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Steve007

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Man City are weird. Their recruitment policy really became quite wonky when they'd finished paying for our stadium.

No one wants to go to Manchester so they have to make contract offers that are just too good to refuse in order to get their players. Their mentality is to buy players who are going to create & score rather than defend although they've signed one or two cracking CB's over the period they've been bankrolled.

I'd rather have their owners who are prepared to invest in order to better themselves than tread water like our club are doing.

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No one wants to go to Manchester so they have to make contract offers that are just too good to refuse in order to get their players. Their mentality is to buy players who are going to create & score rather than defend although they've signed one or two cracking CB's over the period they've been bankrolled.

I'd rather have their owners who are prepared to invest in order to better themselves than tread water like our club are doing.

Why don't you support them then? To say Arsenal are treading water from the team with Squillaci and Arshavin to a team with Ozil and Sanchez is utter, utter bollocks. I've just said we've spent £128m in the last 3 seasons.

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Why don't you support them then? To say Arsenal are treading water from the team with Squillaci and Arshavin to a team with Ozil and Sanchez is utter, utter bollocks. I've just said we've spent £128m in the last 3 seasons.

Everyone around us has spent big too, which is why we finished 3rd last year & a whopping 12 points behind Chelsea. We haven't invested anywhere near enough & 3rd place isn't good enough. We should be doing better and using some of that mountain of cash to bolster the squad. To not purchase a single outfield player over the summer is inexcusable and there's no defending that. It reeks of a club with little ambition other than to stumble into the top 4 each season and make the numbers up in the Champions League. We're just another club in that competition and we are a million miles away from competing at the very top level of European football. The mauling from Bayern, the slip ups against so-called lesser teams and getting our arses handed to us in the knock-out stages season after season just emphasises this point. If anyone thinks the club is trying to compete at the very top level then they need to go and have a lay down.

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Arsenal are the most annoying team on earth. But at least in the good way tonight.

Campbell's reception was amazing, he played like he was playing for Costa Rica too and I'm sure we have their fans to thank in part for that.

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Happy to be wrong. Makes a nice change from getting up at 6am only to watch us lose.

Campbell really seems to be coming along well now and obviously needed to get a run of games under his belt. Good to watch a player fight hard to earn his spot.

Is it just me, or do we seem a lot more direct without Santi in midfield (I love the guy, though). We lose some ball control with Ramsey but we gain a lot more physicality, and the ball moves faster upfield?

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Happy to be wrong. Makes a nice change from getting up at 6am only to watch us lose.

Campbell really seems to be coming along well now and obviously needed to get a run of games under his belt. Good to watch a player fight hard to earn his spot.

Is it just me, or do we seem a lot more direct without Santi in midfield (I love the guy, though). We lose some ball control with Ramsey but we gain a lot more physicality, and the ball moves faster upfield?

No it's not just you, Ramsey offers direct contributions in the final third that we haven't really had from Santi in a long while. It's just a shame we have to play Flamini - imagine what we could do with someone more competent there. Hopefully we sign someone in January as I think we have to write Arteta off completely at this point, sadly.

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I wouldn't fancy us against Atletico either. They'd pretty much stomp straight through us, I think I'd almost prefer Barca. Wolfsburg are very beatable, if Man Utd can score against them anyone can. Zenit has the travelling problem, but should be beatable...

Hopefully it's going to have been motivating to see us almost crash out and they'll take it seriously whoever we draw. On our day we can beat anyone, but on any other day we can lose against anyone.

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Monaco.

I don't see us Monaco-ing again. As long as Ozil is around, I really don't.

No it's not just you, Ramsey offers direct contributions in the final third that we haven't really had from Santi in a long while. It's just a shame we have to play Flamini - imagine what we could do with someone more competent there. Hopefully we sign someone in January as I think we have to write Arteta off completely at this point, sadly.

I genuinely think that DM is the one position that we'll spend proper money on in January. Wenger simply has to move his August purchase forward to January due to the length of time Cazorla, Coquelin and Arteta are out.

Next year, I'd like to see Santi potentially moving more toward the useful squad player role -- still playing lots of games but starting less often, effectively replacing the Arteta we had a couple of years ago (not the broken-down model we have currently). And if someone gets injured we have a top quality replacement.

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"Giroud (.82) has more non-pen goals per 90 than CR7, Messi, Ibra, Robben, Reus, Müller, Lacazette, Cavani, Griezmann"

He also has 1.65 NPG/90 in the Champion's League. Pretty impressive figures considering I don't think his overall game had been up to scratch for a few weeks, prior to last night.

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The problem being a striker at Arsenal/Barce/possession teams is that the build-up to the shot is generally so much longer that when the shot finally does occur it's so much more noticeable if it misses. Three passes then a shot, repeatedly, makes missing so commonplace you don't notice it. There simply isn't a striker good enough for possession teams and the ones that come closest (Chicarito at the moment) offer so much less in general play.

It's completely a matter of perception. I'm not saying Giroud is the best*, but with the same percentages elsewhere he'd receive a lot more positive attention.

*I'm not wholly convinced he's not the least worst though.

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I was just checking the Arsenal squad - because in my head you had a fair chunk of players (especially in midfield though not for the base) but yet you seem so thin at the moment - and it turns out Rosicky is still an Arsenal player. Completely forgot that man existed. In many ways he's had such a sad career at Arsenal for someone who's been there so long.

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I wouldn't fancy us against Atletico either. They'd pretty much stomp straight through us, I think I'd almost prefer Barca. Wolfsburg are very beatable, if Man Utd can score against them anyone can. Zenit has the travelling problem, but should be beatable...

Hopefully it's going to have been motivating to see us almost crash out and they'll take it seriously whoever we draw. On our day we can beat anyone, but on any other day we can lose against anyone.

I want us to get Atletico purely on the basis that I've not seen us play them before & think it would be a great tie should we have a decent starting 11 to choose from.

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