so 2 weeks of international drudgery
hope ppl doh come back injured
JD might be back in 4wks dont hold breath
cheesy still working out but highly unlikely he comes back
if we win the league this year without our starters then i fear the hangers on and not good enoughs of this team will be held onto as wenger says i told you so
but arsene you are wrong we cannot afford these sub par back ups
we want fighters people who embody a drive desire and hunger for success and that they show and talk it on the pitch
9 more to go cant slip a note, we waiting on manu to slip, while chelsea breathing down our backs
we have shown we cannot handle the pressure
we have shown the division that comes with constant frustrations of being let down
we must get out of this rut of "consistency just below the top is good enough"
i still love meh side
honestly, if arsenal manages to win the league i think wenger has the right to tell people i told you so.
truth is, the amount of injuries arsenal have right now is not something that he could have predicted. the shit men in the side are not men who were expected to play as much as they have. denilson is only playing so much because a host of central midfielders are injured (song, fabregas, diaby, and if you want you can even add frimpong). squillaci is only playing so much because of vermalen's inexplicable injury. almunia is only back in the lineup because of szczesny freak injury and fabianski's shoulder injury (and you can even add mannone's injury to that too). with the exception of van persie, who seems to be injury prone, i think it's hard to say that these injuries should have been expected. when you think about it, almunia is the 3rd/4th choice keeper and is probably on his way out. denilson is a way down the pecking order in terms of central midfielders but is maybe one of the more consistently fit ones. koscielny lacks experience but isn't that bad of a central defender for a 3rd choice (i think he can come good in games when he alongside a more experienced player).
basically at full strength, arsenal is a top team. the fact that they are so undermined by injury and still second in the league in a way supports the argument that they have impressive depth. it's true that it's frustrating that they aren't winning tournaments, but i think they deserve more credit than they're getting for what they've achieved with a largely handicapped squad.
think of any other side and remove their equivelant of szczesny, djourou, vermaelen, song, fabregas and walcott from the lineup and tell me what they're left with. for man utd that would be vandersar? vidic? ferdinand? fletcher? carrick? nani? for chelsea that would be cech? terry? alex? essien? lampard? malouda? add the fact that van persie (equiv of rooney? drogba?) missed a chunk of the season and you realise that arsenal is a pretty deep squad and have done well given their circumstances.
long story short, arsenal has less of a problem with it's squad of players and more of a problem with it's injury crisis. and with the exception of diaby and vanpersie who you can say are normally injured, alot of the injuries have been unexpected and freakish and you really can't blame wenger for that. in hindsight it easy to say that he should a do this and that, but you don't really know what's the scene with vermaelen injury. and with the limitations on squad sizes signing one man means dropping another and arsenal side probably at full capacity right now with injuries, so dropping a man from another area of the side is a risk in itself.
don't get me wrong, i frustrated with the arsenal situation too. but realistically, it a lot easier for us to sit here and say wenger doing madness. but when i try to put myself in his situation and really study what going on with the side, the situation real tough, and the side deserve credit for being as competitive as they are despite it.