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***Official*** English Football Season 2018-19
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They beat a very good Betis side in the last round too.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-europa-league-last-16-first-leg-match-report
What a headline.
Ben Arfa's someone I've always thought should have been an Arsenal player at some point in his career.
What a headline.
Ben Arfa's someone I've always thought should have been an Arsenal player at some point in his career.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
He probably would have been, or some other top team, were it not for his rather questionable temperament/attitude tbh.
duffer
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If rumours are to be believed, we were interested in him as an alternative to Nasri if that deal fell through.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Yeah he was heavily linked at one time.
Wenger never went near players like him (i.e. highly volatile, divisive, and likely to upset everyone around them) with a barge pole though.
It's one of the most underappreciated aspects of Wenger's management imo. Like Ferguson, once some sort of disciplinary issue came up it was always nipped in the bud almost immediately. And the player in question would often be moved on. He didn't suffer any crap like that.
Just a shame he didn't take a similar attitude to players who were crap.
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
Yeah probably. Seemed the sort of player I think Wenger might have been able to get the best out of.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Yeah, agree. I suspect Wenger had a look at him and just decided all things considered it wasn't worth the aggravation.
No disrespect to Newcastle etc. But there's no way a player that talented should have been so easy for a club, with the stature they had at the time, to pick up at that point in his career.
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I don’t think that’s true. Adebayor, Anelka, Nasri, Gallas. He tried to sign Suarez. If anything he signed players other managers didn’t trust and got the best out of them before moving them on for a big profit.
Tom Halsey
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Yeah and Gallas was captain as well wasn't he? Recall them collapsing in the 2008 run-in after his outburst against Birmingham I think it was. Probably wasn't entirely down to that outburst but it can't have helped and he remained an Arsenal player for two or three years afterwards.
andruid
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Same old Arsenal weaknesses
Furball
Evil Scotsman
I thought it was post Wenger where Anelka acted like a clown?
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
He acted like a real **** in the Summer of 99, and was immediately sold.
More ****ish behaviour followed in later years though.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Yeah I remember him going on strike at Real Madrid and I'm pretty sure he fell out with people at PSG quite quickly. Maybe it was the fact it happened in a summer rather than during the season, my recollection of Anelka to Real was that they made a huge bid which couldn't really be turned down.
I'd be surprised given his age if he had a reputation of being difficult before he went to Arsenal.