Official Arsenal FC Thread

Jord wrote:I wanted us to get Gervinho. Now you get him and some of you dislike him already(well that's the vibe I'm getting)

Gerv is pure class. Only player so far that has look half way decent with the ball at his feet. If the shit team does find it legs hevwill be one of the stars of the league guaranteed.

Sean wrote:Let me ask this, if Wenger left who would could replace him?

Would only want Deschamps or Lippi, no one else.

AriseForLife wrote:

Jord wrote:I wanted us to get Gervinho. Now you get him and some of you dislike him already(well that's the vibe I'm getting)

I like Gervinho, he's direct and flys past defenders and thats what we've been wishing Walcott would do for years.
Gerv is pure class. Only player so far that has look half way decent with the ball at his feet. If the shit team does find it legs hevwill be one of the stars of the league guaranteed.

Sean wrote:Let me ask this, if Wenger left who would could replace him?

Would only want Deschamps or Lippi, no one else.

Deschamps yes, Lippi no.

So you'd say no to the much better manager..bit odd.

Ricardo wrote:So you'd say no to the much better manager..bit odd.

I don't want another old manager if Wenger is to be replaced. I want somebody Under 50 who could have a long-term future at the club.

AriseForLife wrote:

Jord wrote:I wanted us to get Gervinho. Now you get him and some of you dislike him already(well that's the vibe I'm getting)

Gerv is pure class. Only player so far that has look half way decent with the ball at his feet. If the shit team does find it legs hevwill be one of the stars of the league guaranteed.

Groce.

Pretty brutal start if you guys get 1 our of the first 9 available points next week.

It's all a shame now isn't it that shit programs like City taking spots.

You need someone like Bendtner or Chamakh playing for Gervinho to do well. RVP and your midfield drops too deep for his passes and crosses to be of any use.

Arsene Wenger has finally been pushed into trying to make a dramatic splash in the transfer market.

Wenger has got bids of £15million and £20m-plus respectively in for Rennes midfielder Yann M’Vila and Lille forward Eden Hazard. And the Arsenal boss is also going back for another crack at Everton defender Phil Jagielka, having already had two bids turned down.

Wenger still expects Samir Nasri to leave despite his £22m move to Manchester City being held up by a £3m row over agent’s fees, as revealed by Mirror Sport last week.

But Wenger is clearly ready to spend big to try and ease the growing problems at the Emirates after a summer of frustration in the transfer market.

France international M’Vila is seen as a tough midfielder to provide physical strength alongside Jack Wilshere, although Rennes do not want to sell and have already knocked back one approach.

Hazard has been on Wenger’s hit list for more than two years but again Lille do not want to sell and have rebuffed numerous approaches.

However, Arsenal are ready to test Lille’s resolve with serious money and go for one of Europe’s top prospects. Arsenal have already signed Gervinho from Lille this summer.

Wenger recognises the need for a centre half - especially after losing Laurent Koscielny to a back injury - and sees Jagielka as his first choice ahead of Gary Cahill.

Arsenal have had bids of £10m and £12m turned down for Jagielka with Everton reluctant to sell but they will want closer to £20m.

Arsenal have enquired about Cahill but, despite Bolton believing bids were imminent, have always backed off to further suggest Jagielka remains no1.

But Arsenal may be tempted to go back for Cahill if Bolton lower their £17m price as the window nears to closing. Birmingham’s Scott Dann and Werder Bremen defender Per Mertesacker are other options.

England coach Fabio Capello backed Wenger, but said he needed to buy.

Asked if he thought Wenger should continue at Arsenal, Capello told Sky Sports’: “I hope he will stay on, I have a good relationship with him, he’s a really good manager, but it’s not a good moment, it’s difficult after six years without a trophy for such an important club like Arsenal.

“I think he needs to buy some new players.I think Arsenal have got money but it’s difficult to find top players to improve the team.”

Arsenal legend Robert Pires told Canal Plus: “The time has come for Arsene Wenger to think about investing the money from player sales into players with experience and more of a guarantee.

“I think other players have spoken with him and told him the same. The set-up has changed now.

“Before this, many players wanted to stay at Arsenal for a long time but this has changed now, too. Players leave now at their first chance.

“That goes for Clichy, Nasri and Eboue. Indirectly, Wenger is to blame. Unless new players come in and others stay then the problem will get worse.

“I don’t think that they can rival the likes of Manchester City or Chelsea but you can’t win just with young players.”

Former Arsenal boss George Graham has also urged Wenger to spend and claims the club must invest to ensure finishing in the top four.

Graham said: “They need experienced, outstanding players and I think they need about another three in the side at the present time.

“They’ve got the money, let’s sit down, get some of these players in he’s supposed to be after and let’s see if they can start winning trophies again.

“They have big signs at the club saying ‘Arsene knows’. Well I hope he does.

“I think he’s going to be there this season. I think he’s under a little bit of pressure just now from the fans.

“But I think Arsene, if he sits down and is honest with himself, he’ll put it all back together again. But he needs to do some hard thinking.

“Please get the the cheque book out Arsene. I think they need another centre-half, I think they still need a strong, outstanding, experienced midfield and I still think they need an out-and-out striker like a (Thierry) Henry.”


Source: Mirror

I am confident M'Villa, Hazard and Jagielka or another Centre-Half will sign if we qualify for Champions League football. Wednesday is one of our most important matches in our history if we don't qualify we will no longer be considered an attractive club, why would players like Eden Hazard want to join us when his club will have Champions League football and we won't, and apparently thats why M'Villa or Hazard haven't joined yet as he wants guarnateed Champions League football

I'm quite confident we can see this out with Wilshere back so we have that creative edge.
M'Villa would be a great signing, I've seen hi play against England and a couple of times in Ligue 1, he's solid defensively, holds up the ball very well, good distributor of the ball, gives us the oomph that we desperately need.

Hazard would be our best signing in a while, gives us something that we lack, he can RW, LW, CAM, CF very versatile player. He's fast, very skillful, amazing shooting ability, good crosser, good passer.

And we need Jagielka, although I would prefer Subotic better in every aspect of the game but cheaper. The board aren't letting Wenger buy him because of his wage demands, which I find ridiculous as its like the board want to us to be unsuccessful we have the money...............

If only UEFA’s zest and eagerness to discipline Arsene Wenger was
applied to some of the more unsavoury aspects of the game. Ridiculous
sponsorship deals that make a mockery of Financial Fair Play, for
example, or racism which is punished by fines the equivalent of taking
pennies from clubs who turn over millions of pounds each year, or
tapping up, or trafficking of young players from poor countries or the
continued existence of John Terry.

Mata confirms that he turned Arsenal and Tottenham down.

Mal wrote:Mata confirms that he turned Arsenal and Tottenham down.

He should've, both were in really bad positions when they bid.

Apparently Nasri won't fly with the squad to Udinese.

I do actually kinda hope we sign Zarate sort of.

Yeah, City might have paid less if Wenger cup-tied him. Wenger's stubborn but not as stubborn as that I hope

Sky Sports are constantly jizzing over United fielding their second youngest ever team. Other club's have been doing it for years.

Yeah that did kinda annoy me this morning "The average squad age was 23" OOOOOOOooooh ours was fucking 15 against Liverpool stfu.

And why the fuck did Harry Redknapp mention Nasri in his post-match interview? The stupid droopy faced, twitchy cunt.

What did that cunt say about Na$ri?

NoviNovak wrote:I do actually kinda hope we sign Zarate sort of.

I hope we don't.
He's not good enough, he's 24 and I'd prefer to have Ramsey start over him.
Fingers crossed we sign Jagielka, M'Vila and Hazard and we'll be back

Geoff Shreeves, the biggest cunt on this earth asked Harry Redknapp about Nasri and Twitch said "Oh, he's gonna go."

NoviNovak wrote:What did that cunt say about Na$ri?

That Manchester City have great depth in their squad, they have a World Class player in every position, and they might be adding ore quality with Na$ri joining or something like that

AFC4EVA2012 wrote:

NoviNovak wrote:I do actually kinda hope we sign Zarate sort of.

I hope we don't.
He's not good enough, he's 24 and I'd prefer to have Ramsey start over him.
Fingers crossed we sign Jagielka, M'Vila and Hazard and we'll be back

Zarate is a right forward so he would more likely play on the right but he can play CAM. That's why.

Stupid cunt how would he like it if we were to say Modric will diffidently go.

And why the fuck would Sky Sports ask that question at the match where it does not involve Man City in no way shape or form.

NoviNovak wrote:

AFC4EVA2012 wrote:

NoviNovak wrote:I do actually kinda hope we sign Zarate sort of.

I hope we don't.
He's not good enough, he's 24 and I'd prefer to have Ramsey start over him.
Fingers crossed we sign Jagielka, M'Vila and Hazard and we'll be back

Zarate is a right forward so he would more likely play on the right but he can play CAM. That's why.

Still don't want him.
There are so many better options
I'd rather have Walcott up front.


Walcott to do all the work and Van Persie to finish it
And Hazard to whip them in and score outside the box

NoviNovak wrote:Stupid cunt how would he like it if we were to say Modric will diffidently go.

And why the fuck would Sky Sports ask that question at the match where it does not involve Man City in no way shape or form.

Exactly

AFC4EVA2012 wrote:

NoviNovak wrote:

AFC4EVA2012 wrote:

NoviNovak wrote:I do actually kinda hope we sign Zarate sort of.

I hope we don't.
He's not good enough, he's 24 and I'd prefer to have Ramsey start over him.
Fingers crossed we sign Jagielka, M'Vila and Hazard and we'll be back

Zarate is a right forward so he would more likely play on the right but he can play CAM. That's why.

Still don't want him.
There are so many better options
I'd rather have Walcott up front.

_Hazard_Gervinho_
_Walcott_Van Persie_

Walcott to do all the work and Van Persie to finish it
And Hazard to whip them in and score outside the box

But you gotta admit Zarate would probably be much better than Arshavin in work rate.

NoviNovak wrote:

AFC4EVA2012 wrote:

NoviNovak wrote:

AFC4EVA2012 wrote:

NoviNovak wrote:I do actually kinda hope we sign Zarate sort of.

I hope we don't.
He's not good enough, he's 24 and I'd prefer to have Ramsey start over him.
Fingers crossed we sign Jagielka, M'Vila and Hazard and we'll be back

Zarate is a right forward so he would more likely play on the right but he can play CAM. That's why.

Still don't want him.
There are so many better options
I'd rather have Walcott up front.

_Hazard_Gervinho_
_Walcott_Van Persie_

Walcott to do all the work and Van Persie to finish it
And Hazard to whip them in and score outside the box

But you gotta admit Zarate would probably be much better than Arshavin in work rate.

so much better.

Zarate would be a good buy but it would be a smarter move to sign hazard as quick as possible. (so Hazard then jag)

NoviNovak wrote:

AFC4EVA2012 wrote:

NoviNovak wrote:

AFC4EVA2012 wrote:

NoviNovak wrote:I do actually kinda hope we sign Zarate sort of.

I hope we don't.
He's not good enough, he's 24 and I'd prefer to have Ramsey start over him.
Fingers crossed we sign Jagielka, M'Vila and Hazard and we'll be back

Zarate is a right forward so he would more likely play on the right but he can play CAM. That's why.

Still don't want him.
There are so many better options
I'd rather have Walcott up front.

_Hazard_Gervinho_
_Walcott_Van Persie_

Walcott to do all the work and Van Persie to finish it
And Hazard to whip them in and score outside the box

But you gotta admit Zarate would probably be much better than Arshavin in work rate.

True, but that doesn't say much. My 2 year cousin has a better work rate than Arshavin. But Hazard is better than Zarate and he is 4 years younger and he also gives us that ooomph factor we will get Hazard if we qualify for the Champions League, you heard it here 2nd