Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

Dont know if anyone watched the arseblog live hangout thing last nite. one of them made a valid point. If we are prepared to pay £40m odd maybe up to 50m for Suarez why did we not just go out and try and sign falcao or cavani at the start of the summer. They reckon we were not expecting for suarez to cost this much and now we are caught short without a fall back option. We can still afford him though, thats not in question.

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Originally Posted by I_Killed_Kenny

Dont know if anyone watched the arseblog live hangout thing last nite. one of them made a valid point. If we are prepared to pay £40m odd maybe up to 50m for Suarez why did we not just go out and try and sign falcao or cavani at the start of the summer. They reckon we were not expecting for suarez to cost this much and now we are caught short without a fall back option. We can still afford him though, thats not in question.

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Because they were at clubs already in champions league (I think) amd therefore we aren't a massive step up for them. Suarez is at Liverpool with no European football. Arsenal is a step up for him so that increases our chances of getting him, ESP as it seems Madrid amd others don't want to sign him

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Originally Posted by Grebbo

Well yeah but one worldie is a good start.

Time for Ferguson to come home.

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We still haven't quite got the balance right, we had worldie's up until the point of RVP leaving. What Wenger has done and fair play to him is add balance to the side/squad, but we still lack quality.

We need more than Suarez, ideally we need a Suarez, Fellaini and maybe a top class AM or CB.

We need to spend every single penny of that 70mill or whatever the budget is if we really want to challenge for PL & CL.

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Originally Posted by I_Killed_Kenny

Dont know if anyone watched the arseblog live hangout thing last nite. one of them made a valid point. If we are prepared to pay £40m odd maybe up to 50m for Suarez why did we not just go out and try and sign falcao or cavani at the start of the summer. They reckon we were not expecting for suarez to cost this much and now we are caught short without a fall back option. We can still afford him though, thats not in question.

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Because they're on about £300k pw (in Falcao's case tax free) and both Monaco and PSG would outbid us in transfer fee and wages.

The only reason we're in with a sniff of signing Suarez is because the richest and top clubs don't want him, although that will probably change if RM don't get Bale.

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Originally Posted by I_Killed_Kenny

Dont know if anyone watched the arseblog live hangout thing last nite. one of them made a valid point. If we are prepared to pay £40m odd maybe up to 50m for Suarez why did we not just go out and try and sign falcao or cavani at the start of the summer. They reckon we were not expecting for suarez to cost this much and now we are caught short without a fall back option. We can still afford him though, thats not in question.

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Yeah, I listened to it last night.

There is definitely something funny going on behind the scenes. There always is at Arsenal.

The one thing which makes you wonder, if the fact that most other teams are so decisive when it comes to going about their business. We're always told that Arsenal are very private when it comes to dealings, yet we actually seem to create more of a fuss than anybody else.

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Originally Posted by ollie the optimist

She is a good journalist amd am arsenal fan however she said the exact same thing at an ast meeting either just before the end of season or just after. While I'm not saying she knows nothing, I just wonder if this is new news or is jut old stuff being recycled.

It then brings to another point, it's all very well gazidas wanting to spend, but he's more then happy not too and hide behind wenger letting him take the blame. Gazidas needs to man up

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Gazidis has been the one addressing the fans and trying to make the intentions of the club as clear as possible while Wenger isn’t being straight at all. The plenty of money, but little quality quote is absolute rubbish.

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Originally Posted by ollie the optimist

She is a good journalist amd am arsenal fan however she said the exact same thing at an ast meeting either just before the end of season or just after. While I'm not saying she knows nothing, I just wonder if this is new news or is jut old stuff being recycled.

It then brings to another point, it's all very well gazidas wanting to spend, but he's more then happy not too and hide behind wenger letting him take the blame. Gazidas needs to man up

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What can he do? If for argument's sake Wenger is happy to spend but only on "his terms" driven by his principle then what are the board going to say?!! There is nothing they can do.

Wenger is in charge of the Footballing side of things, if he has been given a budget, identified the players, but instructed Ivan or the negotiators to only offer a certain amount as he has other targets then there is not a lot Ivan and Co. can do, what do they know about the quality of the player Wenger is going after?

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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory

Gazidis has been the one addressing the fans and trying to make the intentions of the club as clear as possible while Wenger isn’t being straight at all. The plenty of money, but little quality quote is absolute rubbish.

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Yep, that's how I see it too. Gazidis pretty much put the budget on Arsene's head earlier this summer with his "He has money to spend, it's up to him to spend it" speech.

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Originally Posted by LDG

Yeah, I listened to it last night.

There is definitely something funny going on behind the scenes. There always is at Arsenal.

The one thing which makes you wonder, if the fact that most other teams are so decisive when it comes to going about their business. We're always told that Arsenal are very private when it comes to dealings, yet we actually seem to create more of a fuss than anybody else.

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When have we created a fuss about bidding for a player? Wenger says no comment about every player. Moyes has been wittering on about Fabregas for a month now but Wenger has hardly mentioned Suarez.

Arsenal bidding £40m for Suarez is quite rightly causing media focus - it's the story of the summer because it's so unusual.

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Originally Posted by selassie

What can he do? If for argument's sake Wenger is happy to spend but only on "his terms" driven by his principle then what are the board going to say?!! There is nothing they can do.

Wenger is in charge of the Footballing side of things, if he has been given a budget, identified the players, but instructed Ivan or the negotiators to only offer a certain amount as he has other targets then there is not a lot Ivan and Co. can do, what do they know about the quality of the player Wenger is going after?

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Exactly. The 'quality' of a player is something he has to judge on. Nobody else can make that call. Wenger found players like Sagna, Eduardo, Hleb....it's hard to believe he can't find anyone on the market to improve this squad when he know has an even bigger budget.