** Summer Transfer Window 2011/12 Season Rumours/Signings **
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Newcastle apparently wrapping up Pieters signing by Mon-Tue next week, a left back at last
Now all we need is another striker as Ba, Best and Lovenkrands didnt look up to it last night.
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Wenger:
'That [£6m] number is wrong... I believe negotiations are between two parties'
'There is a chance we could not sign anyone... we are dependent on the desire of the clubs to sell players'
No! Spend. Money. And buy a creative midfielder. Thanks.
'That [£6m] number is wrong... I believe negotiations are between two parties'
'There is a chance we could not sign anyone... we are dependent on the desire of the clubs to sell players'
No! Spend. Money. And buy a creative midfielder. Thanks.
Well tbh he does have a point about clubs not wanting to sell players....unless we offer stupid amounts of money, which we wont then the chances of us signing anyone is pretty small especially this late in the transfer window.
Complete mess of a transfer window if Wenger doesnt sign anyone....hes really messed it up by leaving it so damn late.
I'd be pretty damn frustrated if I was an Arsenal fan. Not trying to gloat about our current squad, but if Wenger wants to build a squad capable of challenging on all fronts, then he should take a leaf out of Ferguson's book and have a good blend of experience and youth. Wenger has gone too far down the youth route and at this rate there will be little to no rewards.
Let the club and the directors worry about the finances and spend the money available to you. You don't get medals for being so frugal with club finances. Maybe he should retire and open up his own market stall in London, then he can penny pinch to his hearts desire.
Let the club and the directors worry about the finances and spend the money available to you. You don't get medals for being so frugal with club finances. Maybe he should retire and open up his own market stall in London, then he can penny pinch to his hearts desire.
I'd say £6m wasn't far of the mark to be honest. Clichy was £7m with a year left on his contract, more International/Champions League experience so other than the 'English Player tax' it's not a bad starting point. Don't forget he's worth SFA come the 1st Sept (Unless you do a Man City/De Jong)
And to be honest if I was Arsenal after Gartside's tweet I'd tell them to do one, and sign him for free next year.
And to be honest if I was Arsenal after Gartside's tweet I'd tell them to do one, and sign him for free next year.
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Trouble is, there's a chance he'll go elsewhere and I don't think Arsenal are really in position for games like that. Wenger just cannot get out of this frugal mentality. Agree about the tweet though - very unprofessional.
Ba doesn't look interested.
Not at all, dont know why he doesnt, maybe thinking he made the wrong decision but he needs to pull his finger out like and start playing properly!
Completely agree. It's amazing that despite it being blatantly obvious that they needed a CB last season, we're only a few days away from the transfer window closing and he still hasn't signed anyone. Maybe that is not for the want of trying, but I find it amazing that he hasn't signed anyone yet.
Same with Fabregas and Nasri - at the end of last season Wenger must have had an idea whether he was going to sell or retain. Unless he genuinely had a change of heart, why was it left so late? It's put them in a very difficult position. It should have happened much earlier in order to bring in replacements.
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Aside from the lack of depth, we'll be losing several players to the ACoN this year so it's even more imperative we buy given there's every chance players will end up there for most of the tournament or get injured during it.
Upto 5 players, depending on if they are called up/their teams qualify.
Traoré
Frimpong
Song
Chamakh
Gervinho
i suppose they're different things but i get your point. people deal with things in different ways, maybe mikel felt playing was the best way to take his mind off it?
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At this rate I can barely see many of those playing almost at all this year. Chamakh will be riding the bench anyway, players are likely to target the seemingly quick to react Gervinho and Song/Pong I think will be getting a lot more yellows/reds this season, Traore just sucks balls.
As for pricing, people seem to be somewhat missing the point on Cahill, if Cahill would be worth say 18mil if he had a 4 year contract, and 5mil would be a good price in his last season, thats fine. If we'd have excepted sub 10mil for Nasri we'd have a leg to stand on, maybe. But unfortunately we just took 24mil, for a guy who clearly wanted out, when in reality 6-7mil in his final year would have been fair market value.
So what do we say to Bolton, errm, we can hold up clubs for more, but you can't?
End of the day Nasri should have been, max 8 mil, and Cahill should be 5-6mil due to last year of their contracts. So in reality, 17mil buyout on Cahill, we got 24mil for Nasri...... we're still coming out with more money than we should so I really can't see the problem in spending.
But its Wengers way, haggle over price and ridiculous add ons for years on end then miss out on players. He's got a 17mil buyout in his contract, supposedly, I reckon a PROPER offer of 12-15mil would get him quite easily.
People also need to realise, theres another transfer window before his contract is up, so they aren't that desparate. City, Utd, Chelsea, anyone could have a CB out with an ACL injury by Jan and be desparate for a CB.
The main problem still remains, if Wenger insists on negotiating for months on end, why not start 2 months ago rather than, yesterday.
2 months ago no one knew we had at least 150mil cash in the bank(we had over 100mil in bank accounts for the club that we keep to generate interest on, as do Utd, Chelsea), we're almost certainly a few days from being with 1 point in 3 games, with a weak squad and severely lacking numbers, with a number of players out.
Desparation + money = no good deals for Arsenal. If we bought 2 months ago, we wouldn't be so desparate now and wouldn't be forced to pay extortionate prices.
Theres a reason anyone with real ambition got most of their dealings done really early in the transfer window.
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