Kim Kallstrom (official)

[Niall_Quinn]

Basically Spartak are paying for his holiday.

[saintnickle]

Wenger explains Kallstrom signing.

Interesting thoughts.

I think 4-6 weeks is purely precautionary. He'll be up and mobilising and probably training with the team.

Interesting that AW feels that when you consider the stature of the player and the quality he must see something decent in him to take that chance.

We have strong midfield options don't forget and I suppose it's fine for what he'll give us.

Anyway still disappointed without a striker or winger but I can kind of begin to understand the signing.

So why has it taken till now to try and sign him(on loan??)Is it cos hes free??

[Ollie the Optimist]

even after Arsene's explanation of signing him knowing about the injury, it makes sense to me. not a player i would have myself signed but its clear he has been signed as cover for the title run in. makes sense. It did make me laugh though seeing people moan about signing a 31 one year old on twitter then the next tweet saying they can't wait to see Rosicky back on saturday who is 33

[Syn]

Just seen the Wenger post match explanation of this deal. Reading between the lines, the pessimist in me is thinking that's Ramsey done for the season.

everybody says he is back in six weeks but because he had two setbacks who can guarantee that it will not last longer?

[saintnickle]

even after Arsene's explanation of signing him knowing about the injury, it makes sense to me. not a player i would have myself signed but its clear he has been signed as cover for the title run in. makes sense. It did make me laugh though seeing people moan about signing a 31 one year old on twitter then the next tweet saying they can't wait to see Rosicky back on saturday who is 33

Ollie i admire your optimism but even you cant believe what you have just posted.Would you as arsenal manager with over £50m at your disposal with the season as it stands and not won a trophy in 9 long years,sign an aging 31 year old on the last hour of a transfer window knowing that he was injured and only be available of 1 month at the end of a season??I thought not..This sort of move would be normally be asscotiated with a relegation threatened team without a pot to piss in ..Get real..

[Özim]

even after Arsene's explanation of signing him knowing about the injury, it makes sense to me. not a player i would have myself signed but its clear he has been signed as cover for the title run in. makes sense. It did make me laugh though seeing people moan about signing a 31 one year old on twitter then the next tweet saying they can't wait to see Rosicky back on saturday who is 33

You think it makes sense to sign an injured player, really? You do realise that even if he does come back it's not unusual for an injured player to get injured again quickly (especially being a bit older) and that even if he doesn't he'll take time to get his fitness back. In addition our tough run of games is in February and March, if he's out for 6 weeks he won't be match fit for any of those games.

Ignoring the fact he's 31 and not what we need, it doesn't make sense in any way.

[Niall_Quinn]

even after Arsene's explanation of signing him knowing about the injury, it makes sense to me. not a player i would have myself signed but its clear he has been signed as cover for the title run in. makes sense. It did make me laugh though seeing people moan about signing a 31 one year old on twitter then the next tweet saying they can't wait to see Rosicky back on saturday who is 33

LOL - come on Ollie, best you can do with this window is have a laugh at it. It was an epic fuck up, even by our standards. Okay so maybe the guy is a good player, maybe he could have done a job as cover so I'll grant that much. But spending the last few hours of the window chasing an injured player when we could have gone after somebody useful, that's bonkers. Wenger said if we didn't sign the injured guy we would end up signing nobody. Why? Why not try to sign somebody who wasn't injured instead?

[WMUG]

LOL - come on Ollie, best you can do with this window is have a laugh at it. It was an epic fuck up, even by our standards. Okay so maybe the guy is a good player, maybe he could have done a job as cover so I'll grant that much. But spending the last few hours of the window chasing an injured player when we could have gone after somebody useful, that's bonkers. Wenger said if we didn't sign the injured guy we would end up signing nobody. Why? Why not try to sign somebody who wasn't injured instead?

Well we didn't know he was injured until he had the medical, by which time it was too late to go after anyone else. He was a last resort, and we were banking on him having a clean bill of health.

[Niall_Quinn]

Well we didn't know he was injured until he had the medical, by which time it was too late to go after anyone else. He was a last resort, and we were banking on him having a clean bill of health.

Apparently we did know, two days in advance.

[WMUG]

Apparently we did know, two days in advance.

Wenger's saying he only knew at 5pm on Friday.