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

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bloodline76 said:
Arsenal are ready to make a £20m move for Aston Villa winger Stewart Downing. Full story: Sunday Mirror

Wow if Fab goes for £35m then we are getting screwed.
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That would be one in the eye for those arsenal fans over the past several weeks who have been slating Liverpool for chasing Downing :D
 
Ordinarily I would LOL at the thought of someone buying Downing for £20 million but the last time I did that was when Spurs bid £20 odd million for Carroll then we came over the top with £35 million. Can see us doing the same again :(
 
We had this discussion earlier about Downing IIRC? Fans' player of the year, bought recently for a lot, played very well last year, 20m isn't as obscene as everyone seems to think, especially comparing him to say, Henderson.
 
StewartMG said:
We had this discussion earlier about Downing IIRC? Fans' player of the year, bought recently for a lot, played very well last year, 20m isn't as obscene as everyone seems to think, especially comparing him to say, Henderson.
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Unfortunately watching him at Boro for all those seasons has clouded my judgement. I just hope he's not being bought to play on the wing.
 
Todays paper talk

*Dimitar Berbatov is a £14million target for Valencia and Juventus.
*Samir Nasri fears he may have to quit Arsenal to realise his dream of becoming the world's greatest player.
*John O'Shea is on the verge of completing a £3million switch to Sunderland.
*Chelsea's hopes of landing Fabio Coentrao have been boosted.
*Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is set to make a club-record £20million bid for Barca whizz-kid Bojan Krkic.
*Sir Alex Ferguson insists Jonny Evans is not for sale.
*Ray Parlour has urged Arsene Wenger to try and sign Jermain Defoe.
*Arsene Wenger is set to step up his pursuit of Uzbekistan captain Odil Ahmedov.
*Spurs will let Lukra Modric go for £45million - and watch Gareth Bale follow him through the White Hart Lane exit door. (what?)
*Blackburn are chasing Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano.
*Chelsea have been told to put up or shut up in their pursuit of Romelu Lukaku.
*Cristiano Ronaldo will reject all bidders to stay at Real Madrid.
*Sir Alex Ferguson has admitted he was prepared to break a club record to take Alexis Sanchez to Manchester United.
*Carlos Tevez is staying at Manchester City after an attempt to swap him for Samuel Eto'o failed.
*Chelsea have hired Fernando Torres' personal fitness trainer in a bid to kick-start his Stamford Bridge career.
 
StewartMG said:
We had this discussion earlier about Downing IIRC? Fans' player of the year, bought recently for a lot, played very well last year, 20m isn't as obscene as everyone seems to think, especially comparing him to say, Henderson.
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20m is obscene Downing was the best of a very poor bunch, he wasn't SPECIAL by any means last season.
 
Out of interest, what do the Arsenal fans think about Wenger these days?

I'm pretty surprised by how many of their players are being linked away as well, and there's not much talk of them bringing anyone earth shattering in. This isn't meant as a wind up question - I've just seen Wenger looking more and more frustrated in recent years (water bottle incident, post match interviews), and not in a positive way. I used to really enjoy watching Arsenal, but now I find their pronounced lack of cutting edge a bit of a turnoff and usually only catch highlights or their CL matches - so I can only imagine the frustration of Arsenal fans.

Do you guys think a change in management would refresh the team?
 
IceBus said:
Out of interest, what do the Arsenal fans think about Wenger these days?

I'm pretty surprised by how many of their players are being linked away as well, and there's not much talk of them bringing anyone earth shattering in. This isn't meant as a wind up question - I've just seen Wenger looking more and more frustrated in recent years (water bottle incident, post match interviews), and not in a positive way. I used to really enjoy watching Arsenal, but now I find their pronounced lack of cutting edge a bit of a turnoff and usually only catch highlights or their CL matches - so I can only imagine the frustration of Arsenal fans.

Do you guys think a change in management would refresh the team?
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Nobody earth shattering!?! He is looking at bringing in the UZBEKISTAN captain FFS.

If that rumour has any truth to it the guy is off his nut and simply being perverse and obtuse in the way he is running the side now.
It needs some steel, it needs a couple of proper proven big time goal scorers and it needs two solid center halfs and a decent goal keeper.
He has done nothing to replace the experience he lost when Bergkamp, Henry, Vieira, Pires Ljunberg, and the mad German goal keeper left.
Its not as if he hasnt had or doesnt have the money, he has.
 
IceBus said:
Out of interest, what do the Arsenal fans think about Wenger these days?

I'm pretty surprised by how many of their players are being linked away as well, and there's not much talk of them bringing anyone earth shattering in. This isn't meant as a wind up question - I've just seen Wenger looking more and more frustrated in recent years (water bottle incident, post match interviews), and not in a positive way. I used to really enjoy watching Arsenal, but now I find their pronounced lack of cutting edge a bit of a turnoff and usually only catch highlights or their CL matches - so I can only imagine the frustration of Arsenal fans.

Do you guys think a change in management would refresh the team?
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I think Arsenal are going to be in a lot of trouble this season, they could quite easily lose CL football unless they get quite a lot of decent players in.
 
B&W said:
20m is obscene Downing was the best of a very poor bunch, he wasn't SPECIAL by any means last season.
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Been a nothing player all his career for me, if he was a right footer he would never get a game, and certainly not be mentioned in the same sentence as "twenty million pounds".
 
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