Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Warning Linked in OP

enfant terrible

Mickeroo wrote: »

I know it's all wild speculation at the moment, but keep Giroud and sign both Balotelli and Dr. Mic we could potentially have options up front to rival any team in the league.

They paid 20 million euros for him , their finances are apparently not great.

What bid would they find hard to turn down?

40 million euros maybe (33 million pounds).

Good deal for both sides I think.

TimeToShine

enfant terrible wrote: »

They paid 20 million euros for him , their finances are apparently not great.

What bid would they find hard to turn down?

40 million euros maybe (33 million pounds).

Good deal for both sides I think.

I remember someone saying that Puma sponsor Balotelli as well so if we were to go for him they'd chip in and help us out.

Mr Blobby

enfant terrible wrote: »

They paid 20 million euros for him , their finances are apparently not great.

What bid would they find hard to turn down?

40 million euros maybe (33 million pounds).

Good deal for both sides I think.

I think £30M would be enough.
Milan are in a bad way and without Champions league football they need to make money somehow.

enfant terrible

Mr Blobby wrote: »

I think £30M would be enough.
Milan are in a bad way and without Champions league football they need to make money somehow.

Yes they are about 250 million Euros in debt

http://acmilanfinance.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/debt.jpg

gnfnrhead

I think they would take £25m up front, something most teams cant afford to do. Most transfers are done in installments which is why they hold out for larger fee's. £25m up front would be very hard for them to turn down.

gnfnrhead

gnfnrhead wrote: »

I think they would take £25m up front, something most teams cant afford to do. Most transfers are done in installments which is why they hold out for larger fee's. £25m up front would be very hard for them to turn down.

Ah come on now. £25m +£1

OneEightSeven

The match thread just in case anyone missed it: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057192826

emergingstar

Remember Mourinho when Chelsea got a series of Mike Dean decisions V Arsenal? "They like to cry - that’s tradition."

Seen a journalist tweet this

dvemail

Reports were going to try get Chris Smalling for circa £13m.

speedboatchase

Drmic, Smalling... hopefully we get linked to some big names soon! Nothing wrong with Drmic as a back-up (with Giroud as another back-up) but if Chelsea get Costa then you might looking at the following leading the top 4 clubs: Suarez, Costa, Aguero and eh... Drmic.

wonga77

Smalling?? Where is that talk coming from?

Maire2009

Poor old Frimpong - in the news for this kind of sh1te the last few years more than his football. Deeeeench!

speedboatchase

wonga77 wrote: »

Smalling?? Where is that talk coming from?

Star on Sunday.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Id be happy with smalling, good player. Can't see why United would sell him though with vidic going and ferdinand in the way out

dvemail

Mostafa Solèr ‏@SolerMostafa
Haha brilliant 😂 @SheWore pic.twitter.com/dDeCvqIshH

emergingstar

Ozil and Ramsey in the same team again

Yes yes yes yes

dvemail

emergingstar wrote: »

Ozil and Ramsey in the same team again

Yes yes yes yes

Probably our strongest team since new years it could be said.

Gringo180

Ozil just different gravy!!

Ardennes1944

Ramsey, how we have missed him, see the running he did for the second goal. Bust a gut to get into the box to receive the ball.

emergingstar

Ramsey is world class

Turtwig

Surely Wenger will know to rotate Ozil and Rambo more now against the weaker opposition. Arsenal look totally different when they're on form.

Quazzie

If Podolski leaves in the summer the club has failed him. He is a fantastic player, a brilliant committed professional player and the club has rarely given him a chance to show how good he is.

I really hope he doesn't leave.

OneEightSeven

OneEightSeven wrote: »

If Arsenal win the FA Cup, 7th place in the Premiership becomes another Europa League spot, so either Spurs or Man Utd fans will be cheering on Arsenal during the final.

I was wrong about this: http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/fans/faqs/who-qualifies-to-play-in-europe/

In the event the FA Cup winners are qualified for the UEFA Champions League the FA Cup runners-up will qualify, but in the place reserved for the lowest ranking Barclays Premier League representative. The place with direct access to the Group Stage will be given to the club that finishes in the highest position in the Barclays Premier League of the clubs qualifying for the UEFA Europa League.

So, who would we prefer to be in the Europa League: Man Utd or Spurs? If United fail to win today, chances of Europe next season will be dim.

EuropeanSon

Quazzie wrote: »

If Podolski leaves in the summer the club has failed him. He is a fantastic player, a brilliant committed professional player and the club has rarely given him a chance to show how good he is.

I really hope he doesn't leave.

He's been a liability at times, can tend to be very peripheral. A few good games doesn't make that statement false.

I do hope we holds onto him though, he's a very good option to have and can be lethal.

Mickeroo

I think united will be happy to not qualify for it tbh.

bad2dabone

Mickeroo wrote: »

I think united will be happy to not qualify for it tbh.

no doubt in my mind that no european football has been a good thing for liverpool this season. If we failed for 4th and got 5th i'd be torn between wanting us to win the Europa league and wanting us to disregard it completely.

AdamD

Prefer Spurs to 'miss out' than United. United without any European distraction will be contenders.

CatInABox

For the amount of games that Sanogo has played, he's got a huge amount of air kicks to his name.

Alfred Borden

Hair still perfect :pac:

dvemail

Was some of the best football I've seen us play for quite a while.
Keep this up until the end of the season and we will be a happy set of fans.

CatInABox

dvemail wrote: »

Was some of the best football I've seen us play for quite a while.
Keep this up until the end of the season and we will be a happy set of fans.

Well, relatively...

dvemail

CatInABox wrote: »

Well, relatively...

Well I will be anyways. Life is too short to be worrying about the what ifs.

Mickeroo

I do like that single point gap between us and City. Need them and Chelsea to crumble a bit more now.

farna_boy

Good win again today, although I did find it a bit frustrating towards the end. We could easily have put 5 past Hull today and we didn't. Given we now have the same goal difference as Everton, the extra few goals could have been handy. It would also have been nice to see Poldi get his hat trick and Sanago to get a goal as well, but we were happier to just pas it around at the back.

I reckon that is why Suarez/Liverpool have such a good goal scoring record this year. Apart from being able to take the chances, once Liverpool see that a team are there for the taking the go out and try to put as many goals past them as possible. On the other hand we are usually just happy putting one or two past the same team and sitting back, which has almost cost us a few times this year.

Maire2009

So great to have Ramsey and Ozil back playing again.

This is such an odd feeling to have after an Arsenal game - relaxed!

tayto lover

I think that's our biggest league win this season.
Only 3 goal margin I can recall.
I could be wrong.

dvemail

tayto lover wrote: »

I think that's our biggest league win this season.
Only 3 goal margin I can recall.
I could be wrong.

Norwich at home i think?

Skylinehead

tayto lover wrote: »

I think that's our biggest league win this season.
Only 3 goal margin I can recall.
I could be wrong.

Norwich, Sunderland, Cardiff.

dvemail

I think this is the first time I've ever wanted Utd to beat Everton.

OneEightSeven

Arteta isn't smiling for some reason.

Skylinehead

Very oddly, we had 0 corners. Still dominated

fulmer1984

Everton are too good for United. Cant see them losing sadly

greendom

fulmer1984 wrote: »

Everton are too good for United. Cant see them losing sadly

Thank God for Palace !

tayto lover

It still pains me to think that we only took one point out of six from United. :mad:

cson

tayto lover wrote: »

It still pains me to think that we only took one point out of six from United. :mad:

They really were there for the taking both times. They have a 'thing' over us though.

emergingstar

Arsenal's last 4 goals: Ramsey assist, Ramsey goal, Ramsey assist, Poldi rebound after Ramsey shot. He's back.

Knex*

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Anyone who says no to Balotelli is as mad as a box of spiders.

Or Balotelli himself.

bad2dabone

Moyes has let United fans down all season. But today he's let us down too. Shame on you moyes. Shame on you.

dvemail

bad2dabone wrote: »

Moyes has let United fans down all season. But today he's let us down too. Shame on you moyes. Shame on you.

Need City to get a result there big time to relieve the pressure.

OneEightSeven

With Newcastle's form, I'm not too worried about next weekend.