Arsenal FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

Redzer7

Frisbee wrote: »

Our star striker starts again SA today.

I reckon he might get one against South Africa today, how many goals do you think he'll get in the group stages? And if they Qualify? I'm going for 3.

Frisbee

Redzer7 wrote: »

I reckon he might get one against South Africa today, how many goals do you think he'll get in the group stages? And if they Qualify? I'm going for 3.

Two today and one more before they go out in the group stages.

cson

Vela top goalscorer? Nah, as far as I'm aware they already have 2010 - N. Bendtner inscribed on the Golden Boot.

And damn you Frisbee for closing the horn thread; I wanted to ask where one could obtain said device

btw less of your in-your-endo on that too the rest of you

Frisbee

cson wrote: »

Vela top goalscorer? Nah, as far as I'm aware they already have 2010 - N. Bendtner inscribed on the Golden Boot.

And damn you Frisbee for closing the horn thread; I wanted to ask where one could obtain said device

btw less of your in-your-endo on that too the rest of you

There's another horn thread on the second or third page.

Royale with Cheese

Frisbee wrote: »

Our star striker starts again SA today.

I didn't know Bendtner was Mexican.

Frisbee

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

I didn't know Bendtner was Mexican.

'God' is injured and a doubt for Denmark's first game.

A true loss to the World Cup.

cson

Frisbee wrote: »

'God' is injured and a doubt for Denmark's first game.

A true loss to the World Cup.

On the third day....

Redzer7

Well Vela was poor.

gibson

Vela continued his Arsenal form into the World Cup. he was very poor even simple passes werent great. unfortunate to see

Pepe LeFrits

He ain't no left sider.

postalservice

He's up front on his own in the FIFA fantasy football dream team following the first match

Roaster

I thought he played ok 1st half and played a lovely ball to Branco, who should have scored. Santos should have put him in at one point too, pity he was too interested in seeing could he beat the Africans all by himself.

yahoo_moe

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Bit dissapointed with jensen was expecting goals flying in from all over the patch after his goal in the 92 euro final.

I think Graham probably thought roughly the same thing...

yahoo_moe

Frisbee wrote: »

Two today and one more before they go out in the group stages.

I backed them to win their group the other day - I think France are poor. Not looking great so far but they can still do it.

They'd also be on what should be the easier side of the draw if they do win it, could embiggen Vela's sale price if they go on a run and he shines.

_Bella_

Diabys having a great game!

tony1kenobi

Apparently we want Pienaar now......why?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1285925/Arsenal-boss-Arsene-Wenger-plots-swoop-Steven-Pienaar-World-Cup.html

Galvasean

yahoo_moe wrote: »

I think Graham probably thought roughly the same thing...

Probably thinking more along the lines of how much money Jensen's agent would give him if he were to buy him.

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Apparently we want Pienaar now......why?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1285925/Arsenal-boss-Arsene-Wenger-plots-swoop-Steven-Pienaar-World-Cup.html

Because he's really good, has one year left in his contract (so not too expensive) and can play on the left?

AnCapaillMor

18m for 1 year left, not a hope. Probably a rehashed story, were linked with him before.

Galvasean

10 or 12m would be a good bit of business.

Frisbee

Galvasean wrote: »

10 or 12m would be a good bit of business.

It really wouldn't

Galvasean

Not a fan of Pieenar or just think it's too much to pay for a player with one year left in his contract?

L'prof

Galvasean wrote: »

Not a fan of Pieenar or just think it's too much to pay for a player with one year left in his contract?

It's too much to pay for most players in the final year of their contract and while I think he's decent, I really don't think he'd have a great impact at Arsenal. Almunia made him look good here, I think it was a poor enough finish. He has pace though, I guess that'll do!

Galvasean

Well if it is true that United and Spurs (and possibly even Man City depending on who you believe) are also interested then his price is understandablya bit inflated.

gibson

Saw this morning were linked again with Phil Jakielka. cant admit to watching too much of him anyone think he'd be a good partner for Vermaelen?

yahoo_moe

Galvasean wrote: »

Not a fan of Pieenar or just think it's too much to pay for a player with one year left in his contract?

He's alright and could blossom in a better side... but 12m for one year? We walked away from Chamakh last year for that, and rightly so.

If the Joe Cole talk is even semi-accurate, it'd be a much better buy (and we certainly wouldn't need both) - you could probably get sign-on fee plus 2 years of wages for 12m.

tony1kenobi

Just saw the USA goal....Rob Green will fit right in with Al and Fab......the 3 amigos.......lets buy him.

speedboatchase

Enyeama - sign him up Wenger!

gosplan

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Just saw the USA goal....Rob Green will fit right in with Al and Fab......the 3 amigos.......lets buy him.

LOL, snap.

Was watching it with a friend and just before the match and was pointing out how I'd seen a Korean, South African, Uruguayan, Mexican and Nigerian keeper, and I'd yet to see a single mistake of the type that have become a bi-weekly event at Arsenal.

In fairness to Al and Fab though, they spilled their fair share of crosses and picked up the odd backpass but don't think they did anything close to what Green did.

Quazzie

speedboatchase wrote: »

Enyeama - sign him up Wenger!

On a related note how would people feel if Wenger did sign a relative unknown like Enyeama. He plus his trade in Israel so would be cheaper than what you'd buy from England or most of Europe. In terms of Enyeama he has playing pretty consistently for a few years now and shown on many occasions he is a decent keeper. This might sound like bandwagon jumping because of his display yesterday but he is a decent keeper who for whatever reason has never gotten a chance at a big club.

Would people here be happy with a relative unknown keeper or are we more interested in a name.

L'prof

Quazzie wrote: »

On a related note how would people feel if Wenger did sign a relative unknown like Enyeama. He plus his trade in Israel so would be cheaper than what you'd buy from England or most of Europe. In terms of Enyeama he has playing pretty consistently for a few years now and shown on many occasions he is a decent keeper. This might sound like bandwagon jumping because of his display yesterday but he is a decent keeper who for whatever reason has never gotten a chance at a big club.

Would people here be happy with a relative unknown keeper or are we more interested in a name.

He did look good, I just don't know much about him. I don't think I'd mind too much if we signed an unknown as long as he's brought in as number 1. The only thing about Enyeama is that I'm always weary of us signing African players because of the African Nations.

SDTimeout

Sign jags and stick him in goal!

Frisbee

Enyeama ain't unknown - He's a FM Legend

Galvasean

gibson wrote: »

Saw this morning were linked again with Phil Jakielka. cant admit to watching too much of him anyone think he'd be a good partner for Vermaelen?

I'm a big fan of Jagielka. He's dynamic and has good movement similar to Vermaelen. My only gripe is he's not the tallest and pairing him with Verm might leave our CBs a tad on the small side. I'd rather see Verm paired with a colossus.

Galvasean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxspfInbLV8

Very simialr to Almunia's cockup against United on his debut in the Carling Cup (can't find clip of that)

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Jagielka would be a very good signing I reckon. Only question marks I'd have would be his fitness after that injury he had, and possibly the height I guess.


What would people think if we ended up with

In:
Jag, Koscielny, Schwarzer, Cole, and Chamakh

Out:
Gallas, Silvestre, Senderos, Almunia, Rosicky(?), Eduardo,

This is all just purely speculation really and unlikely to actually happen at all

L'prof

playa3 wrote: »

Jagielka would be a very good signing I reckon. Only question marks I'd have would be his fitness after that injury he had, and possibly the height I guess.


What would people think if we ended up with

In:
Jag, Koscielny, Schwarzer, Cole, and Chamakh

Out:
Gallas, Silvestre, Senderos, Almunia, Rosicky(?), Eduardo,

This is all just purely speculation really and unlikely to actually happen at all

Absolute bum chocolate! I'd be ragin, we lack strength in depth and that would have us down a player and looking to the youths to make up for it!

Frisbee

L'prof wrote: »

Absolute bum chocolate! I'd be ragin, we lack strength in depth and that would have us down a player and looking to the youths to make up for it!

But Djourou is like a new signing...

L'prof

Frisbee wrote: »

But Djourou is like a new signing...

But of course...

Fuzzy_Dunlop

L'prof wrote: »

Absolute bum chocolate! I'd be ragin, we lack strength in depth and that would have us down a player and looking to the youths to make up for it!

This is true but I really can't see us signing more than 2 centre backs. Personally I'd take JD over Silvestre though.

L'prof

playa3 wrote: »

This is true but I really can't see us signing more than 2 centre backs. Personally I'd take JD over Silvestre though.

I'm not talking about certain positions really. We need to be signing at least 2 more than we get rid of!

Fuzzy_Dunlop

L'prof wrote: »

I'm not talking about certain positions really. We need to be signing at least 2 more than we get rid of!

Well for GK it's more a case of needing to replace with someone better than what we have than adding extra depth. We don't need any more players in attack I don't think. In midfield one more box to box/defensive player would be great but can't see it happening. So that leaves the defence which we could definitely use more depth in compared to last year but we're looking like losing 3 if not 4 centre backs so as I said I couldn't see us signing any more than 2 or maybe 3 to replace them.

L'prof

playa3 wrote: »

Well for GK it's more a case of needing to replace with someone better than what we have than adding extra depth. We don't need any more players in attack I don't think. In midfield one more box to box/defensive player would be great but can't see it happening. So that leaves the defence which we could definitely use more depth in compared to last year but we're looking like losing 3 if not 4 centre backs so as I said I couldn't see us signing any more than 2 or maybe 3 to replace them.

If it happens like that, we're fúcked to be honest! Squad isn't big enough as it is to cope with our injuries!

yahoo_moe

Quazzie wrote: »

he is a decent keeper who for whatever reason has never gotten a chance at a big club.

You sound like you've seen him a few times - would you say he's strong on crosses?

Because I only saw him yesterday and I reckon I know why he's never gotten a chance at a big club.

Royale with Cheese

This is quite odd.

I've bought plenty of jerseys off this site before, and they have the new Arsenal one up.

Peyton Manning

Guess who's still alive?

Quincy Owusu-Abeyie

Just came on for Ghana lol.

Pepe LeFrits

Ahh Quincy, the master of dribbling really, really fast to nowhere in particular

L'prof

Archimedes wrote: »

Guess who's still alive?

Quincy Owusu-Abeyie

Just came on for Ghana lol.

Sure he was on loan at Pompey at the end of the season!

Quazzie

yahoo_moe wrote: »

You sound like you've seen him a few times - would you say he's strong on crosses?

Because I only saw him yesterday and I reckon I know why he's never gotten a chance at a big club.

I can't say I've seen too much of him tbh but I remember him from 2006 ACN and being impressed back then with him. Looking at him yesterday I was impressed with his overall decision making and decisiveness to carry out his actions with convictions which was something we've missed terribly at Arsenal for at least the last year.

But my point was using him as an example of a relative unknown(at least to non FM players ) that Arsenal could sign and what would be our reactions to it. Myself last week if I heard we were signing him I wouldn't have been too impressed but he is an example of a player playing a bad league who could do a job for us, and goes to show that there could be bargains out there without resorting to spending massive.

Smokin_Aces

Didn't we nearly sign Enyeama last June or something? I remembered reading it somewhere. He agreed personal terms and all but Wenger didn't want to spend 2 million on him.

gibson

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

This is quite odd.

I've bought plenty of jerseys off this site before, and they have the new Arsenal one up.

That site says the jersey only costs £8 lol

Ive seen that pic on another site Id say that'll pretty much be the real thing