*January Transfer Window 2014/15 Season Rumours/Signings*

I do wonder how Wenger makes his decisions on new signings, does he pick a position out of a hat and run with it? Our defense is so poor but hey what do we know :p
 
thecremeegg said:
Do you think Campbell is actually good? In all the games I've seen him play he's done pretty much sod all and can't pass for ****. He had a good game at the World Cup where he scored a goal and he's been dining out on that since.
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How many games it that exactly, in the premier league he played 17 minutes Aug 23rd, 21mins against Hull Oct 18th, 1 minute against stoke Dec 6th, 1 min against Liverpool Dec 21st.

Honestly how many players, including Messi, Ronaldo, Henry, Yaya, Sanchez, whoever, would play well playing months apart for an average of about 10 minutes a game, 4 times over 5 months?

His start in the cup where he got 70 mins was both against a very good side in southampton and alongside a very weak Arsenal side with Diaby, Rosicky, Podolski, Hayden, Bellarin, Coquelin, all in september. It was Diaby/Rosicky's either first appearances of the season or close to, with some defenders who hadn't played with the team before. Again how well would Ronaldo do 6-7 weeks into the season with his first start with a team that has never played together before, youth players, guys who haven't played in a year and simply no understanding.

This is how Wenger treats a lot of players, come in then play 5 mins here, 1 min there, 20 mins there, then randomly a single start where if you don't get a hat-trick, with no form, no match fitness and no gelling with the team, he'll put you back on the "use only when I've broken the rest of the team" duty.

Campbell hasn't played poorly, he hasn't played.

He has favourites then he buys a couple of key players. He buys cheap players as well and effectively never uses them unless forced into doing so by injury. He has a huge turnover of 1-8mil players who come in, get zero runs of games, never get the chance to show anything but get called crap because their 1 minute cameo's aren't brilliant.

Jenkinson joined, looked promising but Wenger loved Sagna so he got a few mins here and there and didn't look special or anything, he was out of form and not match fit/sharp. Sagna got injured and after a few games Jenkinson's form improved drastically, he looked the promising player, solid and improving but the second Sagna was back from injury it was bye bye Jenkinson. Regardless of Sagna playing like crap before and after his injury, Jenk's didn't get a look in. He leaves on loan, few games into the season and he's back to looking like a very promising right back... while our 12mil new RB is injured and our 16mil new RB looked pretty crap.

Wenger won't give certain players the time of day regardless of how well they play and judging players on a minute here or there is mental. There isn't a player in the sport who plays there best when used weeks/months apart for a few minutes at a time.

Podolski while not solidly first team still played relatively consistently. Even if it's 30 mins as a sub, as long as it's 4-5 sub appearances a month rather than 1-2 and weeks apart it makes a big difference but he started plenty of games for us last year. This year he's looked less good and has 7 sub appearances. Last year he had 14 starts and 6 sub appearances in the league, 6 starts in the FA cup, 1 in the CL. It's not massive but that is what I'd call a sensible amount to at least have some sort of match sharpness and to show how good you can be.

He had 8 goals from 40 shots and 2 assists in what amounted to about 12-13 games worth of minutes(as he was often subbed pretty early). That is proof of very good form which would improve if his game time increased, instead Wenger went the other way buying a woeful Welbeck to score WAY less often. Wenger didn't really like Podolski for whatever reason so spent 16mil replacing him with an inferior player who is started ahead of him and doing much much worse.
 
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£30,000,000 for Bony? Manchester City could negotiate and get Carroll minus a few fingers for that.
 
Evo8 said:
:rolleyes:

Clearly never watched a Scottish Premiership game in your life have you?

A couple of years ago Celtic were beating Barcelona and qualifying for the last 16 of the CL.

Forster, Wanyama and Ledley are doing just fine in the Premiership. Wilson, Hooper and Boruc aren't doing bad in the Championship either.
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Clearly I have :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:.

Celtic would struggle in the Premiership and are the only side of any degree of quality.

A couple of years ago is a long time in football; clubs, and players should not be judged on two seasons ago. How well have Celtic doe in Europe this season?

Forster and Wanyama are doing well in the Premiership (not the Scottish Premiership). I do not think that Ledley is a player of great note.

Scottish football, by and large is of a poor standard, at best poor Championship, usually around League One and produces players of this standard with regularity.
 
Tummy said:
Clearly I have :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:.

Celtic would struggle in the Premiership and are the only side of any degree of quality.

A couple of years ago is a long time in football; clubs, and players should not be judged on two seasons ago. How well have Celtic doe in Europe this season?

Forster and Wanyama are doing well in the Premiership (not the Scottish Premiership). I do not think that Ledley is a player of great note.

Scottish football, by and large is of a poor standard, at best poor Championship, usually around League One and produces players of this standard with regularity.
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Absolute nonsense. The Scottish Premiership is easily on a par with the English Championship. Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and Inverness would all be promotion contenders in that league with their current squads.

To suggest otherwise shows you truly know nothing about Scottish football.
 
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Tummy said:
Celtic would struggle in the Premiership and are the only side of any degree of quality.

A couple of years ago is a long time in football; clubs, and players should not be judged on two seasons ago. How well have Celtic doe in Europe this season?
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If Celtic got the money for TV that the English teams do we'd be doing pretty well I'd imagine.

Celtic are in the last 32 of the Europa League, I think that's not bad considering the amount of money we've spent this season. Compare that to Liverpool who finished 2nd in England last year but are in the exact same position as us in Europe despite spending about 50 times more than us on players.
 
Some passions flying high here :D

I concur though, the SPL is crap since rangers fell from grace. They should have been in the EPL anyway.
 
Illgresi said:
Absolute nonsense. The Scottish Premiership is easily on a par with the English Championship. Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and Inverness would all be promotion contenders in that league with their current squads.

To suggest otherwise shows you truly know nothing about Scottish football.
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Very much disagree.


Evo8 said:
If Celtic got the money for TV that the English teams do we'd be doing pretty well I'd imagine.

Celtic are in the last 32 of the Europa League, I think that's not bad considering the amount of money we've spent this season. Compare that to Liverpool who finished 2nd in England last year but are in the exact same position as us in Europe despite spending about 50 times more than us on players.
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Celtic have great potential to become a 'force' in Europe, absolutely, but success is not guaranteed and the Premier League would be immensely difficult to crack, you only have to look at the money it has taken previously none top four sides (Chelsea, Manchester City) to spend to get in to Europe and establish themselves.

Celtic would benefit from the extra revenue, but would very much struggle for a European place, in my opinion.
 
Bidding for an attacking midfielder when we desperately need a striker and keeper does seem to be the sort of thing we would do. Can never have too many attacking players...
 
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