Arsenal Overcome Udinese, But Problems Still Remain

It doesn’t say much for our left backs when Sagna has to cross over from right back even though Traore was fit.  Unless Wenger buys a left back I can see Sagna becoming a fixture in that position, Jenkinson, so far, has done alright.

What worries me is who plays in place of the suspended Song and Frimpong on Sunday.

Time to get the cheque book out Mr. Wenger.

We need players with passion for the club. Playes like winterburn, dixon, adams etc had so much passion for ARSENAL. Yesterday was a very decent effort.

I believe Traore must be axed for the way he walked into the pitch. No passion, no commitment……….he looked like he was pushed onto the field.

There’s a rather big chance Arsenal wouldn’t have won either of the games against Udinese if the Italians managed to hold on to their stars instead of selling them. That’s probably true. But they had to sell them, because their budget depends on sales. And that’s likely true, too.
Arsenal are missing a swift creative midfielder, who could get a good hold on the midfield and create the game without just spilling the ball to this side or that, like Ramsey tended to do last night. That’s probably true. But the ramsey we currently see is still several steps behind the Ramsey we know from last season. I don’t think he is enough, I actually think Wenger & the board and anyone else that matters should seriously consider other options. I like some of the rumours that are circulating right now, with the likes of Marvin Martin being linked to a move to Emirates. It’s nice, becuase I don’t think Arsenal need a Kaka, a player who would control the game from day one, but still need to adapt to the English game. They need an option, someone on whom they could rely in trouble. Surprisingly, yesterday it was Rosicky who gave the necessary impetus to the London side. I liked that, because he once counted among the 10 best creative midfielders in the world. I think it’s high time he showed more of the things which made him famous. Other players raise both eyebrows and questions, like Chamakh and Squillaci, normally reliable, if not very complicated, players, who nevertheless appear patently unable to fit in with the Arsenal side. If they can’t, Arsenal need players who would like to warm the bench for a while, just until RVP or Vermaelen get an injury. I don’t know if Wenger can really find such players, but if he can, Arsenal will have one of the evenest sides around. If that can’t win them the EPL or the CL, it can still lead to a lot of good.

And if Arsenal hadn’t lost F******s, C****y, N***i, and ifs and ands were pots and pans there’d be no need for tinkers.

Have been watching the Arsenal selling of key player antics from a distance. I follow UK football from Colorado USA. Seeing what is being said by writers and critics in the UK I unfortunately see a similar pattern unwinding for Arsenal this season as to what happened to another sports team owned by Stan Kroenke, the Colorado Avalanche ice hockey team. The Avs in late 1990 early 2000 were one of the top teams which went on to win 2 Stanley Cups, they had top players and coaches, then a slow meltdown took place. It was not immediately noticeable but bit by bit it was broken down, key players sold no new key replacements, they slipped down the logs, changed coaches and finally settled into a routine of being aimless and a washed up team at the bottom of the logs. During this downward trend owners and management stayed silent, fans stilled paid top dollar to see a once noted team, but who wants to see some players putting their hearts into the game and owner is raking in some money left on the table but the fans. Kroenke then went onto giving his son Josh the ownership of the Avs, and went onto other ventures such as controlling Arsenal, and getting into an American football team. I am sad to say that Kroenke has no interest in UK football, he is there for the money and will raid the fans coffers till Arsenal is at bottom of league fighting for survival, and the fans have become dis-content and wandering what happened when their once famous club was invaded by a greedy rich American corporate big knob. Hope this does not happen for the sake of UK football and fans over time, but to me I cannot see things differently. If I am proved wrong I will take back my words.