Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

Alfred Borden

I know Ozil is unreal and that, but im still the biggest Santi fanboy :pac:

Marty McFly

Just logged on after a busy day expected the thread to be back to its normal few posts a day fook me that was a lot of reading glad to see it's still active .

Still amazed and excited we signed Ozil had great craic in work with all the Spurs, United and Chelsea fans .

cson wrote: »

Speaking of keepers; that signing of the Palermo lad is one of the strangest AW transfers I've seen I think - what was wrong with Fabianski as back up? Really should have concentrated efforts elsewhere.

Not really about a week before we signed him Wenger explained how he was looking for a back up keeper as he felt having only two keepers he trusted wasn't good enough should one get injured we would be left very short , I know a bit ironic given our Cf situation but that was something he did try rectify things just went tits up every time we tried, these things can happen. Look at United's window think they got like there tenth choice midfielder.

Raf32 wrote: »

Tottenham Hotspur legend Jürgen Klinsmann told Mesut Özil to sign for Arsenal.
There are no words to describe this, even he knows they will always be in our shadow

Fcuk off link?

Marty McFly

Raf32 wrote: »

I know Ozil is unreal and that, but im still the biggest Santi fanboy :pac:

I'm a huge Santi, Podolski, Kos, Sczez, Ozil and Wilshere fanboy don't ask me to choose one :pac:.

Alfred Borden

Marty McFly wrote: »

Fcuk off link?

here ya go http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10284922/Mesut-Ozils-42m-move-to-Arsenal-sealed-with-one-phone-call-from-manager-Arsene-Wenger.html

"Soon after the deal was clinched, Jürgen Klinsmann sent Özil a message telling him that Wenger’s Arsenal would be the perfect fit."

emergingstar

Marty McFly wrote: »

I'm a huge Santi, Podolski, Kos, Sczez, Ozil and Wilshere fanboy don't ask me to choose one :pac:.

Easy

Ramsey

shano_88

Raf32 wrote: »

I know Ozil is unreal and that, but im still the biggest Santi fanboy :pac:

Me too. Great video here with the highlights of Santis first season with Arsenal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VtRnK-0kdg

Alfred Borden

For me personally i wouldnt know what to do with myself seeing the link up play between Ozil, Santi and Rosicky, cant imagine much better!

dfbemt

bad2dabone wrote: »

Hmmmm Norwich at home Saturday 19th october, return to heathrow is 110 euro, get the tube straight to the ground
reckon i could make the trip for less than 200 quid including ticket. be worth it.

Return to gatwick for less than €50 with Ryanair, £20 train to Victoria then tube.

Should save a few quid that way

Gringo180

Think ill head into Champion 2moro and get the new away jersey with Ozil on the back of it. They better put the 2 dots on top of the O or else there shall be harsh words exchanged

Marty McFly

emergingstar wrote: »

Easy

Ramsey

:pac: no suprise there really .

Great to see the thread unified and excited for a change.

Hopefully Ozil will not only put in the performances on the pitch but help us off the pitch for the likes of Zelalem training with and watching someone of his caliber can only help spur him on and improve his game.

tayto lover

Will be interesting to see who Wenger picks in midfield for the next few games to prepare for the United clash. All have been playing well before the Ozil signing.

Gringo180

tayto lover wrote: »

Will be interesting to see who Wenger picks in midfield for the next few games to prepare for the United clash. All have been playing well before the Ozil signing.

I think Ozil is a definite starter anyways, him and Santi first names on the team sheet. I would go with Rosicky, Ramsey OZil with Santi out on the left and Walcott out wide. Give Jack a rest I reckon he will benefit from a few games on the bench and coming on for the last 20mins.

tayto lover

Gringo180 wrote: »

I think Ozil is a definite starter anyways, him and Santi first names on the team sheet. I would go with Rosicky, Ramsey OZil with Santi out on the left and Walcott out wide. Give Jack a rest I reckon he will benefit from a few games on the bench and coming on for the last 20mins.

What about Arteta and Flamini?

jester77

tayto lover wrote: »

What about Arteta and Flamini?

Play them all, attack is the best defense

Marty McFly

Gringo180 wrote: »

I think Ozil is a definite starter anyways, him and Santi first names on the team sheet. I would go with Rosicky, Ramsey OZil with Santi out on the left and Walcott out wide. Give Jack a rest I reckon he will benefit from a few games on the bench and coming on for the last 20mins.

I reckon Ozil will be a certain starter but maybe not for the first few games as Wenger beds him in gets him acquianted with our tactic and players.

Gringo180

tayto lover wrote: »

What about Arteta and Flamini?

Is Arteta available for our next game?? To be fair to Rosicky and Ramsey they have been fantastic so far this season so it would be harsh for them to be left out for Flamini at this point in time. I think Flamini will do a great job against the better teams in stifling there attacking threat.

To be fair we really have a whole host of top players who are in great form to choose from in the midfield department, a real selection headache the boss has.

Marty McFly

Gringo180 wrote: »

Is Arteta available for our next game?? To be fair to Rosicky and Ramsey they have been fantastic so far this season so it would be harsh for them to be left out for Flamini at this point in time. I think Flamini will do a great job against the better teams in stifling there attacking threat.

To be fair we really have a whole host of top players who are in great form to choose from in the midfield department, a real selection headache the boss has.

It feels fantastic to have that problem again.

richierichballs

I'm not an arsenal fan but congratulations on an absolutely wonderful signing,
You guys deserve it.

Alfred Borden

Some love for our other signing, comes across very good, could be a coup.

Ed Winchester

richierichballs wrote: »

I'm not an arsenal fan but congratulations on an absolutely wonderful signing,
You guys deserve it.

Unbelievable Tekkers!

Radharc na Sleibhte

Must be so good for the others.
The attention Özil will get will leave space for Cazorla maybe.
God I cant wait to see him.
Im tempted to go to the Stoke match.

Alfred Borden

Ozil and Cazorla > Fabregas and Nasri

Awesomeness

Jeez lads I have it bad. Watching Ozil videos has become like a new kind of porn to me waiting to see him line up in his debut

Radharc na Sleibhte

Awesomeness wrote: »

Jeez lads I have it bad. Watching Ozil videos has become like a new kind of porn to me waiting to see him line up in his debut

Haha, im here in bed, with the mrs beside me asleep, watching........

Özil

efb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HUTDmUt90U

Özil, Ö, Ö, Ö, Ö, Ö, Ö, Özil, Ö, Ö, Ö, Ö, Ö, Ö!

yupya1

I still can't believe we got him, how the f*ck would anybody sell him, even Madrid?
and for half a bale too, not bad.

Radharc na Sleibhte

One observation from looking at all these highlights is I would say Cristiano Ronaldo will really miss him.
He must have final assisted 70% of his goals.

Also, John Henry.
What are we smoking?
Big fuking German cigars washed down with German beer.

I am excited beyond belief.

Paulegend

its a pittty that podo is out at the moment. i think them linking up for club and country will only be a good thing for ye. very like the alonso torres days at the pool

FearDark

I have never seen so much of this letter in my entire life before.

Radharc na Sleibhte

FearDark wrote: »

I have never seen sö much öf this letter in my entire life beföre.

Fixed yöur pöst

🇩🇪

Ardennes1944

Ah yes, good ol mister umlaut, be thankful theres no eszett :pac:

Alfred Borden

interesting article, short term deal for one perhaps, until January?
http://hereisthecity.com/2013/09/03/seven-free-agent-strikers-arsenal-can-still-sign/?utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia&utm_content=%2F2013%2F09%2F03%2Fseven-free-agent-strikers-arsenal-can-still-sign%2F&utm_source=Twitter

Awesomeness

Raf32 wrote: »

interesting article, short term deal for one perhaps, until January?
http://hereisthecity.com/2013/09/03/seven-free-agent-strikers-arsenal-can-still-sign/?utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia&utm_content=%2F2013%2F09%2F03%2Fseven-free-agent-strikers-arsenal-can-still-sign%2F&utm_source=Twitter

Is rather stick with the options we have to be honest. I have faith with Theo playing throught the middle if needs be with Ozil Cazorla and either OX or Rosicky behind

bad2dabone

thats a good interview with Viviano, he comes across as very enthusiastic and confident. Good on him. Hope he gets a few games to show us how he is.

Soby

Apologies if posted already

darego

rvp leaves because of "lack of ambition" and a year later we sign ozil. now apparently he is unhappy, unconvinced of moyes and misses fergie

fooking delighted.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/336543/Robin-van-Persie-and-David-Moyes-hit-skids?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+daily-star-football+%28Daily+Star+%3A%3A+Football+Feed%29

jonneymendoza

darego wrote: »

rvp leaves because of "lack of ambition" and a year later we sign ozil. now apparently he is unhappy, unconvinced of moyes and misses fergie

fooking delighted.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/336543/Robin-van-Persie-and-David-Moyes-hit-skids?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+daily-star-football+%28Daily+Star+%3A%3A+Football+Feed%29

Still early days but he leaves arsenal for lack of ambition and 12 months later arsenal finally buy big . a small club doesnt attract and spend over 40m for a world class player Ozil. RVP is full of ****. Always has been tbh. Boy it will be funny if this article was actually true.

Oranage2

He did win the league and most likely got a big pay rise, I was p*ssed when he left but the team he played with was muck and all we did was Song chipped the ball to rvp and he scored.

Maybe if we signed the players we have now then he would have stayed, id blame the club for having a lack of ambition.

Hopefully we can add to ozil and really make a go at winning things, the 40 million is just the tv money, with the group we have in the champions league and the money for getting to the top 16 is huge, also spurs straightening too, it just has a feel that we're aiming for 4th and just to get out of the group to turn over the all important profit.

L'prof

Raf32 wrote: »

interesting article, short term deal for one perhaps, until January?
http://hereisthecity.com/2013/09/03/seven-free-agent-strikers-arsenal-can-still-sign/?utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia&utm_content=%2F2013%2F09%2F03%2Fseven-free-agent-strikers-arsenal-can-still-sign%2F&utm_source=Twitter

Don't think any of them would do any better than Bendtner to be honest.

Marty McFly

Oranage2 wrote: »

Maybe if we signed the players we have now then he would have stayed, id blame the club for having a lack of ambition.

Hopefully we can add to ozil and really make a go at winning things, the 40 million is just the tv money, with the group we have in the champions league and the money for getting to the top 16 is huge, also spurs straightening too, it just has a feel that we're aiming for 4th and just to get out of the group to turn over the all important profit.

But the money wasn't available then at the time to Wenger to sign the players we needed or he wanted but you can be sure Wenger explained to him what the situation was and were he saw the cub going.

Were clearly aiming for fourth, you really think Ozil would have signed unless Wenger hadn't sold him on Arsenal plans for the future? He said one phone call from Wenger persuaded him to join and you can be sure Wenger didn't say yeh lets bring on fourth place .

Plus I think ourselves and Spurs can be possibly aiming higher this year, Chelsea baffle me great defence great midfiled but just sent there best CF out on loan and and are incredibly weak up front, the signing of Ozil scared Chelsea enough for them to refuse to loan us Ba.

United's midfield even with the addition of Fellaini is still weak and I don't think Moyes will have the same knack Ferguson did for getting the best out of an average team and grind out results, Young, Valencia,Cleverly etc are no great shakes.

City have a great squad but last season struggled to make it click and it remains to be seen whether Pellegrini can make it happen.

I'm not saying we will win the league, but we certainly have more than enough to really push on and threaten them teams this season I'm already aiming higher than fourth, remember last season we only finished 5 points behind City.

cathalio11

Honestly, I think Torres and Ba are better than Lukaku.

That's just my opinion but it's even arguable that Ba at Newcastle was more impressive than Lukaku at West Brom.

I'm just nit-picking though. I agree wholly with the above post.

Marty McFly

cathalio11 wrote: »

Honestly, I think Torres and Ba are better than Lukaku.

That's just my opinion but it's even arguable that Ba at Newcastle was more impressive than Lukaku at West Brom.

I'm just nit-picking though. I agree wholly with the above post.

I do like Ba and think he would have been a good addition as back up to Giroud but he is clearly not fancied at Chelsea by Mourinho doubt he will see much game time, Torres well we all know what the deal is with him.

Eto at 32 is not going to be the same player he once was and I don't think playing in Russia for two years will have helped him can he still score goals at a high level remains to be seen.

Lukaku I think should have stayed and will be a great player, I know a few Chelsea fans who were not to happy about the loaning of Lukaku and Torres being kept.

I know a bit ironic questioning Chelsea's striking option when currently we only have 1 we really trust but given there squad depth in defence in midfield and defence the CF position is there weakest and really needed proper strenghtening. I'd have Giroud over Torres anyday.

Anyways enough Chelsea talk , this is a good read

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-madness-of-the-transfer-window

Marty McFly

Someone might want to update twitter they just sent me this based on me following Ozil .


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emergingstar

Throwing it out there

Cesc doesn't start the big games for Barca

Come January or next summer we pounce

Cazorla, Cesc, Özil,

ronjo

emergingstar wrote: »

Throwing it out there

Cesc doesn't start the big games for Barca

Come January or next summer we pounce

Cazorla, Cesc, Özil,

With Cazorla and Ozil there he might struggle for our big games too

richierichballs

emergingstar wrote: »

Throwing it out there

Cesc doesn't start the big games for Barca

Come January or next summer we pounce

Cazorla, Cesc, Özil,

Cesc will play alot more this season, sure he played the Xavi role the weekend,
Xavi didn't even travel with the squad. He's getting old and Tata Martino has been seemingly instructed to try slowly move him out for Cesc.

Pepe LeFrits

We don't need Cesc anymore anyway, we can move on.

Replaced Cesc, replaced Nasri, just need to replace van Persie now.

jonneymendoza

Oranage2 wrote: »

He did win the league and most likely got a big pay rise, I was p*ssed when he left but the team he played with was muck and all we did was Song chipped the ball to rvp and he scored.

Maybe if we signed the players we have now then he would have stayed, id blame the club for having a lack of ambition.

Hopefully we can add to ozil and really make a go at winning things, the 40 million is just the tv money, with the group we have in the champions league and the money for getting to the top 16 is huge, also spurs straightening too, it just has a feel that we're aiming for 4th and just to get out of the group to turn over the all important profit.

we signed podolski. mertz, girud and cazola whilst RVP was still an arsenal player.

We did actually show ambition but he ****ed off.

overpronator

richierichballs wrote: »

Cesc will play alot more this season, sure he played the Xavi role the weekend,
Xavi didn't even travel with the squad. He's getting old and Tata Martino has been seemingly instructed to try slowly move him out for Cesc.

I always loved it when Cesc played deeper for us, I think that's his strongest position.