What has been going on at the club? well first we stopped our losing run of 3 league games with a goalless draw at Bolton. Secondly, the transfer window has closed and the only business we have done is to buy another wonderkid, who will be ready in the next 3-4 years for Premier League Action as a first team player if he is good. By that time, Robin Van Persie, Thomas Vermaelen, Bacary Sagna, Andre Santos, Aaron Ramsey, Andre Arshavin, Gervinho, Chamakh etc etc will have long left or be on their way out of the club. We shall be in another ''transition phase''...
If you missed the game last night, or fell asleep during the second half like I did, you didn't miss anything really. It was the same story really; Arsenal created lots of chances, dominated the game, but failed to score while we nearly got hit with a sucker punch.
I have bleated on and on about our players not being good enough. Why we could not go into the transfer market and buy a player who can do better than Walcott, Arshavin, Chamakh, Park etc in front of goal I cannot understand. Wenger always likes to say if he can find super-quality players who can improve our team he will buy them. Well, currently, very many players are super-quality when compared to the quality we have at the club.
Strikers like Dgibril Cisse, Zamora, Sessegnon, Pavlyuchenko and Saha are super-quality when compared to Chamakh, Arshavin, Theo, Park...
The manager is adamant we are strong enough to get into the top four, forgetting that we are losing ground to the other teams, and that they are also going to fight hard to stay up there. Honestly, which of the current top four sides do you see collapsing to the point of falling behind Arsenal? I know football is a strange game and anything can happen, but first and foremost, it is about ability and consistency- something which our squad is lacking at the moment. I can't wait for Arsenal to find both while our competitors lose theirs...
Furthermore, the other teams have better squads than ours. Their players are more reliable, effective and most importantly, they are consistent. I don't see them losing too many games between now and the end of the season, whereas I can see Arsenal losing at least another 4 league games and drawing atleast 3 times.
| Pos | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manchester City | 23 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 60 | 19 | 41 | 54 |
| 2 | Manchester United | 23 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 56 | 21 | 35 | 54 |
| 3 | Tottenham Hotspur | 23 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 44 | 25 | 19 | 49 |
| 4 | Chelsea | 23 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 41 | 26 | 15 | 42 |
| 5 | Newcastle United | 23 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 34 | 30 | 4 | 39 |
| 6 | Liverpool | 23 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 28 | 21 | 7 | 38 |
| 7 | Arsenal | 23 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 39 | 33 | 6 | 37 |
The league table doesn't lie. We have 15 league games to go. It will take something of a small miracle to improve our current 1.61 points per game and finish in the top four.
Even after we finish in the top four, is that really enough for a big club like Arsenal?
Something needs to change fast at Arsenal.
Backwards march the Arsenal!!!!
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