Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Özim]

Exactly.

That's what the Spuds have done. Got realistic targets to strengthen their squad whilst we got a postman.

It's embarrassing to think that the only way we'll get top 4 this season is cos of another Spuds collapse rather than our own doing cos Spuds will not collapse one season and then we'll be fucked. This might be the season.

We need players in asap

Yup exactly, Spuds have signed players who will give them something extra even if they are not the very best around, let's face it that's our level now, we've let things slide for a number of years and realistically we're not going to attract the top tier of players because they want to play for clubs who have proved they are a success or who show genuine ambitions to be successful by putting their money where their mouth is.

Pretty much, Wenger is just so deluded he doesn't see what's happening in front of his eyes and still believes in this fantasy that this team is capable of challenging and winning silverware.

If he's not learnt that by now, he's never going to learn it.

[Özim]

This is a language thing, he doesn't mean brainwashing in the normal, "This is the BBC", sense. He means the endless repetition of filler fluff which then finds its way into the fans' vocabulary. I'm guessing the lack of trophies is a much bigger problem for the media than the fans. From what I can tell we want to see entertaining and competitive football that warrants the very high prices being demanded. It's good though if people are angry at the suggestion they are brainwashed because it's rare to find somebody who isn't, maybe not in terms of sport but certainly in terms of news, history, etc, etc. I do hope people are as angry about that because it's much more important and really does become a matter of life and death on many occasions.

I don't think you need to be brainwashed to realise that not winning a thing in 8 years, selling all your best players, seeing the same pattern and errors every season, not spending on quality players and settling for 4th every season is a bad thing. That's got nothing to do with the media, it's got to do with the way the club is run and managed.

I didn't need to media to tell me we were on the way down in 2007, in fact they were still claiming we were the dogs b*llocks then.

[Niall_Quinn]

I don't think you need to be brainwashed to realise that not winning a thing in 8 years, selling all your best players, seeing the same pattern and errors every season, not spending on quality players and settling for 4th every season is a bad thing. That's got nothing to do with the media, it's got to do with the way the club is run and managed.

I didn't need to media to tell me we were on the way down in 2007, in fact they were still claiming we were the dogs b*llocks then.

I'm not defending Wenger for trying to distract attention away from his own shortcomings, I'm saying he's not being quite as insulting as, say for example, the BBC is every single day.

[Xhaka Can’t]

If anything,the media ae playing catch-up with the views of the fans, and even then they are still getting it wrong.

[Ralpheroo72]

The brainwashing started with Gazidis and his 'we have 70M to spend.'

[Niall_Quinn]

If anything,the media ae playing catch-up with the views of the fans, and even then they are still getting it wrong.

Or exposing themselves as the lazy ignorant bastards they are by taking complex and diverse opinion and boiling it down to easily packaged bullshit that can be repeated time and again in virtually boilerplate articles.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We're in talks with Palace to sell Bendtner apparently.

Palace are brilliant.

[Cripps_orig]

Bendtner and Chamakh up front for Palace

[The Emirates Gallactico]

The full wenger quote is

So the media took a quote out of context, got arsenal fans angry because they knew they would react. It's hard to argue wenger isn't right there

He shouldn't have used the word brainwashing as that really does insult the intelligence of fans and is offensive but he is sort of correct in that the media aren't helpful in their sensationalism. One week we're in absolute crisis and after a couple of wins against some average teams we're suddenly close to winning the title with a couple of additions.


Anyway OT, I've been hearing that apparently we have agreed a fee with RM for Di Maria, just trying to convince the player to make the move now. Would be a great transfer if we pull it off. Just need to add Bender and a striker and we can salvage the summer transfer window somewhat.

[Niall_Quinn]

We're in talks with Palace to sell Bendtner apparently.

Palace are brilliant.

Let's hope his royal highness doesn't demand a pay rise.