Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

greendom

greendom wrote: »

The injury to M'Vila is not so serious[/B]. Touch and go whether he'd be ready for the England game but he's going to the Euros.

Good for him but we might find competition could get a lot stiffer after the Euros unless France implode like 2010 even though good old Raymond is not around this time to oversee an implosion.

djan

djan wrote: »

Hulk is a Phenomenal player and only hasnt been snapped up because of his massive buy out clause, he is as strong as drogba and much more mobile, with a rocket left foot. Pity Arsenal cant afford such sort of quality

To be fair i havent seen an awful lot of him to make a proper judgement but if he is better or even as good as Drogba then i think he must be a serious player. I rate Drog highly as a footballer but not so much as a human being.

gnfnrhead

Pogrebnyak has been released by Fulham. 6 goals in 12 games. Wouldnt be a bad back up if his wages were low.

Galvasean

Notice how Koscielny played the full 0 minutes for France against Serbia and they keep a clean sheet. He didn't feature against Iceland and they shipped two.

dfbemt

Celtic have offically parted company with Darren O'Dea.

I hope nobody gets any ideas !!!!!

UnknownSpecies

Galvasean wrote: »

Notice how Koscielny played the full 0 minutes for France against Serbia and they keep a clean sheet. He didn't feature against Iceland and they shipped two.

The two probably aren't connected tbh. I'd never use a players international form as an indicator of what his form will be like in the coming season (in friendlies anyway).

HazDanz

dorgasm wrote: »

The two probably aren't connected tbh. I'd never use a players international form as an indicator of what his form will be like in the coming season (in friendlies anyway).

Friendly form I always feel they are red herrings. If he delivers at the finals though it can only be a confidence booster for the man going into the new season.

Himself and RvP coming out of the finals without injury would be top of my wish list for this championship.

greendom

he really impressed against Serbia though and he could well displace the usual centre back pairing of Mexes and Rami. Over the 2 games he was the best centre-back. Not surprising as he is the best of the 3.

tayto lover

G.K. wrote: »

Marvin Martin is an AM.

Never heard of him before.
With a name like that I thought he might be a rock-star or a gunslinger.

Sgt Pepper 64

tayto lover wrote: »

Never heard of him before.
With a name like that I thought he might be a rock-star or a gunslinger.

He's very well known in Football Manager.

Thats the problem, when people recommend players - have they actually watched them properly or just a youtube highlights clip, or just played FM?!

wandatowell

As much as I like Jaaskeleinen I think he deserves a chance as a Number 1 keeper at a huge club.


Such a shame he spent so long at Bolton

keano_afc

Was he injured last year? he must have been shockingly out of form if Bogdan was picked ahead of him.

Mr Blobby

Anyone watching the Holland game ?

The link up play between Van Persie and Afellay is great
Lets hope the rumours of us trying to sign him are true.

We might need to get Van Persie to sign a new contract first though

dvemail

Afellay and Van Persie linking up well against Northern Ireland. Wonder if he could be the man to help Robin stay at the club seeing as their good friends.

slingerz

Any chance of Wenger splashing the cash this summer?IMO Arsenal don't need a whole pile just a few defensive additions and one or two more

ImpossibleDuck

slingerz wrote: »

Any chance of Wenger splashing the cash this summer?IMO Arsenal don't need a whole pile just a few defensive additions and one or two more

No.

The Floyd p

Hands off :pac: Tito will find a role for him next season!

cesc77

This Aden Azar lad is supposed to be good.Hope we dont pay £32million for him though($50 mellion dolla):pac:

Oh,too late,that sucks.

Hello FFS?

Hulk 40 mill

tayto lover

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/254755/Arsenal-exec-Ivan-Gazidis-to-get-grilled-by-Gunners-fans/

Gazidas to meet the fans on Wed and explain why we are not buying in the summer.

Mickeroo

tayto lover wrote: »

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/254755/Arsenal-exec-Ivan-Gazidis-to-get-grilled-by-Gunners-fans/

Gazidas to meet the fans on Wed and explain why we are not buying in the summer.

Same old crap every year. I suppose if struggling to make the CL and saving a bit of cash in the process is the target these days then its no more than we should expect.

batistuta9

tayto lover wrote: »

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/254755/Arsenal-exec-Ivan-Gazidis-to-get-grilled-by-Gunners-fans/

Gazidas to meet the fans on Wed and explain why we are not buying in the summer.

who said we weren't buying?

UnknownSpecies

It's from the Daily Star, which is a worse source than Twitter...

batistuta9

dorgasm wrote: »

It's from the Daily Star, which is a worse source than Twitter...

to be fair there's nothing wrong with the article in the star, the AST usually ask questions like that & the star have went & called a grilling

john cross wrote an article a few weeks back saying that they might turn their attentions towards the board this year and see the bit about usmanov he could be right

wandatowell

batistuta9 wrote: »

who said we weren't buying?

Seeing how the club is run its fairly obvious that we wont be spending much more money.


Didnt Arsene attend the AST yearly meetings? Dont think he's coming this year after he got roasted a few years back

batistuta9

wandatowell wrote: »

Seeing how the club is run its fairly obvious that we wont be spending much more money.


Didnt Arsene attend the AST yearly meetings? Dont think he's coming this year after he got roasted a few years back

won't be spending much more and not spending any more at all is a big difference.




To be honest all this "we should buy him + him" etc. is a load of nonsense, no harm in having an opinion but people think they know more about football & what the team needs than the manager is ridiculous

ImpossibleDuck

batistuta9 wrote: »

won't be spending much more and not spending any more at all is a big difference.




To be honest all this "we should buy him + him" etc. is a load of nonsense, no harm in having an opinion but people think they know more about football & what the team needs than the manager is ridiculous

Yeah because Park was a revelation!

batistuta9

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

Yeah because Park was a revelation!

and you knew how it was going to turn out did you?

tayto lover

batistuta9 wrote: »

who said we weren't buying?

Oh we'll buy someone alright. Probably a kid who might / might not do a job for us in 5 years time. We should not ignore the gaping holes that were there for much of last year though. All the teams around us are strengthening so we need to keep abreast of them too.

andrew241983

Lads this stuff gets said every season just look at what everyone was saying at tthe start of this season and then quickly backtracked... Wenger will sort it out he always does...its harder with the euros with clubs and players trying to hold out to see if they have a gud tournament to get an unflated price...but remember wenger isnt sitting at home having wine and cheese everyday ..he is hard at work every dsy and night trying to get best players for arsenal...

So just keep the faith

batistuta9

tayto lover wrote: »

Oh we'll buy someone alright. Probably a kid who might / might not do a job for us in 5 years time. We should not ignore the gaping holes that were there for much of last year though. All the teams around us are strengthening so we need to keep abreast of them too.

none of the teams around us have signed anyone yet except chelsea and they don't even have a manager ffs + look how roman's other signings turned out shevchenko & torres, well torres might turn it around.

tottenham are going to get vertonghen, but we've already signed podolski so apart from the circus going on at the bridge no one is really stealing a march regarding transfers.

they'll be more signings ready to go into the first team i think by the sounds of it but just not that many

emergingstar

It's the 3rd of June for ffs why is everyone moaning and worried

KaiserGunner

andrew241983 wrote: »

Lads this stuff gets said every season just look at what everyone was saying at tthe start of this season and then quickly backtracked... Wenger will sort it out he always does...its harder with the euros with clubs and players trying to hold out to see if they have a gud tournament to get an unflated price...but remember wenger isnt sitting at home having wine and cheese everyday ..he is hard at work every dsy and night trying to get best players for arsenal...

So just keep the faith

Whilst im not panicking yet seeing how its only the beginning of June, what happened last summer transfer window cannot happen again. We were totally unprepared for the start of last season, just look at the starting lineups we had for the Newcastle, Liverpool and Man Utd matches last August. It almost derailed our season before it even began. In my mind last season was totally forgettable bar a couple of matches here and there. Fair enough we did brilliantly to come back and grab third place but we didnt compete (i.e look like winning) in any of the competitions that we were in last season.

This cannot happen for the season coming up, so I really hope that we will have all our signings completed before we kick off our first match in August.



We should be looking to push on and strengthen the squad

Sgt Pepper 64

KaiserGunner wrote: »

Whilst im not panicking yet seeing how its only the beginning of June, what happened last summer transfer window cannot happen again. We were totally unprepared for the start of last season, just look at the starting lineups we had for the Newcastle, Liverpool and Man Utd matches last August. It almost derailed our season before it even began. In my mind last season was totally forgettable bar a couple of matches here and there. Fair enough we did brilliantly to come back and grab third place but we didnt compete (i.e look like winning) in any of the competitions that we were in last season.

This cannot happen for the season coming up, so I really hope that we will have all our signings completed before we kick off our first match in August.



We should be looking to push on and strengthen the squad

IMO, the Fab and Nasri transfers distracted you and sudddenly it looked like you were scrambling around trying to get players in.
I would just hope that Van Persie and Walcott dont do the same.

BTW - who of you wants to keep Yossi? Pretty sure he wont be coming back to the bridge

bad2dabone

I'd be happy to keep yossi as a squad player, he put in some decent shifts for us.

ImpossibleDuck

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

IMO, the Fab and Nasri transfers distracted you and sudddenly it looked like you were scrambling around trying to get players in.

What the hell do you mean it looked like? We signed about 5 players on the last day of the window. If that's not scrambled and last minute I don't know what is!

AnCapaillMor

emergingstar wrote: »

It's the 3rd of June for ffs why is everyone moaning and worried

Exactly if chekski hadn't made those 2 big signings this early we wouldn't be as panicked.

wandatowell

batistuta9 wrote: »

won't be spending much more and not spending any more at all is a big difference.

When your right your right

TheBa

Deleted User wrote: »

To be fair i havent seen an awful lot of him to make a proper judgement but if he is better or even as good as Drogba then i think he must be a serious player. I rate Drog highly as a footballer but not so much as a human being.

Drogba's antics on the pitch are laughable and damaging to the game and his own team and reputation.

HOWEVER, don't mix this up with Drogba, the human being. The man is incredibly charitable and donates large chunks of his earnings to developing infrastructure liike hospitals back in the Ivory Coast. It's a true pity his on-field persona masks all his fantastic day to day work.

greendom

TheBa wrote: »

Drogba's antics on the pitch are laughable and damaging to the game and his own team and reputation.

HOWEVER, don't mix this up with Drogba, the human being. The man is incredibly charitable and donates large chunks of his earnings to developing infrastructure liike hospitals back in the Ivory Coast. It's a true pity his on-field persona masks all his fantastic day to day work.

Absolutely - a wonderful human being - head and shoulders above your average premier league player.

TheBa

andrew241983 wrote: »

Lads this stuff gets said every season just look at what everyone was saying at tthe start of this season and then quickly backtracked... Wenger will sort it out he always does...its harder with the euros with clubs and players trying to hold out to see if they have a gud tournament to get an unflated price...but remember wenger isnt sitting at home having wine and cheese everyday ..he is hard at work every dsy and night trying to get best players for arsenal...

So just keep the faith

Wenger will be doing TV and sponsorship work for the Euros.

But it's worth noting that Arsenal spend serious money on a worldwide scouting network and are working all year round at identifying transfer targets. Apparently Ronaldo was scouted by us 12 times, but United swooped after he had a stormer against them in a friendly or some rubbish tournament.

As for Park, well...... maybe it's better and healthier for us all not to think about it....

G1032

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

batistuta9 wrote: »

won't be spending much more and not spending any more at all is a big difference.




To be honest all this "we should buy him + him" etc. is a load of nonsense, no harm in having an opinion but people think they know more about football & what the team needs than the manager is ridiculous

Yeah because Park was a revelation!

And Bebe was a revelation for United......
Some transfers just don't work out for one reason or another. Amazing that you're focusing on Park and not the brilliant transfers Wenger has made down through the years. No need to name them but there has been more great transfer than poor ones.

stuchyg

TheBa wrote: »

Wenger will be doing TV and sponsorship work for the Euros.

But it's worth noting that Arsenal spend serious money on a worldwide scouting network and are working all year round at identifying transfer targets. Apparently Ronaldo was scouted by us 12 times, but United swooped after he had a stormer against them in a friendly or some rubbish tournament.

As for Park, well...... maybe it's better and healthier for us all not to think about it....

Remember I watched that Lisbon - United friendly on TV, Ronaldo destroyed them as an 18 year old. Regarding all our scouting, we had acutually agreed a 3.5 million deal with Lisbon but were gazumped by United, iirc it was one of the deals investigated by FIFA involving United

TheBa

stuchyg wrote: »

Remember I watched that Lisbon - United friendly on TV, Ronaldo destroyed them as an 18 year old. Regarding all our scouting, we had acutually agreed a 3.5 million deal with Lisbon but were gazumped by United, iirc it was one of the deals investigated by FIFA involving United

There you go. If we pick up another Fabregas/RVP/Vieira/Ljungberg (all under £4m) this summer, are we gonna slate them because they don't have the huge price tags of Arshavin/Hleb/Reyes etc?

Personally, I'd be happy if we bought one CM and kept RVP and Walcott.

This would do nicely...
http://news.arseblog.com/2012/06/why-arsenal-might-be-interested-in-yann-by-the-numbers/

wandatowell

TheBa wrote: »

kept Walcott.

I'm in two minds about the little fella, I dont like him as I think he is a coward but it would be a shame for Arsene to have put in so much effort in with him to explode at another team,

tsoparno

wandatowell wrote: »

I'm in two minds about the little fella, I dont like him as I think he is a coward but it would be a shame for Arsene to have put in so much effort in with him to explode at another team,

+1 I just don't think he's good enough. His 2 goals against the spuds he took well but he got lucky as his first touch/control almost let him down on both, and this seems to be a recurring theme with him. I'd be happy if we cashed in on him.

greendom

Walcott is on a par with Mata for goals and assists for last season. I suppose you'd want to get rid of him too if he were an Arsenal player ? Theo does frustrate from time to time, but what he gives the team outweighs his deficiencies. He would be very difficult, and expensive, to replace.

Mickeroo

No way should they get rid of Walcott. He's a frustrating player, down right useless at times, but he helps give the team depth if we get a few good players in. He's capable of single handedly winning games on his day.

UnknownSpecies

He seems to love the club too. Can't buy that and we need it.

tsoparno

Mickeroo wrote: »

No way should they get rid of Walcott. He's a frustrating player, down right useless at times, but he helps give the team depth if we get a few good players in. He's capable of single handedly winning games on his day.

I'd argue it's most of the time, really think fans are looking at him through rose tinted glasses. Freddie hadn't half the pace of Walcott and he'd regularly get beyond the defences, something Walcott should be doing every game not once every five games.

emergingstar

Reports that ozzie is on the way out really disappointed if its true fully expected him to make it