Arsenal Transfer Rumours And General Chat

Galvasean

Lehmann injured for 2 weeks. Almunia to stand in.

Mossy Monk

Injured or dropped.

Galvasean

Sky sports are reporting injured. Wouldn't be the first time Lehmann mysteriously succumbed to injury after playing crap.

Galvasean

Read in the paper today that Lehmann is AWOL and in Germany searching for a new club.
In other news: Almunia plays. We win and keep a clean sheet. Happy days.:D

Pepe LeFrits

I'm concerned about the form of a number of players. We've gotten away with it so far but they need to find form fast.

Galvasean

Sky Sports are showing the man city game at half 8

keano_afc

I see Gilberto played centre half yesterday. And I've just seen Wenger on the club website saying "I'm not in the market for new players". Have we 2 or 3 centre halves at the club that I dont know about?

Pepe LeFrits

It appears the injury to Senderos is minor and he'll be back soon. I don't know about Sagna.

I hate seeing Gilberto at the back. Senderos & Toure is fine by me as a CB pairing though.

Galvasean

Senderos and Sagna are due to be fit to face Sparta.
With all these injuries (two midfielders playing in defense against Man C) will taht new young Norweigen centre back be getting a shot?

keano_afc

I cant see him being thrown in so soon, he's only 16 or 17? I can remember Senderos being badly exposed in the early days and doubt AW would risk the same. He'll get a run in the Carling Cup.

Galvasean

Wow, i didn't realize he was THAT young. I taught he was 20. Still if he wants to be the next Tony Adams...

keano_afc

Just read on Sky Sports that we turned down the chance to sign Adriano on loan. A mistake surely??

PHB

Nope, Wenger stated that he trusts the strikers he has.

AnCapaillMor

Inter are dieing to get rid of Adriano. He never really lived up to the hype, plus he's meant to have an attitude problem. Flamini was the player they wanted in return apparently.

kronsington

at least one player has to be brought in, not necessarily straight into the first team but we will get caught out numbers wise at some point, the defence already is falling apart with eboue, senderos and gallas all out. come on arsene get your cheque book out!

Gangsta

kronsington wrote:

at least one player has to be brought in, not necessarily straight into the first team but we will get caught out numbers wise at some point, the defence already is falling apart with eboue, senderos and gallas all out. come on arsene get your cheque book out!

What's the point? They'll only bounce.

Mr Alan

wat are your guys opinions on Baptista? sure you've heard but he has been linked with Liverpool today

leninbenjamin

millersangel wrote:

wat are your guys opinions on Baptista? sure you've heard but he has been linked with Liverpool today

uhh... any fan who saw him outside the Carling cup will tell you he's a horrendously over rated player. he missed so many sitters... and he doesn't seem to me to have any area of his game that would stand out at you. the guys not worth anything more than 5 mil sterling at best.

Galvasean

millersangel wrote:

wat are your guys opinions on Baptista? sure you've heard but he has been linked with Liverpool today

Good luck to them!

Mr Alan

thats wat i thought! was he not class before he came to england though?

~Rebel~

i didnt think he was great at Real the season before he joined Arsenal, but from what i saw form when he was at Seville he was unreal though that was all just from Revista de la liga on sky sports so i didnt see much of his general play at that point so cant tell if he was as awkward and uncontrolled as he seemed to be last year. Still, i assume if Rafa really is after him, he feels theres something he can get out of him. Though i very much doubt he'll be 13.5mill, say more like 7 or 8. anything more and its not worth the risk. Id rather just keep crouchy really.

Royale with Cheese

A ha ha. Buy away pool. Baptista was absolutely woeful last season, even if he improves he'd still be a poor player. I would most definitely prefer Peter Crouch to him.

AnCapaillMor

Baptista for me was a huge huge dissapointment, worse than Suker. I expected so much from him, especially after the summer before when real got him. Portsmouth game summed it all up, got a penalty and missed it.

maxi-twist

Cesc Fabregas has started scoring goals. This could be very good for arsenals premier league hopes.

Roddy23

Great to see Eduardo off the mark too.

maxi-twist

eduardo looked very lively tonight didnt he? great pace and a great assist for fabregas' goal too. Thought hoyte was quite dodgy.

Gangsta

Good goals. The fill-ins were far too sloppy though, I feel they missed their opportunity.

cson

Jesus that performance was cat. 3-0 really flattered us. Diaby and Gilberto is not a good centre mid combo, you need one of them plus Fabregas/Denilson to be a balanced partnership.

The defense was seriously dodge at times, a better team than Sparta would've scored a few.

I hate to be pessimistic but we are in dire need of 2-3 new players, the squad is size 0 at the minute and I shudder at the thought of what will happen come African Nations Cup time with Kolo, Ade and Manu Eboué all off on their travels.

AnCapaillMor

We look overly dependent on Fabs. hope he does'nt get injured.

Galvasean

Arseanl were a team transformed once Fabregas and Adebayor came on. They link up well.
3 goals for Fabregas so far this season. How many in total did he get last season? 4?