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

dvemail

AdamD wrote: »

Means they'll sign Costa and have plenty left over whilst still complying with FFP. Depressing that one club's idiocy will benefit Chelsea so much.

Exactly why I'm pissed off with it. Now means they can splash the cash on two top notch strikers,

GavRedKing

dvemail wrote: »

Exactly why I'm pissed off with it. Now means they can splash the cash on two top notch strikers,

We only need one if we can manage to talk Lukaku around.

extra gravy

dvemail wrote: »

Apparently David Luiz is off to PSG for the small sum of 50million and he doesn't even start for Chelsea. :eek:
If he is worth that much, how much is Koscienly or Kompany worth? 80 million plus? :pac:

£50m for a defender that can't defend. Insane price tag.

dvemail

GavRedKing wrote: »

We only need one if we can manage to talk Lukaku around.

Would do well to keep him.
Him and Costa and ye will be tough to beat next season.

Mr Blobby

extra gravy wrote: »

£50m for a defender that can't defend. Insane price tag.

Well it's actually £40M (which is still 10m too much)
But in PSGs defence having David Luiz and Thiago Silva as a CB partnership is great.

It'll also allow for Marquinhos to mature and eventually take over from Silva.

Skylinehead

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Well it's actually £40M (which is still 10m too much)
But in PSGs defence having David Luiz and Thiago Silva as a CB partnership is great.

It'll also allow for Marquinhos to mature and eventually take over from Silva.

Marquinhos is a better defender than David Luiz as of right now...

dvemail

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Well it's actually £40M (which is still 10m too much)
But in PSGs defence having David Luiz and Thiago Silva as a CB partnership is great.

It'll also allow for Marquinhos to mature and eventually take over from Silva.

Apparently he is off to Barca.

greendom

Skylinehead wrote: »

Marquinhos is a better defender than David Luiz as of right now...

Luiz does seem to perform better for Brazil than Chelsea though. Maybe him and Silva is the ideal centre-back partnership. (After Kos and Merts of course)

Mr Blobby

Skylinehead wrote: »

Marquinhos is a better defender than David Luiz as of right now...

Depends on the type of defender.
Yes Marquinhos is a better stopper but Luiz is better when playing the ball out of defence.

Mr Blobby

greendom wrote: »

Luiz does seem to perform better for Brazil than Chelsea though. Maybe him and Silva is the ideal centre-back partnership. (After Kos and Merts of course)

You just have to watch Silva and Luiz for Brazil to see how good they are together.

Skylinehead

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Depends on the type of defender.
Yes Marquinhos is a better stopper but Luiz is better when playing the ball out of defence.

Playing the ball out of defence is a good attribute to have, but I find it's better not to be a complete liability :pac:

Quazzie

AdamD wrote: »

Means they'll sign Costa and have plenty left over whilst still complying with FFP. Depressing that one club's idiocy will benefit Chelsea so much.

In fairness we built a stadium based considerably on other peoples idiocy so we can't complain too much.

Gringo180

greendom wrote: »

With that line-up there'd be a lot more goals - at both ends !

Its Arsenal we always entertain

Alfred Borden

List of players kept and released for next year, its really the end of nicky B??? :pac:

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2013-14/may/premier-league-clubs-submit-retained-and-released-lists.html

.jacksparrow.

Raf32 wrote: »

List of players kept and released for next year, its really the end of nicky B??? :pac:

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2013-14/may/premier-league-clubs-submit-retained-and-released-lists.html

Siemann Leander

He should be kept purely based on his name....

GavRedKing

dvemail wrote: »

Would do well to keep him.
Him and Costa and ye will be tough to beat next season.

Thats key, he wanted out when he was going to be 3rd choice, that probably wont change if hes to be 2nd choice but you never know.

So eh...

Gunners, eh?

No news?

So eh...

Gunners, eh?

No news?

fulmer1984

disappointed in a couple of former arsenal youth players that were released in Conor Henderson and Jernade Meade, thought they would kick on at Hull and Swansea respectively. Looks like Meade couldnt even impress a crap team like Luton on loan

'He did not feature for Luton's first-team during his time at the club, appearing only in development squad games, with manager John Still stating that he "would have liked to have seen [Meade] do a bit better"'

Alfred Borden

Pantilimon and Lescott available, snap both of them up, could do much worse business.

greendom

Raf32 wrote: »

Pantilimon and Lescott available, snap both of them up, could do much worse business.

City have released Pantilimon ? That's mad. Let's get him. And Lescott come to that!

.jacksparrow.

fulmer1984 wrote: »

disappointed in a couple of former arsenal youth players that were released in Conor Henderson and Jernade Meade, thought they would kick on at Hull and Swansea respectively. Looks like Meade couldnt even impress a crap team like Luton on loan

'He did not feature for Luton's first-team during his time at the club, appearing only in development squad games, with manager John Still stating that he "would have liked to have seen [Meade] do a bit better"'

Remember seen Henderson few years ago and thought he looked a good prospect for arsenal and Ireland, even remember wenger talking about him, then he got that knee injury and things changed.

Feel for him.

Alfred Borden

greendom wrote: »

City have released Pantilimon ? That's mad. Let's get him. And Lescott come to that!

Yup no reason why we cant replace Fab now in fairness. Schwarzer released from Chelsea too. Buy Aurier and throw in Lescott and we can work on the midfield up during and after the world cup.

fulmer1984

heres a challenge,

from the list of released players, create your starting 11 released players (obviously not including retired players like bellamy and giggs)... heres mine

GK: Pantillimon
DF: Ashley Cole; john arne riise; Joleon Lescott; Rio ferdinand
MF: Frank Lampard; Marc Albrighton; steve sidwell; Gareth Barry
ST: Samuel Etoo; Matt Fryatt

.jacksparrow.

fulmer1984 wrote: »

heres a challenge,

from the list of released players, create your starting 11 released players (obviously not including retired players like bellamy and giggs)... heres mine

GK: Pantillimon
DF: Ashley Cole; john arne riise; Joleon Lescott; Rio ferdinand
MF: Frank Lampard; Marc Albrighton; steve sidwell; Gareth Barry
ST: Samuel Etoo; Matt Fryatt

You forgot Nicky B, shame.

fulmer1984

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

You forgot Nicky B, shame.

Wouldnt have him in the squad. may aswell have Park and Chamakh

Alfred Borden

Its only over a week and i miss it already!!

TUBBY

fulmer1984 wrote: »

heres a challenge,

from the list of released players, create your starting 11 released players (obviously not including retired players like bellamy and giggs)... heres mine

GK: Pantillimon
DF: Ashley Cole; john arne riise; Joleon Lescott; Rio ferdinand
MF: Frank Lampard; Marc Albrighton; steve sidwell; Gareth Barry
ST: Samuel Etoo; Matt Fryatt

i guarantee you that team would finish mid table at worst.

Wonda-Boy

TUBBY wrote: »

i guarantee you that team would finish mid table at worst.

Could easily win a cup too.

Quazzie

TUBBY wrote: »

i guarantee you that team would finish mid table at worst.

No pace apart from Cole, no wingers, strikers who haven't been in good recent form, and no real shape to the midfield. That team would struggle to be honest. Better teams have gone down,.

dvemail

You know we are struggling for news when people are discussing a fictional team of released players and all their shortcomings.

fulmer1984

Quazzie wrote: »

No pace apart from Cole, no wingers, strikers who haven't been in good recent form, and no real shape to the midfield. That team would struggle to be honest. Better teams have gone down,.

pick a better team from the list then...

Quazzie

fulmer1984 wrote: »

pick a better team from the list then...

I'm not saying it's not the best team on the list, I'm just saying it wouldn't finish mid table

gosplan

Every so often I remember that we get to play in the charity shield again.

Yay!

Though I've heard that City are trying to pay to have it moved to their ground for a ten am kickoff

Muirshin Durkin

gosplan wrote: »

Every so often I remember that we get to play in the charity shield again.

Yay!

Though I've heard that City are trying to pay to have it moved to their ground for a ten am kickoff

As long as its not 12.45 on a saturday we're grand.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

I wonder would PSG be more willing to sell Cavani now to balance their books as it were. Would be perfect.

Alfred Borden

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

I wonder would PSG be more willing to sell Cavani now to balance their books as it were. Would be perfect.

If we got him and still had Arteta as our DM, we would walk the league. Special player.

Mr.Micro

Raf32 wrote: »

Its only over a week and i miss it already!!

On a brighter note, CL final tonight. Also World Cup starting soon.

dvemail

dvemail wrote: »

You know we are struggling for news when people are discussing a fictional team of released players and all their shortcomings.

7 days since we last won a trophy too... Getting worried about this famine :pac:

OneEightSeven

If we fail to qualify for the Champions League group stages, will Arsenal's 2013/2014 season go down as a failure?

OneEightSeven

OneEightSeven wrote: »

If we fail to qualify for the Champions League group stages, will Arsenal's 2013/2014 season go down as a failure?

It will be a bit of a setback alright but sure that takes place in the 14/15 season so will apply to then.

Kerry Gooner

OneEightSeven wrote: »

If we fail to qualify for the Champions League group stages, will Arsenal's 2013/2014 season go down as a failure?

No, but it will be a bad start to the 2014/2015 season

Augmerson

Cesc Fabregas apparently left out of Barca's new kit launch pictures on their website.

Would ye have him back?

dvemail

Augmerson wrote: »

Cesc Fabregas apparently left out of Barca's new kit launch pictures on their website.

Would ye have him back?

Barca have a Nike kit and Fabregas is under 100% sponsorship with Puma meaning he can't appear in any Nike ads as far as i know.

greendom

Augmerson wrote: »

Cesc Fabregas apparently left out of Barca's new kit launch pictures on their website.

Would ye have him back?

My heart says yes, my head no, especially if his purchase means we don't reinforce in defensive midfield and/or up front.

Alfred Borden

Wouldnt mind QPR losing here. Got used to not seeing Harry around and could drive the price down for Remy if we want him.

AdamD

Derby play good football too

brianregan09

Would also much prefer derby in the less redknapp and more importantly less joey Barton

Marty McFly

50million for the Luiz the world of football has gone bat **** crazy.

Kos must be worth about a 100 million so.

fulmer1984

sickener for Derby