Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

Gringo180 · 01-08-2013 09:36PM

shano_88 wrote: »

We finished 3rd last year.

Im trying to keep away from all this thread/twitter but Ive been reading both tonight. I can understand the frustration and am getting frustrated myself at the lack of signing. I wont fully judge until the window is over but Im not too optimistic at this stage.

Good shout forgot all about us finishing 3rd with all this talk of 4th place :pac:

.jacksparrow. · 01-08-2013 09:40PM

One thing I will say about spurs though is Paulinho, has anyone actually seen him enough to say he is a beast?

I think the price tag and a good game at the confederations cup has him hyped up.

I'm going with another donkey here, similar to palacios!

speedboatchase · 01-08-2013 09:45PM

Gringo180 wrote: »

Good shout forgot all about us finishing 3rd with all this talk of 4th place :pac:

Stop being negative and saying we finished 4th!

FearDark · 01-08-2013 09:53PM

First off I apologise because I appear to because I'm probably one of those posters who only post a few times a year to "moan".

To the lads saying, "wait til September and then judge what Wenger has done in the transfer market then" Bullsh1t. We are in trouble NOW. Spurs have strengthened a ton, City and Mourinho back at Chelsea, we are in trouble and we can't write off United either given they are current champions and will only strengthen their squad too.

If we don't buy this could very well be the season we don't finish in CL position, not that is even good enough anymore. We have a real chance to go and compete for it this season, not be buried by Feburay as usual. I want us to do well, I want Wenger to spend some cash, I want world class players. We are obviously lacking in several key areas.

To let Higuain go to Nappoli for 32 mil was an absolute crime for me. We are continually linked with these players and seem to bid low on them just to keep us (the fans) happy. OH no, "Real Madrid moved the goalposts" and wanted 32 mil instead of 30, and "we were right not to buy" - lol. Well Napoli now have a fantastic player that could push them on this year and they may even win Serie A who knows.

What I don't want is to be posting here in 9 months time saying "I told you so"

shano_88 · 01-08-2013 09:53PM

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

One thing I will say about spurs though is Paulinho, has anyone actually seen him enough to say he is a beast?

I think the price tag and a good game at the confederations cup has him hyped up.

I'm going with another donkey here, similar to palacios!

I haven't seen much of him but from what i saw from playing for Brazil he does look like a very good player.

Maire2009 · 01-08-2013 10:04PM

Am actually beginning to get worried to be honest - we were short last season and our squad has depleted since then, I know none of the players are big misses but they were part of the squad and we were already short when injuries occurred so what now? Chelsea, City and United already had stronger squads than us and Spurs are adding to theirs and whether Bale stays or goes I see them adding one or two more...

Mr.Micro · 01-08-2013 10:39PM

TheGunns wrote: »

We didn't sign whoever was left last season, we bought pretty early

My wrong it was the season before

Marty McFly · 01-08-2013 11:42PM

Bild who I think are pretty reliable for German news are saying we have a bid in for Gustavo

HazDanz · 01-08-2013 11:45PM

Marty McFly wrote: »

Bild who I think are pretty reliable for German news are saying we have a bid in for Gustavo

Well that would be a real plus.

01-08-2013 11:46PM

emergingstar wrote: »

They changed targets to Suarez thought its a better deal

What's wrong with that

So so so so much. To everyone other than the Arsenal board it looks like an incredibly risky strategy that's bound to fail as Liverpool selling to us would be absolute suicide. Whatever chance they have of CL football would be instantly gone if they sold Suarez to Arsenal. That's why its extremely unlikely that it will happen and why it is looking like a horrible decision to switch targets to Suarez.

liamygunner29 · 01-08-2013 11:51PM

Still just feel that if the supporters are this concerned that surely someone in the club is going to force the issue. I mean people are really losing it, they are gonna have to buy to avoid a serious backlash.

Sad to hear about Kenny Samson, great player. Met him on a tour before extremely nice man. Hope he can get back on his feet and the club do all they can for him.

Nuri Sahin · 02-08-2013 12:07AM

Marty McFly wrote: »

Bild who I think are pretty reliable for German news are saying we have a bid in for Gustavo

Hit n miss. More of the latter usually. Kicker is 100% reliable if looking for Bundesliga related transfers.

bad2dabone · 02-08-2013 12:24AM

positive talk this evening on Suarez and Gustavo. Two SERIOUS signings if they come through.

Don't hope though, it's the hope that gets you in the end.

Mr Blobby · 02-08-2013 12:30AM

bad2dabone wrote: »

positive talk this evening on Suarez and Gustavo. Two SERIOUS signings if they come through.

Don't hope though, it's the hope that gets you in the end.

So you're saying we are 100% going to sign them?

... Fcuking brilliant, absolutely great signings.

bad2dabone · 02-08-2013 12:37AM

Mr Blobby wrote: »

So you're saying we are 100% going to sign them?

... Fcuking brilliant, absolutely great signings.

NOOOO BLOBBY! DON'T HOPE!!!!!

speedboatchase · 02-08-2013 12:53AM

Marty McFly wrote: »

Bild who I think are pretty reliable for German news are saying we have a bid in for Gustavo

No, they just say that we are interested and that he would cost 10 million. The entire article is about Wolfsburg though.

Mickeroo · 02-08-2013 12:53AM

Hope can kill a man. Get busy buying or get busy losing out on 4th place.

bad2dabone · 02-08-2013 12:59AM

speedboatchase wrote: »

No, they just say that we are interested and that he would cost 10 million. The entire article is about Wolfsburg though.

f*ck it, 10m, lets have a whip-round and buy him ourselves, deliver him to the emirates and say "there Arsene. We bought this one for you"

HazDanz · 02-08-2013 01:07AM

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

I think Arsene has that on his arse.

farna_boy · 02-08-2013 01:17AM

I think most posters in here are actually fairly neutral about Wenger. The problem is, there are a minority of posters in here who are totally anti-Wenger (and will admit to being so). This then causes an imbalance in the the thread.

The anti-Wenger "brigade" are more interested in converting others to their way of thinking than whatever business Arsenal actually do. Every time someone else signs a player that occupies a position where we are looking for a player, it becomes a crisis that "x" player was available for "however many million" despite the fact that the player would not have improved our squad or even would have been good enough as a back up. When this happens, many posters point out that the player is either not good enough or not what we need and may come across as being pro-Wenger, whereas they are just trying to adjust the imbalance. This is not helped by other supporters assisting the anti-Wenger brigade.

The truth of the matter is this: We have a very good first team, not superb, not excellent, but nonetheless, a very good first team. If we can add a striker (who won't imbalance the team) and possibly a DMF (despite the fact Wenger has been saying we don't play that formation anymore, for many years?), we could potentially have a title challenging team. Our problem, as always, will be subs if someone gets injured, and this is much more difficult to address.

In my mind, we need maybe one big signing, maybe Suarez, maybe an alternative. Other than that we need cover if people get injured. Other than that, if we are not relying on replacements and we have our first choice team out, there is no reason that we should not be challenging for a title.

HazDanz · 02-08-2013 01:26AM

Good man John.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfers-arsenal-target-suarez-2114488

wandatowell · 02-08-2013 01:42AM

HazDanz wrote: »

Good man John.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfers-arsenal-target-suarez-2114488

Do Liverpool have Europe football this season do you know?? If not then we can afford to wait out the Suarez deal as he has got a 6 game ban hanging over him.

Hopefully things will start to get dirty

batistuta9 · 02-08-2013 05:42AM

bad2dabone wrote: »

So anyone got a listing of our upcoming televised fixtures?

Evil_Clown wrote: »

So it looks like between setanta Ireland, bt and sky our 1st 7 games are on tv

http://www.wheresthematch.com/Football/Arsenal.asp

http://www.setanta.com/ie/premier-league-fixtures/

12 of the first 13 league games are on TV between them 3 channels, well the 2 packs really (sky 6, setanta 4, BT 2 ) , the only game that isn't is Norwich at home on the 19th of october

that's the fixtures until the end of november, as far as they're done TV wise. In december arsenal play everton, man city, chelsea and west ham (boxing day) amongst others at least 2 of them will be guaranteed to be on

& all the CL games will be on too

& btw the emirates cup is on BT this year not sky

02-08-2013 06:08AM

Pity half the matches won't be on my TV. Just not the same hunting down a crappy stream.

batistuta9 · 02-08-2013 06:27AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Pity half the matches won't be on my TV. Just not the same hunting down a crappy stream.

go for one of the paid streaming sites, they're worth it & aren't expensive either

or the dodgy sky - stories of this not working much longer though

02-08-2013 06:30AM

Not expensive but my connection can be unusable for streaming a lot of the time. I likely won't be at home for all the matches so I'll just make an extra effort for the ones that are on Sky :pac:

batistuta9 · 02-08-2013 06:35AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Not expensive but my connection can be unusable for streaming a lot of the time. I likely won't be at home for all the matches so I'll just make an extra effort for the ones that are on Sky :pac:

don't over over analyse them though & criticise anyone :pac:

the better games are on sky anyway for the first round of TV fixtures

02-08-2013 06:37AM

batistuta9 wrote: »

don't over over analyse them though & criticise anyone :pac:

the better games are on sky anyway for the first round of TV fixtures

"One signing and it would look every bit as good as Sky HD!" :pac:

.jacksparrow. · 02-08-2013 09:08AM

arsenal are going to sign a new player from South Korea. FU-KIN-NO-WAN'

greendom · 02-08-2013 09:16AM

.jacksparrow. wrote: »

arsenal are going to sign a new player from South Korea. FU-KIN-NO-WAN'

Thanks for that valuable contribution. Really worthwhile to regurgitate a year-old twitter joke.

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