Arsenal Transfer Rumours And General Chat

L'prof

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

heh, just noticed that this thread is over two years old now. Maybe it's time for a fresh one? There's some pretty embarrassing stuff back there :pac:

No point in starting a new one really, I say we keep it all together!

I like the one per season. I say we should have a new one if
A) We actually sign Nasri

or

Adebayor actually leaves

or

C) David Villa joins

or

D) Thierry Henry is not our no.1 legend on our gunner greatest players which will be mental...

or
We could just wait for the Emirates Cup to start

Actually, who do you think our top 5 greatest players will be?

I'd Say:

Wrighty
Henry
Bergkamp
Seaman
Overmars

(I think I might be showing which generation fan I am:D)

Royale with Cheese

I'd put Pires in ahead of Overmars.

Seaneh

Adebayor "80 per cent" Milan according to his agent.

Milan offered 28million, arsenal want 31million, I'd say it will be sorted soon.

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Seaneh wrote: »

Adebayor "80 per cent" Milan according to his agent.

Milan offered 28million, arsenal want 31million, I'd say it will be sorted soon.

Will be a mistake for him if he leaves imo but for that sort of money I would grab it

Im_No_Superman

£31 million is great money but it would really leave ye incredibly short upfront. With Van Persie (class act) very injury prone, Eduardo still recovering from his injury, the only experienced striker if you could even say that is Bendtner. So would ye expect Arsene to go out and buy 2 new strikers and possibly a centre back?

Seaneh

Yup, it's a mistake to join the most decorated club in world football, damned fool he is to join a small club like AC Milan...

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Seaneh wrote: »

Yup, it's a mistake to join the most decorated club in world football, damned fool he is to join a small club like AC Milan...

Where in my post did I describe AC Milan as a small club.

Seaneh

Just don't see how its a mistake to join Milan and become the focal point of the attack of one of the greatest clubs in the world...

And miss out on Champions league for a year? Give us 3 years at the most, we'll see if he made the right choice.

Seaneh

Sure in 3 years he'll have a Seire A title and a CL medal

Pepe LeFrits

Seaneh wrote: »

Yup, it's a mistake to join the most decorated club in world football, damned fool he is to join a small club like AC Milan...

Well, he'll be leaving the manager who made him the player he is and the fans who have supported him through some very barren spells. Will he get the same leeway at Milan? I doubt it.

If he does leave for a fee similar to the ones being bandied about, I won't be too bothered... it'd be almost as good business as Anelka.

leninbenjamin

Im_No_Superman wrote: »

£31 million is great money but it would really leave ye incredibly short upfront. With Van Persie (class act) very injury prone, Eduardo still recovering from his injury, the only experienced striker if you could even say that is Bendtner. So would ye expect Arsene to go out and buy 2 new strikers and possibly a centre back?

you forgot Vela and Walcott. both strikers.

Im_No_Superman

leninbenjamin wrote: »

you forgot Vela and Walcott. both strikers.

Yeah I was going to mention Walcott but Wenger seems to play him more on the wing maybe this will change this season. Vela I did forget about but to rely on those two to get you the goals Ade scored is a huge risk. So who would be your ideal replacement for Ade if he does go. Santa Cruz has been mentioned and I reckon he could do a very good job.

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Im_No_Superman wrote: »

Yeah I was going to mention Walcott but Wenger seems to play him more on the wing maybe this will change this season. Vela I did forget about but to rely on those two to get you the goals Ade scored is a huge risk. So who would be your ideal replacement for Ade if he does go. Santa Cruz has been mentioned and I reckon he could do a very good job.

Wenger does see Walcott as a striker whether he plays him as one this season, I am not too sure, I hope so, as I believe he will be as good as Henry.

Santa Cruz would be a good option imo.

Bounty Hunter

is that £31m or euro and for that kind of money (not that Wenger would be likely to spend so big) why not go for Villa instead of Santa Cruz?

Pepe LeFrits

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

is that £31m or euro and for that kind of money (not that Wenger would be likely to spend so big) why not go for Villa instead of Santa Cruz?

Wrong type of striker, imo.

leninbenjamin

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

Wrong type of striker, imo.

Indeed. Arsenal need a striker who's good at holding up the ball to bring in the midfielders to play the passing game. an acquisition like Villa would be nice, but will ultimately be an indulgence. there would still be a need for another strong striker.

jank

I dont want adeboyer to go but 31m is a good offer. I would turn it down though. It sends the wrong signals to the supporters, and other clubs that our best players are for sale.
I think at this rate Cesc will be out the door in 12 months.

I dont know, i think it will be years before Arsenal are at the very top again...
Maybe im too negative.

AnCapaillMor

80% sayy his agent, according to Arseblogger, its moranito who said this, he's not Ade's agent, he's the same guy who had Ice Cream with Hleb in milan, said we bid for Aquilani. I think milans beginning to use the madrid\barca tactics of using the papers. 28M-31M yes cool, but who do we replace him. Kenwyn jones has impressed, at a better team he'd be amazing.

no offense to the guy but f*** that, http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_3738398,00.html .

Further proof it's BS.

Evil_Clown

From the above article:
"Super agent Vincenzo Morabito"
I can see a new marvel comics film : 'Lost as a child and raised by the rumour mill', 'Super imagination powers' etc etc

Frisbee

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Kenwyn jones has impressed, at a better team he'd be amazing.

Get the boat.
No Way Jones is anywhere near the player Ade is.
There's really no point in selling Ade if we cant line up a replacement for him.
Vela, walcott, eduardo are very similair.
Van Persie is too injury prone
Bendtner is a donkey

Mr Alan

Possible replacement?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/06/26/ufnadebayor126.xml

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2008/06/26/arsenal-line-up-shock-move-for-peter-crouch-89520-20621440/

Pepe LeFrits

It looks like Ade is looking for more money than Arsenal are willing to give him. He got a new contract last summer despite not having done a whole lot to deserve it so I think asking for another now is a bit rich. If Milan want to make Arsenal a bit rich and spend £30m for a striker who has only had one prolific season, then I say let them. There are other strikers out there.

Besides Ade our striker options are a little bit unbalanced with there being a lot of support-striker types and not many centre-forwards, but that isn’t the end of the world (Man United managed to win the league without a centre-forward this season). I think we can expect quite a lot from internal improvement from the likes of Walcott, Vela and Bendtner. If van Persie and/or Eduardo stay fit next season then it’s a big bonus.

Mr Alan wrote: »

Possible replacement?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/06/26/ufnadebayor126.xml

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2008/06/26/arsenal-line-up-shock-move-for-peter-crouch-89520-20621440/

Ney. Bullcrap from an agent (not Adebayor’s) with an Italian agenda.

As an aside I've stopped reading the Telegraph. It's a pathetic excuse for a newspaper; it's a tabloid disguised as a broadsheet.

PHB

Ade did give you another option though. That other option is essential in games where passing just doesn't work.

Pepe LeFrits

If you mean the 'plan B', Bendtner is better in the air than Adebayor anyway.

leninbenjamin

one the crouch thing: even though the story reeks of tabloid inventiveness I think they could do a lot worse than him. he's excellent at holding up the ball and bringing people into play, and despite his size he's got surprising footwork ability and close passing skills. I've always felt him to be underrated and under exploited by Rafa. pace however would be his most obvious weakness.

AnCapaillMor

Don't mind Crouch but i think he'd be too slow for us, alot of our attacks involve swift breaks, thats what was so great about about Ade, for a tall guy who could head, he was increadably swift. Personally i think its agent BS, madrid\barca tactics and won't be surprised to see Ade in august.

Altho 28-30M would be very nice.

Galvasean

The back of the mirror linked us with Crouch.. or Gomez!!! :eek:
Good God, have we really turned into a small club over night?
Losing our star players to UEFA Cup teams, lining up misfiring strikers. Surely we can't be that bad?