Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit.

[Maestro]

Yeah, that was me. Might have been a blunder might not have been. But like the point I’m making to Penguin, we’ve signed that calibre of player before but people seem more accepting when they’re from a different league and nobody has watched them play.

If they’re English based then people seem to turn their nose up. Rightly so in some cases but not in all. Chamakh is an example. Sounds great if we’re signing a striker from Marseille but not so much if he came from Crystal Palace. It’s not as if the French is great but we’ve often taken real gambles on unknown players. Some flop and some succeed.

I know, let's play a list the arsenal flops game, more interesting than imagining we will sign someone.

Right let's try to work from recent and go back in time .....keep the chain of names intact

I'll start with:

Chamakh

[Özim]

If you ever watch the clips on Arsenal Fan TV you'll probably find some poor souls who believe the signing of Benzema or Cavani is all but done, just like they did with Higuain and Suarez in the past.

That's probably about it with bar 1 or 2 on here with regards people who believe this club is serious about signing anyone.

Sad that all we could manage was a keeper this summer, something we weren't that desperate for in all honesty, sure we could use a new one but there were there areas that were far more important, a keeper was hardly top of the list. That's Wenger all over for you though, he strives to be different for the sake of it, there's rarely any real logic in his signings.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I think we were clearly crying out for a decent goalkeeper, a goalkeeper is the difference between a win and a draw, a draw and a loss when your not playing well.
Was it of more or less importance than a defensive midfielder and a striker....I'd say it was equal importance.

[Özim]

I think we were clearly crying out for a decent goalkeeper, a goalkeeper is the difference between a win and a draw, a draw and a loss when your not playing well.
Was it of more or less importance than a defensive midfielder and a striker....I'd say it was equal importance.

Not totally convinced, sure we could improve in that area but for me someone who can get us goals out of nothing and win us games was more important, as for a DCM we've been crying out for a decent one since Vieira left so I wasn't holding my breath.

Our keepers weren't the best but they weren't terrible either and thus far Cech has already cost us points so I'm still unconvinced he's going to make that much of a difference.

As someone said before it's easy to look good when you play behind a defence as disciplined as Chelsea, Mourinho has them drilled on how to defend as a unit. Cech for me whilst still a good goalkeeper has never been the same since his head injury, before that he was unbelievable.

[Penguin]

We definitely needed a keeper but it remains to be seen if Cech was the right one.

I've been disappointed that Cech hasn't been more vocal. I haven't seen him organising his defence in set pieces or shouting at them when they do something wrong. For West Ham's first goal he should have told his defence that they were too far forward before they even took the free kick. He should have given Koscielny a bollocking for not closing down Zarate for their second, and again for doing the same thing against Palace. What's the point of being experienced if you don't use it to help the team?

Still early days but I'm hoping that he's more talkative in training and when they're reviewing previous matches.

[Marc Overmars]

I'm still not sure about writing off this transfer window just yet. Of course it's frustrating that WUMger prefers to play chess in the transfer market but if (for arguments sake) Benzema or Cavani did become available at the 11th hour, it would be worth the punt. Things are different now, we have proven our ability to sign top tier guys and I have no reason to believe we can't do it again if the opportunity presented itself.

[Özim]

Never trust Wenger in the transfer market because the chances are you'll be left disapointed, there's not many examples where that hasn't been the case in the last 10 years so I'm expecting more of the same from him, he's the master of transfer disappointment.

If you had to bet on one manager going through a transfer window and spending next to nothing it would be on Wenger.

[fakeyank]

I am not really understanding what a striker like Benzema or Cavani would bring to this squad.. you can lay the blame game on Giroud all you like, but the problem is that we just do not have much creativity in games where the other team is set up solidly in defense. Unless we have a dramatic change in mindset as to how we approach different games then strikes like Benzema and Cavani will have the same end product like Giroud.

If however you can pick someone like Suarez or Aguero, then you are talking business... but then there is not many of them available from the big clubs. May be we should punt on the 'next Aguero or Suarez' rather than splash the cash on strikers who will likely have the same goal return as Giroud.

[Maestro]

If however you can pick someone like Suarez or Aguero, then you are talking business... but then there is not many of them available from the big clubs. May be we should punt on the 'next Aguero or Suarez' rather than splash the cash on strikers who will likely have the same goal return as Giroud.

So totally agree with that, I'd rather we took our bag of money to South America and risk it on the next big thing ...and there are quite a few very talented young forwards out there. Personally I would love Gabriel Barbosa of Santos.

[Globalgunner]

Problem is the Home Office has these stupid rules about players having so many caps before they can get a work permit. Completely stupid rule. Thats why clubs in Portugal and Holland buy the youngsters for peanuts and the EPL ends up getting them for Gazillions years later. And when Wenger goes shopping for his young starlets he comes back with duds like Wellington or Denilson. Just cant win at Arsenal at the moment.