Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[I am invisible]

Just read that Le Grove article,



Let's see if this transfer window is any different.. but let's not count on it.

They've also said(/hinted) that they might go on record ad name name,s if the alleged story or stories haven't broken by next week - we'll see though...

[I am invisible]

I'm trying to count the chickens, they seem to have disappeared though.

I have to say, even letting my imagination run wild, I'm struggling to think who could possibly be that exciting? Too many years of having to rein in my expectations - my brain literally won't let me contemplate any signings beyond a certain level any more!

[Ralpheroo72]

We're "deep in conversations" to bring in new players, according to Ivan. Deep.

Balls deep

[Marc Overmars]

Well if we have passed on Cesc I certainly hope we've got some top players lined up, the fans won't let this one down if we don't.

[Power n Glory]

Yeah, it's one of the better Arsenal blogs - at least they make an effort to write a decent length post every day, and a lot of what they've been saying about this summer [about addressing fitness and making sure we're going after attributes rather than just names and price tags] makes a lot of sense.

That being said, transfer gossip is just about the easiest win going for bloggers and journos: get it right and you get all the kudos, and repeat visits from fans who will start going to you for info in future; get it wrong and you can simply blame the club/manager for fucking up the deal, and generate a social media frenzy (even if the club were never actually interested in the player in question in the first place). I generally trust that these guys are being honest, even if nothing comes of it, or they've been fed a load of shit themselves, but when you're making money out of your site, then you can never entirely rule it out? Pinch of salt, and all that...

Very true regarding transfers and traffic. But I only ever read Le Grove and Arseblog. They don’t usually indulge in the transfer stories and deal with the real meat of what’s going on at the club. Last summer on Le Grove was insightful because I believe they actually had a chance to meet Ivan Gazidis and he did his PR schmooze thing regarding our spending power. The stuff they’ve posted on fitness has also been really insightful. It’s one of the better blogs even though I don’t agree with everything they say.

[Munchies]

The thing with Cesc is that he's worldclass.

He can change the game with one pass.

With Diego Costa being a scrote and running non stop, he's going to thrive off that.

[Munchies]

Bunch of cunts

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@gunnerblog

My mantra on this one: hard to foresee a scenario where we'd regret signing Cesc. Easy to imagine that we regret letting him go elsewhere.

Spot on really

[Niall_Quinn]

We can only justify not signing a top bracket player like Fabregas, a player who will improve any side in the league, when he is ours to refuse, if we are going to do what is required to make that signing irrelevant.

Agree, if we are signing Messi then it would be almost forgiveable to allow yet another one of the players we built to go to one of the shit camps like chavograd or gypoland. Fed up of it and if it happens again I never want to hear another player state they have regard for the club because it's impossible to give a shit about Arsenal and then go and play for a mega cunt like Maureen - impossible. I don't care if the millionaire kid is being pushed out of Cuntalona, that was always going to happen, grass has always appeared greener and none of these players ever seem to learn. We are and have always been the best place for the players we created to be, there's not a single exception out there, Fabregas, RvC, Song ( ), even Cashley, despite all the medals, ended up being one of the most hated figures in football and will first and foremost be remembered by fans as a greedy twat. So if he's pushed out then have some fucking respect and go to PSG or some other shit hole that's not directly in our back yard. I really don't understand fans who accept what these players do. Kissing the badge, professing undying love, fucking off with some pony excuse and then coming back to knock goals in against us. Fuck that, what's so great or acceptable about that? We "understand" it from the player's point of view? Irrelevant, we need to be understanding it from our own fucking point of view, the fans' point of view. The fuckers are either with us or against us and if they are against us then absolutely, yes, with no exception they are cunts. Of course they are, what the fuck are you on if you think otherwise?

We've spent years waiting for the big bucks signings and putting up with second best. We're the most patient fans in football and we aren't the glory hunting, greedy arsed types you'll find up the road in mancland, we've proved it. So now, fuck it if it costs and extra £35 - £50mill on top of our existing plans. Fuck it! Spend the fucking money, that's £5mill a year over the 10 years we've been waiting, to see one of our own back in the fold and make football what it should be, about the tribe. Fucking spend the money and then spend MORE money on the players we were after anyway. And they better be big fucking players too because we have a title to win next season. 10 years waiting, time to deliver. We kept our end of the deal now everyone else better fucking keep their end up.

[I am invisible]

Very true regarding transfers and traffic. But I only ever read Le Grove and Arseblog. They don’t usually indulge in the transfer stories and deal with the real meat of what’s going on at the club. Last summer on Le Grove was insightful because I believe they actually had a chance to meet Ivan Gazidis and he did his PR schmooze thing regarding our spending power. The stuff they’ve posted on fitness has also been really insightful. It’s one of the better blogs even though I don’t agree with everything they say.

Yeah, me too - I find reading those two together gives you a pretty rounded view of the Arsenal supporting universe, without going to far to either extreme. Both blogs are fairly balanced and neutral, in my opinion, but I find Arseblog leans ever so slightly to the more positive side of things and Le-Grove leans ever so slightly to the more critical side, but both seem perfectly willing to go the other way when they feel they have to. You don't necessarily have to agree with everything that's said, but it's still good to expose yourself to differing opinions...

[Gooner23]

Chelsea next season with Cesc, Matic and Costa in their team will be quite formidable. Thankfully they still have Maureen sucking the life out of any creativity they might have.