Comments on: Premiership Preview–4. Arsenal

By: dobby the gooner

dobby the gooner — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:56:17 +0000

Dear oh dear...

You're looking pretty foolish now aren't you?
How's that Spurs revival working out for you, Michael?

By: Paul Bestall

Paul Bestall — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:03:59 +0000

I think people underestimate Samir Nasri at their peril.

By: Reo

Reo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:41:36 +0000

Looks like you’re the idiot considering you don’t even know how to use your own language. Chow . . .

By: No More Yanks

No More Yanks — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:58:44 +0000

Hey Mikey,

You are proof that if you give a Yank a keyboard he can sh#$t his way through life.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:13:46 +0000

Arsene looks for players that will fit his style and are below market price. Why is that a bad thing? I would say Sagna and Eduardo were pretty smart signings.

As others have noted, Wenger has never made excuses for not winning. He wants to win the PL and CL every year. The “rebuilding” label was attached by others.

Also, all of the youngsters that played last year went through a title chase and a Champions League run. Would that qualify as experience?

By: DanishFFCfan

DanishFFCfan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:36:21 +0000

Well said, ossie’s dream

This is Michaels opinion.. Others might have other opinions and thats life! I didn’t agree with Michael placing Fulham 16th, but hey.. I respect his opinion.

There is no need to rip the guy a new asshole, just because he is posting his opinions online!

If you don’t like it, just don’t read the blog then!

Keep up the good work Michael (Fulham is finishing 14th;))!

By: ossie's dream

ossie's dream — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:17:37 +0000

Christ on a bike, what a bunch of fookin’ babies.

“Arsenal are the best, just you wait and see, whaa, whaa…[spits dummy out]…whaa, the media’s out to get us, we’ll show you, whaa [falls out of pram].”

This is a blog fer crissakes – not a bleedin’ oracle. It’s written by people with opinions, opinions that may – shock, horror – differ from your own.

Michael, like every man and his dog with an opinion on the upcoming season, wonders how Arsenal are going to challenge for the PL and CL when they have failed, yet again, to make significant investment in the squad (compared to Chelsea and ManU, that is). Man U may not have made any signings yet, but you can be sure they will by the end of the window. Chelsea have bought Bosingwa and Deco (sorry, Simon Burke, but that is more than a “little investment”).

The comparison with Spurs makes sense when you remember (and this may be breaking news for some of the learning-impaired 12 year olds that are commenting here) that Spurs and Arsenal have been fierce rivals for almost a century, and that Spurs have top 4 pretensions (again).

My guess: Arsenal will nab 3rd or even 2nd if Man U slip up. Chelsea will win it.

By: Simon Burke

Simon Burke — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:47:04 +0000

Not the worst written article by Michael I have ever seen but not good either – replace what Michael wrote with what JM wrote up half way up and you will have what amounts to proper analysis. Truth be told Arsenal could finish anything from 1st to 4th again – last year it was a 4 point margin so clearly we are capable of challenging and in truth we should have done it last year but blew it at the end quite badly. Thats experience though, water under the bridge and I have seen little improvement at Chelsea and especially United this Summer so we shouldnt be too far back of them and may even win it. Tottenham have a great side this year if they can gel them but they wont gel them in time. They can concentrate on their ‘big cup’ they will want to defend in January.

By: Weston

Weston — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:09:23 +0000

another thought…who else is already looking forward to the North London derby?

Given the furor over the Carling Cup comment, the gunners-fans seem to be aware of the possibility of a (for once) quality spurs team posing a very real challenge to them.

By: Weston

Weston — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:05:03 +0000

Yes, the new stadium and the financing that goes with is has really strapped the Gooners, but even without bringing in huge-name talent expected to perform (cough-Shevchenko-cough) Wenger has done a hugely succesful job developing young talent and could have easily one the league last year.

That said, it will be hard to count them out this year, even though L’Pool, Chelski and ManU look to be clearly stronger sides … on paper. The Young-Goons are talented and are in a winning culture, and that can go a long way.