Arsenal Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

Redzer7

Eduardo .

Redzer7

Is He Calling Mannonne "Fabianski" Or Am I Just Hearing Things?

Souless

Redzer7 wrote: »

Is He Calling Mannonne "Fabianski" Or Am I Just Hearing Things?

lol that's what I thought as the goalie in nets at the moment looks nothing like Fabianski. I dont think the comentator actually has a clue, I thought Andy Grey was bad

newbie2

no, its
Wojciech Szczesny
http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/wojciech-szczesny

Souless

Ah ok so he's right about the Polish part at least I guess

Redzer7

He is calling him Fabianski I fcuking knew it .

Redzer7

newbie2 wrote: »

no, its
Wojciech Szczesny
http://www.arsenal.com/reserves-youth/players/wojciech-szczesny

Thats what i meant to say :pac:

Souless

was a pretty poor match, just defending for our lives the last 20 odd minutes heh, ah well. Ok I knew it wasn't Fabianski and in my defence watching it on a tiny screen makes it hard to tell the difference between Mannone and Szczesny :P

Qs

yahoo_moe wrote: »

Just on this - arseblogger made a decent point today that the purchase of Arshavin was probably budgeted for based on Ade leaving this summer, so we were essentially £15m down at the start of the summer. And given that we're probably always looking to turn a slight profit these days, we're not exactly sitting on a pile of money and refusing to spend it.

I read that but its not something I agree with, Arseblogger really doesn't now which way is up this year anyway. Even if the Vermaelen and Arshavin deals are taken into accound there should still be either £16m from the Toure deal or £25m if Eboue goes too available. Plus we didn't spend anything we didn't make in transfers last summer and we've received a few quid from sell on clauses in the last year too. There should have been plenty there to fund the Arshavin sale. Not to mention we've just offloaded 2 of the highest wage earners at the club.

There really is absolutely no reason for us not to be buying a player or 2 this summer. Obviously we can't spend huge sums like United, City, Chelsea, etc and we don't want to spend money we don't have like Liverpool but we should be able to spend a reasonable (key word) amount. Especially since we're losing key players.


Back to tonight. Excellent first half, shocking second. As always with preseason it doesn't mean much but at least the first half was enjoyable to watch and cheered me up a bit about the sorry state we are in. Also I like this new formation we're playing, seems more 4-3-3 than the 4-2-3-1 we played last season. Makes more sense.

TheNorthBank

Highlights from tonights game.

Was this Eboue saying goodbye at the end?

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/3071135/

itsjaybud

Cheers for the highlights northbank! well worked goal and always nice to win.

But its impossible not to be disappointed today, losing Toure really is bad news for us. These transfer windows really do disappoint as an Arsenal fan especially when i had the feeling that this summer the squad would be kept together (as in no first teamers leaving).

I had the same belief as Wenger at the end of last season that Arsenal had a squad that was very close to becoming serious title contenders with 1/2 defensive additions.

To state the obvious losing experience in the squad cant do it any good and il be really finding it difficult to get excited about any player(s) that we might sign. I just cant see it being the type of player that will have us excited.

OPENROAD

So does anyone think their is any truth in the Vieira resiging rumour on a pay as you play basis?

itsjaybud

Vieira wheres this been talked about?

Afaic no not a hope in hell! Why would we want Vieira back at this stage?

Royale with Cheese

That'd be an awful, but typical solution to the defensive midfielder problem.

OPENROAD

itsjaybud wrote: »

Vieira wheres this been talked about?

Afaic no not a hope in hell! Why would we want Vieira back at this stage?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2009/07/30/patrick-vieira-going-back-to-arsenal-says-ian-wright-115875-21557182/

No hope. typical red top rag read

thorbarry

very slow news day so far... nothing since the sale of Kolo... some rumers about paddy returning, I'm sure we'll be linked to make a sensational hijack of the martins transfer.. and be linked to yourman from Fulham again.... *sigh.. i hate pre season

Redzer7

Viera would be a great signing, a lot of experience.

thorbarry

Redzer7 wrote: »

Viera would be a great signing, a lot of experience.

Sure would be, we may as well sign Marc Overmars from the Go Ahead Eagles while we're at it

Leprechaun77

Vieira is a legend. He left towards the top of his game. Lets remember him like that (...jaysus, it sounds as if the chap is dead..). If he were to come back, he could not possibly be near the level of fitness or standard needed to compete at the highest level. He has been left out by Inter for a reason imo.

Redzer7

Henry on his way aswel gonna be a great season :rolleyes:

Evil_Clown

Redzer7 wrote: »

Henry on his way aswel gonna be a great season :rolleyes:

Bring back Perry Groves ....:P

keano_afc

Evil_Clown wrote: »

Bring back Perry Groves ....:P

Is Denis Compton still around?

thorbarry

from the guardian site

MADRID, July 30 (Reuters) - Barcelona midfielder Aleksandr Hleb has agreed a one-year loan move to former club VfB Stuttgart, the European champions said on their website (www.fcbarcelona.cat) on Thursday.
The Belarus international had originally been included in the swap deal that took Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Barca from Inter Milan with Samuel Eto'o going in the opposite direction on Monday.
However, Spanish media reported the player preferred a return to the Bundesliga rather than a move to Serie A.
The 28-year-old struggled to break into Pep Guardiola's treble-winning side last season and had been left out of the squad for their tour of the United States, which started on Wednesday.
Hleb joined Barca from Arsenal on a four-year contract for around 18 million euros last year. He played five seasons with Stuttgart before his switch to the Premier League in 2005. (Writing by Mark Elkington; Editing by John O'Brien; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

I suppose its not really Arsenal news per say, but still. Its pretty interesting, Henry seems to be doing very well now at Barca, apart from him, its hard to think of any player who Wenger let go that actually succeeded.

PDN

Evil_Clown wrote: »

Bring back Perry Groves ....:P

Gus Caesar! And Nelson Vivas!

L'prof

PDN wrote: »

Gus Caesar! And Nelson Vivas!

No way, Francis Jeffers!!!

speedboatchase

Gulp. From Sky Sports:

12.07 Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has revealed he will not definitely enter the transfer market to replace Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor.

Redzer7

Ah Fcuk if we don't make anymore signings there will be no chance of silverware, the current crop certainly isn't good enough, we'll be lucky to even get 4th.

L'prof

speedboatchase wrote: »

Gulp. From Sky Sports:

12.07 Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has revealed he will not definitely enter the transfer market to replace Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Adebayor.

No surprises there!

Wenger wrote:

We have seven centre-backs and I am in a position where we have to play some in midfield.

And as for Adebayor, there are a lot of strikers there, he'll prolly give Bendtner more of a shot before he signs someone else!

Redzer7 wrote: »

Ah Fcuk if we don't make anymore signings there will be no chance of silverware, the current crop certainly isn't good enough, we'll be lucky to even get 4th.

I can't see how you'd expect any anyway!

Souless

How can he think the current defence is good enough?... Everyone has been going on about that's where we need to strengthen! I mean Toure out and who's gonna step up...Senderos? we're back to having 2 starting CB's a ton of not so good back ups. I hope he's just saying that and is currently trying to strike up a few deals quitely so that Man City dont steal the player or something.