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afcftw said:
No but didn't he recently say if he came back to the prem he would only play for us? Think it may have been on his twitter.
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He is meant to have said that but that was a while ago.
When Man Utd were courting him last summer I don't remember a quote from Fanregas saying "I would never join Man Utd because the only PL team I'd ever play for is Arsenal"
 
afcftw said:
No. But he wasn't brought in to solve there striker problems. They went for a temporary option of etoo while trying to get the costa deal done. They thought long term rather than just what the obvious immediate thing to do was. Otherwise they would have had to go for a different striker and then be in a position this summer of needing to shift that striker off the wage bill to bring in Costa whilst also needing to add a cm with lampard on his way out.

Similarly for us fabregas would be coming in knowing Arteta and rosicky don't have long left at the level we need from them.

We can look at the overall squad and not just our obvious striker issue.

I still want to see us bring in a quality striker but it's not difficult to see how signing fabregas would benefit us at all.
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Like **** they did. They failed to get rooney and settled for a dud striker.

They then bought a midfielder tgey didnt really need and all along they failed to score goals.
 
goonercymraeg said:
Most people would say as it stands our future midfield will be Ramsey,Wilshere & Ozil so which of those would you drop ?
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I don't know who would say that will be our future midfield. Not anytime in the near future anyway. Maybe at some point when wilshere has matured more as a player but not over the next couple of seasons at least.

I'd play Ramsey and fabregas in cm with ozil sitting in front of them.
 
afcftw said:
I don't know who would say that will be our future midfield. Not anytime in the near future anyway. Maybe at some point when wilshere has matured more as a player but not over the next couple of seasons at least.

I'd play Ramsey and fabregas in cm with ozil sitting in front of them.
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You couldn't have noticed I used the caveat "as it stands"
 
afcftw said:
I don't know who would say that will be our future midfield. Not anytime in the near future anyway. Maybe at some point when wilshere has matured more as a player but not over the next couple of seasons at least.

I'd play Ramsey and fabregas in cm with ozil sitting in front of them.
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This <ok>. I think our midfield has room to improve and bringing Cesc would do that. Wenger was disappointed with our goals return so bringing in a player like Cesc would help in this a great deal. When Cesc was playing in the 09-10 season we got 83 goals (RVP hardly featured) in the Premiership and 72 goals (RVP heavily featured) in the 10-11 season. This was when Cesc was operating in a less talented midfield. Our current season we got 68 goals.
 
lazarus20000 said:
This <ok>. I think our midfield has room to improve and bringing Cesc would do that. Wenger was disappointed with our goals return so bringing in a player like Cesc would help in this a great deal. When Cesc was playing in the 09-10 season we got 83 goals (RVP hardly featured) in the Premiership and 72 goals (RVP heavily featured) in the 10-11 season. This was when Cesc was operating in a less talented midfield. Our current season we got 68 goals.
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Don't you think our goal tally was affected by injuries and having Giroud as first choice ?
 
goonercymraeg said:
I would say that most Arsenal fans would say s it stands Ozil,Ramsey & Wilshere will be our future midfield even Wenger says he sees Wilshere eventually being a holding midfielder.
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In my reply I've said maybe at some point when wilshere has matured more as a player he could play alongside Ramsey but in the near future that's not the case. Everyone has been calling for another dm to be signed so people obviously think we can improve our midfield.
 
goonercymraeg said:
Don't you think our goal tally was affected by injuries and having Giroud as first choice ?
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Of course, but when do we never get injuries? We still had Ozil for most of the season, Cazorla for all of it and had a few others playing. Also Cesc wasn't exactly blessed with great strikers to play with, other than when he had RVP in the 10-11 season. The 09-11 season was a Cesc virtuoso.
 
lazarus20000 said:
Of course, but when do we never get injuries? We still had Ozil for most of the season, Cazorla for all of it and had a few others playing. Also Cesc wasn't exactly blessed with great strikers to play with, other than when he had RVP in the 10-11 season. The 09-11 season was a Cesc virtuoso.
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Cazorla missed quite a few games after he got injured playing for Spain at the start of the season
 
gooner4ever said:
actually thats a good call. if he doesn't go home he will go to coach he loves as well as AW
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It would be much easier to swallow if he signed for Bayern if he's not coming to us.

I can't stand the thought of him playing for Utd or City, also as already mentioned his presence would significantly strengthen them and offer a threat to us in the process.
 
There's no point talking about "who to drop" when Arsenal need a SQUAD to challenge for the league. On small pitches away from home play Flamini, Ramsey, Fabregas - more physical but creative. At home against teams that sit back play Ramsey, Fabregas, Ozil - creative. Away at the big boys play Arteta, Ramsey, Ozil - Flamini struggles on big pitches, but this is defensively more solid. At home against the big boys play Arteta, Fabregas, Ozil - more solid defensively, plenty of creativity. There's LOADS of games in a season, enough to keep all the players happy, and fresh, and firing Arsenal to glory. Passing up on Fabregas would be downright negligent.
 
PISKIE said:
Is that £17.5m worth it though if he signed for Utd or Liverpool ? I'm not sure I could stomach seeing him improving their teams at our cost.
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By spending £35m and not collecting £17.5m equates to a net spend of £52.5m, is Cesc worth that ?
 
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