Arsenal Transfer Rumours And General Chat

Pepe LeFrits · 28-05-2008 12:40PM

Bentley gets a raw deal from most Gooners. Sure he's fairly cocky and outspoken but I think a lot of the stuff he gets a bad rep from is taken out of context, deliberately or not. There's an agenda to cast him as the villain for leaving Arsenal.

AnCapaillMor · 28-05-2008 12:48PM

The not turning up to the england b or U21(cant remember which one), has eseentially told BB f'off, i'm going elsewhere, also for us Arse fans a few times he's said english player x should leave Arsenal.

He wanted to keep him but Bentley wanted 1st team footie and would'nt wait.

Pepe would'nt blame hiim for leaving, but some of his comments afterwards did'nt endear him to many Arsenal fans.

Mr Alan · 28-05-2008 12:49PM

thats wat i thought pepe, cheers

gosplan · 28-05-2008 12:52PM

I don't think Bentley's a bad guy and agree with the above.

I still don't think he's good enough for Arsenal though. Players like Bentley, Barry and Richards get over-hyped because they're the best English players not at a big 4 club. It's self perpetuating journalism as it also starts the endless transfer rumours.

Richards probably makes the grade as he's young for a defender and can step up but I think the other two are way over-hyped. They’re at their level and it’s not Arsenal’s.

Same thing happened to SWP but when a player like Martin Petrov has a great season we don’t hear much about him moving.

I hope Bentley doesn’t believe his hype too much though. He’s doing a great job at Blackburn and playing all the games. The only big four club that’d take him are Liverpool and I don’t see him being the answer to their wing problems, just another mistaken transfer that will cost him a few years.

Irish Gunner · 28-05-2008 12:55PM

Just got my membership renewal form this week

After 7 or so long years have finally been upgraded to Silver

You can now renew your red membership online also

So more games for me to see next season

leninbenjamin · 28-05-2008 12:58PM

gosplan wrote: »

I still don't think he's good enough for Arsenal though. Players like Bentley, Barry and Richards get over-hyped because they're the best English players not at a big 4 club. It's self perpetuating journalism as it also starts the endless transfer rumours.

agreed. he's definitly an easy target for the media, a lot of what he has said has been taken out of context. i do think however he would have ended up a better player had he stayed at Arsenal. he's still very raw at times, but i think Arsene could have polished him up nicely had he left. it's a self perpetuating problem, as good english players become rarer, the media hype the others up and thus begins the downward spiral.

i'd remove richards from the above list though, if he can get a move to a big club within the next 2 years i think he'll end up a world class defender.

AnCapaillMor · 28-05-2008 01:22PM

I think Bentleys good enough, just wish he'd waited, i could've seen him play this year, if he stayed. He's good at blackburn but i could see him be much better with us. Saw him before as DB10 mkII. I think he would've been a much better player if he'd the patience to stay on a while.

English players don't get me started on the hype and over-pricing. I'd love to see more with us, developing is the only way(and they need the patience to stay on) because we can't afford to buy them.

OPENROAD · 28-05-2008 06:51PM

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

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English players don't get me started on the hype and over-pricing. I'd love to see more with us, developing is the only way(and they need the patience to stay on) because we can't afford to buy them.

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Bentley would have made a great player for us but lacked patience,Pennant had the potential to be a great player but his attitude is all wrong.

keano_afc · 28-05-2008 09:25PM

Eh, so he's staying now?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_3622831,00.html

Some Arsenal forums are saying the Nasri deal has been gazzumped by Liverpool.

OPENROAD · 28-05-2008 09:27PM

keano_afc wrote: »

Eh, so he's staying now?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_3622831,00.html

Some Arsenal forums are saying the Nasri deal has been gazzumped by Liverpool.

He likes the noise of London now or maybe a good enough offer has not come in

AnCapaillMor · 28-05-2008 09:43PM

If true the agent should be shot. What is about us and our players having the biggest bolloxes for agents. Nasri please no, not after Hamman, kewell and possibly babel.

Pepe LeFrits · 28-05-2008 09:48PM

There are quotes from Nasri saying the deal is 99% done going around now. Chillax!

leninbenjamin · 28-05-2008 10:21PM

keano_afc wrote: »

Eh, so he's staying now?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11670_3622831,00.html

I knew his agent was acting the rogue in all this, trying to get a bigger cut. but if what Hleb is saying is the real truth of it, you'd imagine his agent would be close to fired by now. i don't know what to believe on all this, and i wont for a second expect a conclusion til 00:00:00 1/9/08. there has to be more to play...

if this is the case though, then it looks like Nasri could well be Rosicky's replacement. wouldn't be surprised if Wenger simply tries to get him fit again just to recoup a few yoyos in the next year or so... it's a shame but he's never going to live up to his initial promise is he?

OPENROAD · 29-05-2008 01:06AM

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/05/29/sfnars129.xml

L'prof · 29-05-2008 11:19AM

Irish Gunner wrote: »

After 7 or so long years have finally been upgraded to Silver

You lucky *, fair play though, I think this is my 4th membership...so hopefully I'll only need a few more before I get silver!

OPENROAD wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/05/29/sfnars129.xml

I use this website a lot and it seems that he's signed for £13.5m, they were very quick when Sagna signed too!

Galvasean · 29-05-2008 11:58AM

Nothing up on the official page yet. i hope its true.

As for Bentley, at his current level of ability I'd say he'd be a rotation player for the Arsenal first team. If he had stayed with us longer and had access to our superior training methods maybe he could have become a better player. However I don't like his constant sniping comments. Every chance he gets he criticizes us. He was always saying Cole should leave Arsenal and now he's on about Walcott too. Ah well, I'm of the opinion that Walcott has the potential to become twice the player he is.

L'prof · 29-05-2008 12:04PM

A must buy!

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/852654/-/Product.html?searchstring=up+for+grabs+now&searchsource=0#

L'prof · 29-05-2008 12:17PM

Interesting...number of posts in forum since Saturday:

United 647
Liverpool 373
Arsenal 68

No real surprises there, I suppose...is this a good guide for how support may be spread throughout Ireland, or would the Pool be closer to United?

arbeitsscheuer · 29-05-2008 02:30PM

Maybe we just don't talk as much sh*t as they do

L'prof · 29-05-2008 02:34PM

arbeitsscheuer wrote: »

Maybe we just don't talk as much sh*t as they do

True, not as many of us either though!

Bounty Hunter · 29-05-2008 02:47PM

This thread seems to be on a similar level to the Villa thread tbh and not nearly as busy as the Pool/United ones. its a good thing though means the thread is far easier to follow and with less contributers you know those posting and if their word is worth taking on board.

jank · 29-05-2008 03:39PM

Much less bull **** on this thread. It always tips away nicely but on the other threads e.g. if Rooney farts then its an extra 10 pages on why he farted and how ill it affect the team!:D

L'prof · 29-05-2008 04:00PM

jank wrote: »

Much less bull **** on this thread. It always tips away nicely but on the other threads e.g. if Rooney farts then its an extra 10 pages on why he farted and how ill it affect the team!:D

Very true, I keep an eye on them all, but usually skip to the last page of the other ones to see what they're saying while I read every page here!

Galvasean · 29-05-2008 10:58PM

I'm happy not having too many posters. Remember the surge we had during the 'Liverpool trilogy'? It was impossible to keep up. Every village idiot on the board (I'm not referring to Liverpool fans mind, well maybe a couple, just opinionated passers by) was stopping by to hark on his two cents about the games, although usually just complaining and bickering amongst themselves.. Got very messy. The core posters here do a good job. Not that I'm trying to discourage new posters of course.

Fuzzy_Dunlop · 29-05-2008 11:49PM

jank wrote: »

Much less bull **** on this thread. It always tips away nicely but on the other threads e.g. if Rooney farts then its an extra 10 pages on why he farted and how ill it affect the team!:D

Agreed. Now what hairstyle do we all think would work best for Ade for next season?, the Bernie Mac didn't seem to work so well so i think maybe he should go for the Mr. T next.

AnCapaillMor · 30-05-2008 08:21AM

playa3 wrote: »

Agreed. Now what hairstyle do we all think would work best for Ade for next season?, the Bernie Mac didn't seem to work so well so i think maybe he should go for the Mr. T next.

Has to be long, he cut it before the Birmingham and look what happened, Ade should now be Samson.

Evil_Clown · 30-05-2008 08:37AM

It looks like Sepp has got some ammunition to go to the EU with about quotas, 6 +5 rule
I still don't think it will happen anytime soon though but Blatter seems intent on getting his way

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/7421348.stm

Galvasean · 30-05-2008 01:02PM

Its never going to happen thanks to EU legislation.

Pepe LeFrits · 30-05-2008 04:54PM

http://101greatgoals.magnify.net/item/NX6XTM8H04RML202

Bendtner's assist against the Dutch. Quality. I can't understand why some people want to sell him.

AnCapaillMor · 30-05-2008 05:06PM

Nice footwork.

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