Arsenal

[SeanR]

The BBC have reported that we've faxed off a bid for Hazard though. Wait, faxed?

they h4x0r'd our f4x0r!

[Art Vandelay]

I think it's probably just someone pulling everyone's pisser.

Rosicky and Traore are definitely out tomorrow but Nasri is in the squad. Wenger droning on about 'adding quality'. More amazing revelations as they dribble out.

[BlinkyBear]

I see our Summer Skill Schools are going well:

[anders limpar]

I've been stuck on the second line of my Szczesny song for months. Starts with "our number one is Wojciech Szczesny" to XTC's 'Sgt Rock' but I'm fucked if I can work out how to follow it.

Not as fucked as our options for tomorrow though. Gibbs, Traore, Djourou, Song, Rosicky and Gervinho are all out, so our best team is:

Sir Ches

Sagna Squillaci Koscielny Vermaelen

Frimpong

Ramsey Lansbury

Walcott Arshavin

RVP

Bench options are:

Fabianski

Chamakh - has there ever been a player more out of form?

Bendtner - trying to sell

Nasri - let's not even go there

Oxlade-Chamberlain - 17, has only played in the third tier of English football

Miyachi - 18, was playing school football a year ago

Jenkinson - 19, started the year on loan at a conference side

Eastmond - rubbish, more preoccupied with playing with his penis in public

Almunia

Anyone else shitting themselves?

[Oh Danny Boy]

Carroll and Suarez should eat those boys for breakfast

Tomorrow should be the day Liverpool bury their Arsenal jinx but i have a feeling it will be another 1-1 draw

[anders limpar]

Thanks for that, Garth.

[Charliemouse]

I see our Summer Skill Schools are going well:

That Japanese player really looks about 12 doesn't he.

[BlinkyBear]

That Japanese player really looks about 12 doesn't he.

He's also shit hot. Shit hot.

Makes Stuart Downing look like a 43 year old semi-retired footballer playing in a Masters Tournament. Not that it takes much.

As for Szcz-I like the "one vowel, he's only got one vowel" song that was knocking about at the end of last year.

[JDubYes]

The most remarkable thing about that picture of Miyuichi and Oxlade-Chamberlain is that it makes it look like they're practising set-pieces in training, when all previous evidence obviously suggests they do no such thing.

[Mars]

They're actually pledging an oath of allegiance to their new club whilst, in the background, the rest of our squad make a run for it.

[JDubYes]

They're actually pledging an oath of allegiance to their new club whilst, in the background, the rest of our squad make a run for it.

To Manchester or Barcelona?

Also love that that picture makes (who I assume is) Bendtner look about 8 feet tall.

[Dude Ranch]

Arsenal have confirmed that exciting Costa Rican starlet Joel Campbell has completed a move to the club.

That's the Cesc money spent then.

[phresh]

The most remarkable thing about that picture of Miyuichi and Oxlade-Chamberlain is that it makes it look like they're practising set-pieces in training, when all previous evidence obviously suggests they do no such thing.

Christ, is that definitely Chamberlain? He looks like a 40 year old Peruvian in that picture!

[mop]

His skin is my greatest concern for the season ahead.

[cantonarv]

He's also shit hot. Shit hot.

Makes Stuart Downing look like a 43 year old semi-retired footballer playing in a Masters Tournament. Not that it takes much.

Wow the next Junichi Inamoto - you got yourself another winner here

[BlinkyBear]

Wow the next Junichi Inamoto - you got yourself another winner here

It's true folks, if you put a smiley at the end of a post, it negates the racist undertones in it.

[The Fox]

Not feeling great about tomorrow, unsurprisingly. I can't recall a worse team put out in a league game under Wenger, at least on paper. :/

[toythatkills]

It's true folks, if you put a smiley at the end of a post, it negates the racist undertones in it.

Really?

What have I missed?

[Dude Ranch]

It's true folks, if you put a smiley at the end of a post, it negates the racist undertones in it.

And it doesn't look like you've waded into a rival teams thread just to have an ill thought out dig .

[Charliemouse]

Not feeling great about tomorrow, unsurprisingly. I can't recall a worse team put out in a league game under Wenger, at least on paper. :/

Not only that for the first time since the mid 80's I actually think you have a worse team than Spurs on paper.

[toythatkills]

That's too fucking far!

[Lucky]

So starting 11 tomorrow, something like?

------Szczesny

Jenkinson & Sagna RB & LB, TV & Kos at CB

---------Frimpong

----Ramsey -- Arshavin

AOC ------------------ Walcott

------------RVP

Bench: Fabianski, Squillaci, Eastmond, Lansbury, Bendtner, Chamakh & Ryo

We could even play Nasri in the middle and move Arshavin out wide instead of AOC.

At the back, TV could play left back and Squillaci to partner Kos?

We could even go 4-4-2 and play Chamakh up front with RVP, Ramsey and Frimpong in the middle & Arshavin and Walcott out wide.

So many options

I would go with my original 4-5-1 though.

[mop]

Christ, is that definitely Chamberlain? He looks like a 40 year old Peruvian in that picture!

He is my new obsession. The freak. I hope he plays tomorrow otherwise it might just be unbearable. What, with the almost inevitable losing and all.

[hercules]

What a team! Can't wait to be watching that bunch of world class veterans from the stands

[Art Vandelay]

There's no way Nasri will play. The deal will either be done by then or we'll let that belm stew on the bench as a goodbye present.

[Lucky]

Could be 3 debuts tomorrow

Breaking all sorts of records we are

[hercules]

3debuts for teenagers.... (where's the experience?)

[mop]

Maybe we should have a weekly Photoshop Chamberlain competition instead of posting guesses of team lines up that just depress you anyhow?

[SeanR]

His uncle, Neville Chamberlain, was also a professional footballer.

[SMD]

Did he play against Bayern Munich?