Super Super Quality Transfer Speculation & Shit

[Marc Overmars]

Maybe. The question is when Wenger leaves and we stop going round in circles which direction will we head in...?

I don't know but at least we won't have that French prick dragging the club through the mud anymore.

[LDG]

Even if they both leave, I'll be excited to see who we bring in and how we look as a team, but we'd still be on this never ending project where vital building blocks keep getting taken away. We just need some stability for once.

Agreed.

[LDG]

Well yes, but it would be further stagnation at best. We really have to start pushing on.
Whatever anyone says on here, Wenger's done a great job to keep us qualifying for the CL every year. It's not as easy as it looks, other clubs have spent shitloads to try and achieve it and failed (not City, but when you go throwing that much around you'd wanna be up there).
But we have to push on at some point, challenge harder for trophies and the title. I don't think we can win it in the current climate but we can push a lot harder. We have a good platform right now, a few right signings and keeping our best players and we could really push on. Let our best players go and don't replace them and it's another season of frustration.

Yup. Again, I agree.

[LDG]

I don't know but at least we won't have that French prick dragging the club through the mud anymore.

Mild Racism

[Niall_Quinn]

I think you underestimate the amount he contributed to other players' goals last season; he got 9 assists, the most in the squad behind Song the Destroyer (tm).

His goals can be replaced, but he is much more than a "stick it in the back of the net after everyone else does the hard work" guy. Much more.

Totally agree, he's so much more than a goalscorer. We have RvP, Wilshere and Ox and we had Arshavin (his attitude and laziness killed him). These players possess something extra, a natural ability that you can see in everything they do. It's hard to explain but you know it when you see it. These players are very rare, they can't just be replaced unless you can go and find another special player with the £40mill+ price tag attached (which we won't). When we lose these players we end up with less. Bergkamp, Henry, Pires and Cesc too (no matter what people say about him). We've seen their loss reflected in the declining standards of our football.

It's not just about scoring the goals and winning the points, it's also about jumping out of your chair and involuntarily clapping with your jaw crashed on the floor, when Bergkamp does something you've never seen before, or one of those sweeping counter attacks finds the net like a guided missile flying along laser tuned waypoints in the form or Henry or Pires. That's what I miss most, not the trophies. I can live without the trophies but it's harder to go week to week enduring average football. RvP has alleviated that dullness and sameness. If we lose him then we see another bite taken out of the team that everyone talked when we were playing that magical football that made us a world brand. Fuck Gazidis and his T-Shirts and commemorative mugs. That's the boring arse shit that we endure in the modern game. It's not the game itself though, no matter what these grubby little money men claim. They can fucking do one off a tall building if they won't get their chequebook out for RvP because that guy has delivered and if ****s like Nasri are apparently worth these big fees then RvP certainly is too, without question.

Pay up you fucking tight ****s! Stop talking about balance sheets and show us some football or GTFO.

[LDG]

Totally agree, he's so much more than a goalscorer. We have RvP, Wilshere and Ox and we had Arshavin (his attitude and laziness killed him). These players possess something extra, a natural ability that you can see in everything they do. It's hard to explain but you know it when you see it. These players are very rare, they can't just be replaced unless you can go and find another special player with the £40mill+ price tag attached (which we won't). When we lose these players we end up with less. Bergkamp, Henry, Pires and Cesc too (no matter what people say about him). We've seen their loss reflected in the declining standards of our football.

It's not just about scoring the goals and winning the points, it's also about jumping out of your chair and involuntarily clapping with your jaw crashed on the floor, when Bergkamp does something you've never seen before, or one of those sweeping counter attacks finds the net like a guided missile flying along laser tuned waypoints in the form or Henry or Pires. That's what I miss most, not the trophies. I can live without the trophies but it's harder to go week to week enduring average football. RvP has alleviated that dullness and sameness. If we lose him then we see another bite taken out of the team that everyone talked when we were playing that magical football that made us a world brand. Fuck Gazidis and his T-Shirts and commemorative mugs. That's the boring arse shit that we endure in the modern game. It's not the game itself though, no matter what these grubby little money men claim. They can fucking do one off a tall building if they won't get their chequebook out for RvP because that guy has delivered and if ****s like Nasri are apparently worth these big fees then RvP certainly is too, without question.

Pay up you fucking tight ****s! Stop talking about balance sheets and show us some football or GTFO.

Well.

When you put it like that.

[Niall_Quinn]

BTW, Wenger has ALWAYS tried to play the game correctly, the way it should be played as a form of entertainment and (in his case) verging on art. That Tony Pulis doesn't have the same vision and has found a mechanical method to kick the artists off the stage and replace them with pub brawlers is not the fault of Arsene Wenger. That money men have found ways to make cash from selling the contents of the gallery is not his fault either. And to some degree (although he's a stubborn mule) his failure to integrate Plan B hoof-a-ball to grab points at the expense of his core beliefs is a blessing, albeit an irritating one. Whatever anyone says against the man, he wins the right way. And yes, there is a right way to play football. It a way that never enters the imaginings of a troll like Pulis.

[Coney]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18425253

Arsenal are close to completing a deal to sign Montpellier striker and France international Olivier Giroud for £12m.

The Gunners are expected to confirm the 25-year-old's arrival this week.

It is understood that Arsene Wenger intends to play him alongside fellow new signing Lukas Podolski and Robin van Persie in a front three.

The 6ft 3ins forward, who was an unused substitute in France's 1-1 Euro 2012 draw with England, scored 21 goals in his club's run to the Ligue 1 title.

So he plans to keep RvP then?

Great news if this is correct. Looks pretty convincing.

[LDG]

Front three??

Walcott

In fact, I could see that....interesting.

[Marc Overmars]

Isn't Giroud a typical number 9 though?

RVP obviously has the centre to himself and Podolski takes the left, so it would be interesting to see how Giroud would operate given he'd start from the right, on paper at least anyway.