Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013

Fuzzy_Dunlop

dorgasm wrote: »

You must have been following him before he turned it private. Once he goes private, all his new followers must be approved by him. I can't see any of his tweets, followers or people he's following. Hopefully I'll get approved though, he's always been one of the most reliable sources.

Hmmm yeah perhaps that's it. Only started following him a few weeks ago I think.

dvemail

dorgasm wrote: »

You must have been following him before he turned it private. Once he goes private, all his new followers must be approved by him. I can't see any of his tweets, followers or people he's following. Hopefully I'll get approved though, he's always been one of the most reliable sources.

Yeah that's it. I started following him while ago when he was still public. Then when people started to realise who he was he went private but left anyone following him on.

Marty McFly

Anyone know how reliable radio marca are? There claiming Monreal is flying to London for negotiations.

I have no idea who Monreal is just glad were making moves if true.


Edit: report claiming its a 10 million deal.

iainconlon12

Marty McFly wrote: »

Anyone know how reliable radio marca are? There claiming Monreal is flying to London for negotiations.

I have no idea who Monreal is just glad were making moves if true.


Edit: report claiming its a 10 million deal.

Seen that there. He's Malagas LB. I've seen bits of him when Malaga play on Sky Sports and he seems pretty good! Good going forward. Main thing is, HE'S BETTER THAN SANTOS. Thank Flip!

greendom

Marca is the no 1 sports paper in Spain so I imagine Radio Marca is an internet off-shoot - pretty reliable I would have thought for something like this.

They have a heavy pro R Madrid anti Barca bias though, so anything involving those clubs I'd take with a pinch of salt.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Marty McFly wrote: »

Anyone know how reliable radio marca are? There claiming Monreal is flying to London for negotiations.

I have no idea who Monreal is just glad were making moves if true.


Edit: report claiming its a 10 million deal.

Euro I imagine? Anyone know anything about him? Rated 79 in fifa, that's all I got.:pac:


[edit] also, great name.

Marty McFly

iainconlon12 wrote: »

Seen that there. He's Malagas LB. I've seen bits of him when Malaga play on Sky Sports and he seems pretty good! Good going forward. Main thing is, HE'S BETTER THAN SANTOS. Thank Flip!

Yeh from what im reading a lot of people claiming he is good enough to be our first choice LB.

TheGunns

Really hope Monreal becomes a done deal, Diame would be brilliant too but will have to wait on that one. Villa looks like its off but still hopeful!

wonga77

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacho_Monreal

have a quick look

edit,
somebody keeps fcuking with the page and somebody else keeps correcting it

farna_boy

iainconlon12 wrote: »

Seen that there. He's Malagas LB. I've seen bits of him when Malaga play on Sky Sports and he seems pretty good! Good going forward. Main thing is, HE'S BETTER THAN SANTOS. Thank Flip!

Interesting stat I found earlier:

Number of games we lost last year with Santos at LB: 3 (including the Blackburn game where Song and Kos scored two own goals)

Number of games we lost last year with Vermalen at LB: 2

Again, people are just trying to blame one player for us losing all the time but it isn't down to one or two players. Saying that it is oversimplifies the problems that the whole team has and prevents them from being fixed.

In reality, we need a whole new defense, none of them are good enough as is (some have potential) and until that happens we can pretty much expect much of the same for the rest of the season.

Marty McFly

farna_boy wrote: »

Interesting stat I found earlier:

Number of games we lost last year with Santos at LB: 3 (including the Blackburn game where Song and Kos scored two own goals)

Number of games we lost last year with Vermalen at LB: 2

Again, people are just trying to blame one player for us losing all the time but it isn't down to one or two players. Saying that it is oversimplifies the problems that the whole team has and prevents them from being fixed.

In reality, we need a whole new defense, none of them are good enough as is (some have potential) and until that happens we can pretty much expect much of the same for the rest of the season.

No one has blamed Santos on us loosing games

People have just stated how bad he is which is true, hes not good enough to wear an Arsenal jersey simple as. Yeh we need re inforcements in a lot of areas but he is the weakest link.

wonga77

Pity Monreal is cup tied if he is on the way

andrew241983

Haven't seen anything of Nacho Monreal is he the sort of player we need

TheGunns

wonga77 wrote: »

Pity Monreal is cup tied if he is on the way

If I have the rules right, were allowed to register 1 player who has previously played in Europe this season for another club. Pretty sure that's the recent change to that rule.

UnknownSpecies

Wenger leaving the training ground on SSN. Our deadline half-day has started.

flyingoutside

Wenger off home by the look of it on sky sports news.

Oranage2

dorgasm wrote: »

Wenger leaving the training ground on SSN. Our deadline half-day has started.

He's probably just on a half day today and is going home.

Marty McFly

David Ornstein now also reporting the Monreal deal, also people saying he's a left sided Zabaleta could deal with that.

Damn work soon, ill be stalking twitter for the night.

gosplan

flyingoutside wrote: »

Wenger off home by the look of it on sky sports news.

It's the ultimate bluff.

'You won't take 8 million for Villa? Right, fine, I'm going home. You'll see me do it on sky'

Then he hides behind his car and hopes his phone rings.

farna_boy

Marty McFly wrote: »

No one has blamed Santos on us loosing games

People have just sted how badly he is which is true, hes not good enough to wear an Arsenal jersey simple as. Yeh we need re inforcements in a lot of areas but he is the weakest link.

Yeah I know. It just seems that people seem to think that if we replace Santos/Gibbs all are defensive woes will be over which obviously won't be the case. You also have to wonder what will be the affect of bringing in a new player to a defense that already has problems communicating.

How the teams plays together seems to be a bigger problem at the moment. If we could fix that we would probably be much better off.

I think if we just played to our strengths and, for example, tried to catch teams on the counter attack, like we did for 10 minutes against West Ham, we wouldn't have any problem getting 4th.

For the record, I do think Santos is a potential liability, but it is just being overstated.

Soups123

gosplan wrote: »

It's the ultimate bluff.

'You won't take 8 million for Villa? Right, fine, I'm going home. You'll see me do it on sky'

Then he hides behind his car and hopes his phone rings.

And maybe as part of the bluff we are using a lookilikey and thats who was in the car

Pepe LeFrits

Last minute BUY ALL THE PLAYERS!!! wishlist:

Stekelenburg
Monreal
Diame
Villa

greendom

Santos off to Turkey apparently - the La Liga centre-back we were after Amb.... somebody wants to stay in Spain till the Summer

Marty McFly

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Stekelenburg

That seems to be a strange one all reports said he was getting a flight to London but was called back at the last minute as the deal for his replacement fell through.

UnknownSpecies

Jamie Sanderson ‏@YoungGunsBlog
Full details here on Arsenal's deal for Nacho Monreal: http://bit.ly/14zXVx6 . £8.5m fee. Player has arrived in London for talks.

gosplan

greendom wrote: »

Santos off to Turkey apparently - the La Liga centre-back we were after Amb.... somebody wants to stay in Spain till the Summer

People in pepe's site saying he's known for his rash challenges and holds the record for red cards in la liga.

Pass.

TheGunns

They're now talking about Monreal on Sky, looking better now

Mickeroo

I'm just going to go on the record and say ill call him Montreal from here on out just because I keep reading his name that way.

Pepe LeFrits

Nacho, nacho man, I want to be...

Pierce_1991

gosplan wrote: »

People in pepe's site saying he's known for his rash challenges and holds the record for red cards in la liga.

Pass.

He's known as the butcher of bilbao according to Arseblog

tayto lover

Is it Monreal or Unreal. Hope we get him though I have never even heard of him before. Spanish defenders are usually tough and no-nonsense so that's something anyway.

iainconlon12

To all the twitter hates out there, remember that GeoffArsenal was the first to mention Monreal today. Just saying.

UnknownSpecies

Arteta has helped Arsenal seem like a good option for Spanish players, first Santi and now Monreal. Also helps that we are taking full advantage of Malaga's financial woes.

Mickeroo

iainconlon12 wrote: »

To all the twitter hates out there, remember that GeoffArsenal was the first to mention Monreal today. Just saying.

Did we bid 30 million for him?

iainconlon12

Mickeroo wrote: »

Did we bid 30 million for him?

Haha you're one of them then?

iainconlon12

Graham Hunter on SSN saying that we had agreed to sign Monreal for the end of the season a while ago but the Gibbs injury forced us to push for Monreal to come in this window.

UnknownSpecies

Graham Hunter saying that Monreal has been learning English for months. Says there was an agreement for the past few months but it was for the end of the season. Apparently he's left Spain and is on his way here now. Take from that what you want.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Marty McFly wrote: »

That seems to be a strange one all reports said he was getting a flight to London but was called back at the last minute as the deal for his replacement fell through.

Sure just trun Mannone their way.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

dorgasm wrote: »

Arteta has helped Arsenal seem like a good option for Spanish players, first Santi and now Monreal. Also helps that we are taking full advantage of Malaga's financial woes.

They must hate us. Their version of Barca for us.


[edit]

Also

Sid Lowe ‏@sidlowe
Monreal: Tidy, well-positioned, decent on ball, steady full back. I like him.

That'll do.

AdamD

Malaga have signed Vitorino Antunes to replace the outgoing left-back, Nacho Monreal who now looks certain to sign for #AFC.


Graham Hunter just said it on Sky too

UnknownSpecies

His replacement is on his way to Malaga. Some Portuguese lad, didn't catch his name. Seems to be a done deal. Happy with that.

Ed Winchester

I'd put much more weight in what Sid Lowe says over Hunter.

AdamD

Ed Winchester wrote: »

I'd put much more weight in what Sid Lowe says over Hunter.

I'm sure if we do go ahead and sign him Sid will give us a decent lowdown on the player on Football Weekly.

iainconlon12

Medical passed apparently! Happy days lads!

Ed Winchester

iainconlon12 wrote: »

Medical passed apparently! Happy days lads!

Where did you get that?

GeorgeBailey

iainconlon12 wrote: »

Medical passed apparently! Happy days lads!

We're gonna win EVERYTHING now... or maybe just a game or two

gosplan

iainconlon12 wrote: »

Medical passed apparently! Happy days lads!

Now for Villa.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

That Gibbs injury may just be a blessing in disguise.

Alfred Borden

Geoff Arsenal ‏@GeoffArsenal
Looks like our attempt to sign a Striker has failed. Sigh. Summer it is then.

cson

I'd love to raid them for Isco as well. Don't really need him but he's unreal.

Need an attacking option too AW... get on it!