Guest ThievingMagpie Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Stopped reading at the bit about Chelsea's amazing defence. Jury's still very much out on Arsenal's new lads as well, especially in terms of replacing arguably the two most important players in their team last year. lmao, just lmao. They sold a shit midfielder in song and got rid of a wantaway captain. Podolski is the obvious big question mark, but Carzola and Girourd both look up for it, Girourd should have buried his chance but had a howler. Think its time you laid off the strong cheese. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Hmm yes, closing out Barcelona with only 10 men in a champions league semi final means their defence must be really s***. You really don't watch football at all do you Other? Did you see how many chances Barca made? it had nothing to do with Chelsea stopping them it was due to Barca's poor finishing. In any case Chelsea have a good defence when they defend deep and let teams come unto them but fact of the matter is they are trying to attack teams now with their new players and their defenders struggle in an open and expansive game. Wigan created loads against them and Reading scored twice, there's nothing amazing about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeEd32 Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Stopped reading at the bit about Chelsea's amazing defence. Jury's still very much out on Arsenal's new lads as well, especially in terms of replacing arguably the two most important players in their team last year. lmao, just lmao. They sold a s*** midfielder in song and got rid of a wantaway captain. Podolski is the obvious big question mark, but Carzola and Girourd both look up for it, Girourd should have buried his chance but had a howler. Think its time you laid off the strong cheese. What in the? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Stopped reading at the bit about Chelsea's amazing defence. Jury's still very much out on Arsenal's new lads as well, especially in terms of replacing arguably the two most important players in their team last year. lmao, just lmao. They sold a shit midfielder in song and got rid of a wantaway captain. Podolski is the obvious big question mark, but Carzola and Girourd both look up for it, Girourd should have buried his chance but had a howler. Think its time you laid off the strong cheese. Looney tunes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Stopped reading at the bit about Chelsea's amazing defence. Jury's still very much out on Arsenal's new lads as well, especially in terms of replacing arguably the two most important players in their team last year. lmao, just lmao. They sold a s*** midfielder in song and got rid of a wantaway captain. Podolski is the obvious big question mark, but Carzola and Girourd both look up for it, Girourd should have buried his chance but had a howler. Think its time you laid off the strong cheese. Shit midfielder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Hmm yes, closing out Barcelona with only 10 men in a champions league semi final means their defence must be really shit. You really don't watch football at all do you Other? I watch quite a lot of Premier League football and bits and pieces of other football. Thanks. I still know that Chelsea's defence is creaky, Cech and Terry who are two of the linchpins are past their prime and for every Barca or Bayern Munich performance, there's been countless times where lesser sides have opened them up regularly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayson Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Chelsea kept 5 Cs last season from 20 games under Di Matteo, they are far more vunerable at the back when they look to attack sides. Ofcourse theyre better at the back when they go defensive, how often do they approach games like that? Their side is full of attackers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 And now some of you want us to overspend. Again. 15-16m for De Jong, 7-8m for Debuchy and 5m for Douglas (whom all my dutch mates say isn't that good) reeks not of a club trying to be ambitious, but of classic Freddy Shepherd overspending in the short term for a hopeful but small chance we will make the CL. (we won't, at least not for another year or two realistically) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny Green Balls Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Stopped reading at the bit about Chelsea's amazing defence. Jury's still very much out on Arsenal's new lads as well, especially in terms of replacing arguably the two most important players in their team last year. lmao, just lmao. They sold a s*** midfielder in song and got rid of a wantaway captain. Podolski is the obvious big question mark, but Carzola and Girourd both look up for it, Girourd should have buried his chance but had a howler. bizarro world... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Stopped reading at the bit about Chelsea's amazing defence. Jury's still very much out on Arsenal's new lads as well, especially in terms of replacing arguably the two most important players in their team last year. lmao, just lmao. They sold a shit midfielder in song and got rid of a wantaway captain. Podolski is the obvious big question mark, but Carzola and Girourd both look up for it, Girourd should have buried his chance but had a howler. Think its time you laid off the strong cheese. what a dimwit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Not much ambition so far, might as well wait until the window slams shut before commenting further. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATB Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 As said. If this is it. It really shows Ashley´s lack of ambition. We have spent about £5m, and we came 5th last season. Name one club that have spent less! And tomorrow we are up against a club that spent +£50m. Though I will give him the hard work at the development squad, looks really exciting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 As said. If this is it. It really shows Ashley´s lack of ambition. We have spent about £5m, and we came 5th last season. Name one club that have spent less! And tomorrow we are up against a club that spent +£50m. Though I will give him the hard work at the development squad, looks really exciting. A lot more than that and it's Chelsea ffs, we and most others were never going to spend near them. If we don't get a couple more in it will feel like a massive wasted opportunity but lets not get silly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 £5million net spend is fairly dismal tbh. That's about what we spent when we first came back up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATB Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 What´s our net spend since we came up? Surely we have sell more than we have bought for? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 What´s our net spend since we came up? Surely we have sell more than we have bought for? More than likely given we got £35m just for Carroll. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATB Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 What´s our net spend since we came up? Surely we have sell more than we have bought for? More than likely given we got £35m just for Carroll. And we want to be a CL club Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 What´s our net spend since we came up? Surely we have sell more than we have bought for? More than likely given we got £35m just for Carroll. And we want to be a CL club Yeah we were miles off last season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil K Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Stopped reading at the bit about Chelsea's amazing defence. Jury's still very much out on Arsenal's new lads as well, especially in terms of replacing arguably the two most important players in their team last year. lmao, just lmao. They sold a s*** midfielder in song and got rid of a wantaway captain. Podolski is the obvious big question mark, but Carzola and Girourd both look up for it, Girourd should have buried his chance but had a howler. Think its time you laid off the strong cheese. what a dimwit Why ? Its his opinion, and no less informed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Arsenal have made a profit this summer btw. Spurs will have if Modric is sold. Just for a modicum of balance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATB Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 What´s our net spend since we came up? Surely we have sell more than we have bought for? More than likely given we got £35m just for Carroll. And we want to be a CL club Yeah we were miles off last season. It is very impressive what we are doing and have done. But think what we could have done if Ashley put in just £10m every summer. That is frustrating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 We'll see. But worth bearing in mind that we were about 2 years ahead of schedule with our target last year. Another first teamer and this will be a decent window imo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 I'd like to think that most sensible people can see a middle ground between 'showing no ambition' and 'overspending like Freddy Shepherd'. It's not one or the other. Perfectly possible to want the club to do more than it has so far without demanding bankrupting the club or spending what we can't afford. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnes23 Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 Expecting a deadline day "race against the clock" for Carroll which ultimately comes to nothing, and little else. If it stays as it is, it will have been a pretty underwhelming window in which we could have pushed on and strengthened the first team ( right back) and the squad (Striker,CB?) significantly, but failed to do so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted August 24, 2012 Share Posted August 24, 2012 How many clubs have a higher netspend than us this summer? I bet it is less than half of the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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