Monday, August 22, 2011

What's Wrong With Arsenal???


What's wrong with that picture? I haven't seen that from Arsene Wenger since he step foot in the Barclay's Premier League more than a decade ago. Have you? Arsenal fans can look away, select another site to read on or just simply close the tab cuz I'm about to tell the truth  on what's actually going on with your beloved? The absolute truth.

Like it or not, Arsenal are having major cracks in their squad. They badly need a major overhaul. Wenger needs to re-think his strategies. There's no wrong in bringing up your youth products but it's gotta be gradually. They have to blend in with the experienced players. The last time Arsenal lifted a trophy was the FA Cup back in I can't remember when. Oh yeah, it was against Man United. Completely outplayed and outclassed during that game only for United not able to finish it off. Ok, so that was history. Here's my top 5 points that Arsene Wenger needs addressing.

Point One: Experienced players. Let's roll back the years when Wenger decided to sell their talismanic captain, Patrick Vieira to Juventus. It was a shocker when he was sold off. I mean like "What were you thinking Arsene?". Years ago (seems like zaman purba) they had Emmanuelle Petit, Dennis Bergkamp, Tony Adams, Ray Parlour (yes, him too) and David Seaman. When they face Man United, Chelsea, Bolton and even Stoke (yes, even them), they'll get slaughtered due to their opponent's size. Not to mention sheer quality. No replacement for the quality of Robert Pires and Gilberto Silva. When these "kids" look around for inspiration, they see Fabregas (not even 25 yet and has left for FC Barcelone) and Van Persie (still inexperienced).

Point Two: Why on earth would you sell Thierry Henry to FC Barcelona? You know he wanted was to retire at Arsenal and he even proclaimed his love towards the club. All he wanted was Arsene to buy "World Class" players. There were plenty my friends. Plenty!!! Oh, and Theo Walcott is NO Thierry Henry. He's not even worth wearing that legendary number 14 ok. Which brings me to the other point.

Point Three: SPEND, SPEND, SPEND!!! Like "Oh my GOD Arsene, please dip into the transfer market and buy some players!!!". I can understand he wants to bring his youth products but they do not have other experienced players to look up to when they're in need of guidance and focus. They badly need central defenders, central midfielders and definitely a world class goalkeeper. It's amazing that Wenger is still unable to sign world class beaters and there's only 9 days left til the transfer window closes. He wanted young and cheap (that's for sure). May be he needs to change his policy a bit. May be go with young and slightly expensive. How about Mario Goetze of Dortmund? He's 19 and probably in the region of £20 million. Then there's Christian Eriksen of Ajax. Also 19 and probably less than £20 million.

Point Four: Goalkeepers. After Seaman left, they had Jens Lehmann. Both world class players. Then comes in Manuel Almunia, Lukas Fabianski, Vito Mannone, Wojciech Szczesny. You combine all of 'em, you still won't get half of Lehmann or Seaman. That's a fact. From one blunder to another. I like to call 'em Aluminium, Flappyhandski, Biskut Danone cuz he's like kejap ada, kejap tak ada and Kemas Kini cuz he badly needs to cleen up his goalkeeping skills. Arsenal need great keepers and not just decent keepers.

Point Five: Hurry upppppp!!! Wenger has only 9 days til the transfer window closes and he's losing ground. It's taking him ages to decide whether to buy Jagielka of Everton (£20 million), Cahill of Bolton (£15 million), Samba of Blackburn (£10 milliion) or Mertesacker of Bremen (£9 million). If he wants it cheap, I'd say go for Mertesacker cuz he has bucket loads of experience be it club or international level. He's just lost out on Juan Mata to Chelsea. C'mon Arsene. Pick it up!!! Either that, or Arsenal's season could be over soon.




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