The answer is yes.
Well, first of all I would like to state that Arsenal Football Club is English. There are no two ways about it, as this historic club was founded by a group of factory workers in England. Before the Arsene Wenger era, our weekly team-sheet used to consist of rougly 7-8 British players. Managers of the likes of George Graham and Bruce Rioch didn’t bring too many foreigners to the Club. It could be due to the fact that they didn’t know how to negotiate business abroad, or they wanted to keep the English game of football as English as possible. Who knows?
Something then happened in which we never of thought would have taken place place 30 years earlier, or even a matter of 10 years earlier. In December 2009, Pompey and Arsenal were just supposed to play a typical league game. It actually was just like any other Premiership game except that both teams didn’t field a single English soul in the Premiership encouter. That is terrible, it indubitably is and I hope I never see such a thing again. Forget Pompey for a minute. We shouldn’t be going from a team of stars of the English game (Adams, Keown, Dixon, Cole) to a team where nearly all English talent is languishing on the fringes of the team squad. Arsene Wenger is doing a fantastic job at the moment at the moment, well he has been doing such a unique job for over 13 years now. Le Boss has nurtured some of the best foreigners to ever grace English football, you all know who they are (Henry, Viera,Fabregas). Some of them performed to an immaculate pedigree consistently in our Red & White jersey. We currently have an amazing batch of foreigners, but it is going slightly too far for me now, and possibly many other Arsenal supporter’s aswell.
Some of you may say that ‘The English’ costs a extortionate amount of money. Yes, they may cost more than a bargain from France or Africa, however it is worth-it. Why not start now? Arsenal is a Club based in England. Arsenal are playing in the English Premiership. So why don’t we have at least 3 or more English/British players in our 1st team (Players like Carlton Cole, Scott Parker, Matthew Upson, Young etc) ?
to answer your question, No we arent. when wenger first came to our club he said the youth/reserve was flawed and would take at least ten years to sort out. now wenger has sorted out our youth/reserve teams, and we are now seeing the benifits. we now have a number of young english players coming through the ranks, and this is proved by the fact we won the fa youth cup where the majority of players were english. there is only one reason why wenger rarely signs english players and that is because they are OVERPRICED. the only way we will sign english players is if they are youngsters, we wont sign Players like Carlton Cole, Scott Parker, Matthew Upson, Young etc because they are either shit, overrated and/or overpriced.
Well, I think you are dead wrong!
English players with class won’t come easy.
Young you say? He is not for sale, not the
likes of Lampard, Gerrard or Upson either.
The gunners are currently playing the best football in the world. They wouldn’t do that with a more “English” line-up.
I AGREE WITH U MY MAN.
@ WRITER -WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH FOOTBALL – THIS IS WHY EPL HAS MAJOR FANBASE OVERSEAS {THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE BEST LEAGUE, IF THIS ISN’T THE CASE LA LIGA WILL SURPASS EPL DEFINETLY}. U LIVING IN THE STONE AGES MAN!
We play very good football, but we are an English team, who play in the English Premiership… So there has to be something wrong if we don’t have more than 1 English player in our 1st team (Theo Walcott is the one who gets starts when fit). I know that Young isn’t for sale, but he is a very good player who would suit Arsenal.
Upson and Cole will be ours if we bid 10 million for them (each). That would be a good piece of business. I’m not saying that having a team of mostly foreign players is a bad thing, but having only one English player in it is another thing.
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH FOOTBALL – THIS IS WHY EPL HAS MAJOR FANBASE OVERSEAS {THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE BEST LEAGUE, IS THIS ISN’T THE CASE LA LIGA WILL SURPASS EPL DEFINETLY}. U LIVING IN THE STONE AGES MAN!
so tru people seem to 4get that wenger is also blooding a lot of english talent e.g walcott wilshere gibbs gilbert bartley eastmond e.t.c very soon the team will be all english and they will play the arsenal way
well mate i do not understand if u can’t wait two more seasens or u actualy do not know that there are so many young english players in our club prepering to play in the first team. Let me tell u some of them, jack wilsher, gibs, hoyte, jey simson, jey emanuel tomas, watt, do u want mor, even ramsey would make the list cose he is british. The english players are not a problem for us, they will make the first team of arsenal fc very soon. English players are not something that u can find easy out there, there are some of them that would have made the first team for us, but they are playing with man u, cheski, liverpool. In the spuds team , and in many others small clubs, there are many english players but i would have never wanted to see them in red and white kit. Maybe, just maybe, Agbonlahor and Carlton Cole would have been in our first team but the others no chance. (sory if my english was a problem for u)
I’d like to see more players who grew up supporting the club, regardless of nationality. Too many move off to the likes of Milan and Barca at the first opportunity.
I’d also like to see more players come through the youth system. We have a good record for promoting youth but most are either poached from abroad (Fabregas, Flamini) or paid big money for before they are proven (Pennant, Walcott, Ramsey).
Hopefully Bartley, Emmanuel-Thomas and Wilshere will buck the trend and be the English spine that John Terry was talking so much rubbish about!!!
Football is a global sport. I could not care less if we were represented by a group from England, France, the Czech Republic, Thailand, etc.
The only things I care about is that the team wins, plays attractive flowing football, and that the players hold themselves in the manner we expect from Arsenal.
It is not Arsenal’s job to help create stars for England. It is Arsenal’s job to be the best for Arsenal’s fans and investors.
There are only two midfielders in England that I might pick over Fabregas – Gerrard and Lampard. and that is only a might.
Right now I would not pick any central defender from the English national team over Vermaelen.
If I could pick a striker I would be taking a Van Persie, Drogba or Torres.
Sometimes people just have to realize that while the best football is being played in an English league, it is not necessarily being played by Brits.
where is mu coment????!!!!
As an Englishman, yes, I would like to see some more English players in the team.
But, let me just say this.
Darren Bent to Spurs = £16.5M (more than Thierry Henry to Barca!!)
Michael Carrick to Man U = £18M
Joleon Lescott to City = £22M
Wayne Rooney to Man U = £25.6M
Shaun Wright-Phillips to Chelsea = £21M
Rio Ferdinand to Man U = £29M
Give me Arsenal’s foreign players every day of the week.
English players knows how 2 run with the ball.They dont have dribbling skills…See walcot, He is a waste