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Ok, as a Blackburn supporter, you must forgive my ignorance for thinking that Arsenal are likely to be the most successful English team next season. Blackburn will stay in the Premiership obviously, after 2 years in the second best division in the UK, but for me, Arsenal seem to be the most active "big team" in the top flight in regards to transfers and summer signings. The following text me be unsuitable for Tottenham Hotspurs fans, please take precautions...
Arsenal. 1998 was their year, when they won the Premier League and FA Cup double - the third team to have won the Premiership, and the only other team aside from Blackburn to stop Manchester United from almost ten years of absolute domination, so I respect them for that. 1999 they finished second to United, 2000 they finished second to United and guess what - 2001 they finished second to United, although last season was arguably Liverpool's year after they won a fantastic cup treble. Well done to them.
Now, as a non Arsenal fan I wouldn't mind if they were an also-ran team, a mid table dwelling side that no one paid any attention to, but they aren't, and they're one of only 3 or 4 teams that stand a chance of derailing Alex Ferguson's Manchester Red Devils. One day I hope Blackburn can emulate the success of the 1995 Championship winning side, but nest season I can't see them quite being in the forefront of things - top 10 is a realistic hope I should think, but not a champions league placing or title contention. Leeds, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal are the four teams that all stand a good chance of capturing the trophy other than United - forget Muhammed Al Fayed's mumblings about Fulham going for the title, he's obviously not seen some of the top flight sides play.
So, Arsenal - why will they achieve so much this season? For starters, last year wasn't their greatest although I felt they should have won against Liverpool in the FA Cup final, but Michael Owen had different ideas - good for him. Arsenal will be playing in the Champions League again, and of course both the League and FA cups - all of which COULD be won by the Soon to be "mighty Gunners". With such a strong squad at the moment, and with Vieira staying on for at least another season the summer signings will make them a better side, on paper at least, than the mighty Manchester United.
So far, they've captured the multi-positioning Giovanni van Bronckhorst from Rangers, a very talented player and at just 26 years old, his free transfer is probably going to make him the most cost efficient and effective signing. I'm sure he'll play week in week out, maybe alongside last season's player of the year Patrick Vieira. 25 year old centre back Igors Stepanovs looks to bring some youth to the ageing defence, but of course the most controversial, the transfer that has caused the most uproar amongst Spurs fans but has brought electrifying excitement for all Arsenal supporters, is without a doubt the signing by Leicester of Ian Walker....
....I mean, Arsene Wenger's capture of Sulzeer Jeremiah Campbell, a.k.a. Sol Campbell! At 26 years of age, Sol finally realised that he wasn't going to achieve anything with the "let's buy old people because they're cheaper" attitude of his old club, and now bitter rivals, Spurs. He's considered to be one of the best defenders in the world, and at 6'2" he's a pretty big blockade. Incredibly quick, immensely powerful and on £5 million a year for the next 4 years, Sol Campbell, and all the Arsenal fans must be feeling fairly pleased right now. It's good for the rest of us too because at a stronger club he's going to be playing with better players, so his standard of football should improve even further, so England will have a better defender than before - we'll win the World Cup - you know we will! So Sol strengthens the Highbury massive, putting the pressure on Tony Adams, Martin Keown, Lee Dixon and Oleg Luzhny.
Richard Wright – England’s next keeper after David Seaman eventually gets dropped (he’ll be about 60 probably) – has made his way from Portman Road for a £6million price, making Ipswich a little worried in regards to their goalkeeping vacancy. He’s proven alongside his newly promoted (previous) team that he is a top keeper and could very easily, hopefully, for the good of the nation, takeover the reigns from big Dave. Everton reject Francis Jeffers has magically appeared on the scene and will become the proud wearer of the classic number 9 and could re-ignite his career – I predict he’ll be the second highest scorer at Arsenal after Thierry Henri. What a team. Henri is the best striker in the Premiership, Wiltord will remain at the club – probably only scoring in the FA Cup games, newly retired, scared of heights but highly skilful, Dutch international Dennis Bergkamp will of course be there too and will play behind the two strikers. Ray Parlour, Silvinho, Matt Upson, Grimandi, Lauren, Ljungberg, Pires, Edu and Kanu (to mention but a few) will all be staking their claim for a place in what I believe will be the best team of next season. It’s not raining & I can see them winning more than one piece of Silverware next year. Mr Wenger, the wrinkly, miserable unhappy faced…person, will have something to smile about. Blackburn as I say will do well, but keep your eyes peeled for the Gunners. Big it up for Arsenal!
Any more signings guv? Err, yes! Arsenal maybe about to give some financial support to Spanish champions Real Madrid after their £40million + signing of the worlds greatest player, Zinedine Zidane – they could be getting Steve McManaman. Although the curly haired scouser has pledged a career away from ye old Premiership ye, he could be on his way to join the other big name signings. Unlike Chelsea, Arsenal have mainly bought British players and that is a very, very uplifting thing to do, lets hope others adopt the correct view that British is best, or at least “good enough” and we’ll have a better Premiership all round.
Ok, so if you’re a White Hart Lane Faithful, do not worry. You’ve got the skills of Poyet & Sheringham to look forward to. They’re both old-ish, but they’re still superb players.
Who do you think will win the League?
Arsenal. 1998 was their year, when they won the Premier League and FA Cup double - the third team to have won the Premiership, and the only other team aside from Blackburn to stop Manchester United from almost ten years of absolute domination, so I respect them for that. 1999 they finished second to United, 2000 they finished second to United and guess what - 2001 they finished second to United, although last season was arguably Liverpool's year after they won a fantastic cup treble. Well done to them.
Now, as a non Arsenal fan I wouldn't mind if they were an also-ran team, a mid table dwelling side that no one paid any attention to, but they aren't, and they're one of only 3 or 4 teams that stand a chance of derailing Alex Ferguson's Manchester Red Devils. One day I hope Blackburn can emulate the success of the 1995 Championship winning side, but nest season I can't see them quite being in the forefront of things - top 10 is a realistic hope I should think, but not a champions league placing or title contention. Leeds, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal are the four teams that all stand a good chance of capturing the trophy other than United - forget Muhammed Al Fayed's mumblings about Fulham going for the title, he's obviously not seen some of the top flight sides play.
So, Arsenal - why will they achieve so much this season? For starters, last year wasn't their greatest although I felt they should have won against Liverpool in the FA Cup final, but Michael Owen had different ideas - good for him. Arsenal will be playing in the Champions League again, and of course both the League and FA cups - all of which COULD be won by the Soon to be "mighty Gunners". With such a strong squad at the moment, and with Vieira staying on for at least another season the summer signings will make them a better side, on paper at least, than the mighty Manchester United.
So far, they've captured the multi-positioning Giovanni van Bronckhorst from Rangers, a very talented player and at just 26 years old, his free transfer is probably going to make him the most cost efficient and effective signing. I'm sure he'll play week in week out, maybe alongside last season's player of the year Patrick Vieira. 25 year old centre back Igors Stepanovs looks to bring some youth to the ageing defence, but of course the most controversial, the transfer that has caused the most uproar amongst Spurs fans but has brought electrifying excitement for all Arsenal supporters, is without a doubt the signing by Leicester of Ian Walker....
....I mean, Arsene Wenger's capture of Sulzeer Jeremiah Campbell, a.k.a. Sol Campbell! At 26 years of age, Sol finally realised that he wasn't going to achieve anything with the "let's buy old people because they're cheaper" attitude of his old club, and now bitter rivals, Spurs. He's considered to be one of the best defenders in the world, and at 6'2" he's a pretty big blockade. Incredibly quick, immensely powerful and on £5 million a year for the next 4 years, Sol Campbell, and all the Arsenal fans must be feeling fairly pleased right now. It's good for the rest of us too because at a stronger club he's going to be playing with better players, so his standard of football should improve even further, so England will have a better defender than before - we'll win the World Cup - you know we will! So Sol strengthens the Highbury massive, putting the pressure on Tony Adams, Martin Keown, Lee Dixon and Oleg Luzhny.
Richard Wright – England’s next keeper after David Seaman eventually gets dropped (he’ll be about 60 probably) – has made his way from Portman Road for a £6million price, making Ipswich a little worried in regards to their goalkeeping vacancy. He’s proven alongside his newly promoted (previous) team that he is a top keeper and could very easily, hopefully, for the good of the nation, takeover the reigns from big Dave. Everton reject Francis Jeffers has magically appeared on the scene and will become the proud wearer of the classic number 9 and could re-ignite his career – I predict he’ll be the second highest scorer at Arsenal after Thierry Henri. What a team. Henri is the best striker in the Premiership, Wiltord will remain at the club – probably only scoring in the FA Cup games, newly retired, scared of heights but highly skilful, Dutch international Dennis Bergkamp will of course be there too and will play behind the two strikers. Ray Parlour, Silvinho, Matt Upson, Grimandi, Lauren, Ljungberg, Pires, Edu and Kanu (to mention but a few) will all be staking their claim for a place in what I believe will be the best team of next season. It’s not raining & I can see them winning more than one piece of Silverware next year. Mr Wenger, the wrinkly, miserable unhappy faced…person, will have something to smile about. Blackburn as I say will do well, but keep your eyes peeled for the Gunners. Big it up for Arsenal!
Any more signings guv? Err, yes! Arsenal maybe about to give some financial support to Spanish champions Real Madrid after their £40million + signing of the worlds greatest player, Zinedine Zidane – they could be getting Steve McManaman. Although the curly haired scouser has pledged a career away from ye old Premiership ye, he could be on his way to join the other big name signings. Unlike Chelsea, Arsenal have mainly bought British players and that is a very, very uplifting thing to do, lets hope others adopt the correct view that British is best, or at least “good enough” and we’ll have a better Premiership all round.
Ok, so if you’re a White Hart Lane Faithful, do not worry. You’ve got the skills of Poyet & Sheringham to look forward to. They’re both old-ish, but they’re still superb players.
Who do you think will win the League?
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Arsenal need to buy some players that are able to play at their best throughout the season. There is no point in them signing players who are very good, but can't play to their best ability all the way through the season as they will never be able to come out on top over Man United, come the end of the season.
Wòókiee Møn§†€R wrote:
>With the excpetion of the 6-1 drubbing last
*exception
>With the excpetion of the 6-1 drubbing last
*exception
I generally believe that Arsenal are a better team, but United are more consistent.
With the excpetion of the 6-1 drubbing last season when we had no real defence, we have consistently come out top of the head-to-head games for a few years now.
We just can't keep it up all season long!
With the excpetion of the 6-1 drubbing last season when we had no real defence, we have consistently come out top of the head-to-head games for a few years now.
We just can't keep it up all season long!
I can't belive that some of the Arsenal players think that they can now compete with Man United and that they have a chance of winning the premierhsip this season. I will admit that they have made a few good signings but Man United have got a far better squad and Liverpool will be the only team who will be able to challenge United all the way.
Yeah, Freddy's just signed for another 5 years.
Silvinho has said he is happy to stay and fight for his place with Cole. Furthermore Silvi is likely to be cover for both Cole and Pires - so will no doubt get to play a big part over the season.
Kanu's agent has stated the player want's to stay - at least until he wins a trophy at Highbury.
Parlour could be on the way out (although I doubt it). Lungberg has just been offer a huge contract to stay at Highbury and I think he will be Arsenal's preferred choice down the right hand side. If Parlour does stay he could be fighting for a central midfield position with Ed, Vieira and GVB.
I think Jeffers will surprise many people. Before suffering injuries he was talk about as possibly THE most promising young striker in the country. If he stays fit he could fulfil his potential.
Kanu's agent has stated the player want's to stay - at least until he wins a trophy at Highbury.
Parlour could be on the way out (although I doubt it). Lungberg has just been offer a huge contract to stay at Highbury and I think he will be Arsenal's preferred choice down the right hand side. If Parlour does stay he could be fighting for a central midfield position with Ed, Vieira and GVB.
I think Jeffers will surprise many people. Before suffering injuries he was talk about as possibly THE most promising young striker in the country. If he stays fit he could fulfil his potential.
The Godfather wrote:
> Silvhinio looks like he's going along with Kanu.
I'm hoping we keep both of them, especially Silvinho. Ashley Cole is great, but who covers if he gets injured?
> they need to bring in players from the youth reank, more Cole's, but don't sell them,
> like they did with one of the chaps, I forgot his name, played for
> Everton.
Stephen Hughes? I was gutted we let him go. I was also alarmed to hear that we might let Parlour go. He may not be the greatest midfielder in the world, but he's a workhorse type player who runs and runs, and sometimes you need that. He also WANTS to play for Arsenal, and is very loyal - something which is sorely missing these days.
I also don't believe we should have sold Merson, and several years ago, I think we were wrong to sell Rocastle (RIP). The saga with Anelka and the current situation with Vieira prove that you need to keep those loyal players. And no, I don't think it's got anything to do with Anelka and Vieira being French - many English players are the same. Even I am still reeling from the Sol Campbell move.
> Silvhinio looks like he's going along with Kanu.
I'm hoping we keep both of them, especially Silvinho. Ashley Cole is great, but who covers if he gets injured?
> they need to bring in players from the youth reank, more Cole's, but don't sell them,
> like they did with one of the chaps, I forgot his name, played for
> Everton.
Stephen Hughes? I was gutted we let him go. I was also alarmed to hear that we might let Parlour go. He may not be the greatest midfielder in the world, but he's a workhorse type player who runs and runs, and sometimes you need that. He also WANTS to play for Arsenal, and is very loyal - something which is sorely missing these days.
I also don't believe we should have sold Merson, and several years ago, I think we were wrong to sell Rocastle (RIP). The saga with Anelka and the current situation with Vieira prove that you need to keep those loyal players. And no, I don't think it's got anything to do with Anelka and Vieira being French - many English players are the same. Even I am still reeling from the Sol Campbell move.
That's true, but we've all heard of Jeffers and he's not worth the money they splashed out on him. Arsenal are looking for a Solskjaer, another Wright, not a Collymore nor Angel. Yes Jeffers is a poacher, but he's not good enough, yet. Arsenal can say that they are going to build him up, but they need someone now! Within two years Viera will be gone, Adams will be retireds along with the rest of the defence apart from two obviouse lot. Silvhinio looks like he's going along with Kanu.
Time is against Arsenal, they need to bring in players from the youth reank, more Cole's, but don't sell them, like they did with one of the chaps, I forgot his name, played for Everton.
Well, that's my point.
Time is against Arsenal, they need to bring in players from the youth reank, more Cole's, but don't sell them, like they did with one of the chaps, I forgot his name, played for Everton.
Well, that's my point.
The Godfather wrote:
> Jeffers, for 10 millions nuggets.He hasn't really proved himself as a class
> footballer
That may be the case, but who had heard of a certain Patrick Vieira before he came to Arsenal?
> Jeffers, for 10 millions nuggets.He hasn't really proved himself as a class
> footballer
That may be the case, but who had heard of a certain Patrick Vieira before he came to Arsenal?
united have gone out this summer and broke the british transfer system twice. A world class finsiher, and a world class playmaker. I think united lacked a world class finsiher last season, and with van nistelrooy in the attack united will win their 4th succesive title.
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