Summer transfer joy and happiness

We've signed a GK.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...-a3846501.html

He's 17.

He's about 4ft.

Just want we need.

Probably still better than Cech and Ospina. Meanwhile Szczesny, who loves Arsenal, is about to take the reigns as Juventus' top keeper. And we let him go because he's a bit of a twat and had a fag in the changing rooms after a bad day. Merci, Arsene.

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Originally Posted by LDG

He's about 4ft.

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Nothing wrong with that :angry:

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Originally Posted by Syn

Probably still better than Cech and Ospina. Meanwhile Szczesny, who loves Arsenal, is about to take the reigns as Juventus' top keeper. And we let him go because he's a bit of a twat and had a fag in the changing rooms after a bad day. Merci, Arsene.

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I seem to recall him having some howlers for us.

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Originally Posted by Goonermerree

I seem to recall him having some howlers for us.

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There's not a GK in the world that doesn't. Szczesny's mistakes were less technical and more about inexperience. It was never like Cech at the near post or Ospina flapping at a cross. He was commanding without being flashy. And we'll see how he gets on for Juventus, a team far better than us. The smart money's on him killing it over there.

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Originally Posted by LDG

We've signed a GK.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...-a3846501.html

He's 17.

He's about 4ft.

Just want we need.

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We signed him to make Seri look tall.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

But surely we don't want to see the Cazorla role retained? No more of this billion pass and eye of the needle miracle ball. Get a big bastard in there who can play a bit. It's what the PL is made for. Has the time come to actually replace Vieira? Cheaper option too, so more likely to happen. It'll take years to assemble 11 players of sufficient quality to realise what Wenger was trying to achieve. Not a route I want to see us go down.

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I'm thinking more of Cazorla's exceptional control under pressure, and being able to turnover opposition attacks - we've really missed that when trying to beat the high press, and I think it's caused us just as many defensive headaches as our lack of a big bastard in the middle. Maybe we wouldn't actually need to win the ball back quite so often if we could stop being pressured into so many stupid mistakes?

In terms of style, yes Seri likes a pass, be looks like more of a give-and-go, box-to-box type to me - very nippy and covers a lot of ground.

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Originally Posted by Syn

There's not a GK in the world that doesn't. Szczesny's mistakes were less technical and more about inexperience. It was never like Cech at the near post or Ospina flapping at a cross. He was commanding without being flashy. And we'll see how he gets on for Juventus, a team far better than us. The smart money's on him killing it over there.

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I was always gutted that we let him go :(

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Originally Posted by Syn

There's not a GK in the world that doesn't. Szczesny's mistakes were less technical and more about inexperience. It was never like Cech at the near post or Ospina flapping at a cross. He was commanding without being flashy. And we'll see how he gets on for Juventus, a team far better than us. The smart money's on him killing it over there.

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Szczesny said he had learned more in Italy than what he had learned at Arsenal. In fact, I think he said this whilst on loan to Roma.

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Originally Posted by Power n Glory

Szczesny said he had learned more in Italy than what he had learned at Arsenal. In fact, I think he said this whilst on loan to Roma.

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Yep. Roma. After his first training session.