Winter Transfer Speculation

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Originally Posted by Master Splinter

Konoplyanka is the Ukrainian Messi. He's at Sevilla now.

Yarmolenko is an excellent player and has always looked impressive for both club and country. It's actually surprising that he hasn't moved to one of the bigger leagues yet.

If you're dismissing a player of his renown it speaks of your own ignorance rather than his lack of ability or Arsenal's terrible transfer policy.

I'm not saying he's the hottest prospect in Europe or we should be signing him or that there's even a 1% chance this is true. But the incessant, default negativity on anyone who's not a £90m product of hype or a Neymar or Lewandowski is a bit pathetic. It's not even parody anymore.

Players like Kante, Monreal, Zabaleta, Azpilicueta and even Payet probably didn't have a quarter of the recognition Yarmolenko has but have proven to be excellent players in this league. Money is almost completely irrelevant now since Chelsea, Citeh, Real Madrid, Barcelona, QPR and PSG distorted reality. It's about finding the right player to fit your team. Sometimes that player is hidden in plain sight or sometimes you pay £35-85m for them.

Yarmolenko would probably be our second best wide option after Alexis, but it's still that complete, devastating striker we really need to make us a consistently efficient attacking unit. Not that a daily dollop of transfer bollocks from the Star was worthy of this much discussion anyway.

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Nice work ffs. You've just ruined the whole thread with that sort of sensible, logical post.

Have a nice fucking day. Cos I won't now. You've ruined that too.

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Originally Posted by Master Splinter

Konoplyanka is the Ukrainian Messi. He's at Sevilla now.

Yarmolenko is an excellent player and has always looked impressive for both club and country. It's actually surprising that he hasn't moved to one of the bigger leagues yet.

If you're dismissing a player of his renown it speaks of your own ignorance rather than his lack of ability or Arsenal's terrible transfer policy.

I'm not saying he's the hottest prospect in Europe or we should be signing him or that there's even a 1% chance this is true. But the incessant, default negativity on anyone who's not a £90m product of hype or a Neymar or Lewandowski is a bit pathetic. It's not even parody anymore.

Players like Kante, Monreal, Zabaleta, Azpilicueta and even Payet probably didn't have a quarter of the recognition Yarmolenko has but have proven to be excellent players in this league. Money is almost completely irrelevant now since Chelsea, Citeh, Real Madrid, Barcelona, QPR and PSG distorted reality. It's about finding the right player to fit your team. Sometimes that player is hidden in plain sight or sometimes you pay £35-85m for them.

Yarmolenko would probably be our second best wide option after Alexis, but it's still that complete, devastating striker we really need to make us a consistently efficient attacking unit. Not that a daily dollop of transfer bollocks from the Star was worthy of this much discussion anyway.

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:gp: and on this same thread we've heard Adebayor hailed as a great talent even though his record before joining Arsenal was nothing spectacular. Strange one.

I fail to see how Yarmolenko wouldn't be a better option than what we currently have. 23m or whatever the price quoted was is nothing these days. Sign him up.

Shouldn't waste our time on players like him and just go for someone like Griezmann who is far more proven, Yarmolenko could turn out like another Arshavin, Eastern European players don't always adapt that well to the PL.

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Originally Posted by Master Splinter

Konoplyanka is the Ukrainian Messi. He's at Sevilla now.

Yarmolenko is an excellent player and has always looked impressive for both club and country. It's actually surprising that he hasn't moved to one of the bigger leagues yet.

If you're dismissing a player of his renown it speaks of your own ignorance rather than his lack of ability or Arsenal's terrible transfer policy.

I'm not saying he's the hottest prospect in Europe or we should be signing him or that there's even a 1% chance this is true. But the incessant, default negativity on anyone who's not a £90m product of hype or a Neymar or Lewandowski is a bit pathetic. It's not even parody anymore.

Players like Kante, Monreal, Zabaleta, Azpilicueta and even Payet probably didn't have a quarter of the recognition Yarmolenko has but have proven to be excellent players in this league. Money is almost completely irrelevant now since Chelsea, Citeh, Real Madrid, Barcelona, QPR and PSG distorted reality. It's about finding the right player to fit your team. Sometimes that player is hidden in plain sight or sometimes you pay £35-85m for them.

Yarmolenko would probably be our second best wide option after Alexis, but it's still that complete, devastating striker we really need to make us a consistently efficient attacking unit. Not that a daily dollop of transfer bollocks from the Star was worthy of this much discussion anyway.

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Ukraine are dogshite, noone really stands out for them, would even rather we got the guy Liverpool are getting who has scored a fair few goals in the last few seasons, plus Liverpool have a history of finding top goalscorers.

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Originally Posted by Özim

Shouldn't waste our time on players like him and just go for someone like Griezmann who is far more proven, Yarmolenko could turn out like another Arshavin, Eastern European players don't always adapt that well to the PL.

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Even though Atleti have a transfer ban so the likelihood of them selling is below zero? Sounds like a plan.

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Originally Posted by Kano

Even though Atleti have a transfer ban so the likelihood of them selling is below zero? Sounds like a plan.

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Give them enough money and they'll sell, they did with Costa and Aguero. Good point though :good:

When they had a transfer ban for two seasons? You might be out of touch on this one Zim.

Could we not just get a fucking striker instead of more wide players? Wenger is obsessed.

Striker please - and a good one. Aboomerang or whatever his name will do. Sorted.

CB please - the Lumbering Oaf has to go.

Replacement for Vieira please. About fucking time too. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

I fail to see how Yarmolenko wouldn't be a better option than what we currently have. 23m or whatever the price quoted was is nothing these days. Sign him up.

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On current form he'd be a huge upgrade, his number so far this season are very impressive, I think it's 13 goals in 22 apps, 8 assists, 2 of those 13 goals have come from 5 apps in CL.

Those numbers are world class for a winger, they'd be very good for a Striker too.

He's a very good player, has been for a few years now but he's gone up a level this season.

If he carries on his current form then I suspect some of the other big boys will try and get involved.