Arsenal v City Pre Match Discussion Thread

[cleavers]

Yea, they are going to City for footballing reasons, what an irony.

Indeed they are, we buy things ;-)

And your club is ? I bet they've never bought anyone ?

 

[Sam.]

Yea, they are going to City for footballing reasons, what an irony.

Indeed they are, we buy things ;-)

Oh the hypocrisy.

 

[coulsonblue]

Indeed they are, we buy things ;-)

And your club is ? I bet they've never bought anyone ?

Dalglish, Souness, Keegan = imports
Vieira, Henry, Bergkamp, Overmars, Pires, Ljungberg = imports
Keane, Bruce, Pallister, Cantona, Cole, Yorke = imports

Every club that has ever won something buys players.
Every club that exists, buys players.

Some would argue Arsenal bought cheaper players, but that's probably why they've only won 3 titles in 15 years (3 in 7 years and none in the following 8[9 given they won't win this year or 3/16].

Also probably why they never "dominated" like Liverpool did and United have, never winning back to back titles.

That Arsenal are now a selling club is more to do with long-term plan for Emirates rather than wage inflation. Besides, Theo Walcott £100 a week?

 

[ElanJo]

Is Maicon fit? I'd rather play him on the right and Milner in the middle than go with Garcia in the centre

 

[Bilboblue]

I am. Just interesting to see the back 5 would have been ''affordable'' for us. As long as we are raped y a greedy Yank we can't even dream of signing Dzeko, and Tevez, ut if we had pushed the boat out a few years ago for the cheap Kompany we might have won a few pots before Cesc,Nasri and RvP left. The transfer fee for Kompany would have been covered by the takings of one AFC home game :-(

Arsenal has fostered and cultivated many superstars that originated from young or unknown talents. Sadly for you, that is all Arsenal do and will probably continue to do to fill the piggy bank.

Big name signings are harder to come by now, probably a combination of an unwillgness to spend and reduced pulling power

pulling power is not the problem - ''come earn 200k a week playing for the most popular club in London'' is an attractive proposition.

And that's exactly why they will go to Chelsea, not you deluded hypocrites.

 

[Sam.]

Is Maicon fit? I'd rather play him on the right and Milner in the middle than go with Garcia in the centre

Return date is unknown. Ruled out for festive period.

 

[Balti]

I hate Arsenil

pompous fucking hypocrites sound just like rags

 

[NoahCity]

Is Maicon fit? I'd rather play him on the right and Milner in the middle than go with Garcia in the centre

not sure Maicon would work there. Is even fit?

 

[mancunial]

For any Arsenal fans and any other clubs supporters that haven't looked back as far as page 16 in this thread i'll repeat what I said earlier although I can understand your anguish surrounding City as it your club and Liverpool that's probably been hit the most by us joining the top 4 as ultimately one or both of you are going to be squeezed out. Anyway like I said earlier read on and weep...

I just wanted to say this to any lurking Arsenal fans whom may still be caught in the headlights of a self consuming hatred eating away regarding our oil money.

I started watching City in 1972 when we truly had some great players and football was a world away from what it is today. Somewhere between 1978 -1982 we lost our way and the rot set in and since then I and thousands of others have had to suffer, watch and support some incredibly poor footballers. Most of us have travelled the length and breadth of this country spending thousands for nothing more in return than a faint glimmer of hope that one day it would change. Other clubs were financed and had great luck with the timing of the Premier League and the cartel of the Champions League and the gap grew ever wider.

To all you Arsenal fans who are now outraged with our newly found wealth please understand this - This is the only one way other clubs can compete nowadays and your cosy 'big 4' got too cosy to notice that by keeping it all to themselves that one day somebody somewhere more powerful or more richer would eventually say 'Fuck this we're having some of it'. So whilst you enjoyed your time in the sun, we floundered and just about kept afloat largely due to thousands of us turning up week in week out. Yes we was here when we were shit. Whilst you have never ever had to witness years upon years of some of the worst footballers you could ever imagine wearing your beloved clubs shirt. You have never ever had to watch your closest historical neighbours win everything in sight for 20 years non stop. Doubles/trebles, buying star after star footballers, having to endure 20 plus years of piss taking from the world's biggest set of C**tiest supporters. Having to listen to every pundit from China to Chinley spout on about how great they are. You have never had to grow up and listen to every footballer tell us 'it's their dream to play for United'. To have the Munich disaster held as some self righteous reason why everybody should hold a candle for that club. You have never had to hang onto a dream that one day just one day you could have some success instead of watching your club yoyo from division to division, to watch your club change managers so often it became almost a monthly event. You have never had to watch your club lose at home to their historical friendly lower league clubs like Bury and Stockport.

Our name has been dragged through the mud, kicked in the balls, laughed at from all corners yet one thing has remained constant through it all.

Us the fans...

So please forgive me and try not to take this too personally but I couldn't give a flying fuck as to what Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, United, Gillingham, Stockport, Bury and any other football club on the planet thinks about how we got the money or how we go about spending the money. Right now I couldn't give an Owl's hoot as to bringing through some unknown kid from some unknown club from some unknown village on the planet, nurturing him and watching him grow with us. I'll tell you why that is, because for years we've done that and clubs like your's used to come and take them off us when all the hard work had been done. You would lord it over us like some self righteous lord of the manor who was coming to take what was rightly their own.

So forgive me this one little pleasure as I will go on for the next 10 years loving it if we spend spend and spend some more to bring any silverware and I mean any silverware to my beautiful long deserved club and our supporters.

Seven years without a trophy...comeback when your near the 35yr mark and i'll start to have some sympathy.

Absolutely brilliant this is what makes me proud to be a city fan, blue 2112 you are the man

 

[Anthony Kun]

Jealousy is a terrible thing. All these digs at us because its eating you up inside?

I tell you what when a multi billionaire offers to buy you out, tell them to fuck off... Your quite happy winning fuck all! (then again fffp has stopped this happening so your definitely going nowhere - you'll just have to watch us win it all instead!)