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By: Jud

Jud — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:27:04 +0000

Owen, great to see you in action! The link to the vlog is pretty popular, so thought I’d see what you were up to at the moment! Very interesting content too, eloquent handling of a disquieting gunners’ perfomance! Jud

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:42:24 +0000

I think Joe’s got it absolutely right though it may not speak very well for Fabregas.

By: Lozza

Lozza — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:45:37 +0000

I think Joe’s point about Fabregas is an excellent one, keeping him is vital for the team, but the worrying thing is that another possible reason for his appointment was a sheer lack of options. Because of the youth of the team, there are very few responsible leaders, other than perhaps Toure, who is injured, and I agree that there is a need for a Patrick Viera. However, these players don’t grow on trees and I have to disagree with Owen when he says that Arsenal shouldn’t have let Gilberto go, he seemed to be barely moving on the pitch by the time he left, and it was his dip in ability that marked a change in fortunes for Arsenal in the first place. I also think Owen was a little harsh on Arsenal’s performance on Tuesday, I entirely agree that they were pretty toothless up front, and desperately need Adebayor back, but to say that Kiev were “carving them up like butter” is a gross overstatement, Almunia made one good save all game and that hardly represents a team being under the cosh.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:01:49 +0000

Nice to see two articulate guys who know what they’re talking about discussing football.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:22:04 +0000

I think Joe summed it up pretty well!

By: jeremy

jeremy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:44:55 +0000

Agree with Joe Brock on Fabregas. Good point. Smart move by Wenger. But will he let Gallas go or will he try and re-integrate him? And why did Wenger let three defensive midfielders go in one year? Was that an example of…dare I say it…bad management?

By: Helen Greaves

Helen Greaves — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:42:14 +0000

Completely agree with Joe about Fabregas but how depressing that we can only hope to keep him a bit longer by offering him the captaincy.

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:51:20 +0000

I agree Alex - people say Adebayor wanted to leave over the summer and was not allowed to do so - with the money Arsenal could have got for him Wenger could have brought in two decent strikers.

By: alexmac

alexmac — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:59:15 +0000

I agree with Joe about not having a consistent scorer upfront, BENDTNER what’s going on….!?