Transfer News, Rumours and Bollocks Thread

[Unai Tea]

Nice one, so we sign some sh*t German and decide to give up on a quality English CB.

I think Mertesacker is probably twice the player Cahill is. Cahill has done essentially fuck all except managing to be decent in a shit side and being indigenous. Why isn't he starting for England? England as a team is far more rubbish than Germany. Makes no sense to me.

[Daniele]

Wenger's got this strange reticence at signing established, domestic players. He's willing to fork out £12m on someone like Chamberlain, a young player from the lower divisions, but he rarely signs players from the Premiership, especially English ones.

to fork out 20mil for Jagielka or 17 for a player that we could sign next season on a free would be wrong. Mertesacker has 75 caps for the German team, and we all saw how better than the English one is in the 2010 WC. I'd love England to win the WC even though I'm Italian but British players are very much overrated in England and not rated abroad.

Take Theo. You'd sell him for 30mil in the PL but in Italy, Spain or Germany teams would offer no more than 12-15mil for him.

[Elreactor]

Are we going to sell Squid?

No point in having him around anymore.

No we´re going to sell Djourou.

[Maestro]

Nice one, so we sign some sh*t German and decide to give up on a quality English CB.

I'm not too sure how good Per is, not having watched him too many times. It won't be hard to be better than Kos and Gay Lion, so I hope he will take to the PL.

I am, however, concerned that we are not signing a tried and trusted English CB as well. There's just some shit in this league that only English defenders can deal with. Some real native nitty gritty in the heat of the battle shit.

Genuine Question GW'rs? Has a team in any of the major leagues, ever won its domestic league without a native home grown centre back?

If the answer is never, then could this be just a coincidence or is there more to this?

[Daniele]

I think Mertesacker is probably twice the player Cahill is. Cahill has done essentially fuck all except managing to be decent in a shit side and being indigenous. Why isn't he starting for England? England as a team is far more rubbish than Germany. Makes no sense to me.

Indeed. And last Sat he was pants at Anfield. i'm not saying he's a bad player but to say that he's better than an established German international is a bit ott

[Daniele]

I'm not too sure how good Per is, not having watched him too many times. It won't be hard to be better than Kos and Gay Lion, so I hope he will take to the PL.

I am, however, concerned that we are not signing a tried and trusted English CB as well. There's just some shit in this league that only English defenders can deal with. Some real native nitty gritty in the heat of the battle shit.

Genuine Question GW'rs? Has a team in any of the major leagues, ever won its domestic league without a native home grown centre back?

If the answer is never, then could this be just a coincidence or is there more to this?

Mertesacker:

GOOD AT

heading
positioning
passing

LACKS
pace

If protected by our midfield he's going to make it. If not well....

[Letters]

Genuine Question GW'rs? Has a team in any of the major leagues, ever won its domestic league without a native home grown centre back?

If the answer is never, then could this be just a coincidence or is there more to this?

Tbh whether they have or not the issue right now is not whether we win the league, we just have to strengthen the squad to cling on to top 4 so I'd suggest he's probably an improvement on what we have and therefore a welcome signing. Don't have a strong opinion of him but at least I've heard of him and he's an established player rather than someone who needs an afternoon nap.

[The Realist]

I'm sure we will also get a lot of Korean fans jumping on the Arsenal Bandwagon because of pc-YOUNG. just like how half of South Korea support Man utd because of Je-sung Park. Boosting commercial appeal.

[Maestro]

30! Oh come off it Daniele ..you could score about 20, but not 30 no way.

I'd score 30 goals in the Spanish league! never seen Almeria or Getafe play? When in Italy he was average and was left out of the 2010 WC squad. Which was rubbish anyway :-)

[Daniele]

30! Oh come off it Daniele ..you could score about 20, but not 30 no way.