Thanks to the awesome reception of my last post, here’s to continuing it with another set. Apologies for the compilation of the photos, thats the best i could do (not that tech savvy).

  1. Carl Jenkinson
  2. Gervinho
  3. Denilson
  4. Francis Jeffers
  5. Jeremy Aliadiere
  6. Emmanuel Frimpong
  7. Julio Baptista
  8. Lord Bendtner
  9. Andre Santos
  10. Manuel Almunia
  11. David Suker
  12. Emmanuel Eboue
  • _handsome_pete@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    It is slander on Davor Suker and Carl Jenkinson to have them on this list when you could have included Willian, Kolasinac, Chamakh… That said, the answer is obviously Almunia

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      11 months ago

      Don’t remind me of the terror that is Marouane Chamakh. Please don’t make me think of him again.

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          11 months ago

          Honestly, I really have to question the scouting that brought Marouane Chamakh to a club the level of Arsenal, even if it was a different era and even if he was on a free.

          That is just a footballer I never, never could see anywhere near the level for Arsenal. Nor was there any kind of moneyball slant that would suggest it, really. Looking back that was when I really should’ve started to begin doubting Wenger’s decision making at the very least on the personnel front.

          I mean, we can criticise transfers like Nicolas Pepe all we want–and I do, and did from very early on–but at least you can see a world where Pepe makes it at Arsenal, or you can understand a few scouts would rate him. Still think it’s poor scouting but I simply cannot see how a scout could watch Chamakh thoroughly and recommend his signing, even on a free.

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        11 months ago

        He got off to a flying start with RVP out injured, he looked absolute quality, then RVP came back and Chamakh turned into a donkey overnight

        • zzzrecruit@alien.topB
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          11 months ago

          I thought Chamakh looked like shit from his very first match for us. He was missing sitters in front of goal. I was never confident in his ability after that.

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            11 months ago

            He wasn’t HaalandTron 3000 but he was producing for us in the league and the CL (think he scored in his first 3 CL games for us) up until like November/December and then fell off a cliff. I don’t even think he scored in the league for the rest of the season after Van Persie came back

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                11 months ago

                I remember him starting plenty of games though and me taring our my hair every time. Mitigating circumstance is he did have that blackmail thing

    • TondiOnBeat@alien.topB
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      11 months ago

      My introduction to Almunia was the Champions League final and never liked him since then.