William Gallas, want more expierence players next apparantly The Gunners star insists he will stay at the Emirates next season, despite dreaming of a future in Italy or Spain. But he took a swipe at boss Arsene Wenger’s reliance on his kids by blasting: “What Arsenal needed to compete with Manchester United or Chelsea was a few experienced players. “We have very good young ones — great players of the future — but they were given far too much responsibility throughout the season. “At one stage, they were unable to keep up. You need a richer squad when you want to play on all fronts. “Arsenal played only with their youngsters for most of the time and then there were injuries, notably Thierry Henry.” France defender Gallas, 29, admits he is not yet able to say whether his decision to join the Gunners was correct. He added: “I will be able to answer next year whether Arsenal match up to the new challenge I left Chelsea for. “My season was too spoiled by injury. “I will be at Arsenal next season. I want to stay another year to have a full one with this club. “This has been a season of adaptation. I left Chelsea at the last minute. I had to find my bearings with new team-mates while driving three hours a day to train as I could not move house. “I also had to get rid of World Cup fatigue. In the end, no one saw the great William Gallas. I wasn’t expecting that. “I had everything to prove and could not do so. I was coming off a full season with quite a lot of stress and had only two weeks’ holiday.” Gallas refuses to rule out leaving Arsenal at the end of next season for Spain or Italy. He explained: “Football lasts only so long. In a career plan, everyone wants to play for the greatest clubs. It is true this is a dream of mine. “Whether it is in one year, two or five, I do not know. These things come along by themselves. If I have to leave England, I will do so.” The one sure thing is Gallas will never return to Chelsea. He said: “The directors there did not realise the player they had. They lacked respect for me.” Thank to thesun newspaper.
It might be for the better if he left; he's a world class defender but the Toure/Gallas partnership is quite poor in the air and that is a liablility.
] Me too. Can't see anything wrong with that. He's reiterated his desire to play with this club and has pointed out a few glaring mistakes. Kudos to him. He always wanted to play in Italy or Spain and we knew that when we signed him. I think he'll see out another 2 years of his contract and then go.
Yeah I really can't picture him staying for longer than a few years. The partnership between Gallas and Toure is very much a bit undercut aerially.
If we could get in Richards I'd be mega happy but I don't see it happening. I agree with every word Gallas has said here.
The biggest signing for us in recent times .. Can you blame him ? We know we haven't met expectations and if our players want Gallas, who is a good defender, to remain in our team, they have to really up the game .. And he's been teh only player who's been saying we haven't been good enought to challenge for some silverware .. And isn't he right ? One thing is for sure .. We have good potential in the team .. We have to convert that potential to performance consistently .. And that requires experience .. Gallas is an ambitious player, like every good player in this planet .. We crawled our way to 4th place .. Got knocked out of CL, Fa Cup and CC was fileld with kids .. I'm happy that, Gallas, being our player, has critisised us, instead of blaming the season on injuries and bad finishing .. Hope we really improve our performances ..
Do I agree with him? Yes. Do I see the need for him to constantly yack about how horrible it is at Arsenal constantly? No. Keep it in-house and STFU already.
delpierre has a year left on his contract with stuttgart. sign him up and boot the big mouth out please.
At least he cares and wants to win!!! That is why Gallas is one of the best defenders in the world. The guy is a bull!! We need players like him.
That is the only point that needs to be made. Right or wrong he needs to shut his trap. I hope he is sold today.
Gallas is 100% right and it's time Wenger started to realise that as well, the world class players at Arsenal do speak a lot of sense. Cesc springs to mind about Arsenal midfield not getting enough goals and Henry speaks sense about wanting two or three more world class players added to the squad. Why do people want him to be sold? He is a world class player and Arsenal need him fit and healthy. Perhaps he was unwise to speak out but maybe he felt it was the only way he could voice his opinion and get it heard.
Gallas is a good player but I think Wenger knows there is a good chance he won't be there for long and he would be there to give time for Djourou and Senderos to grow up. However, I really would like us to go for Richards. I know we have already too many right backs but lets grab him and give Eboue some serious competition. Eboue has a very good attack but he lacks discipline when coming back.... Lets give him some more incentive.
Richards has said anyway that when he leaves Man City in a couple of years he wants to play for Arsenal as we are "his team", so there's a good likelihood that we can get him. Gallas is getting on really. I agree with what he's said but it wouldn't surprise me if he goes abroad for a final challenge within the next 2-3 years. Richards actually came through the City youth system as a centre back and has been used there on a few occasions when Dunne or Distin has been injured. Realistically he could come in as a direct replacement for Gallas.
I'd really like for us to do that but the problem is that we would lack the Experience at the back. Djourou/Snderos/Richards....all are young, great defenders but lack the experience. Only Toure has the experience but when you look at it he is even young for an experienced defender. I think we need that experienced defender in there.
Thank you. We all know the score and moaning about it constantly doesn't do anybody any good. As a veteran player, he should be doing more to build a strong team spirit and respect rather than slagging everyone at every opportunity.
I don't dislike Richards, I think he's quality. I'm still a Senderos believer though, and hope we don't sell him off just yet. The big guy definitely has a slower learning curve, but I still think he can come through it to become a real quality center-back that's good in the air.
Who was he slagging with his comments? I don't think saying that we have a young talented team that needs more experience is slagging anyone nor is it particularly controversial.
The last time I looked it wasn't the young players that were the worst on the field at PSV. We brought in a veteran defender and look how often he played!
Unbelievably, I agree. He made a point that EVERYONE on this forum has said at least once this season, that the team is too young and we are missing experience. It's alright for everyone to say it here but when one of our own players recognizes the problem, it's slag-off time? Jeez!