Wigan have West Bromwich Albion frontman Peter Odemwingie in their sights as a replacement for Hugo Rodallega, who they fear could be a target for Arsenal.
Full story: Daily Mirror
Arsenal have joined Tottenham in the race for FC Twente striker Bryan Ruiz.
Full story: Daily Mail
Is that the type of players we attract these days?
It'll be Campbell, he may be as cheap as £900K so I doubt Wenger is looking anywhere else. Ruiz is probably a smokescreen, we're pretending to sign one shit nobody whilst secretly pulling off a coup to sign a completely different shit nobody.Originally Posted by Ach
Is that the type of players we attract these days?
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If Wenger's words "If we lose both Cesc and Nasri this summer we can no longer be called a big club".
That's what he said, if it does indeed take place, he's turned us from a big club to no longer a big club......that would be a failure in his book.
Depends on whether, and who, he replaces them with. Nasri is a lesbo who's proved nothing as yet.
Cesc? Yeah, big loss, and an awful indictment of how badly we've carried out our business this summer. But what do you do? Let him rot on the bench or just let the cunt go??
If we actually spend the money on proven talent, it's worth it. Utd let Ronaldo go, and it's much the same thing IMO.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Those were Wenger's words though, not mine.
I agree about replacing them, however I'm not sure we'll find it that easy to find quality replacements, or indeed be willing to spend adequate amounts on suitable players, especially now we're into August.
I still think losing Nasri would be a bad move, regardless of who we bring in as they're gonna need time to bed in etc. etc. so we'll be relying on Rambo/Wilshere/Arshavin/RvP for our creative drive. Then again, we've been overloaded with technical play-wingers for quite a while so maybe a we'll get a replacement more suitable for the Premiership and our squad and go on to dominate; there's still far too much uncertainty for a difficult start to the season and that should have been avoidable.
See my post on the previous page, Wenger's a serial bullshitter so it's best to judge by actions rather than words, however atm the conclusions become pretty similar anyway.
Well yeah...but do you believe what wenger says?? You're believing them now, but not other times?? I'm not advocating his actions or words at all...merely pointing out that you're moving the goalposts :letters:
Regards the players....a marquee signing would be nice...but IMHO, it's about the team. And we need to start playing as a unit again, not just through one or two worldclass players. We can play all the pretty football we want, but if we can't defend and we don't shoot, there's no bloody point. So, I'd rather he bought in some players that will compliment the players we have already....names don't matter so much, but the type and quality really does.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
I'm not really moving the goalposts here, he is full of BS yes....but why would you even say something like this.
With the transfer things there seems to be some sort of twisted point, but noone asked him to say that...he said it of his own free will.
I find it odd a manager would say that if he felt they could go.
My take on it is that losing your best players is a bad thing and that it doesnt' reflect well on the club, one player fine but two after what's been happening what we've done this summer seems over the top.
Realistically new players need time to settle.
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Well, he couldn't well say "it's my intention to let them go". Certainly in fabregas case, it would be an invite to Barca to fuck around even more than they have been. He was under contract, so I believe it was his way of saying "he's ours, so fuck off unless you want to pay up", and to other clubs "we don't have to sell if we don't want to".
Make of it what you will.
Me? I'm far more concerned with his and IG's comments about strengthening and doing what was necessary to get us to the party on time. which has clearly not happened. I my mind, that crime is far worse than anything he could have said about "big club" shite....we're still a big club, and always will be. Just like Liverpool are still a big club....and they were fucking awful last year...worse than us!
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
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