Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit.

[Dein-machine]

You and Zim, as usual.

Oh bollocks, never thought I'd make the Zim squad

[Japan Shaking All Over]

I'm on board with this signing......I am not a Sir Ches hater but Cech is going to offer a more stable, calming air about the defence. Sure he is not going to be around for decades to come but the likes of Courtois do not grow on trees and I think our defence will benefit from having a goalie that instills confidence to those in front if him as well as be half decent between the sticks. We now need to get a quality DM to sit in front of the back four to cement the wall. Coq has been great and should not be going anywhere but we could do with that extra bit of quality to either be the starter or add to the competition

[Power n Glory]

My point is our transfer policy. All our main competitors have either invested in youth & you can do that when you already have a quality No 1 or gone & spent the money required on quality keepers that can improve - can you not see the chaos caused with Wengers penny pinching.
We are going back to 2003 with the Lehman signing. 12 years of cheap, shit keepers.
Cech is better than what we have, no argument but isn't that a little worrying to be saying that about a team supposedly trying to become Europe's best when he's no longer 1st choice at one of our rivals & is 33 years of age - 12 years on from signing Lehman.

So we continue on with Chesney or try and sign a young inexperienced keeper for £20m?

Why do we need to invest in youth when we did that 5 odd years ago? We've got Ox, Wilshere, Ramsey, Gibbs, Theo...we've been the promotional poster for investing in youth since the Emirates move. That's been the main problem with our transfer policy. No balance and having to wait years for players to come of age.

It's our first signing of the season. Relax a little. You could argue Sanchez was a Barca reject but look how he turned out. The argument here is thin. Wenger has some serious problems with his management style but I'm not going to pick holes in everything he does just for the sake of it. Contradicts everything I've said about our transfer policy a few years ago and the problem with over investing in youth. We're on a different page with this one.

[fakeyank]

What is the grief over us signing Cech? I am not sure I understand really! He is one of the most solid keepers in the last 7-8 years in the league. We are getting him at 33 and that gives us a good 4-5 years with him. I dont rate Wumger much, but there is no criticism here! Great bit of business early on in the season!

[Globalgunner]

Its all good with Cech, We cannot keep rehashing the mistakes of years gone by but only deal with the here and now as it is. Cech is as good as it gets out there right now. We should put this one to bed and move on to the next target, A DM and a quality forward, and shipping out the surplus to requirements that still litter the squad.

[Dein-machine]

What is the grief over us signing Cech? I am not sure I understand really! He is one of the most solid keepers in the last 7-8 years in the league. We are getting him at 33 and that gives us a good 4-5 years with him. I dont rate Wumger much, but there is no criticism here! Great bit of business early on in the season!

Its not done yet - knowing us this could ramble on till August. We're probably stalling on paying his £4000 moving costs.

[Letters]

What is the grief over us signing Cech? I am not sure I understand really! He is one of the most solid keepers in the last 7-8 years in the league. We are getting him at 33 and that gives us a good 4-5 years with him. I dont rate Wumger much, but there is no criticism here! Great bit of business early on in the season!

And therein lies the difference between a Wengerophobe and a WUM.
Some people have such advanced Zim's disease they just refuse to see the good in anything we do any more. It's so tiresome.
Sign him and it'll be the first time we've had a really top class 'keeper since Seamen (my jury was always out on Lehmann, he could be brilliant but wasn't consistent)
Yes, he's getting on but 'keepers can perform well into their 30s, we could get 4 or 5 good years out of him.
Whatever you think about Wenger, what's not to like about this?

[GP]

And therein lies the difference between a Wengerophobe and a WUM.
Some people have such advanced Zim's disease they just refuse to see the good in anything we do any more. It's so tiresome.
Sign him and it'll be the first time we've had a really top class 'keeper since Seamen (my jury was always out on Lehmann, he could be brilliant but wasn't consistent)
Yes, he's getting on but 'keepers can perform well into their 30s, we could get 4 or 5 good years out of him.
Whatever you think about Wenger, what's not to like about this?

I think it's the faulty notion that he's a Chelsea 'reject', despite them begging him to stay,

[Dein-machine]

And therein lies the difference between a Wengerophobe and a WUM.
Some people have such advanced Zim's disease they just refuse to see the good in anything we do any more. It's so tiresome.
Sign him and it'll be the first time we've had a really top class 'keeper since Seamen (my jury was always out on Lehmann, he could be brilliant but wasn't consistent)
Yes, he's getting on but 'keepers can perform well into their 30s, we could get 4 or 5 good years out of him.
Whatever you think about Wenger, what's not to like about this?

"Sign him & it'll be the first time we've had a really top class keeper since Seaman" - why? - us suffering from ZIm's disease are not happy to be paying £8 mil a year to a guy who's job it is to make sure this doesn't happen.

[Letters]

I think it's reasonable to grumble about how long it's been since we've had a top 'keeper.
It's a bit weird to focus on that rather than actual signing of one if and when it happens though, smacks of desperation to still find things to have a go at Wenger for.