I reckon Sendoros will be recalled from Italy now he seems to be playing fairly well. This season has shown us that we need another centre back. Plus the fella is huge and could manhandle some of the more powerful strikers. Despite what DM or anyone else says I still think Arsenal are missing something in attack. There just seem to be a handful of mediocre strikers and RVP. I know Eduardo, Vela, Bendtner and Adebayour have their good games but they just are not consistent enough, I would much rather offload the last three in order to get a good solid centre forward in, and use Walcott and Arshavin as backup strikers when necessary and if not put them on the wings.
**Summer Transfer Thread: News, Rumours and Speculation**
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Soldato
We'll have him back then, he's the only teenage left back I've seen carry a team singlehandedly for a season (One in which we did pretty well) if he's turned rubish I'd look at the spurs coaches.
Crouch can't jump because he never needed to when he was a youngster, he's always been a giant. He's rubish in the air anyway he's much better with the ball played to his feet!
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VEla's in his first season and hasn't had a run of games, Eduardo still hasn't I don't think ever had more than 2/3 games in a row, was only just getting some first team action just before his injury last year yet has scored on almost every appearance since he's been back, he does the same for his country and how you can say he's inconsistant when he's barely played and still scored a bunch I don't know. Same with Vela he's actually scored a fair few, he's started probably less than 5 games as a striker. Again Bendtner hasn't started more than 4 games in a row, that was recently, a couple he was deployed as a left winger without a left foot to speak of, he still scored several goals and was played and rotated to the right wing, withdrawn striker and furthest forward striker.
Theres one striker at the club who plays every single game he's fit, has only not started a handful of games when not fit and still goes 8 games without goals, that would be Adebayor, all our other strikers have been in and out of injury, or simply not played, never played consistantly in one position and the partnership constantly changing.
ANyway, Eduardo is world class, he's the best finisher in the squad bar none, how he constantly gets overlooked for Adebayor since his arrival I don't know. He looks dangerous from the second he walks on the pitch to the second he walks off, constantly moves, can hold the ball, run with it, pass, shoot, create, run past players, he has everything in his game, including scoring headers.
Sending Senderos away was a joke, the games with Song at the back this year were pathetic, likewise Djourou isn't anywhere near Senderos in terms of quality yet. We have a weak squad, he's unwilling to spend money and we lost key backup players, considering it was the early season lack of Toure playing, many early season games for Djourou and Song at the back when we were by far the weakest. I get the impression we don't have the option of recalling him though, it seems people are getting paid more and more for loan players, which I assume in turn also due to the cost most likely doesn't include the possibility to recall the player.
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There's too much mediocre and dead wood at the club that just isn't good enough for us. Fair play to Wenger for getting them to play as a good unit but a lot of them have over acheived.
Denilson, Diaby, Eboue, Sylvestre and possibly Adebayor need to **** off, or in the case of the latter pull his finger out. Song for the last few matches hasn't been bad, but that's coincided with us playing not so good teams. We'll see what happens tomorrow night against Liverpool. RvP's our most senior and possibly best gifted striker, but again, he's the best of some not so good guys. For example a guy underneath him Bendtner.
I have no idea who to bring in, but it shouldn't be somebody nifety slick or fast, but somebody who's made of sterner stuff.
Denilson, Diaby, Eboue, Sylvestre and possibly Adebayor need to **** off, or in the case of the latter pull his finger out. Song for the last few matches hasn't been bad, but that's coincided with us playing not so good teams. We'll see what happens tomorrow night against Liverpool. RvP's our most senior and possibly best gifted striker, but again, he's the best of some not so good guys. For example a guy underneath him Bendtner.
I have no idea who to bring in, but it shouldn't be somebody nifety slick or fast, but somebody who's made of sterner stuff.
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Not quick or skillful enough? Apart from when he walked the ball into the net against Fulham?
His attitude stinks but he's got a lot of technical ability.
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obviously i disagree about Eboue, after a fantastic performance midweek where he created 2 of the goals with both passes to Theo, he somehow got the blame for being between the goal and Malouda, apparently a good defender will stop every single ball passing around him in that situation. he got 3-4 blocks on shots, many tackles in the game, pushed us forwards and didn't put another foot wrong, other than the commentator convincing the majority i've yet to hear what he did wrong in that game.
Denilson looks just as good as Song does and has all year, against turd opposition, Song will be shown up just as badly against better opposition, he is truly hopeless as a player as is Diaby. Except I saw that in all these players from pre-season on, one game and half the arsenal fans turn on Diaby who most have said has been brilliant. Song, Denilson and Diaby tend to look "ok" yet still offer no real consistant goal threat at all against opposition that fail to press us, even Fulham, I mean Murphy managed to pressure our midfield to the point of hopelessness. We've really and honestly drawn 4 games against mid/lower mid table opposition, then won against 2 actual championship sides and 4-5 championship quality sides in the premiership and lost out first game against decent opposition who weren't even playing well.
Diaby's one strength is running with the ball, which makes him best as a winger, he's utterly horrible defensively, I didn't see Theo, Denilson, Diaby give any help to Eboue in the whole game despite them attacking down their left the majority of the game, they can't read the game and are woeful positionally in defensive terms.
Silvestre was a terrible buy, cheap, sure not as cheap as keeping senderos though, you've got to wonder what the value of buying Silvestre on almost certainly higher wages than Senderos for a player who will retire and not get any money from, than keep Senderos on lower wages for a player you could potention make a big profit on, its nuts.
I can't see us actually being able to ditch Silvestre, but Denilson should be sellable now, Diaby is mistakenly thought to be ok so should be sellable as should Song. However I get the impression that not only won't Wenger sell them, he won't get in better players as he actually believes they are good enough NOW and will be better in the future. Which is why I've thought Wenger needs to go for a couple years now, his whole attitude has changed. Simple fact is I'd be happy buying in a bunch of cheap youngsters who have the potential to be better in the future, but he hasn't done that, he actually believes the current crop are great and thats our greatest problem.
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I would like to see us at least make a bid for Malbranque and Tainio. Should never have sold them. No idea what Ramos was thinking.
Because I don't believe he's anywhere near as good as people like to believe and on top of that, he's not even playing close to how he was. I wouldn't want to pay more than £20-£25m.
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He was awesome for us before his injury so no idea why you'd have formed such an opinion of him at that time tbh...
Technically he's very good and he was quick until his injury, seems to have lost a yard of pace and then his confidence just crumbled.
Maybe if Ronaldo left. I can't think of who else would leave that would bring in a significant transfer fee and no doubt you'll make at least 1 big signing.
reportedly thats what SAF wanted to do and Bale / his advisors turned towards Spurs because of that
(I dont know if there is any truth in that, but I did read it in numerous places about a year ago or more when Utd where trying to sign him originally)
edit - net profit for Utd depends if Owen Hargreaves fully recovers or not, if he has then I cant see Utd buying anyone apart from maybe Valencia (rumours seem to be sticking but you never know) from Wigan and thats about it, and possibly Brown - meant to be on his way back from injury but time will tell (GN cant share that position with just Rafael no matter how promising the youngster is - we still need a seasoned player able to play consistantly in that position imo, hopefully not OShea lol)
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Thats insulting to the guy, you paid £30m for the carcass thats Berbatov!
If Berbatov is worth 30m then Kaka has to be worth 60m, especially in terms of how well he'd fit in at Man Utd compared to Berbatov. He'd be immense for Man Utd I think, he's fast, intelligent and can score, something which would be great if Ronaldo goes.
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He'd be a perfect replacement for Scholes imo.
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Villa will be linked with lots of players, but won't actually sign very many. Fans will be divided on whether MON should be criticised for this or whether he is still the messiah.
You heard it here first, folks!
You heard it here first, folks!
Don't hold me to this, but I do think we may actually see Wenger sign someone this summer. 
Question 1: Why does Eduardo not get picked as often as Adebayor?
a) Eduardo spent his first few months spent adapting to English life/style of football.
b) Eduardo broke his leg and couldn't play for a year.
c) Eduardo has had niggling injuries since coming back and readjusting to playing.
d) Adebayor has a consistently decent scoring record for the club.
e) All of the above!
Best of luck everyone!
Gee, I dunno! How's about we try my new patented Help Drunkenmaster Pick His Own Holes In His Rants quiz! That'll help us figure this puzzler out!
Question 1: Why does Eduardo not get picked as often as Adebayor?
a) Eduardo spent his first few months spent adapting to English life/style of football.
b) Eduardo broke his leg and couldn't play for a year.
c) Eduardo has had niggling injuries since coming back and readjusting to playing.
d) Adebayor has a consistently decent scoring record for the club.
e) All of the above!
Best of luck everyone!
