January Transfer Speculation and Shit

[selassie]

Pizza hut cookie dough cheesecake my friend. Hot step it...

I said a little while ago that I see no reason Moussa Sissoko can't play DCM for us so it was interesting to hear Phillipe Auclair wax lyrical about him on the last Arsecast Friday.

He pretty much said he can play anyway...even centre forward. He said we've been actually linked with him too.....

Ashley is always open to decent business so why not? Also he is forever linked with everybody buy Hummels is bisto and I'd bet the farm that like Lahm (rhyming unintentional here) he can play DCM too.

The pair of them would cost next summers budget but I bet we wouldn't be whorishly trying to sort out our defence like twits for a while.....

I know Wenger doesn't like to over subscribe instruction but the pair of them take it pretty well. As did Arteta once upon a time.

If you look on Arseblog he makes it clear that Wenger has only been partly quoted and not in full context (as usual - hey, you have to make a headline somehow).....

http://news.arseblog.com/2014/12/wen...-full-context/

Wenger cant and wont fix the problems in Defence or Central Midfield. The issues are both personnel & technical/tactical. I personally think its beyond him to fix them properly. Ive been looking at all the rumours today and our strongest link is Tyrone Mings of Ipswich, seems fairly realistically to me, but it wont solve a thing, just another promising young talent who will be shifted all over the place due to our injury problems and lack of depth in certain positions. The Schneiderlin rumours are interesting but I very much doubt we will be prepared to pay the market rate for him & to be honest, I am not even sure Wenger sees him as first choice.

[Xhaka Can’t]

After years of willing him to do something in the transfer market, I don't want Wenger anywhere near it.

He'll almost certainly buy shit in positions where it isn't needed with three minutes of the window left. There is also a fair chance that the player will have already been flogged to near death with a bag of spanners.

The main problem is not the lack of players, it is the manager. He has to go, this club is a dying unfollowable mess with him in charge.

[Niall_Quinn]

Well I hope things don't turn out your way. I for one think Ron Vlaar will transform this club into the CL winning side we deserve.

[Xhaka Can’t]

We could have the worlds best 11 on the pitch. Anything achieved by them would be despite Wenger.

For the sake of our club he cannot, just cannot be allowed to subject this club to three further years of purgatory.

[Gooner23]

It's taken 6 months but finally Sanchez has caught Wengeritis.

[Power n Glory]

After years of willing him to do something in the transfer market, I don't want Wenger anywhere near it.

He'll almost certainly buy shit in positions where it isn't needed with three minutes of the window left. There is also a fair chance that the player will have already been flogged to near death with a bag of spanners.

The main problem is not the lack of players, it is the manager. He has to go, this club is a dying unfollowable mess with him in charge.

I feel the same way. Got a little stick for when a said this a while back but I can't see Wenger spending the money wisely. His poor decisions and poor man management just compounds the problem and results in more bodies needed to plug the gaps. We started off looking light on defenders but were spoilt for choice in the central midfield department. Now it's looking like we're an injury away from a central midfield crisis. How is that possible?

Give him more money and he'll just piss it up the wall. From his comments in the press about the window, it seems as though he's still as delusioional as ever about what the team needs and has no firm idea of who to buy. Even if he did, he'll just run them into the ground to the point of exhaustion or injury if purchased and piss off the backup player that's been playing the benchwarmer role in the process. Just look at Rosicky, Cambell and Podolski as examples. Instead of making best use of his bench, he'd rather shift a first teamer regular to an unfamiliar position which works against us like a double edged sword. An exhausted out of form player plugging gaps in an unfamiliar position with disgruntled and out of practice players on the bench.

[AFC Leveller]

Mertesacker has been a liability this season and seems to have gone backwards. As well as that, Koscielny is broken and Chambers looks shot of confidence so this January, the priority is to gut at least 2 CBs who should come ready to play.

We look so easy to open up and simply cannot keep a clean sheet, esp away from home.

[Niall_Quinn]

There's enough in this squad to put a decent team together, just need a guy who can do that.

[Master Splinter]

Koscielny will come back on the 31st of January, so any defensive signings will be ruled out at that point.

He'll die on the 1st of February of course.

Which WUMger will probably facilitate.

[adzzzbatch]

Koscielny will come back on the 31st of January, so any defensive signings will be ruled out at that point.

He'll die on the 1st of February of course.

Which WUMger will probably facilitate.

So you could say, like a new signing?