Denilson Will Be The First To Leave

A very good young player indeed and still young enough to make an important mark somewhere else in the future but we've been moving in a different direction with a surfeit of central midfielders and he's a bit too good to play back up. Hope he does well wherever he ends up and worth keeping an eye open for.

great news, rosicky now next!! how much we get for denilson e rekon ??

Denilson is a good player at keeping the ball and has one of the best long range shots in our team. Some cracking goals, one against Everton away at the start of last season spring to mind. It was our first goal of last season. Good luck to him, he should do very well in Spain or Italy. We need someone with his technical qualities but with more physical and aggressive traits as well.

Deltaforce - any more spring to mind? Nope? Me neither. I think he'll do okay as long as he some decent coaching and a bit more confidence/ability to try more. The formation thing isn't what's done it - it's the emergence of others, Ramsey forced him out and now he's back with Wilshere's emergence, it's the rise of better players.

It's a sense of entitlement that Wenger has instilled into the team "they deserve something" etc, and if it simply doesn't happen to them they think they're unlucky and don't deserve it.

Iceman - spot on.

Well it depends how many interviews you get through Deltaforce, Van Persie recently blamed bad luck for it, Sagna's said something similar as well. The players are nearly all brought up under Wenger so I see no reason not to aportion blame on him for some of their attitudes.

"I`ll miss the wobbly head goal celebration." - LOL! I will too. Good comments from most of the folks here (ruling you out of that VanPersie) - glad to see most of you aren't trashing him. I miss Deni's volleys outside the box-one of the few players we have who can do that. iceman, your comments are SPOT-ON!! In the same interview Denilson says how frustrating it is for the players and "something's missing" in the team. I really do think he's one of those players who could've benefited from having a guy like Gilberto helping him along. Wenger has this philosophy of making players learn for themselves, figure things out for themselves. I don't think that works for every player-esp young & inexperienced ones who don't have older veterans to help them. I really hoped Deni would develop under Wenger & would be chosen for our national team. I hope he goes on to another club in Europe and develops further so that one day he'll be wearing the canarinho.

Yeah but then last season we had the most from outside the box at The Bowl, sure some people can read into it - I can't be bothered. Maybe it was just coached out of players.

How about publishing "the whole and true" story. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/921566/denilson-to-quit-arsenal-after-'shameful'-season?cc=5901 . Here is what he really thinks : I am so upset. I am a winner and I came here to win trophies but I've been here for five years and won nothing. hahaahahahahahahah

Aside from egotistical ****s such as Cole and Adebayor, and the blatantly inept likes of Jeffers, Cygan and Silvestre, I'm always somewhat disappointed to see players go. Let's not be patronising and call him a great player; he wasn't, isn't and won't be. But his attitude seemed good which is always commendable in my book and impressed from time to time, particularly when he first joined. But letting him go and hopefully bringing a new man in benefits all parties. I'm sure he'd be excellent at somewhere like Atletico Madrid. Best of luck to him.

The one against leeds was inside, although be it from an angle which probably traveled 20 yards or so

@Naijagunner. Exactly, these players mention cutting out silly mistakes and yet it's never them who make them, they want big signings but never for their position, they don't win anything yet it's nothing to do with them. I'm sorry but Wenger is partly responsible for this attitude from the players, there's obviously a culture of entitlement and lack of responsibility amongst enough players to make it a concern. It's not the first time and interview has given us an insight into the attitude of some the more questionable players in the squad.

I wish him Good Luck !

I think he's too nice a guy. Trouble is, nice guys don't fare that well in the English league. There's plenty of room for such sissy players in the Spanish and Italian leagues. He had his moments in Arsenal colours I believe but only in games where teams just let him play. When it came down to the nitty gritty he went missing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPKEbxL2LFw < is there a better portrayal of Arsenal's plastic, middle class support than that, hahaha. Soft fans, soft team!

"I am so upset. I am a winner and I came here to win trophies but I've been here for five years and won nothing. "There's something missing at Arsenal but no one knows what it is. Not the manager, not the players - nobody. Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool spend millions and millions on players. "But we are still the best footballing side in Britain, we play beautiful football. Only Barcelona do it better. But we don't win trophies. That's so frustrating, you can't imagine how frustrating. Some people say we don't succeed because we are too young and naive - but that's no excuse. "We didn't lose the Carling Cup final to Birmingham because we were too young. We lost because our confidence collapsed completely when Obafemi Martins scored for them. This was a final we should have won, we were the favourites. "It was the opportunity to silence all our critics. Here's a trophy to shut you all up after five years - and this is going to be the start of many. What a lift that would have given us all. Especially as we were in such a fantastic position in all the other competitions too. "The quarter-finals of the FA Cup, quarter-finals of the Champions League and sitting second in the league. It was all there for us and we were so motivated. But when [Obafemi] Martins scored it was all over. You could see it in the eyes of the players and the supporters there at Wembley. Our confidence just drained away and we never got it back. It was a catastrophe. "That was the moment our season was ruined, it started a domino effect and no one could stop it. I knew it was a massive moment, the point where it all started to go badly wrong and I think we all knew. I went home afterwards and just cried. I was very upset, very sad and I was ashamed. "I remember leading Liverpool 1-0 and they scored in the last seconds. We were 4-0 up at Newcastle but drew. We also lost to Newcastle at home and West Brom and Aston Villa. We threw it away against Sunderland and Blackburn at the Emirates. "Let's be honest, some of those games were shocking, shameful. We are better than that. But until Arsenal stop throwing away those silly points in those stupid games nothing will change." IS he not part of the arsenal squad?!

don't know Naija the club website is known for being prompt with information about signings.

Niko bigging you up again. One of the biggest clubs in the world? Big clubs win trophies. Denilson was *****e and so are Arsenal.

Denilson states that he has known he has wanted to go for eight months now, then why not ***** off in Jan!! We could all see you were not interested. I have said many many times on this forum that he had given up and settled for £50k a week as back up for song and stopped fighting for his position. Thats not due to anything other than attitude! Players like that really do need to be honest with us as fans, the club and themselves. If you aint into the club and the fight **** OFF!! We need players like RVP, Jack and AR and premadonas to just do one! So Cesc if you in state your in if your off put in a transfer request, same for any other player. Im sick of the lack of fight and heart in this side, I hope we have a HUGE turn around in personell next season!!

Nothing in 7 for you soon Hoddle fan. You're nearly all the way towards your own ten year anniversary. Don't worry, we'll be happy to send you a few nice little reminders :)

Wouldn't it be ironic if David Villa played for Villa, Antonio Valencia played for Spurs and Dan *Shittu played for Sp*rs?

Jackskank, a Chav is not entitled to call anyone else plastic. And you are as chav as they come.

When a player like Denilson says that he wants to leave the club, its largely ok with the fans, but the reaction is entirely different if its a Cesc. When there is no loyalty from the fans or the club towards a player, its a bit hypocritical to expect loyalty from players to a club. As far as Denilson is concerned, its disappointing, as he has not fulfilled his potential at Arsenal. He should have been better, and it might be due to not having a more senior person around the club, to advise the likes of Denilson, Ramsey and Wilshere. The thing is Wenger had the chance to fix that with Vieira, before he went to City and opted against it.

Even greater the ignomy for yourself that in these barren six years of us sinking, falling apart, imploding blether blether blah that you still have only once come close to finishing above us and we all know what happened then don't we? All you had to do was roll up your sleeves for 90 minutes but instead you rolled up your soiled panties and threw them into the upton park laundry hamper. 2 wins in 13 games for us yet you numps still aint got the wherewithall to capitalise. Fulham deliberately told Gera to get sent off today, On for 3 mins then off. Such was their desire to avoid the fair play Europah ticket millstone. It's your level though tbh, the whole low rent small fish channel 5 thing, you were made for each other.

Good player. Was well suited to games in CL and against Man Utd - ie. games against opponents that play football. However, cannot see how Lansbury cannot surpass his achievements, given his suitability to the rougher English game and commitment to the shirt.