I think people could argue all day long that Arsenal need an English backbone and our lack of English players could be a major reason for us being starved of trophies in recent years.
I don't agree..............
Its obvious we need some grit in there. Some of our players are softer than Tesco's blue stripe toilet roll.
But why do some people always assume that English is what we need to give us a bit of 'toughness'?
Is there proof that English players are harder and provide more grit than any other nations players?
There is no proof that on those cold snowy Tuesday nights in Blackburn English players will just roll their sleeves up and get on with it more than a foreigner.
Its all about character.
And when was the last time all that 'grit' won England anything anyway?
Keep it Goonerish.............
Too true
ReplyDeleteToo true although some nations seem to have a higher percentage of players with true grit look at the Eastern european nations and players like Vidic they do have a lot of grit. Whereas for instance if you look at Portguese and Spanish players in general they seem to have far less grit.
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ReplyDeleteand u r right wrighty7. any of those people we are linked with would do the job just fine. for some weird reason something tells me that btwn melo, sakho and yohan cabana one of those players will be an arsenal player b4 preseason. just my gut feeling
oh man, im third. oh well
ReplyDeleteAgreed it's not hard. Someone please tell Adebayor that. HAS ANYONE LOOKED AT LUISAO. HE AIN'T At A GREAT CLUB SO SHOULDN'T BE TOO EXPENSIVE AND HE LOOKS GREAT. REASONABLY PACEY AND WITHOUT QUESTION AERIAL DOMINANCE- HE MADE TONI HIS BITCH FOR THE DAY. HOPE WENGER WILL HAVE A LOOK AT HIM WHEN HE OFFLOADS SILVESTRE(Fuck what wenger said he has to go
ReplyDelete6th and very true
ReplyDeleteanonymous I was at the stadium for brazil-italy and was thinking exactly that why don't we look at Luisao atheletic, good control, good in the air.. perfect wengerball player.
ReplyDelete100% agree...if we only picked players because of how strong there are we would have the All Blacks rugby team
ReplyDeleteYeh surely the "grittiest" player in the league is essien!? No english player can match him in that department
ReplyDeleteAlso, agree that Luisao is good
"I think people could argue all day long that Arsenal need an English backbone and our lack of English players could be a major reason for us being starved of trophies in recent years."
ReplyDeleteFor Arsenal insert ENGLAND
For England insert losers..
ReplyDeleteJesus,how can Van Persie get 70000 a week for being on the treatment table,that is a joke and an insult to us fans.
ReplyDeletewenger would buy english but they are just too damn expensive. look at glen johnson, 18m dont make me laugh hes not fit to tie sagnas shoes!
ReplyDeleteI ask you all,are you gonna stand for another mercenary bleeding our club(Van Persie)how can he get a 25 percent pay rise for being a complete failure,he ran around like a headless chicken in one cl semifinal and one FA cup semifinal and spent half the season on the treatment table.
ReplyDeletevan persie was the sole reason we made 4th place i suggest you look at some videos of arsenal december to march
ReplyDeleteRvP had a poor season he's a poor mans Torres,Ade a poor mans Drogba an so on! English players way to expensive, we payed to much for Walcott when the better option was Ashley Young!
ReplyDeletei c no prob with van persie getting 70k a week as he was one of our most influential players last season...arguably that alone does not earn him a 25% pay raise, but i belive he will bang in even more goals next season as we challange 4 premier league and cl
ReplyDeletehe didnt have as good a season as i had hoped but in previous years his goals:games ratio has been brilliant.
ReplyDeleteadebayor messd it up by becoming our main goalscoring forward so rvp had to play as support.
I like him because there are times where i feel hes the only one willing to fight for a victory, too many of our players just start to feel sorry for themselves.
eboue is another who will fight, maybe gibbs has that spirit in himi duno, but im not sure of any others
oh, also rvp hit the bar/post at least 13 times by my count this year.
ReplyDeleteimagine if half of those went in. then we'd be looking at a pretty decent goals record, even if he was already our topscorer
100% agree.
ReplyDeletehello fellow gooners.
ReplyDeletei'm not sure if anybody have brought up this before, but does anybody else realize that Arsenal have a collection of 19 different nationalities in the first team alone. Not that i really care, but seriously. 19?
Here are those:
1. French-Gallas, Clichy,Sagna etc
2. Spanish-Fabregas,Almunia
3. Ivory Coast-Toure,Eboue
4. Swiss-Senderos,Djourou
5. Cezch-Rosicky
6. Brazilian-Denilson,Melo(hopefully)
7. Dutch-RVP
8. English-Walcott,Wilshere,Gibbs
9. Croatian-Eduardo
10. Danish-Bendtner
11. Cameroonian-Song
12. Togolese-The Bayor
13. Mexican-Vela
14. Polish-Fabianski
15. Russian-Arshavin
16. Italian-Mannone
17. Welsh-Ramsey
18. Portugese-Bischoff
and the latest addition..drumroll...
19. Belgium-Vermalean
maybe it is some kind of weird hobby but in all seriousness..how could possibly all these 19 different people from 19 different background and culture integrated into the team.
Just imagine if the rumoured transfer of Lorik cana (Albanian), Chamakh (Moroccan) or Hitzlperger(spelling.Germans) go through.