Wenger: World Cup cost us

FerrariTifosi27 · Post by **FerrariTifosi27** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:59 pm

Wenger: World Cup cost us

Arsene Wenger claims his young Arsenal players were rocked by a World Cup hangover at the start of the season.

Fledgling players such as Cesc Fabregas, 19, Philippe Senderos, 21, Johan Djourou, 19, and Theo Walcott, 17, were among those on international duty in Germany.

Wenger said: "We were disturbed by the World Cup. We had a lot of very young players away and it took them a lot of time to recover."

"Then, the international schedule has gone completely crazy. I never saw the players."

"This is the first week I have had with them since the beginning of the season."

"I told them to be faithful to the way we want to play. We do not have to question the way we play, we have to do what we do better."

Arsenal started the Premiership season with two draws and a defeat but stopped the rot with a 1-0 win at Manchester United on the weekend.

Emmanuel Adebayor's late winner was created by Fabregas, who looks to have recovered from his busy summer with Spain at the World Cup.

Wenger said: "Fabregas was absolutely outstanding. He did not stop from the first minute to the last."

"His passing was fantastic. He defends, he attacks. In the last five minutes, he was still in the box. He was amazing."

"But I think every player did well. We have shown a lot of mental strength."

"There were a lot of questions raised about us and our team spirit."

"We missed a penalty, which is effectively like being 1-0 down, but we came out in the second half and won the game."

"It tells you a lot about the spirit and the mental strength of the team."

Adebayor, 22, was another Arsenal star on World Cup duty and he believes the win at Old Trafford will kick-start the season for the Gunners.

The Togo striker said: "I hope this is a breakthrough for the team. We never got down. We were never out of the race."

"We needed this win and we showed we are a good team. We showed we can play good football. We showed we enjoy playing as a team and working for each other."

"It was a very important game, we won it and I think confidence will come back a little bit."

Adebayor joined Arsenal from Monaco in January and scored four times as they made a late charge to finish fourth in the Premiership.

The 86th-minute winner at Old Trafford, however, shoots straight to the top of his list of favourite goals.

Adebayor, who also earned a first-half penalty which Gilberto missed, said: "It was the important goal I've ever scored."

"I knew all the fans were watching this game and I had not scored in the Premiership this season."

"I got my chance to play. I enjoy the way Arsenal play and it was important for us to win our first game."

"Now I hope we are going to win a lot of games at home. We have to focus on our next game."

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:03 pm

lol .. as if they r the only team that's back from world cup !!

7 · Post by 7 » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:56 pm

Wenger said: "We were disturbed by the World Cup. We had a lot of very young players away and it took them a lot of time to recover."

Did you have young players apart from Cristiano and Rooney? Noooo.

We did, as listed, cesc, senderos, djourou, walcott

Well we did still beat you, so its all good now isnt it.

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:05 pm

7 wrote:Wenger said: "We were disturbed by the World Cup. We had a lot of very young players away and it took them a lot of time to recover."

Did you have young players apart from Cristiano and Rooney? Noooo.

We did, as listed, cesc, senderos, djourou, walcott

Well we did still beat you, so its all good now isnt it.

LOL ... walcott play heap lots of game this world cup LMFAO !! as for cesc, he did pretty well so far .. so i dont think that's an excuse ... senderos, djourou - WOW ..... they r like playing for FEW GAMES ONLY BIG F*KING DEAL

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:21 pm

Mr Whinger, try to concentrate on ur team, instead of just dig out some unreasonable excuses !! u just make urself looks like a whinger b1tch !! No one will said : "Oh yeh Mr Wenger is right ... the team poor start of the season wasnt bcos of the wrong strategy they play, but it's bcos of the world f*king cup" ....

now i rest my case ...

delfino_1936 · Post by **delfino_1936** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:26 pm

YOU GOT NO IDEA BUDDY!!!!!

all of our team compared to yours was at the world cup and till l8 as well!!

some of the guys were at the world cup a lot longer than ur boys meaning they had lil rest time thats what Arsene is saying wanka!!!!

he ain't making excuses he is just telling the truth and it hurts for u guys doesn't it cause we beat u!!!!

Gigi10 · Post by **Gigi10** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:41 pm

Wenger is just bitching like always, its not a normal week unless he winges about something.

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:44 am

Tomas 7 wrote:YOU GOT NO IDEA BUDDY!!!!!

all of our team compared to yours was at the world cup and till l8 as well!!

some of the guys were at the world cup a lot longer than ur boys meaning they had lil rest time thats what Arsene is saying wanka!!!!

he ain't making excuses he is just telling the truth and it hurts for u guys doesn't it cause we beat u!!!!

now tell me , who in ur team play any longer than C Ronaldo ?

LFTWNG11 · Post by **LFTWNG11** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:43 am

ronaldo07 wrote:
Tomas 7 wrote:YOU GOT NO IDEA BUDDY!!!!!

all of our team compared to yours was at the world cup and till l8 as well!!

some of the guys were at the world cup a lot longer than ur boys meaning they had lil rest time thats what Arsene is saying wanka!!!!

he ain't making excuses he is just telling the truth and it hurts for u guys doesn't it cause we beat u!!!!

now tell me , who in ur team play any longer than C Ronaldo ?

I'll field this one...

Henry, Gallas, Lehman as well as Gilberto and Baptista being in the quarter-finals... dnt forget ronnie07, you had Saha there for longer than Ronaldo as well

That being said, I think any coach, Mourinho, Benetiz, Wenger, SAF, cannot use the excuse of the world cup for their poor performances, we are five games in to the season now, get over it!!! If anything the world cup should healp younger players, who typically and rightfully have more energy/stamina than the older players...

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:38 pm

LFTWNG11 wrote:
ronaldo07 wrote:
Tomas 7 wrote:YOU GOT NO IDEA BUDDY!!!!!

all of our team compared to yours was at the world cup and till l8 as well!!

some of the guys were at the world cup a lot longer than ur boys meaning they had lil rest time thats what Arsene is saying wanka!!!!

he ain't making excuses he is just telling the truth and it hurts for u guys doesn't it cause we beat u!!!!

now tell me , who in ur team play any longer than C Ronaldo ?
I'll field this one...

Henry, Gallas, Lehman as well as Gilberto and Baptista being in the quarter-finals... dnt forget ronnie07, you had Saha there for longer than Ronaldo as well

That being said, I think any coach, Mourinho, Benetiz, Wenger, SAF, cannot use the excuse of the world cup for their poor performances, we are five games in to the season now, get over it!!! If anything the world cup should healp younger players, who typically and rightfully have more energy/stamina than the older players...

dont be a smarta$$ .. we r talking bout young player now

on the other side, if u r get tired during 1 month world cup matches, u'll be like deadly exhausted with the timetable of EPL !!

delfino_1936 · Post by **delfino_1936** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:04 pm

thanks lftwng11....answered very well

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:12 pm

if u said lftwng answer very well, it just prove ur previous point is incorrect ...

now im confused !!

LFTWNG11 · Post by **LFTWNG11** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:02 pm

ronaldo07 wrote:if u said lftwng answer very well, it just prove ur previous point is incorrect ...

now im confused !!

actually his point was that Arsenal had more players than Manchester in the latter stages of the world cup... which is true...

my point is that I dnt like hearing mangers, whoever they are, whinging about those things... so techinically I think your both wrong for even thinking it is a factor but Tomas7 was just stating the facts behind what Wenger said... you on the other hand are just a fkn dumb ass who argues for the sake of arguing, which is why everybody on here, even fellow man u supporter, think you are a fkn dumb ass... thx

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:27 pm

Actually, it's you 2 that are wrong ..
It's true arsenal had more players than manutd (not manchester) in the latter stages of the world cup ... but read back what Mr Whiner said ... he said YOUNG PLAYER, which obviously manutd had more than arsenal in latter stage of world cup !!

delfino_1936 · Post by **delfino_1936** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:36 pm

Ronaldo was ur only one!!!.....liek 7 said cesc, senderos, djourou are more than one and pretty much most of our best players were gone as well....Henry, Jens, gallas, Freddie, Van Persie....etc....btw we r also saying they had a lack of off season because of the world cup as well

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:56 am

So u r trying to said The World Cup tight schedule has cost the Arsenal slump start of the season huh ??

Pfft .. i mean come on ... it's been 2 - 3 months after world cup .. u cant take that as an excuse ... players just get enough rest within the time .... what a lame excuse ...

So in Premier League, ManUtd had play 5 games, and arsenal had only play 4 games ... can we take that as an excuse of our lost to Arsenal ??? pfft .. get over it .. u r just cabernet start of the season !!

delfino_1936 · Post by **delfino_1936** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:23 pm

We also had champions league qualifiers. That was less than a month after the world cup and it is a very tight schedule!!!

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:34 pm

Tomas 7 wrote:We also had champions league qualifiers. That was less than a month after the world cup and it is a very tight schedule!!!

and we have more friendly as compare to u

Theatre of Dreams · Post by **Theatre of Dreams** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:32 pm

Tomas 7 wrote:We also had champions league qualifiers. That was less than a month after the world cup and it is a very tight schedule!!!

champions league qualifiers...pfft thats ur own fault for doin shit last season....if ur club was any decent u would finish top two and AUTOMATICALLY qualify like the good teams.....chelsea looked shite in the pre season but once the season proper started it was business as usual....man utd was the same of course until the last game....nobody can use the world cup as an excuse. that would be like england using the club season as an excuse for not winning the world cup...every club has to deal with it...portsmouth have done alright considering they had sol campbell and david james (england), stefanovic and koroman (serbia), pedro mendes(portugal), kranjcar (croatia) all big 1st team players for them at the world cup and they've had their best start since the 1950's

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:40 am

Theatre of Dreams wrote:
Tomas 7 wrote:We also had champions league qualifiers. That was less than a month after the world cup and it is a very tight schedule!!!
champions league qualifiers...pfft thats ur own fault for doin cabernet last season....if ur club was any decent u would finish top two and AUTOMATICALLY qualify like the good teams.....chelsea looked shite in the pre season but once the season proper started it was business as usual....man utd was the same of course until the last game....nobody can use the world cup as an excuse. that would be like england using the club season as an excuse for not winning the world cup...every club has to deal with it...portsmouth have done alright considering they had sol campbell and david james (england), stefanovic and koroman (serbia), pedro mendes(portugal), kranjcar (croatia) all big 1st team players for them at the world cup and they've had their best start since the 1950's

top post .. very very well said ... totally shut tomas mouth lol !!

Judge Judy · Post by **Judge Judy** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:57 am

sooky wanker Wenger. no coach should be using that as an excuse.

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:07 am

xabi wrote:sooky wanker Wenger. no coach should be using that as an excuse.

i must agree with u on this one xabi !!