Auba, Laca, Özil & Mikky is wengerball Central
We get them in the same team we should go back to playing lush football
by Sims » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:29 am
by Va-Va-Voom » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:33 am
Sims wrote:It’s cos we built the entire team and formation around Cesc
We stuck with the same set up once he left and only changed it last year with this 3atb which made it worse
We also have a severe lack of Wengerballers in the squad which doesn’t help
by Arsene Nose » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:33 am
by Sims » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:35 am
by Arsene Nose » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:37 am
by Arsene Nose » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:38 am
by Arsenal Tone » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:55 am
Sims wrote:Auba, Laca, Özil & Mikky is wengerball Central
We get them in the same team we should go back to playing lush football
by Santi » Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:15 pm
Va-Va-Voom wrote:Mike Dean wrote:Pudpop wrote:Our football without him playing has been woeful. I think I might cry the day he leaves
Nothing new.
He makes our attack click.
Without him, we run out of ideas.
The quality of our football has waned each season since Fabregas left.
by Goonerz » Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:20 pm
Arsene Nose wrote:Tikki takka ruined us. Wenger built beautiful fast hit ‘em on the break teams. Athletic players with speed, strength and skill. And then he went tikki takka and all that went away and instead came the retinue of small central attacking short passing midfielders.
by Goonerz » Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:27 pm
Sims wrote:We played Wenger ball with Wilsh & fuckin Alex song in midfield ffs
by Angelito » Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:56 pm
by Goonerz » Sat Jan 20, 2018 5:23 pm
Angelito wrote:---------- Song - Wilshere
Theo/Shava - Cesc - Nasri/Shava
----------- van Persie
I don't see Welbeck, Iwobi, or Xhaka in there. Soz.
What I see is the best CAM in the world at the time. The best striker in the world at the time. One of the emerging young CMs in world football. Twi technically gifted CAMs (Nasri and Shava) - and a player who could burn you with pace. Then, there was Song who had more vision than Iwobi could ever dream of.
Not to ignore Wenger hadn't gone full r***rd yet.
And to burst the bubble for some, this side was well in a title race in 2011 until it decided to Arsenal things and ended with the most horrific run of results in the final games under Wenger—winning 2 games in the last 10 games of 10/11 season, and finishing 4th in a two-horse race.
This same squad lost the League Cup Final against Birmingham City—a side that was later relegated. Not to ignore that from 2005 until 2013, we only made it to the SFs of the FA Cup on one occasion, 2008-09m, where we lost to Chelsea. Yes, the same season we lost home and away in the CL SFs to ManU in what remains Wenger's third-best accolade in Europe for us.
Nostalgia 101 overload in this thread. We played sexy football back then. Yes. Wenger was in his pomp. Yes. We had technically gifted players. Yes.
But we were still labelled as bottlers. We were bottlers. We would piss our pants everytime we had to face Chelsea or ManU. The only difference is that City and Spurs weren't as strong as they're today. Our downfall in the CL has coincided with Messi's dominance and Bayern's revival in the CL.
Can't ignore facts.
Since selling Cesc and Nasri, we've also been reliant on Ramsey, Xhaka, Arteta, and Flamini - a concept that would have been laughable during the days of Cesc, Rosicky, Hleb, prime Flamini, Nasri, Arshavin, etc. We replaced van Persie with Giroud. From van Persie, we moved to Giroud, who has been great for us with all due respect, but since the comparison is with those players, you have to admit the gulf in class.
To put it into perspective, we haven't had a world class CM since Cesc played there. Cazorla is the closest we've come. We haven't had a world class striker since van Persie. We haven't had technical wizards on the flanks since Shava/Rosicky/Nasri.
We've had three great technical players since then: Cazorla, Alexis, and Ozil. Ozil since 2013. Cazorla since 2012. And Alexis since 2014.
And we have this modern version of Wenger.
Time to take off those nostalgia glasses.
by Sims » Sat Jan 20, 2018 5:23 pm
by alexafc12 » Sat Jan 20, 2018 5:26 pm
Sims wrote:by far our best player this season
not too long now before M2Ö21