Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

Noo · 25-01-2012 3:22pm

gosplan wrote: »

Peanuts, Devilishly handsome and I even bought the right overcoat this winter.

Must have own water bottle...

KeithAFC · 25-01-2012 3:32pm

Lukker- wrote: »

Manager swap?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2091343/Arsene-Wenger-wanted-Real-Madrid-EXCLUSIVE.html?ITO=1490

Wouldn't be impossible tbh. Funny thing is Wenger would probably do a better job at Madrid than Mourinho.

emergingstar · 25-01-2012 4:23pm

If wenger decides he has enough and heads to Madrid in the summer I think we're screwed for a few years until the board comes up with serious money

If wenger leaves you can be sure van Persie Walcott and song won't sign new contracts in the summer either

DB10 · 25-01-2012 4:42pm

emergingstar wrote: »

If wenger decides he has enough and heads to Madrid in the summer I think we're screwed for a few years until the board comes up with serious money

If wenger leaves you can be sure van Persie Walcott and song won't sign new contracts in the summer either

I think thats just doom mongering tbh.

Our best players have been leaving with Wenger at the club, and Van Persie will leave regardless of whether Wenger is here or not. In fact its more likely he would leave if Wenger stays because he knows nothing else will change.

As for Walcott or Song, I couldnt give two ****s if they leave. In fact I hope Walcott leaves because he is absolute ****e and not worth the money he is demanding. Who would even want him.

Song is okay but again cant see any big club wanting him. Coquelin and Frimpong can easily replace him in a year or two anyway.

emergingstar · 25-01-2012 4:58pm

DB10 wrote: »

emergingstar wrote: »

If wenger decides he has enough and heads to Madrid in the summer I think we're screwed for a few years until the board comes up with serious money

If wenger leaves you can be sure van Persie Walcott and song won't sign new contracts in the summer either

I think thats just doom mongering tbh.

Our best players have been leaving with Wenger at the club, and Van Persie will leave regardless of whether Wenger is here or not. In fact its more likely he would leave if Wenger stays because he knows nothing else will change.

As for Walcott or Song, I couldnt give two ****s if they leave. In fact I hope Walcott leaves because he is absolute ****e and not worth the money he is demanding. Who would even want him.

Song is okay but again cant see any big club wanting him. Coquelin and Frimpong can easily replace him in a year or two anyway.

And what will we do for the two years were waiting for them to be ready

jmayo · 25-01-2012 5:00pm

gosplan wrote: »

Ok, outspent is probably wrong in the inter case but they had a pretty good squad in terms of their rivals to begin with. Plus they convinced Barca to pay 60 million for Ibra.

That got me thinkin.
Imagine how much he woudl have gotten for Fabregas, if he could swing that much for the Swedish ego.

gosplan wrote: »

He did outspend at Chelsea though and spent a fair bit at Madrid too.

You would probably be shot if you didn't spend at Madrid.

And again at those clubs who is really in charge of the buying process.
For instance who was the one that went out and got the lieks of Shevchenko and Torres at Chelsea ?

gosplan wrote: »

Peanuts, Devilishly handsome and I even bought the right overcoat this winter.

As they say over in After Hours pics or GTFO.

emergingstar wrote: »

If wenger decides he has enough and heads to Madrid in the summer I think we're screwed for a few years until the board comes up with serious money

If wenger leaves you can be sure van Persie Walcott and song won't sign new contracts in the summer either

Jeeze Wenger would be in for one culture shock at Real.
He would not get away with no trophies for 6 months never mind 6 years.

If he leaves could we also be assured Squillaci, Arshavin, Almunia, Denilson, Bendtner, Chamakh also go ?

jmayo · 25-01-2012 5:02pm

emergingstar wrote: »

And what will we do for the two years were waiting for them to be ready

Do the same as Wenger does, sit on your hands.
Well that was what he did during the years we needed a proper keeper.

amacachi · 25-01-2012 5:11pm

Just gonna say it now, if Mourinho ever took over Arsenal I wouldn't watch football again until he was gone.

Sgt Pepper 64 · 25-01-2012 6:04pm

gosplan wrote: »

Ok, outspent is probably wrong in the inter case but they had a pretty good squad in terms of their rivals to begin with. Plus they convinced Barca to pay 60 million for Ibra.

He did outspend at Chelsea though and spent a fair bit at Madrid too.

However, it would be wholly ignorant to say that that's all there is to Mourhino, it's not.

Peanuts, Devilishly handsome and I even bought the right overcoat this winter.

I dont know exactly about Inter, but the Chelsea team he took over had ALREADY had a good few squillion spent on it by Ranieri (120 million to be exact!) and Ranieri had already bought in players who would be more key under Mourinho (Ranieri promoted JT from the reserves, spent an unheard of 11 million on Lamps, he bought Gallas.

So Mourinho with a few key purchases from Porto, "just" moulded that squad into a title winning and CL challenging team.
(even though Ranieri got them to 2nd in the league and the semi finals of the CL

Very underrated manager IMO.

Mourinho, i believe did much the same at Inter, put his arm around a few of the long time squad and made them believe in themselves and that they could win things

Ditto Real Madrid - not a bad squad to inherit!

tayto lover · 25-01-2012 6:43pm

emergingstar wrote: »

And what will we do for the two years were waiting for them to be ready

Probably the same thing we did when we had a useless keeper and useless defenders over the last number of years and the manager/board refused to fix that.

kronsington · 25-01-2012 6:49pm

on off the ball the other night, ken earlie highlighted how walcott was spotted having a go at ox during the game. this also reminded me how he did something similar v utd in august. this is another reason why i cant stand this player. as an "established" player he should be encouraging and helping these lads rather than chastising them. the bottom line is he does nothing for the team. or nothing meaningful at least. he cant cross, isn't much of a dribbler, and makes constantly poor decisions on the pitch . one player i would not be sorry to see leave the club

tayto lover · 25-01-2012 7:03pm

kronsington wrote: »

on off the ball the other night, ken earlie highlighted how walcott was spotted having a go at ox during the game. this also reminded me how he did something similar v utd in august. this is another reason why i cant stand this player. as an "established" player he should be encouraging and helping these lads rather than chastising them. the bottom line is he does nothing for the team. or nothing meaningful at least. he cant cross, isn't much of a dribbler, and makes constantly poor decisions on the pitch . one player i would not be sorry to see leave the club

If that is true then he is even more of a useless obnoxious hypocritical little prat than I thought. Can't stand the little coward. Would have more time for Arshavin and Chamack than him. Is he Wenger's love child I often wonder ?

KeithAFC · 25-01-2012 8:09pm

amacachi wrote: »

Just gonna say it now, if Mourinho ever took over Arsenal I wouldn't watch football again until he was gone.

Fine. Don't watch the trophy presentations.

AdamD · 25-01-2012 8:17pm

keano_afc wrote: »

Anywhere Mourinho has gone he's been given pretty much a blank cheque on arrival. There's no doubt he's a great manager but having a bottomless pot of cash has no doubt helped. It would be the complete opposite if he came to Arsenal. With no money to spend, I highly doubt he'd do as good a job as Wenger.

amacachi wrote: »

Just gonna say it now, if Mourinho ever took over Arsenal I wouldn't watch football again until he was gone.

It would be far better to watch than ****ting our pants everytime the team has only a 1 goal lead, or pretty much knowing they're not gonna win if they're drawing with 10 minutes to go. Our style of play isn't even attractive anymore.

Fuzzy_Dunlop · 25-01-2012 8:54pm

Actually Pellegrini is someone I think would probably be a good manager for us. What's he up to these days?

[edit] I see he's at Malaga. Anyway he'd be an option if it came to it.

wandatowell · 25-01-2012 9:13pm

emergingstar wrote: »

If wenger leaves you can be sure Walcott won't sign a new contract in the summer either

Theo wouldnt be missed, he is awful. brings nothing to the team with his limp displays

Mickeroo · 25-01-2012 9:31pm

amacachi wrote: »

Just gonna say it now, if Mourinho ever took over Arsenal I wouldn't watch football again until he was gone.

I get what you're saying, he'd ruin the style of play the club is known for. having said that, I'd still watch, probably be bored sometimes, but be no less stoked if we won the league than I would if we did it under AW.

Must say, it is depressing that we're in the middle of transfer window and all that chat is about a replacing AW. not saying I don't agree to an extent but is a big difference to the last window

amacachi · 25-01-2012 9:40pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

I get what you're saying, he'd ruin the style of play the club is known for. having said that, I'd still watch, probably be bored sometimes, but be no less stoked if we won the league than I would if we did it under AW.

Must say, it is depressing that we're in the middle of transfer window and all that chat is about a replacing AW. not saying I don't agree to an extent but is a big difference to the last window

We could win every game 20 nil, I don't want him near the club.

gosplan · 25-01-2012 9:41pm

kronsington wrote: »

on off the ball the other night, ken earlie highlighted how walcott was spotted having a go at ox during the game. this also reminded me how he did something similar v utd in august. this is another reason why i cant stand this player. as an "established" player he should be encouraging and helping these lads rather than chastising them. the bottom line is he does nothing for the team. or nothing meaningful at least. he cant cross, isn't much of a dribbler, and makes constantly poor decisions on the pitch . one player i would not be sorry to see leave the club

The most annoying thing about Walcott is his indecision and this actually makes him more annoying than he really is. He never commits to a course of action early enough, he dwells and dwells, using his pace to give him some extra time to think about it, and then a amazingly, does nothing quite often - basically runs till he runs out of pitch or into someone.

Gervinho makes mistakes and tones of bad choices but you forgive him for it because he makes them instantly and always goes for it. It doesn't always work but he's pushing it.

Funny coment about Walcott on arseblog today

arseblog wrote:

Remember Theo. Scared the life out of everyone with his pace until after a while left backs realised that if you just push him out wide he’ll generally run the ball out for a throw before turning around and blaming someone else or giving those Action Man eyes to the linesman

Anyway, I've alwasy said that Walcott should only be used as a sub when we're already winning the game.

gosplan · 25-01-2012 9:43pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

but be no less stoked if we won the league than I would if we did it under AW

I would go insane if we won the league under Wenger again.

tayto lover · 25-01-2012 9:50pm

gosplan wrote: »

I would go insane if we won the league under Wenger again.

You need not worry then.

greendom · 25-01-2012 10:08pm

tayto lover wrote: »

If that is true then he is even more of a useless obnoxious hypocritical little prat than I thought. Can't stand the little coward. Would have more time for Arshavin and Chamack than him. Is he Wenger's love child I often wonder ?

Wonder if he feels pressure to play him due to the pressure in the media and perhaps amongst fans to a lesser degree about having English players in the side.

It strikes me that when you look at the majority of players, owners and supporters (when you look at its Worldwide audience) the English content of the EPL is in the minority.

emergingstar · 25-01-2012 10:46pm

I really hope Walcott signs a new contract he is only 22 and would be a very good squad player to have

tayto lover · 25-01-2012 10:49pm

emergingstar wrote: »

I really hope Walcott signs a new contract he is only 22 and would be a very good squad player to have

Honestly ? What do you see in him ?

Marty McFly · 26-01-2012 12:41am

emergingstar wrote: »

I really hope Walcott signs a new contract he is only 22 and would be a very good squad player to have

I sure as hell dont I hope we can flog him to Liverpool they seem to have a thing for overpriced untalented English players at the momment.

amiable · 26-01-2012 12:43am

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

I sure as hell dont I hope we can flog him to Liverpool they seem to have a thing for overpriced untalented English players at the momment.

How much did Arsenal pay for him?

Marty McFly · 26-01-2012 12:49am

amiable wrote: »

How much did Arsenal pay for him?

5million rising to 12 million depending on the clauses not exactly sure what it ended up at. Meaning we could prob get about 30 million of liverpool for him

amiable · 26-01-2012 12:50am

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

5million rising to 12 million depending on the clauses not exactly sure what it ended up at. Meaning we could prob get about 30 million of liverpool for him

12 million for an unproven English teen. How ironic your posts are;)

Marty McFly · 26-01-2012 12:53am

amiable wrote: »

12 million for an unproven English teen. How ironic your posts are;)

ah but we dont know if it ever even got close to that 12 million, but hey 12 millions still a fair bit off what Liverpool paid for Andy Carroll or Stewart Downing

. Ill leave Henderson alone for now because hes still young and was bought on his potential.

amiable · 26-01-2012 12:57am

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

ah but we dont know if it ever even got close to that 12 million, but hey 12 millions still a fair bit off what Liverpool paid for Andy Carroll or Stewart Downing . Ill leave Henderson alone for now because hes still young and was bought on his potential.

We're talking about Walcott.

Arsenal surely had to meet all the add ons as he has played for England and played a lot of games now for Arsenal.

You mention Carroll. The dogs on the street know Liverpool over paid for him.

But in the post you slag off Liverpool for overpaying on over hyped English talent Arsenal did it too.

Take a bow son:p

Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2011/2012

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