Transfer News, Rumours and Bollocks Thread

[milla]

I watched his highlights on youtube versus England and I wasn't too impressed tbh.

Of course, England is shite.

[Aaron Wilshere]

No, I'm correcting Jokers accusation that we spent more on squid than the current Cahill bid... Which is bollocks. But let's not have reality get in the way of yet another boring whine about our manager.

Ah, sorry mate - didn't see that bit. I thought you were benchmarking Squillaci's value against Cahill.

£7m is fine - think of Clichy going for £7m - he is a proven Premier league, CL and international performer. All about the English premium.

[GP]

So we're in for Cahill then? Great news!

[Niall_Quinn]

The Cahill bid might be misdirection to keep Liverpool busy. After all their entire transfer policy is based on waiting to see who we are linked with before making a bid. Maybe we're after Jagileka instead? Maybe we're after someone, anyone, just a single player, that we actually sign, this transfer window, who's decent and would add quality to the squad, and could get up to speed immediately, and didn't have Barcelona DNA and is a heterosexual. Just one...

Please.

[Unai Tea]

Buying Cahill must be quite painful for Wenger, as it is almost an admittance that he wasted £10m on Koscielny, who isn't up to it (although I do think against teams who play on the deck, he is excellent, but struggles physically).

Unless of course he is planning on moving our best CB (TV5) to left back, which would be totally counter productive.

Koscielny is up to it. He's had a year to settle and looks to me like a really good defender. He's cut more in the cloth of a Vermaelen and has a similar skillset.

What I don't understand is why they'd wait until now to make an offer. It's seems clear Cahill is not their top target unless they've been playing a very long game. I think in the end if they work themselves up to £10-12m that would be a more than reasonable bid. The £17m Bolton snatched out of the air is what they would like to get - it's not necessarily what he's worth, all things considered. So they call our bid derisory and by the colour of our bid, we call their valuation ridiculous. So we'll see if they can find the middle ground in the next few days.

What's promising is that they are now at least actually in a dialogue which confirms that we are interested in buying and actively and visibly doing something to make that happen.

[Joker]

Given their chairman retweeting the comment by an irate fan, I really don't think they want to sell to us now. They'll probably be offering him around the Premiership, and someone like Liverpool will probably end up signing him.

Another fantastic transfer success by Wenger and Gazidis. If we're willing to pay £20M for M'Vila, why not £16M for Cahill? I'm sick and tired of Wenger and his excuses to be honest, he's destroying our club at the minute.

[Boss]

11.38am: David Hytner is loitering with intent around Arsenal's training ground and here's how things are shaping up there: "Arsene Wenger is keeping it low-key at his press conference this afternoon, according to the official line or, according to the non-party line, he has thrown a strop at all the negative coverage and cancelled his newspaper briefings. He'll still hold his general conference and he should be in decent spirits after Udinese on Wednesday night, despite his splitting selection headache for Old Trafford. I can't remember Arsenal being bigger underdogs ahead of one of the season's showpiece fixtures."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...blog-26-august

Only bad things can come out of press conferences not held at 7.

[Unai Tea]

Maybe we offer them Squidacci as a makeweight or else Miquel on loan for a year free of charge. That solves their problem with filling the gap at CB and injuries and also reduces their salary bill (unless they're silly enough to take Squidacci of our hands)

[RomfordPele]

I think in the end if they work themselves up to £10-12m that would be a more than reasonable bid. The £17m Bolton snatched out of the air is what they would like to get - it's not necessarily what he's worth, all things considered. So they call our bid derisory and by the colour of our bid, we call their valuation ridiculous. So we'll see if they can find the middle ground in the next few days.

What's promising is that they are now at least actually in a dialogue which confirms that we are interested in buying and actively and visibly doing something to make that happen.

I agree. Cahill coming to the end of his contract, wants to play for us, I think this is a decent strategy. £7m as an opening bid, then try and seal the deal for £10m plus add ons. Think we'll go for Jagielka on deadline day too, got a feeling Bendtner will be used as bait.

[Niall_Quinn]

Maybe we offer them Squidacci as a makeweight or else Miquel on loan for a year free of charge.

Not Miquel, we'll need him for when Cahill gets injured for six months, two weeks after signing. Squid can go though, although I don't think another stinging insult at this stage is going to cheer Bolton up.