Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

Steve Bruce could surely be tempted

God, imagine that. Nasri would throw his toys out of the pram to such a ridiculous extent.

Really really wanna watch Udinese but I think the lure of Exeter in the Carling Cup is just too hard to turn down.

Nasri still has value for City, or ought to, even if he can only play in the league - still their top priority, right? Making the CL group stages is itself worth a lot of money and prestige for Arsenal.

xposts a convincing win, seriously? A 2-1 loss and advancement on away goals would be a huge victory at this point I think.

A team with Vermaelan, RVI, Gervinho and Wilshere should be able to pull off a convincing win. This is still a team with incredible talent, much like Liverpool a year ago was. It is just what happens on the pitch with it and how you work the less talented parts of it that will factor in. We beat Utd without Cesc a couple months ago and if some how we can have a morale-boost in the next coming days, are still able to do so again.

Did Joel Campbell get a work permit?

This is still a team with incredible talent, much like Liverpool a year ago was

i can remember everyone saying this at the time.

tho my sarcasm aside arsenal prob have a better squad than liverpool did a year ago, the problem areas aren't that hard to see you'd say.

lol

Weird that n1ck thinks i want no manager.

No-one thinks you want no manager but at that point you hadn't named any candidates at all and still haven't made any viable suggestions. Expressing frustration is one thing but Wenger leaving would be a much bigger deal and more difficult task to accomplish than would replacing the manager at pretty much any other club bar United. While Wenger may not last the season it's not going to be an overnight departure and certainly no-one's getting pushed out the door any time soon.

Why is De Boer not a viable suggestion?

Because he has a job which he's been in for five minutes and hasn't, to my knowledge, expressed any dissatisfaction about?

why would we want someone prone to dissatisfaction? also he was there for a whole title winning season, not five minutes.

he's p much avb but with a footballing background

If De Boer's been in his job for 5 minutes (half a season), Klinsmann's been in his for 30 seconds (one friendly). Not likely to leave.

What about Klopp? Or Garcia? Garrido? Or yes, even Coyle or Lambert? Lots of young and exciting managers looking for a step up from over-achieving with smaller teams to under-achieving with a big club. Or promote from within with Bould who has done a hell of a job with the u18s coming through atm?

wait where has klinsmann gone then?

xpost to boxall

I wouldn't be keen on him either. The point is, it's just a name with no connection to the club and that *does* matter at Arsenal, unlike Chelsea, so the AVB comparison is a waste of time.

usa usa usa xp

were wenger to offer himself to any of their current clubs the board would cum buckets

buckets ffs

someone with a connection to club matters to arsenal? do you remember when we signed arsene? getting the right man is all that matters.

Arsene Wenger is preparing a bid of around £23m for Lille’s attacker Edin Hazard, according to numerous sources this morning.

The Arsenal manager has come under heavy criticism after the departure of Cesc Fabregas , and a start to the season that has seen his side pick up just one point in their opening two games. Arsenal’s defeat to Liverpool on the weekend emphasized the need to strengthen the current squad, and Hazard is believed to be just one of several targets the Frenchman is hoping to bring in before the closing of the transfer window on August 31st.

The future of Samir Nasri is still to be resolved, but should his proposed move to Manchester City go through in the coming days then the Arsenal boss will enter the transfer market with more funding than he is used to, and reports today have suggested he is more than happy to splash the cash, but only on the right kind of players.

At just 20-years-old, Edin Hazard has established himself as one of Lille’s top players, and both his goals and assists proved to be crucial as his side were crowned champions of France at the end of last season. Hazard has bagged himself 28 goals, and help set up another 22 in his last three seasons in Ligue 1, and Arsenal fans will be hoping that the Belgian international can replicate this kind of form in the Premier League, especially after the departure of both Cesc Fabregas and (potentially) Samir Nasri,

At £23m Hazard may be deemed a rather expensive gamble, and this kind of signing does appear to go against the tight-fisted reputation that Wenger has made for himself over the years. Wenger has vowed to remain in charge at Arsenal despite recent reports suggesting he may quit, and it seems as though his decision to go into the market relied heavily on the future of both Fabregas and Nasri.

With Champions League football far from guaranteed even this season at the Emirates, some Arsenal fans will have been preparing themselves for the worst over the summer period. However, if Wenger is able to rebuild and strengthen the current crop at Arsenal by bringing in players of high quality like Hazard, then there may well be some light at the end of the tunnel for these fans – we will perhaps be in a better position to know come August 31st.

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tbh a signing like this, which is possible and within our transfer/wage structure with limitless sell-on possibility, would make me shut tfu

tony adams says he's been approached for the arsenal job apparently

dont even joek

i think i'd personally start up Dial Sq FC if

anyone know anything about blackburn's new signign Simon Vukcevic

name looks like it could be venky'd up.

http://www.realradiowales.co.uk/player/listen-again/kdfklf39/listen-2655

LOL tony's full insane pack of lies is still online

so good

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/kyrgiakos-leaves-reds

:(

arsene misses out on another top defender.

Hallelujah

:(

“What’s his name? Yeah, Ashley Young. We used to play against him when he was at Aston Villa and we did all right. He’s not better just because he has changed club."

rip big soti

Surprise, surprise, Howard Webb is reffing the Utd vs Arsenal game on Sunday. Won't be the reason why we lose, but still.
― James Mitchell, Monday, August 22, 2011 3:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

webb's out on loan at newcastle iirc but hear own goal's back for sunday

bae is just the best

why has no one tapped him up for a weekly column? nult could ghostwrite it and everything

Kyrgiakos done okay tbf, he's just walking confirmation that your club is not a top club. Might as well have been sponsored by wonga.com and sung 'by far the greatest team / the world has ever seen' the past two years.

one thing is certain; the cornrowed cameroonian will not have given a fuck

needed kyrgiakos to play the hard cop to agger's latterday beckenbauer in order to fully cement the soti and sweep partnership

surely it is dennis bergkemp's time to shine.

would prefer to stay in europe kthx

kyrgiakos did better than ok for liverpool at a time when a lot more lauded players were landing them in it every week iirc

Utd team

De Gea - Smalling, Jones, Evans, Evra - Nani, Cleverley, Anderson, Young - Rooney, Welbeck.

intrestd to see welbeck, j&s and clev.

Crikey, that's not too good.

Ooh, Hernandez on the bench

Tottenham have failed to win any of their last 24 meetings with Manchester United in all competitions.

Spurs' last victory over United was a 3-1 success in May 2001 at White Hart Lane. They have failed to win any of the subsequent 20 league matches, two FA Cup ties and two League Cup games.

It's 22 years since Spurs last won at Old Trafford - a 1-0 victory in December 1989 courtesy of a Gary Lineker goal.

I'm quite happy that Fergie is persisting with that team actually. Can't win anything with kids etc.

I can see Spurs being unlucky not to win here.

Mendez non-goal somewhere in the middle of that run xxp

Mendes, sorry