Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Zerlathon]

As Selassie suggests..... we were rummaging through the garbage in the same summer we signed Ozil, even though we didn't need to be and had every reason not to be....

Is anyone positive we will sign quality even close to that of Fabrgeas despite his position not being a priority? Le grove banging on about some fabled signing that will blow our socks off whilst Fabregas is signing for our direct rivals.

We will probably get close to the start of the season sign half the number of players we actually need to and just be thankful to be getting any players at all after slowly getting fed up all summer.

Whilst I am a firm believer that we dropped a major clanger in not bringing Fabs back, I absolutely refuse to believe that this has summed up our transfer dealings as a failure (at least for the moment anyhow).

Does it leave me disappointed that Chelsea have pretty much got the most pressing deals done before the WC started? Sure it did...
Does it make me almost pull my hair out in despair that we have inadvertently helped 2 of the top 4 strengthen? Yup, I feel like a bit of a baldi-locks right now!
Am I left wondering if anything is being done behind those big solid oak doors of the boardroom? I traded a season pass for a ticket to that bandwagon!

Perhaps I'm being a bit of an optimist, or I'm simply desperately clinging onto some dream that we will actually come out alot stronger during this transfer window. But I have this little (teeny tiny) feeling that we are going to be in for a pleasant surprise as the WC reaches its climax (as more teams get knocked out).

The new fitness coach was a decision that needed to be made urgently, and to an extent one could even argue that this was more pressing that any Players. Now if we are able to tie up deals for Balotelli, Griezmann/ Draxler, Pogba and Aurier then I would be 1 happy Gooner!

Yes, yes... I know I'm dreaming! But there's no harm in dreaming is there? We've all made little lists on the 1st things we would buy if we ever won the Euromillions right? ;D

[Niall_Quinn]

Whilst I am a firm believer that we dropped a major clanger in not bringing Fabs back, I absolutely refuse to believe that this has summed up our transfer dealings as a failure (at least for the moment anyhow).

Does it leave me disappointed that Chelsea have pretty much got the most pressing deals done before the WC started? Sure it did...
Does it make me almost pull my hair out in despair that we have inadvertently helped 2 of the top 4 strengthen? Yup, I feel like a bit of a baldi-locks right now!
Am I left wondering if anything is being done behind those big solid oak doors of the boardroom? I traded a season pass for a ticket to that bandwagon!

Perhaps I'm being a bit of an optimist, or I'm simply desperately clinging onto some dream that we will actually come out alot stronger during this transfer window. But I have this little (teeny tiny) feeling that we are going to be in for a pleasant surprise as the WC reaches its climax (as more teams get knocked out).

The new fitness coach was a decision that needed to be made urgently, and to an extent one could even argue that this was more pressing that any Players. Now if we are able to tie up deals for Balotelli, Griezmann/ Draxler, Pogba and Aurier then I would be 1 happy Gooner!

Yes, yes... I know I'm dreaming! But there's no harm in dreaming is there? We've all made little lists on the 1st things we would buy if we ever won the Euromillions right? ;D

Nah, I don't think it's hope or a dream, just a realisation that after a decade waiting for this financial plan to mature it's beyond credence they'd try to back out and stuff the money in their own pockets. If they don't spend and strengthen to the point we can seriously challenge then everything has been worthless except for a few greedy bastards. The fans will have been fucked and fucked hard. Unless the board plan to make a quick getaway there's no way they can piss people off to such an extent and hope to get away with it. We'll spend. Question is, who we'll spend it on? Kalou, Barry and Milner will not be acceptable.

[fakeyank]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...-moves-3707566

Looks like Balo is coming home

[Munchies]

Mail saying that if Vermaelen goes to United, we're asking for CLEVERLEY in return .

[Niall_Quinn]

Mail saying that if Vermaelen goes to United, we're asking for CLEVERLEY in return .

Quite a pile of made up shit they have going on at that "news" paper

[Grebbo]

We actually did that last summer Grebbo...signed Ozil then picked up Flamini off the scrapheap and Sanogo who at the time was crocked and is still very much a "work in progress".

Believe me, nothing surprises me with this club and it's transfer policy.

That's not what I meant. I'm fine with signing one truly world class player* each summer along with a couple of squad fillers. By doing this we'll have a world class team in 11 yrs time!

* Ozil was world class but clearly hasn't adapted to the Prem, hopefully he will.

[Grebbo]

There is always one. Vermaelen has his flaws but he is nowhere near the level of Silvestre. That's a player that gives them cover for CB and LB. Cover we'll lose. I don't care if he's a flawed player, we shouldn't be doing business with United again.

Ok so I'm the only one who thinks Verm is crap? Sure he's not Silvestre crap but he still scares the crap out of me when he's on the team sheet against top 6 opposition + the scrappers of the league. Against mid table fodder he's fine.

If Utd think Verms is the answer to replacing Rio and Vidic then let them have him!

[Bumble]

Even worse than selling vermaelen to United is now, the news that we are looking to involve cleverly in a swap deal. Madness, we don't have space to bring fabregas back into our midfield but cleverly no problem. Luckily it's from the mirror so bound to be rubbish.

It would be odd to get rid of vermaelen as we would. Lose cb and lb cover. With Sagna gone we lost our main rb and also cb cover. So at this rate defence will become more of a priority to strengthen before attack.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Ok so I'm the only one who thinks Verm is crap? Sure he's not Silvestre crap but he still scares the crap out of me when he's on the team sheet against top 6 opposition + the scrappers of the league. Against mid table fodder he's fine.

If Utd think Verms is the answer to replacing Rio and Vidic then let them have him!

I think Verms is good cover - for that he is the quality we require an I would hate to see that walk out the door.

I'm not expecting us to have top quality cover in every position - but Verm is optimal quality in such a role and we need more, not less of that if we hope to challenge for the title.

[Power n Glory]

Ok so I'm the only one who thinks Verm is crap? Sure he's not Silvestre crap but he still scares the crap out of me when he's on the team sheet against top 6 opposition + the scrappers of the league. Against mid table fodder he's fine.

If Utd think Verms is the answer to replacing Rio and Vidic then let them have him!

You’re talking as if we’re selling them Djourou or Squillaci. As French said, Veramelen is a good cover player for us. When called upon last season, he didn’t make a lot of costly mistakes and nowhere near as bad as past players that just couldn’t be trusted to even come on for 5 minutes. He’s a flawed player but not terrible. Yes, United need to replace Rio and Vidic but why do you think we’d be selling them a dud? He has Prem experience, knows the opposing teams, is used to the physicality of the Prem, used to the pace, used to the gruelling schedule….if they look for someone outside of the Prem, they’re more likely to sign an expensive dud that will have problems adapting to the league. If they were to approach one of the lower league teams, they’d have to pay a premium fee. Why make it so easy for them? It send out the wrong message to sell another captain to Utd and it weakens us.