We are out of both cup competitions and we may be out of the CL by the end of the week. This is supposed to be disastrous, right? After all we are arsenal, the club that is expected to win at least one trophy every year. But think of it this way, apart from EPL what have we really lost this season? NOTHING. winning the carling cup would not have made this season less "disastrous". In fact we were responsible for injecting some interest into such a farcial cup competition. And how did we do it, not by giving the competition more importance, not by putting in the big guns just to go after the trophy, but by exposing the talent pool that we have. I know this is a cliched line but we have the best second team in the whole of f***ing Europe. We are at a point where the second team can integrate with the first team without much ado. We now have a second team that can sink 6 past liverpool at anfield. Isn't that good, isn't that bloody excellent?
How many of us expected arsenal to be serious title contenders at the last quarter of the season. I definitely didn't. This was the season we moved into a new stadium, the season that we were supposed to be coping with the loss of experience. No matter who comes in, replacing LeBOB or the flying Dutchman is impossible. The run to the final last year was amazing, we would have won the damn thing if it wasn't for some pussy ass refereeing, but we are still the transition side moving into a new stadium. I always thought that we needed 2 years after the new stadium to become champions. But seeing this lot of youngsters, i feel we can realistically go for the title next season itself. One of the major reasons for that is the amount of experience we got into our so called teenagers. Cesc scuffing over lampard was a sight to behold. With this lot i see why we can't go for a purposeful challenge of the title.
There are some things that need to be addressed though. Top of that is a goalkeeper. If the legendary Jens decides to switch, i can't see Almunia in as first choice. We need another wide player to help the rotation of Hleb and Rosicky. Aliadiere might be an option to play wide, but i don't know if he will stick around. Bendtner is also coming back, so it will be interesting to see where he slots in. Then we have the beast, with his consistency as good as a sine wave, the boss has a big headache before him. I like both of them but can't see both staying as well. If Adabeyor. VP and TH stay fit there is no place for these two. I reckon Baptista will stay, for he might bring some beastly beauty into arsenals play!
Before i forget, how can you not trust Arsene. I mean who would do a better job without a chequebook? After Hose's histrionics about being the greater manager and the part about chelski's youth system i can see where he is coming from.
So don't worry my fellow arses, for the strom shall blow over thy club and we shall see a bunch of marauding warriors emerge like never before conquering all in their path. Brilliant Just BRILLIANT! PS: I wanted the last line to be "Nothing more pleasing than coming up trumps in the face of adversity", but i thought let me put something here that is totally un-arse.
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