That is exactly my point. The replacements we have at our disposal are not yet there. Who did for Verm ? for gallas ? For arshavin? Injuries are part of a season. When you lose a player, you should have replacements that are above average.
We all thought a chelsea without drog will suffer, but anelka delivered, We all thought they will suffer without essien, But they didnt.
Man u are suffering the loss of rooney cos berbertov is not the kind of player to fit in the role united player( has a low work ethic)
Imagine if we have song out and there is a melo to replace him !! or we have a gallas out and there is a hangeland to replace him, or a verm out and we have a smalling to replace him !!!
It is high time we stop ” Wanting to sign player” and actually signing them

Now dont get me wrong. I mean only what we need.

That is exactly my point. The replacements we have at our disposal are not yet there. Who did for Verm ? for gallas ? For arshavin? Injuries are part of a season. When you lose a player, you should have replacements that are above average.
We all thought a chelsea without drog will suffer, but anelka delivered, We all thought they will suffer without essien, But they didnt.
Man u are suffering the loss of rooney cos berbertov is not the kind of player to fit in the role united player( has a low work ethic)
Imagine if we have song out and there is a melo to replace him !! or we have a gallas out and there is a hangeland to replace him, or a verm out and we have a smalling to replace him !!!
It is high time we stop ” Wanting to sign player” and actually signing them

Now dont get me wrong. I mean only what we need.

if anything, injuries for the past 5 seasons should have taught us what we need to do in such a case. our backup is not strong enough to cover for first team players challenging for the title. it needs to be said that we do seem to have rotten luck with injuries. not only are one or two players out but as much as 4 or 5 at a time. its really ridiculous but the job of a manager is to prepare for such cases, SPECIALLY if its been happening for 5 years continuously !
but here the problem is maybe financial. we probably don’t have money to buy the necessary players. that trend may be changing (Arshavin). hopefully we’ll get some proper players in the summer.

it is certainly commendable that we’ve been fighting for the title even with our injuries but lets not forget how many times we’ve barely managed to win a match, score goals in the last 10 mins, thrown winnable matches away – manutd, mancity etc etc., and lets not forget that this season chelsea and manutd have dropped far too many points themselves, which have made it look like we’ve done something miraculous. we’ve played better than last season. there have been some major improvements – song, nasri, ramsey, vermaelen, eboue, gallas, bendtner, denilson, traore, gibbs and even fabregas and vanpersie. its good to see rosicky and eduardo back. and there is surely more to come from walcott, vela, arshavin, and diaby. they’re the ones that need to make a step up now and be more consistent. but silvestre needs to be replaced and if we’re going to rely so much on a 3rd choice striker then we’ve got to get somebody a LITTLE quicker than bendtner to finish off half chances in the box.
we’ve got a decent squad provided they’re all fit. but they rarely ever are. so we need to come up with a plan B. and i’ve got to disagree with wenger. he says bendtner is our plan B. i say bullshit. he’s good in the air but hardly ever is in the box when a cross comes in. that needs to be sorted. and i’ve been saying that for a couple of seasons now.
i noticed in the barca game sagna was moved to CB and silvestre replaced. so today, instead of bringing on silvestre for vermaelen. i think wenger should’ve had the vision to bring on walcott instead and move eboue at RB and done the same with moving sagna to CB. he would definitely have been better than silvestre. and i thought it was quite a silly move to bring off denilson who was miles better than the useless diaby. tottenham play chelsea at the weekend, and theres the manchester derby as well. had we won this game we might’ve been much closer to the top provided chelsea and manutd both lost at the weekend, which is very possible. but we lack the maturity to realize opportunity. and we pay the price.
maybe some things need to change next season. i certainly wish wenger stays for a long long time. but he needs to rediscover himself. one of the things i’d want to see is walcott playing centrally. and us finding someone for RM. maybe also changing formation when required and not playing 4 – 3 – 3 in every single game. trick is to adapt to each situation. we specially need to learn when to run into the opponents half – the final third. and how to create space b/w the lines of their defence and midfield. we’re too naive when it comes to that and we’re not good enough not only with our backup players but also first team players. there is room for improvement. barca showed us ! sideways passing and slow movement and passing will not make us a threat and get the us the goals. this needs to be rectified otherwise stop talking about winning the title.

Yesterday we played spurs and in the first ten minutes and youth player smashes ina goal he will never score again and he will probably end up back in the championship in a couple of years, vermaelen goes of injured, 3 weeks injured out by the way his season is over so we are left with silvestre and campbell in defence which is not bad back up its becuase gallas,vermaelen,doujouru and song are all out injured so we had no other choice and finally robin van persie comes on and shows us that if he was fit half the time as rooney this season we WOULD of won the league at spurs tonight and not lost it, OH and he made gomes pull off 3 amazing saves!

AND yemi why can we not blame injuries for runing our season???? I think we have more than a right to do that becuase it is a freak amount of them we have had this could of been the team that played last night and somehow i dont think it would of been the same scoreline:

Almunia
Sagna – Gallas – Vermaelen – Clichy
Song – Diaby
Arshavin – Fabregas – Nasri
Van persie

Once vermaelen went off we had 6 first choice players missing from the team and all 6 were pretty much our best players, that is a joke!

i do agree with yemi that even though the title is a no go that we still have to watch our backs and try and cement 3rd place.

If Your employee gives a report showing a loss continuously for 5 years and you check and find out that he has been using the same strategy, What do you do ? Encourage him to stay on the same path or try something else ?

They also made another point. Arsenal cannot blame injuries for their woes. Why ? Injuries are part of a season, what matters is what is you plan for unforseen injuries ? You need backup players. If you are to play in 4 competitions every season, you need 25 Above average players. RVP gets injured then we no longer have a prolific striker. Gallas gets injured and all we get is Sol(In fairness he has been great in the games he has played) But we all know he can’t play when the fixtures come in thick.So where does that leave us? The verminatoer is injured, who deputises? Silvestre ? Pleaseeeee.

It is also easier to defen against us now cos the attack from the right is non-existense, Arshavin has been a shadow of himself lately Why not play Vela ?

To the game yesterday, RVP came on and you saw what a quality (above average player) can do in a team. All through the game, nobody, absolutely nobody had been attacking the 18yrd box albeit the 6yrd. AL the runs of walcott were usless cos when the cross came in, there is noone to attack. Same happened to clichy and that was why he took that shot that hit the side netting. A Midfield of diaby, rosisky, nasri and denilson is too simililar. All playing forward, no one in the holding role.

Then why the hell cant sombody just take a shot from outside the 18yrd box? denilson had the chance, diaby and the list goes on and on, but noone taking chances apart from 1 or 2 wild chances taken by rosisky

I hope we don’t get into a liverpool situation where were have a bunch of average players. Come to think of it, If we were to put all our players up for sale, How many of them do you think will get top clubs in the mould of maybe man u, chelsea, barca, madrid, inter ? and will also get starting shirts? I can count just too few (Cesc, RVP, Arshavin and Clichy) That shows the quality of the team.

Talikng about spending and making money and the club being run well and balanced. Madrid bought CR7 for 80million and guess what ? They made 100million from sale of jersies in madrid ALONE, selling over 1million replica jersies. Top player, top business.

I can go on and on but it all boils down to another trophyless season.

On a scary very scary note,i took a Look at the logs, we are just 9 points ahead of City, The have a game in hand and we still play them. That means even the 3rd spot is not home and dry for us yet. If they win the game in hand, beat us and maybe beat manu, We are suddenly level on points. We therefore need to decisively take out wigan which wont be easy cos the are battling the drop…….

Were is the season ending for us?

And City have lost the least number of games. It is the number of draws that put them where they are.

No team has lost 7 games and won the league.

The game also shows we are just a little bit above average this term. Lost to chelsea, man u, tot away, drew evrton at home, lost to barca……

I need to get back to work and see what happens in the transfer window.
And maybe tot’ham can do us a fovor against chelsea. But are we in a position to take advantage ? Nope ….

born alone walk alone dia alone

whats the arsenal equivalent to this

born arsenal live arsenal die arsenal
born a gooner live a gooner die a gooner

(they both dont sound right does anyone no if theres a proper arsenal one??)