Birmingham
3 wins in 15 games don’t win you squat!!!! Crashing out of 3 competitions in a matter of 2 weeks really screwed up the good work that went before. The morale crushing defeat against Birmingham brought back all the demons of seasons past and all the fears and uncertainty reappeared. The season petered out to basically an embarrassing damp squid. This all lead to us dropping from title challengers to 4th place strugglers, and the ignominy of Champions League qualification beckons.
Positives from the season
The emergence of Jack, the most precocious talent of his generation and a future England captain. Thank god he put Stuart Pearce in his place and bailed on this Summers U21 championship. This, along with Theo Walcott showing glimpses of his true talent, the return of Rambo – his performance against Brand United showed his rehabilitation is complete, and RVP showing he is a world class striker – 18 goals in 25 games being the best goals per game in the Premier League, gave some light at the end of a darkening tunnel.
Major disappointments
The Verminator missing 90% of the season leading to the exposure of the obvious weakness in our defence, AA23 not stepping up to the plate and showing the world the talent he really possesses, and the lack of urgency shown in the transfer market (again).
On to next season and the arrival (permits permitting) of Ryo Miyaichi and Wellington Silva, much lauded players who could set the Premiership alight and hopefully to Wenger finally dipping his toe seriously into the transfer market, to strengthen the undeniable potential of our squad.
And here’s to using my season ticket and seeing my first live game in 2 years in August.
In Arsene we trust to realise the team’s potential & resolve the shortcomings.
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A reliable source has told me that arsenal have started negotiations and two players namely fabio coentrao who has a 30m buy out clause and matt humells hope wenger sign them.
This is all wishfull thinking. Arsenal will never win another trophy with Wenger at the helm. If he could not win a trophy in six years, what makes you think he will come good. Chelsea finished second, but fired their coach. We finish fouth, lose the Carling cup to a non premier league team, have gone six years without a win, became the first team to draw from a 4 -0 scoreline,can’t defend set-pieces, the list goes on. This is a shameful disgrace to all the proud fans associated with this great club, that Wenger’s mediocrity is going unpunished. The least the director could do was to at least issue the dreaded “we have confidence in our manager”. What type of Kool-aid drink is Wenger serving them. Thank god, he is not in charge of something more consequential such as the presidency or premiership!
Wenger? Spending 30m on one player? Will never happen.
Is he going to keep, defend and score goal at same time haa!! stingy prof of economy will never do dat its a joke.
I agree totally with this article. Great summary of the positives, negatives, stand out players and performances of the season. Lets just hope next season we can win a trophy so we can all rejoice and celebrate, because God knows we deserve a trophy, especally for our patiance.