Transfer News, Rumours and Bollocks Thread

[Darth Vela]

I think he deals with journos in press conferences so gives them his cryptic answers and veers away from giving them headlines to destabilise our transfer talks even further, if you take a look at the one this morning he's smirking throughout most of it. So, he doesn't care about the fans in press conferences is the answer I think.

I'm kind of amazed no-one's picked up on his comments about there being two transfer markets, internal and external, that seems like the kind of thing people could have a field day with.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Something is seriously wrong behind the scenes IMO. I think Wenger is powerless to do much about it, and stuggling to come up with excuses.

I just don't buy into it that he's oblivious to the problems we have. It showed on his face in preseason, and much as he's been a fucking tool for not doing some basic necessary housekeeping on the pitch, I just don't believe he doesn't want to sort this squad out.

If he's saying one thing (Cesc and Nas are staying) and then they go, it just doesn't add up. It's fucking weird. He MUST have lined something else up, surely.

Look. I'm actually excited about Gervinho, Miyachi, Oxo etc, as I think they'll all be hits. We've still got some cracking players in RVP, TV5, Walcott, Arshavin, Sagna, hklj d.fbfkhb, Wilshire....but we do lack some depth.

Rather than running around like headless chickens going "OMG, OMG", I think we ought to be hoping that we have some players coming in once the deals for Cesc and Nas are tied up.

We need a CB, we need a Striker, and we need a midfielder (I'm more inclined to have a box to box player than another lightweight fancy cunt).

If we sure those positions up with some experience, I think we'll do just fine...and better than some think. We're being written off, and we could well struggle, but there's more in this team than some would go all flappy about.

Sure it up. But quickly.

This, is big Stan making his mark in the board room.

Its wired that a manager of a Big club who wants to win the league Would sell his Captain and best player/s on the day the season starts with no replacements.

[Darth Vela]

Something is seriously wrong behind the scenes IMO. I think Wenger is powerless to do much about it, and stuggling to come up with excuses.

I just don't buy into it that he's oblivious to the problems we have. It showed on his face in preseason, and much as he's been a fucking tool for not doing some basic necessary housekeeping on the pitch, I just don't believe he doesn't want to sort this squad out.

If he's saying one thing (Cesc and Nas are staying) and then they go, it just doesn't add up. It's fucking weird. He MUST have lined something else up, surely.

Look. I'm actually excited about Gervinho, Miyachi, Oxo etc, as I think they'll all be hits. We've still got some cracking players in RVP, TV5, Walcott, Arshavin, Sagna, hklj d.fbfkhb, Wilshire....but we do lack some depth.

Rather than running around like headless chickens going "OMG, OMG", I think we ought to be hoping that we have some players coming in once the deals for Cesc and Nas are tied up.

We need a CB, we need a Striker, and we need a midfielder (I'm more inclined to have a box to box player than another lightweight fancy cunt).

If we sure those positions up with some experience, I think we'll do just fine...and better than some think. We're being written off, and we could well struggle, but there's more in this team than some would go all flappy about.

Sure it up. But quickly.

Mmm, it's certainly turned a little weird as Wenger/Gazidis/board are usually singing from the same hymn-sheet, then again Wenger didn't seem perturbed so much as amused at the hyperbole at the press conference so

[LDG]

I didn't see the conference, so not reading into much of it....don't really pay much attention other than injury news anyway....

....but I'm trying desperately to comfort myself that in the event Cesc and Nas both go, there HAS to be some replacement lined up. Fucking mental if not.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

I doubt we will have those replacements in time for the 'castle game........maybe we need another riot to postpone our game so we get some breathing space

the best thing we could do is get Barca to wire some of the money over to Valancia and have Mata come back on the return leg of the flight of the one Cesc went out in


oh yeah buy a fucking CB......FFS and not Dann you Kermit unless he is a cheap option to partner Cahill...........fucking tick tock MF

[Niall_Quinn]

LOL, a fan on sky, "We're a top 4 club, we play in the CL every year, we're still a big club, we're not Tottenham."

The problem I have is you tend to go through a series of, "Surely that wouldn't happen...", stages, surely Wenger won't ignore the defence again, surely we won't leave it until the season starts to sign players, surely we won't let Nasri leave. Most of the time these beliefs are dashed because Wenger indeed goes right ahead and does all the things we think he surely wouldn't. Now we're saying surely we'll sign the players we need, surely we'll splash the £50mill from from Fabregas and Nasri. If history is a guide we'll just drift on and do nothing. It's not panic, it's more a bemused fascination by this stage. I expect nothing from this season and I think Wenger is building the team that can achieve that and achieve it well. I don't have the same faith in either the newcomers (certainly not based on pre-season because we've seen it all before and had many false dawns) or the youngsters coming through. Why is it going to be different with these players this time? I hope it will be, of course, but looking at it realistically we have nothing more that what we had in previous years, in fact we're likely to have less come the end of the week. I can't see any of these players rallying and digging in, not unless they've all had personality transplants during the summer. And with Wenger motivating them, what can possibly go right?

[Niall_Quinn]

I doubt we will have those replacements in time for the 'castle game........maybe we need another riot to postpone our game so we get some breathing space

the best thing we could do is get Barca to wire some of the money over to Valancia and have Mata come back on the return leg of the flight of the one Cesc went out in


oh yeah buy a fucking CB......FFS and not Dann you Kermit unless he is a cheap option to partner Cahill...........fucking tick tock MF

All sources are saying the Mata deal is well and truly dead.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I didn't see the conference, so not reading into much of it....don't really pay much attention other than injury news anyway....

....but I'm trying desperately to comfort myself that in the event Cesc and Nas both go, there HAS to be some replacement lined up. Fucking mental if not.

Same here, but i don't think we will see new faces coming in end of the day. it seems AW has accepted with only a top 4 club now no better, he does not wan't to learn lesson from last season.

feels shity to be a gooner at times like these. Hope The cun't proves me wrong

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I doubt we will have those replacements in time for the 'castle game........maybe we need another riot to postpone our game so we get some breathing space

the best thing we could do is get Barca to wire some of the money over to Valancia and have Mata come back on the return leg of the flight of the one Cesc went out in


oh yeah buy a fucking CB......FFS and not Dann you Kermit unless he is a cheap option to partner Cahill...........fucking tick tock MF

He cots £60 Mill now thats the problem we misse the deadline to get him cheap, only think we could do is get Hazard. And get a few palyers of city as part of the nasri deal

[Özim]

It defies belief that we could lose two players as good as this and not have anyone line-up at all....that would be so amateurish....another masterstroke by Arsene Wenger.

I don't get how someone who has that much experience could be so friggin dumb.