Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[mastermind84]

So we are all still with okay for not taking up the Cesc option?

......????????

Have Stockholm Syndrome, m8s

Be a bigger Cesc fan -- a player that lead this club to nothing -- than an Arsenal fan, m8s

Don't realize that Aaron Ramsey is a better player than Cesc is, m8s.

[Penguin]

We still need at least one more CF, DM and CB. Let's focus on that instead of asking why we didn't spend the rest of our budget on a CM even though we already have Ramsey and Ozil there.

Ozil unfit, Ramsey suspended. We don't need Cesc.

Ozil will play against Everton this weekend so he will be fit to play in the second leg. We also still have Santi, Rosicky and Wilshere in the squad, but yeah let's just buy a £30m player to cover instead

[Zerlathon]

We still need at least one more CF, DM and CB. Let's focus on that instead of asking why we didn't spend the rest of our budget on a CM even though we already have Ramsey and Ozil there

Yeah there is still alot of work to do, and as much as I would have liked Fabs to return the position he plays is is the 1 position that we are spoilt for choice.

The CB and DM are the 2 positions that I feel MUST be address this TW. I wouldn't be surprised if Wenger intends to turn Walcott into a CF rather than Alexis.

[I am invisible]

Agree with Penguin - in an ideal world I would have loved to have brought Cesc back to the home of football, but there's at least 3 other areas that we need to invest in before we start getting side-tracked by big-money creative midfielders (maybe even 4 if you chuck LB into the mix), and we all know we'll be lucky if we get even 2 of them at this point. I'm 100% not OK with him joining Chelsea, but that's not the same thing as being OK with us not making a move for him (or at least accepting the reasoning behind why we didn't)...

[pakgunner]

Giroud sucks, we need a top striker more than any other position.

[saintnickle]

Arsenal are not a football club that can afford to pay £unlimitedmillions for bench warmers or luxury players.

Ramsey, Ozil, Cazorla, Rosicky and Wilshere are Arsenal players. If they play well, why would you care about a really ancient-looking 27 year-old at Chelsea who has nothing at all to do with Arsenal?

No but wether you like it or not the truth is that arsenal can afford to have 60m sitting in the bank whilst we are short of a central defender a cdm and a striker.That my friend is neglect and not the way to go about trying to win serious silverware and in that i mean the premier league and champions league.
For as much as we hate the chavs and morinhio he has targeted players he needed for the positions where they are short and gone out and bought them.
Wenger cant hide behind the money excuse any longer.

[Niall_Quinn]

Giroud's and Sanogo's recent performances have bumped the striker position to the new #1 emergency priority. At this point I'd settle for Kalou, just somebody who has the basic skills to trap a ball, lay off a 2 yard pass, compete for a header.

[Gooner23]

As it stands we're probably good for 3rd or 4th again. Upgrade on Giroud and Arteta and we might actually be able to kick on.

[I am invisible]

It's not just Giroud and Sanogo's general suckiness - I'm also having second thoughts about whether we should try to move Alexis to CF? And that's not a snap judgment because he's lacked a little bit of sharpness in his first couple of games - it's more because I've been impressed by his work rate and all-round contribution down the flanks. When was the last time we had a winger / wide forward who is capable of getting 20 goals a season and a double-figure assists, but who also relentlessly presses opponents and tracks back in the way Alexis does? I'm not sure if it would be in our best interests to give that up, if there's the option of bringing another CF in, even if it means an additional spend?

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox can do that job too, which is why it would be a loss to see him in the middle. In both Ox and Alexis we have players who will push the ball and try to beat their man, instead of advancing 5 yards and then playing it backwards 10. Both occupy defenders, frighten them, open up opportunities for others. This is where Giroud is killing us - Ox and Alexis do the work, Giroud watches from 30 yards away and absolutely refuses to get in the box. Last season Giroud at least could hold the ball and lay it off, now everything that goes near him breaks down. Even if Alexis isn't the best finisher in the world (so the story goes, but he looked okay to me at Barca), at least he can retain possession in the danger area and bring others into the game. We can't be doing with strikers that actually nullify all threats to the opposition and that's what we have in Sanogo and Giroud right now.