to stay for a couple more years. It would be a shame for him to keep this team afloat by himself for a decade only for him to leave when we finally have money to spend. It wouldn't make any sense at all. And the league would be worse for it.

Rambo is signing a five year extension. 100k/wk. he's also back in training :D

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Rambo is signing a five year extension. 100k/wk. he's also back in training :D

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Awesome.. Rambo..

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All we had to do was sue, since we had met his buyout clause.

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Nah. Only parties to a contract can sue. Luis is the only person who can sue, and he chose not to.

It's also worth mentioning that John Henry likely misspoke. The PFA and several lawyers tested the clause, and deemed it nonexistant for whatever reason.

Regardless, he does have a point about contracts in world football. If the players aren't expected to hold up their end of the deal, why should the clubs?