Nah Nah Nah Hey Hey Goodbye!!!
Don't let the door hit you on the way out
Can you hear that? It’s the collective sigh of relief from Arsenal fans the world over. What looked like it could’ve been messy, suddenly became much sweeter when Man City of the Middle Eastlands came running in with all their oil money.
Emmanuel Adebayor will be remembered for promise never fulfilled, as well as arrogance and a constant propensity for going offsides. He will be remembered as the anti-teammate and a slow man with size. But maybe, now, he will be remembered now for letting some players fill their promise. I am speaking specifically of Carlos Vela.
When he came to the Emirates, the young MExican striker was being hailed as one of the world’s next great talents. Last season the Arsenal faithful got to see some of that brilliance that led Arsene to sign him. Of particular liking – the lovely flick shot against Burnley that was executed with all the skill and ice in the veins that Adebayor seems to lack.
Additionally, with the likes of RvP, Walcott, Arshavin, and Eduardo – we are hardly without out skilled strikers. Okay, Bendtner is there too but anyone who knows me knows I am not a big fan. What I am trying to say is I think we may actually be better off without Ade. He clearly didn’t want to be here last season. It was clear we didn’t want him this season.
Well now both are satisifed. It remains to be seen what Citeh are going to do in the EPL. A Europa spot seems at least guaranteed. I say that lightly because they still haven’t addressed their back four which was shoddy at best. You can have all the strike power you want but if you don’t have anything to stop the other teams offensive ability – um there will be issues.
Finally, Arsenal seems to have made an offer of £7 million to Bordeaux for Chamakh. However, they’ve asked for Mikael Silvestre as a sweetner. So to quote the Mirror – does that make Chamakh worth £7,000,0001?
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Well, I am going to look on the bright side with this – maybe his going down will FORCE AW into buying a DM.
No Nip you don’t have to sign off every time. I am working with the makers of the theme to find out whats going on. They were unaware of the glitch and are working on a fix for me. Sorry for the issue.
with Nasri out (probably until mid Oct) logic would dictate an addition to our midfield.
We are most likely to see Denilson take up the Nasri void.
So the new season beckons. What’s changed? Let’s see.
The first goal we concede is a typical ball in the air.
Vela is crocked (not sure for how long) and now I hear Nasri is out for 6-8 weeks.
Arsenal.com says Rosicky “may” be fit for the new season if his pre-season goes according to plan while Arsene says we don’t need to replace Ade because we have Rosicky and Eduardo.
Rumours of Toure joining Man City grow, while Senderos is back.
We have 15M in the bag after selling Ade and buying Vermaelen.
Welcome to the new season!! :)
Nipuna (do we have to sign off our name everytime?)
Make that 2-3 months for Nasri.
I see the move of Ade as a big distraction to Arsenal’s real problem.
We need a DM to partner with Cesc.
Song showed the most improvement and late in the season caught the attention
of most fans for his dominating play – defensively and offensively. But what do
we fall back on if Song is injured? Denilson?
i have a horrible feeling arsene will stick to his guns and not buy anyone.
If he truly doesn’t want Camankh then he may well promote Barazite as Bendtners deputy.
As for DM we have heard nothing. Wenger said he wanted his new players in by the start of pre-season, well…
If Wenger does not buy then it will again be another year with a weakened squad at the close of business this summer. I doubt Vermaelen? is going to add substantial quality if any at all to the team.
@ Arthur- there are many Arsenal fans who have similar feelings and impressions about Ade. His ’07/’08 season exceeded everyone’s expectations.
I would like to believe that Ade was given bad advice and even though he is abt 24 yrs of age, he seems immature.
Something significant happened to many key players during the spring of ’08. Hleb and Flamini also found a need to move on; so Ade was not alone to consider options in Italy or Spain.
IMO – these players saw negotiations for their salaries being manipulated by a frugal manager – Gazidis was not in place then. Regardless of their performance on the pitch, it was obvious that compensation would never be comparable to other major clubs. Arsene’s parsimonious attitude came across as insulting to the players.
I knew you would be happy Mazza. It is a shame but Ade will just have to be the Dade of Manchester blues from now on.
You were right, it is scumbag fans like you that drove my hero out, you shall never be forgiven ;-)
Long live the Dade
Ha Ha Arthur! Ade’s gone, Ade the Dade! Looks like I was right then ;)
I think you know who this is!?
And my username comes up when I thought it wouldn’t.
As you may know I am fan of Adebayor. I will be sad to see him go. But once there were talks of him being linked with City then he had to go. His detractors would have not let him live in peace despite the truth.
I read somewhere that Arsene said it was Ade’unpopularity amongst the home support that made him sell him. I do not doubt that was a factor but there must be more to it than that. You dont sell a “special player” to one of your rivals because 60% of your home support are ignorant. Maybe Ade’ cries for reinforcements was too vocal and ran against the self belief that Arsene was trying to instill in his squad. Who knows…
But I am hoping we will not regret selling our most consistent striker over the last couple of seasons, he brought a lot to our side, most of our strikeforce are unproven when it comes to consistency. Adebayor scored 16 this years but made quite a few more assists than the season previous. RVP our top scorer only scored 20, that tells me none of our strikers have been hot not just Adebayor.
I am hopeful that Bendtner can now step up to the plate, I know he missed a lot of chances last season i.e that header 1st leg at ManU. But generally he is clinical, a better finisher than Ade but contrary to popular opinion he is far more lazy than Ade and he is nowhere near as good in the air. Ade may not have worked as hard this season as he did previously but he is far from lazy. If Nick can be more proactive develop a bit of tenacity then he can fill the void to some extent next season.
And to Ade I would say bye bye I sincerily wish you all the best. You derserve much better than the treatment you have been receiving from Arsenal fans world over. I do not blame you for using offers from Milan and Barcelona to get yourself a better contract, you and your agent could have handled it better but hey we all make mistakes. So long big fellow, I look forward to you scoring against ManU, Chelsea, ‘Pool, the Spuds and scoring an goal at Arsenal, an own goal that is.
arthur3sheds that is.
Cry me river Arthur…
Nah seriously, we’ll be fine, as I exlained in detail not long back.
More midfielders who like to go in behind lessens the need to have a striker who does that, or in Ade’s case, tries to do that without being offside.
I though Ade was gone after the last two games of the season where he did not feature in either starting XI. Like most things the lack of fan support is a convenenient excuse.
By all accounts it would seem Ade was not well regarded in the locker room especially after his continually flirting with the likes of AC Milan (don’t kid yourselves – the little pause in the negotiations with Citeh weren’t about second thoughts about leaving Arsenal – they were a last gasp hope that AC Milan would rescue him from European obscurity). Ade did show some flashes of brilliance the 07/08 season he was phenomonal to watch. But after he got his money he was a non-factor – with the exception of the UCL. But I believe we can make that up wth Arshavin who is all around a better finisher than Ade was and is.
I worry that Nicky is our only tall guy up front and would welcome the likes of Chamakh (6’2 and a goal every 2nd game). But we shall see. I am not all doom and gloom about this club – though I still want a freakin holding midfielder to round out the club.
Speaking of midfielders – anyone see that HLeb is now telling the press he should never have left Arsenal – he said something to the effect that winning the UCL on the bench is unexciting but getting their 8 times with Arsenal was exhilharating.
As for the names not showing up – I am waiting on a request from the makers of theme to find out what the fix is. Call it something everyone can complain about right now.
By all of who’s account ? Pure speculation my friend just like the gap in negotiations with City, pure media hype. I doubt if he had any 2nd thoughts, why would he? Something distaseful happened at the end of the season, his club agree to sell him while he is on holiday after his agent has already said to the press he wants to stay, he does has to uproot as he will stay in England he gets to double his wages and large section of his own support hate him and choose not to believe or repect anything he says. What would be the need for 2nd thoughts.
A non-factor? He was our second top scorer and scored more assists than he did last season, hardly a non-factor. Hatred is a thing that distorts vision and kills truth.
Ade departure leaves a big hole in our squad that will not be easy to fill I presume. Arshavin is a better player than Ade but he can not fill the gap he leaves behind he is a totally different type of player. He cannot do what Ade does (including getting more offsides than anyone in the league ;-) )
If Nick can give us the commitment Ade does more often than not and develop his heading he could go a long way to filling the gap.
Arsesession –
I will definitely look at writing something to that end.
Ade has himself to blame for the ridicule he gets.
agree about Ade being the author of his departure….fans just reacting to his off field comments more so than his performance.
“copying this forward to this new post”
DAG,
It is obvious that Ade will provide the blogesphere with skuttle for years; but for Arsenal fans
its now time to move on.
I look at last season’s frustrations, my criticisms:
– defending free kicks launched into the box
– CB INconsistency
– midfield partner for Cesc
– back up for Cesc
So my hope you will start a post about how Wenger is seeking solutions (this transfer window).
Vermaielen, do you see his addtion a partial solution to the 1st two points?
What about midfield? Is Song and a fitter Diaby future mid-field partners with Cesc?
Rosicky or Nasri to be Cesc’s back up.
All this talk about bringing on a new striker – just don’t see that happening unless Eduardo
is still questionable.
Why doesn’t my name show? – Nipuna.
Nip – not sure. I am think has something to do with the template I amusing for the site.
Live_Don’t_Exist keeps asking me to change it and he is probably right. But I’ve been working on it and I am a little reluctant to try and design a new one on my own.
Plus I like the video area.
Finally got here from AA. Hope to be regular (just like AA). :)
Where are the others?
Well said!
First off, thanks for the blog. It’s well presented and well written and should provide much better discussion than the previous alternative.
I agree fully on all points except one, Bendtner. Yes, he’s struggled to show any real World Class potential or fulfill any star status, but his work rate is top choice (once he hits the pitch). He runs and defends from the front, passes well and occasionally finishes. If he can improve his bench demeanor and his ball skills he could be a real surprise this year.
Ade was a ponce once TH14 left. He’s too big for his britches, as they say, and ManCity will have a real NFLish “I got my money now I can take it easy” scenario on their hands.
Vela is pure class. RVP is becoming very stout (health-wise) and a great bulldoggish leader. Eduardo could come back top form. Theo wreaks havock even without finishing his play. Arshavin looks the part.
I also think Jay Simpson could get a few Carling Cup opportunities again this year.
In my mind Chamakh sounds fantastic and affordable. I still wonder about DM, though. Is Melo out of the picture?
Yeah Melo officially wears the black and white of Juventus now.
I agree we need a DM more than anything. As for striker I want to see what Nacer Barazite does in the pre-season. Maybe there is something there.
All our other strike options – definitely on the spot GD. Still not sold on Nicky but you know without Ade maybe he gets more time and matures more. Who knows.
Thanks for the kind words. We’re trying around here to create something worthwhile.