Curious case of past 3 weeks!!!

I am sure every Gooner who loves Arsenal would agree with the headline of this blog. These were the three weeks where we should have taken 9 points from Aston, Everton and Swansea, but we could only take 2 and now we are very close to enter into the second half of the table. Currently we lie in 10th place above Liverpool and below teams like West Brom, Swansea, West Ham, Everton, Stoke and above all Spuds!!!

Now this could be because of many reasons, like lack of creativity or lack of fire power in front of goal or lack of proper defense or unrest amongst players when some of them want to leave or players lacking confidence amongst themselves and each other or players don't think we are good as a bunch to have any kind of ambition or other managers can now predict what Wenger's next move will be and already have contingency plans for it etc... There are many such things which come to my mind when I tend to analyse, where are we going wrong! Individually I don't think we have a bad bunch of players who should be in a bottom half team, except a few! Though we do lack in backups for first team players! If individually we are not bad, then maybe players are having trust issues and are trying to increase their own market value by trying to become lone hero's!!! 

The afore mentioned point does seem plausible as we have seen many players use Arsenal as a stepping stone in past few years to increase their market value and move onto different clubs at higher pays! Maybe the players are having the same though, 'Use and throw'!!!I don't know what is wrong, but it hurts to see all this. I never thought I would see Arsenal in such a situation and blame would be on a Stadium, which was supposed to be for betterment of the club all around!!!

I am not saying that we should stop supporting Arsenal, but something needs to give in. I don't know what it should be, but all your opinions are welcome.I am depressed and am sure all you lot would be too!!

Let's bring a change!!!

Who the hell are they to ruin our club!!! Plan is inside to make us better!!!

Now the headline of my blog would suggest that I would be bashing left, right and center club officials over here, but that’s not the case. I would be, but with reasoning and later. Also I do have a request at the end too. I think that is the only way you can make your club better. You guys are the best judges I can get for my request, hence do let me know if that is something you are willing to do!!!

Positives in this season are not to be seen. Best players left. Reinforcements came, but not in all places we wanted. Players on fringes and even in first team who should have sold are still there and proving to be huge huge burden for us.

Negatives are aplenty. Best defense, my foot!!! If the other teams are unable to score goals doesn't make our defense “The Best” and after 3 games in, it doesn't warrant “Steve Bould’s Job” chants too!!! I have been a Gooner a long time to know we are not at all stable in anything we are doing, hence I was crying out loud to anybody who would hear that we don’t have the best defense or attack or mid-field and any happiness is premature!!! Now the same people who were ecstatic at the start are crying foul. Extreme at both ends is bad. Either believe or don’t believe  Just don’t sway away after every game and kick! Ramsey is still shit! Coq fan club can have a foot in their mouth! Back four? Well they are out of sync (And don’t give me that injury shit, because every other team has those problems, and they are still winning!!!)! Though Arteta is good, he is not made for the role of defensive midfielder and his lack of pace is anyways proving me right! He is good as Central Midfielder and we should play him there!!! Every winger wants to play centrally except Gervinho. Giroud has not been the revelation we all were hoping him to be! To be precise he was brought as a backup to Purstrings and not to lead the line!!! Hence we have problems in all the areas and no solution in sight!!!

I would also like to add that I am neither in for Wenger out or Wenger in, I am all in only for “I want my Arsenal Back”!!!

Now coming to the request: This is the only way I think the board is going to take notice of what we want, i.e. if we can stop their cash flow!!! Booing won’t have any effect on them till the time their pockets are filled (Every Board member is earning in Millions and they can pay the same to let best players stay and bring top talent!!!) So the plan is to stop buying anything which has Arsenal on it (Savour the old ones, because they show real Arsenal, current goods don't!!!) And biggest request is to stop going to the stadium at all!!! This is the only way to stop the revenue inflow and show them we are serious in our efforts to bring our club back!!! If they still don’t comply, then where the hell will they get the money and support to pay each of their's hefty bills!!!

I hope you guys are going to pass on this message to all the people you know, so that our voice is heard which is not taken seriously by anybody concerned!!! It’s high time we take matters into our own hands!!! Please do remember to pass on this message if you agree to my philosophy and are willing to follow it too!!!

My sincere thanks for reading this and hope we bring a change soon!!! Amen to that!!! And my twitter handle is @OnTheGunPoint, follow me if you like my views!

P.S. Grammar might have had taken a toss, but when in frustration and anger I think I am allowed that much leverage!!! And parting words are "Let's get our Arsenal back"!!!

Robin Van Persie has paved the way for others to follow!

After 6 days of being bedridden, I am back on blogging front! So I hear International Lull is back! What a boring period this is for all football fans like me, but for sports lovers in general its good as they can now concentrate on Formula1, US Open, and Cricket etc. Hopefully FIFA will reduce the number of friendlies or maybe Club football can reduce the after season holidays, as this will help fans like me a lot! More number of days to watch Arsenal! Yeah!

So coming to the hot topic of today, Sagna! Well I think RVP has shown others how to get a good bargain in the market for themselves, if Arsenal is not willing to meet their demands. RVP showed players how to play the game and left for a bumper contract, Song tried but his demands were not met and he was also sold, Walcott tried in a mild capacity and here both his agent and club couldn’t come to any conclusion! Arsene wants to keep Walcott, and Walcott wants to stay, but the problem is MONEY!

Our very wise and honoured chairman Mr. Deadwood (Oops! Did I misspell the name? Who care I meant Mr. Deadwood anyways! :D) has already come out and made an ingenious statement “We can’t compete with clubs like Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United in their wages and transfer activity”!!! Wow Mr. Deadwood, rather than working towards the weakness you are succumbing to it!!! Awesome job indeed! How many more players now would start thinking what RVP very blatantly wrote on his website ‘No Ambition’! I am not very sure where our club is heading and what will the future will hold, but rather than paying Board Members/CEO/MD/Manager etc $10Mil plus a year each, it would be better to make sure players are bought and retained from that amount! I am still of the opinion that Gooners should stop going to match days, buying merchandise and watch Arsenal play only on TV! This might make management realize that they can’t keep on holding us to ransom to fulfill their pockets!!! I cant think of any other thing in our hands to take our club where we want it to be!

Oh I completely forgot about Sagna, he went public to tell other suitors that his contract is ending and he will be open to look for a bumper paycheck too! And strategically he made this comment after Mr. Deadwood’s comment about our POOR Club! This is a clear message sent to Arsenal Management; either adhere to top standards or risk losing top talent! This is sad and I am sure as I have seen glory days, I will see the opposite of that too and very soon!

Talking about top talent, Zenith might buy Arshavin by today. There is interest from them towards Arshavin and Nani. Having already spent close to 70Mil Quids over last week! Hope Arshavin leaves and get a better future in Zenith!

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P.S. Please stop the Cesc rumours everyone! He didn't go to Camp Nou to come back! He didn't spent 2 years crafting his way to Barca to play for Arsenal!

Why we shouldn’t worry and why we should!!!

Transfer news is spreading fast like Jungle fire!!! He is in, he is out, he should be in etc etc etc… Most ridiculous I heard is Cesc is coming back!!! Give me a break please. He didn't craft a dream move to his home to comeback!!! But the pressing matter is we are losing players who were first team regulars and we don’t have suitors for players who weren’t… A strange situation indeed!!!

For people who want Theo to stay, I would like to bring into their kind notice that Theo is not a player who is world class by any standard; at most he is a mediocre player, maybe even below it. His knowledge of football is too minimal. He doesn’t have anything in his armory other then pace! His shooting, decision making inside the box and outside, his dribbling, his basic understanding of the game all leaves a lot to be desired. Just because he is English, we can’t carry an excess baggage. If we want a runner in our squad, then let’s get Mo Farah, he would be happy to play and would be loyal too and everybody will agree he is a damn fine runner!!! And to be true, Theo has frustrated me and other Gooners alike with his stupid playing skills. To top that he wants a 100K/Week deal. On what basis Sir, on what basis? So that you can frustrate us even more and keep on taking money from us Gooners pockets (Read: Self Sustaining model)? I am sorry; he can leave and go wherever he wants.

Coming onto other transfers, we have lost a talented player in Lansbury. Atleast I liked his style of play. But how often we have seen people who Boss has let go off become great players? I can’t think of any actually! So hope selling Lansbury was not a mistake and there was something that Boss saw in him which I missed. Hope he has a good future. Moving on, world’s best striker Bendtner is now wanted by Milan. I am not saying he is not good, but the thing is if he is actually 10 percent, his ego and his father tells him he is 110%. Hence I don’t want another inflated ego in my club. Malaga wants Chamakh, now he is a player who started brilliantly, but lost all his confidence after our ex injury prone player came out of yet another injury. If given chance again, I am sure he could be a good target man and would give much needed competition to Giroud. But that’s up to Boss to decide and as we all know #ArseneKnows.

So the news is players are leaving and not coming. Well I am not sure how much of a bad news is this when you think about my next sentence! This is the penultimate season of Le Boss! I am not sure that he would agree for another deal if this keeps on happening. He has always kept the club running in thick and thin, but he also must want to have trophies in his cabinet. He is world class and he deserves that. If he leaves then I would like to see what these fucking board members do!!! How the hell can they run the club like this wherein they just keep on filling their pockets and don’t think about the fans that are paying their salary!!!! After losing 3 players if we don’t get atleast 6 more, then forget about champions league we would be fighting a relegation battle very soon. I want to see MY CLUB at the top, but this way of running a club is something I don’t agree with, whatever people might say….

Till next time Gooners!!! I can’t say today that lets Up The Arse because not in a mood!!!

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Week #2 Roundup: Ratings from Stoke game and opinions!!!

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Another week gone and another game without any of the Gunners on score sheet. Voices are getting louder that we were a one man team and selling RVP has made us toothless in front of the goal. New recruits didn’t get a prolonged Pre-Season with first team due to Euros resultant fatigue; hence we can’t blame them for misfiring, atleast not today. But I seriously hope that we get a DM and a Striker like Klaas-Jan Huntelaar into our ranks, as it’ll be a fitting statement to RVP. On top of it, we can get Huntelaar within our transfer budget and wages. And he is world class and a rival to RVP in his national team. What else do we need to show our intent!!! Why I am saying this because we weren’t able to shoot on the target, leave alone scoring. On target shots were only 2!!!

Hence, blame should definitely be ‘Bestowed’ upon our new Pires in the making Gervinho aka ‘Le Forehead’! I think Sherlock would have never said what he did in ‘The Adventure of Blue Carbuncle’ if he had met our Gervinho; the quote was

[Watson - “how did you deduce that this man was intellectual?” Sherlock - “It is a question of cubic capacity,” said he; “a man with so large a brain must have something in it.”!!!]

Now tell me if Gervinho had something in it, won’t he utilize in decision making? And if he had it he won’t be making comments about being next Pires and getting badmouthed from people like me!!! He has brilliant dribbling skills, but that doesn’t mean that you keep on running to the Goal line for a perfect cut back when there are other players waiting for a cross, also that doesn’t mean that you will wait for eternity to pass the ball to a colleague when a opportunity of counter attack presents itself. He has really pissed me off, and I hope he can prove me wrong and become a player we all want him to be.

Rest of old players actually played their part, hence no bad mouthing them. Diaby was a little out of pace, but that is understandable if you were out for a good 2 years because of some stupid tackle, then you play a team like Stoke a bit carefully. Still he made some good tackles to stop Stokes run of play.

Now time for Ratings:

Mannone: 6.5

He didn’t have much to do, but he did well whenever he was called upon the duties. I think the people, who doubted him and were skeptical about him being on the pitch in Britannia Stadium, would atleast trust him whenever his next opportunity arises.

Vermaelen: 8

He had everything covered, and was a top top performer yesterday. He has started taking more responsibility after becoming captain, and he ushered his troops well.

Mertesacker: 7

He was given responsibility of handling Crouch, and he did well on most of the occasions. He worked on off side trap last week, and as a result we looked more comfortable at the back.

Jenkinson: 8

Another brilliant game by Sagna’s deputy. He has really matured from last season and now he is really coming to the top of his game. Still there are atleast 3 years before he becomes a regular, but signs are here for everybody to see that he is going to be one of the best full back in the country if not the world! He was good going forward, defending the stoke wingers run and also helping out the Centre backs whenever required.

Gibbs: 7

He was there and there about, though his decision making in Stokes’ penalty box left something to be desired. But his defending was good. He can definitely needs to improve some aspects of his game, as he is going to be regular this season.

Diaby: 6

After a brilliant last week, we saw Diaby a bit intimidated by the rugby opposition. It is understandable and I hope he brings his A Game back next week against Liverpool. Also, I would like him to shoot when he has the opportunity!!!

Arteta: 8.5

He was the star of the show. He was after every Stoke player and was fighting fire with fire. And it was nice to see that it was Stoke players who were complaining as they didn’t know what hit them. His experience and his motivation to play for the club is extraordinary! How I hope we could have landed him earlier!

Podolski: 6

Had a few decent chances, but screwed them whenever he got them. He needs to score and score fast, if Arsenal has to be anywhere close to CL spot.

Gervinho: 3

Enough said already!

Cazorla: 6.5

It’s good he can dribble. It’s good that he can create chances, but like all other forwards, he also needs to shoot and on target for a change! I don’t think he has been bought because of dribbling skills or shooting over the bar, but to score the goals! Anyways we have Ramsey to do the latter part of it!

Giroud: 6

He needs to Shoot!!! Decision making is also another thing that he needs to improve upon! Hope he learns soon that EPL is way different that Ligue 1.

Ox: 6.5

He came at a time when we needed goals and shot on target, but he was also not able to spark any fire spare one of two moments on by line!

Walcott: 2

Now he should be given a strikers role and atleast 500,000 per week pay check!!!

Ramsey: 0

If I say anything, it would be an insult to Footballers in general!!!

So here we go. Hope next week is better than this.

Until next time Gooners, lets Up the Arse!

Preview Week #2 - Stoke Rugby Vs Arsenal

Second week is about to commence and we have got another lot of targets to come and few others who will not come! I think you all know I am talking about Turkish Midfielder Nuri Sahin, the boy who most of the Gooners want to come to AFC. I don’t want a player to come to us without a buying clause at the end of loan term, because this would mean we are spending 7Mil on a player who would mostly be a fringe player and we don’t even have an option to keep him after loan deal expires! This doesn’t make sense, atleast not to me. We have a packed midfield; we have Arteta, Rosicky, Ox, Cazorla, Diaby, Wilshere, Ramsey, Coquelin, Frimpong and couple of players like Eistfeld etc. and to top that I am pretty sure we would be going for a DM before the window closes. I am not saying that all these players are world class, but we still have these players wages to pay, medical bill to pay and so we can’t afford to have a player for 7Mil and keep him for a year without the assurance that if we like him then we can keep him!

I am not going to talk about stupid transfer speculations now, because of all that I said in my last post and I still stand by it! All I would say is about the club. I think Walcott will sign a new deal if he is told that he would be playing as a striker! Everyone has learned a way to ransom us in past few years, but if song incident has taught us anything, then that is Boss is willing to play hardball. And we should be ready for his exit if he doesn’t sign a new deal by Monday. I don’t think we will sign another winger until we sell Arshavin! Otherwise there is a possibility we can recall Miyachi. As far as defender goes, we need to sell the French sensation Squillaci to buy. For strikers, I don’t think we can buy any until the best striker in the world, the Sheesha smoker and the marketing campaign for east find a new club!

So moving ahead, we would be playing ‘The Rugby Team’ for the first time this season. It has to be a wonderful game :P…. I think American football costumes should be made available for all the teams visiting Britannia Stadium by FA! This will help reduce injuries to other players and teams will be more competent! I hate this team “Stoke City “not only because there is a chance of a player to get injured, but because it defies everything I love about football! They don’t play football; they play a “type” which you can’t even call as football! So target in this game should be to win and not get injured! I am not sure if Ramsey will start or play a part in this game, as his form is haywire and those ugly memories won’t let him play freely. And Boss won’t want to hamper his confidence further!

From my point of view, the team starting should be same as last weekend and this time over the weeks preparation, we should be more clinical. Amen to that!

So until next time. UTA. Folllow me on Twitter for a discussion @OnTheGunPoint