I genuinely think that now he is only in it for the "numbers" and not the quality. I hope it's not true, but too many common themes in his speeches now. They'll probably make a semi-serious attempt at a single big name, but I don't expect to get 2-3 recognized names that have almost guaranteed starting places. Today he also said something like (paraphrasing) "we have the money, not as much as is reported in the media, but we have some to spend". (you can view the video at arsenal.com)
Would suit us too...how are real going to afford suarez and bale?.....they'll only buy suarez if they dont get bale imo. Mind you...I picked steven taylor from newcastle in my fantasy league team so what the **** do I know?
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/23/karim-benzema-arsenal-arsene-wenger "Karim Benzema deal is out of Arsenal's hands, admits Arsène Wenger"
We haven't exactly set the world alight with our approach to signing players this window, but there's only so much we can do about Benzema and we have to have the agreement from Real before any thing will happen, so it is out of our hands. No surprise there really and not a reason on it's own to knock the club.
Wenger has confirmed there will be no signings before the Fenerbahce game on Tuesday. Bit worrying as we definitely need a signing before the game against Spurs.
It's not really susprising that nothing will happen before Tuesday. I think the club will put all it's recourses into preparing for the Fenerbahce game.
As long as we sign someone by next Sunday, we're golden. Problem is, this is Arsene we're talking about
Benzema doesn't want to join Arsenal apparently: http://www.lejdd.fr/Sport/Football/...-Arsenal-selon-son-agent-Karim-Djaziri-625542 Looking more and more likely that it's going to happen as I said, just adding some numbers, and making some bids for big names to look legit. It's pretty clear now from Arsene's interviews.
And Wenger regarding Podolski, it seems there was something to the rumors of him wanting to get out. "I am pleased because he plays with a lot of spirit and he can score goals. Everybody in the squad loves Lukas and I want to keep him. When a player doesn't play he is not happy and recently he did not always start but if you look at his and Giroud's goalscoring record it's very good." Would be mad to sell him with how thin our squad is.
You really have to hand to hand it to the guys who do the buy and sell at the lane. I still cannot believe how much they are allegedly getting for Bale, it almost feels to me like a bad dream. Like my worst enemy at work has won the lottery! They allegedly have this huge offer on the table, and they are playing it so cool, 90mill for bale, yeah, no big deal! Imagine if Bale was an Arsenal player, those diddery old fools would have collapsed as soon as the bidding reached 37mill, they would have been frothing at the mouth.... Those guys at spuds really have some huge balls. This is robbery!
It's happened, as we all speculated it would http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/arsenal-line-up-juan-mata-2218348 Papers putting 2+2 together and ending up with 47.
I must point out here that Willian has not signed for Chelsea and is still considering his options, much like when Spurs thought they had signed him.
Haha, I bet that hack journalist reads this forum. I hear we're going to bid for Patrice Evra when United buy Baines. You heard it here first
Di Maria or Mata will do, think we have a better chance of getting Di Maria, doubt Chelsea would want to sell to us, and just because there's competition at Chelsea wouldn't mean Mata would instantly want to leave, he'd want to probably stay and fight for his place, there's no guarantee Williams will outshine him.
