How much are we paying West Ham?Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
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How much are we paying West Ham?Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
That's not how transfers work.Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
Incidentally the other guy being linked with the domestic bid is Benteke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kano
Stat DNA a CB and CF.....
I'll miss having a player like Rosicky around. Very particular and unique skill set he has.
@AFCAMDEN
Welbeck's injury looks a bad one & thoughts at the moment are anywhere between 3-6 months. Full results on Wednesday. Gutted for the boy.
https://twitter.com/AFCAMDEN/status/729780021473230848
FFS
There's obviously been good reason why Giroud has been starting games recently then.
No way! Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by Douglas Reynholm
A few places are talking about us signing Granit Xhaka now. This one is going to be the annual, drawn out all summer, transfer ordeal huh?
Wenger's had his eye on this Xhaka for a couple of seasons now, so this is a non-signing. The player might be great but Wenger will have already worked out how he wants to fit him into the shitty, shitty, shitty, pointless system he favours. To get excited we'd have to see something out of the blue, some indication Wenger intends to change the way we play. That won't happen.
I bet you Bilic will get Walnut playing. That's going to be pretty frustrating when it happens.
Here we are, typical Arsenal, classic WUMger. Fucking around avoiding what we need to do so we can play the "one for the future" game again. Name them - all the "ones for the future" who have broken through to the first team and played regularly.
SPEND SOME FUCKING MONEY!
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Arsenal have made an offer for Bolton Wanderers defender Rob Holding.
The 20-year-old was dropped from Bolton's squad to play Fulham at the weekend after directors instructed caretaker manager Jimmy Phillips to leave him out as a precaution to protect their asset. Bolton value Holding at around £5million but Arsenal are looking to deal closer to £2million for a player who has one year left on his contract.
I doubt it, he either wasn't that good to begin with or has come down with incurable WengeritisQuote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Good luck to him - it's clearly never going to happen for Walcott here, so someone else may as well have a crack at him. As long as we end up with something that works out better for us (and playing with 10 men would probably work out better for us right now), then I really couldn't care less what Bilic or whoever manages to get out of him...Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
I'm sure he'll feel much more at home in an athletics stadium.
Hummels moving to Bayern for near £30m
http://www.bvb.de/News/Uebersicht/Hu...mund-im-Sommer
Would've been good for us
Renato Sanchez moving to Bayern from Benfica for £27m too
United fans :lol:
Just read it could rise to £63m with addonsQuote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
who?
Walcott should have moved on from Arsenal a long time ago and followed the moves of Sturridge and Welbeck, two other players that felt under utilised at their former clubs and wanted to play as strikers. Both players moved early enough in their careers to learn the role and settle in. Walcott is now 27 and has wasted a huge chunk of his career. He’s neither winger or striker, injury prone and really hasn’t developed the essential skills needed to play up front or wide. He’s still very raw and inconsistent. He has to pray he hits the ground running at his next club or it’s lights out on his career. He’s had some bad advisors around him and Wenger hasn’t done him any favours with this silly development plan. All those years playing him on the right wing for what?Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Bayern Munich, won the league alst saturday, already signed up two players ti improve their squad and have a manager (Ancelotti) with plenty of trophies to his name.
Proper clubs dont fuck about.
The hype killed Walcott from day #1. Next big England thing, on the plane before he'd kicked a ball at the top level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
It's terrifying given what is happening with Chambers who we paid 16mill for. I have no faith in Wenger to develop any young defender adequately, assuming we sign Holding he'll get a game here and there and be moved all around the place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
And Campbell, who deserves to have landed many more starts but is overlooked by Wenger for some inexplicable reason. Wenger doesn't want to know unless he can vandalise these youngsters by instilling the Arsenal Way. Tip, tap, sideways, back. Campbell hasn't done enough of that and he's paying the price. He'll be gone too. Then there is the Polish kid we picked up on the cheap, another next big thing. The Brazilian kid who is supposed to be red hot but does anyone know where he is? Youngsters would want to think long and hard before coming anywhere near this club.
Exactly, but then Bayern are interested in winning trophies, coming 3rd/4th is of no interest to them. I guess we should be grateful with what we have, without Wenger we'd be nothing, probably be playing in the Rymans league by now or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFC Leveller
Yeah he was way overhyped, somehow we signed Walcott and missed out on a player who was far more talented in Bale, we also managed to pay this guy what 140k a week, a job well done. Pat on the back for the messiah Wenger.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Football is about picking your favourites, that's how you win, if you picked the players who performed best you'd be in trouble.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
You need to nurture your favourites, wrap them in cotton wool (especially on the treatment table where they usually spend most of their time), give them regular and substantial pay rises for doing nothing and most importantly deflect all blame away from them and onto the fans when they don't perform.
If you do that you'll be 2% away from domination.
Plenty of blame to go around with Walcott, but I still lay most of it with the player - 337 appearances is more than enough chances to have made one of these roles his own, but he doesn't seem to have learned a damn thing?! Even if we assume that Wenger has been sitting on his hands, you'd have thought he might have picked something up from working with the team mates he's had over the years? Or even from the cumulative experience of having played 337 times at the top level? It boggles the mind!Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Anyway, whatever... I just can't be bothered with him any more. Ship him out. Move on.
I still think Walcott has been harshly done by with that striker role. Since coming back from injury he hasn’t started there. Wenger stuck him out on the left where he hasn’t played in years. I only remember him starting games there when he first signed for us. The best we’ve played all season was when Walcott was up front so it’s strange he hasn’t had a game there in so long but Giroud is allowed to go 10 odd games without a goal up front. But Walcott doesn’t help himself. He must have recognised Wenger ages ago Wenger was a complete berk so why hasn’t he taken things into his own hands? Either practice dribbling, beating his man and developing into a winger. Working on his defence and working his socks off to win the ball back. That’s all within his ability to do so he’s at complete fault for that. He should have been smart enough to look for a move away from the club ages ago because it was clear that Wenger would pull this off. He hasn’t developed him into a winger or striker so he’s in no mans land with his career. He’ll end up like Podolski. But yes, it's time he moved on. Long time supporter of the kid but this season has been a joke and he's old enough to know better.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Walcott is a dumb ass. He has been here for 10 years and i honestly dont know how, he hasnt improved on anything and the way he played on Sunday was atrocious, really really bad. He is a clueless player, he runs and then stops and passes it back to the RB. He is also a player that lacks bottle/bravery, the way he moved out of the way at Sunderland and then again on Sunday when Joe Hart came out was sickening.
I think Campbell will be sold in the summer, still no idea what he has done wrong because he should have been getting a lot more starts recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Don't even get me started on Wenger when it comes to buying in all these cheaper young players!
We have too many players who are essentially "good/decent squad players" but not much else
Joel Campbell is one of those, i'd personally rather get rid of someone like Serge Gnabry but there we go
Seems to me all he's done wrong is that he's been too effective and not played Wengerball by not passing it sideways and backwards when it makes more sense to be more direct and run with the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
We all know Wenger has his favourites, he has from the day he arrives and they get a free pass into the team whatever the circumstances, in the past we could put up with that as the players who were his favourites were very good, now though half of them are dogshite and shouldn't be anywhere near this club.
If it was me I'd have a massive clearout and get rid of the all of the crocks, they can't be relied on and we shouldn't have to rely on them and waste money we could pay to players who actually can play most of a season.
Wenger seems intent on holding onto the crocks though, even after 4-5 years of injuries he still persists, believing that one day if some miracle occurs they'll stay fit and be like new signings, delusional doesn't even begin to explain it.
Campbell has been excellent, he's earnt his place unlike half of the others, been quite impressed with his work rate, creativity and directness, it would be a shame to lose him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
There's plenty I'd show the door before him, probably a dozen or more.
Yep, and this is one of the major problems I have with Wenger's ridiculous transfer policy. He's just stockpiling the squad with "projects" and "squad players" when in reality the less is more approach of actually signing a few high grade starting players to resolve the issues in the spine of our team would be a lot more beneficial.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
IMO Wenger has pretty much made a mess of every single area of the squad and will continue to do so until he clears out the dross and brings in real quality.
Wenger in August 2014.Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
The guys an idiot. He'll use these fringe players to justify not buying. He does it all the time but we then end up selling said players off or not using them. It's frustrating.Quote:
Olivier Giroud is out injured until the New Year but Wenger says his existing strikers are good enough.
Wenger said: “You have decided I have to buy strikers. I’ve not decided. The squad we have, we have enough to be successful. Why not? Sanogo, Sanchez, Walcott, Podolski, Giroud. Campbell. Of course we can be successful.
“We buy when we have to strengthen the squad. We spend when we have to. It is harder to buy top top players because everyone is in the market and we all know each other.”
Yeah, I do appreciate that side of the argument - it's just massively outweighed by the part of me that is thinking 'grow the fuck up and deal with it'. If the CF chances aren't coming then just accept it, and make a play for a different spot in the side - anywhere, as long as you're playing! It might not be how you thought your career would go, but plenty of players find themselves in that boat. 337 appearances! In all that time he could have made a solid career for himself somewhere, but instead he's sat there with his head stuck up his arse for 10 years, waiting to be given the CF job. Not really got a lot of sympathy for him...Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
I agree with you on that. There should have been a point in his career where he should have decided to adapt or move on.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Jon Toral - players player of the year, fans player of the year and goal of the season at Birmingham.
Worth a recall for a spot in the squad?
We have as well Flamini who can play there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kano
Thinking about Rosicky departing got me thinking.......how good it would be to sign a player like Nedved!
I really think the entire summer will boil down too which forward we buy or don't buy as it may be.....
Blink, you stopped mid sentence there. Did you suddenly realise Wenger would still be the manager, and hence the folly of your thoughts l?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice