January Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Marc Overmars]

When a player of unquestionable ability is available - you sign him and make room.

Ironically we signed Ozil despite having a few creative outlets already here, unfortunately we weren't to know he was a bit of a sloth.

[Penguin]

You sign the players in the positions you need first, unless you have a Russian/Arab billionaire that will buy you both. It wouldn't make that big of a difference if we had Cesc in this squad because we'd still have the same glaring holes. If we bought Costa up top it would make a world of difference. If we bought William Carvalho at DM it would make a world of difference. Buy both and you have a team capable of challenging for titles.

I said the exact same thing when we were first linked with Ozil. Why spend big money on a position you're well stocked in if it's at the expense of a position that genuinely needs strengthening? Of course, not strengthening at all clearly isn't the answer either, but WUMger's gonna WUM...

The other option would have been to sell Ozil to fund the Cesc move, but we've never made those Real Madrid esque reactive transfers before

[Xhaka Can’t]

Fabregas was/is better, far better than anyone we have. We could have had him at a knock down price and sold at least one of the players he was better than. Ozil to Bayern would have been a no-brainer.

[BOBN]

CABAYE UNHAPPY AT PSG?
We bloody love Yohan Cabaye. He's good-looking, seems a nice chap and is bloody good at making passing a football look really sodding easy. The day he left for pastures Parisian was a sad day indeed for the Premier League.

The good news, although perhaps not for Cabaye, is that the midfielder is now reportedly growing disillusioned with life at PSG, with Cabaye having to make do with a place on the bench more often than not. Having Marco Verratti, Blaise Matuidi and Thiago Motta at the club will do that, with Adrien Rabiot and Clement Chantome also increasing competition for places.

In an interview with L'Equipe, Cabaye said: "You have to accept being a substitute, but I don't resign myself to that. When I am on the pitch, I feel it is not perfect and that I often have to leave too soon. But I know the coach and staff have to make choices and I respect that.

"Am I completely happy? To be honest, no. It is a new situation for me, but I don't complain. It is the first time I haven't played regularly for my club.

"Do I sometimes miss England? Yes. Sometimes I think about it, but I immediately sweep that away because it would cause distraction."

Woah there Yohan, stop sweeping for a minute. Please come back. You could play for Arsenal, and if you time it right you could sustain the inevitable three-month injury to coincide with the summer break and miss no football.

Must get.

Hes Fabregas 2.0. Cesc with bite.

Best midfielder in England at time of leaving.

He could play DM, he could play next to a DM, he could play in front of 2 DMs.

We know Wenger rates him, wanted him before Ozil. Hes better than Ozil. We could do a swap plus cash.

Lets go

[AFC Leveller]

Fabregas was/is better, far better than anyone we have. We could have had him at a knock down price and sold at least one of the players he was better than. Ozil to Bayern would have been a no-brainer.

Agreed.

Ballague (who isnt the most popular over here) said that Cesc would have ended up at Arsenal had Wenger wanted him and player himself said that we rejected him.

Its odd because Wenger once said that Cesc wa shis biggest achievement in terms of players his brought in and he loved the guy.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Yeah but we don't need him

[selassie]

Not really, Arsenal fans have been having a go at Wenger for years for stockpiling CAMs instead of buying in the positions we need players in. For once he didn't do the first part.

The boneheaded decision was not doing the second part of that sentence - buying a top striker and DM. If we did that nobody would give a second thought about missing out on Cesc.

Wenger will always leave us short, he has a history of doing this. Its pretty much the primary reason why he needs to go.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

I made a case for Cesc being better than Ozil just after Ozil had signed for us when we were wetting ourselves about it and some ridiculed my case........and there weren't too many on here in agreement with the view at the time.

I also remember Sing talking up Sissoko at Newcastle after they signed him and for a long while I've thought he is nothing special really.....but the more and more I see him, the more I think he could quite successfully revert back to a deeper more disciplined role for us. He's a got a bit of technical nous but he also has the energy you need.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arsenal are in the race to sign the new Cristiano Ronaldo. His name: Goncalo Guedes.
But the Gunners will have to fight off interest from Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich and possibly even Real Madrid … and take a £40million gamble on the teenager should they make a move for him next summer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...-cost-40m.html

£40mill for a nobody? Perhaps he's got huge talent, but £40mill before he's done anything? Football is all about the cash now and who can get a cut. Silly transfer rumours. Hopefully we'll sign a decent defender and a decent defensive midfielder. Fat chance but it would be nice.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's the Daily Fuckwit, so hopefully made up.

Arsene Wenger will get £20million in January to solve Arsenal's defensive crisis
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ve-crisis.html

If true, then it looks like we still don't have money top spend. £20mill? Who are we going to get, in January, for that?