Arsène Wenger’s hunt for a young talented centre back has ended. Despite missing out on Fulham’s England Under 21 international Chris Smalling, he is set to wrap up a deal for Montenegrin Stefan Savić.
Savić has completed a 10 day trial with Arsenal and, according to the Blic Online publication, the Frenchman informed him yesterday that they would be be keen to keep him on. Talks are now on going with his club side BSK Borča for the transfer which would be completed in the summer.
The 19-year-old won the Montenegrin Young Player of the Year award for 2009 and he has rebuffed offers from Tottenham Hotspur and Birmingham City to arrive on trial. At 6’2 (188cm) he is an imposing figure yet many note Stefan for his adept passing range. He has made 10 League appearances for Borča, scoring once. The cultured prospect confirmed the deal yesterday.
“There were offers from Tottenham and Birmingham City, but once a call came from Arsenal, I had no more doubts. Wenger made sure my papers were arranged and my work permit was extended so I can be at more training sessions. A pre-contract will be signed on Thursday and then I will return to Belgrade and join BSK for their preparations. I will be staying with BSK until May.”
Arsenal are expected to pay around £100,000 for his services. Savić noted that Wenger has been particularly aggressive this week during training following the defeat to Manchester United, where he was in the stands to watch on. You can read the complete interview Here.
Savić’s arrival could signal the end for defender Håvard Nordtveit, who is interesting a handful of German clubs.
Article By – J.Sanderson
another kid,what about the first teams needs
yep we in the title race now
Could it also mean the end for Bartley??
And speaking of Montenegrin players… whatever happened with the interest in Veljko Batrovic?
I thought Nordtveit had great potential. You reckon he will ever play for us again?
Another kid on the cheap,promising talent but nothing more,typical Wenger.We might have a team in 2100,great, someone please resurrect me from my grave when time comes.
He should go on loan to a division 1 team for a the rest of the season. Then next year to the championship for a year.
otherwise this means that bartley will go on loan for the rest of the season.
I had high hopes for Nordveit, he is a hardman and we need hardman in defence!
May not be the end of Håvard Nordtveit, Savić is not yet tested in the premier league.Håvard Nordtveit is definitely good enough to play in league and FA cup
The end for Nordveit? Bit premature, is it not?
smalling 10 mill this guy 100k!! Typically Wenger!!! Fucking stubborn idiot wont splash any cash!! In summer he will try to get Chamakh for nothing and we hoped for David Villa!! Time to go Monsieur!!!
Iam great ally of wengers policies,but i never believe he ll not sign a striker,arsenal find difficult to break down organised defence
BSK BORCA is SERBIAN SUPERLEAGUE club.I live in Serbia and I never heard of him.If he is any good he would play in Serbian top club(Partizan and Red Star).If you want tallented player from ex-Yugoslavia start to search in theese two clubs!!!
we need new strikers not defenders..
we dont need anymore kids
Idiots complaining about signing youths shouldn’t be reading an Arsenal Youth blog.
Is complaining all we really do anymore? LOL…read each comment, the majority are negative. Anyways, this is a great signing to me if it goes through. We are starting to see some top quality defenders come out of eastern Uerope.
Nordveit isnt a hardman he is as soft as they get i watch a lot of bundesliga games but ive never seen the guy tackle.
He is definetly not ready for the premier league.
I would rather have to senderos´at the back than nordveit and vermaelen believe me.
I CAN EVEN SIT WITH FREIENDS AGAINM JOIN BESCOS WE AW PLS STOP DECIVING YOUR SELF WITH ALL THIS KIDS
What is wenger playing at? I like Kyle bartley as a defender he looks more suited to the premiership than Nordvteit.
Luke Ayling where the hell is the kid
why do people come on here criticising Wenger for buying Young Players?
Surely the Title of the Website tells all you need to know
JamesPond- did you really just say that about Vermaelen? These players are not super heroes. They are people. I dont know what people expect of these players anymore. The guy has been great this year. And Nordtveit isnt great at reading the game yet, which is why he doesnt put in many tackles. It has nothing to do with his strength. Stop complaining.
Why would it spell the end for Nordtveit?
I hope it works out well, but that sounds premature
Im not the type that starts moaninging and complaining. I have respect for Vermaelen. He is one of my favorite players. For me he is the signing of the season. My comment had nothing to do about the ability of vermaelen only about nordveit´s season so far and what i have seen from him.
“I would rather have to senderos´at the back than nordveit and vermaelen believe me.”
JamesPond…that is your comment.
Nothing like Arsenal splashing the cash is there.
arsenal should bid for Subotic. at 6″ ft 4. him and vermalaen can take full advantage of the defence, even cetin of galatasry, we need young defenders that are in between 24-29 years of age..with varmaelen.
I don’t get it… so we lost against united but we might win against chelsea. If we win against chelsea everyone will say what an genius Wenger is. Lets see what we ends when the season is over. I hope the leauge will be ours.
yes but i am not sure if we will win anything this season. The FA cup he has easily thrown away again!!! It is all down to Wengers fault. Who would put in Almunia as 1. choice keeper? I dont get it!!!
Sorry I meant senderos x2 at the back than a partnership of nordveit and vermaelen. Even though i rate vermaelen. He has been very poor this season and doesnt even look like a bundesliga player. He´s lost his spot in a poor nürnberg squad. They tried him at cb for one game and he got totally raped by a very average striker.
Fellas, is splashing the cash an end in itself?
“smalling 10 mill this guy 100k!! Typically Wenger!!! Fucking stubborn idiot …” What are you on? Maybe this guy is as good as Smalling or maybe even better. Who has then done the better business, Ferguson or Wenger? Come on and grow up!
Jerome Boateng is the cb we should be after he will be a great player. He´s 21 years old, a german international and 1,92m tall. He can pass cross header and can tackle without hardly giving fouls away. He can also play rb.
Subotic is good but i think boateng will turn out to be the better player.
Boatengs brother is kevin-prince boateng from portsmouth by the way.
I know who he is. He would cost more then Smalling did. By the way, I am suprised no one tried to snap up Kevin Prince-Boeteng with Pompeys financial issues. I know the kid is known for have attitude issues but if you watch him, that boy has talent.
@ jamesPond: It was said in germany we were looking at him but I think Wenger still prefers bargains in the region of 100k, lol. He will cost us everything again!!! Hope the board thinks the same at the end of season.
still time to judge until season ends but I have the bad feeling nothing will be won in the end so it is time for a big big change!!!
Nordtveit will never play for our first team that’s for sure. Isn’t good enoguh. period.
Of young center backs I would like to see James Tomkins from West Ham in our shirt. Highly unlikely, but would be great.
Boateng has a 12 million release clause at the end of the season. But i guess that will be to much for wenger.
Yeah shane kevin prince boateng definetly has talent and he fights.
I can remember his first few games for berlin a few years ago he was amazing. But his wanabe bad boy image messed him up and the move to the yids nearly destroyed him. Thankfully he´s improved and i would go as far as saying he wouldnt be a bad back up rw for us even though he is a midfielder.
On this money tip, I dont think Arsenal fans understand the actual size of this club. We are not as big of a club as Barcelona, Real Madrid or Man Utd. These 3 are far more massive clubs, as far as world popularity and income from merchandise and image avenues. Wenger is the guy the is transforming this club into that level but it doesnt happen over night. He built the top class stadium, is making us worldly known through our beautiful style of football, has won trophies, and is doing all this while mainting an extremely low budget. People just need to see reality, and Wenger is doing far more good then harm. But you can invest in the structure of a club and blow millions on transfers. Reality check people.
Have you ever actually peeped at the players that have played through out history at Man Utd, Real Madrid, and Barcelona. You will see the difference in those clubs and ours. Wenger is creating the foundation that will put us up there with those kinds of clubs.
Cost of the First Team Squad
Fabregas = £500,000
Merida = Free but we may have paid his €3.2m fine (although that may be on appeal)
Philippe Senderos = £1.5 million
Johan Djourou = Free, signed when he was 15.
Gael Clichy = £250,000
Robin Van Persie = £2.75 million
Manuel Almunia = £2.5 million
Emmanuel Eboue = £1 million
Nicklas Bendtner = £200,000
Vito Mannone = £350,000
Armand Traore = £250,000
Vassiriki Diaby = £2 million
Theo Walcott = £9.1 million
Tomas Rosicky = £6.8 million
Alexandre Song = £1 million
William Gallas = Ashley Cole + £5 million to us
Denilson = £3.4 million
Lukasz Fabianski = £2 million
Eduardo = £7.5 million
Bakari Sagna = £6 million
Aaron Ramsey = £5 million
Samir Nasri = £12 million
Andrei Arshavin = £15 million
Mikel Sylvester = £750,000
Thomas Vermaelen = £10 million
Kieran Gibbs = Academy
Sol Campbell = Free
Jack Wilshere = Academy
Carlos Vela = £550,000
Total First Team Cost = £84.9 million?
Compare that to Man U, Chelsea, Man City or even Tottenham
Sensible comments, Shane. It’s a shame that this isn’t obvious to everyone.
It partly explains why a few people get upset when “fans” come down on the youngsters – both individuals and the whole development process.
We’re depending on a significant proportion of our young charges to come good (either to help the first team or command a transfer/sell-on fee), and it really grates to read people slamming them, sometime before they’ve even made a first team appearance.
Nordtveit is the latest, but I’m sure he won’t be the last.
danish gooner in 2100 when you resurrect , i would be present and make sure you are back in your coffin for ever :) we don’t need sub supporter who pass their time moaning on the net.
And people are forgetting Senderos left,Silvstre would be soon and djourou is injured prone so the more CB we ve got ,the better.It doesn’t mean the end of Bartley our Ayling.
And for the moaner,we should sell Cecs because he cost us only 500k.Since when price have to do with talent.Arsenal4forever yes time to change,let rid of glory-hunter like you and the like .
yes considering how much money we spend we are in an amazing position in world football, but if wenger would just become a little less tight at times and spend on someone quality then we would be in an even better position. im not saying buy a player that will put us into even more debt, but there must be at least some of the 40 million we made on kolo and ade left and we havent spent it yet..a well known name signing on would have given everyone a lift (yes sol campbell is a well known name but hes is at the very end of his career)
Kevin Prince Boating is a former Sp*rs cunt it’s highly unlikely Wenger will even try to sign him though he’s decent.
everyones moaning because we got dicked by Utd at the weekend, we all want tovent our frustrations. it’s good that AW keeps trawling for new young talent, but i think even he will admit he’s got this season wrong, we needed a striker and a keeper in this window and he didn’t get us one. that’s cost us a shot at a trophy this season, i find it hard for anyone to defend that. oh well there’s always next season
I am not saying I agree with every decision Wenger makes, but overall he does far more good than bad for Arsenal.
Also everyone blames Arsene for not buying major names but the truth is, since Wenger, we have had more top top players then we have ever had. Here is an example for people with less commen sense. Manchester United have had players like Bobby Charlton, Dennis Law, George Best, Peter Schmeical, Eric Cantona, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney. Real Madrid have had Di Stefano, Puskas, Zidane, Ronaldo..etc, and Barcelona has had players like Maradona, Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Romario, Stoitchkof, Messi, Ronaldo..etc. We had not had 1 player in this category of players. Bergkamp was the first but he played mostly under Wenger. Then Henry and Veira. Now Fabregas. Our history as far as having some of the greatest players ever to play this game, starts with Wenger.
lol at people moaning about buying this guy. They were the same people moaning that we didn’t buy Smalling for 12 times the price.
no deal done yet!!!
http://www.imscouting.com/global-news-article/Arsenal-refuse-to-pay-25m-for-Montenegrin-defender-Stefan-Savic/5517/?
Shane, I don’t know how far back you remember but there were many great players before Wenger came. What about the famous back five created by Graham? Or the players like Brady, O’Leary, Armstrong, Ball, Jennings, Sunderland, Stapleton, MacDonald etc etc before then. Have a look how many trophies Graham won in his time. I believe Wenger has won one more in a much longer period.
shane wat abwt liam brady, tony adams, david seaman, david rocastle?
n im nt sayin i want wenger out pple dat say dat r smoking sumfin dey aint supposed to
Yah I admit I forgot Liam Brady but even he isnt on many people 100 best players to ever live. You get the point though.
Bigol…those players arent on anyones list of the 100 greatest players to ever live. Remember what I said. Those are all great players but I am talking about a completly different category.
tottenham 1st team squad LOOL- 137.9 MILLION
chelsea 1st team- 229.55 MILLION
man utd- 198.5 MILLION
ridicilous prices.
Shane, I think you miss the point. I personally want Wenger out (or better like a director at Arsenal) because the team hasn’t improved in the last 4 years. It’s simple as that. I think we had far better chances with this team from 2007 Lehmann, Clichy, Toure, Gallas, Sagna, Flamini, Fabregas, Hleb, Rosicky, van Persie, Adebayor and players like Gilberto, Rosicky, Eduardo, Bendtner, Almunia, Eboue on the bench
yeah but arsenal has 85 million per 0 trophy, only Tottenham is worse than that
Me..did you not read anything I have written. Have you also maybe recognised that in this “trophyless period” we have been paying for a brand new stadium while the league has added Billionare owners at both Chelsea and Man City and Man Utd were still spending highly. What do you want, short term success or truly being a super club in the near future? If short term success is what you want then I am sure you supported Leeds united.
When putting those transfer lists togethers, you cant forget wages.
this kid could be better than smalling plus we still have djourou and bartley and ayling could be quality in time
this kid could be better than smalling plus we still have djourou and bartley and ayling could be quality in time.
Shane – you didn’t answer – how long have you watched Arsenal?
These so called lists you refer to are almost always compiled by people who only have short term experience.
Perhaps the money could be better spent on new players rather than on inflated contracts for kids like Emmanuel Thomas who can afford £100,000 cars. I think you are missing the point, fans don’t want a complete new team, just to strengthen it where needed.
This season is the 3rd we play at the Emirates. During which we haven’t won anything but the Emirates and Amsterdam cups. Every year, Arsenal has a profit of circa 30 million pounds. PROFIT. But despite that we let 5 first team players out, and we’ve replaced them with more expensive players that fail to deliver. Who’s fault is that??
Despite not having won anything, and not being close to win anything (but the CL in 2006) we still have the most expensive tickets on the planet in any sport, the lousiest club tv, and Wenger still says he has no money. Of course it’s been hard to compete with other teams during the construction of the stadium, but just to remind you, we have a long term debt, so you’d be happy if he don’t win anything till we out-pay it…another 30 years or so?
Shane, don’t forget about Ted Drake, Cliff Bastin, Alex James, Eddie Hapgood and MAYBE a few others. Even though they aren’t really talked about today, they were the best in England at their positions during their careers. I know that’s a veeeeeeerrrrry long time ago, but still, looking at their statistics and medals, they are top class in any era I think.
yeah, Ted Drake for instance 124 goals in 167 app. And btw. Ferenc Puškaš was an Arsenal fan ;)
Bigal…I have been watching alot of the old games and Arsenaltv at Arsenal.com…..When there is a majority of the lists for top 100 players of the century, dont be different people whether it be the players voting or whatever and none of them have a Arsenal player in them. That tells you something. Short term? Puskas, Stanley Mathews, etc arent exactly short term. The point was Wenger has been a part of most of the players that would fall into true World greats. You have to understand the difference between a “club legend” and the greatest players to ever live. Every club has club legends. Anyways my comment was made to the people that are saying Wenger never buys top players, and he should be fired blah blah blah. I agree on the fact that we need to strengthen a couple areas and I have been saying that forever but people still need realisation.
well you said it right there shane…”I agree on the fact that we need to strengthen a couple areas and I HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT FOREVER”.
Stoichkov isn’t in that class lol, but I know what Shane is trying to say! Kubala was probably much better! So was Luis Suarez. The one who played for Barca and Inter. I’m done now because I’m being stupid and jumping all over a technicality here!:S lol. We will get back to the level we were at in the 30’s and 40’s. When we were BIGGER, yes BIGGER than Man United!! I think it can happen. A lot of pieces have to fall in to place simultaneously, but I can see it happening because we are building the foundation with which to build upon. And that is mostly down to Wenger.
how can you guys be angry at this? You were so furuious when he failed to land Smalling which you ALL REALLY WANTED COS HE WAS A GREAT DEFENDER!!! Now when he lands a similar lad you get all angry cos “this is not what we want, we want something els now!” Dammit guys you schizopreniac or something?
This dude is a direct replacement for what Smalling was meant to be. So it is a good signing. Cos we missed out on Smalling but getting him instead. Yes he is a kid but so was Smalling. Now am i missing something here???
At the rate wenger is making money it will be long before 30 years. And he is still trying to win although the FA cup thing was extremely frusterating. Buying exspensive flops, I do agree with tho. It is weird that when he doesnt open the check book he still likes to buy someone of the radar instead of a more gaurentead thing. Once again, Overall Arsenal need Arsene. By the way, if he was an Arsenal fan, why did we not sign him during the war? That sucks.
No I meant the 1930’s and 1940’s Shane :D We were bigger than United then. And it can happen in 15-20 years easily. We won’t be bigger than them but we will be back on a par with them at least. I am confident it can happen. This house ain’t falling down!!
I don’t get it… so we lost against united but we might win against chelsea. If we win against chelsea everyone will say what an genius Wenger is. Lets see what we ends when the season is over. I hope the leauge will be ours.
Jom said this on February 2, 2010 at 2:26 pm….another deluded guy,wake up and look at what is going on when we play these teams
shane your talking rubbish,deluded guy or what
Stoichkov did win the ueropean player of the year at 1 point. Anyways, there was always going to be a player that i named, that someone would argue but you get the overal point.
well if we want a team like Man United it means 3 30M signings (rooney, ferdinan and Berba) pluss alot of 10M + signings. Can any of you see that happen? Can you se us drawing those magic 100M up from some magician hat and whoopsey we got an equally expensive team as manu? Can you guys??
Stella- I have a feeling you didnt read the whole discussion but owell.
Me- I agree and that is what Wenger is building this club for. Thats what I have been saying this whole conversation.
we could also loose against chelsea united and still win. Did not Liverpool beat united 4-1 or something last year? United still won. Did not United loose or draw against the rest of big 4 last year? they still won title…
Sad..Its not about losing 1 game. It is about how many points you are behind and how many games are left. When we lost to Man Utd at the begining of the season, you statement would be true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballon_d%27Or
That is the standard of player Shane was talking about.
I consider myself a relatively young Arsenal fan – my heroes growing up were Paul Merson and Anders Limpar, but I think what Shane was saying is that we’ve had more players considered among the best in Europe, and named on the Ballon d’Or shortlist since Wenger took over.
I’ve got a lot of reverence for our history, but there’s no denying that AW hauled the club forward and has kept us close to the top at a time when the standard of competition has been higher than ever before.
All this on a limited budget and with long-term thinking; a number of premier league clubs are borrowing against TV money two seasons into the future, and here we are turning a profit, third in the league with a chance to close the gap in the title race this weekend.
Seems pretty good to me. And trophies will come, especially now ManU and Chelsea are rethinking their transfer policies.
Oneofus—he got it spot on. By the way I have recently been watching a lot of old games, and all the great players and teams I can see and it has changed my perspective of football. It is funny how we say certain players are the greatest ever, without even watching players from the past. I had never actually seen Puskas or Cruyff play. Without knowing history, you cant make judgement on it. I will say the player I believed to be the Greatest ever before I watched classic games , is the same player I still think is the greatest. Mind you, to me greatest player to ever live, meens how good you were at you peak. I choose Ronaldinho. After watching players like Maradona, Cruyff, Best, Messi,etc, they are all very similar as they just ran past defenders with great pace and ball control but what Ronaldinho has done to proffesional players I just ridiculous. To me if every great player played in 1 game at their peak, Ronaldinho would be the man that stands out.
If you havent seen the Robinho introduction at santos, check it out. That is what football needs to get back to. The joy of the game and playing for the club you love or the love of the game rather then just money. Bringing joy to the fans. That with the Robbie Keane intro are what football is about.
WATT ON LOAN SOUTHEND
Shane, Is it on youtube?
Can U put a link up?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQbByUuaML0 – here is one video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZheaI5APibg- here is a video from a fan. It gives you a fan perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGXPp6OcZrQ
I find it funny that people say he was such a failure even though last year he scored 14 goals in the prem which was tied for 4th in the prem. He was 2nd in goals by a winger behind just C. Ronaldo.
I know, I loved watching him,
now everyone thinks he is a failure?
I would love Arsenal 2 sign him.
high hopes for freeman, bartley, walcott, nordveiit, merida etc etc we sign all these future world beaters when in reality they aint gonna make it anywhere near our 1st team and our pure hypejobs.
“Yes he is a kid but so was Smalling. Now am i missing something here???”
Smalling is English and cost a lot of money? It’s sad that some people still think nationality and money guarantees quality. It doesn’t.
As this is an Arsenal youth blog, I wish people would take their bitching about the first team elsewhere – there are plenty of places to choose from at the moment.
You never know, this kid could be the business.
Dont think it could be the end of nordveit. If he has talent Im sure he’ll make it. His versatility is a huge plus. We could really do with someone who can cover DM & CB
Add AC Milan to Barca and Real, obviously. Even Bayen Munich and compare since 1960 and you can see Shane’s point and AW’s contribution (although Bergkamp was already here) and he’s only currently justified by the presence of Arshavin and Cesc). Arsenal were a medium-sized club in Europe that punched above their weight in the UK over the entire 20th century – most successful (consistent) league club in terms of final league position over 100 years. AW’s plan is to raise the Arse to join the top tier. We now have the ticket sales, the branding is improving, the respect across Europe, some trophies rusting in the cabinet. Just don’t have enough (how many does one need – six?) superstar players now to join the top tier (rather than just knock on the door as shown by European Finals and Semi-Finals and just making the top four each season). This has been hampered by the billionaires flowing into the game, and by Abramovich buying all the obvious Arsenal targets in the wake of Vieira, Bergkamp, and Pires/ljungberg/Reyes – Drogba, Essien, Kalou, Robben and Cech – all of whom were going for too much at a time when a stadium had to be built, even possibly Makalele but he would have cost a lot anyway playing for Madrid, and not to mention losing Ashley Cole. (I’d say obvious Wenger signings but it’s possible he would have bought none of these even at uninflated prices.)
The debate is whether he can get us into the top tier or not and keep us with the billionaires and Manure (with their fan base). Well, firing him is not an option or we will lose a lot of ground very quickly – too much will collapse too soon. So I keep supporting him and hoping the stars align and he pulls it off. Even as he fails, and currently he’s failing somewhat miserably to crack the top tier, either due to his tragic flaws (that Myles Palmer might be right about) or bad luck with injuries (AW’s own interpretation), supporting Wenger’s vision has been a great ride and although painful it’s also been better and more eventful than any other mid-sized club has even come close to achieving (with the possible exception of Liverpool with their European Cup). AW won’t be around for ever; I’ll appreciate him while I can, even though supporting the team nowadays doesn’t fill me with the elation of 2004, or 1998, or 1971 (unless I trawl down memory lane). It’s still a helluva soap opera to follow. Much better than the story of the Totts, Newcastle, Everton, Valencia, Fiorentina, Roma, Hamburg, Shalke, Aston Villa. The only mid to big sized team (not top, top tier) with more enviable consistent success than Arsenal have been Inter and Lyon. Even AC Milan and Bayern have had less success than Arsenal while Emirates is weighing on our shoulders.
Jesus you Wenger haters need to support your local team. Any true Gooner doesn’t care about just winning trophies, its about our club and supporting them through thick and thin. So please stop being so negative & fickle lads, get behind the team. Up The GOONERS EIE!!
@Jawbreaker, I don’t bother, I will support Arsenal even if it went to the 51th city league, but will the top players stay if we show no ambition year after year.
Does anyone know what happened to Rafael Sobis?
(Is he still playing in the Arab states)
Financially, I don’t see any problem on Wenger’s managerial method. In fact, I think he has done a great job for us in terms of the financial aspect of his job. However, in terms of the football aspect of his job, there are some of his managerial methods that I would like to criticize:
1) He shows too much tolerance towards players that clearly not up to their task (Aliadiere, Senderos & Almunia are some of the example). I mean, seriously do u really think they gonna have the same chance if they were playing for Liverpool, Chelsea & United?
2) He believes that size doesn’t matter in football. Well, with all do respect, I don’t think so monsieur (I believe a lot of people too). Arsene has to admit (or realize maybe) that size does matter in football, it can help teams winning games.
Want some proof?? Just watch the video of Arsenal vs Chelsea back in November, u will have a solid prove..
I just don’t get it, this is a fact that almost every other manager would admit. I remember that a couple of years ago, Hector Cuper is moaning about the lack of height in Inter’s defense (Cordoba, Cannavaro & Materazi was their 1st choice back in a 3-4-3 formation). I also remember what happen to Barca a few years back when they play Milito and Puyol as their 1st choice CBs, their defense was so vulnerable. Loo at them now when they have Puyol and Pique playing as their CBs. In our case we need to put at least one tall & big defender in our defense to have an ideal CB partnership (e.g. Puyol-Pique, Lucio-Samuel/Lucio-Cordoba, Toure-Campbell)
If he can sort this things out, he will be a complete manager.
It sounds like Savic is really promising!! Wenger takes so much time in evaluating prospects, that he must have judged this young guy to be as good or even better than Smalling. That’s the only way he knows how to do his business, so I dont think we should question his judgement on this one! lol. I don’t know what some of this fuss is all about. And it won’t be the end for some of the english lads like Bartley or Ayling. If they are good enough they will make the first team. If they aren’t they aren’t. I know, the argument to that would be, that they shouldn’t have to compete against a guy from Serbia, but that is the nature of Football today and like we discussed earlier, it won’t change. Do you want the best players to make the jump from the youth squad?? Regardless of where they are born?? I think we are lucky to have such a competitive youth sector!! Chelshit’s is exactly that. Shit. Well maybe not shit but it isn’t as good as ours’. Liverpool isn’t worth mentioning, although I just did. The only “top 4” competition we have for turning out youth products is Man Untd. We’re doing just fine.
Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of Wenger haters, In fact I really admire this guy. I really don’t want him to leave, I want him to improve. Beat SAF if its possible.
Come on Arsenal, come on Arsene…
Chelsea just drew at Hull. If we can win, or at least get a draw at standford we are in it, to say the least.
any videos from this lad??
Ahhh fuck I wanted to be the one to say that Chelsea drew at Hull!!:D lol. See only a few points out booooyyyyzzz. And girls too
true they did draw against hull and they still got Man u and Liverpool left to meet this season? Seems we wont be the only ones to drop points before summer then huh?
100 comments, AT least we r back in da race, doubt well win, tho we ave got a lot of false hope