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Talksport were trying to compare current Man City side to Arsenal invincibles.

They said Man City won 6-5 on head-to-head. They picked Hart over Lehmann and Aguero over Bergkamp!

And....Arsenal's invincibles starting xi cost £47.3m. James Milner + David Silva cost £48m.

Hahahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahha

RealGunner wrote:Hahahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahha

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03/04

Lehmann - £3.5m
Lauren - £7.2m
Campbell - Free
Toure - £150k
Cole - Youth
Ljungberg - £3m
Vieira - £4.5m
Gilberto - £4.5m
Pires - £6m
Bergkamp - £7.5m
Henry - £11m
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£47.3m

They are comparing wrong players

Vieira Shits all over Toure for example
Gilverto vs Barry, less said the better
Pires vs Silva ? Pires anyday
Henry vs dze- forget about it
Bergkamp, freakin BERGKAMP vs Aguero ? wtf ?
Sol campbell is 6 times the player Kompany is
Toure vs lescott LOL

Samuelj29060 wrote:Talksport were trying to compare current Man City side to Arsenal invincibles.

They said Man City won 6-5 on head-to-head. They picked Hart over Lehmann and Aguero over Bergkamp!

And....Arsenal's invincibles starting xi cost £47.3m. James Milner + David Silva cost £48m.

Talksport.

RealGunner wrote:They are comparing wrong players

Vieira Shits all over Toure for example
Gilverto vs Barry, less said the better
Pires vs Silva ? Pires anyday
Henry vs dze- forget about it
Bergkamp, freakin BERGKAMP vs Aguero ? wtf ?
Sol campbell is 6 times the player Kompany is
Toure vs lescott LOL

They're called TalkShite for a reason.

Aguero over Bergkamp.

Talk about kneejerk, 11 games into the season.

RG summed up my other thoughts nicely.

635 - Mikel Arteta has made the 2nd-most successful passes in the PL this season after Y Touré (684)

City will slip up and lose to somebody like Wolves or something. They'll still rape the league though.


There's only one Invincibles.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/wojciech-szczesny-jack-wilshere-%28fifa12%29-15667881/

Wojciech Szczesny vs Jack Wilshere #FIFA12

Szczesny: Oh, did you hear, I got player of the month again. When was the last time you got player of the month. WILSHERE, YOU HAVE TO TALK IN THIS.

Oh, :lol!:.

lol, Szczesny seems to be our new Eboue

Btw, according to @WhoScored we've the 3rd best shots to goal ratio in EPL, here a table:

urbaNRoots wrote:http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/wojciech-szczesny-jack-wilshere-%28fifa12%29-15667881/

Wojciech Szczesny vs Jack Wilshere #FIFA12

"Oh dear, now I only have two at the back, but it's ok I have SZCZESSSNYYYY ! "

LMFAOOO

MIKEL ARTETA admits he is finally getting to grips with life at Arsenal.
The Spaniard signed for the Gunners on deadline day from Everton this summer and was thrown into the thick of the action.

His arrival along with Andre Santos and Per Mertesacker saw a revival in the North London side's form.

But midfielder Arteta, 29, revealed: "I have not had a lot of time to settle.

"As soon as I came here there was a pressure and we needed to get results.

"It has not been an easy time but we have got those results in the last two months."

Arsenal eased past West Brom on Saturday with Arteta scoring the third in a 3-0 win.

But it was the clean sheet that gave Arteta just as much satisfaction.

He added: "We have been trying to get everything tight and be more solid.

"I like to get forward, have freedom and I like to score goals.

"I want to participate more on the attacking side so I did that and I'm pleased.

"But now we are on a run, we are keeping it together and getting clean sheets. That's important. I am pleased that we won.

"We have a break now and it leaves you with a really bad sensation if you don't win before one of those.

"We have 15 days to work with the players and we need to come back very strong.

"We have to win every game because we are catching up and it is not one or two clubs chasing the title like the old days.

"We know we have the talent and the desire in our team to get better."

Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard admits he's a big fan of Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere.

Gerrard hopes the youngster can be fit for the Euros with England.

He said: "Everyone wants to see Jack back as quickly as possible. He's such a talented kid and I'm sure if he gets back to the form he was showing previously then I'm sure he'll be a dead cert to get into the 23.

"He's a fantastic talent. I don't know how much longer the injury will take to heal, but anyone wanting England to do well wants to see him back.

"I want to see him playing really well again because he's a great player to watch. Us as England players want him to be involved again and to help make us stronger."

Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny is ready to take lessons from Liverpool legend Bruce Grobbelaar!

The Gunners’ opinionated Pole gave fans heart palpitations by ­performing two Cruyff turns on Marseille forward Jordan Ayew during Tuesday’s Champions League draw – the sort of trick for which Liverpool keeper Grobbelaar was infamous.

But Szczesny, 21, said: “Of course I looked good on the ball – that’s why they called me the young Zinedine when I was five years old! You could see from the Marseille game that I’d like to have been an outfield player.

“Grobbelaar? I have heard of him. He can be my new role model. I’ll YouTube him.”
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Craziest guy ever to play for Arsenal....Eboue who??

Jenkinson

“I have to pinch myself sometimes,” admits Carl Jenkinson, and when you listen to the story of his improbable, miraculous rise from non-league to Premier League in the blink of an eye then it is not hard to see why.

This time last year the defender was on loan from League One Charlton Athletic to struggling Conference National outfit Eastbourne Borough – then just eight months later he was playing in the Champions League.

If that doesn’t already sound like the stuff of far-fetched dreams then add in the fact that the 19-year-old comes from an Arsenal-mad family and had been supporting the Gunners for as long as he can remember.

“It is crazy, sometimes I do have to pinch myself if I think where I was this time last year,” Jenkinson tells the Gazette after helping shut out West Brom on Saturday.

“I was on loan at Eastbourne Borough in the Conference, playing on some horrible pitches and then here I am now playing for the club I love.

“A lot has gone on in the past year but I am thankful it has happened. At the start I had some tricky times, but I have settled in a bit now, found my feet, and am just trying to give my best in every game for the club.”

Those ‘tricky times’ Jenkinson alludes to would probably include getting sent off in the traumatic 
8-2 defeat at Old Trafford, and being unfairly scapegoated for his part in Arsenal’s worst start to a season for 58 years.

While there was widespread criticism aimed at the club and Arsene Wenger for that, the teenage defender who appeared woefully out of his depth also seemed to receive an awful lot of it.

For many fans and pundits, the fact Arsenal were having to call on a player of such limited experience seemed to exemplify just how the club had deteriorated since the days of the ‘Invincibles.’

Two months on, and while perhaps not having made those critics eat their words, the opinion of Jenkinson has changed dramatically. The player himself is not afraid of addressing the issue.

“Of course the criticism hurts, you never want to hear negative things about you but I have always believed in myself,” he says without a trace of arrogance, but with a touch of inner steel that is perhaps what prompted Wenger to dip into the lower leagues for a player who very few people had ever heard of.

“I always believed I could play at this level, at the top. That’s my belief and I am hoping that now I am starting to show that,” adds Jenkinson.

“In football there’s always people who doubt you and say you are not good enough. It’s the same with every player. It’s up to me to work hard and prove those people wrong.”

Gradually he has been doing just that. In the last three games he has started, two in the Champions League against Marseille and then on Saturday, Arsenal have not conceded a goal.

“We have looked a lot more solid defensively for the past few games,” he says. “At the start of the season players have left and then we have signed players, but we have got our squad now. It takes a little bit of time for that to gel together.

“We’ve come a long way in a short amount of time and we have to make sure we keep doing what we are doing now and winning games.”

Jenkinson would probably not be getting the chance to redeem himself so soon if Bacary Sagna had not broken his leg in last month’s north London derby defeat at White Hart Lane.

With no other regular right-back at the club, Jenkinson came back into the side and his displays since have erased the early-season trauma for both player and fans.

“It is very disappointing that Bac has got injured, he’s a world-class right-back but I suppose it does give me a chance and I’ve got try and take it,” he says.

“I am just trying to work hard and take my chance. It’s not going to be easy, I know that, there’s going to be some tough games and there will be ups and downs.

“But I am just working hard to do my best. Everyone knows I will always give 100 per cent for this club. It’s the club I love and the club I have supported all my life.”

Many new signings down the years claim to have supported or had a soft spot in their youth for the club they join but Jenkinson, who grew up in Buckhurst Hill in Essex, is the real deal.

“Some people don’t believe how much of an Arsenal fan my dad is, he’s been an Arsenal season-ticket holder for 40 years. If you walk in our living room at home we’ve got all these programmes in folders going back 40 years.

“Our family is a massive, massive Arsenal family. Everyone is a Gooner in my household. It’s a cliche but it is a dream come true for me to play for Arsenal and I will never take it for granted.

“I think every fan in the stadium would want to be on the pitch and I’m lucky enough to be doing that and representing those people, and trying to make them proud.”

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Great find

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lol love Wojciech

Nice words from Santi Cazorla on the Arsenal:

"In England, the style of play is back + forth. In Spain it's about possession. Only Arsenal play a similar game to us".

It makes me proud to be a gooner, when despite winning nothing since 05, we are still recognised world wide for our style of play.

We should go for Cazorla instead of Reus lmao

@LaurensJulien (French journo on twitter)

After training earlier, it looks like France could start with new boys Giroud up front,Koscielny at CB and Mathieu at LB against USA.

so Gervinho nominated for african footballer of the year.anybody surprised?

Gervinho nominated for African Footballer of the Year
As the influx of exciting Arsenal-related news during the Interlull continues, Gervinho comes to the fore – head ing up a list of 10 nominees for the African Player of the Year award.

Coming on the back of a title-winning season with Lille in which he contributed 18 goals and 10 assists, and a subsequent big money move to the Premiership, the Ivorian is well worth his nomination.

The rest of the nominees are a mix of established names and up-and-coming players, most of whom have played in the Premier League at some point. Familiar faces include former winners Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o, along with Seydou Keita, Yaya Toure, and Ghanaian penalty specialist Asamoah Gyan.

The list is completed by Gervinho’s former teammate Moussa Sow, Marseille’s Andrew Ayew, Kevin Prince-Boateng of AC Milan, and QPR playmaker and computer whizkid Adel Terabyte.

Were he to win, Gervinho would be the third Arsenal player to claim the award – former Gunners Nwanko Kanu and Emmanuel Adebayor won in 1999 and 2007
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