The Arsenal - Related News and Development for 2017/2018

[kajifu]

Pray for this 11 @ Watford.

Cech

Kos---BFG---Monreal

Bellerin---El neny---Wilshire---Kolasinac

Iwobi--Lacazette---Welbeck

That 11 and Arsenal take home all 3 points, trust the pansy boys i.e Ozil and Xhaka and Arsenal will drop points.

Honestly even if those pansy boys start I expect the team should win at Watford,if Wenger cant pick 3 points then he should be blame.
I don't want Ozil start because he has been out long,but some how he show us with small small club.May be those are his mate.
Coming back from international break is tricky,so they better pick 3 points away and move on.

[kajifu]

I have notice recently that certain players are now blame for our failure,so when Ozil and the other leave,i hope we will now win the league.
Funny how its now about Ozil and Alexis not Wenger that bring this mess.SMH

[anikulapo]

Pray for this 11 @ Watford.

Cech

Kos---BFG---Monreal

Bellerin---El neny---Wilshire---Kolasinac

Iwobi--Lacazette---Welbeck

That 11 and Arsenal take home all 3 points, trust the pansy boys i.e Ozil and Xhaka and Arsenal will drop points.

[Tunisian Gooner]

Next week it will be the six-month anniversary of Özil’s last Arsenal goal. Since December 2016 he has contributed one – one! – assist away from the Emirates Stadium. The team play better without him in it. He has already earned £30m in his time at the club. There is nothing here to justify an astronomically improved contract. The Age of Özil is over, a fascinating footnote in the wider history of why apparently well-suited player moves sometimes just don’t work out.

From the Guardian today

Pile it on season, groupthink mode activated. The gods gave everyone brains, some choose to use them like they're rattles for 6month old babies, shaking them around with no object in mind particularly.

Who bought Ozil? What are his top characteristics? Are they diminished? If they are, why is that the case? Is the Arsenal team crafted to suit those characteristics? Why? Why not?
He has one assist in six months? Why? How come assists are important now? When he nearly took apart Henry's assist record, the same crew said assists were rubbish...are they or are they not? If he's not assisting anymore, why is that? Is he creating chances? (HINT - he is, at an elite rate).

Critical thinking isn't a hard thing (despite the best attempts of quite a few here). Football isn't a hard sport par se, the simpler you play it, the better you are at it. Thankfully Nigeria has qualified for the World Cup, let every Nigerian Gooner pray to Sango and Amadioha that Arsenal gets rid of both Ozil and Alexis in January, then it will be double celebration because Nigeria would have qualified for Russia AND Arsenal would be sure bankers to win the EPL! Praise the gods.

Soja come, soya go, barracks remain. We will see whether Ozil and Xhaka and Alexis are why Arsenal has not won a league crown soon enough. RVP couldn't do it, nor Cesc, nor the second coming of Henry Jesus, they all failed. Once the mentioned three are cut, it's time for Arsenal pawa to strong pass bagco supasak

Nah, nah, nah...RVP was PL player of the year in his final season, RVP almost single handily carried Arsenal into 3RD place in PL. Cesc was also top CM in his last 2 seasons at Arsenal..now there is Ozil...dude who misses game after game because he has a tummy ache. Ozil has more no shows in big games then Santa clause on Christmas. Aniks is spot on, Ozil is a parasite, he is a termite that has ate away at very soul of Arsenal, sooner Arsenal are rid of this marshmallow, soft arse player, the better off the club will be.

[anikulapo]

Next week it will be the six-month anniversary of Özil’s last Arsenal goal. Since December 2016 he has contributed one – one! – assist away from the Emirates Stadium. The team play better without him in it. He has already earned £30m in his time at the club. There is nothing here to justify an astronomically improved contract. The Age of Özil is over, a fascinating footnote in the wider history of why apparently well-suited player moves sometimes just don’t work out.

From the Guardian today

Pile it on season, groupthink mode activated. The gods gave everyone brains, some choose to use them like they're rattles for 6month old babies, shaking them around with no object in mind particularly.

Who bought Ozil? What are his top characteristics? Are they diminished? If they are, why is that the case? Is the Arsenal team crafted to suit those characteristics? Why? Why not?
He has one assist in six months? Why? How come assists are important now? When he nearly took apart Henry's assist record, the same crew said assists were rubbish...are they or are they not? If he's not assisting anymore, why is that? Is he creating chances? (HINT - he is, at an elite rate).

Critical thinking isn't a hard thing (despite the best attempts of quite a few here). Football isn't a hard sport par se, the simpler you play it, the better you are at it. Thankfully Nigeria has qualified for the World Cup, let every Nigerian Gooner pray to Sango and Amadioha that Arsenal gets rid of both Ozil and Alexis in January, then it will be double celebration because Nigeria would have qualified for Russia AND Arsenal would be sure bankers to win the EPL! Praise the gods.

Soja come, soya go, barracks remain. We will see whether Ozil and Xhaka and Alexis are why Arsenal has not won a league crown soon enough. RVP couldn't do it, nor Cesc, nor the second coming of Henry Jesus, they all failed. Once the mentioned three are cut, it's time for Arsenal pawa to strong pass bagco supasak

Nah, nah, nah...RVP was PL player of the year in his final season, RVP almost single handily carried Arsenal into 3RD place in PL. Cesc was also top CM in his last 2 seasons at Arsenal..now there is Ozil...dude who misses game after game because he has a tummy ache. Ozil has more no shows in big games then Santa clause on Christmas. Aniks is spot on, Ozil is a parasite, he is a termite that has ate away at very soul of Arsenal, sooner Arsenal are rid of this marshmallow, soft arse player, the better off the club will be.

BOOM!!!!

'NOUGH SAID

[platinum]

Next week it will be the six-month anniversary of Özil’s last Arsenal goal. Since December 2016 he has contributed one – one! – assist away from the Emirates Stadium. The team play better without him in it. He has already earned £30m in his time at the club. There is nothing here to justify an astronomically improved contract. The Age of Özil is over, a fascinating footnote in the wider history of why apparently well-suited player moves sometimes just don’t work out.

From the Guardian today

Pile it on season, groupthink mode activated. The gods gave everyone brains, some choose to use them like they're rattles for 6month old babies, shaking them around with no object in mind particularly.

Who bought Ozil? What are his top characteristics? Are they diminished? If they are, why is that the case? Is the Arsenal team crafted to suit those characteristics? Why? Why not?
He has one assist in six months? Why? How come assists are important now? When he nearly took apart Henry's assist record, the same crew said assists were rubbish...are they or are they not? If he's not assisting anymore, why is that? Is he creating chances? (HINT - he is, at an elite rate).

Critical thinking isn't a hard thing (despite the best attempts of quite a few here). Football isn't a hard sport par se, the simpler you play it, the better you are at it. Thankfully Nigeria has qualified for the World Cup, let every Nigerian Gooner pray to Sango and Amadioha that Arsenal gets rid of both Ozil and Alexis in January, then it will be double celebration because Nigeria would have qualified for Russia AND Arsenal would be sure bankers to win the EPL! Praise the gods.

Soja come, soya go, barracks remain. We will see whether Ozil and Xhaka and Alexis are why Arsenal has not won a league crown soon enough. RVP couldn't do it, nor Cesc, nor the second coming of Henry Jesus, they all failed. Once the mentioned three are cut, it's time for Arsenal pawa to strong pass bagco supasak

Nah, nah, nah...RVP was PL player of the year in his final season, RVP almost single handily carried Arsenal into 3RD place in PL. Cesc was also top CM in his last 2 seasons at Arsenal..now there is Ozil...dude who misses game after game because he has a tummy ache. Ozil has more no shows in big games then Santa clause on Christmas. Aniks is spot on, Ozil is a parasite, he is a termite that has ate away at very soul of Arsenal, sooner Arsenal are rid of this marshmallow, soft arse player, the better off the club will be.

You're right, Arsenal is the way it is because of Mesut Ozil. He has missed more games than RvP did. All those created chances? Nonsense, he can't score. He is a leech who does nothing right. Once Arsenal is rid of him, all will be well.
This soft arse, marshmallow player is good for nothing. Arsenal was winning all those titles before this parasite came along right?

[anikulapo]

I am hoping Wenger man's up and gives a well rested Wilshere a start tomorrow alongside Elneny or even LeCoq. Might be too much to risk Danny but we shall see

[kajifu]

I am hoping Wenger man's up and gives a well rested Wilshere a start tomorrow alongside Elneny or even LeCoq. Might be too much to risk Danny but we shall see

Uncle any time I watch this video I feel bad for Jack Wilshere and Arsenal.I have never seen any player put this kind performance against a well drilled Barca under Pep.Shocking he was just 19 years.Today we are celebrating likes of Ozil as best #10.Jack please get back to your best and be the heart of this team.

[realtrouble]

Next week it will be the six-month anniversary of Özil’s last Arsenal goal. Since December 2016 he has contributed one – one! – assist away from the Emirates Stadium. The team play better without him in it. He has already earned £30m in his time at the club. There is nothing here to justify an astronomically improved contract. The Age of Özil is over, a fascinating footnote in the wider history of why apparently well-suited player moves sometimes just don’t work out.

This is the real point. Never mind debating the exact nature of Özil’s undoubted qualities. It is more interesting to understand why he has tailed off at Arsenal. English football has always loved calling people lazy or weak. The idea that your Özils are not native enough in style, lacking the basic fibre and guts to succeed in the world’s most energetic league is clearly quite appealing.

Whereas in this case the opposite is true. Firstly, as has been frequently pointed out, Özil does run quite a lot. Last year he covered more ground per game in the Champions League than any other player with as many goals to their name.

Secondly, like it or not, Özil’s significant failings are strikingly English in nature. What has happened at Arsenal is that he has failed to develop, has failed to add any further gears to his game. Football has changed a lot in four years. But Özil is basically the same player with the same skills, the same needs, the same strengths and flaws. This is a kind of laziness. But it’s not to do with running or energy expended on the pitch; more a familiar, and very native lack of curiosity, a complacency, a failure to learn.

And please, we know the excuses by now. I’ve set them out myself in the past, mainly because Özil is just such a seductively pleasing talent, a player who in the right team and the right mood makes everything look like a kind of dance, pirouetting in search of space, gliding the ball between a series of points with such ease you half expect to look down and notice he’s wearing flip-flops

The problem here is that club football has moved on. Often Özil’s best moments rely on his team having enough possession for long enough periods, as Real Madrid and Arsenal may have in the recent past and Germany still do. But opponents are less stretched by these tactics now, are less likely to find themselves pulled out of shape while Özil, or similar, wheels himself into place for the killer incision. His pure style has dated, just as Arsenal’s switch to playing a little more without the ball has hardly helped.

The proof is in the success of similar players with greater range. Kevin De Bruyne is the obvious counterpoint, a player who can also pass brilliantly, who has many of the same functions, but who has learned and adapted at a thrilling speed. De Bruyne can now do pretty much anything – central midfield, No10, manage the counterattack. He will find a way to affect the game. Similarly Christian Eriksen has improved in his own four years in England, and not only in the things he already did well. Meanwhile, to borrow an oft-quoted phrase, Özil hasn’t played 166 games for Arsenal, he’s played the same game 166 times.

Perhaps he will come again. He isn’t alone in failing to progress his career under Wenger. He often plays really well for Germany. For now it is hard to avoid the feeling of fate closing in. There was a genuine shiver of excitement when Özil signed for Arsenal. He was meant to announce and define an era, the embodiment of late Wenger-ism. And so it has come to pass. This has been the age of Özil. Just not in the way Arsenal will have hoped, more as an emblem of princely stasis, and of a paradoxically English refusal to adapt and learn.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... il-arsenal

AW is increasingly becoming a liability to the club, he offered Ox $180k per week, should have sold Sanchez for $65 million and is now negotiating with Ozil.

[kajifu]

[kajifu]

Next week it will be the six-month anniversary of Özil’s last Arsenal goal. Since December 2016 he has contributed one – one! – assist away from the Emirates Stadium. The team play better without him in it. He has already earned £30m in his time at the club. There is nothing here to justify an astronomically improved contract. The Age of Özil is over, a fascinating footnote in the wider history of why apparently well-suited player moves sometimes just don’t work out.

This is the real point. Never mind debating the exact nature of Özil’s undoubted qualities. It is more interesting to understand why he has tailed off at Arsenal. English football has always loved calling people lazy or weak. The idea that your Özils are not native enough in style, lacking the basic fibre and guts to succeed in the world’s most energetic league is clearly quite appealing.

Whereas in this case the opposite is true. Firstly, as has been frequently pointed out, Özil does run quite a lot. Last year he covered more ground per game in the Champions League than any other player with as many goals to their name.

Secondly, like it or not, Özil’s significant failings are strikingly English in nature. What has happened at Arsenal is that he has failed to develop, has failed to add any further gears to his game. Football has changed a lot in four years. But Özil is basically the same player with the same skills, the same needs, the same strengths and flaws. This is a kind of laziness. But it’s not to do with running or energy expended on the pitch; more a familiar, and very native lack of curiosity, a complacency, a failure to learn.

And please, we know the excuses by now. I’ve set them out myself in the past, mainly because Özil is just such a seductively pleasing talent, a player who in the right team and the right mood makes everything look like a kind of dance, pirouetting in search of space, gliding the ball between a series of points with such ease you half expect to look down and notice he’s wearing flip-flops

The problem here is that club football has moved on. Often Özil’s best moments rely on his team having enough possession for long enough periods, as Real Madrid and Arsenal may have in the recent past and Germany still do. But opponents are less stretched by these tactics now, are less likely to find themselves pulled out of shape while Özil, or similar, wheels himself into place for the killer incision. His pure style has dated, just as Arsenal’s switch to playing a little more without the ball has hardly helped.

The proof is in the success of similar players with greater range. Kevin De Bruyne is the obvious counterpoint, a player who can also pass brilliantly, who has many of the same functions, but who has learned and adapted at a thrilling speed. De Bruyne can now do pretty much anything – central midfield, No10, manage the counterattack. He will find a way to affect the game. Similarly Christian Eriksen has improved in his own four years in England, and not only in the things he already did well. Meanwhile, to borrow an oft-quoted phrase, Özil hasn’t played 166 games for Arsenal, he’s played the same game 166 times.

Perhaps he will come again. He isn’t alone in failing to progress his career under Wenger. He often plays really well for Germany. For now it is hard to avoid the feeling of fate closing in. There was a genuine shiver of excitement when Özil signed for Arsenal. He was meant to announce and define an era, the embodiment of late Wenger-ism. And so it has come to pass. This has been the age of Özil. Just not in the way Arsenal will have hoped, more as an emblem of princely stasis, and of a paradoxically English refusal to adapt and learn.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... il-arsenal

AW is increasingly becoming a liability to the club, he offered Ox $180k per week, should have sold Sanchez for $65 million and is now negotiating with Ozil.

Wenger is the reason this club will never become a big club like Manu,Chelsea has over take us in London.
We just hope he leave the club sooner.How can you even offer OX 180k?Look at Walcrap?Arsenal might go down if Wenger stay here another 5 years to mid table.

[kajifu]

Uncle Aniks and TG I think you guys are hard on Ozil.I was one of the few that never want him at Arsenal because I know Arsenal don't have that luxury to have him at that price and expect him to do more than we know he can do.Ozil need others to do his job he is a luxury player when all parts clicks he looks good.That is why he can look more than average for Germany.He is not such a player Germany can miss if he is out.
Our issue is Wenger,lets stop blame players and direct our issue on Wenger.Dont be surprise Wenger is begging him to stay with that wage demand.I mean Wenger was offering Ox 180k to stay.
Wenger has lost touch,i hope no EPL sign Ozil it will be hard for me to take if he goes to a club like City or Manu then win EPL..
Why did wenger not sell this guys in summer and we move on?

[anikulapo]

Uncle Aniks and TG I think you guys are hard on Ozil.I was one of the few that never want him at Arsenal because I know Arsenal don't have that luxury to have him at that price and expect him to do more than we know he can do.Ozil need others to do his job he is a luxury player when all parts clicks he looks good.That is why he can look more than average for Germany.He is not such a player Germany can miss if he is out.
Our issue is Wenger,lets stop blame players and direct our issue on Wenger.Dont be surprise Wenger is begging him to stay with that wage demand.I mean Wenger was offering Ox 180k to stay.
Wenger has lost touch,i hope no EPL sign Ozil it will be hard for me to take if he goes to a club like City or Manu then win EPL..
Why did wenger not sell this guys in summer and we move on?

Have you actually watched Ozil play for Germany ? He is just as hopeless. The guy gets attention because he outran lead footed Gareth Barry in South Africa ... did you see him at the Euros? you would think he was facing Chelsea or United on the road in those games.

The man is shyt and totally hopeless ... end of story. In a transfer market where the Ox is going for 40 mill with a year left on his deal, yet no one came in for him? ... Hell, If that doesn't say enough then I don't know what else will.

Wenger was asked point blank if any team had made a bid for Ozil and quickly changed the subject .... 'nough said

[platinum]

Uncle Aniks and TG I think you guys are hard on Ozil.I was one of the few that never want him at Arsenal because I know Arsenal don't have that luxury to have him at that price and expect him to do more than we know he can do.Ozil need others to do his job he is a luxury player when all parts clicks he looks good.That is why he can look more than average for Germany.He is not such a player Germany can miss if he is out.
Our issue is Wenger,lets stop blame players and direct our issue on Wenger.Dont be surprise Wenger is begging him to stay with that wage demand.I mean Wenger was offering Ox 180k to stay.
Wenger has lost touch,i hope no EPL sign Ozil it will be hard for me to take if he goes to a club like City or Manu then win EPL..
Why did wenger not sell this guys in summer and we move on?

Have you actually watched Ozil play for Germany ? He is just as hopeless. The guy gets attention because he outran lead footed Gareth Barry in South Africa ... did you see him at the Euros? you would think he was facing Chelsea or United on the road in those games.

The man is shyt and totally hopeless ... end of story. In a transfer market where the Ox is going for 40 mill with a year left on his deal, yet no one came in for him? ... Hell, If that doesn't say enough then I don't know what else will.

Wenger was asked point blank if any team had made a bid for Ozil and quickly changed the subject .... 'nough said

The Germans elected him player of the year all those years because they chopped his mama's food and are enticed by juju. Naturally.

Yes, we saw him at the Euros....doing his best to beat France when if every other German player played close to his level, they'd have won that game in a canter. But....carry on just like those movies. Fulfill the role.

[tolahs]

Uncle Aniks and TG I think you guys are hard on Ozil.I was one of the few that never want him at Arsenal because I know Arsenal don't have that luxury to have him at that price and expect him to do more than we know he can do.Ozil need others to do his job he is a luxury player when all parts clicks he looks good.That is why he can look more than average for Germany.He is not such a player Germany can miss if he is out.
Our issue is Wenger,lets stop blame players and direct our issue on Wenger.Dont be surprise Wenger is begging him to stay with that wage demand.I mean Wenger was offering Ox 180k to stay.
Wenger has lost touch,i hope no EPL sign Ozil it will be hard for me to take if he goes to a club like City or Manu then win EPL..
Why did wenger not sell this guys in summer and we move on?

Have you actually watched Ozil play for Germany ? He is just as hopeless. The guy gets attention because he outran lead footed Gareth Barry in South Africa ... did you see him at the Euros? you would think he was facing Chelsea or United on the road in those games.

The man is shyt and totally hopeless ... end of story. In a transfer market where the Ox is going for 40 mill with a year left on his deal, yet no one came in for him? ... Hell, If that doesn't say enough then I don't know what else will.

Wenger was asked point blank if any team had made a bid for Ozil and quickly changed the subject .... 'nough said

The Germans elected him player of the year all those years because they chopped his mama's food and are enticed by juju. Naturally.

Yes, we saw him at the Euros....doing his best to beat France when if every other German player played close to his level, they'd have won that game in a canter. But....carry on just like those movies. Fulfill the role.

Stand Up!!!!

[tolahs]

Props to TG - called the starting 11 vs Watford or thereabouts. Huge game, we need the same attitude we took to Chelsea - we need this 3pts - table is coming our way. Watford like Palace have a lot of fresh players who didn't have International footie - so you better have a Blue Collar 11 - we must shield Per against pace. ONE!!!!

[tolahs]

I expect the usual blasting of Ozil and some others - we went to Chelsea with most of the guys we started with today - compressed the pitch, pressed the ball - separated
their striker from their midfield - we go to Watford & give them time on the ball - they caught a rhythm & got confident - totally useless game plan - proactive at Chelsea but reactive at Watford - weird.

[anikulapo]

Uncle Aniks and TG I think you guys are hard on Ozil.I was one of the few that never want him at Arsenal because I know Arsenal don't have that luxury to have him at that price and expect him to do more than we know he can do.Ozil need others to do his job he is a luxury player when all parts clicks he looks good.That is why he can look more than average for Germany.He is not such a player Germany can miss if he is out.
Our issue is Wenger,lets stop blame players and direct our issue on Wenger.Dont be surprise Wenger is begging him to stay with that wage demand.I mean Wenger was offering Ox 180k to stay.
Wenger has lost touch,i hope no EPL sign Ozil it will be hard for me to take if he goes to a club like City or Manu then win EPL..
Why did wenger not sell this guys in summer and we move on?

Have you actually watched Ozil play for Germany ? He is just as hopeless. The guy gets attention because he outran lead footed Gareth Barry in South Africa ... did you see him at the Euros? you would think he was facing Chelsea or United on the road in those games.

The man is shyt and totally hopeless ... end of story. In a transfer market where the Ox is going for 40 mill with a year left on his deal, yet no one came in for him? ... Hell, If that doesn't say enough then I don't know what else will.

Wenger was asked point blank if any team had made a bid for Ozil and quickly changed the subject .... 'nough said

The Germans elected him player of the year all those years because they chopped his mama's food and are enticed by juju. Naturally.

Yes, we saw him at the Euros....doing his best to beat France when if every other German player played close to his level, they'd have won that game in a canter. But....carry on just like those movies. Fulfill the role.

Stand Up!!!!

Thanks now you can sit down and sharrap

[anikulapo]

I expect the usual blasting of Ozil and some others - we went to Chelsea with most of the guys we started with today - compressed the pitch, pressed the ball - separated
their striker from their midfield - we go to Watford & give them time on the ball - they caught a rhythm & got confident - totally useless game plan - proactive at Chelsea but reactive at Watford - weird.

Wow what a clown

[danfo driver]

[bepanda]

I would sign Wenger to another 2 years extension in addition to the 2 years we gave him last June. Isn't this great to be an Arsenal share holder?
Bepanda

[tolahs]

I expect the usual blasting of Ozil and some others - we went to Chelsea with most of the guys we started with today - compressed the pitch, pressed the ball - separated
their striker from their midfield - we go to Watford & give them time on the ball - they caught a rhythm & got confident - totally useless game plan - proactive at Chelsea but reactive at Watford - weird.

Wow what a clown

The pettiness of a drunkard - how is Uncle/mentor Trump feeling???

[anikulapo]

I expect the usual blasting of Ozil and some others - we went to Chelsea with most of the guys we started with today - compressed the pitch, pressed the ball - separated
their striker from their midfield - we go to Watford & give them time on the ball - they caught a rhythm & got confident - totally useless game plan - proactive at Chelsea but reactive at Watford - weird.

Wow what a clown

The pettiness of a drunkard - how is Uncle/mentor Trump feeling???

So you've gone from drunkenness to madness Trump??? Are you a mad dog