This is gonna be a short post.
In 2006, I saw Łukasz Podolski play for the German National Team.
And I thought Mr. Wenger please snap him up immediately. Well that took about 6 years.
Arsene thank you very much for making me and Arsenal fans all around the world really happy about this signing. Will post opinions about our new signing.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Leaked Jersey?
Home Jersey, the line across the chest should be remove, make it plain, the fans would like it and be okay with it.
Interesting to see the yellow kit back if it's true. Again the line across the chest should be remove.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
spotlight on Thomas Eisfeld
Thomas Eisfeld, the man we signed from Dortmund during the recent transfer window.
Plays attacking midfield, 19 years old.
For some reason he fits the profile of Wenger signings
Thomas Eisfeld comes on the cheap. The fee is reported to be £420,000.
For context and perspective, compare Dortmund’s Shinji Kagawa, who was signed in the summer of 2010 for €350,000 from Cerezo Osaka, who then quickly established himself as Dortmund’s best player before injury interrupted his progress and Mario Götze emerged. Kagawa has become indispensable to the Dortmund team.
Moral of the story:
Good signing is not necessary star signing.
I had discussions with several Arsenal fans. And one of them my brother theorized that:
Maybe Wenger will convert him from an attacking midfielder to a Striker like Rvp.
For me it does not sound crazy. Mr Eisfeld does have talent, I have watched several reserve games video clips which he played.
i.e. vs Swansea reserve.
It would be interesting what happens during the pre-season for this youngster and several others like Jon Toral, Serge Gnabry, Hector Bellerin, Nico Yennaris, Ignasi Miquel, Conor Henderson and others
All I can hope for all these talents is that they don't do a Mark Randall.
Plays attacking midfield, 19 years old.
For some reason he fits the profile of Wenger signings
Thomas Eisfeld comes on the cheap. The fee is reported to be £420,000.
For context and perspective, compare Dortmund’s Shinji Kagawa, who was signed in the summer of 2010 for €350,000 from Cerezo Osaka, who then quickly established himself as Dortmund’s best player before injury interrupted his progress and Mario Götze emerged. Kagawa has become indispensable to the Dortmund team.
Moral of the story:
Good signing is not necessary star signing.
I had discussions with several Arsenal fans. And one of them my brother theorized that:
Maybe Wenger will convert him from an attacking midfielder to a Striker like Rvp.
For me it does not sound crazy. Mr Eisfeld does have talent, I have watched several reserve games video clips which he played.
i.e. vs Swansea reserve.
It would be interesting what happens during the pre-season for this youngster and several others like Jon Toral, Serge Gnabry, Hector Bellerin, Nico Yennaris, Ignasi Miquel, Conor Henderson and others
All I can hope for all these talents is that they don't do a Mark Randall.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
A boo for cole
With this kind of Back four of Sagna, Koscielny, Verminator and Gibbs. No wonder they are still undefeated.
If you counted the QPR game, nope cause Gibbs came off, remember?
Chelsea played very negative and unproductive and Boring. The Referee very inconsistant.
Theo's Hamstring injury will be a blow. Yao Kouassi (Gervinho) need to grab this opportunity to prove himself.
The Ox had an off day. Rvp was lively but didn't convert the chances.
Ramsey is a great talent, I'm sure he will shrug off this bad spell. Maybe against Stoke? Why not.
Since we have Diaby back and giving options for Arsene as well Coquelin
Vs Stoke prediction line up.
13, 3, 6, 5, 28, 17, 2, 16, 30, 27, 10
Subs: 21, 20, 39, 7, 11, 15, 29
6 points clear of 3rd. Just need to win the remaining games.
If you counted the QPR game, nope cause Gibbs came off, remember?
Chelsea played very negative and unproductive and Boring. The Referee very inconsistant.
Theo's Hamstring injury will be a blow. Yao Kouassi (Gervinho) need to grab this opportunity to prove himself.
The Ox had an off day. Rvp was lively but didn't convert the chances.
Ramsey is a great talent, I'm sure he will shrug off this bad spell. Maybe against Stoke? Why not.
Since we have Diaby back and giving options for Arsene as well Coquelin
Vs Stoke prediction line up.
13, 3, 6, 5, 28, 17, 2, 16, 30, 27, 10
Subs: 21, 20, 39, 7, 11, 15, 29
6 points clear of 3rd. Just need to win the remaining games.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Help us Cesc
"We're not shit. And we're not in crisis. But this result does mean we're under threat. This result means "tougher" fixtures become must-wins." Agreed
We missed Gibbs, Koscielny and Arteta.
Ramsey is just a fraction too slow in his decision making.
Djourou is becoming a liability.
Jenkison needs make Sagna worried on the training ground.
Credit to Wigan, Roberto Martinez, he's a good manager.
Looking at the fixtures ahead. we just need 3 wins to solidify 3rd spot.
Looking at Chelsea they have Barca to be worried about. And injuries and suspensions in their defense are quite a worry for them. So hope the Semi Final will stretch them.
Just need Cesc and Barca to do us a small favor.
Vs Chelsea i'm expecting this starting line up:
13, 28, 5, 6, 3, 17, 8, 7, 15, 14, 10
Subs:
21, 20, 11, 27, 16, 29, 2
JUST NEED TO WIN THE NEXT GAME AND RVP NEEDS TO SCORE GOALS TO WIN THE GOLDEN BOOT!
Come on ARSENAL!
just in "seen Arteta walk to the players' lounge on crutches and with right foot in a protective boot. Doesn't look good."
Let me rephrase to start:
13, 28, 5, 6, 3, 17, 15, 7, 14, 27, 10
Subs: 21, 20, 11, 16, 2, 29, 39
I expect a huge game from AOC_15 same level of performance like what he did vs AC at home. If Arteta is definitely out for vs Chelsea.
Need to play like we did vs AC Milan at the Emirates!! Come on ARSENAL! Come on ARSENAL!
We missed Gibbs, Koscielny and Arteta.
Ramsey is just a fraction too slow in his decision making.
Djourou is becoming a liability.
Jenkison needs make Sagna worried on the training ground.
Credit to Wigan, Roberto Martinez, he's a good manager.
Looking at the fixtures ahead. we just need 3 wins to solidify 3rd spot.
Looking at Chelsea they have Barca to be worried about. And injuries and suspensions in their defense are quite a worry for them. So hope the Semi Final will stretch them.
Just need Cesc and Barca to do us a small favor.
Vs Chelsea i'm expecting this starting line up:
13, 28, 5, 6, 3, 17, 8, 7, 15, 14, 10
Subs:
21, 20, 11, 27, 16, 29, 2
JUST NEED TO WIN THE NEXT GAME AND RVP NEEDS TO SCORE GOALS TO WIN THE GOLDEN BOOT!
Come on ARSENAL!
just in "seen Arteta walk to the players' lounge on crutches and with right foot in a protective boot. Doesn't look good."
Let me rephrase to start:
13, 28, 5, 6, 3, 17, 15, 7, 14, 27, 10
Subs: 21, 20, 11, 16, 2, 29, 39
I expect a huge game from AOC_15 same level of performance like what he did vs AC at home. If Arteta is definitely out for vs Chelsea.
Need to play like we did vs AC Milan at the Emirates!! Come on ARSENAL! Come on ARSENAL!
Thursday, April 12, 2012
moments.. of boredom? or brilliance?
the good:
SZCZheddar's brilliant saves in the middle of mind numbing boredom
Santos playing a full 90 (though close ups after the 70th showed him looking panting like a stuck pig :S)
jenks coming back and having some nice runs (though somewhere around the 80th minute, if he had sagna's awareness, that would've allowed him to easily cross into a fairly open box)
BENNAYOUNS GOAL. the most commendable work rate in the team
ramseys developing confidence/positional and reactionary awareness/all round "i'm the next fabregas" meter filling up that fraction more with this 90 mins
OCMC (oh captain my captain) ending his WORSE GOAL DROUGHT SINCE 2008 (4 matches) with the cheekiest of penalty chips.
djourou not fucking up (which to be fair he did his defending well, except some 'clearances' inadvertently fell back to orange)
NO YELLOWS! :D
us getting into lovely penalty inducing positions. ( a plus in my books. yes a brilliant display of skill resulting in a lovely goal is great. but good runs getting into positions where defenders have to do stupid and desperate things to stop you; leading thus, to penalties, is just as delicious in my books :D)
song not resorting to his typical diagonal long pierce cross and more piercing midfield play
seeing boring boring arsenal without the sense of 'handbrake'-ing
walcott being effective. if only for 15 minutes.
the bad:
seeing boring boring arsenal :)
and now. i sleep :)
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Arsenal's coming home.
I need to rush this post quickly and here it goes
The reason this blog is called 13th July Arsenal is because the club did a pre-season friendly in our home, Malaysia. And because all of the good names were taken.
Arsenal just announce their preseason tour 2012 tour.
1st Leg 24th July 2012 in Malaysia
2nd Leg 27th July 2012 in Beijing
3rd and final leg 29th July 2012 in Hong Kong.
Last year when the Gunners came by the attendance was around 60,000. To a stadium which can max it's capacity to 80,000
After Arsenal came by, Chelsea, Liverpool drop by as well and the organizers Maxed out the capacity. Apparently some local organizers gave out free tickets for the Chelsea game to max out the stadium, supposedly about 5,000 or more tickets. For Liverpool I got nothing to say cause they have a die hard fan base in Singapore and here in Malaysia. #Just Saying
During the Malaysia vs Arsenal game, I wore my Malaysian jersey while my friends Alfred wore his 2010/2011 Jersey, Vinod 2006/2007 and Jerome who i loaned him my old 1994/1995 Jersey. It was a carnival atmosphere, it could have been even better if our National Stadium, Bukit Jalil didn't have a running track and a divider. Cause we were quite disconnected from the action even from where we were sitting on the front row at a corner flag, where Theo took Arsenal's first corner in the early moment in the first half.
I'm excited to the upcoming game. I need to save up money to the ticket to watch the gunners back in action. Will try to get better seats, maybe behind the Malaysia/Arsenal Bench?
I only hope Man City could drop by and face Arsenal here so we Malaysian Gunners can do our own litter Poznan celebration!
This time around will be much better at least Na$ri won't be around.
I love if Arsenal bring this 23-Man Squad here.
Wojciech Szczesny
Lukaz Fabianski
Damien Martinez
Johan Djourou
Kieran Gibbs
Carl Jenkinson
Laurent Koscielny
Kyle Bartley
Thomas Vermaelen
Bacary Sagna
Per Mertesacker
Andre Santos
Alex Song
Jack Wilshere
Tomas Rosicky
Aaron Ramsey
Mikel Arteta
Francis Coquelin
Abou Diaby
Robin van Persie (C)
PODOLSKI (If the transfer goes thru)
Theo Walcott
Ryo Miyaichi
ABSENT: Emmanuel Frimpong(Injury)
Note, Last year the pitch at the stadium was really really really bad.
Our Football Association have been trying to make the pitch better.
But not improving much so we apologize if the pitch this time around is not up to Arsenal's Standard.
IF ANYONE FROM THE CLUB IS READING THIS. COULD THE PLAYERS PLEASE DO A LAP OF HONOR AFTER THE GAME? THANKS!
Also if any of the Arsenal Twitter heads like @YoungGunsBlog @arseblog @arsenalreport @LeGrove or others are coming by to Malaysia let us @kh4lilul @crazeemunky know we will be happy to show you guys around Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Also applies @Andre_Santos27 @JackWilshere @Persie_Official @T_Vermaelen05 and the rest of the Arsenal squad members as well.
I'm So looking FORWARD!
The reason this blog is called 13th July Arsenal is because the club did a pre-season friendly in our home, Malaysia. And because all of the good names were taken.
Arsenal just announce their preseason tour 2012 tour.
1st Leg 24th July 2012 in Malaysia
2nd Leg 27th July 2012 in Beijing
3rd and final leg 29th July 2012 in Hong Kong.
Last year when the Gunners came by the attendance was around 60,000. To a stadium which can max it's capacity to 80,000
After Arsenal came by, Chelsea, Liverpool drop by as well and the organizers Maxed out the capacity. Apparently some local organizers gave out free tickets for the Chelsea game to max out the stadium, supposedly about 5,000 or more tickets. For Liverpool I got nothing to say cause they have a die hard fan base in Singapore and here in Malaysia. #Just Saying
During the Malaysia vs Arsenal game, I wore my Malaysian jersey while my friends Alfred wore his 2010/2011 Jersey, Vinod 2006/2007 and Jerome who i loaned him my old 1994/1995 Jersey. It was a carnival atmosphere, it could have been even better if our National Stadium, Bukit Jalil didn't have a running track and a divider. Cause we were quite disconnected from the action even from where we were sitting on the front row at a corner flag, where Theo took Arsenal's first corner in the early moment in the first half.
I'm excited to the upcoming game. I need to save up money to the ticket to watch the gunners back in action. Will try to get better seats, maybe behind the Malaysia/Arsenal Bench?
I only hope Man City could drop by and face Arsenal here so we Malaysian Gunners can do our own litter Poznan celebration!
This time around will be much better at least Na$ri won't be around.
I love if Arsenal bring this 23-Man Squad here.
Wojciech Szczesny
Lukaz Fabianski
Damien Martinez
Johan Djourou
Kieran Gibbs
Carl Jenkinson
Laurent Koscielny
Kyle Bartley
Thomas Vermaelen
Bacary Sagna
Per Mertesacker
Andre Santos
Alex Song
Jack Wilshere
Tomas Rosicky
Aaron Ramsey
Mikel Arteta
Francis Coquelin
Abou Diaby
Robin van Persie (C)
PODOLSKI (If the transfer goes thru)
Theo Walcott
Ryo Miyaichi
ABSENT: Emmanuel Frimpong(Injury)
Note, Last year the pitch at the stadium was really really really bad.
Our Football Association have been trying to make the pitch better.
But not improving much so we apologize if the pitch this time around is not up to Arsenal's Standard.
IF ANYONE FROM THE CLUB IS READING THIS. COULD THE PLAYERS PLEASE DO A LAP OF HONOR AFTER THE GAME? THANKS!
Also if any of the Arsenal Twitter heads like @YoungGunsBlog @arseblog @arsenalreport @LeGrove or others are coming by to Malaysia let us @kh4lilul @crazeemunky know we will be happy to show you guys around Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Also applies @Andre_Santos27 @JackWilshere @Persie_Official @T_Vermaelen05 and the rest of the Arsenal squad members as well.
I'm So looking FORWARD!
Monday, April 9, 2012
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