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Good win today though.
He came the youth setup though so it's different, he should have loyalty to the club rather than Wenger.Quote:
Originally Posted by bunsco
:haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by GayPete
I see, I've never heard that slang before
2 players not coming thenQuote:
Paris St-Germain are set to beat Arsenal to the signing of Newcastle midfielder Yohan Cabaye by offering £17m for the 27-year-old.
Full story: Metro
Karim Benzema's agent says the 25-year-old France striker will not be joining Arsenal from Real Madrid in this transfer window.
Full story: Sporting Life
http://www.marca.com/2013/08/25/en/f...377415389.html
Marca saying we've bid €30 million for Di Maria. Although they also say we'll do the same for Michu. :wacko:
Would be a decent signing. Di Maria that is. Fuck Michu, no improvement on what we have, Giroud looks the shit this season.
Doesn't say we've bid, just says we're willing to pay (allegedly).Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Just a figure they've plucked out of the air tbh. Probably the amount that RM are hoping to get for him.
Di Maria would be an awesome signing.
I'll believe it when I see it.
I actually want this to happen so I'm not going to start a thread...
Still don't understand why this thread hasn't been closed by the Mods, all you are doing is torturing yourselves....just accept that no-one is coming in and it will make the next week or so that much more palatable.
Me. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeebus
Transfer excitement is getting the better of me. Still, I'm calling it a bid anyway. :popcorn:
No it won't. It'll make it depressing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Well fuck it, yeh why not. Fuck all else happening on that front tbh :)Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
RubbishQuote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
All you have to do is read twitter to find out that were getting Cesc, Rooney, Di Maria, Juan Mata and Casillas.
We're just waiting for the right moment to announce it
We aren't signing anyone. Wengers concentrating n the games
"I can deal with Despair it's the hope that kills me"
Surely it will only make it more depressing if you spend a long and frustrating week believing signings are coming in only to find out on transfer deadline day that Wenger has starched his night cap and gone to bed early.
All you need to do is listen to the post-match statements, definites are becoming possibles....this man is moving the goalposts because he has no intention of signing players....the agreement not to do so is mutually beneficial because the board want the money kept behind to make sure that come what may we are able to pay back the structured debt of 20m a year even if we have a few thin years.....and gives Wenger the chance to beef up the thin squad with youngsters so if they do work out he will look like a genius.
Nah, eight days of excitement is better than a whole year of dissapointment.
Blow it all. :bow:
We can't possibly answer that, because if you go to the top of the Eiffel Tower..........Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Fine don't say i didn't warn youQuote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/...enzema-as-real
More spurious literature on the di maria transfer from the ever reliable goal.com
Chelsea in talks with Anzhi over Eto'o.
How good is he these days?
They'll need to sell one of Torres, Ba or Lukaku.
Time one of them came home
:lol: isn't he about 40 now?
Get Lukaku tbh.
Eto'o is still probably capable of being a 1 in 2 striker but I'm sure he'll spend time out injured as well.
It takes two clubs to agree a transfers sometimes three, plus there's a lot of money and not many players, the market is in a waiting period but we are working on transfers 24 hours a day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Also he's nowhere near 40, he's 32, if he's 40 Rosicky must be 41.
Yeah, and Kanu is still 26 :lol:
That has to be a wage cut surely? Not even Chelsea will pay 300k a week or whatever it is he's on.
If Eto'o is only 32, then Roger Milla really was 38 during Italia '90.. :lol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_MillaQuote:
Originally Posted by Rors
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/mi...ler_88989.html
"Oh they're just facts. You can use facts to prove anything.." - Homer SimpsonQuote:
Originally Posted by Arsene Wonga
Eto'o's stats are amazing. Not convinced he can cut it as a starter in the Prem anymore, but as an impact player he would be capable of worrying any defence.
We're being linked with Mata now.
i could give you a list of all that's wrong with that but it'd be simpler just to say no!Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
WayneGooney saying we've tied up the Cesc deal and are waiting on Rooney:
http://waynegooney18.tumblr.com/post...s-not-checkers
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We Play Chess Not Checkers
There have been large doses of confusion and cynicism as to how a certain transfer can be done when everything visible paints a different picture. How can the media not know? Why would other clubs protect our transfer dealings? If a contract is signed and the deal agreed, where is the player? It doesn’t make sense; it seems so ridiculous and far-fetched.
What if I told you we couldn’t announce this fabulous new player of ours because we wanted to wrap-up a deal for a major rivals’ best player? Would that make sense? Would you agree in order to pull off such a coup that we’d need to look weak and incompetent; that we’d need to look like the least dangerous destination for our rivals to send their best player? Because that’s the big picture. That’s why certain parties fed the media propaganda that made the mind boggle. That is why a wily old fox masqueraded as a senile old man for months; repeatedly saying “We have a strong team and may only add a couple of players”, even when we clearly needed to strengthen. That is why we called up youth players to fill out the team for a serious Champions League fixture instead of buying the star players the fans were crying out for.
The truth is, even though they’ve denied it, the rival team wanted to sell their player, but whilst he was happy to leave, he wouldn’t move abroad and he wouldn’t join a team outside the top four in the Premier League. So even though his fate was always sealed, the rival club had to do the unthinkable and sell to one of their rivals. Now, this situation gave us an incredible window of opportunity, but for us to make everyone green with envy by signing this princely rival, we’d have to look like the weakest opposition to our rivals’ domestic ambitions in the top four, but a signing such as our fabulous new player, would strengthen us immeasurably and blur the line between ourselves and our top four rivals.
Our plan to get around this issue was to quietly stack everything in our favour and then play possum. We had no choice. The paperwork for the transfer couldn’t be processed by either club because it would reveal the transfer to our rival; so whilst everything was agreed and signed, nothing was official and the player remained registered to his old club. From our perspective, it made more sense to give the player a solid pre-season at his old club than to have him hide away and train in secret in London. If we didn’t do that, we knew that our fabulous new signing would jeopardise our chances of procuring the rival player we wanted, because the rival player’s team did not want their player to come back to haunt them and so they would absolutely not sell to a team they thought would threaten their position domestically. And that is why our fabulous new signing has been sitting on ice; why he was overly photographed training with his old team and doing medicals, et cetera; because quite simply, that is what needed to happen to get what we wanted most from this transfer window.
All of that sounds plausible because doing that benefits us, but why would the other club ever do such a thing?
Arsenal make teams enter into a confidentiality agreement when negotiating transfers, so the player’s old team has to, legally, remain quiet and accommodate us until we can announce the deal; they cannot do anything that would reveal the transfer before we reveal the transfer. It’s that simple. On top of that, the old club want to buy a defender with the money from the transfer and can’t afford to buy without the transfer being completed, so it’s in their interest to play along.
Why would I now tell you this?
Well, amidst all of the mayhem, whilst people have lost their minds, ranted like lunatics and complained at every turn, playing possum has proven to have worked far better than anyone could have imagined and now we’re finally at checkmate.
n.b. As hard as it might be to believe all of what I’ve just said, even more unbelievable is that they might actually know what they’re doing at Arsenal after all. We’ll find out after the Fenerbache tie, I’m sure.
10 points for effort, 0 points for style, accuracy of information and for making the crude assumption that people wouldn't remember that this was a re-hashed version of a statement he made in julyQuote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
Cesc or Mata?
No comparison.
Mata pisses on that cunt.
Time he came home
Zero chance of Mata.
Chelsea wouldn't even give us Essien last year.
Time people on this board came home to Earth...if that is indeed their planet of origin!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cripps
Mourinho would have no problem selling to a rival.
They'd rather we had Mata than Man Utd I guess.
Cesc is on his way though, Wayne Gooney guarantees it!