re: Arsenal's "Things Are Gonna Change, I Can Feel It! (lol, nope)" Summer Thread

I could use this time for match exposition, but frick it, I'll let some blogger make a good point and I'll repost it later. In the meantime, let's check out our player's taste in music:

Alex Song - well, he is Cameroonian, after all
Jack Wilshere - repost, we already knew he was a soulful MFer
Thomas Rosicky - Bilic must've turned him into a metal head
Laurent Koscielny - Regulators... nice
Niklas Bendtner - continues to defy expectation by having a 60 year socialite housewife's taste in music

Walcott and Fabregas were really bad. Krul made a few nice saves. They played well on the back line and in midfield. The last 20 minutes we were just hitting long balls. None of which worked. Poor effort.

That really is great news.

That is slightly less better news. But still good news. I hope Rambo breaks Shawcross's face. And Demetrius "You callin me a" Byrd then slaps Shawcross with an AIDS dick.

Only seen Affelay whenever he comes on as a substitute for Holland. Seems to be a talented player. Very versatile attacking figure so he'd fit well in the 4-3-3. I wouldn't mind it, but I'd much rather get a top notch CB. As an aside, not that I think Kos did horrible against Newcastle, or is terrible in general, but why the hell did we buy him? 12 mil for a 25 year old avg CB in Ligue 1 who doesn't have a great physical skillset? Doesn't really make sense to me. Not your typical Arsene signing. I was a little curious of the move at the time and now am even more so. We need a top CB bad.

As for Arsene, so far we've played one game after the news came out, and it was our worst game in a long time (that I've seen) from a passing standpoint. Hope that doesn't keep up. If we don't get our shite together we might be on the outside looking in at Europe. Can't keep blowing home games.

Speaking of Kos, FourfourTwo: "Arsenal lose appeal against Laurent Koscielny's red card against Newcastle. Defender will serve two-match ban"

some sad perspective from thegoonblog: "Koscielny s/o for pulling back last man: 2 match ban. Shawcross s/o breaking AR's leg: 3 game ban. Huddlestone stamps on a player: nothing"

Yeah, we desperately need a CB now. With Djourou in tandem it makes me extremely nervous considering that our next two fixtures are away. Our away record since last spring has been abysmal.

also, Arsenal-Wolves will be available tomorrow on espn3's stream

Figured appeal wouldn't work. They never do. What's the point of even looking at video evidence after the match if it's going to be weighted 99 to 1 in favor of what the ref saw on the field? Kos' sending off was harsh...the only goal scoring opp that guy might have had was staying out wide. He cuts inside at all and Squillaci would have been there. Ref probably considered our GK and realized with him staying wide that he could have easily beaten him at the near post.

Huddlestone is so lucky.

Our DM and CB situation weakens us wherever Song isn't played.

There's some room for optimism in thise quote from Wenger

quote:

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"On the scan his Achilles is completely clear but as soon as he stays out for a while it tightens up and he has pain. We don't know the source of his pain."

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While his injury is still unknown, at least his Achilles has healed up. I wasn't even aware he was on the brink of training again.

JET....

I have always viewed having Vela on the bench as a waste of his talent. The problem is that he's more of a traditional 4-4-2 striker instead of a target or wing. Wenger should at least look at loaning him out.