He was immense today Imo. Way occasion he won the ball and bombed forward then suddenly stopped and said no to himself and stayed back and let the others do there stuff.
This is exactly the type of player we have been calling for.
Shame it took desperation and 5 injuries to other midfielders for Mr Wenger to finally use a tenacious, hard tackling midfielder.
Absolute amazing again. Hope Wenger now really realises what most of all crying about for so long. A DM that doing his job properly is absolute vital for our game.
Need another DM in the next summer.
Yup, Wenger has fluked his way to a DM solution - Coquelin has quite simply been extraordinary since he came in to the team.
Yep need cover I fear the day this season he's injured really has made a difference. A true LANS
The amount of times he recovers loose balls or stop opposition from breaking away from their half is remarkable. None so more than today. That one period in second half where burnley started pressuring, he intercepted twice in a minute after Arsenal lost the ball. Made sure pressure was kept on.
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 10 minutes ago
Absolute amazing again. Hope Wenger now really realises what most of all crying about for so long. A DM that doing his job properly is absolute vital for our game.
Need another DM in the next summer.
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Pretty sure Wenger has known we need a good dm player, the main problem was finding one
From these type of comments you make it seem like it's just Wenger refusing to play a dm. This wasn't the problem the probelm is the likes of flamini weren't good enough.
Coq is at the moment the best dm in England. We are noticing him because he is amazing, not because he simply is a dm.
Come off it Godfather. He has had Coquelin at the club for 6 years for starters. And he is hardly the greatest defensive midfielder around. You are saying no one at all was ever available??
comment by ItsAboutTheBackFour (U9916)
posted 16 minutes ago
Yup, Wenger has fluked his way to a DM solution - Coquelin has quite simply been extraordinary since he came in to the team.
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You could argue that wenger has fluke his way out of a disastrous season altogether!
I don't think many would be surprised if Wenger started easing Coquelin back out of the team for the better on the ball players like Arteta and Wilshere tbh.
It remains to be seen if Wenger has seen the light.
But we brought Flamini back to the club and had Arteta and obviously Wenger had hope that Diaby would recover from his injuries.
We were linked to several defensive midfielders in the summer. Wenger won't sign players like Fernando for the sake of it.
comment by The Godfather (U10154)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 10 minutes ago
Absolute amazing again. Hope Wenger now really realises what most of all crying about for so long. A DM that doing his job properly is absolute vital for our game.
Need another DM in the next summer.
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Pretty sure Wenger has known we need a good dm player, the main problem was finding one
From these type of comments you make it seem like it's just Wenger refusing to play a dm. This wasn't the problem the probelm is the likes of flamini weren't good enough.
Coq is at the moment the best dm in England. We are noticing him because he is amazing, not because he simply is a dm.
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That's just not right Godfather. Wenger not even saw the necessity of a third CB and bought Gabriel in January neither did he see that Flamini and Arteta werent good enough to do what le Coq doing now. Just by accident he put Coquelin back.
comment by Arsé is Foot (U10984)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by ItsAboutTheBackFour (U9916)
posted 16 minutes ago
Yup, Wenger has fluked his way to a DM solution - Coquelin has quite simply been extraordinary since he came in to the team.
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You could argue that wenger has fluke his way out of a disastrous season altogether!
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It's ok when Fergie, Mourinho or Pellegrini use the second half of the season to mount a serious title challenge but it's not ok for Wenger.
Last time I checked a season runs from August to May. What you do in September is irrelevant as long as u win trophies or achieve reasonable targets.
If Arsenal become runners up in a season liverpool, Chelsea and city have all spent more than 100 million, who gives a fùck what happened in September???
Dićk
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 4 minutes ago
I don't think many would be surprised if Wenger started easing Coquelin back out of the team for the better on the ball players like Arteta and Wilshere tbh.
It remains to be seen if Wenger has seen the light.
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Well you could see today that Wenger had tough decisions to make. No player from the recent recovered player even on the bench. Yes I see....he has see the light.
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 minutes ago
Come off it Godfather. He has had Coquelin at the club for 6 years for starters. And he is hardly the greatest defensive midfielder around. You are saying no one at all was ever available??
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We know the drill by now, Wenger only buys players he thinks are better than what we have. He didnt want to replace Arteta because he thought he was good enough. i think Artetas good performances go largely unnoticed. Hes not put himself about as much as coq but at his best hes almost as good, but coq has been a real revelation.
Coquelin has been our best player for weeks now, how can you say hes not all that?
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by The Godfather (U10154)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 10 minutes ago
Absolute amazing again. Hope Wenger now really realises what most of all crying about for so long. A DM that doing his job properly is absolute vital for our game.
Need another DM in the next summer.
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Pretty sure Wenger has known we need a good dm player, the main problem was finding one
From these type of comments you make it seem like it's just Wenger refusing to play a dm. This wasn't the problem the probelm is the likes of flamini weren't good enough.
Coq is at the moment the best dm in England. We are noticing him because he is amazing, not because he simply is a dm.
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That's just not right Godfather. Wenger not even saw the necessity of a third CB and bought Gabriel in January neither did he see that Flamini and Arteta werent good enough to do what le Coq doing now. Just by accident he put Coquelin back.
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what do you mean by accident? he put him there because his first two choices were injured. How can it be an accident to play players you have bought and trained? Is Kane an accident?
We won matches last season just as convincingly with arteta dm as coq now. the only thing wenger got wrong is thinking flamini could do the bruiser "getting stuck in" dm role. He cant he is garbage
comment by b10 (U18580)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Arsé is Foot (U10984)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by ItsAboutTheBackFour (U9916)
posted 16 minutes ago
Yup, Wenger has fluked his way to a DM solution - Coquelin has quite simply been extraordinary since he came in to the team.
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You could argue that wenger has fluke his way out of a disastrous season altogether!
-----------------------------------------
It's ok when Fergie, Mourinho or Pellegrini use the second half of the season to mount a serious title challenge but it's not ok for Wenger.
Last time I checked a season runs from August to May. What you do in September is irrelevant as long as u win trophies or achieve reasonable targets.
If Arsenal become runners up in a season liverpool, Chelsea and city have all spent more than 100 million, who gives a fùck what happened in September???
Dićk
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Let me know when you've calmed down and finished name calling like a stroppy teenager and I'll be more than happy to have this debate with you.
Arteta never did what Coquelin doing now for us. Not saying that Arteta was bad for us....but the way Coq keeps the pressure from our defense and recovers ball when we lose them in midfield is the difference. Hope Wenger sees that a strong, concentrated DM is vital for our game.
Wenger fluked with Giroud, because Giroud wasnt good enough before but hes improved now
We have been crying out for a striker who can score for years now and finally wenger is seeing what we all saw because giroud has become that player.
I really hope Wenger has learned his lesson, I fear next season will develop like this: Wenger is not buying a woldclass holding midfielder as not to limit the development of Coq. (Remember Denilsons case). Then Coq's got injured for 6 months or gets a huge dip in form like all young players (Ramsey anyone) and another titel challenge is fecked...
There's a bit of luck with Coq but at the end of the day we signed him in the first place at 16 because we saw potential in him so you make your own luck, Matic was on the books as a teenager at Chelsea but they sold him and bought him back for 20m, Wenger kept Coq on the books and played him when he deserved it.
comment by internal solutions (U19964)
posted 12 seconds ago
There's a bit of luck with Coq but at the end of the day we signed him in the first place at 16 because we saw potential in him so you make your own luck, Matic was on the books as a teenager at Chelsea but they sold him and bought him back for 20m, Wenger kept Coq on the books and played him when he deserved it.
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You are WRONG! Wenger fluked it and deserves no credit for playing a player he bought. He fluked it by believing a player in his squad could do the job. All the people telling him to buy that world class dm who no one could name have been proved right.
Just like how all the people who wanted a better striker than giroud have been proved right because Giroud is good enough now. Giroud scoring all those goals proves that Wenger should have bought a world class striker ages ago.
comment by internal solutions (U19964)
posted 8 minutes ago
There's a bit of luck with Coq but at the end of the day we signed him in the first place at 16 because we saw potential in him so you make your own luck, Matic was on the books as a teenager at Chelsea but they sold him and bought him back for 20m, Wenger kept Coq on the books and played him when he deserved it.
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You mean played him when all other options were injured. He was in the last year of his contract and shipped out on loan the chart on ffs. His future with us was over until the massive injury crisis.
Wenger saw him improve in training and loaned him for one month to get match fit, otherwise why not loan him until Jan or the end of the season, yeah there was a bit of luck Wenger admitted that.
It's not as if fans were crying out for him to play or he smashed it on his loan spells, he got played RB at Lorient I think and then as a winger at Freiberg and didn't impress that much. Wenger put him in the team and kept him in the team, Flamini was on the bench for all but one game I think so he had chances to change it back if he didn't rate Coq. Most of our fans were calling Coq lucky or average till recently so Wenger saw it a bit sooner it seems...
Wenger could have bought another DM to avert the injury crisis like when he loaned that swede guy last January but he went back to Charlton and brought Coq back in who he was desperate to sell or release on a free.
He decided to ignore the fact that chambers could have been played in midfield or the Ox for that matter & went for Coq by some Vudu magic fluke.
He mismanaged the team terribly by starting the season with 3 CBs and Monreal even though he probably knew he couldn't get the player he wanted in the summer.
Should have bought Lovren or other centerbacks but fluked Gabriel in January. Shouldn't have sold Vermalean even though he had not played it would still earn we started the season with 4CBs instead of 3.
Like we are the first team to have 3 regular centerbacks and fullbacks who can play at CB.
Oh wait I thought chelsea are in the exact same situation
I swear some people are genuinely disappointed that the team has turned around their form.
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posted on 11/4/15
He was immense today Imo. Way occasion he won the ball and bombed forward then suddenly stopped and said no to himself and stayed back and let the others do there stuff.
This is exactly the type of player we have been calling for.
posted on 11/4/15
Shame it took desperation and 5 injuries to other midfielders for Mr Wenger to finally use a tenacious, hard tackling midfielder.
posted on 11/4/15
Absolute amazing again. Hope Wenger now really realises what most of all crying about for so long. A DM that doing his job properly is absolute vital for our game.
Need another DM in the next summer.
posted on 11/4/15
Yup, Wenger has fluked his way to a DM solution - Coquelin has quite simply been extraordinary since he came in to the team.
posted on 11/4/15
Yep need cover I fear the day this season he's injured really has made a difference. A true LANS
posted on 11/4/15
The amount of times he recovers loose balls or stop opposition from breaking away from their half is remarkable. None so more than today. That one period in second half where burnley started pressuring, he intercepted twice in a minute after Arsenal lost the ball. Made sure pressure was kept on.
posted on 11/4/15
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 10 minutes ago
Absolute amazing again. Hope Wenger now really realises what most of all crying about for so long. A DM that doing his job properly is absolute vital for our game.
Need another DM in the next summer.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Pretty sure Wenger has known we need a good dm player, the main problem was finding one
From these type of comments you make it seem like it's just Wenger refusing to play a dm. This wasn't the problem the probelm is the likes of flamini weren't good enough.
Coq is at the moment the best dm in England. We are noticing him because he is amazing, not because he simply is a dm.
posted on 11/4/15
Come off it Godfather. He has had Coquelin at the club for 6 years for starters. And he is hardly the greatest defensive midfielder around. You are saying no one at all was ever available??
posted on 11/4/15
comment by ItsAboutTheBackFour (U9916)
posted 16 minutes ago
Yup, Wenger has fluked his way to a DM solution - Coquelin has quite simply been extraordinary since he came in to the team.
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You could argue that wenger has fluke his way out of a disastrous season altogether!
posted on 11/4/15
I don't think many would be surprised if Wenger started easing Coquelin back out of the team for the better on the ball players like Arteta and Wilshere tbh.
It remains to be seen if Wenger has seen the light.
posted on 11/4/15
But we brought Flamini back to the club and had Arteta and obviously Wenger had hope that Diaby would recover from his injuries.
We were linked to several defensive midfielders in the summer. Wenger won't sign players like Fernando for the sake of it.
posted on 11/4/15
comment by The Godfather (U10154)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 10 minutes ago
Absolute amazing again. Hope Wenger now really realises what most of all crying about for so long. A DM that doing his job properly is absolute vital for our game.
Need another DM in the next summer.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Pretty sure Wenger has known we need a good dm player, the main problem was finding one
From these type of comments you make it seem like it's just Wenger refusing to play a dm. This wasn't the problem the probelm is the likes of flamini weren't good enough.
Coq is at the moment the best dm in England. We are noticing him because he is amazing, not because he simply is a dm.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That's just not right Godfather. Wenger not even saw the necessity of a third CB and bought Gabriel in January neither did he see that Flamini and Arteta werent good enough to do what le Coq doing now. Just by accident he put Coquelin back.
posted on 11/4/15
comment by Arsé is Foot (U10984)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by ItsAboutTheBackFour (U9916)
posted 16 minutes ago
Yup, Wenger has fluked his way to a DM solution - Coquelin has quite simply been extraordinary since he came in to the team.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You could argue that wenger has fluke his way out of a disastrous season altogether!
-----------------------------------------
It's ok when Fergie, Mourinho or Pellegrini use the second half of the season to mount a serious title challenge but it's not ok for Wenger.
Last time I checked a season runs from August to May. What you do in September is irrelevant as long as u win trophies or achieve reasonable targets.
If Arsenal become runners up in a season liverpool, Chelsea and city have all spent more than 100 million, who gives a fùck what happened in September???
Dićk
posted on 11/4/15
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 4 minutes ago
I don't think many would be surprised if Wenger started easing Coquelin back out of the team for the better on the ball players like Arteta and Wilshere tbh.
It remains to be seen if Wenger has seen the light.
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Well you could see today that Wenger had tough decisions to make. No player from the recent recovered player even on the bench. Yes I see....he has see the light.
posted on 11/4/15
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 minutes ago
Come off it Godfather. He has had Coquelin at the club for 6 years for starters. And he is hardly the greatest defensive midfielder around. You are saying no one at all was ever available??
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We know the drill by now, Wenger only buys players he thinks are better than what we have. He didnt want to replace Arteta because he thought he was good enough. i think Artetas good performances go largely unnoticed. Hes not put himself about as much as coq but at his best hes almost as good, but coq has been a real revelation.
Coquelin has been our best player for weeks now, how can you say hes not all that?
posted on 11/4/15
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by The Godfather (U10154)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 10 minutes ago
Absolute amazing again. Hope Wenger now really realises what most of all crying about for so long. A DM that doing his job properly is absolute vital for our game.
Need another DM in the next summer.
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Pretty sure Wenger has known we need a good dm player, the main problem was finding one
From these type of comments you make it seem like it's just Wenger refusing to play a dm. This wasn't the problem the probelm is the likes of flamini weren't good enough.
Coq is at the moment the best dm in England. We are noticing him because he is amazing, not because he simply is a dm.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
That's just not right Godfather. Wenger not even saw the necessity of a third CB and bought Gabriel in January neither did he see that Flamini and Arteta werent good enough to do what le Coq doing now. Just by accident he put Coquelin back.
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what do you mean by accident? he put him there because his first two choices were injured. How can it be an accident to play players you have bought and trained? Is Kane an accident?
We won matches last season just as convincingly with arteta dm as coq now. the only thing wenger got wrong is thinking flamini could do the bruiser "getting stuck in" dm role. He cant he is garbage
posted on 11/4/15
comment by b10 (U18580)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Arsé is Foot (U10984)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by ItsAboutTheBackFour (U9916)
posted 16 minutes ago
Yup, Wenger has fluked his way to a DM solution - Coquelin has quite simply been extraordinary since he came in to the team.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You could argue that wenger has fluke his way out of a disastrous season altogether!
-----------------------------------------
It's ok when Fergie, Mourinho or Pellegrini use the second half of the season to mount a serious title challenge but it's not ok for Wenger.
Last time I checked a season runs from August to May. What you do in September is irrelevant as long as u win trophies or achieve reasonable targets.
If Arsenal become runners up in a season liverpool, Chelsea and city have all spent more than 100 million, who gives a fùck what happened in September???
Dićk
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Let me know when you've calmed down and finished name calling like a stroppy teenager and I'll be more than happy to have this debate with you.
posted on 11/4/15
Arteta never did what Coquelin doing now for us. Not saying that Arteta was bad for us....but the way Coq keeps the pressure from our defense and recovers ball when we lose them in midfield is the difference. Hope Wenger sees that a strong, concentrated DM is vital for our game.
posted on 11/4/15
Wenger fluked with Giroud, because Giroud wasnt good enough before but hes improved now
We have been crying out for a striker who can score for years now and finally wenger is seeing what we all saw because giroud has become that player.
posted on 11/4/15
I really hope Wenger has learned his lesson, I fear next season will develop like this: Wenger is not buying a woldclass holding midfielder as not to limit the development of Coq. (Remember Denilsons case). Then Coq's got injured for 6 months or gets a huge dip in form like all young players (Ramsey anyone) and another titel challenge is fecked...
posted on 11/4/15
There's a bit of luck with Coq but at the end of the day we signed him in the first place at 16 because we saw potential in him so you make your own luck, Matic was on the books as a teenager at Chelsea but they sold him and bought him back for 20m, Wenger kept Coq on the books and played him when he deserved it.
posted on 11/4/15
comment by internal solutions (U19964)
posted 12 seconds ago
There's a bit of luck with Coq but at the end of the day we signed him in the first place at 16 because we saw potential in him so you make your own luck, Matic was on the books as a teenager at Chelsea but they sold him and bought him back for 20m, Wenger kept Coq on the books and played him when he deserved it.
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You are WRONG! Wenger fluked it and deserves no credit for playing a player he bought. He fluked it by believing a player in his squad could do the job. All the people telling him to buy that world class dm who no one could name have been proved right.
Just like how all the people who wanted a better striker than giroud have been proved right because Giroud is good enough now. Giroud scoring all those goals proves that Wenger should have bought a world class striker ages ago.
posted on 11/4/15
comment by internal solutions (U19964)
posted 8 minutes ago
There's a bit of luck with Coq but at the end of the day we signed him in the first place at 16 because we saw potential in him so you make your own luck, Matic was on the books as a teenager at Chelsea but they sold him and bought him back for 20m, Wenger kept Coq on the books and played him when he deserved it.
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You mean played him when all other options were injured. He was in the last year of his contract and shipped out on loan the chart on ffs. His future with us was over until the massive injury crisis.
posted on 11/4/15
Wenger saw him improve in training and loaned him for one month to get match fit, otherwise why not loan him until Jan or the end of the season, yeah there was a bit of luck Wenger admitted that.
It's not as if fans were crying out for him to play or he smashed it on his loan spells, he got played RB at Lorient I think and then as a winger at Freiberg and didn't impress that much. Wenger put him in the team and kept him in the team, Flamini was on the bench for all but one game I think so he had chances to change it back if he didn't rate Coq. Most of our fans were calling Coq lucky or average till recently so Wenger saw it a bit sooner it seems...
posted on 11/4/15
Wenger could have bought another DM to avert the injury crisis like when he loaned that swede guy last January but he went back to Charlton and brought Coq back in who he was desperate to sell or release on a free.
He decided to ignore the fact that chambers could have been played in midfield or the Ox for that matter & went for Coq by some Vudu magic fluke.
He mismanaged the team terribly by starting the season with 3 CBs and Monreal even though he probably knew he couldn't get the player he wanted in the summer.
Should have bought Lovren or other centerbacks but fluked Gabriel in January. Shouldn't have sold Vermalean even though he had not played it would still earn we started the season with 4CBs instead of 3.
Like we are the first team to have 3 regular centerbacks and fullbacks who can play at CB.
Oh wait I thought chelsea are in the exact same situation
I swear some people are genuinely disappointed that the team has turned around their form.
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