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and u still think wenger is fit for the job? come on. almost any manager in the premiership would of told galas to fuck off and never play again
 
Gallas will play, but its not written he'll be the Captain. and He has to wait until january!! We dont have any other Experienced Centre-Backs!! Besides He was the one who scored against Dynamo Kiev and saved our ass!!
 
so if he saved our ass why are u lot all wanting him to piss off? half of what he said about arsenal players was true. the likes of denilson, eboue etc are not pulling their weight. they are playing shit. all of them and their are far too many immature kids in our squad that its no surprise that some of them are fighting eachother. i knew right from pre season that walcott and RVP never saw the same light.

i dont know about you guys but i rather see wenger go asap before he further destroys our club. yes he has done great in the past but its all about the present. you dont win things based on your history.

You say that if we get rid of him it will make things worse. how? im sure any top manager would love to manage arsenal and can potential turn them into world beaters again. the likes of morinho would love to manage a club like arsenal. arsenal are no average side. where a big club that can easily attract big managers but im worried it maybe too late before you and the board realize that wenger is no longer fit for the job at hand and tarnish arsenals reputation even more.

Poeple say that if wenger goes, so will fab etc. i disagree. fabregas gets his salary from ARSENAL, not from wenger. and who's to say he and others would jump ship anyway? they may enjoy the company of the next manager in charge of arsenal.

look at drogba. he wanted to piss off when morinho left, so did lampard. now look at them. enjoying life at chelsea with grant(last season)/solaris(present).

You lot idolize wenger too much as if his god. we as a club have been succesful before. we have won countless of trophies way before wenger arrived and we can do the same without him again.

time for a change, wenger has to go at the end of the season if he brings us nothing in the trophy cabinet and fails to finish in the top 4. no more excuses.
 
Great blog from Phil McNulty on Wenger and Fab:

Wenger wise to appoint Fabregas

* Phil McNulty - Sport Online chief football writer
* 24 Nov 08, 01:56 PM

Arsene Wenger's theory on captaincy is that the era of a single team leader has gone - an out-moded figure made extinct by the demands of the modern game.

I was at the Emirates to hear Wenger outline his beliefs after Arsenal's outstanding win against Manchester United fended off those who felt his side lacked leadership.

This is what he said: "I don't agree any more with people who say you need a leader. Football is so quick that you need shared leadership. The time when centre-backs could just talk is over because the game is too quick."

I disagreed with him then - and maybe Wenger himself is having second thoughts after appointing Cesc Fabregas as captain in place of William Gallas.

Wenger correctly stripped Gallas of the captaincy after an outspoken outburst against his team-mates that may have had its place in the privacy of a dressing room but never in public.

And Wenger has now suggested he does believe in having a leader after all by turning to Fabregas, Arsenal's most inspirational figure, as his new captain.

If Wenger genuinely believed he did not need a leader, Gallas's pointed criticism of his team and a growing crisis has forced him to change his mind.

Fabregas is not in the mould of the old-fashioned, fist-pumping captain - but every team needs a symbol and Wenger will look to the 21-year-old Spaniard for the sort of leadership he appeared to dismiss recently.

The brilliant youngster must be a talisman in the mould of Liverpool's Steven Gerrard, a player his team-mates can look to in times of trouble, the sort of figure Wenger suggested was out-dated in today's game.

Gallas was a flawed choice as captain. He is too combustible and indiscreet a figure, not a natural front man for a club of Arsenal's style.

I recall one France press conference when he publicly and pointedly ignored a question from an English journalist claiming he could not speak the language - despite being swiftly (but politely) reminded by the journalist that he had interviewed him without problems on many occasions.

Gallas, sadly, was an accident waiting to happen.

He should have gone after his infamous sit-in at Birmingham City last season - behaviour that appalled BBC Sport football expert Alan Hansen - and appeared to fly in the face of Wenger's regime of strict physical discipline by being seen smoking recently.

Fabregas is a relentlessly positive personality, a player coveted by every major club in the world and someone who represents the bright Arsenal future Wenger hopes to build.

Cesc Fabregas

And his elevation to the captaincy may just help cement Fabregas to Arsenal as Real Madrid and Barcelona watch for any sign of wavering in his loyalty.

He will relish the new responsibility and the challenge of proving Arsenal are not slipping into terminal decline, merely suffering a temporary slump that he will help them snap out of.

Ironically, how Gallas reacts to being stripped of the captaincy may play a major part in how successful Fabregas is in the short term.

Gallas, for any perceived personal faults, is an outstanding defender when motivated - anyone who saw his display against Manchester United recently will testify to his talent.

If he takes his demotion badly, then he will be a malign figure who will need to be removed.

Wenger faces a huge test now to get Arsenal's season back to some semblance of normality after a madcap period, started with the ridiculous concession of two points to neighbours Spurs at home and then that infamous defeat at Stoke.

Some Arsenal fans have questioned whether Wenger's time is up at Arsenal, making fair points to back up their arguments.

He should have strengthened in the summer when Gilberto Silva, Mathieu Flamini and Alexander Hleb left Arsenal and we have already questioned his decision to hand the captaincy to Gallas.

But answer me this? Who is better placed or better qualified to handle these current struggles than Wenger? Name the manager who could succeed him and be more successful?

And does he not deserve to be cut some slack after all he has achieved?

Rest assured, if Wenger left Arsenal tomorrow there are plenty of football fans (and clubs the world over) who would welcome him on Wednesday.

True, he currently has some ground to make up - but the appointment of Fabregas as captain is a step in the right direction.
 
To sack Wenger is no answer to our problems at all. However, one thing I always criticized is the recurrent choice for french players, african french-speaking players and mainly foreign players for that matter.

If you look at the other big clubs, all of them feature a key english player, a homegrown or local talent, if you will. I really think it makes a difference, as british players know better how things function on the Premier League.

Seeing how nowadays we have to cope with Gallas and Silvestre, just to remember that we once had the likes of Tony Adams, Sol Campbell and Martin Keown... It brings tears to my eyes :(

Here's hoping that AW sticks to Theo, Ramsey and Wilshere for a really long time.
 
Bendtner: "I love my pink boots,I've wanted to play in that colour ever since I was young. The only way anyone at Arsenal can beat me now is to play with diamond-encrusted boots. And I don't think that is going to happen for a few years."

Erm...
 
I think the advertisement "You have to be fast" doesn't qualify for him. Pink boots are just plain gay but whatever..

What are your thoughts for the next game? Chelsea is going to be damn hard. Score?
 
imo, it depends alot on whatever nasri is going to play. i can't imagine another game with denilson on the left.
but let's say draw or win for us.
as AW said: we play better against big teams.
 
Diaby is not available. Hes still injured. So is Walcott and Eboue. Our whole Right Flank is fucked!! So its going to be Ramsey i guess. Maybe Ramsey will play on left and Nasri on right.
 
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