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Arsenal Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

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  • #5072
    ulinbac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 707 ✭✭✭ulinbac


    That rumour of a signing is probably only going to happen caus Arteta is injured!!

    What happens if we have 3/4 players injured at a given time(which is standard with Arsenal) this season?


  • #5073
    2nd Row Donkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,480 ✭✭✭✭2nd Row Donkey


    Bounty Hunter wrote: »
    maybe im wrong but I dont recall anyone saying they would win / compete for the league with the squad as it was even after they decisively beat City in a friendly and even now after all these injuries and no additions I havent seen anyone say they are in for a relegation fight. So which one umm neither I guess.

    I remember it clearly, especially in the first half. It sticks out in my memory because it was same ppl who where all doom and gloom the week leading up to it.

    And yes, I was exaggerating about relegation... But the drama in here is so great I wouldn't be surprised if that's what comes next if this weekends result is negative.


  • #5074
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,762 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think we can win the league..


































    :pac:


  • #5075
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    2nd Row Donkey wrote: »
    t if this weekends result is negative.

    Don't even go there :pac:


  • #5076
    2nd Row Donkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,480 ✭✭✭✭2nd Row Donkey


    Caught out?!?!

    I just said I think Wenger will surprise everyone and have the existing squad hit the ground running...and thus become the early leaders, what's the problem with that.


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  • #5077
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Don't worry whats on tv and whats not on tv. Anyone is welcome to PM me. I always get a HD reliable stream.


  • #5078
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    FearDark wrote: »
    Don't worry whats on tv and whats not on tv. Anyone is welcome to PM me. I always get a HD reliable stream.

    Do you use the paid streaming sites or do you just go hunting an hour before kickoff????


  • #5079
    darego
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,727 ✭✭✭darego


    wandatowell wrote: »
    Do you use the paid streaming sites or do you just go hunting an hour before kickoff????

    name of any good paid streaming sites? how much are they? need one for this year since i'm not arsed getting sports stations back with this new setanta/bt deal


  • #5080
    wandatowell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    darego wrote: »
    name of any good paid streaming sites? how much are they? need one for this year since i'm not arsed getting sports stations back with this new setanta/bt deal

    Aint got a clue about those paid sites. Im very happy to drop down to the pub for a sparkling water and toasted sandwich on a Saturday afternoon tbh


  • #5081
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    wandatowell wrote: »
    Do you use the paid streaming sites or do you just go hunting an hour before kickoff????

    I have amassed 1000's of links over the years and if I know something is on Sky Sports 1 I have a choice of about 30 sites and ill just go with the most reliable. Having said that I totally forgot I could nip down to the pub and watch the match! Ive been living in NZ for far too long and the matches were a struggle getting up at 4am to watch, now that I'm home I can just pop into the local!


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  • #5082
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Might pop down to the Mercantinle to watch one of matches in Sept, maybe the qualifier

    What are the televisions like in the Mercantile? Any other good places to watch fif you're an Arsenal supporter? Or just for the football in general.


  • #5083
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,762 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    Might pop down to the Mercantinle to watch one of matches in Sept, maybe the qualifier

    What are the televisions like in the Mercantile? Any other good places to watch fif you're an Arsenal supporter? Or just for the football in general.
    Nice big screen and a few plasmas knocking about too.

    I'm going to stay away til we sign a couple of players. If you think the negative bunch in here are bad, nothing on a few of the lads down the merc!


  • #5084
    Looper007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Looper007


    danlen wrote: »
    This thread is turning into a f*cking joke.

    How many times can people write a post that says the exact same thing that about 100 posts before it have said?

    I get it, we're all frustrated, we NEED to sign players and the squad isn't good enough. I know, I feel it too, believe me. But for the love of God can we give it a rest for a while and perhaps just talk about something other than our lack of transfer activity.

    Like what struggling for 4th and winning F all. Watching our best players leaving next summer cause our Manager is a stingy bastard. Okay then lets talk.


  • #5085
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,762 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Looper007 wrote: »
    Okay then lets talk.

    Good man! Onwards and upwards!
    Bar Michael Thomas' goal, what's your favourite Arsenal moment?


  • #5086
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,917 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp7l4Tmdi_g


  • #5087
    gosplan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,828 ✭✭✭gosplan


    2nd Row Donkey wrote: »
    I remember it clearly, especially in the first half. It sticks out in my memory because it was same ppl who where all doom and gloom the week leading up to it.

    And yes, I was exaggerating about relegation... But the drama in here is so great I wouldn't be surprised if that's what comes next if this weekends result is negative.

    This is correct. 30 mins of good football and the negativity all washed away. People even started to look down their noses at Madrid and Barca.

    I don't think there's purely negative posters, just extreme or over the top supporters. They just experience dizzying highs and terrible lows ...but it'll all be great once the football starts. This team can play.


  • #5088
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,527 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    Nuri Sahin wrote: »
    Out of curiosity, as someone who has long said Arsenal and Wenger needs to go their separate ways for the past three/four years or so, IF he were to leave then who would you guys want to take over right now or well, in one years time hypothetically speaking?

    Just to add, in those four years or so it was always my belief that Pellegrini was the man to take over. Other names I'd have thought over the past few years would be Garcia, Villas Boas (pre-Chelsea), Blanc, Favre, De Boer or Montanier.

    Before you say it, Klopp is out of the question :D

    I'd still take AVB - very unlikely though
    ancelotti - unlikely too but you never know with Real

    hipster answer (:pac:) - Montella


  • #5089
    bad2dabone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭bad2dabone


    for me Laudrup ticks the boxes. And I think if we wanted him we'd get him.


  • #5090
    Marty McFly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭Marty McFly


    You just know today unless Wenger unveils a signing (which he won't ) he is going to piss off a lot of fans with what he says at the oress conference sending this thread and twitter into meltdown mode.


  • #5091
    Drexel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭Drexel


    Marty McFly wrote: »
    You just know today unless Wenger unveils a signing (which he won't ) he is going to piss off a lot of fans with what he says at the oress conference sending this thread and twitter into meltdown mode.

    Time is the press conference on at? Should be fun!


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  • #5092
    DubDani
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭DubDani


    All the German outlets (Welt, Kicker, Sport1, Bild etc.) are reporting that Gustovo's move to Wolfsburg is all done, and that the fee is 15 mil Euro.


  • #5093
    emergingstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,773 ✭✭✭emergingstar


    Press conference on now he is saying nothing bad

    Lets get behind who we have tomorrow and we can get back to moaning after the game


  • #5094
    Pepe LeFrits
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    DubDani wrote: »
    All the German outlets (Welt, Kicker, Sport1, Bild etc.) are reporting that Gustovo's move to Wolfsburg is all done, and that the fee is 15 mil Euro.
    Wolfsburg have confirmed it.


  • #5095
    wawaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 ✭✭✭wawaman


    Wenger has said that he is looking for "quality not quantity" but hope to get 2/3 players in, possibily more. This is gonna be the same as 2 years ago with a mad dash Brewsters Millions type splurge on leftovers.


  • #5096
    Frisbee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,576 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    I've tried not to post in here this summer as we're just going around in circles saying the same thing.

    But I've lost all faith in us strengthening now, even if we do land Suarez on deadline day that's not going to be enough.

    If a person in any other form of employment resided over three months of such complete ineptitude in the workplace they would be fire on the spot for negligence.


  • #5097
    Saab Ed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,374 ✭✭✭Saab Ed


    Spurs fan in peace lads.

    What is the gig with Wenger not spending the money. Ye have pots of it, Ye have the pedigree for any quality of player in the world to join you and you're in London which is a major draw for most players. I can't figure it out.


  • #5098
    bad2dabone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,333 ✭✭✭bad2dabone


    Neither can we Saab Ed.

    it's bizarre.


  • #5099
    Kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    Spurs fan in peace lads.

    What is the gig with Wenger not spending the money. Ye have pots of it, Ye have the pedigree for any quality of player in the world to join you and you're in London which is a major draw for most players. I can't figure it out.

    Nobody really knows. All we can do is speculate. It's probably a combination of a couple of different things.

    They probably have a decent bit of money but not as much as the board claims so it's not like he has 100 million to splurge on whoever he wants. More like 40 and that's his lot so he might feel as if he has to be careful.

    It might be a bit of ego as well. He is well known as a great spotter of talent and rightfully so but this probably plays on his mind a bit as he would be afraid of having an expensive "punt" on a player and having them flop.

    Nobody notices when Chamakh flopped because he cost nothing. A Carroll or Torres style flop would damage his reputation and he probably puts a lot of stock in that. It's obvious he thinks a lot of himself. Might be a reason for his transfer paralysis.

    Perhaps he's a bit too much a perfectionist? Constantly trying to find the perfect player for his system and always coming up short because they don't exist.....so he buys young players and tries to mold them which ofcourse hardly ever works.

    Perhaps the fabled scouting system is really a myth? Maybe he isn't getting the help he needs? Maybe he's stuck in an bygone era when top quality players cost 10 million instead of 40?

    Bottom line is, who knows. It's all guesswork. What we do know, is that Arsenal haven't signed a world class player in donkeys years.


  • #5100
    Pepe LeFrits
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    Kirby wrote: »
    They probably have a decent bit of money but not as much as the board claims so it's not like he has 100 million to splurge on whoever he wants. .
    It is like that.


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  • #5101
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Saab Ed wrote: »
    Spurs fan in peace lads.

    What is the gig with Wenger not spending the money. Ye have pots of it, Ye have the pedigree for any quality of player in the world to join you and you're in London which is a major draw for most players. I can't figure it out.

    Join the club.... :D

    Wenger does not like to overspend, he rates players at a certain amount and will not budge on this. Unfortunately there is always at least one more club somewhere that will top his limit as we have seen this Summer. Look at any of our recent buys, a lot were from clubs in distress or relegated and needed cash fast. When you look back it's amazing that we were able to get someone like Carzola.

    Unless we get a few injuries before the window closes it doesn't look like anyone will come in, and to be honest, at that stage they would be panic buys and not quality buys.


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