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Mars

Mars

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Wenger:

“What is Wilshere but basically a No 10? He played his whole life at No 10. Somebody had to go out there. Is it Wilshere, Ozil or Ramsey, nobody is really natural out wide. So you keep good players out or you try to get them together.

“It is ambitious, but without ambition you cannot progress. We have that desire to play well altogether and I think we can really achieve it. We can have a fantastic team.”

I know I'll most likely get some stick for saying it, but I admire this. As bad as things are going you have to be honest and say that we have our moments (e.g. the goal against Norwich last season, amongst many others) and we are never far away from creating something magical. Arsenal will always be my team and you can take being a boring, grinder of a team, and love it as well but I personally love this belief and ambition.

For me, the big League games this season will be against Man United, quite probably our competition for Top 4. If we can beat them and keep them out of the Champion's League, whilst being part of the big boys then I will take a lot of satisfaction from that. Of course, I want more before anyone starts!

You look at our attacking/midfield players on paper (Ramsey, Wilshere, Walcott, Alexis, Ozil, Cazorla, Chamberlain, Welbeck, Giroud) - that is a fucking pool and a half of players to pick from in terms of pure skill, vision, pace and at times, under-rated but goal-scoring, who have only just come together and as a result of serious investment in both youth and transfer fees.

I will judge them at the end of the season but right now, with no transfer options available (and considering our profit announcement today will hopefully lead to some more defensive/defensive midfield signings) until January I see no point in doing anything other than support the team as, if you read some press outlets, we are basically shit. This is far from true.

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Mars

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True... But I think that is partly down to the above. He would rarely say a player is out of position when he's trying to cram as many attacking players as he can into his formation.

We do appear to have gone a bit backwards in our defending, but hopefully it can be fixed quickly as we had such good defense last year (mostly). Although the 'clean sheets' award looks good on paper, but does disguise the absolute bummings we received from some teams. Arseblog's 'cash reserves' post yesterday made me laugh!

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The Fox

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GREAT piece in the Telegraph this morning from Jeremy Wilson, the gist of which is thus:

HEADLINE: "Arsenal’s annual wage bill moves ahead of Chelsea’s for first time in more than a decade"

STORY: "If we essentially guess at Chelsea's bill because we don't actually have it this year, and also exclude their non-playing staff but include them for Arsenal, then Arsenal have a higher wage bill than Chelsea!!!11"

Brilliant stuff lads.

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Rev

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Wenger:

What is Wilshere but basically a No 10? He played his whole life at No 10. Somebody had to go out there. Is it Wilshere, Ozil or Ramsey, nobody is really natural out wide. So you keep good players out or you try to get them together.

It is ambitious, but without ambition you cannot progress. We have that desire to play well altogether and I think we can really achieve it. We can have a fantastic team.

I know I'll most likely get some stick for saying it, but I admire this. As bad as things are going you have to be honest and say that we have our moments (e.g. the goal against Norwich last season, amongst many others) and we are never far away from creating something magical. Arsenal will always be my team and you can take being a boring, grinder of a team, and love it as well but I personally love this belief and ambition.

For me, the big League games this season will be against Man United, quite probably our competition for Top 4. If we can beat them and keep them out of the Champion's League, whilst being part of the big boys then I will take a lot of satisfaction from that. Of course, I want more before anyone starts!

You look at our attacking/midfield players on paper (Ramsey, Wilshere, Walcott, Alexis, Ozil, Cazorla, Chamberlain, Welbeck, Giroud) - that is a fucking pool and a half of players to pick from in terms of pure skill, vision, pace and at times, under-rated but goal-scoring, who have only just come together and as a result of serious investment in both youth and transfer fees.

I will judge them at the end of the season but right now, with no transfer options available (and considering our profit announcement today will hopefully lead to some more defensive/defensive midfield signings) until January I see no point in doing anything other than support the team as, if you read some press outlets, we are basically shit. This is far from true.

Wenger has noticed in 4-1-4-1 he's not actually played a number 10, yeah?

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pinholestar

pinholestar

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So pleased for Özil & it was telling that after the second goal the team ran over to him. Shove all that criticism right back in the critics' face. We really needed a convincing win here to kickstart our season, so hopefully we can go out in the second half & close this one out comfortably.

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Fairly quiet, but it wasn't really the kind of game you can come to any conclusions from. Those 3 minutes were good, Villa probably edged the half hour before that and then everybody politely agreed that we didn't need to play the second-half so everyone sat down and played Candy Crush instead.

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