Country: England
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Who has 'the gift'?
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Country: England
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Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
"If you love football, you love Tomas Rosicky" ...Arsène Wenger.
Arsène had a such a knack of coming up with just perfect sayings really.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
Ash10
Chairman of the Bum Brigade
Honestly would be a conversation if not for the injuries
Ash10
Chairman of the Bum Brigade
RVP, if not for the injuries he'd be a perennial ballon d'or contender
Country: Wales
Carlos Vela was actually such a baller. Filthy tekkers.
Can’t believe he never put it together here. Was balling out in La Liga when it was a definite step up from the PL.
Can’t believe he never put it together here. Was balling out in La Liga when it was a definite step up from the PL.
Vinci
The Sultan of Unai
Country: Netherlands
Alexis was incredible too, and deadly in front of goal.
He didn’t love the sport and lacked professionalism from a young age:
Still had a decent career but if he really tried, he could’ve been special.
Country: England
We had some amazing players during our barren period that we probably didn't quite realise how good they were. Wenger just knew how to spot them. No one in this current team but I think generally the sport is lacking in those individually brilliant players a bit now.
Dokaka
AM's resident Hammer
In terms of effortless technical ability I'd probably put Özil, Santi, RVP and Bergkamp at the top in no particular order. All 4 had things they did better than the others.
Think RVP in general is bit underrated when discussing technical ability. It's not like he had much else going for him, not super quick or strong, decent size but hardly deadly in the air etc. Was all mental and technical ability with him.
If I had to pick one it'd probably be Santi, with the tiebreaker being his ability to use both feet equally.
Think RVP in general is bit underrated when discussing technical ability. It's not like he had much else going for him, not super quick or strong, decent size but hardly deadly in the air etc. Was all mental and technical ability with him.
If I had to pick one it'd probably be Santi, with the tiebreaker being his ability to use both feet equally.
Dokaka
AM's resident Hammer
You know you've had some ballers btw when players like Henry hardly get mentioned, dude was incredible on a technical level, scored some of the best goals in PL history. His famous volley after lifting it up to himself with his back to goal is literally insanely difficult to pull off in a practice environment with no other players around you.
Literally known for placing the ball just inside the post as well consistently, which requires elite technical ability to pull off the way he did.
Literally known for placing the ball just inside the post as well consistently, which requires elite technical ability to pull off the way he did.
GDeep™
League is very weak
Nobody from any post Wenger team mentioned. Interesting.
Dokaka
AM's resident Hammer
Tbf the players mentioned are also fairly spread out in terms of when they played. No doubt there was generally a bigger emphasis on technical ability above everything else under Wenger though, to the point where it was basically daily posting on here to scream for more physicality in the team.
I think a lot of those Wenger teams would've been more successful if you sacrificed some of the tekkers for more physicality. Think we actually saw that with the 07/08 team, had a good amount of crazy athletes in that team combined with some proper ballers. It all became a bit soft at times after that.
Because these are the worst Arsenal teams EVER.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
One from pre Wenger I wish I got to see was David Rocastle, the way players who played with him talk about him... special talent.
Also Liam Brady too, tbh ..back in the days when trying to play football got in the way of everyone kicking the **** out of eachother
Also Liam Brady too, tbh ..back in the days when trying to play football got in the way of everyone kicking the **** out of eachother
Sanchez11
Nobody Is Coming!
Country: England
Bergkamp then Rozza end of thread.
If A-M existed at the time, I reckon you would’ve been there hyping up Eddie McGoldrick to show you’re a better fan than everyone else.One from pre Wenger I wish I got to see was David Rocastle, the way players who played with him talk about him... special talent.
Also Liam Brady too, tbh ..back in the days when trying to play football got in the way of everyone kicking the **** out of eachother
Country: Iceland
Bergkamp, Henry and RvP.
From today squad I think its Martinelly. Some of the moves he makes aometimes are from dimensions yet to be invented.
From today squad I think its Martinelly. Some of the moves he makes aometimes are from dimensions yet to be invented.
Country: England
In some ways. This current iteration is actually one of the most boring I’ve ever seen BUT it is still better than some of the poverty sides I’ve seen Wenger put out.
I was really happy when the Sanchez and Özil type players started coming in again I wish we made more of that period.
