Transfer News, Rumours and Bollocks Thread

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Originally Posted by ItsMe

It was 12 million plus extras.

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yeah but we are paying in instalments.

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Originally Posted by ItsMe

It was 12 million plus extras.

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I think Wenger realises that AOC's sell on value will be high, so when he develops into a top player and decides to join a club with ambition, we'll be able to make a good profit. So the board will be happy, the CEO will be happy and Wenger will be happy by being rewarded with a pay rise and a new 4 year contract while ticket prices are increased again.

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Originally Posted by Joker

Wenger's obsession with buying from the French league is really hindering us. I don't what he's trying to prove tbh, but his dogmatic insistence that there are diamonds in this league that no other manager in the world has managed to spot is systematically lowering the quality in our squad.

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So what league should he buy from then? that will give a reasonable price. Its not him buying from the french league being the problem, its him buying shite like chamack and squilachi is the problem.

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Originally Posted by ItsMe

So hang on, we're happy if this guy is a little better than Chamakh?

Surely we should be signing players who will make a big difference, not players who are a bit better than the sh*t waste of space players we have.

Seems even the fans think we're a small club these days.

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Unless you can time-travel, you have no idea what kind of difference he'll make. It was a throw-away comment.

If this guy looks to make runs in behind defences, instead of laying off two yard passes back two goal like a coward, he's a massive improvement. Could work well with Gervinho and Walcott, as a mobile, pacy front three when RVP gets injured.

Instead of killing this guy, who you've never seen play, why don't you support him if/when he signs? He doesn't have to cost £40m and be on 200k a week to be a decent second choice to RVP.

By all means criticise him if he flops, as everyone, bar Ach, does to Chamakh atm. But it's stupid to do so before he's even kicked a ball.

Looking forward to see this guy play anyway, it's been years since we've had 2 reliable striking options and this guy really doesn't have to be much better than Bendtner and Chamakh to make an impact.

Obviously not on top of everyones wish list but it's a new option at least and judging by what we've seen of Korean players, they work their arses off so that should bide him some time incase the goals don't come.

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Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner

Why buy a goal scorer when we have one more or less, Theo tbh well if AW moves him in the middle he could be come deadly tbh.

who knows with the way we play this guy could be the ticket. no point judging him till he plays tbh,. Who said we won't be bringing ina goal scorer anyway if AW wanted too.

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2 reasons, a RVP isn't really a goalscorer in the pure sense, he doesn't shoot at every opportunity and can't really head...he's a top player but his game isn't really about goals despite a decent record.

Moreover he's injury prone so we need cover. In addition you can't rely on one player all season.

Walcott isn't a goalscorer either, once again I'll mention Di Natale, look at the difference, very predatory, shoots at every opprtunity. Should have tried to sign him to be honest, even at almost 34 he's class.

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Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner

So what league should he buy from then? that will give a reasonable price. Its not him buying from the french league being the problem, its him buying shite like chamack and squilachi is the problem.

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Given the transfer funds we have from the sales of Fabregas and Nasri, we can afford to spend the higher transfer fees for better quality players from other leagues.

Nah, it's likely to be £6m + extras. Could rise to £15m as CTG says. Similar deal to what Theo's was initially.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

We needed a player who would have scored that chance against Barcelona last year, not a Bendtner, not a Chamakh and not a journeyman from South Korea either. We need (and have needed for a long time) serious support for RvP (who has spent half his career injured). As I said, hopefully this is just a cheap and cheerful squad player and not THE striker we desperately need. Of course Theo could be that striker I suppose. His injury record is not much better.

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Joel Campbell tbh :coffee:

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Originally Posted by Kaiser

Unless you can time-travel, you have no idea what kind of difference he'll make. It was a throw-away comment.

If this guy looks to make runs in behind defences, instead of laying off two yard passes back two goal like a coward, he's a massive improvement. Could work well with Gervinho and Walcott, as a mobile, pacy front three when RVP gets injured.

Instead of killing this guy, who you've never seen play, why don't you support him if/when he signs? He doesn't have to cost £40m and be on 200k a week to be a decent second choice to RVP.

By all means criticise him if he flops, as everyone, bar Ach, does to Chamakh atm. But it's stupid to do so before he's even kicked a ball.

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You're missing the point, we have space to sign one striker and once again choose someone who isn't a goalscorer,...if he cost 2 million but had a good goal record I wouldn't care, but this guy clearly isn't going to be that.

This is what bothers me the most, everytime we have a chance to bring in a goalscorer we don't, meaning the same problem will exist for several more years...until we next have the chance to sign one.

This guy may run around, do this that and the other, but ultimately he won't do what's most important and that's to score goals out of nothing and win us matches when the team need it most.