Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Niall_Quinn]

Arsenal closing in on £24m move for Sporting Lisbon midfielder William Carvalho

According to the Daily van Gaal.

[Niall_Quinn]

the champions league has already done that. making the desire of every half decent player go to only a select few clubs. and the only way for smaller clubs to get into the CL is to be bankrolled by billionaires.

on this lampard thing in theory it does by pass FFP however, its not like NYC have signed Neymar, Aguero etc and loaned them back to City. If Lampard wins them the league after being on loan to January I will be stunned.

Sanogo scored 4 goals. Anything is possible. It's not the specific player, it's the loophole. Of course it will be difficult to plug all avenues for the gypos to cheat considering they have literally limitless funds.

[Zerlathon]

Lampard was probably a "test" into seeing what UEFA would do. If they don't do anything about it then its sets a precedent. Give it 1-2 seasons and oil the sugar daddy clubs will be doing it to work around FFP.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Carvalho

[Power n Glory]

Lampard was probably a "test" into seeing what UEFA would do. If they don't do anything about it then its sets a precedent. Give it 1-2 seasons and oil the sugar daddy clubs will be doing it to work around FFP.

The players should have some more integrity. A player like Lampard shouldn’t be involved with such a murky deal. He should know better and he doesn’t need the deal. He’s not some naive kid looking for his first major money contract or someone in need of a another major trophy. It sets a precedent.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Keep it to transfers, Munchies, please.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

Munchies

Awful Cripps.

[Bumble]

Sign a defensive midfielder and a centre back and it would be a great summer of strengthening. TV will leave and Arteta doesn't cut it anymore, decent player but you don't want him to start regularly.

[LDG]

I don't think we need a defensive midfielder as such....we did alright defensively last year (barring the obvious calamity matches where the whole team fell apart).

We need someone to carry the ball forward, as apposed to picking it up and passing it sideways.

Arteta steadied the ship, but I agree we need to get someone more incisive in to bring the team on the next step. I would have said it was Wilshere, but unless he rolls his sleeves up, he'll kill his career sooner rather than later.

[I am invisible]

CBs - who's out there, and who's realistic? What sort of player will we be looking at: experienced or younger; cheap or expensive (or medium)?

The more I think about it, the more I think it was worth spending what it took to get Chambers in - the fee may have raised a few eyebrows, but the fact that he can cover CB and CM as well as RB means that we can now hold our nerve going into the final month / couple of weeks of the transfer window (if we need to), and push for the best possible deals on anyone we're still looking at?