Doesn't the fact Chamakh being 47 million times better and a more than than decent enough replacement for RVP as proven last season come in to it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Wilshere
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Doesn't the fact Chamakh being 47 million times better and a more than than decent enough replacement for RVP as proven last season come in to it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Wilshere
WUM, as you know very well - Chamakh is shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
F*ck me, it's looks like we're going to lose 2 of our best players and we get linked with a shower of sh*t. :(
I don't care who we're 'linked with'.Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
I do!Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
I'm so angry I could punch a polar bear :angry:
:haha: Now we know why Stu Francis never used that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
Well in all likelyness those are the players we'll end up signing if any, we won't be signing someone they don't find out about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
Plus the "cheap" aspect of these players stinks of Wenger.
I'll care if and when we sign any of them.
What sort of an attitude is that FFS?Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
Raging at every link on goal.com and tribalfootball is the way to go.
Nasri to United it seems from an ITK
Some additional clipsQuote:
Originally Posted by Terry Tuffnutz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3V86w2NN18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_Y6M75BqY&feature=related
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Originally Posted by Grimandi's Perm
I like, ver niceQuote:
Originally Posted by Super Ghel
I've seen this written before. Surely when you sign a player you don't wire millions of pounds instantly do you? You'd get your lawyers to enter into contract with the club, then agree terms with the player, then the player signs and then you pay the club.Quote:
GuillemBalague Guillem Balague
About Mata: Valencia told me yesterday now they aren't selling Mata, that chance was there but the money never arrived
Ballague is a bell end.
Actually it's like in the movies.
Both parties meet at a neutral location, preferably at an abandoned industrial estate or under a bridge.
Wenger pulls up with a stuffed suitcase, and a .44 caliber just in case. Gazidis is the wheelman.
The exchange is made.
Wenger dives for the car, screams "Fucking punch it!".
Success of the transfer is dependent on whether they can get away before the shooting starts.
Reporter on SSN just said that one of our recent signings said whether he joined the right club as Cesc and Nasri seem to be on the way out. Oh no.
let me guess!Quote:
Originally Posted by GunnerFan4Life
could it be the one with a slightly large space on his head
The idiot is on Talksport now saying the reason we kept Fabregas for so long was because we thought we'd change his mind to stop loving Barcelona. No you idiot its because we wanted more moneyQuote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
It's starting to sound like Wenger has no plans to sign anyone even if Fabregas and Nasri leave. Apparently "We have a big squad" already. He was talking some shit about nobody being able to sign players which is why they have to come to Arsenal and buy ours??? I'd say it was a smokescreen but our smokescreens have been so effective in the past they've even fooled us into signing nobody. Watching Wenger today it really doesn't appear as if the guy knows what's going on with the fans. That would be hard to believe if true, the other explanation is he doesn't give a fuck. Whatever, it doesn't look good.
Something is seriously wrong behind the scenes IMO. I think Wenger is powerless to do much about it, and stuggling to come up with excuses.
I just don't buy into it that he's oblivious to the problems we have. It showed on his face in preseason, and much as he's been a fucking tool for not doing some basic necessary housekeeping on the pitch, I just don't believe he doesn't want to sort this squad out.
If he's saying one thing (Cesc and Nas are staying) and then they go, it just doesn't add up. It's fucking weird. He MUST have lined something else up, surely.
Look. I'm actually excited about Gervinho, Miyachi, Oxo etc, as I think they'll all be hits. We've still got some cracking players in RVP, TV5, Walcott, Arshavin, Sagna, hklj d.fbfkhb, Wilshire....but we do lack some depth.
Rather than running around like headless chickens going "OMG, OMG", I think we ought to be hoping that we have some players coming in once the deals for Cesc and Nas are tied up.
We need a CB, we need a Striker, and we need a midfielder (I'm more inclined to have a box to box player than another lightweight fancy cunt).
If we sure those positions up with some experience, I think we'll do just fine...and better than some think. We're being written off, and we could well struggle, but there's more in this team than some would go all flappy about.
Sure it up. But quickly.
I think he deals with journos in press conferences so gives them his cryptic answers and veers away from giving them headlines to destabilise our transfer talks even further, if you take a look at the one this morning he's smirking throughout most of it. So, he doesn't care about the fans in press conferences is the answer I think.
I'm kind of amazed no-one's picked up on his comments about there being two transfer markets, internal and external, that seems like the kind of thing people could have a field day with.
This, is big Stan making his mark in the board room.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
Its wired that a manager of a Big club who wants to win the league Would sell his Captain and best player/s on the day the season starts with no replacements.
Mmm, it's certainly turned a little weird as Wenger/Gazidis/board are usually singing from the same hymn-sheet, then again Wenger didn't seem perturbed so much as amused at the hyperbole at the press conference so :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
I didn't see the conference, so not reading into much of it....don't really pay much attention other than injury news anyway....
....but I'm trying desperately to comfort myself that in the event Cesc and Nas both go, there HAS to be some replacement lined up. Fucking mental if not.
I doubt we will have those replacements in time for the 'castle game........maybe we need another riot to postpone our game so we get some breathing space
the best thing we could do is get Barca to wire some of the money over to Valancia and have Mata come back on the return leg of the flight of the one Cesc went out in
oh yeah buy a fucking CB......FFS and not Dann you Kermit unless he is a cheap option to partner Cahill...........fucking tick tock MF
LOL, a fan on sky, "We're a top 4 club, we play in the CL every year, we're still a big club, we're not Tottenham."
The problem I have is you tend to go through a series of, "Surely that wouldn't happen...", stages, surely Wenger won't ignore the defence again, surely we won't leave it until the season starts to sign players, surely we won't let Nasri leave. Most of the time these beliefs are dashed because Wenger indeed goes right ahead and does all the things we think he surely wouldn't. Now we're saying surely we'll sign the players we need, surely we'll splash the £50mill from from Fabregas and Nasri. If history is a guide we'll just drift on and do nothing. It's not panic, it's more a bemused fascination by this stage. I expect nothing from this season and I think Wenger is building the team that can achieve that and achieve it well. I don't have the same faith in either the newcomers (certainly not based on pre-season because we've seen it all before and had many false dawns) or the youngsters coming through. Why is it going to be different with these players this time? I hope it will be, of course, but looking at it realistically we have nothing more that what we had in previous years, in fact we're likely to have less come the end of the week. I can't see any of these players rallying and digging in, not unless they've all had personality transplants during the summer. And with Wenger motivating them, what can possibly go right?
All sources are saying the Mata deal is well and truly dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Japan Shaking All Over
Same here, but i don't think we will see new faces coming in end of the day. it seems AW has accepted with only a top 4 club now no better, he does not wan't to learn lesson from last season.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
feels shity to be a gooner at times like these. Hope The cun't proves me wrong
He cots £60 Mill now thats the problem we misse the deadline to get him cheap, only think we could do is get Hazard. And get a few palyers of city as part of the nasri dealQuote:
Originally Posted by Japan Shaking All Over
It defies belief that we could lose two players as good as this and not have anyone line-up at all....that would be so amateurish....another masterstroke by Arsene Wenger.
I don't get how someone who has that much experience could be so friggin dumb.
yeah heard that......if the deal wasnt done before a certain date but surely there would be a way to waiver certain clauses..........doubt whether Valencia ever expect to get that much for him.......but like NQ said the deal looks dead.......but MOC and all that!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
however it defo looks like a Rambo/Jack/Song midfield against the Geordies........may not be strong enough! at least Diaby is not getting a sniff
time to dig up the Joey Barton thread again:ninja:
"Do we want to buy? I don't know because at the moment we have too big a squad, we have too many players," he added.
Don't be too sure of those replacements coming full stop
Nope. Wenger replaced them last season. Ramsey and Wilshere are our new signings.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
Pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
Wenger is right in him saying we have too many players. However the majority of those players are shit and not good enough to replace Nasri or Cesc.
We need to buy
i think we don't need direct replacements we need a centre-back, holding midfielder and striker
IMO the players we needed to sign as a matter of critical urgency were a DM (Song is shit) a CB and a LB.
Second priority a keeper.
Third priority a striker. (I think RVP, Theo and Gervinho is ok. Chamakh too if he awakes from his coma).
I'm of the opinion that Arshavin, Jack and Rambo are decent enough creative midfielders and Fab and Lesbo could go without replacing. If budget allowed they would be replaced but not before the critical positions are fixed.
The above would leave a decent first team but a thin squad.
Instead of doing any of the above Wenger spent £15m on a league one player which I still find astonishing.
Weird! I was typing that just as you said it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
because it's painfully obviously to everyone
if the squad is too big it's because it's been filled with talentless wastrels
sorely tempted to cancel the ticket i got for the udinese game.
With AW you never know, but id say we won't buy the excuses will start in the next few days, " we can'y buy we have to focus on the games" last week of the transfer window will come with more excuses, once the window is shut, we will hear how we tried but no one wanted to leave their teams.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Been there, done that warn that t shit, This routine is becoming as tedious as Pass Pass.
I think the fans will want Wenger's head if he fails to make meaningful signing or two before end of August, especially if the league doesn't start well. Let's be fair it's not going to start well.....pre-season has clearly been a hangover from last season where we literally could not win a game to save our lives. If we amalgamate competitive and non competitive fixtures, we have won precisely six games from twenty three since beating Barcelona in February.
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Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner