Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread Summer 2015

tayto lover

carltonleon wrote: »

Look I am as disappointed as the next fan that we couldn't manage to sign a World Class striker but I don't understand this. What was he supposed to say , Yes he is out for 4 months or 6 Months before the end of the window.
In my opinion, that would have meant that the price of any striker that we wanted to sign would have increased as we would have been seen as desperate for a replacement.
Again in my opinion, Wenger Keep it close to his chest in the hope that he could sign a striker without the added "desperate extra fee".

Is there any proof that Wenger even went shopping?

greendom

tayto lover wrote: »

Is there any proof that Wenger even went shopping?

Would that make you feel any better ?

http://www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive/why-karim-benzema-arsenal-transfer-broke-down

not sure that it would

keano_afc

emmetlego wrote: »

So definitive! We all must be eejits so!!!

Oh, so you don't agree? You think Joel Campbell and Chuba Akpom are better options than a guy who scored nearly 20 goals for a ****e team in the PL? Guess that makes me the eejit.

tayto lover

greendom wrote: »

Would that make you feel any better ?

http://www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive/why-karim-benzema-arsenal-transfer-broke-down

not sure that it would

So it was about money and wage structures. That's ok.http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/karim-benzema-to-arsenal-the-funds-are-there-says-arsene-wenger-10465273.html
I knew we wouldn't sign anyone all along anyway.

How long did it take to not pay for Benzema and Cavani?

keano_afc

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3222231/Arsenal-right-hide-Danny-Welbeck-injury-better-window-Premier-League-club.html

Here's something from the comedy pages of the Daily Mail to lighten the mood.

extra gravy

extra gravy wrote: »

That's not good enough though. He's earning 7 million a year...there should always be a plan b. I mean it's pretty clear that the chances of us signing Benzema/Cavani were slim...he would have known this at the start of the window but still had no backup plan.

Plenty of other teams failed to deliver on a plan B for a prime target of theirs. Nothing unique to Arsenal.

There are plenty of attempted deals that go on that we don't even know of, so it's pretty hard to comment. We are also led to believe that a club is chasing a player when it might not have even happened at all.

Wenger has made things tough for himself this year, and even his supporters will struggle to find a reason to stick with him if he fails miserably again.

greendom

keano_afc wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3222231/Arsenal-right-hide-Danny-Welbeck-injury-better-window-Premier-League-club.html

Here's something from the comedy pages of the Daily Mail to lighten the mood.

Best thing I've read in the Mail for a very long time - fair play Jonny Singer - never heard of you before but your editor gave you the task of defending the indefensible and that was a fine job.

Has Adrian Durham commented yet?

keano_afc

greendom wrote: »

Best thing I've read in the Mail for a very long time - fair play Jonny Singer - never heard of you before but your editor gave you the task of defending the indefensible and that was a fine job.

Has Adrian Durham commented yet?

I especially like the part where he says Arsenal fans were bulling that we didn't sign Lovren. :D:D

efb

keano_afc wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3222231/Arsenal-right-hide-Danny-Welbeck-injury-better-window-Premier-League-club.html

Here's something from the comedy pages of the Daily Mail to lighten the mood.

I think he's dead on

EuropeanSon

keano_afc wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3222231/Arsenal-right-hide-Danny-Welbeck-injury-better-window-Premier-League-club.html

Here's something from the comedy pages of the Daily Mail to lighten the mood.

Got to admire that. He manages to troll the fans of basically all the big clubs, plus Liverpool. I'd say his editors are delighted with him.

Topbike77

keano_afc wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3222231/Arsenal-right-hide-Danny-Welbeck-injury-better-window-Premier-League-club.html

Here's something from the comedy pages of the Daily Mail to lighten the mood.

Good article but we still need a world class striker....

tayto lover

keano_afc wrote: »

I especially like the part where he says Arsenal fans were bulling that we didn't sign Lovren. :D:D

Never saw anyone in here saying we should have signed Lovren.

Ol' Donie

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If we're to have a decent season we really need Oxlade-Chamberlain to really step up and push on.

Dead right.

No new players is a bit of a shame, but if guys like Ox & Rambo play to their potential, we'll have a great season.

And I believe we can challenge for the title this year. If things go right, this squad is good enough to beat anyone.

brianregan09

Nice to see a bit of positivity in here for a change place has been poison since the season started

Ken Shamrock

brianregan09 wrote: »

Nice to see a bit of positivity in here for a change place has been poison since the season started

Probably because I haven't been on In a week, In Lanzarote till Wednesday :P

Boo Wenger, #Wengerout

No seriously tho, pissed off we signed nobody, not surprised at all, glad we got 3 points at Newcastle but my god we need to improve and fast.

Looper007

Ken Shamrock wrote: »

Probably because I haven't been on In a week, In Lanzarote till Wednesday :P

Boo Wenger, #Wengerout

No seriously tho, pissed off we signed nobody, not surprised at all, glad we got 3 points at Newcastle but my god we need to improve and fast.

And we have to hope none of our first team players don't get any serious injuries during the internationals.

tayto lover

Looper007 wrote: »

And we have to hope none of our first team players don't get any serious injuries during the internationals.

Beware the double negative Looper

Looper007

tayto lover wrote: »

Beware the double negative Looper

Sorry Tayto but we do have bad luck when it comes to these damn internationals with our players. don't worry I be saying 12 hail marys tonight no one gets injured :pac:

cashback

Great article about my (joint) favourite Arsenal player of all time.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/sep/04/golden-goal-ian-wright-arsenal-leeds-united-1995

I remember watching this goal on Match of the Day.
How we could do with him now...

greendom

Kos voted man of the match in France's 1- 0 in Portugal

Hopefully he's fully re-discovered his form

Marcus Antonius

cashback wrote: »

Great article about my (joint) favourite Arsenal player of all time.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/sep/04/golden-goal-ian-wright-arsenal-leeds-united-1995

I remember watching this goal on Match of the Day.
How we could do with him now...

Cracking goal alright!

Looper007

greendom wrote: »

Kos voted man of the match in France's 1- 0 in Portugal

Hopefully he's fully re-discovered his form

Aside from the Palace goal, I don't think he's been bad. He started slowly but many great players do, look at Terry.

gosplan

5 points is nothing.

We can win the league.

It's all in our hands.

City look great but they looked great for spells last season too.

tayto lover

gosplan wrote: »

5 points is nothing.

We can win the league.

It's all in our hands.

City look great but they looked great for spells last season too.

So did we ..... and the season before .... and the season before .... and ..

A bit like Ronseal.

Every team has good spells.

Injuries and suspensions and the ability to replace like with like will decide the league. It usually does.

tayto lover

tayto lover wrote: »

Injuries and suspensions and the ability to replace like with like will decide the league. It usually does.

Except in the case of Chelsea last year. I would love for us to have a season like that.

Marty McFly

gosplan wrote: »

5 points is nothing.

We can win the league.

It's all in our hands.

City look great but they looked great for spells last season too.

I'll agree with you on that one people writing the league off already are nuts City always tend to have drops of form were they drop quite a good few points.

But we need to have an exceptional season to challenge is Cech on his own good enough to make up 12 points I wouldn't be to sure if we had signed a CF I would have put us up there with good odds if winning it.

gosplan

tayto lover wrote: »

So did we ..... and the season before .... and the season before .... and ..

A bit like Ronseal.

Every team has good spells.

Injuries and suspensions and the ability to replace like with like will decide the league. It usually does.

Well no-one really can replace like for like so hopefully the injuries and suspensions will work in our favour.

tayto lover

gosplan wrote: »

Well no-one really can replace like for like so hopefully the injuries and suspensions will work in our favour.

Chelsea and City seem to have better options than us but here's hoping.

Ol' Donie

cashback wrote: »

Great article about my (joint) favourite Arsenal player of all time.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/sep/04/golden-goal-ian-wright-arsenal-leeds-united-1995

I remember watching this goal on Match of the Day.
How we could do with him now...

Keown & Parlour lining up IN FRONT of the back four.

Jesus, we used to be really, really tough!

I know it's only San Marino, but Theo already has 2 goals and should be on a hattrick within about 10-15 mins playing for England down the right. Don't know why he can't see that's his best position.

keano_afc

Basil3 wrote: »

I know it's only San Marino, but Theo already has 2 goals and should be on a hattrick within about 10-15 mins playing for England down the right. Don't know why he can't see that's his best position.

Unfortunately our striker situation means he has to be protected. I can understand Wenger underusing him, if he's injured we're really in trouble.

brianregan09

He did miss a fairly handy chance too to grab a hattrick

Alfred Borden

http://lineupbuilder.com/?sk=8m32c

Think this could work in 90% of games. Theo and Alexis have proven they are no #9's but as a pair they could both thrive centrally. They would also provide us with width with them taking turns to go out wide during different spells of a match. Giroud could play in tougher matches away from home where we would need to hold the ball up. This also allows us to get the best out of Cazorla and Ramsey, whilst keeping Ozil central.

Marcus Antonius

Alfred Borden wrote: »

http://lineupbuilder.com/?sk=8m32c

Think this could work in 90% of games. Theo and Alexis have proven they are no #9's but as a pair they could both thrive centrally. They would also provide us with width with them taking turns to go out wide during different spells of a match. Giroud could play in tougher matches away from home where we would need to hold the ball up. This also allows us to get the best out of Cazorla and Ramsey, whilst keeping Ozil central.

The main problem I'd have with that formation is it would leave the fullbacks even more exposed than they are at the moment! Our fullbacks are forever getting caught out of position when they go forward and leaving us libel at the back so to leave them even more exposed would be criminal for me.

Alfred Borden

Marcus Antonius wrote: »

The main problem I'd have with that formation is it would leave the fullbacks even more exposed than they are at the moment! Our fullbacks are forever getting caught out of position when they go forward and leaving us libel at the back so to leave them even more exposed would be criminal for me.

Ramsey could cover the right side of the field with his engine but Id be worried about the left actually. Could play Wilshere instead of Santi as he would cover a lot more ground to track back or even the Ox in that position.

EuropeanSon

Marty McFly wrote: »

I'll agree with you on that one people writing the league off already are nuts City always tend to have drops of form were they drop quite a good few points.

But we need to have an exceptional season to challenge is Cech on his own good enough to make up 12 points I wouldn't be to sure if we had signed a CF I would have put us up there with good odds if winning it.

As though the only difference between our squad now and our squad 12 months ago is Cech. I hate this line of thinking, it's nonsense.

We have Cech, all our team is a year older (which is good for some, bad for others), we have a different injury list, we have a player in a pivotal role who wouldn't have been on the bench a year ago (Coquelin), no world cup hangovers (for us or for other teams).

So many factors have changed that even talking in terms of Cech making up the points difference or not is nonsensical.

Any more injuries yet?

extra gravy

https://twitter.com/mattspiro/status/640971022909505536

Not what we want to hear ahead of the weekend.

tayto lover

He looked completely out of shape in our last game.
Like he was at the pies.
Needs to get his act together soon.

extra gravy

extra gravy wrote: »

https://twitter.com/mattspiro/status/640971022909505536

Not what we want to hear ahead of the weekend.

I prefer the tweet he sent beforehand

https://twitter.com/mattspiro/status/640969722524254209

Classic

Quazzie

He'll come back and score 5 in 4 and all the usuals will be telling us how brilliant he is, then he'll get injured for a week and return as the donkey we've all gotten used to.

greendom

All strikrs go though lean patches and have bad nights, I think he is incredibly under valued.

Excellent blog on Giroud here.



http://goonersphere.com/columnists/tim-stillman/6301-olivier-giroud-the-unwanted-stepson

Thought this was particularly telling

At St. James’ Park in December 2013, he gashed his foot so badly that the blood soaked through his sock and began to surface on his boot. Arsene Wenger offered to remove him at half time but Giroud refused, sellotaped his foot back together and went onto score the winning goal in the second half. This is the sort of physical feat a more loved footballer would be celebrated for, especially in England.

wonga77

Cant wait for the premiership to be back up and running, watching Ireland is depressing, glad we won and all but fcuk me its painful to sit through

Marcus Antonius

wonga77 wrote: »

Cant wait for the premiership to be back up and running, watching Ireland is depressing, glad we won and all but fcuk me its painful to sit through

I second this whole heartedly. What an awful game, but good result. Roll on Stoke...oh no wait...Can't be any worse

greendom

Kos missed the game tonight through injury - no idea how serious or whether it was just precautionary. Couldn't go through an international break without at least 1 injury.

Kos has since denied he is injured

Marcus Antonius

greendom wrote: »

Kos missed the game tonight through injury - no idea how serious or whether it was just precautionary. Couldn't go through an international break without at least 1 injury.

Kos has since denied he is injured

Thank f*ck for that! Chambers looked well out of his depth in the game he had to fill in for Kos.

Pierce_1991

greendom wrote: »

Kos missed the game tonight through injury - no idea how serious or whether it was just precautionary. Couldn't go through an international break without at least 1 injury.

Kos has since denied he is injured

I misread the word denied and thought you'd said Kos has since died. For a brief moment I thought 'Yep, typical'.

Sure he's the best we could get.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

I'm surprised our medical staff havent killed any of our players by now. Surely only a matter of time.