Dortmund play Bayern in the cup final as well.
Jesus christ, at least wait until after that.
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Dortmund play Bayern in the cup final as well.
Jesus christ, at least wait until after that.
Bayern have been negotiating for a summer move, they don't waste any time, now looks like it's gonna happen. Shame would have made a good signing, sadly we're more content sitting on our arses whingeing noone of high enough quality is available.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Not that we'd have a great chance of signing him with them interested, doesn't hurt to try though when you have a need for better defenders.
Only Reus has told them to fuck off (as of now). The rest just run down their contracts before leaving with a year left or worse yet move on a free transfer so the club gets nothing (Fuck Lewandowski). Everyone else is fighting for second place. Astounding stuff and I feel for the Dortmund fans. Second best team in Germany continues to be a feeder club to the top one. Rubbish league.
Some footballers have no soul honestly. If i was the Dortmund coach. i would keep him as far from the club as possible. Stay at home jackass.
Club captain, no less.
I'd still rather be Dortmund than Munich, personally. They may only win 1 title for every 5 of Munich's, but I like the way they do it.
And who are the mugs here, really? Dortmund, with their incredible scouting network and never-ending conveyor belt of talented players (and managers!), or the rest of us who have to pry their players away from them with massive fees and/or massive contract offers? We're all sitting here feeling sorry for them, but it just looks like water off a duck's back to them? A lot of people come out with the old line about no player being bigger than the club, but Dortmund are one of the only clubs who I think prove the point, season after season...
Hey.... My request was for a delusional summer transfer thread. How boring and miserable do you want this summer to be?Quote:
Originally Posted by dostoy
Dortmund have been quite complicit in feeding Bayern their best......and have done very little to avoid it for years.
Haha we would be lucky to get anywhere near 25 million for the guy!Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
What else can they do about it? If a player runs down their contract, doesn't want want to play abroad and then Bayern come calling, the options are petty limited.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
£20m+ hopefully :pray:Quote:
Originally Posted by Japan Shaking All Over
Hopefully that English premium rate helps out
We're being linked with Lewandowski :lol:
It has begun
Well I've heard enough - we should tear the Emirates apart, if this incredibly easy and highly likely signing somehow doesn't happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnNCVx4Qd14Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
Just replace "allowance day" with "home-grown quota"...
West Ham in discussion with striker Alexandre Lacazette as Hammers prepare to break their transfer record for Frenchman
West Ham are set to hold talks over Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette
Plans are to break club transfer record to mark arrival at Olympic Stadium
French international is keen on switch and deal would eclipse £15million
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...Frenchman.html
Post a link!
Clubs have started cheating by ignoring the wanting and waiting periods. Absolutely no class.
any examples of this?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
sorry was on my foneQuote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
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Lacazette is the sort of player we should go for.
Which is why we won't go for him.
Injured for a while though, but he's played pretty well and started scoring again
we can and should do better than Lacazette.
But we wont.Quote:
Originally Posted by mastermind84
Honestly, I think Wenger will look at Leicester's success and dig his heels in even more and refuse to buy what is required. The reality is they won it through a combination of things that we can only ever dream of offering.
Are Wolfsburg going to rescue us again?
Having taken Bendtner (and then realising him after he obviously flopped) they are now rumoured to be interested in Giroud. We couldn't get that lucky twice could we?
No news on how much we'd have to pay them.
The fact that he has picked Giroud to start the last three games and has gone on to say he counts his assist as a goal should set alarm bells ringing. He really can’t help himself but to keep trying with Giroud and he might be crazy enough to start him there again. It’s totally undeserved but I’ve come to expect this from Wenger. From the start of the season, I said I don’t mind if we don’t buy a striker, as long as he tries something new up front. A different type of striker whether that be Walcott, Sanchez, Welbeck, even Campbell just not Giroud. We played our best football with Walcott as striker. The most lethal we’ve looked was against Utd but we haven’t tried playing like that since Walcott returned to the squad. He hasn’t once tried Sanchez him there this season. Joel Campell can play as a striker and not once has he tried to play him there.
He’s talking out of his backside. How many times has he tried this with Giroud? Why is he so obsessed with trying to keep the ball In the opponents half when we really struggle to break down a compact defence? He said the following in an interview with Geoff Shreeves when talking of how to cope with teams that defensive and better organised.Quote:
“You consider everybody up front when you don’t score,” Wenger reasoned afterwards. “But first I wanted to try something else. Giroud is a presence on crosses. We need him as well on set-pieces, and when our goalkeeper kicks the ball long. He wins many balls and keeps us in the opposition half.”
Giroud has now gone 15 league matches, or 891 minutes, without a goal, the longest run of his career without troubling the scorers. But Wenger was delighted with his assist. “He is a guy who is mentally strong,” the Arsenal manager said. “Today he gave an assist - I put that in the same category as a goal.”
So why the heck is he persisting with Giroud? He’s slow. He’s immobile. He slows us down. Heck, he badly wants him on the pitch then why not try a two striker system. A proper one and not one where we have some winger/striker that fails at doing both jobs like he’s tried in the past? Madness. At least the season is drawing to a close.Quote:
“We have to go that way. Our passing has to be quicker, our movement has to be sharper and our efficiency in the final third has to be better. We don’t have anybody with 20 goals in the league, so that is a handicap.”
Yep, this screams of Wenger wanting to persist with Giroud. I have given up with Wenger, it goes beyond him not knowing what to do but simply doing things to prove people wrong. Going 15 games without a goal as the first choice striker at Arsenal is disgusting, it's not even up for debate regardless of whether he offers the odd assist here and there. Wenger regularly preaches about there not being upgrades in the market on what we currently have? WTF is wrong with him? Is this honestly the best striker he can find for Arsenal?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
I think the persistence with Giroud is hubris, I mean on one hand he is not performing well on the pitch even taking into account his obvious limitation. But also how many crosses are we putting in for him or even trying to get the ball in behind the defence.
Giroud isn't a terrible striker he really isn't, his goal scoring for us whilst not fantastic is not bad either but we need better than not bad.
Giroud is a good player to come on when we are leading and the play is stretched as ridiculous as it is to say, he is probably our best finisher, and handled by a better man manager I actually think he's a valuable asset as he's more likely to get goals from set pieces or score with his head than any other of our players.
But he's not a starter, just like Wiltord wasn't.
Well if he counts assists as goals then Ozil is our top scorer, so why is he criticising him for lack of goals? The guy is one contradiction after another. He doesn't know his own mind, let alone the minds of the supporters. Or he doesn't care if he's contradicting himself, perhaps he thinks the media and the fans will forget what he says from day to day and just take his latest excuse at face value. Whatever. It's clear enough that he doesn't have any sort of a plan to improve this squad. He seems determined to stick with what he believes is a successful formula, even though there's no success to show for it. He's doing real and potentially permanent damage to the club now. It's essential he's moved out. Unfortunately the owner is only concerned about moving money out.
What Wenger hasn't realised about Leicester is that their league success has shown him up as the fraud of a manager that he is, always hiding behind excuses of money and this that or the other, this time he's really been shown up by a club who spent very little and are way ahead of his "great" team.Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
Our season has been a car crash, very few other than Wenger see it otherwise, he's really an embarassment these days, the stuff he's come out with in interviews is cringeworthy to say the least.
Your keep harping on about Giroud, but Ramsey is the biggest problem we have on this squad.
Both equally as bad as each other.Quote:
Originally Posted by hobson's choice
I really have no idea why and how he's still getting chances. He has to be sold because Wenger can't resist playing him.Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
Both are decent players but clearly lack the ability to play in the system Wenger wants to use, the best you can say of either is that they are impact substitutes.
Ramsey nauses up the speed and precision of any swift attacking move we make, and Giroud often doesn't have the pace, movement or timing to be the recipient of good football.
Wenger having his style and philosophy is fine, every manager should have one, but to persist with players who blatantly do not fit into the puzzle is bizarre. You'd think after having enjoyed so much success with a more direct and athletic style of football he'd veer more towards that, instead of this ridiculous passing game that's about as useful as a blunt knife. Fine if you have the players but we obviously don't. This is where he could do with some extra help in terms of coaching but we knew he'd never allow that input.
Most rational people make mistakes, maybe multiple times but learn from them or look to change things so that they don't happen again, Wenger on the other hand pretends he doesn't make any mistakes and never learns a thing and sticks to the same failing formula year after year, it's frankly embarrassing to watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
It really is bizarre and so frustrating to watch each week. I can't even say we don't have the players to play the way he wants. What's really stopping him from playing Sanchez up front? What took him so long to play Elneny? He's mismanaged the squad for years now and it's becoming more obvious that he has really lost the plot. For years I've thought we should have been playing both Cesc and Rosicky or Nasri through the middle like we have seen him try with Cazorla and Ozil. Now that he's doing that he's playing with the wrong sort of striker all together. I've lost a lot of respect for him as a coach. I don't know why it takes him so long to figure out the best team and tactics after all these years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
I think with Wenger it's partly loyalty and partly hubris, he does not want to be ruthless and stick the knife in but also he is obsessed with doing what people tell him can't be done. It's like the more he hears from people that Giroud and Ramsey don't fit into his system the more he will try and prove people wrong.
Combine what is essentially a very stubborn individual and make it even worse by giving that stubborn individual unrivalled power, and it's a recipe for disaster.
Wengers mom should have just gone to sleep that night... bitch.
You.....really have issues don't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
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Originally Posted by fakeyank
Okay I really dislike Wenger and have lost respect for him and his ways, but jeez FY
It seems that way on the surface but he's been totally ruthless with Campbell, Walcott and Merts but Giroud and Ramsey get chance after chance. There are still ways to add his touch to the team and do what others don't expect. If he wants to create star players he's still able to do that with the squad he has. Why not convert Sanchez into a striker like Simeone has done at Atletico with Griezmann? Wenger would still get the praise for doing what others haven't done. If he wants to play the underdog card, we have a team full of players that have just as much doubt surrounding them but have never been given the same opportunities as other players. What he's doing is just foolish. I'm not sure what's the driving force behind it but it's foolish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Grow up.Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
It's a joke :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maestro