Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

wandatowell · 02-06-2012 5:42pm

As much as I like Jaaskeleinen I think he deserves a chance as a Number 1 keeper at a huge club.

Such a shame he spent so long at Bolton

keano_afc · 02-06-2012 6:13pm

Was he injured last year? he must have been shockingly out of form if Bogdan was picked ahead of him.

Mr Blobby · 02-06-2012 7:42pm

Anyone watching the Holland game ?

The link up play between Van Persie and Afellay is great
Lets hope the rumours of us trying to sign him are true.

We might need to get Van Persie to sign a new contract first though

dvemail · 02-06-2012 7:43pm

Afellay and Van Persie linking up well against Northern Ireland. Wonder if he could be the man to help Robin stay at the club seeing as their good friends.

slingerz · 02-06-2012 9:27pm

Any chance of Wenger splashing the cash this summer?IMO Arsenal don't need a whole pile just a few defensive additions and one or two more

ImpossibleDuck · 02-06-2012 11:21pm

slingerz wrote: »

Any chance of Wenger splashing the cash this summer?IMO Arsenal don't need a whole pile just a few defensive additions and one or two more

No.

The Floyd p · 02-06-2012 11:35pm

Hands off :pac: Tito will find a role for him next season!

cesc77 · 03-06-2012 1:58am

This Aden Azar lad is supposed to be good.Hope we dont pay £32million for him though($50 mellion dolla):pac:

Oh,too late,that sucks.

Hello FFS?

Hulk 40 mill

tayto lover · 03-06-2012 12:00pm

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/254755/Arsenal-exec-Ivan-Gazidis-to-get-grilled-by-Gunners-fans/

Gazidas to meet the fans on Wed and explain why we are not buying in the summer.

Mickeroo · 03-06-2012 12:12pm

tayto lover wrote: »

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/254755/Arsenal-exec-Ivan-Gazidis-to-get-grilled-by-Gunners-fans/

Gazidas to meet the fans on Wed and explain why we are not buying in the summer.

Same old crap every year. I suppose if struggling to make the CL and saving a bit of cash in the process is the target these days then its no more than we should expect.

batistuta9 · 03-06-2012 12:25pm

tayto lover wrote: »

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/254755/Arsenal-exec-Ivan-Gazidis-to-get-grilled-by-Gunners-fans/

Gazidas to meet the fans on Wed and explain why we are not buying in the summer.

who said we weren't buying?

UnknownSpecies · 03-06-2012 12:30pm

It's from the Daily Star, which is a worse source than Twitter...

batistuta9 · 03-06-2012 12:35pm

dorgasm wrote: »

It's from the Daily Star, which is a worse source than Twitter...

to be fair there's nothing wrong with the article in the star, the AST usually ask questions like that & the star have went & called a grilling

john cross wrote an article a few weeks back saying that they might turn their attentions towards the board this year and see the bit about usmanov he could be right

wandatowell · 03-06-2012 12:35pm

batistuta9 wrote: »

who said we weren't buying?

Seeing how the club is run its fairly obvious that we wont be spending much more money.

Didnt Arsene attend the AST yearly meetings? Dont think he's coming this year after he got roasted a few years back

batistuta9 · 03-06-2012 12:42pm

wandatowell wrote: »

Seeing how the club is run its fairly obvious that we wont be spending much more money.

Didnt Arsene attend the AST yearly meetings? Dont think he's coming this year after he got roasted a few years back

won't be spending much more and not spending any more at all is a big difference.

To be honest all this "we should buy him + him" etc. is a load of nonsense, no harm in having an opinion but people think they know more about football & what the team needs than the manager is ridiculous

ImpossibleDuck · 03-06-2012 12:54pm

batistuta9 wrote: »

won't be spending much more and not spending any more at all is a big difference.

To be honest all this "we should buy him + him" etc. is a load of nonsense, no harm in having an opinion but people think they know more about football & what the team needs than the manager is ridiculous

Yeah because Park was a revelation!

batistuta9 · 03-06-2012 1:00pm

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

Yeah because Park was a revelation!

and you knew how it was going to turn out did you?

tayto lover · 03-06-2012 1:00pm

batistuta9 wrote: »

who said we weren't buying?

Oh we'll buy someone alright. Probably a kid who might / might not do a job for us in 5 years time. We should not ignore the gaping holes that were there for much of last year though. All the teams around us are strengthening so we need to keep abreast of them too.

andrew241983 · 03-06-2012 1:06pm

Lads this stuff gets said every season just look at what everyone was saying at tthe start of this season and then quickly backtracked... Wenger will sort it out he always does...its harder with the euros with clubs and players trying to hold out to see if they have a gud tournament to get an unflated price...but remember wenger isnt sitting at home having wine and cheese everyday ..he is hard at work every dsy and night trying to get best players for arsenal...

So just keep the faith

batistuta9 · 03-06-2012 1:16pm

tayto lover wrote: »

Oh we'll buy someone alright. Probably a kid who might / might not do a job for us in 5 years time. We should not ignore the gaping holes that were there for much of last year though. All the teams around us are strengthening so we need to keep abreast of them too.

none of the teams around us have signed anyone yet except chelsea and they don't even have a manager ffs + look how roman's other signings turned out shevchenko & torres, well torres might turn it around.

tottenham are going to get vertonghen, but we've already signed podolski so apart from the circus going on at the bridge no one is really stealing a march regarding transfers.

they'll be more signings ready to go into the first team i think by the sounds of it but just not that many

emergingstar · 03-06-2012 1:24pm

It's the 3rd of June for ffs why is everyone moaning and worried

KaiserGunner · 03-06-2012 1:58pm

andrew241983 wrote: »

Lads this stuff gets said every season just look at what everyone was saying at tthe start of this season and then quickly backtracked... Wenger will sort it out he always does...its harder with the euros with clubs and players trying to hold out to see if they have a gud tournament to get an unflated price...but remember wenger isnt sitting at home having wine and cheese everyday ..he is hard at work every dsy and night trying to get best players for arsenal...

So just keep the faith

Whilst im not panicking yet seeing how its only the beginning of June, what happened last summer transfer window cannot happen again. We were totally unprepared for the start of last season, just look at the starting lineups we had for the Newcastle, Liverpool and Man Utd matches last August. It almost derailed our season before it even began. In my mind last season was totally forgettable bar a couple of matches here and there. Fair enough we did brilliantly to come back and grab third place but we didnt compete (i.e look like winning) in any of the competitions that we were in last season.

This cannot happen for the season coming up, so I really hope that we will have all our signings completed before we kick off our first match in August.

We should be looking to push on and strengthen the squad

Sgt Pepper 64 · 03-06-2012 2:44pm

KaiserGunner wrote: »

Whilst im not panicking yet seeing how its only the beginning of June, what happened last summer transfer window cannot happen again. We were totally unprepared for the start of last season, just look at the starting lineups we had for the Newcastle, Liverpool and Man Utd matches last August. It almost derailed our season before it even began. In my mind last season was totally forgettable bar a couple of matches here and there. Fair enough we did brilliantly to come back and grab third place but we didnt compete (i.e look like winning) in any of the competitions that we were in last season.

This cannot happen for the season coming up, so I really hope that we will have all our signings completed before we kick off our first match in August.

We should be looking to push on and strengthen the squad

IMO, the Fab and Nasri transfers distracted you and sudddenly it looked like you were scrambling around trying to get players in.
I would just hope that Van Persie and Walcott dont do the same.

BTW - who of you wants to keep Yossi? Pretty sure he wont be coming back to the bridge

bad2dabone · 03-06-2012 2:53pm

I'd be happy to keep yossi as a squad player, he put in some decent shifts for us.

ImpossibleDuck · 03-06-2012 4:48pm

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

IMO, the Fab and Nasri transfers distracted you and sudddenly it looked like you were scrambling around trying to get players in.

What the hell do you mean it looked like? We signed about 5 players on the last day of the window. If that's not scrambled and last minute I don't know what is!

AnCapaillMor · 03-06-2012 4:53pm

emergingstar wrote: »

It's the 3rd of June for ffs why is everyone moaning and worried

Exactly if chekski hadn't made those 2 big signings this early we wouldn't be as panicked.

wandatowell · 03-06-2012 5:18pm

batistuta9 wrote: »

won't be spending much more and not spending any more at all is a big difference.

When your right your right

TheBa · 03-06-2012 6:27pm

Deleted User wrote: »

To be fair i havent seen an awful lot of him to make a proper judgement but if he is better or even as good as Drogba then i think he must be a serious player. I rate Drog highly as a footballer but not so much as a human being.

Drogba's antics on the pitch are laughable and damaging to the game and his own team and reputation.

HOWEVER, don't mix this up with Drogba, the human being. The man is incredibly charitable and donates large chunks of his earnings to developing infrastructure liike hospitals back in the Ivory Coast. It's a true pity his on-field persona masks all his fantastic day to day work.

greendom · 03-06-2012 6:37pm

TheBa wrote: »

Drogba's antics on the pitch are laughable and damaging to the game and his own team and reputation.

HOWEVER, don't mix this up with Drogba, the human being. The man is incredibly charitable and donates large chunks of his earnings to developing infrastructure liike hospitals back in the Ivory Coast. It's a true pity his on-field persona masks all his fantastic day to day work.

Absolutely - a wonderful human being - head and shoulders above your average premier league player.

TheBa · 03-06-2012 6:49pm

andrew241983 wrote: »

Lads this stuff gets said every season just look at what everyone was saying at tthe start of this season and then quickly backtracked... Wenger will sort it out he always does...its harder with the euros with clubs and players trying to hold out to see if they have a gud tournament to get an unflated price...but remember wenger isnt sitting at home having wine and cheese everyday ..he is hard at work every dsy and night trying to get best players for arsenal...

So just keep the faith

Wenger will be doing TV and sponsorship work for the Euros.

But it's worth noting that Arsenal spend serious money on a worldwide scouting network and are working all year round at identifying transfer targets. Apparently Ronaldo was scouted by us 12 times, but United swooped after he had a stormer against them in a friendly or some rubbish tournament.

As for Park, well...... maybe it's better and healthier for us all not to think about it....

Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

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