re: Arsenal Football Club 2011-2012 Season Thread

I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to mean, but:



hopefully I can find a good stream of l'Emirates Cup today at work. hope Gervinho shows 'em wassup again.

Remember when van Persie was good at FKs? Yeah, me neither really. Its been so long.

He's making very good comments overall right now. About the lack of leadership and steely/cool calm players out there. He's being very pro-english right now, but he is pointing out the lack of resolve/leadership to maintain leads. Comparing how SAF gets the best out of his players and their own players police themselves, yet Wenger can't do the same nor do his players take on the challenge well.

Edit: Savage was brutally honest, saying Arsenal needs to go out and buy 2 top class CB's.

Just got home (London Home) from the Emirates. Here are my observations:
1)THE MLS may not be as bad as Europeans think, The Red Bull guys played PSG off the field.
2) Boca fans are the best in all of sport....I am not kidding they are insane. They are friendly, passionate, and a blast to be with. They sing, dance, dance some more and make ridiculous amounts of noise the entire game.
3) Arsenal can live without Cesc, but they need a backup for Wilshire. Ramsey is a year or so away.
4) Squilachi is not good enough to start for Torquay United.
5) Gervinho is amazing!!!!!!
6) Soccer is a great game
7) Boca will be much better this year. I love Palermo....but let's play these young guys now!

My thoughts from the match:

1)Can we please get a good CB ASAP?
2)Despite the fact we scored two goals, thought this was one of the poorer attacking displays I've seen from Arsenal. Gervinho was very good, but the two goals came on our only two goal scoring opportunities. Was disappointed we weren't able to create more. I think the main culprit was Nasri. I just don't think he has what it takes to play the Cesc role and link the MF to the strikers. I'd be interested to see how Mata would do there (if we can sign him).
3)I don't think Ramsey is best suited for Wilshere's position.
4)Jenkinson is solid going forward, and a good athlete, but he still is quite raw defensively. Should be a good one for the future though.
5)I didn't think Traore did half bad.
6)Frimpong still has a lot to learn, but he seems like he could be a decent understudy to Song. Has better dribbling skills than I thought. Though that can be a bad thing if he's holding onto the ball too much. I'd still like to get a look at Coquelin there, but doesn't look like that'll happen.

One of Bartley or Miguel can't be worse than Squillaci can they? At least if they mess up it can be blamed on youth. Ideally we need a a starting CB, but at the absolute minimum we need a good 3rd CB than can push Djourou to 4th and Squillaci out of here.

Anyone getting a little verklempt at Jack's constant tweets about this little boy with cancer?

Bump to keep this thread higher than the Tottenham thread.