re: Arsenal 2012/2013 Season Long Thread

Some stats from the City game.

94 – Percent of passes completed by both Arteta and Gibbs today²
93 – Percent of passes completed by Arteta so far this season¹
100 out of 106 passes completed by Arteta.
9 – Number of accurate long balls by Mikel Arteta (of 9 attempts)³
5 – Number of Arsenal players with 90% passing rate or better v. Man City today (Arteta, Gibbs, Podolski, Gervinho, Diaby)
1 – Number of Man City players with 90% passing rate or better v. Arsenal (Balotelli 6/6)
35 - Per Mertesacker interceptions in 21 appearances in 2011-2012 season
13 - Per Mertesaker interceptions in 5 appearances in 2012-2013 season
1 - Per Mertesaker interceptions v. Man City in 2011-2012 season
7 - Per Mertesaker interceptions v. Man City today
142 - Total passes completed by Arsenal in Man City’s final third

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A little(well not so little)bird told me yesterday you may be at Finn's on Saturday morning. Any truth to this rumor?

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The plan is to make my Finn's debut for the Chelsea game. I'm fecking pumped up too!

Then tell the bartender to make it a

Beast will not appreciate being linked to a Sun article.

I figured we had £30-35mil now. Will be interesting to see what the number is. Still important for us to have a Champions League buffer. Will be a lot of competition for that 4th spot this season. I do think we might make a January move or two, but we won't use all of whatever funds are available. With the way we've started and the players that were on the market at the end of August, I'm not displeased we decided to hold on to the cash. Besides in the midfield, we're pretty deep at every position, and with the imminent returns of Wilshere, Frimpong, and Rosicky, we're about to be very deep there too. I'm more upset we were unable to clear out more of the dead weight hanging around the club. I don't know if this is their strategy or not, but this way, we actually have the cash reserves to place a bid on a world class player.

Some stats from @DarrenArsenal1:

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re Arsenal in China re Baidu popularity rank (Chinese Google) ranks Arsenal 1st, MUFC 2nd and Chelsea 3rd in search popularity ....

Arsenal are ranked 2051 in terms of the Alexa rank on China for websites, MUFC ranked 206,000.

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Hopefully we can use these numbers to get some more commercial deals.

Ok, I'm going to respond to a lot of posts here:

1. That Per gif is awesome. His first reaction is to pull his shorts up really high

2. I forgot about Finns this weekend. I'll be there!

3. When I toured the Emirates there was some fan group there from China. I think it was Szechuan but I'm not sure.

4. I think we need a winger, especially if Theo leaves.

If you put him in the same position as Gervinho while he was up top I would think Walcott's end product is better. He can shoot better, and he can actually get off a cross past a defender.

That's dumb. Pretty much every club in the world would have taken his production last year from their winger. I think he's very good out wide.

I don't think he has a good enough first touch to play CF. Though I think his movement has improved enough that he could be good enough in that area.

Yeah I know, he's good enough to start for us. Juve and Chelsea want him. Barca thinks he's our best attacker...