Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Munchies]

Jan Hagen ‏@PortuBall
Arsenal and Sporting are in talks over William Carvalho. Sporting wants €30-35m + 1-2 players permanently/on loan. [O Jogo]

[Munchies]

Fuck!

[Niall_Quinn]

The manager says 21-year-old Sanogo's return from injury is significant

It is, very significant. It means we're fucked. This Sanogo thing is a joke too far. Everyone can see the player is not of sufficient standard, Wenger can see that too because it's obvious. So what is this really about? After £40mill on Ozil and £30mill on Alexis it can't be about penny pinching, although it could mean we've already spent everything we could spend. Or could it be misdirection to make everyone think we are out of the market? Or could it be a hand we are playing in an ongoing deal? Certainly Wenger can't intend to go through the season with Sanogo as main back up to Giroud. The player just isn't good enough - nowhere near good enough.

[mastermind84]

frankly concerns me the amount of times podolski has been linked with an exit from the club, i'm still of the opinion that he has more value to us as a striker than Giroud...he is a better finisher and has more pace.

It's like you didn't watch Podolski look awful each time he played center forward.

Wumger tried it and it didn't work. Podolski is just not good enough. No shame in that, but the crying over an average player just because you like their Instagram account is sad.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

frankly concerns me the amount of times podolski has been linked with an exit from the club, i'm still of the opinion that he has more value to us as a striker than Giroud...he is a better finisher and has more pace.

Podolski is a fine player and one I'd rather keep in spite of having Joel Campbell....but he is no CF in a 433, absolutely not. In the several times he has played there for us he has looked a shadow of the actual player he is.

Sometimes a player having the right attributes on paper doesn't always amount to them performing a particular role well. He is ostensibly a good fit but it just doesn't work....we should take heed as there is also no guarantee Sanchez will play CF well, if that wasn't already obvious to us. Enough consternation should have been cause by him being hauled off at half time...something Wenger is usually religiously against.

[Power n Glory]

Podolski is a lazy player. I have no real qualms about him going. He's awful on the wings and up front. The only thing he has going for him is his shooting but because his movement is so bad it's hard for other players to work the ball into a good shooting position for him.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

I agree with the above though, Campbell is still very raw, and I just don't see the potential in Sanogo that some talk about because I think he lacks basic technique. Hope to be proved wrong though.

I remember when RVP was still a rookie and was given the odd match and 10 mins off the bench at the end. You could see the talent there then even if it wasn't fully developed; he'd have a half a dozen shots and demonstrate great technique and skill.

It was the same thing with a Cesc, Nasri and to an extent Campbell now. You could see the raw ingredients in them at that age. At the moment Sanogo looks like someone who has good physical attributes but zero actual footballing ability - like a competition winner. It would be funny until you realise he's our second choice striker as thing stands.

[Niall_Quinn]

Hardly any player could thrive in the tippy tappy nightmare world we are in at the moment. Messi, Xavi, they'd cut it. We can't blame players for not being able to tip tap 17 passes in 10 seconds with 100% accuracy three of which are flicks and four backheels. Get the players running, moving, passing more directly and shooting and they'll look a lot better.

Alexis looks a great player - we'll soon destroy that if he's forced into the bullshit land of tippy tap.

Campbell looks direct and positive and just what we need. but he won't have what it takes to overhead kick a flick to himself and then take sixty eight return passes from within a 2 yard triangle while ensuring the energy meter on his GPS doesn't bust 93%

Jack's goal of the season last year was great to watch - but we can't score it every week, even though we try 500 times a match.

Just shoot FFS! And get some men in the box. And learn how to cross and take a corner and a free kick. And shit like that. In other words, make our game a bit cruder and more basic. We won't catch pox by playing to the league we are in and we haven't won the CL anyway so no harm there. We are constantly building a CL team instead of a PL team. Don't want to see hoof-a-ball, but the Invincibles didn't play that anyway. Giroud and Sanogo wouldn't have got within 50 miles of that team btw.

[fakeyank]

It'd be a real shame if Podolski leaves.. best finisher at the club.

[Power n Glory]

It'd be a real shame if Podolski leaves.. best finisher at the club.

We struggle to create shooting opportunities as it and even though he's a good finisher, it's hard to carry a player that isn't working hard enough to get into good goal scoring positions.

I don't mind if he stays but it's no disaster if he leaves.