So the serious business begins today with the Clash with Crystal Palace. It comes a bit as a surprise that the new season is here already.To me, it Just seems like it was yesterday the last one ended. Thanks in no small way to the World Cup for ensuring we didn't suffer any football withdrawal effects like we normally do. Usually Off-season tends to be unbearably long, leaving us the fans literally counting days to the first ball kicked in anger. But here we are, New Season, New opportunities and New managers for some other teams.You can almost smell the grass at the Emirates here in gidi.. showtime beckons my people!
What a difference a year makes if you are an Arsenal fan. This time last year the air around the club was depressing. We had suffered a terrible transfer period up until the eve of our game with Aston Villa. Our Marquee target for that summer Gonzalo Higuain, who at the time was widely tipped to join us switched to Napoli and then un-top of that we endured a quite farcical transfer fiasco with Liverpool over Suarez which didn't end positively. All these had resulted in a rather gloomy commencement to the season and the 1-3 loss to Villa only served as the icing on the cake. However, fast forward 12 months and the atmosphere in Goonerdom can't be more contrasting. We have been busy in the market this time, we finally have trophies in the bag to show-off, 3 of our boys return as World champs, and also we haven't sold any player this year that we didn't want to. A massive change in fortunes you'd agree and it promises to get even better.
The successes we have recorded of late has bolstered our confidence. You may argue that the community shield is not the perfect parameter but we really looked a totally different side against Mancity. Not so much in terms of our new personnel but also in our approach and attitude on the day. I saw a team that had a rejuvenated belief in itself and played with a desire to achieve every possible thing it could achieve without any fear or psychological hindrance. This is the same application i want the lads to display throughout the new season. Approach all our targets one game at a time, and who knows if we can keep our players healthy and injury free who says we cant push for more trophies to add to last season's collection. Alexis Sanchez has come in to add a certain star quality to the forward line and you get the feeling that once he settles in to our style he'll be deadly. His pace added to Giroud's strength upfront, alongside Ramsey, Walcott, Campbell (fingers crossed) and Podolski will give our attack a rather formidable look. Debuchy has come in for Sagna and has fitted in quite admirably. Young Chambers will make his mistakes in some games, that's for sure but he already looks like he'll be an asset to us before long. Nothing compares to the feeling of knowing your team has capable competition for places. And i feel with injuries almost inevitable every season when the going gets rough, our side can look forward to avoiding the terrible experience we faced last season when injuries took Ramsey,Wilshere, Ozil away from us.
Our opponents, Crystal Palace have made the news for slightly strange reasons. Tony Pulis the manager who helped them pull-off the Houdini act of relegation escape last season has parted ways with the club under slightly acrimonious circumstances. Now it may be more than they they are willing to divulge i.e attributing his departure to Transfer differences but we cannot go into the game tomorrow expecting to see a weakened Crystal palace side. They showed a ruthless fighting spirit to finish 11th on the table last term and will not be easy visitors. Having said that, to not end up with 3 points will for us have to go down as a Bad day at the office.
There's really not much to say other than wish the lads good luck and hope we can serve a season-opener that'll be much more tastier than last season's. I'm happy the boss say's this boy will be given his chance, he just could turnout to be our joker in many a tight games. catch you later with a review.
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