Winter Transfer Speculation and Shit.

Yeah of course I can mate.

To be fair though, Giroud's goal tally was only comparable to any top forward over a few - several games....not over half a season.

Imagine the support Giroud would have if he had scored 20 league goals already. He would be getting some serious serious credit....and you'd have to say with some justification. As it is he hasn't scored for some time.

If Costa doesn't score another league goal (quite absurd as that may be) his goal tally will still look good, as would Giroud's if he had scored 20 league goals to this point and then not again for the rest of the season.

Whatever our plan is, I'd rather it happened sooner rather than later. That is to say, in January rather than this summer.

It's clear this isn't a purple patch for Costa. He's the real deal.

I like Costa but not sure if he would fit our style of play. I think Costa is a real box striker, do feck all then scuffed the ball into the back of the net (Wumger would just coach this out of him IMO). :coffee:

The trouble with buying in Jan is whoever we buy, for however much, is going to have to really hit the ground running for the signing to have any impact on our season. Buying in Jan is really only getting a player settled in ready for next season. Are there any examples of players bought in Jan having a big impact that season? Did Arshavin hit the ground running? I think he did so maybe I'm wrong!

Buying a striker from the Premier League is what we need to do IMO to be virtually guaranteed performances from the new signing this season. Rooney might leave Manure but not in Jan. I think maybe Remy is the one we should go for, third top scorer in the Prem and is only on loan at Newcastle isn't he? He might do a job for us until the summer when we can go all out for a top striker.

We won't touch Remy with a barge pole.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by 'Coca Cola presents GP'

We won't touch Remy with a barge pole.

---

Incidentally, that's what she said but it worked out differently.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by 'Coca Cola presents GP'

We won't touch Remy with a barge pole.

---

Why not?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Grebbo

The trouble with buying in Jan is whoever we buy, for however much, is going to have to really hit the ground running for the signing to have any impact on our season. Buying in Jan is really only getting a player settled in ready for next season. Are there any examples of players bought in Jan having a big impact that season? Did Arshavin hit the ground running? I think he did so maybe I'm wrong!

Buying a striker from the Premier League is what we need to do IMO to be virtually guaranteed performances from the new signing this season. Rooney might leave Manure but not in Jan. I think maybe Remy is the one we should go for, third top scorer in the Prem and is only on loan at Newcastle isn't he? He might do a job for us until the summer when we can go all out for a top striker.

---

Yeah, Arshavin springs to mind and he got worse from then on. Reyes was a good buy and played well. Monreal slotted in well enough for Gibbs. Also, the season we bought Ade, Theo and Diaby. Theo didn't get to play but Ade and Diaby helped get us to 4th.

A big signing would also do wonders for the team moral. If we don't buy I'm sure our season will unravel like in the past where we've been top then fell away after the winter break. We had that Eduardo season and couple more after that season. It would be criminal for Wenger to repeat the same mistake.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Grebbo

The trouble with buying in Jan is whoever we buy, for however much, is going to have to really hit the ground running for the signing to have any impact on our season. Buying in Jan is really only getting a player settled in ready for next season. Are there any examples of players bought in Jan having a big impact that season? Did Arshavin hit the ground running? I think he did so maybe I'm wrong!

---

Did Arshavin hit the ground running? This deserves a proper response.

Arshavin joined Arsenal and instantly became our most devastating player and absolute talisman of the team. I've never seen anyone make such an impact. He was scoring or assisting pretty much every game. People forget how insanely good Arshavin was. He was easily one of the top players in the world when we signed him, and played like it too.

Tragic that someone would even ask such a question, but given how far the mighty had fallen, it's understandable.

If we made a signing who impacted us as much as Arshavin did, we'd walk the league. One statistic I have never forgotten - Arshavin came 2nd in our Player Of The Year award at the end of the season despite playing in LESS THAN 25% of our total games for that year, having only been signed in January.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Dr Singh

Did Arshavin hit the ground running? This deserves a proper response.

Arshavin joined Arsenal and instantly became our most devastating player and absolute talisman of the team. I've never seen anyone make such an impact. He was scoring or assisting pretty much every game. People forget how insanely good Arshavin was. He was easily one of the top players in the world when we signed him, and played like it too.

Tragic that someone would even ask such a question, but given how far the mighty had fallen, it's understandable.

If we made a signing who impacted us as much as Arshavin did, we'd walk the league. One statistic I have never forgotten - Arshavin came 2nd in our Player Of The Year award at the end of the season despite playing in LESS THAN 25% of our total games for that year, having only been signed in January.

---

Arshavin was an example of Wumger mismanagement. If he was deploy behind Ade, RVP or Bendtner, he would be an instance success. :coffee: