Our patch is a usually worse than others because as soon as Arsenal looses, the media jumps on the “won’t win anything” boat. It seems the just can’t wait to see us loose!

They just sensationalize our season and make a big deal out of it. I can’t remember them saying the same thing about chelsea when they lost to wigan. They called it a blip…we seem to throw away the season by loosing a game or two…rubbish the media!

well said josiah heard we have a NEW SIGNING Zezinho 17 years old plays well somewhere in the midfield although youtube video shows hes a good tackler, will he start i dont know but i agree everyone has a bad patch ours are normally worse than others, none the less beat stoke beat liverpool and end the year within 6 points of chelsea and its game on

we have apparently signed young Brazilian striker Zezinho from Juventude for 2-5mil.

there looks to be a list of 3 strikers that Wenger wants to sign in january
-Edin Dzeko
-Andre-Pierre Gignac
-Marouane Chamakh

any of those 3 would be a great addition regardless of how well our strikers play till january.if our strikers are playing badly then maybe 2 strikers would be needed.we are also going to lose Song and Eboue to the African nations cup so maybe it will be a busy january.

Walcott is injured with a hamstring injury…
We play this team for stoke
almunia
sagna gallas vermaelen traore
denilson ramsey
rosicky cesc nasri
eduardo

beat stoke with that team, play reserve squad against olympiacos, then play against liverpool:
almunia
sagna gallas werm traore
denilson song
arshavin cesc nasri
eduardo

win the game

move on from the bad patch were in.

Sam you couldn’t have said it better. As long as the current business plan keeps the pounds rolling in, the directors are and will be happy. That’s the business plan…and Wenger has bought into it…Wenger has convinced the board that low cost buys and bargains will work and may actually bring in the occasional trophy.

Peter Hill Wood strategically coming out and saying that there is money to spend only serves to sooth fans for a while and after that everything goes back to normal. Besides Arsene naturally loathes spend big…unless forced to do so to maintain the status quo as in the case of Arshavin last year. The squad was in serious need of a game changing player as confidence was at an all time low.

Partly his philosophy of speedy passing and quick inter positional play with ball-playing players has not quite worked…giving that other clubs have worked out a game plan to stifle our style of play. The stature of our players hasn’t helped either as few of them can ride tackles as Vieira, Petit, Freddie, Parlour, Edu, Gilberto etc did and give in equal measure as well. Though I must admit that injuries have played a part.

Lets hope that our current striking force start finding the net sooner than later…cos there are quite a lot of games till Jan.

It hurts to lose 3 games with 7 conceded goals & 0 scored. But, some of you are going too far. This is Arsenal as it is. I love it as it is. If I didn’t, I’d go support a spending club. Arsenal are an investment club, and we generate profit by buying low & selling high.

The owners & board don’t give a crap about silverware! Their business plan is working as long as they qualify for champions league, money keeps flowing in & share prices keep going up. That’s the club’s goal for now, and we can’t single out AW, it’s the entire club.

Sorry to burst a few bubbles with the truth. I love Arsenal as it is.

Don’t really know what to say after last night. Seems to be another chapter of “same old same old”, different season, same problem. Forget the refereeing decisions, we lost to a better team who on the night played very well. Yes it was a second string side but I do worry for some of these kids being outclassed and outplayed so comprehensively. Dissapointed again with Wengers petulence. He is the manager of our club and the “figurehead” and should set an example to players and fans. I have been a fan of AW since he came to the club (Arsenal fan since the mid 70’s) and I have seen and suffered all the highs and lows. But I am starting to see big cracks in AW’s behaviour and philosophy. Maybe it is time for change? Whether that is in philosophy or in the management of the club. We seem to be trying to play 5 s side football with 11 on the pitch. There is no power or leadership in the team. Looking back at some of AW’s better sides, and early signings, we were always a very big physical team. PV, Manu, Edu, Gilberto, Henry, Campbell, Kanu and even Pires (over 6′1″)balanced “Touch” players with “Leaders” througout the team. Now the team are all the same stature. There is no balance to the side and no on the pitch leadership. We fail against any team who are organised as we are too predictable. As dangunner (Arsenal fan) said, I think we may struggle against stoke and I do fear we will not finish in the top 4 this year. We need to inject some fresh blood into the team and that must be quality. As far as strikers are concerned, Dzeko or Carlton Cole fit the bill for me. Yaya Toure in Midfield and Hangeland as CB. Although I doubt we will spend the money and end up with a cut price deal for Chamakh and nothing more.

The last weeks have really put things into perspective and really showned that we are not ready to compete for big honors.But what the hell to due. Some questions has to be awnsered before we can really move on an perhaps begin working on solutions for the club in next year(yeah its sad to say this) Firstly is our board just seeing this club as a cash cow and thereby denying real investment into the team or has our manager gone mad and just reach a point where he will rather destroy all than switch strategy.We have now reach a point where all our players are so similar and we are pretty much the most lightweight team in the entire premiership.Further more a very unhealthy way of thinking have developed which clearly cant solve this.Its simply that so many are just thinking about how cheap this guy was bought compared to this and we should just be happy that we have made so many impressive cheap buys. THIS IS CRAP. because that way of thinking only gives the board more cash. yes it is fine our club is healthy i economic terms but atm we are reaching points there are simply to high 67m punds before tax in profit this year is simply to much profit due to so low investment in our team that we will never be able to compete. For me its simple wenger will not developed this team any further since he has go stuck in his own succes, and dont have the solutions to get out of it. Imo the solutions for this could be 1. get new manager.2 focus on defence, we are currently so bad in this department that it cant get worse. yes vermaelen and gallas is not a strong solution since we are close to being even more voeful than last year here.And get some bigger stronger players in and no more of these vela,walcott types of players. And BUY SOME ENGLISH WE NEED ENGLISH PLAYERS TO CREATE THE REAL SPIRIT indstead of meaningless players which are only here untill a greener solutions comes by.

god i am not happy to be an arsenal fan right now this really is pissing off i know its carling cup but again same type of game as the chelsea one, looking an january now, im thinking a striker of some form i dont know where and blaise matuidi or yaya toure as dm i hope rumors do start picking up

True. I think however Hughes must have said something to him to upset him…but then too look at the number of yellow cards we got too.

Needless to say Hughes will be talking about it for the rest of his short remaining time at city.

But hey, who said the Carling Cup is worthless…it looks like it’s costing some team over £200 million for it!