Arsenal are a strange one
They'd definately see being in the Europa as being "beneath them" (Even though they haven't won a trophy in Europe since the 90's)
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Arsenal are a strange one
They'd definately see being in the Europa as being "beneath them" (Even though they haven't won a trophy in Europe since the 90's)
toffeejack
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no, it's their manager. they have a great squad, albeit, a few are grocks who will most of every season through injury.
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That 40-man shortlist in full...
Goalkeepers - Joe Hart (Manchester City), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Denys Boyko (Dnipro).
Defenders - Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), David Alaba (Bayern Munich), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), David Luiz (Paris St-Germain), Dani Alves (Barcelona), Thiago Silva (Paris St-Germain), Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Ricardo Rodriguez (Wolfsburg), Javier Mascherano (Barcelona), Diego Godin (Atletico Madrid), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid).
Midfielders - Grzegorz Krychowiak (Sevilla), Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City), Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona), Arturo Vidal (Bayern Munich), Eden Hazard (Chelsea), Claudio Marchisio (Juventus), Marco Verratti (Paris St-Germain), Yevhen Konoplyanka (Sevilla), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), James Rodriguez (Real Madrid), Paul Pogba (Juventus), Hakan Calhanoglu (Bayer Leverkusen).
Forwards - Gareth Bale (Real Madrid), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris St-Germain), Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), Neymar (Barcelona), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Alvaro Morata (Juventus), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Luis Suarez (Barcelona), Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
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Not a good advert for the Premier League
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Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus have more players on Uefa's 40-man shortlist for its team of the year than the entirePremier League combined.
Barcelona provide eight players, while Bayern and Juventus both have six.
The Premier League contributes five players: Manchester City keeper Joe Hart, team-mates Sergio Aguero and Kevin De Bruyne, Chelsea's Eden Hazard and Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez.
Real Madrid's Gareth Bale joins Hart as one of two British players on the list.
what's the point in these shortlists? it's almost player for player the same 40 every season. I mean how can mascherano and pique be up there for best defenders? they barely have any work to do every game. i know they're at the best club in the world for a reason, but it's hardly a tough job. Players like Nolito should be on that list. Not one player from outside the CL? in-depth analysis done to write-up the shortlist there.
Look at the injuries though
It's the same players with the same injuries over and over
They are an exceedingly conservative club
Wenger epitimises that
Where his ideas were once revolutionary and fresh, they are now stale and old hat
toffeejack
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said it for years. You can't call it bad luck that the trio of wilshere, ramsey and walcott are injured every single season. It's called hiring a crock.
it's like doing something mad like buying andy carroll for £15m and saying "it's unlucky it hasn't turned out as good business". Knew exactly what was going to happen, same with us with gibson, we knew what we were getting. It's unfortunate for the player, but not necesserily the club.
Arsenal actually have the money for decent like for like replacements as well, but Wenger refuses to spend it
These aren't big signings he'd need to make either
They're comparatively smaller ones, 10 mil there, 8 mil here etc
He's got his Cech, Ozil and Sanchez star players now. He needs a supporting cast for them who aren't always injured
He's become increasingly stubborn and set in his ways as he's aged
toffeejack
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I sometimes wonder this with moyes in his final few years. I do wonder whether more money was available than what he spend. Not for the first decade or so like, there obviously wasn't much available. But when you hear stories about things like agreeing to get bony on loan and then deciding against it and instead not bringing anyone in. Does make you wonder.
Arsenal are stagnant with wenger, they need to drop the sentimental value whilst there's still time.
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Precisely because Lucho has not played him this season, preferring to play a much inferior youth player in Gumbau...The rumblings are already there to be played or sold/loaned from a local cantera player who has played all his life at Barcelona like Deulofeu, Grimaldo, Adama et al...He too spurned Premiership poaching like the others so his lack of 1st team action or call ups has been surprising
So to see him not only called up for a key CL match and then replace Busquets...at the half?...It's significant and absolutely shocking as Enrique never gave any indication the player would play much this season with the 1st team at all, much less for as much as he did in a CL match against a pressing side like Roma
FCBarça
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Or that the player might not see a future with the 1st team but one can hope...of course
Yes, Wolfsburg score, although a lot of help from CSKA goalkeeper.
Shot (which it wasn't, it was a cross) was not even on target, if the keeper let it go it wouldn't have been a goal. Howler.
Or that the player might not see a future with the 1st team but one can hope...of course
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/16/gerard-deulofeu-everton-homecoming
“Once a blue, always a blue,” his announcement concluded. A few days later he saw a banner stretched beneath a billboard. “Welcome home Deulofeu” it said. Born in Riudarenes, Catalonia, home was always FC Barcelona, whom he had joined at nine, travelling almost 100km daily to train, and for whom he had made his first-team debut aged 17 in October 2011. But last summer Deulofeu let go.
If it was a decision tinged with sadness or even bitterness, there is little sign of that as he talks. He is quiet, a touch of timidity perhaps, but nor does he sound like a kid clinging to Catalonia, despite that clause inserted by his former club. Instead, there is a sense of him starting out, properly this time. “Others might [constantly look back at Barcelona], but that’s not my case,” he says. “I want to have my career, not sit on the bench. I want to work hard, to push myself. I want to play.”
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Dharma bum411
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Well, none of these games seem too interesting tonight. Suppose I'll watch Madrid stumble.
juve 1 City 0
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