** Summer Transfer Window 2011/12 Season Rumours/Signings **

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Whilst most of that is true, he brought a set of strong shoulders to the midfield and players were scared of him, which was a very good asset to have especially against the tougher teams. With Huddlestone off injured more times than he plays, and Jenas being a useless ****, I would still have kept him.
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He could run all day and was pretty quick, but however good he was at breaking up play he lacked the finesse that's needed in a Spurs team. As for who will replace his role scaring the opposition, step forward Jake Livermore.

I wouldn't mind Diarra, but I won't be that fussed if Spurs don't sign him.
 
Chamberlain = waste of money for arsenal.

£12m for a player who has made less than 50 senior appearance and has never played above the third division is a joke when you consider that he won't improve the team.

Scott Parker would make the team better.
Jagielka/Cahill/Samba/whoever would make the team better.
Oxlade-Chamberlain won't make the team better, he will just be another player in the reserves for a few years, when we've already got Walcott, Lansbury, Vela, Afobe etc all queuing up to get in the team already.
 
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Nice to see Wenger addressing the problems within his squad by bringing in yet another unproven child to attack.
 
What is particularly worrying about the deal is that supposedly it is £12m minimum, compared to Walcott which to be fair was only £5m plus addons (resulting in a final fee of under £10m).

Realistically you look at the 4-3-3 Arsenal play and he will be competing against Arshavin/Nasri/Gervinho/Walcott for a berth either side of RvP/Chamakh, so there is no way through for him. I don't see the sense in buying him now (for such a fee), may as well have seen how he handled half a season (or longer) in the Championship first, I can't see it bumping his fee much at all even if he'd been a raging success.

I honestly think if we don't see a top quality DM/CB come in before the end of the month that should Arsenal struggle in the opening months, the knives will start to come out for Wenger and not just the little pockets here and there that there have always been. He's now spent about £25m yet hasn't improved the starting XI at all (OK so Gervinho might develop into an option to start but I don't think it is a big improvement on what we already had). Whereas £25m probably could have got Jagielka (£17m) and Parker (£8m) which would have been a MASSIVE improvement to the team.
 
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Not the signing Arsenal fans were hoping for. A week before the start of the season and we sigh someone who could easily have signed for a mid table team at best.

If fab wasn't convinced to leave before then I think he will be searching for his passport and looking up flights.
 
Gazidis has said Wenger is moving to bring in defenders, things are happening (he said that tonight).

In other news Bendtner has confirmed he's agreed terms with another club, no word on who it is, I guess a fee has yet to be agreed.
 
I know, 12m up front is terrifying as it shows Wenger has just bailed to our every demand (the Theo transfer was pretty much out of our hands as he wasn't going to sign for us when he was going to turn pro).

Chamberlain just doesn't have a chance to the 1st team for best part of 4-5 years, he wasn't even in our 1st team... He's only been bought for general home grown quotas, so decent english players command bigger fee's for european competition team sheets :(

Do hope that Arsenal do the sensible thing and buy some real first team players though as that kid from Charlton isn't that exciting... (Gervinho should be good)
 
Anyone know why English clubs dont put buy out clauses in players contracts over here? Seems every average Joe in Spain has one :confused:
 
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(although some reports say it only applies within Spain?)
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Firstly like Gooner says, it's Spanish law. I've explained Spanish buyout clauses on here before and you're partly right.

From a legal point of view the only way a Spanish buyout clause can be activated is if the player himself pays his club the money - not the buying club, whether that be another La Liga club or not. However, La Liga clubs have a gentlemans agreement that they will accept bids from fellow La Liga clubs if the bid matches the value of the players buyout clause and if the selling club is open to selling. If the selling club is not open to selling the player, they will request the buying club pay the VAT on top of the buyout clause.

Considering how gentlemanly the likes of Barca and Real act, I suspect this 'gentlemans agreement' counts for ****.
 
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