Luis Suarez thread

[Özim]

I'm a bit surprised at people's reactions to us potentially signing considering his history, took Groningen to a tribunal and lost, got banned for a long time at Ajax for biting, the world cup incident with the handball (blatant cheating), the racism storm and then another ban for the bite....now he's trying to force his way out of another club when he only signed last summer and has no clause to allow him to.

He's a real troublemaker and he'll without doubt do this to us as well when the time comes, people seem to have forgotten what it's like already when a player forces a move for greed.

He's gonna cost a lot of money and is going to be a lot of trouble, Higuain would have been a much better option IMO, some players just aren't worth the trouble.

[Power n Glory]

Signing Suarez isn’t enough. We’re banking on our defence performing as they did towards the end of last season. If any of the back four pick up and injury, then we’re in trouble. We don’t have cover for Arteta either. I can’t understand why we haven’t bought anyone in those key areas yet.

[Özim]

Siging one player would never have been enough, for some reason though we've chosen to stay out of the transfer market and go after a guy who has caused trouble wherever he's been, I find that strange when there's been plenty of other options all summer....Cavani, Falcoa, Higuain amongst others (I'm not saying we should have paid the huge sums but if we're going to pay them for Suarez why not for someone else with less baggage?).

We could have signed a lot of quality players by now and could be going into the season with real hope with a team capable of challenging instead we're as we were last season and after a striker banned for 6 games with no other signings in sight.

Ironically if we'd put a bit more effort in we could have held on to RVP and saved a load of money at the time.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Rodgers seems to be trying for at least one interview a day on this transfer, can't shut him up. You'd think somebody at the club would have a word.

To be fair, whilst he's still our player he can talk about him as much as he likes. We're way past convincing him to stay so I doubt he cares what Suarez thinks.

And I think we've handled it pretty well, given the utter shite turfed up by twatface and his agent.

[Cripps_orig]

Has he come home yet?

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

We could have got Higuain, no doubt. I'd rather we went for the best players available that we can get and that is the case in this situation, in spite of all the issues surrounding. Also, the point that you have made is not in consideration of what Zim and I were talking about. The suggestion was that we won't sign anyone else because of Suarez's potential fee whereas we would've been going for a fair few other players, despite Higuain's fee, as it stand only being £8 million less or so.

To say Suarez is hanging back until we 'make' the Champions League isn't particularly accurate when we haven't even agreed a fee with Liverpool yet, he could play in those matches and if he doesn't take this opportunity he is guaranteed to have no European football this season whatsoever.

Let's suppose you are right and that the best players are hanging back until we qualify for the Champions League, does that mean we go in and buy players of lesser quality just to show we're active? I think we've done enough of that in the past.

It's obvious that you are very concerned of how the squad is currently for those two matches, however I'm not, unless we draw Real Sociedad. If Giroud has a stinker, we can get Poldi to goal hang and use his left foot, or make Theo happy.

This was supposed to be the summer when there were no risks doesn't resonate; I can't remember that being suggested. I can remember it being suggested by Gazidis we can do 'exciting' things but I don't remember saying it will be risk free. You can have plans and they can change, they obviously changed to a certain degree when we learnt Suarez is a potential signing. If we don't see it through, then I will probably be on your side but not until then.

that's a good post. i suppose the risk would be going into the new season with the same squad, which went out of all cups by february last year and bundled over the line to get 4th. while gazidis didn't actually point out we wouldn't take risks, that is the actual risk; the fact we're leaving transfers late again when we know the effect it can have on the team. remember the trolley dash a few seasons back? didn't work out well did it. that's taking risks. when you go on a late trolley dash you get desperate and buy players who may not work out. so while gazidis didn't explicitly say we wouldn't take risks, the actions we are taking are not risk averse. he may not have said 'we wont take risks' but risks are based on what you've done previously, so you try to avoid doing the same thing. but it seems like we aren't.

plus we sold 20+ players over the summer, who don't me wrong we needed to sell, but we are in a worse situation than what we were last season purely because of no new players coming in. i'd rather have gervinho in the qualifier than nothing (assuming we don't sign anyone in his position by then). so in my view that's taking risks. we could have bought players, had them train together and build some sort of understanding, but we haven't.

the suarez point is completely valid and it completely escaped my mind he could just come and play in the qualifier.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Has he come home yet?

get the tissues ready.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Siging one player would never have been enough, for some reason though we've chosen to stay out of the transfer market and go after a guy who has caused trouble wherever he's been, I find that strange when there's been plenty of other options all summer....Cavani, Falcoa, Higuain amongst others (I'm not saying we should have paid the huge sums but if we're going to pay them for Suarez why not for someone else with less baggage?).

We could have signed a lot of quality players by now and could be going into the season with real hope with a team capable of challenging instead we're as we were last season and after a striker banned for 6 games with no other signings in sight.

Ironically if we'd put a bit more effort in we could have held on to RVP and saved a load of money at the time.

yes this is exactly my point. that's taking risks. with that money we could sign anyone and we could have done it by mid july but we haven't.

[LDG]

get the tissues ready.

That's very much a "yes and no" answer.

[Cripps_orig]

Lost interest in this and indeed any Arsenal transfer talk as nothing will happen.

Just start the season now