Arsenal FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 10/11

greendom

L'prof wrote: »

I don't belive this to be true at all, we sold Toure and Adebayor.

Arsenal management do pay attention to the bottom line, wheras City are throwing money around like confetti. They'd rather lose out financially than benefit a rival

It won't happen

Sergio

What about the talk today of us signing Sebastian Squilacci?

He is a pretty good defender as far as i know,remember him playing in the CL afew yrs ago with lyon.

gibson

iMuse wrote: »

Source

What was the point even bidding this? Is Wenger so blind that he thinks Fulham need to sell Schwarzer? Hughes already said they dont want to sell him so Arsenal go back with the same bid :rolleyes: :mad: talk about a waste of time!

I'd love to know what the tight gits bid for Squallaci since Sevilla only want £6.5million which isnt that over the top given his experience

_Bella_

I think the Steklenberg rumour is a load of shíte, he is already cup-tied

yahoo_moe

Sigh.

Pinch of salt on the 'same bid' story, please. Do we really just believe everything? If every rumour in papers or on websites is true, why haven't we signed Mertesacker, Hangeland and Buffon with the money from the Fabregas sale?

tony1kenobi

Dunno if anyone posted but Jay Simpson has gone to Hull. Best of luck to the lad.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/jay-simpson-joins-hull-city

Evil_Clown

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Dunno if anyone posted but Jay Simpson has gone to Hull. Best of luck to the lad.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/jay-simpson-joins-hull-city

And Gallas is due to have a medical at Spurs tomorrow according to SSN
Worst of luck to the lad

gibson

yahoo_moe wrote: »

Sigh.

Pinch of salt on the 'same bid' story, please. Do we really just believe everything? If every rumour in papers or on websites is true, why haven't we signed Mertesacker, Hangeland and Buffon with the money from the Fabregas sale?

Highly unlikely that 2 separate stories of us not offering enough money are untrue, I dont believe its a coincidence. For a start Sevilla confirmed we bid too little for their liking so how is that just believing everything? Its not like people are listening to goal.com its come from the horses mouth.

We all know he's tight with his money, wouldnt spend an extra £2 million to get Alonso. I see no reason why these stories wouldnt be true.

If they are true though all he's doing is shooting himself in the foot. All that's going to happen is we run out of time and end up either pay more than we want to or we get stuck with signing no one. Why are things always left this late with Arsenal :(

L'prof

tony1kenobi wrote: »

Dunno if anyone posted but Jay Simpson has gone to Hull. Best of luck to the lad.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/jay-simpson-joins-hull-city

Really hope he does well for himself, I just don't think he was going to make it at Arsenal

gibson

L'prof wrote: »

Really hope he does well for himself, I just don't think he was going to make it at Arsenal

Ah I was hoping he would

best of luck Jay!!

UnknownSpecies

Evil_Clown wrote: »

And Gallas is due to have a medical at Spurs tomorrow according to SSN
Worst of luck to the lad

May he divide the spurs dressing room and doom them to failure...

MaxPower89

Reserves beat United 2-1 tonight. Pretty good performance, dominated most of the game. Lansbury was very impressive, so was JET(beast of a man!) and Wellington Silva, Eastmond did very well in the middle - very composed. United were poor enough, Makeda was offside about 8 times.

Still no signings....:rolleyes:

was hoping to have them in by the weekend...

gibson

MaxPower89 wrote: »

Reserves beat United 2-1 tonight. Pretty good performance, dominated most of the game. Lansbury was very impressive, so was JET(beast of a man!), Wellington Silva and Eastmond did very well in the middle, very composed. United were poor enough, Makeda was offside about 8 times.

Still no signings....:rolleyes:

was hoping to have them in by the weekend...

I thought Wellington Silva was suppose to be a striker

MaxPower89

gibson wrote: »

I thought Wellington Silva was suppose to be a striker

Edited...:o

Wellington scored a nice one, side foot finish to the corner.

Godge

MaxPower89 wrote: »

Edited...:o

Wellington scored a nice one, side foot finish to the corner.

Was impressed by Miguel at the back. looked very solid, good anticipation and seemed to do a lot of the organising.

Galvasean

Was pleased with the reserves' performance overall, but felt they could have been a bit more clinical and killed the game off.
Very impressed by Shea (Irish granddad?)

L'prof

Galvasean wrote: »

Was pleased with the reserves' performance overall, but felt they could have been a bit more clinical and killed the game off.
Very impressed by Shea (Irish granddad?)

Wiki says he's Irish, wonder what says he.

MaxPower89

Galvasean wrote: »

Very impressed by Shea (Irish granddad?)

Agree with that, play him against Blackpool! :pac:

OPENROAD

L'prof wrote: »

Wiki says he's Irish, wonder what says he.

Born Islington

Galvasean

He's dual nationality in Football Manager...

Galvasean

Song, Cesc, Denilson and Djourou all in contention for the Blackpool game.
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/four-may-return-for-blackpool-clash
Ad RvP into the mix and suuddenly we're looking strong again.

Any news of when Bendyboots will be back?

OPENROAD

Papa Smut wrote: »

Any news of when Bendyboots will be back?

Will be like a new signing when he does

patrickc

looking forward to saturday if we've a full(ish) squad. tyring to look past all this negativity

Simspon gone to Hull. Pity as he showed great promise.

Nice of Djourou to stick his leg back on for saturday :rolleyes: Very frustrating player!

OPENROAD

Deleted User wrote: »

Simspon gone to Hull. Pity as he showed great promise.

Nice of Djourou to stick his leg back on for saturday :rolleyes: Very frustrating player!

Very very sorry to see Simpson go, not sure he got a fair chance imo.

OPENROAD

OPENROAD wrote: »

Will be like a new signing when he does

id like to see how he does this year. i feel he could be chomping at the bit. He had a great world cup imo despite denmark going out

patrickc

Papa Smut wrote: »

Any news of when Bendyboots will be back?

1 month it said on the arsenal website

patrickc

OPENROAD wrote: »

Very very sorry to see Simpson go, not sure he got a fair chance imo.

nor me would like to see him stick about for this season

x PyRo

patrickc wrote: »

1 month it said on the arsenal website

January 2012 so.

L'prof

OPENROAD wrote: »

Born Islington

Says that too, but he must have played underage or have paddy parents for them to say he's Irish.

AnCapaillMor

So willy G to spuds, is he going out of his way to be the most hated Arsenal player ever?

FearDark

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

So willy G to spuds, is he going out of his way to be the most hated Arsenal player ever?

Meh. Would have preferred if he opted to stay for us but he did join us from our other bitter rivals Chelsea. Wouldnt expect him to be in their first team anyway.

L'prof

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

So willy G to spuds, is he going out of his way to be the most hated Arsenal player ever?

I can't say t bothers me to be honest. In other news, RvP and Fabregas will not be rushed and Denilson hasn't played since April. Looks unlikely that we'll see too much of any of them!

Peyton Manning

FearDark wrote: »

Meh. Would have preferred if he opted to stay for us but he did join us from our other bitter rivals Chelsea. Wouldnt expect him to be in their first team anyway.

I can't see him moving to any club unless he's guaranteed first team football tbh. Im not saying he deserves it, but in his mind he does.

FearDark

Spurs are reportedly offering Gallas the same thing we offered - wages and contract length wise. Id sooner have seen him stick around with us for another year than leave especially the way our CB situation has worked out. I suppose I'm not that upset over him possibly going to Spurs because I just dont like the man.

Ush1

I defo think he should be first choice at Spurs, still a top defender IMO.

FearDark

And if your depressed by Gallas joining Spurs theres rumours of Lassana Diarra being loaned from Real to Spurs today too.

gosplan

FearDark wrote: »

And if your depressed by Gallas joining Spurs theres rumours of Lassana Diarra being loaned from Real to Spurs today too.

Still searching for that starting place then, eh?

L'prof

FearDark wrote: »

And if your depressed by Gallas joining Spurs theres rumours of Lassana Diarra being loaned from Real to Spurs today too.

That's more annoying to be honest, good player, but what a tit at the same time!

cson

JET was described as like Drogba by Man Utd mates of mine that were at the match. They were very impressed.

speedboatchase

David Gold has said they would sell Upson for £6m if they got such a bid. He's 31 but we're desperate...

keano_afc

speedboatchase wrote: »

David Gold has said they would sell Upson for £6m if they got such a bid. He's 31 but we're desperate...

We're not THAT desperate...

L'prof

speedboatchase wrote: »

David Gold has said they would sell Upson for £6m if they got such a bid. He's 31 but we're desperate...

So Squillaci for £6.5m or Upson for £6m? Doesn't really matter at this stage, just get someone in. Prolly be Upson though, we could sign at least 10 16 year olds with that 500k!

MaxPower89

cson wrote: »

JET was described as like Drogba by Man Utd mates of mine that were at the match. They were very impressed.

He certainly has a similar build anyway, probably bigger. He drops deep quite a bit, and played almost like a playmaker last night, was on the ball a lot. I was very impressed for sure.

The only slight critisism I would have is that he looked a bit slow..I could be very wrong on this, and its his size that make appear a bit slow.

His touch is very good, and holds the ball up excellently.

Roaster

L'prof wrote: »

So Squillaci for £6.5m or Upson for £6m? Doesn't really matter at this stage, just get someone in. Prolly be Upson though, we could sign at least 10 16 year olds with that 500k!

Upson & Djourou could have been seperated at birth. Both have chronic injury records. I wouldn't touch Upson with an extremely long barge pole.

Pepe LeFrits

cson wrote: »

JET was described as like Drogba by Man Utd mates of mine that were at the match. They were very impressed.

In midfield he was very Diaby-esque but further up the pitch, particularly as a wing forward, seems to suit him very well. He's got bags of technical ability and incredible physical power. I don't imagine too many fullbacks would be used to going up against a wide man of his size, especially not one with his skill. I can't say I've ever expected much from JET at Arsenal but my hopes are rising a little.

Pepe LeFrits

http://aculturedleftfoot.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/stone-cold-friday-fascinating-tales-from-the-arsenal-kitchen/?

Not the usual Arsenal article!

Frisbee

Brilliant.

This title was taken by Freddie Ljungberg. Freddie could never sit and eat with the rest of the players and was the slowest eater at Arsenal.

He was so weird that he preferred to eat in the kitchen. The staff would lay a cloth for him over the bin and he would happily sit on the bin and slowly masticate his pasta and vegetables as he surveyed the surroundings and chatted with the girls in the kitchen.

Paleface

So Gallas signing for Spurs is appearing imminent.

Tbh I am not sorry to see him go as I always felt he was a disruptive influence at the club.

However it seems that the deal being struck with Spurs is not even as good as the one he was reportedly being offered at Arsenal.

Did he always want out of the club or is he just the type of guy who after turning down their offer initially won't go grovelling back to Wenger with a change of heart? Who knows what was said between them. Perhaps Wenger told him not to come back.