Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

Linked with Benzema, always thought higuain was better shame we never had chance to sign him. Remy - think that is definite possibility as he will be cheap relatively and has Premier league experience. Coleman - that would be very good signing apart from his own goal yesterday. Balotelli.... I think that is one thing we lack as a team is a total mental case. I would look at Shaw as well, although he might be a bit expensive but Monreal is not good enough against the top sides and Gibbs isn't realiable enough.

Can anyone actually see us making the minimum 6 signings needed to replace the outgoings and strengthen the squad?

And where are the young players coming through at the moment. Other than Gnabry I can't see many that are near to 1st team football.

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Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice

So at the last count the potential departures or signed, sealed but yet to be delivered are;

Emiliano Viviano bonvoyageo
Flappy
Sagna
Vermaelen
Podolski
Bendtner
Giroud

....and that is before we even start to actually reinforce what we now have, buy the fabled centre forward, wide attacker, DCM, or back up centre back. We must have a lot of fuhking money to spend this summer.

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I'm more worried about the sheer amount of work we're talking about than the money - I can see us needing 8 or 9 new faces at this rate, and it normally takes us until the last hour of deadline say to do even half?!

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Originally Posted by Gooner23

Can anyone actually see us making the minimum 6 signings needed to replace the outgoings and strengthen the squad?

And where are the young players coming through at the moment. Other than Gnabry I can't see many that are near to 1st team football.

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I suppose Chamberlain could still be considered a young player, and I really don't think Zelalem is far off, but it's still not exactly an impressive output, is it? We have just appointed Jonker as new head of this area though, so perhaps there was a concern there that the club have acted to rectify?

I don't think it's any more or less impressive than any other top side.

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Originally Posted by Sterling Archer

I don't think it's any more or less impressive than any other top side.

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True.

It's a tremendously difficult business to produce players of the quality needed at this level

When you think of how many players actually make it as a percentage of people who play the game from roots up, it's fairly obvious that the kind of production line people think exists...doesn't.

We've done rather well though, when you think about it. They're not all Messi, which some idiots seem to expect. But they are Premier League and Champions League players. Which is an unbelievably difficult level to attain.

*waits for someone to say "but for a team that prides itself on youth development....blah...project youth failure..blah blah...Fabregas wasn't ours....blah blah...Gibbs is shit...blah blah*

but for a team that prides itself on youth development....blah...project youth failure..blah blah...Fabregas wasn't ours....blah blah...Gibbs is shit...blah blah

Lol

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Originally Posted by LDG

True.

It's a tremendously difficult business to produce players of the quality needed at this level

When you think of how many players actually make it as a percentage of people who play the game from roots up, it's fairly obvious that the kind of production line people think exists...doesn't.

We've done rather well though, when you think about it. They're not all Messi, which some idiots seem to expect. But they are Premier League and Champions League players. Which is an unbelievably difficult level to attain.

*waits for someone to say "but for a team that prides itself on youth development....blah...project youth failure..blah blah...Fabregas wasn't ours....blah blah...Gibbs is shit...blah blah*

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:lol: you are funny

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Originally Posted by Bumble

Linked with Benzema, always thought higuain was better shame we never had chance to sign him. Remy - think that is definite possibility as he will be cheap relatively and has Premier league experience. Coleman - that would be very good signing apart from his own goal yesterday. Balotelli.... I think that is one thing we lack as a team is a total mental case. I would look at Shaw as well, although he might be a bit expensive but Monreal is not good enough against the top sides and Gibbs isn't realiable enough.

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Both equally good in there own way, IMO. I could see Benzema being a great fit for us (possibly better than Higuaìn would have been because of his all-round game), but who knows how likely that is? Probably not very.

I do wonder if we're overthinking the whole CF search a little bit? We definitely need someone better than Giroud, who brings some different qualities to the side, but even with Giroud in the side, we were top of the league for a long time with only Ramsey as another goal-scoring outlet? We haven't really had Walcott at all this year, so we know he's good for a decent amount of goals when he returns. We could add another wide forward like Remy for next to nothing for more goals? There's goal-scoring wingers out there like Griezmann, who would still cost a lot, but maybe not as much as one of the world's top CFs? I'd still want to see us spend decent money on a new CF, but maybe we can look for someone who sits more in the 20-30m bracket, rather than 40-50m+, if we've got decent goal-scoring depths in several other areas?

LB will almost certainly have to wait until another year - there's just too much else to do at the moment...