Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[I am invisible]

people are getting way too excited about Campbell just coz he scored against united something we struggle to do. he is not a goal scorer... has not set any league alight... lets remember he is playing for the biggest club in Greece and still not getting a huge about of goals.

Sanogo as people said before has won a prize to play up front for arsenal. Giroud won a modelling contest for the same prize.

Remy would make good sense, used to English football, good pace and gets goals. also think he is something who could play alongside giroud. we wont sign an absolute beast of a striker, unless Real sign Suarez and need some cash again.

I think with Campbell, we're just seeing an extra/bonus option, that we can bring in to freshen things up a bit with no effort or expense. I know I said that I think we could do with bringing in a couple of forwards this window, but why not make it 3 with Campbell, and completely freshen up the attack?

As you say, none of our current forwards have totally convinced: I'm not as anti-Giroud as some, and still think he's a useful option to have in the squad, but he's clearly not a striker for all occasions, and doesn't have the stamina to play every game; there's something clearly not right with Podolski - don't ask me what, but the manager obviously isn't sure about something there; Bendtner is definitely going, so no point in even thinking about him; Sanogo is long-term gamble who may never come good; and Walcott is used more on the right, is injured quite a lot, and probably isn't built for playing as a lone striker through the middle. There's also not a whole lot of variety there either? Walcott's probably the only one who offers us anything drastically different from the other 4, and even he doesn't have a lot of power to go with the pace.

Purely from a playing POV, I could happily lose two of those players this summer (e.g. Bendtner and one of Podolski / Giroud), and replace them with a world-class striker and an additional wide attacker / occasional CF (like a Remy), or a goal-scoring winger / wide attacker (Griezmann / Draxler?), and I really couldn't give much of a shit about putting even more players in Sanogo's way, so I'd be more than happy to bring someone like Campbell in to compete with him and hedge our bets with the young/potential players.

And that wouldn't even take too much more work eitherr? Campbell would take no work and would cost us no money, someone like Remy is supposed to be available for knock-down fee of something like £7m, and would probably jump at the chance of joining us, so that pretty much leaves the big name CF as the only tough deal? We need that main CF anyway, even if we only go for one striker, so it's not really that much more effort...

[Munchies]

Transfer News: Johan Djourou has signed for Hamburg for £2.5m on a permanent deal after they activated a buy out clause in his contact.

[Özim]

Didn't even know we still had him.

[Globalgunner]

Thanks and good riddance. Never got even 1 decent performance out of him. At least Swiss Tony looked good in the beginning

[LDG]

Thanks and good riddance. Never got even 1 decent performance out of him. At least Swiss Tony looked good in the beginning

Swiss Caesar did have a couple of decent games, but he was a pussy tbf.

[selassie]

I trust AW so little in the transfer market I can just imagine him signing Kalou, in many ways he fits the bill for a Wenger signing these days, what a disaster that would be.

Me too Zimm. The worrying thing is we came close to signing Kalou in the January window, direct quotes from Kalou himself.

For me Kalou represents everything that is wrong with Arsene's transfer policy and is nothing more than a "Vanity Project" type signing.

[I am invisible]

Me too Zimm. The worrying thing is we came close to signing Kalou in the January window, direct quotes from Kalou himself.

For me Kalou represents everything that is wrong with Arsene's transfer policy and is nothing more than a "Vanity Project" type signing.

Meh. If that's true, then it sounds more like a mid-season / January, 'oh shit, it's getting close to the end of the window and we've still got no one' panic-move (like Kallstrom), than a serious summer target? Chance gone for him, IMO.

I'm not convinced there is any truth to it though, even if it has come directly from the players' mouth? Seems like this sort of thing is pretty common practice amongst players and their agents these days: (very publicly) claim that [insert random big-name club] were close to signing them, just to remind the world that they still exist, and get other clubs thinking 'Hey, [insert random big-name club] were looking at this guy - maybe we should be looking at him too?'

[Japan Shaking All Over]

The Kalou rumour is just rehashed journalism, don't see any credence in it at all.....saying that Wumger will probably go out and buy him now. He is a lastmimute.com kind of signing that we would begrudgingly accept because we hadn't bought anyone

[Maestro]

Transfer News: Johan Djourou has signed for Hamburg for £2.5m on a permanent deal after they activated a buy out clause in his contact.

Gay Lion is off, finally!

[fakeyank]

Bye Gay lion.. best of luck in whatever you do!