Transfer targets in January

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Saw reports that Borussia Monchengladbach and Galatasary are after Shaqiri

Wtf?

He can do better than both those.

We could do with him

Do you think he'd go to any of those to teams rumors are rumors for a reason.

[Cripps_orig]

Do you think he'd go to any of those to teams rumors are rumors for a reason.

Why not?

Reminds me of VdV and Kompany. Both were quality players. Both had big clubs looking at them. Both joined a Pub Teamesque club in Hamburg before leaving them to become pretty awesome

Can see Shaqiri doing the same. Just hope he thinks we are Pub Teamish enough for him

[Cripps_orig]

Arsenal are set to make a £4.1m bid to bring Barcelona defender Eric Abidal to the Emirates.
Full story: Caught Offside

How fit is he after cancer?

[Japan Shaking All Over]

How fit is he after cancer?

Started playing again. . .not automatic choice, but who is for barcunts apart from the chosen few

Seem to remember a certain Mr L Armstrong being a good advertisement for 'life after cancer' (drug enhanced. . .yet TBC tho!)

[Japan Shaking All Over]

No chance of getting him. That's unless someone at the clubs mans up and spends 20m on a player for the first time ever.

I agrre with that, although I disagree with paying crazy money, I do think the club needs to release itself from the self imposed shackles that sees us take little or no risk when adding to the squad and by risk I mean finacial=quality risk rather than the risk some think we made with the guys we brought in last summer.

Jack is the player that could save us a packet in the CM department but thats when he is fit, now we seriously lack cover upfront and no matter how many miracles Henry performs from now to February the situation remains that RvP should not be who we soley rely on. . .wedge needs to be paid up for that kind of cover, and maybe a transfer record broken at the same time

As MO says the club needs to man up. . .whether we do or not remains to be seen

[LDG]

I agrre with that, although I disagree with paying crazy money, I do think the club needs to release itself from the self imposed shackles that sees us take little or no risk when adding to the squad and by risk I mean finacial=quality risk rather than the risk some think we made with the guys we brought in last summer.

Jack is the player that could save us a packet in the CM department but thats when he is fit, now we seriously lack cover upfront and no matter how many miracles Henry performs from now to February the situation remains that RvP should not be who we soley rely on. . .wedge needs to be paid up for that kind of cover, and maybe a transfer record broken at the same time

As MO says the club needs to man up. . .whether we do or not remains to be seen

Pretty much.

I think we have enough at the club with the injury list sorted. But we need to make sure now. Leaving shit to chance has been tried, tested and failed. Be nice if for once we just spent some wedge and started kicking some fucking arse.

[selassie]

I agrre with that, although I disagree with paying crazy money, I do think the club needs to release itself from the self imposed shackles that sees us take little or no risk when adding to the squad and by risk I mean finacial=quality risk rather than the risk some think we made with the guys we brought in last summer.

Jack is the player that could save us a packet in the CM department but thats when he is fit, now we seriously lack cover upfront and no matter how many miracles Henry performs from now to February the situation remains that RvP should not be who we soley rely on. . .wedge needs to be paid up for that kind of cover, and maybe a transfer record broken at the same time

As MO says the club needs to man up. . .whether we do or not remains to be seen

Yep totally agree. What irks me more than anything is that even with a fully fit squad we still need quality adding here & there yet our manager doesn't seem in any rush to add quality to the squad.

I cannot for the life of me understand why we've not bought a striker, if RVP get's injured we'll be well and truly screwed, the season will be over.

To rub the salt in the wounds, the rivals who we look down on are challenging for the title whilst we're just chugging along outside the top 4.

Someone please wake me up when the season is over.

[Marc Overmars]

IMO the only players who can improve us now are the ones that will probably cost a premium. We have a fairly good base to build from, we now just need an extra boost of quality here and there. It's about time the club started to reap the so called rewards the stadium brings financially and not be afraid to pay big bucks.

[selassie]

IMO the only players who can improve us now are the ones that will probably cost a premium. We have a fairly good base to build from, we now just need an extra boost of quality here and there. It's about time the club started to reap the so called rewards the stadium brings financially and not be afraid to pay big bucks.

Oh I agree MO, but I honestly believe we're getting close to the stage now where we need to pay a premium for a couple of star players to keep up with our rivals.

I know this sounds like doom & gloom but if we lose RVP in the summer to Barca or whoever who's going to replace him? Chamakh?

[Coney]

Oh I agree MO, but I honestly believe we're getting close to the stage now where we need to pay a premium for a couple of star players to keep up with our rivals.

I know this sounds like doom & gloom but if we lose RVP in the summer to Barca or whoever who's going to replace him? Chamakh?

No need - Bendtner will be back.