I woke up on Saturday morning with a tingling sensation in my stomach - the type which suggests a feeling of nerves coupled with a wholly overwhelming, consuming excitement.
I picked up the TV remote, selected the TV guide, scrolled across to later on Saturday night, and subsequently gleamed at the beautiful sight of Match of The Day hitting our screens at 10.35Pm. I'm pretty sure that feeling is up there with the typical great feelings in life.
You know...wedding day, birth of a kid - that kind of stuff.
Lessons after one weekend
Utd are still cr*p
They can play 451, 442, 352, 847, they will continue to be awful because they lack an array of players. What a mess Fergie has left behind and what a joy it is to see.
Chelsea look a force going forward
They impressed me offensively on Monday night. Their passing was crisp and Fabregas kept things ticking really effectively. That was the best I've seen them keep the ball under Mourinho.
However, what I felt watching the game was that a midfield of Matic, Fabregas and Oscar could be hugely vulnerable.
Fabregas is a number 10. He doesn't have the engine to run up and down covering yard after yard which is what you need from a box to box midfielder. You wouldn't play Mata/Silva/Ozil in that position because you don't have enough mobility and trackers in your midfield if you do.
Against a better team than Burnley I think they could be hurt as a result. We will see - I'm not being bitter I promise
Arsenal lack a forward
The Crystal Palace game highlighted that physically we are not quite ready. That is understandable. But what worried me was the lack of movement from Sanogo.
Ramsey said in an interview after the game that him and Wilshere weren't seeing enough runs up front and therefore the two of them dwelled on the ball too much. That's a worry and however much you rate Sanogo, we all know he isn't going to fire us to a Champions League or Premier League. Giroud is closer to what a club with ambition needs, but he still doesn't give us that mobility, that power or pace to make us totally complete.
People can get transfer happy around this time of the year assuming that every flaw in a team can be solved through purchasing players. They forget that sometimes players don't want to move, and certain transfers are unrealistic or even impossible.
However, Wenger, I'm sure you're reading this post in the bath tub in your hotel room in Turkey...I really do implore you to put a bid in for Cavani - if he's available, he would transform us. We haven't replaced 'he who shall not be named' since he snaked his way to Manchester - We need to do it this summer.
It's early days, but the tone has been set. 37 games to go and let's hope that a 92nd minute winner isn't required for all of them otherwise my cardiovascular health will decline faster than the career of David Moyes.
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Eto'o had the highest wages in Europe for a striker last year. Even with a pay cut he'd still be very expensive.
I'd rather they spend that on Carvalho or Khedira.
Well then, don't stand too close.
Furthermore they don't have a monopoly of top talent unlike the last ten years. MC
Oscar will give way to Fabregas when Ramires is back.
Yet Wenger continues to be associated with technical players who are on the small side. The Brazilian Bernard is only 5ft 4inches tall. Once upon a time in the 50s you have such guys plying their trade.If Wenger follows up and signs him he must have really lost the plot.
Btw,in the old days of playing badminton,skill and craft were considered essential. Since then the game has been taken over by power ie smashing which can win games not placing the shuttle.
man utd will pick up plenty of points with rooney, mata and van persie i think but they'll lose plenty too cos of their defence.
i dont think we lack a striker. sanogo didnt have a great game vs crystal palace but no player can really say they did that game. if the midfield create better then sanogo would do better you'd think. tho he's still clearly a raw talent so he has a lot of his game still to develop.
whilst giroud did help contribute to the winning goal. he and the team still struggled with palace's defensive structure. that could be down to it being the first game of the season. we should be in better shape by game 8 really.
And he's there for the cheap... Furthermore, he's desperate to stick it to Jose ... And the returning Drogba... So what's stopping Wenger?
Both delusional