Can arsenal win the league next season?

6unner wrote:PLAYER GOALS
Robin Van Persie 26
Theo Walcott 6
Mikel Arteta 5
Thomas Vermaelen 5
Gervinho 4
Thierry Henry 2
PLAYER ASSISTS
Robin Van Persie 9
Theo Walcott 8
Alex Song 8
Gervinho 6
Aaron Ramsey 4
Andrei Arshavin 3

Without RVP leading the team in goals and assists this year we would be fighting relegation. If we were to loose him for next year I think we would find it hard to get anyone that can replace him and we would be fighting relegation then. We still need to keep RVP and bring in another 2 or 3 players.

LMAO, yeahhhhhh we would be fighting relegation if we played with 10 men for the season.... if rvp wasn't there than chamakh or park would have chipped in and scored goals as well as they would be the focal points of the attack. id expect chamakh or park (depending on whoever is the starter) to have at least 10-15 goals. we wouldn't be in the position we are now without rvp, but we would not be fighting relegation either, we'd still be in the top 6.

facepalm to you sir

GoonerJay29 wrote:Also you have to look at the reasons why van Persie has scored so many goals. How many times has he had goals laid on a plate for him? Van Persie's excellent goalscoring is as much to do with the excellent service he gets from the others than his own individual ability.

Hence why the claims of us being a one man team are far from the mark. If you took Messi out of Barcelona, or Mario Gomez out of Bayern or even Demba Ba out of Newcastle, would all those teams be fighting relegation too?

Now look at our most recent game. We won 3-0 and van Persie was hardly involved. Even games before that, even if van Persie scored goals the contribution from the other players have been invaluable.

Are we third place because of van Persie? No. We're third place because the whole team is playing well and contributing.

Samuelj29060 wrote:Again, lets revisit this thread in summer.

Its embarrassing that in the space of four games arsenal are once again above us as usual. A season where arsenal are supposedly a club in turmoil with their best players in nasri and fabregas leaving the club. Yet somehow they are a better team than spurs still according to the table. One of the worst arsenal teams in years, and yet they are sitting in 3rd above us. It is a joke. I don't care, whatever. This is suppose to be the best spurs team in years yet STILL arsenal are above us. Could you imagine spurs' season with bale and modric gone? I admire arsenal at the moment as much as I dislike them. We have been touted as the hottest thing going yet they are sitting above us and made us look like mugs. Remember how four weeks ago arsenal were a complete joke and just so laughable?

Sorry but spurs are far from perfect and if we finish behind them after the season they have had that would just be a massive facepalm fail.

Just my opinion

After seeing the way we played, I'm confident we will. Woolwich's "luck" will eventually run out and knowing the kind of bottlers that they are around this time, I can seeing them dropping points at Stoke and at home against the Duckies and Chavs. As much annoyed I am that we didn't win this game like we should have as we were clearly the better team. I'm confident we are going to turn the corner after this result. We're too good of a team to go on such a hideous slump. This isn't 2008 anymore.

There are no easy games in the EPL

...except playing the scum without RVP

aleumdance wrote:they still have their deluded idiots

After seeing the way we played, I'm confident we will. Woolwich's "luck" will eventually run out and knowing the kind of bottlers that they are around this time, I can seeing them dropping points at Stoke and at home against the Duckies and Chavs. As much annoyed I am that we didn't win this game like we should have as we were clearly the better team. I'm confident we are going to turn the corner after this result. We're too good of a team to go on such a hideous slump. This isn't 2008 anymore.

some spurs fans never stop amazing me

There are no easy games in the EPL

...except playing the scum without RVP

GoonerJay29 wrote:Interesting statistic here:

Since October 3rd, Arsenal have accumulated the same number of points as Man City and Man Utd - 51.

To rephrase that, Arsenal, City and United have picked up the same number of points since they played the first seven games. Arsenal's results in the first seven games were:

Newcastle 0 - 0 Arsenal
Arsenal 0 - 2 Liverpool
Arsenal 2 - 8 Man Utd
Arsenal 1 - 0 Swansea
Blackburn 3 - 4 Arsenal
Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton
Tottenham 2 - 1 Arsenal

We only won picked up 7 points out of 21. If we look at why we lost those games; a combination of injuries, an unsettled side, low morale and a side still blending, it further emphasises how important having a good pre-season is.

mani88 wrote:

GoonerJay29 wrote:Interesting statistic here:

Since October 3rd, Arsenal have accumulated the same number of points as Man City and Man Utd - 51.

To rephrase that, Arsenal, City and United have picked up the same number of points since they played the first seven games. Arsenal's results in the first seven games were:

Newcastle 0 - 0 Arsenal
Arsenal 0 - 2 Liverpool
Arsenal 2 - 8 Man Utd
Arsenal 1 - 0 Swansea
Blackburn 3 - 4 Arsenal
Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton
Tottenham 2 - 1 Arsenal

We only won picked up 7 points out of 21. If we look at why we lost those games; a combination of injuries, an unsettled side, low morale and a side still blending, it further emphasises how important having a good pre-season is.

Raptorgunner wrote:

aleumdance wrote:they still have their deluded idiots

After seeing the way we played, I'm confident we will. Woolwich's "luck" will eventually run out and knowing the kind of bottlers that they are around this time, I can seeing them dropping points at Stoke and at home against the Duckies and Chavs. As much annoyed I am that we didn't win this game like we should have as we were clearly the better team. I'm confident we are going to turn the corner after this result. We're too good of a team to go on such a hideous slump. This isn't 2008 anymore.

some spurs fans never stop amazing me

There are no easy games in the EPL

...except playing the scum without RVP

LOL, they are shitting themselves, Chelsea will take 4th place from them.