What did that one-nil result tell us?
Well excuse me for saying this, but it told some of us nothing we didn’t already know. But let’s have a think what it should have told the malcontents.
For starters, despite Spurs spending north of £100 million, and us having a paper thin squad ravaged by injuries, we are a better team.
I felt that we were way below our fluent best and that Santi and Rosicky, despite their efforts, had off-days. With more precisely weighted balls from them, we could have scored a bucket-full. Dont get me wrong, I am not moaning about them, or saying they were bad, just that from our two most technically gifted players, we normally see better.
The upside, which totally outweighs any small downside, is that we had a shape and a tenacity that tells me that the manager is 100% right about this group of players. I would go as far as saying that it’s the most tightly knit squad we have seen under Arsene.
Our dodgy defence is anything but dodgy, no matter what the halfwits in the media say. I still think Bac is by far and away our number one right-back, but Carl is a fine understudy.
Laurent and Per are easily the best centre-back pair in the league.
Even at this early stage. I am confident that Flamini is exactly what we have been crying out for. Not only as cover for Mikel but an actual alternative.
Now, what’s all this rubbish about Arsene not doing tactics? Those looked like different tactics to our normal stuff to me!
I really can’t say how happy I am that Arsene has once again made mugs out of his detractors. When will they learn?
Let’s see what today brings and where we are tomorrow.
Great team, great players, great manager, great club and a great future.
See you all tomorrow.
Positively Arsenal 
“Great team, great players, great manager, great club and a great future.”
and a great post!
You also forgot about the impact of positive home support!
Our new goal keeper does look amazingly like Almunia – let’s hope he has better luck than Manuel had towards the end! I’m also happy that it looks like Fabianski is staying as I think he is a good goalkeeper. He had some dodgy moments in the past and he’s been unlucky with injuries just as he was starting to establish himself, but he deserves a chance and it’s good for a club of our stature to have 3 top goalkeepers to cover for unforeseen circumstances.
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Come on, Ozil – sign da ting!!
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Zimpaul:
“I would guess we’ll see a lot more threat created from the left with Ozil and Santi. Ozil will compete with Lukas for a starting place, not with Santi. Ozil is then, effectively, 3G’s replacement, but could equally play from the right if needed there. We’ve replaced one of our slightly weaker links with one of the best attacking midfielders in the world. That’s my take! Transfers? AW is just about to show up the EPL prima dona brigade and media idiots with the most thrilling signing of any team this summer. I rate it higher than Hazard to Chelsea.”
Hmmmm. I like the way he plays in the middle for ze Germans.
The prima dona are going to moan about Wenger not making a move like this sooner, as if Wenger’s been sitting on his nuts for the last five seasons.
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@Gains
They all ignore that Özil wasn’t interested in a move a week ago and it all came down to the Bale deal going through. Deadline day was literally the only chance we had of signing him and it looks like we have taken it. I think this is clever business for which Wenger should be applauded, not attacked.
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Evil,
It’s really nice that we have left so many other rival EPL clubs looking a bit fucked up, Liverpool, Newcastle, Spuds; even Chavski and Manure now look like even bigger tools.
Hazard wouldn’t even be Ozil’s boot boy, Gains.
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did arsene sell gervinho to roma so that lamela can join spurs in turn helping bale to madrid so that we ozil?
hwehwhehwhewhehwhehwhewhehwe
arsene knows all
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A23
Wenger has been pulling all the strings during the summer. hehe.
Now his plan (nearly) has come to fruition.
I am SO glad we are not getting Fellaini, he is an awful player. He will get away with murder in a Manu shirt, but quality wise, he offers nothing – give me the Flamster any day.
No surprises either that Moe wouldn’t give us the steam off his piss at Chelsea.
We might have to hold onto TGSTEL until the winter transfer window, and see how he plays or behaves as a reserve player.
Didn’t Wenger promise us more than one surprise? I’m like a spoilt kid now.
He still has a bucket load of cash.
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DC, cash isn’t much use if you can’t find anything worthwhile to spend it on! And the doomers will never understand the concept of only spending when it’s worth it, not just for the sake of it!
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Özil is official now, report Sky Sports with some quotes. Really happy about the signing, proper quality. I feel that we have done exceptionally well in the transfer window, as good as any of our rivals. With Flamini and Özil, we have strengthened our midfield and we probably have the best midfield in the league now. I mean, just look at the names we have at our disposal: Ramsey, Wilshere, Özil, Flamini, Arteta, Rosicky, Cazorla. No matter the combination, it’s the best midfield in the league.
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No official arsenal.com news (you all know that) but the ‘holics have posted this link:
http://futbol.as.com/futbol/2013/09/01/primera/1378048668_664427.html
£38m and £140k a week, seems like a bargin, these days.
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And so it begins
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hmmm wenger got a spy in ozil..wont he know mou’s tactics after 2-3 years working with him..? for sure… ts ts ts not fit for the modern game..bad at poker as well…
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Real Mad* really are mad.
*TM Untold
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I am really tempted to go into work tomorrow in my Arsenal jersey. Derby victory, having done the best transfer window business… too bad I have several meetings with suits to attend. Might have to stick to an Arsenal scarf.
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Do it, Evil!
Fantastic to have Ozil confirmed. what a talent! The other players must be delighted.
Well done to Arsene and Arsenal for having the guts to hold out for a top player. And we can all relax now, Cheaty McBitey and the Scouser Chav will not be embarrassing us this season.
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Finsbury, if ‘Real Mad’ are dumb enough to sell such a talented player in exchange for the one dimensional Bale, then I say their loss is our gain! Welcome to the greatest team the world has ever seen Ozil. He’s the creative icing on an already exciting cake!
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It’s done.
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/german-international-ozil-joins-arsenal
Goodnight, I’m off following hunter around the blogs with a sharp axe,
there are heads that have to be rolled.
there will still be doomers bitching that we didn’t get the extra striker.
Well Jack is going to have to step it up and push more forward now, and the Ox can do that too.
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“Cheaty McBitey and the Scouser Chav will not be embarrassing us this season.”
Ha ha Fun! I think dodging those 2 bullets is the best bit of business we’ve done!
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@ dc
Yeah, I think that’s the plan – a plethora of goalscoring midfielders and of course Podolski given chances in the centre.
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Excellent business – job done
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After what AW said about the disruptive influence of too many new players at once, he was never going to buy wholesale numbers. A goal keeper does not mess with team chemistry to the same extent as an outfield player. Flamini will settle in quickly as he is coming back to a familiar situation (as well as being able to play in more than one position) while a talented footballer like Ozil will settle in well at the home of football and a youngster like Sanogo will mostly be on the fringes of the first team. The core is settled and well established so didn’t need much more. I think people got confused by all the departures, but in reality they were already gone from the squad as hardly any of them had played for a year or more in some cases.
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@passenal
It was always a very ridiculous suggestion that we need some sort of wholesale change. People seemed to forget that this was the team that has gotten the most PL points in 2013, the team that beat Bayern away convincingly. Our core is as good as any other team in the league.
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In Arsene We Trust.
Fantasy ball to he nth dimension in red & white!
Welcome to the best of your life, MO11 (or MO23)….
“we love you Arsenal, yes we do…oh yes we do”!!!
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dc no i dont have to and in any cases sanctioned but ..they got their replies ….from the players and the manager and now from stan too…
if they are still as absurd or as extreme to believe that wenger is past it and doesnt know football and tactics and all that delusional stuff then they are free to become another circus in cyberspace….
some say its ok to doubt a tested and as experienced manager as wenger in whether he knows his job or not whereas i find it extremely stupid to think that his credentials and work thusfar can be doubted, but our fans want to have the freedom to debate about it you see……the devil had nothing to do and decided to eat his own children…….
but you know how its going to be, this will be twisted into wenger finally seeing into their logic and they will even claim credit for pushing things as true supporters. they are capable of rewriting history. what i saw was a ref screwing up a game which had home win written all over it. a ref that got fired from his job but some of our fans and some of our popular supporters blogs chose to ignore that and moan about “matters” which have been generated my media and rivals-trolls
those who crow about old arsenals and bollocks like that and tell us that they know cause theyve been fans for 30 and 40 years as if that buys them experience or entitlement to anything…they forgot the most basic of our principles..victoria concordia crescit….may this day signal the end of the civil war on arsenal fans and may the emirates collapse from the songs and supporters jumping in synch screaming, losing control…as ball goes from schezney to per to kons to sgana to arteta to rosicky to aaron to jack podolski to giroud to ozil to theo to cazorla to ox …..cannonba!!
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He was definitely keen to get a striker, but he did say from the start, two or three new players. I feel ten feet tall.
We’ve basically bought what we need, and where we couldn’t get it, we’ve found another solution. Shame about Ba – John Cross says CFC delayed until it was too late for us to get anyone and then said no. The upside is that there is extra motivation for Walcott and Podolski (when he is healed) to work on their weaknesses as central strikers, because they can see a clear route.
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A song I dedicate to all Arsenal supporters tonight.
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Marvellous couple of days but I have just ONE slight concern….. Ozil will hopefully only make the Bench for the first game we have after signing him. it’s Stoke. He sees that as his first close up glimpse of the Premiership opposition and he’s on the first plane back to Spain and/or Germany ::smiley winking face thingy::
Chuffed here.
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Adele in Polka version.
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hehe steve ..maybe stan should give some of the change for protection …
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Arshavin23 and DC, I said it on here that Arsene’s been scheming all summer!
Welcome to the home of football Ozil! Wenger indeed knows better than any and all of us put together. This team is ready. Once the injured are fully recovered, we will see that this is one of the most formidable squads that Arsene has assembled; grit and skill in abundance. Now watch this space!
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FG, yes he definitely wanted another striker, but clearly he couldn’t get the right one and decided to make do instead. I’m surprised the club fell for maureen’s trick a second time – didn’t he do the same thing last season with Sahin?
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With this guys assists its going to be raining goals at the ems and away games.
Flamini and Rambo keeping the discipline, means Arteta and Ox could move forward. Theo, Ozil, Santi, Jack – bang em forward for Giroud or Poldi. And Rosicky too!!
Jeez, this is now a top top CL team. Both XI’s we could now put out are freaking frightening. Napoli and OM will be having a few sleepless nights before we play the group stages.
RM fans must be just wondering how they just got mugged. Hahaha, Perez – thanks so much for screwing us on Higuain, otherwise we may never had enough money left to collect Ozil after your utterly ludicrous purchase of Bale, and RM will have some serious explaining as to how they can spend money like fools in a ruined economy, propped up by German taxpayers.
The angry melt down of manure fans tonight is hilarious, if sadly too familiar when we look back at some of our own headless fellow doomers reactions during the summer.
Final topic: Does this mean Frimmy didn’t get a loan out tonight, or is there time to do that? The kids got to get game time or he will be back in the reserves, and that would be a cruel step backward in his career.
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Steve, that game is for Flamini. He’ll play in both fixtures against them, Sunderland, Hull and Everton away. Beyond those games, I only want to see him when the temperature dips below freezing.
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Indeed Hunter hehe.
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fair point well made gains
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As far as Higuain is concerned, If you were let off the leash, after years of watching cunts like Mourinho and Ferguson getting all the cups, would you go in for the Ford Fiesta or the Aston Martin Vantage?
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What’s the reaction on the doomer front, are they ready to sing “One Arsene Wenger” yet?
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DC @ 11:43 said “…bang em forward for Giroud or Poldi…” and DC imo, is spot on.
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Steve-I
Don’t worry, the orcs have signed feather weight past it Steven Ireland from villa.
The slaughtering will be done by us, with the ball.
Of course, we need a ref without an ‘agenda’ this time.
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Guns and Roses does Cumbia:
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Yep DC – re Ref!. Although my guess/prediction is that Ozil will actually start on the bench for that and when we’ve secured the game Arsene can have the luxury of bringing him on to a) give him an individual welcome by the fans and b) say to anyone watching from certain other clubs, “look what I can do now you fuckers, we’re here and we’re not going away and we’re about to stir things up more than you ever imagined”
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ooops error, actually Sunderland away before home to Stoke will be first game, Stoke first HOME game
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Paulinho, Capoue, Soldado and Lamela look like the third rate shit every true Arsenal supporter knew they were, don’t they?
Form is temporary, class is permanent.
#FuckallofyouwhothoughtyouknewbetterthanArsene
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Flamini is not playing in that one.
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Gainsbourg69 September 2, 2013 at 11:51 pm
now that would hurt their pride…dont forget noone bigger than the club unless its fan’s opinion(s)…
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#FuckallofyouwhothoughtyouknewbetterthanArsene
brilliant, and above all justified
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No. Fuck that. Knowing Di Canio he’ll start Cattermole and he’ll cack Ozil the first day.
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-transfers-mesut-ozil-turned-2246564?
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I am still giddy with excitement about this signing. Should get up for work in about 5 hours but I doubt I’ll get much sleep tonight. Özil is the reason why we have been patient over those years, to allow us to sign a player of his quality from our own money without some benefactor in the background or making huge debts in the process. We got a proper world class player, the best in his position in the world, and we deserve it. I hope fans will give Özil time to settle, but I am very confident that once he has had a couple of weeks training with the team and some minutes under his belt, he will set the league on fire.
There are some doomers out there complaining how we didn’t sign a dm, keeper and striker (though we did… Flamini is the dm, Viviano the keeper and Sanogo the striker) but I couldn’t care less about them. If they want to deny that the future is upon us, it’s their own mistake. By May next season they will probably all have a nice fat belly from the tons of humble pie shoved down their throats
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gains..to think that some of our own dared to be afraid of the hotspurs spending..ahaha
the businessman levy who spent 100m without having it and turned his team into a babel….
and in the process strengthening arsenal
he couldnt have kept some for their new ground could he? …hmmm….ambition!!! ..
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