re: Arsenal 2014/15 Season Long Thread

NOooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

:angry: :angry:

Well good thing we passed on Cesc so he could go to Chelsea and help them win the league.

This fricking blows

On the bright side, Ozil can get a rest. It's at the expense of the team but imo I think he's been a bit fatigued.

Also, The 4-1-4-1 will actually work now with two of Ramsey, Wilshere, Santi, Diaby partnering with Flamini or Arteta in midfield.

Thank God Theo is coming back. A front 3 of Alexis-Dat Guy Welbz-Ox/Theo will still be able to win us some games. We just have to make it past the next 2 months. We only have Liverpool and United as the only big teams left to play til the new year in the Prem. Worried we'll still finish in 2nd in the Champions League group tho.

I'm more worried about our defense TBH. Kosc's Achilles could go at any time. Per is 30. Gibbs and Monreal are Gibbs and Monreal.

Sad for Mesut but it will be good for him, I think, to get away from the game for a little while. He got virtually no rest this summer.

The 4-1-4-1 will look better with two true wide players wide, I'm sure. I hope we don't shuttle Santi out there. He's looked pretty good centrally.

Alexis-Welbz-Ox/Theo should be our go-to attack when they're all fit.

Also, hopefully this will mean Giroud and Ozil are fit and fresh come season's end. I think we'll get better as we go, and if we can stay within striking distance, we can make a late run. I don't think Chelsea's pace is sustainable, and if Costa misses time, they will definitely drop points.

That said, we're going to fight for third or fourth, probably.

I honestly think that Costa missing time is all but a given at this point. Dude's hammy is gonna give out any minute now.

I can't take it anymore. Good bye world.

Shitty news guys

Your top boss will figure it out.

We play a very offensive style of soccer that will inherently draw far more fouls than a team playing a defensive style of soccer.

We also are the smallest team in a very physical league. When your average player is 5'9" and 158 lbs compared to several other clubs boasting a 6'1" average player and 168-175 lbs, then you will get more injuries.

We've used what was a revolutionary training method when Wenger arrived since Wenger arrived. It's been 18 years. People have caught up and surpassed us in overall health of athletes. Shad Forsythe has come in, but he is in a newly made position, and nobody from the old training staff left, so he's fighting a pretty difficult battle. It'll also take more than a few months to completely revamp the health and training methods of a club. It'll take at least a full season or two before results come from that.

We play the same amount of competitions as Chelsea and Man City, but we have a smaller pick of true first-team players than they have. This means our number 1s are starting more games than theirs are.

Finally, we've had to rely on young players in their teens to play a large amount of games for us. We have done this while they are still in formative muscle growth years. That's a lot of miles on very young legs that are still trying to grow properly.

Plenty of reasons that likely all compile to mean more injuries for us. I'm sure there are plenty of others, but those are the ones I can put together.

Pretty surE we neeD to copy joSe's methods