Soar Fox Posted 23 August 2011 Posted 23 August 2011 Apart from Josh McEachran how many youth players have Chelsea bought through in the last 5 years? Most of Man Utd younger players have been bought from other clubs. I doubt Man City will bring through any youth players within the next 3 years.
Phube Posted 23 August 2011 Author Posted 23 August 2011 Apart from Josh McEachran how many youth players have Chelsea bought through in the last 5 years? Most of Man Utd younger players have been bought from other clubs. I doubt Man City will bring through any youth players within the next 3 years. Funny I thought Ramsey and Walcott were bought too!?
Soar Fox Posted 23 August 2011 Posted 23 August 2011 Funny I thought Ramsey and Walcott were bought too!? 2 players, go through united's squad there will be at lease 5/6 who have been bought. But you don't knock them for it.
MC Prussian Posted 23 August 2011 Posted 23 August 2011 2 players, go through united's squad there will be at lease 5/6 who have been bought. But you don't knock them for it. Well yeah, obviously. Because this is the Arsenal Bashing Thread, because Arsenal usually fail to deliver. Unlike Manchester United.
Phube Posted 23 August 2011 Author Posted 23 August 2011 2 players, go through united's squad there will be at lease 5/6 who have been bought. But you don't knock them for it. I don't knock people for buying British/English players, the poster I was replying to seemed to!
shen Posted 24 August 2011 Posted 24 August 2011 4 in 5 years... Wooo... Three of them English. In the same time time Man Utd produced two (Richardson and Welbeck) or three at a push if you include Cleverley, Man City produced three (SWP, Richards and Barton) and Liverpool and Chelsea have produced one each (Warnock and Carlton Cole) neither of which were at the club at the time of their international breakthrough. In fact, if you include products that did not make the breakthrough until moving on, Arsenal should be credited with David Bentley and Jay Bothroyd too. In summary, Arsenal's academy is superior or at the very least no worse than any of their rival academies in that respect. So find another way to have a dig at them <_<
shen Posted 24 August 2011 Posted 24 August 2011 I don't knock people for buying British/English players, the poster I was replying to seemed to! Oh really? Shame about arsenal really, I quite like the club system. Based on this, you knock Arsenal for 'buying young foreign talent at the expense of home-grown talent'. Firstly, how can you reduce his comment to something as misconstrued as that? Secondly, I've just shown you that your claim is founded on nothing but prejudice and contempt. If you knock Arsenal for it, have a go at all the other culprits who are worse!
Matt Posted 24 August 2011 Posted 24 August 2011 It'd do Arsenal a favour to lose tonight. Although the Europa League is still tough, I feel they'd have a better chance of winning that than the Champions League. For this reason I think I want them to win tonight But if they lose, great.
Guest MattP Posted 24 August 2011 Posted 24 August 2011 Szczesny looks better every game, going to be a world class keeper. 14 years on the bounce in the CL whilst making a profit, absolutely incredible, doubt anything like it will ever be done again. If they ever get rid of Wenger they will rue the day.
BlueSi13 Posted 25 August 2011 Posted 25 August 2011 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14657732.stm "New Manchester City signing Samir Nasri says fans at former club Arsenal are not as "passionate" as those at City." I have to agree, always found Arsenal's support to be one of the most limp dick in the country/Europe.
John Matrix Posted 25 August 2011 Posted 25 August 2011 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14657732.stm "New Manchester City signing Samir Nasri says fans at former club Arsenal are not as "passionate" as those at City." I have to agree, always found Arsenal's support to be one of the most limp dick in the country/Europe. cafe culture
Guest MattP Posted 25 August 2011 Posted 25 August 2011 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14657732.stm "New Manchester City signing Samir Nasri says fans at former club Arsenal are not as "passionate" as those at City." I have to agree, always found Arsenal's support to be one of the most limp dick in the country/Europe. Away support is decent. Another one who fans have become more limp wristed by moving stadium though.
acooling08 Posted 25 August 2011 Posted 25 August 2011 How can Arsenal expect to progress when they sell their best players (Nasri, Fabergas) and don't bother replacing them? I also don't understand why Wenger refuses to sign a decent goalkeeper and centre half.
MC Prussian Posted 25 August 2011 Posted 25 August 2011 Away support is decent. Another one who fans have become more limp wristed by moving stadium though. I would have loved to see Leicester play at Highbury. Seemed like a class stadium by the looks of it.
Guest MattP Posted 26 August 2011 Posted 26 August 2011 I would have loved to see Leicester play at Highbury. Seemed like a class stadium by the looks of it. I went 3/4 times, the worst was a season opener when they were defending champions when we went 1-0 up lost 2-1 in the last minute to a Sinclair OG. That was the side that contained Vieira, Petit, Overmars, Bergkamp, Henry, Ljungberg etc strong didnt cover it...... It wasnt the loudest ground but another one of those stadiums that had its own little idiosyncrasies that made an away day very enjoyable, shoved in the corner of the clock end but if you were near the front you were almost on the pitch, you could reach out and touch people taking a corner. I actually turned down the game there with a mate when they went unbeaten in that season in the City end, couldnt be bothered Turned out to be a bad move when he and the guy who took my place had sold their £28 tickets in our end to 2 gooners for £500 and watched it in a pub down the road.
accessory Posted 26 August 2011 Posted 26 August 2011 Away support is decent. Another one who fans have become more limp wristed by moving stadium though. Like Stoke, you mean?
Guest MattP Posted 26 August 2011 Posted 26 August 2011 Like Stoke, you mean? Compared to the Victoria Ground - yes. The Britannia isnt on the level of the noise of that place. Though they have done well to a good noise level in the new ground at Stoke, though that probably comes with building 4 decent stands and having the supporters right next to the pitch still unlike the lifeless "bowls" us, Southampton etc have to inhabit.
HEGGSY Posted 26 August 2011 Posted 26 August 2011 Just to laugh a little more at Arsenal Fabregas trophies at Arsenal during 8 YEARS 2005 FA Cup Fabregas trophies at Barca in 11 DAYS 2011 Spanish Super Cup 2011 European Super Cup
Phube Posted 28 August 2011 Author Posted 28 August 2011 Just a quick question? The Radio 4 sports guy mentioned Arsénal could benefit from buying Scott Parker to do a job for 2-3 seasons. I asked my Arsénal not-hating work mates and they all thought he would be a good purchase to stabilise them. But Wenger never buys older players? I was like yeah right he's English as well so no chance...but it got me thinking: Has Wenger ever bought an English/British player over 18 years old?
MC Prussian Posted 28 August 2011 Posted 28 August 2011 This is brilliant: http://arsenalisation.com/category/where-are-they-now/
MC Prussian Posted 28 August 2011 Posted 28 August 2011 And in other transfer news, Arsène is going after another non-English wunderkid: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14692916.stm He just loves his foreigners, doesn't he? I can already imagine Wenger's statement (in true arsenalisation fashion): "Park is a great talent, I've seen him play and there is something very special about him."
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