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Just realised that all the games until the end of the season are at either two or three am on days I can't afford to stay up, or mornings when I have morning class .
Then again, the state this team is in..

beatrixasdfghjk. wrote:Just realised that all the games until the end of the season are at either two or three am on days I can't afford to stay up, or mornings when I have morning class .
Then again, the state this team is in..

it's a sign...

Well I do have some hope, the one watchable game would be .. the Champions League final .

Arsenal v Bayern preview will be online tomorrow after Wenger press conference.

Arsene Wenger set to be offered 2-year new Arsenal contract

http://t.co/vJMWMPxX

One man who will almost certainly be on his way out of the club is Szczesny.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2280245/Arsene-Wenger-held-crisis-talks-Arsenal-team-ahead-Champions-League-clash-Bayern-Munich.html#ixzz2LCtUsKmv

Is there any truth to this? can you guys see this happening?

I would be against it cause you'll be hard done to find a guy more passionate and loyal to the club as him.

But, if we can get Begovic from Stoke, I think we should move him to #2 even though he has shown he has the ability to be a #1 keeper.

wow. i don't know about that. Szczesny has been pretty good this season.

Amar wrote:I would be against it cause you'll be hard done to find a guy more passionate and loyal to the club as him.

But, if we can get Begovic from Stoke, I think we should move him to #2 even though he has shown he has the ability to be a #1 keeper.

I love the guy and I dont blame him for the goals but he has it too easy imo, we need someone to challenge him. I know we cant have 2 great goal keepers but it would be nice to have some competition.

Szczesny has been struggling??? He has been pretty good the last few weeks, it's the defense which has been making big mistakes

Not a big fan of this "buy someone to pressure another player" mentality. How does that help? Pressure the guy into making more mistakes by worrying about being replaced for the slightest infraction?

Don't see how that's helpful in the slightest

I don't see any truth in the "Szczesny out" rumours, or rather, I don't see why they would be true. Szczesny is a bit error prone but he's done nothing to warrant being dropped from the starting eleven. Why would Arsenal replace a good young keeper like Szczesny for a declining, increasingly error prone Pepe Reina, for example? For that matter, why are we still being linked with Reina?

They have to fill in the names lol

The article says we are after Reus, Goetze and 10 other players

Lex wrote:Not a big fan of this "buy someone to pressure another player" mentality. How does that help? Pressure the guy into making more mistakes by worrying about being replaced for the slightest infraction?

Don't see how that's helpful in the slightest

Seems to work pretty well for United.

We need to stop cuddling our players. Gervinho would have been long gone had he been at United or any other top club.

Raptorgunner wrote:One man who will almost certainly be on his way out of the club is Szczesny.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2280245/Arsene-Wenger-held-crisis-talks-Arsenal-team-ahead-Champions-League-clash-Bayern-Munich.html#ixzz2LCtUsKmv

Is there any truth to this? can you guys see this happening?

What did I just read

• Szczesny is struggling - wut?
  
• A fans’ website called for a protest next Saturday with ‘Wenger out’ chants starting in the eighth minute of the Premier League game against Aston Villa to mark the eight-year wait for silverware. - How will this help Arsenal, chanting Wenger out in the middle of the season?
  
• Reina is a possible replacement for Szczesny - wut?
  
• Borussia Dortmund playmakers Marco Reus and Mario Gotze have been scouted - for what? It's not like we have a chance of getting them.

L'Equipe journalist at Arsenal training today



Said likely XI v Bayern judging by training:

Szczesny; Sagna Mertesacker Koscielny Vermaelen; Arteta Diaby; Cazorla Wilshere Podolski; Walcott

Which I presume would mean bench of Mannone, Jenkinson, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Rosicky, Gervinho, Giroud.

I will be rooting for the Gunners , confidence leads to arrogance and thats what the German's weakpoint is. So go get 'em!

Wenger on being offered a new deal: "That is the wrong information. It only has one intention: to harm."

Wenger wants Dein back at Arsenal as crunch contract talks set to commence



Arsene Wenger wants to bring David Dein back to Arsenal as he prepares to open preliminary contract talks with the club, Goal.com can reveal.
Arsenal still retain complete faith in Wenger and are willing to offer him an extension to his current deal that could extend his reign to the 20-year mark.

The Frenchman has indicated that he is keen to stay at Emirates Stadium but has told the club of his desire to be re-united with close friend and former ally Dein so they can work together on signing new players this summer.

The former Arsenal vice-chairman was ousted from the board in April 2007 for acting unilaterally in trying to attract new investment to the club but he retains a deep affinity for the club, watches home matches from his own box at Emirates Stadium and is still very close to Wenger.

A series of boardroom obstacles would need to be overcome for Dein to return but the 69-year-old has never criticised the club publically since his acrimonious departure and is still held in high esteem by supporters for his role in the 1998-2005 trophy-laden years.

Goal.com understands that Wenger is prepared to push strongly for Dein to take charge of negotiating player transfers this summer as Arsenal prepare to make use of what is expected to be the biggest kitty in the club’s history.

The Arsenal board remain committed to Wenger despite a sizeable portion of fans calling for him to resign after they were dumped out of the FA Cup by Blackburn Rovers at the weekend as his 16-and-a-half year tenure plumbed new depths.

As revealed by Goal.com in December, Wenger had rebuffed an informal approach from the club to arrange a time to open discussions over a new deal, insisting that he would assess his future at the end of the season.

The 63-year-old’s contract expires in June 2014 and there had been a growing sense within the club that he would not sign another deal, and could even leave this summer if Arsenal fail to attain a Champions League place.

However, the Arsenal board, led by majority owner Stan Kroenke and chief executive Ivan Gazidis, do not want to lose Wenger and the club have approached him once again in recent weeks about extending his reign.

In turn, the Frenchman has indicated that he is ready to sit down and hold formal talks with the club about a new deal.

Wenger’s public stance is that he always honours his contracts and that no firm decision has been taken over his future beyond 2014.

Nevertheless, there is a growing possibility that he could put pen to paper on a new contract before the start of next season to end speculation about the direction in which the club are heading.

The boardroom impetus comes at a time when Wenger's stock among a large section of the Arsenal support is perhaps at the lowest ebb of his long reign.

The club have been knocked out of the two domestic competitions by lower-league opposition this season and lie fifth in the Premier League table, four points behind fourth-placed Tottenham.

However, senior Arsenal officials want Wenger to stay and develop a team around a British core of Jack Wilshere, Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain supplemented by proven foreign stars in the mould of last summer’s key signings Santi Cazorla and Lukas Podolski.

The new financial fair play rules have already squeezed the spending of Manchester City and Chelsea, and Arsenal believe the Frenchman can take advantage of this to build a squad genuinely capable of challenging for trophies.

Although Arsenal’s sole remaining hope of ending a trophy-less run that dates back to 2005 lies in winning the Champions League, the board remain convinced in the abilities of Wenger and put far greater store in his record of top-four finishes and success in navigating the group stages of the Europe’s flagship competition year after year.

The club’s longest-serving manager is also appreciated by the board for maintaining the club's elite status either side of the move from Highbury while having a transfer budget that was dwarfed by the club's rivals.

The north Londoners' high command are also convinced that new commercial deals, such as the recently-announced £150million Emirates contract that comes into effect from 2014, leave Arsenal even better positioned in the medium and long term than they are now.

Wayne Veysey
http://www.goal.com/en/news/596/exclusive/2013/02/18/3760898/wenger-wants-dein-back-at-arsenal-as-crunch-contract-talks?source=breakingnews&ICID=HP_BN_1

If Dien comes back I would not mind Wenger staying.

http://news.arseblog.com/2013/02/angry-wenger-rails-at-contract-story-lies/

I'm loving angry Wenger!

Hope the players get the vibe and go all out angry tomorrow

El Shaarawy wrote:I will be rooting for the Gunners , confidence leads to arrogance and thats what the German's weakpoint is. So go get 'em!

We are rooting for you guy also.

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TEAM NEWS: Mertesacker is back, there is 'uncertainty' over Koscielny #AFCvBAY

So typical... Jenkinson vs Ribery will be a duel to watch

urbaNRoots wrote:‏@Arsenal
TEAM NEWS: Mertesacker is back, there is 'uncertainty' over Koscielny #AFCvBAY

So typical... Jenkinson vs Ribery will be a duel to watch

We will lose if Jenkinson starts, Coq must play.

Raptorgunner wrote:We will lose if Jenkinson starts, Coq must play.

It won't matter, even Sagna would struggle against an in-form Ribery. He's the most dangerous winger in the world.

Back to Wenger's press conference:

LOL, that was so funny, Wenger why you mad? we all know that is how it works at Arsenal, you only get offered new contract when you are not doing well.

Playing out of form Jenk with his stupid tackles is game suicide.