Super Super Quality Transfer Speculation & Shit

[Cripps_orig]

It's OK.

We'll take Llorente. You guys can have Big Andy for a very reasonable £30m.

We'll take whoever score most goals in the Euros

Deal?

[Niall_Quinn]

Llorente is a very good player and if we get him to replace RVP I won't be complaining. I know it's a cliche but he's a tall guy, powerful in the air as well so shouldn't have too many problems adapting to the Premier League.

Even better if RvP ends up at city. We lose the finished article and top striker in Europe, strengthen the opposition and end up with a will he/ won't he replacement and can settle down for a stream of "adapting to the PL" excuses. Ideal outcome, nothing to complain about there.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

We'll take whoever score most goals in the Euros

Deal?

Actually, we'll stick with Andy, he'll come good one day.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I think it will. Holding on to RvP is our top priority this year. Keeping him sends one type of message to the fans, football world, etc. Losing his would be like kicking ourselves in the bollocks in public. There's a lot more to it than who will grab the goals. Getting a top striker in IN ADDITION to RvP, that would be great. Replacing him, a massive step backwards in so many way not least of which would be a signal from our board they are not interested in the football side of things.

I think that ship sailed a long time ago. Holding on to him should not be our priority, all we can do is try to buy other players of a certain quality and see if that is enough to convince him because we know if push comes to shove we will sell. To me he should be considered an afterthought right now.

[Niall_Quinn]

I think that ship sailed a long time ago. Holding on to him should not be our priority, all we can do is try to buy other players of a certain quality and see if that is enough to convince him because we know if push comes to shove we will sell. To me he should be considered an afterthought right now.

Would be nice to take a step forwards rather than back for a change. Anyway, the most likely scenario is we have already signed RvPs replacement in Podolski. Wouldn't surprise me one bit and would fit into the pattern of our transfer activity over the last few years. Plus, of course, it would turn up another transfer window profit which seems to be the primary objective anyway. Not sure why we get suckered into thinking we'll be making £28mill or £32mill signings every transfer window. With Podolski in we'd need to sell more than just RvP to get a Llorente. Maybe that can be done by selling the deadweight but I wonder what might happen if Walcott has even a half decent Euro?

[selassie]

The Llorente talk makes me chuckle, as if we'd spend that kind of money on one player! I wouldnt be surprised if Podolski was our only major deal. We'll probably supliment that signing with a bunch of projects & lose RVP at the end of the window. Wenger will then defiantly claim that we're ready to compete & that there was nobody available on the market that could upgrade our squad.

[Syn]

There's something I don't like about llorente. Has the touch of the gomez's for me. I'm with NQ on this - we must keep RVP for the next 5 years. Nobody does it better IMO. Makes me feel sad for the rest tbf.

[Power n Glory]

I think it will. Holding on to RvP is our top priority this year. Keeping him sends one type of message to the fans, football world, etc. Losing his would be like kicking ourselves in the bollocks in public. There's a lot more to it than who will grab the goals. Getting a top striker in IN ADDITION to RvP, that would be great. Replacing him, a massive step backwards in so many way not least of which would be a signal from our board they are not interested in the football side of things.

Strengthening the squad is the top priority. We should make that clear. There is no point in keeping him for an extra year just so he can leave on a free. Regardless of what RVP is doing, we have to improve the squad. I get the feeling Wenger and his cronies will try to hoodwink everyone in the summer. They'll announce RVP is staying but leave out the part about him not signing a new deal, we all celebrate and forget about the other transfers and it's back to business as usual. One key signing all summer with kids/fringe players to top it off. If the Board would have listened to Wenger, this is what he would have done last summer with Nasri. I bet he's going to put the same argument to the Board for RVP and he'll probably get his way this time. But it won't make a blind bit of difference if we fail to win silverware again next season.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Would be nice to take a step forwards rather than back for a change. Anyway, the most likely scenario is we have already signed RvPs replacement in Podolski. Wouldn't surprise me one bit and would fit into the pattern of our transfer activity over the last few years. Plus, of course, it would turn up another transfer window profit which seems to be the primary objective anyway. Not sure why we get suckered into thinking we'll be making £28mill or £32mill signings every transfer window. With Podolski in we'd need to sell more than just RvP to get a Llorente. Maybe that can be done by selling the deadweight but I wonder what might happen if Walcott has even a half decent Euro?

I know and I do too but realistically this is how we operate now, regardless of how much money we actually make. We get suckered in to it because we're football supporters and thus we're inherently brainless. Redface devoted a 200 page thread to Hazard but to what end?

We'll sell some of the 'dead weight' but then we'll level it out by brinigng in the next Bischoff and hope that particular dart hits the right part of the board.

[Niall_Quinn]

There's something I don't like about llorente. Has the touch of the gomez's for me. I'm with NQ on this - we must keep RVP for the next 5 years. Nobody does it better IMO. Makes me feel sad for the rest tbf.

It'd be an all time high if he stayed. But the thought of him going scares the living daylights out of me. A far call from Arshavin arriving from Russia with love, now all we do is sell. Of course Wenger is Dr. No when it comes to transfers, cheap so called diamonds are forever plucked from obscure places. For big name players the world is not enough so they won't come to us. Every season it's the same, transfer window anticipation only for our hopes to die another day. The fans are told nothing with the board preferring a for your eyes only policy, rather than taking a view to a kill in the transfer market they nick the cash and head off to the casino for a royale piss up. It's like they have a license to kill this club for their own benefit. I suppose there's one quantum of solace in all this - we have Jack, provided he doesn't die another day.