< ![CDATA[I still think we have a good team.Why cant sivestre play as a defensive midfielder?My selection would be

------------ Almunia-------------------
--- Hoyte Gallas Djouru Clichy--------
VanPersie Fabregas Silvestre Nasri
---------- Bedtner Adebayor------------

Try it .... we will win next time]]>

Kiren , I Agree with you

I respect Arsene and all he’s done for the team but this is now getting out of hand.

This is just unfair. Does Wenger and the team realise the kind of agony they are putting Arsenal fans around the world through! Wenger needs to get some players who stay off the injury list. And please add some variety in the team. Why are we always buying from France? Arent there good players somewhere else? The way things are going I am afraid that some of our dependable players are starting to lose faith. Has anyone noticed that Fabregas and Clichy have lost that glint in their eyes? Their body language on the pitch is also very telling. Perhaps the current Arsenal team is becoming the type of team that only plays the big matches. Do not be all surprised if we end up giving Chelsea a drubbin on Sunday. But its disappointing that we arent firing on all cylinders. Wenger needs to do something coz if things dont improve in the next six weeks he will be the one staring out the transfer window. Hopefully he will then get his dream job- coaching the French national team.

Oh and honestly, between Ade and Bendtner we could start a comedy show.

< ![CDATA[You know who is currently playing bloody well? Matthew Upson. Why did we ever let him go. Watching the hammers at the moment on the goggle box. Diara as well, who's been outstanding at Portsmouth.

Probably the only two players I've regretted Arsene letting go - and we could have used both at the moment.

Does anyone else think Gallas will go bye bye in January? His position at the club is sort of untenable isn't it, and Campbell got the bus ticket shortly after getting fucked up in the head.]]>

< ![CDATA[How can there be so much indifference in the performances? We've played some amazing games this season (Bolton, Blackburn) and then some awful ones (Hull, Stoke).

I hear what Zohaib is saying, too many square pegs in round holes. Need to see more of Vela and Ramsey!]]>

< ![CDATA[Zohaib , i hope Wenger cud hear you.
I really don't kno how to react after watching yesterday's match. How can a team like Arsenal give a complete disastrous showdown. Its not like Man City played an extra Ordinary game , it was Arsenal who were completely crap yesterday, not even bloody fightin for the game. I'm realli Depressed with the current performace of the Club. Wenger please get a decent CB and a defensive midfielder to save the respect. All in all I feel the current sqaud don't play like a unit ,lack of spirit and lack of experience is paying a major role for Arsneal's Crisis. (Please prove me wrong)
But I've got an intense gut feeling that Arsenal is gonna bounce back in the second half of the season. I donno why but i would love see that happening.

Still, Gunnner 4 Life]]>

< ![CDATA[The negatives - our worst fears have been proved right: not enough experience, not enough buying, Gallas as a captain has been a mistake and caused a whole load of problems, not just the more public ones (I still believe he is the reason we lost Hleb and Flamini over the summer - and the reason Adebayor wanted to leave). It's chaos. Wenger seems to have lost it. I agree we are in a crisis.
Now the positives - we have an unbelievably good team of youngsters. In Fabregas we have one of the world's best players. Wenger is a genius. We now have the chance to throw out the bad and get on with the good. And believe it or not, I think there is still time to turn the season around.
Djourou, despite the penalty, had a really good game on Saturday.
We beat Man United - deservedly, in a great game, two weeks ago.
We still have a good chance of getting through in the Champions League. Eduardo, Walcott and hopefully Rosicky will come back to help us near the end of the season.
We haven't lost anything yet.
What does the team need? We all know that defensively we have been unconvincing all season. We needed a DM in the summer. We can't seem to find a settled back four. Toure, one of our best, most loyal, big-hearted players, has been kept out of the team.
But in attack we have been unconvincing too. We have missed chance after chance. Bendtner just doesn't seem to be good enough. Adebayor.. we should have sold him. Vela hasn't been given the chance, and RVP has played well but.. something's missing there too.
One possibility, looking at the players we've got at the moment, would be to bring in a central defensive stopper in the Carrick/King position. Toure would work, so would Song. I don't really go in for armchair managing. But times are desperate. So thinking along those lines, I came up with this:
Almunia (Fabianski)
Sagna (Hoyte) - Djourou - Silvestre - Clichy (Traore/Gibbs)
Toure (Song)
Walcott (Ramsey) - Fabregas (Diaby/Denilson) - Nasri (Rosicky)
RVP (Adebayor) - Eduardo (Vela)
Fabregas would be given the freedom to go forward and make things happen. We'd have width out wide and a real finisher (Eduardo/Vela). We're also covered in every position, though we obviously need to replace Gallas. And most of all I just feel this is a group of players who would want to play together. They all feel like real Arsenal players, even, I hate to say it, Silvestre, don't ask me why.
Anyway, as I said, it's only a thought.
Now I just want to get back to doing what I've done since I could talk: supporting the boys, and I think that's all any of us can do.]]>

not sure about that 4th anymore