It’s difficult not to recycle old feelings or those that have already been stated, but for me personally the va va voom about this Arsenal team isn’t there anymore, the club is very special, but it appears the team isn’t, everyone has used the word mediocre, I find this word very cruel and disrespectful, but of course they like many are comparing this team to the successful Arsenal teams of old.
Wenger:
"A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful."
How fitting is that now? but the media and many fans of our own have made it sound like this woman is a deluded beast who needs massive plastic surgery. She doesn’t, a little eye liner never hurt anybody but in order to avoid the whole make-up parody, point is that the natural beauty about Arsenal, the way we used to make things flow with some consistency at least has stopped, we’re only seeing flashes, flashes of what we we’ve been spoiled with for years.
I think this team has forgotten what they’re capable of or perhaps they aren’t capable of it, Wenger said today that the players had not let him down, cued a reaction from supporters thinking that obviously they had, but we know how professional Wenger is, like he is ever going to admit it, we’re still in the race for fourth, it’s not the right time anyway.
We had a brand, a way of playing, the tactics have been subdued and midfield has been laboured, what I felt at the beginning and feel now are the same, we have too many players in midfield that are too similar and perhaps it’s the same on the wings now that Nasri has gone as he was more of a possession playing winger.
Against Spurs we don’t have a choice, we need to get our engine ticking and our style needs to mix with the directness to give us the result we all crave more than ever, A home win.
Giving Credit To Them…..
Tottenham have played well this season, they’ve shown more consistency, of course our former Togo striker who begged for Beyonce but ended up with Heather from Eastenders has helped their cause.
But I say with much happiness that even if they do finish above us, it’s not the end of the world, let them have their little parade, let us suffer, let us rebuild and let us get over it, our club will always be there, self-sustainability is living within your means, of course it means Gazidis will be paid a bit more than you’d want and not everything goes to transfers, but that’s how a proper football club is run and that is what we are, a proper football club.
This season to me, is the season that we let go of ourselves, the unresolved summer still haunts but I just think of it as a stumble to prevent a big fall, I don’t want to sound like Arsene but economically the world is ridiculously unstable, we are going to be incredibly cautious with transfers and everything, because every football club is scared that the market can react in a way to affect the finances of every club.
We saw proof of this during the winter and the summer, only Man City, PSG were actually spending money and the signings were not big, especially this January.
I understand this is difficult for people to understand or to accept, we were sold dreams in 2006 that all these youngsters would become something special together, yet they most were sold, one by one, now the ones that are left are either injured or very inconsistent. It would make anyone frustrated but we do just have to persevere, this is our team, this is our club.
Team News
Szczęsny
Sagna Koscielny Vermaelen Gibbs
Song
Rosicky Arteta
Walcott Van Persie Gervinho
Subs: Oxlade Chamberlain, Jenkinson, Fabianski, Chamakh, Benayoun, Djourou, Park.
According to the news running around, Arsenal have agreed to let Arshavin go on loan to Zenit St Petersburg, wrong move in my opinion as we need all the cover we can get but I guess they want him to have as much play time as possible so that his sale value goes up in the summer, it might be a goodbye cut short for the diminutive Russian who stole our hearts 3 years ago and has been straining it every since.
But looking at that bench, with Benik Afobe coming back I don’t see that much room for Arshavin anyway, sadly.
This is the most I’ve been worried before a NLD in my life, but all that worry will turn into excitement when the game starts, perhaps we’ll finally get to show them who runs things in London, the optimist in me says 3-1 to the Arsenal, the pessimist says a dodgy injury and a red card results in a 2-2 draw, let’s all stay united and give the best support we can regardless.
I want to redirect everyone to this:
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Have a beautiful weekend everyone,
Much love,
Alexander
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