Toure said, Arsenal Needs a Leader

Kolo Toure the Manchester City defender says he left Arsenal due to the fact that the team lacked strength in the last seasons.  Toure reportedly got £16M for his transfer to Manchester.  He said the great players have all disappeared.  The leaders have all gone.  He is the last of the invincibles from the unbeaten 2003-04 season league that left the Emirates.  He also believes that leaving the team means it’s a career move and he must move on. 

During the height of the team, they were like brothers.  Now, Arsenal is infusing fresh blood by getting young players.  This is good for the new players.  Arsenals boss is reluctant to spend and match the other teams in terms of funding, this started the drop of the team.  The best teams are on top due to the fact that they have the best players and the best players mean a lot of money to spend, he said.

Arsenal Has Lofty Goals

Arsenal’s Kolo Toure believes that his current crop of stats can be as great as the 2006 team and be able to get into the Champions League finals. But they have to face the mighty Manchester United team at Old Trafford, with Kolo Toure the only remaining member of the “Invincibles” who ran through the 2003 to 2004 Premier League campaign nary a loss.

Thierry Henry, Robert Pires and Patrick Vieira are no longer on the team but in their place Emmanuel Adebayor and Samir Nasri have come of age to make a run at the Champions League contention. For this upcoming match, they are not the favoured as top scorer Robin van Persie is out with injury and Andrey Arshavin will not suit up due to suspension. As for their match, Kolo Toure said that they have “the same type of team as we both like to play but the team that would win will be the one which defends the best.”