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

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Admiral Huddy said:
Surely you're not being serious?
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Did you miss the bit about me being able to focus my hatred? I'll give you a clue: I'm not a spud. ;)


drunkenmaster said:
Keep Diarra, Gilberto/Flamini, sell Song, Denilson, Diaby, keep Eduardo don't buy Chamakh, keep Eboue, no need to buy Sagna, etc, etc, etc.
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See this is just it: They're gone. Done. Dusted. Finito.

No amount of railing against Wenger will ever bring Flamini back, or I'd be doing it too. You have to learn to accept it, and move on. Suggest someone we could sign, and stop playing Captain Hindsight.
 
Spurs would be helping Chelsea out if they took Benayoun. He would be just another squad player like Pienarr picking up a huge check each week. I'm sure Levy would want just money, but I reckon we will keep Modric untill January and then sell. Prices in January seem to be higher with clubs panic buying to achieve what they want come the end of the season.
 
So what DM is basically suggesting is if Wenger made no mistakes and no players agitated for moves then Arsenal would be better off. No ****. So would every other club in the world!
 
drunkenmaster said:
Clichy, Verm, Gallas/Toure, Eboue
Reyes, Diarra, Cesc, Arshavin
Bendtner/RVP

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So let's just go through these:

  • Clichy - Obviously better than what we have now, but even you must concede he made too many mistakes. Plus how do you keep a player when he his being offered twice as much money by the new boys on the block?
  • Verm - no argument there.
  • Gallas/Toure - Gallas is a player who is no longer top quality and divided the dressing room. Toure - again, how could we have kept him given the offer on the table from City.
  • Eboue - Please, I know he's your best mate/top bloke/lover, but do you really think he's better than Sagna. No, he's not.
  • Reyes - Are you delusional? He only ever did the business in fits and bursts and as soon as he arrived he was whinging about being homesick. How were we meant to keep him happy?
  • Diarra - Never did the business for us, and is just a mercenary really. Good player, but he's never going to stay at a club for a prolonged period.
  • Cesc - No argument, but was always going to Barca sooner or later.
  • Arshavin - Probably no argument. His stats show how important he can be to the team, just wish he'd put a bit more effort in when he's having a bad game. You know within the first five minutes of a game whether he's going to have a good game or not. Frustrating too often for me.
  • Bendtner - Like Eboue, I know you love him, but he's had his chance and never really grabbed it by both hands. You can argue about him being played out of position, which is a valid point, but first touch is woeful and thinks he's far better than he actually is.
  • RVP - no argument.

So basically, your perfect line-up would contain three players most people would agree with, the rest are either past it, were unable to do the business despite countless chances, cause disruption in the dressing room, a mercenary and a homesick gypsy.

And it still would have hardly any leaders in the team in the mould of Adams/Vieira. Gallas proved he was no captain. Cesc, bless him, was never a natural captain. RVP is really only captain on seniority, I don't see him as a natural leader. That basically leaves Verm and Toure. We need 6 or 7 leaders on the pitch, not one or two.

If the line-up you give was Arsenal's current first-team, I suspect you would have just as much to moan about as you do now.
 
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I imagine Arsenal don't want to commit to some big transfers until they're guaranteed Champions League football this season.
 
"Last month Adebayor made headlines for both the right and wrong reasons. His two goals against Tottenham in the Champions League quarter-final effectively ended the north London club's dream of progressing in the competition. But chants alleged to contain "racial overtones" caused some campaigners to ask Uefa, European football's governing body, to take action.

"I heard about it and I felt so bad because before joining Real Madrid my first choice was Tottenham. I was supposed to move to Tottenham," he reveals.

"I was supposed to sign for Tottenham but everything went and Madrid came in. It is bad because people have to realise that we are footballers. Today we play for this club, tomorrow we may end up playing for them. So what about if I'm wearing Tottenham's shirt tomorrow? As their player, are they going to encourage me or are they still going to sing that song?"
 
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