Arsenal

[The_weatherman]

Besiktas are dog****. It's annoyingly easy.

TBF, none of those teams were going to pose a realistic threat IMO, not even Bilbao. Don't know much about Besiktas today but at least they get to travel that bit more and hopefully get in trouble in Turkey.

Napoli - Bilbao and Lille-Porto could be decent mathces.

See Besiktas beat Feyenoord home 3-1 and away 1-2. Maybe they can spring a surprise.

[john316]

£15m for Vermaelen is just insane. Barca with nearly £30m on new CBs who I'm not even convinced are even good. Certainly don't fancy their chances of defending Real's attack!

[Bender]

Barcelona sign Thomas Vermaelen from Arsenal on five-year deal

[john316]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/5-reasons-arsenal-can-win-4046487

John Cross drooling over his keyboard when typing up his fanzine article.

[-V-]

Monreal = crap
Debuchy = crap
Chambers = crap
Wilshire = crap
Giroud= crapper
Sánchez= hmmmmmm

[Fredo]

Chambers is a good player I think. They obviously aren't at their best yet, but they won't be finishing above us this season.

[G]

Sanchez having a less than auspicious start to his career there. Be great if he bombs like Ozil.

[TheElephantMan]

That was a bad result for Arsenal! I hope Besiktas score a couple of goals at the Emirates. :-) It would be lovely if the Turks go through on away goals.

[G]

They have a chance with Ba up front. Is it really too much to ask for them to be dumped into the Europa and United to get relegated. Really?

[Fredo]

We should have taken a punt on Ba. He's a decent player and would have done a job as a backup striker. Chelsea probably wouldn't have sold to us.

[Gibbo]

Chambers was very solid tonight, made one mistake and thats it.

If he was in our team we'd all be strollling round with rock-ons

[Tee]

Sanchez having a less than auspicious start to his career there. Be great if he bombs like Ozil.

[Vermilion]

That would a sight to see, Sanchez struggling, on top of Ozil still hopefully struggling, that's a big wad of cash to take the piss out of them over.

[wiw]

I think it will take Sanchez a bit of time, I mean he must surely be absolutely knackered after the World Cup?

[Pablo]

I think it will take Sanchez a bit of time, I mean he must surely be absolutely knackered after the World Cup?

Chile got knocked out virtually two months ago. If he's still knackered now I'd be a bit worried.