"I love Arshavin as a man and as a player," Wenger said. "I don't think the fans were too much against him, it was more they wanted Chamberlain to stay on the pitch. "I didn't take it as booing of Arshavin, I just thought they wanted to keep Chamberlain on the pitch, which we can understand."Paul Scholes has revealed he set the ball in motion with regard to his Manchester United comeback. Im a fan of Wenger but wtf....
as much a c-nt as Nasri turned out to be. he miss him greatly Theo has been shit for the majority of the season. Arshavin is shit. I wish we had Nasri right now to add some quality out wide. The only quality we have out wide is Rosicky, Gervinho and Chamberlain, but Rosicky is more of a central player these days, Gervinho is in Africa and Chambo is young, unproven and not entirely match fit.
Nasri had 3 years at the club, and was only good for 4 months or so. It's the media who hype up his importance for us. Cesc was world class, like ******** was Nasri.
Silva, rosicky is not quality lol Gervinho needs to play wide right where he is effective, now we are out the top 4 we should go hell for leather and play theo up top with rvp and buy a proper left winger. The theo out wide right experiment has failed, he is actually a good finisher and needs a chance up top. We can rotate chambo with whoever we bring in and put theo wide right if needed. If u look at united, they sit a lot deeper and their wingers generally defend well, we do the opposite and we havnt won anything in 6 years, they have won everything, and bar ronaldo, I would argue we have had as good squads over the years as them
Rosicky is good. Nasri only being good for 4 months is stupid. Nasri was borderline 'world class' for 4 months. He was good to decent the rest of the time. We have two guys who can't even be classified as decent at he moment. It's sad because I like Theo and I used to love Arshavin, but they have both been borderline terrible far too often this season.
theo has been ok in doses nasri literally did nothing apart from those few months silva, rarely a goal threat man utd use generic wingers and get results, we use amc's out wide and win NOTHING wenger hasn't learned either
I'm not sure the way you beat United is to play the way they do. Fergie seems to have found a way to exploit our weaknesses and credit to him. Emulating United isn't the answer. Also, youre wrong about Nasri. I know he's a dickhead. I know he did us dirty. Don't let that cloud your memory. He was a good player.
We'll agree to disagree. I think Nasri was so-so for much of time he was at us, and had four stellar months last season. his entire reputation as a player is based on those four months. As for Theo, he's simply inconsistent. And Arshavin, he's a hunk of shit, Arsene sell him already.
Nasri had world class form but he wasn't world class. And for most of his time at Arsenal he was painfully inconsistent. When the match got hard, Nasri hid. Can we stop talking about Samir tho, except to make fun of him and City when it comes up?
Tomas is solid, at times. He was inconsistent for BvB in the Bundesliga and for my money, overpaid and at 31 his best days are behind him.
Nasri showed flashes of world class, creative brilliance, BUT would disappear all too often and not worth what we sold him for...good riddance.
i think nasri's arsenal experience basically showed 1) he is not a creative midfielder 2) he is not quite a winger either 3) however, if you allow him to run around up top and provide him opportunities to run at people, he can be devastating. i believe nasri really is more of a forward than a midfielder, and not a wide forward either. if you look at his last goal for city, you see that he was inside the penalty area/on the boundary and received the ball centrally and scored a majestic goal. he's done that for us many times and been outstanding. if you tailor your team to him, he can be wonderful. but if you try to plug him into a "cesc" role or a "silva" role, he will be very hit and miss. he really shot himself in the foot by going to a team where he is unlikely to flourish. this is just my opinion. i also believe rosicky is really a great player to have. i've always said that this would be the year when we would see the real rosicky again. he's been dreadfully injured over the past two years and it takes time to get back to the old "normal." i think the only question with him is, how many games can he play? in order to play the sub role effectively, you have to be available for at least every other game.
I thought he was quite good yesterday. Had the assist for Theo's goal. Ran the show well from the deep end. His passing and decision making was very good in the second half. He is a player we need now with JFW out for the season.
I've been harsh on Rosicky, because I think a lot of times he has been shit. He's an intelligent player, though, and if he can get a bit of form back I think he could be useful. Don't think he'll be chipping in with any goals anytime soon, though.
he looked good vs a shit villa side, let's wait till he performs consistently and he makes hleb look like pippo inzaghi in front of goal lol
Yeah, we held the ball better against United than we did against Swansea when Rosicky only played the last 20 minutes or so. Of course, part of that might have been because SAF doesn't bother to try to move the ball through the middle against us when our flanks are so weak.
Here's a question for everyone: would you rather have an FA Cup championship or a top-four finish at the end of the season? Provided you can only have one.