Sagna says exactly what I’ve been saying about Adebayor

He needs to go – let him head butt his team mates at Milan, see how long they stand for him.

i have come across with Adebayor’s situation. some time it hurts but some time you have toa accept the challenges a head. The Togoman is good, but for some percentage, he did good in the last season, diffenently he could more than that in the coming season if and only if he accept new salary.

after saying that i would like to say that let the guy leave and arsenal will remain there and as i know Wenger will do something and will be better than Ade, sure iam telling you and the name will be not popullar to fans but will do wonders, secondaly we have walcot, van persie, eduardo and bendtner (the same as ade). give them time especially this season you will see how good there are.

so let the club cash in and make a very understandable signing especially the colombian or huntler. a part from ade i think the big problem is on diffensive, i urge wenger to sign only one big name ( defende), who will be good in air, vidic type.

thanks.

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i think bendner have same qualities: power, hight. I think we need one more technical striker, with a lot of pace, and good finishing. arsenal use to be best counter attacking side, now is manU . at leat was so in last seasson. virea pires henry anl ljudberg -chess mate. now is ronaldo tevez ronney giggs. too bad. we need some more direct winger- like robinho. not hleb who stoped the game till defenders are back and than start to dribble them…

Only Arsene can answer all the questions raised. I hope he does so in good time as I fear for his continued stay at the Arsenal if he doesn’t deliver silverware this time round. Not because of the board or the fans but because of the exodus of players like Fabregas who can’t keep waiting to win something each year. You heard Sagna yesterday, RVP some weeks back and the list grows. We need to start winning things to keep our stars motivated in an Arsenal shirt as their respective departures could leave Arsene no choice but to step down citing the usual words, ‘I have taken this club as far as I can, let someone else come in and try’.

Adebayor, in his first season as a regular, ripped the BPL apart. The kid is only 24 and is going to get better. You hit the nail right on the head when you said that there are very few strikers in the world that can do what he does. He worked Milan’s back line to death and made so much space for other players. That’s why Milan want him so bad. Imagine how much space he could make for Kaka and Pato.

Next season, if his attitude is right, he will be even better. He’s still only 24 and has the potential to be better than Drogba. Only a fool or a Spurs fan would want to see him leave Arsenal.

Adebayor isn’t that good. I don’t see what all the hype is. Robbie Fowler would probably scored as many goals as him last season if he was in the arsenal team getting the service he had from the arsenal midfield week in week out. I hope he goes to Milan and Gattuso accidently breaks ades leg in training…greedy mug.

willy lopes

Your sentiments do a great disservice to Arsenal and football lovers everywhere. Feel angry yes nut to wish a career threatening injury on one of our (currently) players is of bad taste to say the least. If he stays, his demands for more money will not matter one jott to me. In a short career and in our current climate, every player has the right to try to get the best deal that they can. Jealousy for their salaries seems to have little to do with the fans/supporters or their potential importance on the field. Please, get a grip.

Ade’s threat in the air and his physical presence are underpinned by a great work ethic and to replace this would not be as simple as you seem to feel. Consider the midfield advances with Nasri (and Ramsey) delivering great balls and how Ade might benefit from this with his still improving overall game!

Some ppl seem to not understand what Ade does. It is not the goals that we would miss if he left, it would be the way he bullies defences. He gives this arsenal team an outlet, some1 to hold up the ball. Yes he may miss a lot of chances, but once Eduardo is back we shall have our clinical striker.

I’ll go out on a limb here, I reckon it may have been Tottenham!

hey guys i am from ethiopia, and we love to see africaqn players in arsenal except adenayor…..he got 100s of chances last year , but he only scored 30 something goals,,,,may be he will change some time later but this only works if he remains an arsenal player…if not i am definately sure that no boss can tolerate him as arsene did……and also no fan can tolerate manager of the club as arsenal fans tolarated wenger…..what the hell is his plan guys? let ade go let hleb go…..then what? no one to come except nasri who is oficaily annonced as i am wrtting this comment……..we love gunners and we hate goers…

Ade will be with Arsenal and he will continue to whine about not making enough money but he already signed a deal. Stick to it Ade, get more goals, be a true leader on the squad and STFU.

i as always agree with jay…but looking on the brighter side, WE HAVE OFFCIALLY SIGNED SAMIR NASRI FROM MARSEILLE……..at last!!!! it was an undisclosed fee though..on a long term contract.

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This is going to be a long one, bear with me;

SF: I think I wasn’t clear enough about my assertions earlier. I will try to give my response.
I like ALL 3 players myself. I am focused solely on team functioning as a whole and not individuals but by so doing people think that I am slugging off the individuals.
Flamini:
His contribution to the team was huge and I am by no means undervaluing it. The only thing I could see with Flamini was that it was almost at his peak, if not his peak. He had energy(motivated), tons of it, but I challenge anyone to name our MF with less skill(not energy) than Flamini. The point here is energy/motivation can be aquired easier by an athlete than the technical stuff. I still have the opinion that he may not be able to sustain the same level for long, and the way he played he was more susceptible to injury, and does not give me encouragement as a long term solution. Saying that he brought the best out of Cesc in my opinion diminishing Cesc’s involvement in his own achievements last season. Cesc is a top player and the way I see it Cesc would have been Cesc, Flamini or no Flamini. Lets give Cesc his deserved credit. If that is the case Cesc will be poor this season, and I seriously doubt it. The man happened to play alongside Cesc when Cesc was being Fabulous. If anything, a DM who ventures upfront more often like Flamini would make his CM partner not want to go forward all the time since you someone has to man the MF. Cesc was hungry getting into the season and in my opinion he would have benefitted more having a solid. No-nonsense and un-adventurous DM like Gilberto. But the partnership “Achilles heel “ was negated by the hunger in both players and the fact that Hleb, and even Diaby when he played, would also naturally drift into CM, covering up for Flamini and even Cesc when they both maraud forward.
Since Flamini was in a way of more talent and better future prospects(I take skill any day over energy), his loss(after showing the likes of Diaby and Denilson of what might be if they applied themselves) will sort of have give them the opportunity after having been given the “Flamini lesson”. In it’s own it has already got them to apply themselves more, case in point, Denilson starting to add “steel” in his game(could also be attributed to Cesc, or Denilson himself).

Hleb:
A very good player. I have observed in my past postings that when he had “too much ice-cream” or “ice-cream sick” we were not playing well and whenever he came back to life we were superb. Here is the hidden “blessing”. As long as he was in the side with Ade, AW prefered a playing him as a support striker for Ade. His unwillingness to shoot would have benefitted a more lethal striker than(hold your horses) Adebayor, say Eduardo, or even young Bendtner than Adebayor(I will come to this in Adebayor section). Most of his good work were wasted at the end, by someone else. I prefer Rosicky(when fit) to be able to play as a support striker as well as, and more effectively than Hleb simply because the guy can shoot, and score(remember his dance around L’pool defense @ Anfield? and he scrored!). Since AW didn’t preffer anyone else there before Hleb, we couldn’t see what it might have been with Rosicky in that role. With Vela and Nasri coming, Rosicky and Diaby face a realistic chance of losing the LM battle and both are left to vie for a CM role, or a support striker role, and Hleb is firmly in the way of that. After watching Rosicky’s performances, even goal celebrations, he commands more respect from other players in the team and is a natural leader. I think we might see some adjustments to the roles of Rosicky and Cesc this season and Denilson to throw in a wrench in the mix.
Adebayor:
Thanks for the goals and work rate.
Arguably the least skilled in out strike force(anyone objction, have a go at me. I stand behind that). He has energy, power, size(Bendtner seems bigger than him though) and Workrate of the highest order. He is perfect for a second/support striker in my opinion, and not the main striker. His work rate left him more often outside of where a target man should be. He was probably one of our very important Defender though. What I won’t miss with his departure are, for a man with his pace he could afford to delay his runs and start a yard back and still beat defenders instead of drifting offside needlessly, wasting others good work. He wasted chances because I believe he had pre-decided where he is going to place the ball in the net “30 seconds” before he can do it, and could not adjust for any other changes(defender/keeper anticipation, teammate in position) within that period. Shooting at the wrong spot, or missing an open teammate. This can make you “predictable” to skilled defenders and keepers.
He couldn’t play well with a striking partner mainly because he was both the second and the main striker ending up where the other should be at times, and when the other striker adjust by being where Ade should be, Guess what?, Ade is there too. You end up having 2 strikers where you need only one, and the other position is vacated. When playing with nimble strikers who can shift positions, like Eduardo and VanPersie, and a “non striker” like Hleb, this was compensated and not more evident, but it ended up becoming an “Adebayor show” upfront. When he plays with Bendtner(a corky striker who wouldn’t let you take his pos and just drop it whenever you wish, while he covers for you), obvious clashes ensues and they seem to be in each other’s toes all the time. Our Strike force became “who can play with Adebayor’s habits” and not “Adebayor playing with others”. The way to defend a guy who runs alot is NOT to run with them, but let them run while you wait in a space they will eventually run into, and that space is fixed, that is why defenses like Milan’s could deal with him effectively, even L’pools to some extent, maybe bacause they were too old to run as much, or they are just “experienced”. Most EPL defenders like to match his runs and that would have been worse for them if the guy was clinical. Ade for the most part played with players who themselves would rather play in different positions (out of position?) who were willing to let him come into their positions and will use that as an excuse for themselves to move somewhere else. All except Bendtner, who will stick to his assigned task and expect Ade to stick to his.
How do Adebayor and Hleb tie together?
Since when they were on the field, almost always they were the preferred front 2 in a 4-4-1-1, and their combination left us blunt upfront. If the pairing could have changed and NOT BOTH Ade and Hleb at the same time, I could have worked.
Simply put, I can’t see too much room for improvement with Ade and Hleb as a striking partnership and would gladly give Adebayor another seasong to give me hope that his footballing intelligence will improve, something I am not going losing sleep in anticipation.
Let me hear your thoughts…

Ade will have to leave…because of his attitude and nature,all he talked about is money he’s a greedy player {don’t care about his agent’s opinion}..If we keep Ade he wont be playing for the club or the fans and that will only be an anchor around arsenal and arsene’s leg…Even though i like Ade or should i say used to,i still think he is a good player but personality and loyalty comes first.

If money is every thing for him then he can leave arsenal. We have edu, rvp, bentner and walcot too. Who are capable to replace ade.

rupal I’m looking forward to vela bursting on the scene this season as he would be awesome along side rvp or dudu. The totts probs are the one bidding on arsharvin or hopefully it’s newcastle trying to replace martins who is our next summer signing and it’s been kept quiet so the geordies don’t revolt and burn down the city.
2 signings down 2 to go me thinks………..
p.s. love ya work sp………….

Hleb is all but gone, and we already have plenty of cover on the left, particularly in the left-center position that AW seemed to favor for Hleb last season (Rosicky, RVP, maybe even Nasri or Vela). I’d like to see Zhirkov come in from CSKA, although this is unlikely. He seems like a ‘made-for-Arsenal’ player with his pace and skill on the ball, as well as his attacking-minded style of play from the back. He’d be decent cover for Clichy if need be, since he has the pace to get forward (just not the defensive skill of Gael).
As for Ade… I say left the guy go. Remember how horrible the 2006-2007 season was with Henry crying for the ball all the time even when he wasn’t really in a decent position? Granted, Henry is still an Arsenal legend, but the attacking game became “Hey, let’s keep Thierry happy” rather than about putting the ball into the back of the net. We don’t need that anymore. And, honestly, last season’s success was really about team spirit and hunger. If Ade’s head isn’t going to be in the game because he wants more money, he’ll be focused on himself and only trying to increase his value. If he does well in an Arsenal shirt next year, he’ll claim that he’s “the best,” and if he doesn’t do well, he’ll moan that the team and AW were holding him back. We don’t need that sort of attitude in the locker room. Let him go unless he’s going to get in line with the team’s ambitions, and the team’s spirits. Ade really brings nothing to the table in those areas (and hasn’t since about January). Unless he turns himself around, I don’t want him in the side.
Other stuffs:
Nasri looks excellent, and I hope his adjustment period isn’t too long. Same for Vela. Both will be used as Carling Cup players and substitutes until their proven, since that’s how AW works.
Eboue… some people hate on this guy, and yeah, I can see why. But, he’s good cover for the right side if we need him, and I really like his intensity. Sure, he overreacts sometimes, but I still feel he’s one of the best natural crossers we have on the right side (especially at full-tilt).
Gallas… some have said that we should pull the skipper’s armband from William and hand it to someone else. Well, Gallas would take it badly, and I think he did a good job leading from the back last season. His emotional responses really helped to lift the team in my opinion, and he seems like a decent guy. Let’s keep him as skipper for the new campaign. The only other player I could see wearing the armband would be Almunia… pure class last season, and a decent fellow.
Signings… we need a decent DM, and quickly. Barry seems like he’d be a good pickup, but probably not happening. We also need a new center half with some height. I’m at a loss here for whom exactly, but I’d love to see Micah Richards in the red and white.

any news coming ?