Podolski signs!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Let me explain myself better, Podolski to me just strikes me as a player, who is soft, and doesn't have the will to fight. I was a fan of his, but his time at Bayern was bad. He didn't fight for spot on the team, he thought he was entitled to it because of what he did in 06, and sulked, instead of trying to earn his spot. I would've respected him more if would've went to a more successful club in Germany, and show his true worth. Except he didn't, he went back to a place where he was always going to be the only player that really mattered.

And to me those are characteristics of player of who is going to hide when things get tough, and cower under pressure. And people with those cha wouracteristics rarely change.

That seems a little bit unfair to me. When do Bayern Munich sell their players to the other top teams in Germany? Regardless of how he might have performed for Bayern Munich, he is still an international player that they would be foolish to sell to a direct rival. It's fair to say he would've wanted to go back to his comfort zone but there's nothing particularly wrong with that.

And clearly now he is ready to try again outside of his comfort zone. If the time does come where he needs to be sold, then he is an easy sell back to clubs in Germany.

[Master Splinter]

RVP on Podolski and Germans in general:

“As we have seen with Per, German players tend to be very professional in how they live, train and perform – it’s something I like about them and another reason why this is a great signing for us," he said.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...-great-signing

Professional .

Efficient .

Typical .

Germans .

Must Gets™ of the highest order.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

New Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski was forced to conduct his farewell lap for Cologne with a riot police escort as his final game for the club was overshadowed by ugly scenes.
Full story: Metro

Oh dear

[Kano]

Let me explain myself better, Podolski to me just strikes me as a player, who is soft, and doesn't have the will to fight. I was a fan of his, but his time at Bayern was bad. He didn't fight for spot on the team, he thought he was entitled to it because of what he did in 06, and sulked, instead of trying to earn his spot. I would've respected him more if would've went to a more successful club in Germany, and show his true worth. Except he didn't, he went back to a place where he was always going to be the only player that really mattered.

And to me those are characteristics of player of who is going to hide when things get tough, and cower under pressure. And people with those characteristics rarely change.

perhaps but bayern are more of a man united size team and we are not so i can't see why the expectations here would be too much for him.

let's not forget he went there as a young man and not every young guy is ready to take on the big shit straight away - i think it would be foolish to dismiss a guy that has turned up at big tournaments and has a very solid scoring record.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Not sure if iPod has got his own thread ....but I really do think we should be keeping him then including him in any package for Drax....I really want to see our squad grow in size for a change then our normal thread if offloading before bringing in new blood.....

[KSE Comedy Club]

Not sure if iPod has got his own thread ....but I really do think we should be keeping him then including him in any package for Drax....I really want to see our squad grow in size for a change then our normal thread if offloading before bringing in new blood.....

I really don't think we would use him as a makeweight.

The shit rags are just following on from their made up story about there being tension or whatever, between him and Wenger from that video where Ox got subbed instead of him, and talking more shit about us using him to buy draxler.

Its bullshit.

[selassie]

Can't see him being around next season, I get the impression Wenger doesn't truly rate him or maybe they have some personality clash?

He pretty much never gets minutes.

Podolski rarely starts and Gnabry is preferred to him ATM for some bizarre reason. Don't get me wrong I like Gnabry, the boy has big potential...but I think it's unnecessary to keep playing him, he's still very much a work in progress.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I find this situation with Poldi really weird. Even if he is going to be let go in the summer, what's the point in barely using him? It's only lessening (our already becoming sparse options), unless we pull something out of the bag within a couple of days.

I think WUMger might be misjudging it too. The fans and players clearly really like him so something like this can have an adverse effect on everybody else.

[Özim]

He's a good finisher and should be playing more, just don't get why Wenger won't play him, we're not exactly full of goals up front and I personally don't think Giroud is enough of a goal threat up front.

[Marc Overmars]

I don't think he has the sort of movement Wenget likes in a striker, but he deserves better chances to prove himself than he's been given since he returned from injury.