Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Niall_Quinn]

We're being linked with Higuain again.
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...itor-situation

Napoli want more than they paid for him.

Wenger was haggling over £27m.

No chance

The Express

I remember that!

[Özim]

The Express

I remember that!

It's like the Orient Express minus the Orient!

[KSE Comedy Club]

Absolutely no point in going in for draxler.

He wants a move to Bayern or similar anyway.
Plus schalke are gonna fuck anyone interested, over on the fee as well.

But knowing how we operate, we'll spend the entire window trying to haggle the price down, fail and then tell everyone that there was no one sleaze available and we didn't have any time left.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

That's not really what I was getting at. What I was trying to say was that, even if Balotelli has matured as a player and sorted his attitude out, there's still going to be instances where he loses control every now and then - I think that's almost inevitable when the whole footballing world sees you as an easy target, and every opponent is trying to wind you up - so at that point it becomes a question of whether his output as a player would make up for what would (hopefully) be a far more occasional losses of control? I mentioned Suarez and Costa as examples of what we might be looking at in terms of that balance: players who still have a bit of a fiery, wild side, and who occasionally do the odd stupid thing, but who make up for it by smashing in 30+ goals a season, and generally being great players. If we could get Balotelli to that same sort of level with his behaviour on the pitch - not perfect, but in control 90% of the time, and doing the business - then would that be enough to make him worthwhile?

Balotelli is a liability. If he isn't causing problems on the pitch he's causing problems off it.

What is the point of spunking money on a player that won't be on the pitch half the time because he'll be serving suspensions?
What do we do when we're in the trenches trying to grind a win out, and we have the worst possible striker for that?
What do we do when he has fights and arguments with our own players in training, causing unrest and disharmony?

He's uncommitted, moody and has a bad temper.

The costs outweigh the benefits. Stay well clear.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Evening Standard rehashing the stuff about Balotelli. Don't think there's any new stuff in that.

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foot...r-9544811.html


NQ will be delighted but apparently Wenger singled out Pogba for profuse praise recently on French TV. Cheeky bid on the cards.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Pogba, the second coming of PaddyV or third if you count Diaby, should have been snapped up before Juve stepped in....,forget it now, serious bucks needed.

The 'are you ready for another dose if BS' Metro had said we are looking at Lavezzi now

[Master Splinter]

there was no one sleaze available

Cisc was. And thankfully we told him to piss off.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Pogba is the sort of major French talent Wenger would have bought years ago if he wanted to. He wouldn't pay the coins now I suspect..... Plus Diaby is the new Vieira and Wenger won't have two of them will he.....

Just sign a competent holding midfielder Wenger ffs......Mavuba, M'vila, Gustavo..... it doesn't have to be a superstar. A pass and move,stay disciplined, keep the shape, cover for the runner in a nutshell type of player. Too many years faffing about making do....


Besides Balotelli's impressive rapsheet I do have the slight feeling in my head that he does drift out of games a little, which I was reminded of against England. That said I would still be delighted if we signed him, despite the risk and record because we are dreadfully in need of quality and look nothing like doing any sort of deal right now.....

Personally I was not happy for us to pursue Suarez (even though I thought that since we had, it should have been more concerted) and at least Mario isn't a bitey racist.

[Niall_Quinn]

Why don't we rob the club and use the proceeds to buy decent players? We could get Brad Pitt and George Clooney to help. And I could masquerade as Julia Robert's sex toy - although how old is she now? We might have to get Natalie Portman. It's a good plan.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Daily Star has us linked to that Mexican keeper.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/foo...ns-League-plea


Apparently we've been "monitoring" him.

You couldn't make this up. Oh wait .........


They probably hadn't heard of him until yesterday.