I kinda think this would be ideal. Szcezney still has potential. Ospina is good ..but will never be top class.
Cech rumour is becoming even more realistic after our goal keeping coach Tony Roberts has joined Swansea. This will increase the probability that we will bring in Chelsea GK coach Christophe Lollichon, who is highly rated. It all seems plausible to me. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenals-petr-cech-transfer-close-5908306
Looks like Kondogbia has signed for Inter. Shame because he would be my first choice DM signing but there's still plenty of prospects outhere. William Carvalho for example is being strongly linked. He could be a great option.
So much for the cech, ospina and podolski transfers being announced this weekend... good ol press never stop writing bs to hook us fans!
It is heating up..... http://www1.skysports.com/football/...closer-to-arsenal-move-sky-sources-understand
I think we need to make sure we don't jump the gun a little. The article says that we're not close to agreeing a fee yet, so I have a feeling this is going to drag out for a while yet. There's no way in hell José Mourinho and Abramovich are going to want to make this easy for us.
Surprised they are even contemplating selling to you guys to be honest. Unless it's one big wum to make you spend ages on this deal to then pull the plug and make you have wasted a load of time. Not like moaninho to be sentimental and let a player dictate where he goes if it's to a rival, if true, he must have some big respect to Cech.
If we can sign Cech, he will be one of the best signings for us in 10 years. we have already become defensively better over the course of the season, adding him in there will just improve and tighten things even more.
I don't think Jose has a say in this, to be honest. It's up to Abramovich. My guess is that it's only because Cech has provided Chelsea with such a long period of loyalty and consistently good performances that they're willing to let him go wherever he wants. Obviously they would prefer him to go elsewhere but I think this transfer is going to be a once-off if it does materialise in the end.
Mourinho himself has said that Cech has earned the right to decide where he goes, he also said he would not sell him to a direct rival but that decision was down to Abramovich who also respects Cech`s wishes.
Maybe. Given, however, that we have added the likes of Alexis Sanchez & Mesut Ozil to our side, and found an internal solution to our central defensive midfield issues in Coquelin, as well as winning two trophies in two consecutive seasons having gone a previous nine years without one, one would think that giving Cech to us would put us in a more prominent position be a 'direct rival', no?
A more prominent position, yes. In my opinion you still need a much better midfielder than Coquelin, a top centre half, Cech and a better centre-forward and that's before considering the deficiencies with the manager. Don't get me wrong, Coquelin looks decent as a short term solution but can you really see him as part of the spine of a title-winning team?
I think you are looking at a rival as someone that can beat you, in the premier league a rival is someone who can beat as many (or more) other teams than you ie get more points
I'm aware of the definition. Do you think upgrading from Ospina to Cech alone would make them title challengers, all else remaining the same? I can't see it.
Why not? It was ever since he came into the side that we started looking like title contenders and became the in form team in the country, not to mention he was part of the team that saw us win at City, United, Liverpool home, a drab home draw VS Chelski, and in the side that won a cup, that doesn't sound too bad at all to me, in all the big games he played where he would be tested and we would see if he was the real deal, he did the job quite properly, again the big games were the litmus tests and he never looked out of his depth in any of them and always provided a good solid defensive job from the middle of the park. He has done everything that could be asked of him.
