ARSENAL RELEASE 14 PLAYERS.

ARSENAL RELEASE 14 PLAYERS IN THE SUMMER.

Dear Gooners all around the world, to be honest I missed you all but good enough I am back now to discuss what we all love most, Arsenal.

As you know we have been having a lot of the so-called dead-wood at the club spending money on them despite giving back to the club less than what they get out of it. The club announced on Wednesday that 3 members of the senoir squad will leave the club when their contracts expire on 30th June.
The 3 I am talking about are: Andrey Arshavin brought in from Zenit after lighting up the Euro 2008 with Russia, Sebastian Squillaci bought from Seville in 2010 as an experienced centre back who would walk in straight away and add quality to the side after making the French squad to the world cup 2010 but all back fired, the only memory I have of him is scoring a header as we went on to beat Stoke city sometime back of all the time he has spent at the club and the last on is 25-year-old Denilson who has spent 2 seasons away from the club but still partly catering for him.

Some of the reasons as to why we have such problem are:

>Such players are being paid quite good money at Arsenal and by the time we find out they are not as useful to the club no big club can buy them and small clubs cant afford their salaries despite their talents belonging there then they prefer to sit back at London Colney till their contracts are done.

>Some of them are panic buys who the manager just gambles with after predicting torrid times ahead for example: Park Ju Young (who has been away at the club) and Andre Santos (who Gremio failed to retain because Arsenal made him expensive and they cant afford him)

>Some just have a deep in form and cant recover due to other players who take up their positions seizing the chance and don't look back but continue to give splendid displays which makes it difficult for them to retain their places because the boss always picks the best performer.
For example; Arshavin his talent is arguably one of the best at the club but he is set to leave for free mainly because he lost his form and could not get it back, the manager always defended him that he is a hard worker but you could see it by yourself and his body language that he was putting in less effort. However, no Gunners faithful will ever forget his 4 splendid strikes at Anfield in 2009.

We should avoid panic buys at the club and cheap buys just for the sake of it, yes every club take gambles but ask your self a question, if Man United can sell O'shea why cant we sell Arshavin or Squillaci who is a French international? Something is just not right.
Remember we still have: Djourou, Chamakh, Park, Santos....

Another lot to leave the club are the 11 (Eleven) youngsters from the under-21s and Reserve side. This is disheartening but it has happened, leading the lot are: Conor Henderson (who alot of youngsters used to say he is the best among them), Jernade Meade (the diminutive left back who made first appearances last season) and Sanchez Watt.
You ask yourself a question; what are the other youngsters at the club thinking? Because it does not matter whether you are a Hale End graduate but its your talent and perhaps hard work to save you from the drop. In football nowadays it is very difficult for young players to break through the first team in a demanding club like Arsenal and others, simply because the club needs to win and the manager can hardly give chance to lads unless you are a special talent like Wilshere, lucky or the manager has seen something in you that he likes, even if the club is compelled to the youth policy like Arsenal it may be derailed a bit.
For example; we used to play young players in the Carling cup now Capital one cup but that luxury is no longer applied now we bring the best team because we want to win any trophy to be there with the best, you can recall the team which lost to Bradford city last season and our teams we used to play in the Carling cup 4 to 5 years ago then you will know what I mean.

All in all I feel for the lads but the club had no option but to release them if they thought they were not going to use them. Now we are going to have a new look U-21 and reserves side and hope we get some lads with Arsenal DNA like Wilshere who can break through the senior team.
Wish all the departed luck in their careers and thank them for giving their best to the club.

Till then. FROM UGANDA WITH AFC LOVE. Follow us on twitter @Ugooners13.