Arsenal on the slide
Just watched Arsenal’s slim hopes of the Premiership disappear over the horizon with a 2-0 home defeat to Chelsea.
Without doubt Arsenal are at their lowest ebb since Arsene Wenger took over in 1996. Eighth in the league, twenty points behind Chelsea, lost three Premiership games in a row for the first time in ten years, haven’t scored in last four games, the bad news goes on.
Today they never dominated or looked in control at any stage, the poorest they’ve been against Chelsea since the Abramovich money kicked in three years ago. After the first five minutes today you knew there was only one winner.
Looking at the lineup today its clear where the problems are, a centre-back (Toure) playing right back, an inexperienced 20 year old (Senderos) trying to handle Drogba, the regular right-back (Lauren) shifted to left, guess who screwed for the second goal.
Fabregas and Flamini, 18 and 21, trying to take on Lampard, Essien and Makelele in midfield, men against boys.
Freddie Ljungberg a shadow of what he was.
The decision to let Vieira, the leader and driving force for nine years, leave in the summer and not replace him now looks like a huge mistake and Wenger needs to use the transfer window in January to get some experienced help for the defence and midfield.
Thierry Henry say he’ll make a decision on his future after the World Cup and no one will be surprised if at the end of the season he looks at Arsenal and says this team’s going nowhere and leaves for Barcelona.
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Every great era comes to an end. For sure Arsenal are in a rebuilding stage, as are ManUre.
The thing I’m woried about is not that they have reached that point, but were they will go with it. Man U should of replaced the old generation (Keane, Giggs, Nevilles etc. ) with top line talent. What they have is Fletcher, Ronaldo, O’Shea and a bunch of other non-producers. Result: they suck.
Wenger needs to act fact. I don’t mean pay millions for Beckham, I mean strengthen the team with a new nucleas of young players, as Man U did in 1995.