The January "He Looks Quite Good" Transfer Thread

[nut flush gooner]

Jean-Michel Aulas has denied reports Arsenal target Alexandre Lacazette is in London to undergo a medical and indicated the Gunners have not met Lyon's asking price for the striker.
According to French publication Le Progres, the 26-year-old centre-forward has arrived in England prior to finalising a switch to Emirates Stadium.
Writing on Twitter, the Lyon president described the story as "false" and claimed Arsenal's initial offer was below the Ligue 1 club's valuation of their star attacker.
Aulas has previously said the Premier League side must part with €65million to prise Lacazette away from Parc Olympique Lyonnais.

Not a done deal yet, and with Wenger pulling the strings penny pinching expected right down to the wire.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/201 ... enal-move/

Conflicting information.

Lacazette is now 1.05 with skybet to complete the transfer. As I said before anyone who doesn't think it will happen can always lay the bet off on Betfair Exchange if the market is available. Bookies are right more often than not at these short odds.

Yeah maybe, but that Lyon President seems a bit flaky....and with our negotiating team...

At around £55 million pounds looks a lot of money for this guy.....

Its the going rate for a 20-25+ a season goalscorer tbh. Much better option than Giroud and I note that he has been written off by the masses on here. I recogn once he gets going, he will score a hat load for us. We haven't had a goal poacher at Arsenal for years.

The player I feel the most sorry for is Danny Welbeck but we can't rely on him with his injury history.

[MrT]

Jean-Michel Aulas has denied reports Arsenal target Alexandre Lacazette is in London to undergo a medical and indicated the Gunners have not met Lyon's asking price for the striker.
According to French publication Le Progres, the 26-year-old centre-forward has arrived in England prior to finalising a switch to Emirates Stadium.
Writing on Twitter, the Lyon president described the story as "false" and claimed Arsenal's initial offer was below the Ligue 1 club's valuation of their star attacker.
Aulas has previously said the Premier League side must part with €65million to prise Lacazette away from Parc Olympique Lyonnais.

Not a done deal yet, and with Wenger pulling the strings penny pinching expected right down to the wire.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/201 ... enal-move/

Conflicting information.

Lacazette is now 1.05 with skybet to complete the transfer. As I said before anyone who doesn't think it will happen can always lay the bet off on Betfair Exchange if the market is available. Bookies are right more often than not at these short odds.

Yeah maybe, but that Lyon President seems a bit flaky....and with our negotiating team...

At around £55 million pounds looks a lot of money for this guy.....

Being reported that the Lyon president said the final fee is £43.5m.

[OneBardGooner]

I know the Sanchez situation is the main one needing resolved but strikers are hardly the only holes in our squad right now but we're not seeing much else happening

Don't worry.
Wenker has assured us that Sanchez and Ozil are staying.

This has all the hallmarks of the goofy dyke & fabregas scenarios. he is a "Liar"! and Totally Untrustworthy.

until he is gone from the club COMPLETELY we are fucked.

[Redarmy]

Jean-Michel Aulas has denied reports Arsenal target Alexandre Lacazette is in London to undergo a medical and indicated the Gunners have not met Lyon's asking price for the striker.
According to French publication Le Progres, the 26-year-old centre-forward has arrived in England prior to finalising a switch to Emirates Stadium.
Writing on Twitter, the Lyon president described the story as "false" and claimed Arsenal's initial offer was below the Ligue 1 club's valuation of their star attacker.
Aulas has previously said the Premier League side must part with €65million to prise Lacazette away from Parc Olympique Lyonnais.

Not a done deal yet, and with Wenger pulling the strings penny pinching expected right down to the wire.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/201 ... enal-move/

Conflicting information.

Lacazette is now 1.05 with skybet to complete the transfer. As I said before anyone who doesn't think it will happen can always lay the bet off on Betfair Exchange if the market is available. Bookies are right more often than not at these short odds.

Yeah maybe, but that Lyon President seems a bit flaky....and with our negotiating team...

At around £55 million pounds looks a lot of money for this guy.....

Its the going rate for a 20-25+ a season goalscorer tbh. Much better option than Giroud and I note that he has been written off by the masses on here. I recogn once he gets going, he will score a hat load for us. We haven't had a goal poacher at Arsenal for years.

The player I feel the most sorry for is Danny Welbeck but we can't rely on him with his injury history.

Yeah last one was Ian Wright, agree about Wellbeck done nothing wrong and Perez never really given a chance
strange as now linked with Mahrez, i would have thought a replacement for Cazorla would have been high on the list, especially as he is still hobbling around on crutches at present

[Redarmy]

Jean-Michel Aulas has denied reports Arsenal target Alexandre Lacazette is in London to undergo a medical and indicated the Gunners have not met Lyon's asking price for the striker.
According to French publication Le Progres, the 26-year-old centre-forward has arrived in England prior to finalising a switch to Emirates Stadium.
Writing on Twitter, the Lyon president described the story as "false" and claimed Arsenal's initial offer was below the Ligue 1 club's valuation of their star attacker.
Aulas has previously said the Premier League side must part with €65million to prise Lacazette away from Parc Olympique Lyonnais.

Not a done deal yet, and with Wenger pulling the strings penny pinching expected right down to the wire.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/201 ... enal-move/

Conflicting information.

Lacazette is now 1.05 with skybet to complete the transfer. As I said before anyone who doesn't think it will happen can always lay the bet off on Betfair Exchange if the market is available. Bookies are right more often than not at these short odds.

Yeah maybe, but that Lyon President seems a bit flaky....and with our negotiating team...

At around £55 million pounds looks a lot of money for this guy.....

Being reported that the Lyon president said the final fee is £43.5m.

so will beat Ozils outlay, as our most expensive signing...until we get Mbappe that is....

[nut flush gooner]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... t-10726412

Not getting excited until the deal is done, but this is a more than acceptable transfer deal imo.

[Dudeface]

Arsenal won't buy any big stars. They will be linked to a few and Wenger will offer 7 pence and some bits of fluff from his pocket. Then when everyone moans about the lack of transfer activity, he will say he went for players but they wanted too much. Then those players will go to another team about two years later for shitloads more than they asked Arsenal in the first place.

Seen it happen with Higuain and Suarez. Could have had both and doubled his money two years later. Now forget what happens off the pitch, that is very bad management. He should be sacked for that shit alone. I can't believe they still trust his judgement after those fuck ups.

[NickF]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/201 ... enal-move/

Conflicting information.

Lacazette is now 1.05 with skybet to complete the transfer. As I said before anyone who doesn't think it will happen can always lay the bet off on Betfair Exchange if the market is available. Bookies are right more often than not at these short odds.

Yeah maybe, but that Lyon President seems a bit flaky....and with our negotiating team...

At around £55 million pounds looks a lot of money for this guy.....

Its the going rate for a 20-25+ a season goalscorer tbh. Much better option than Giroud and I note that he has been written off by the masses on here. I recogn once he gets going, he will score a hat load for us. We haven't had a goal poacher at Arsenal for years.

The player I feel the most sorry for is Danny Welbeck but we can't rely on him with his injury history.

Yeah last one was Ian Wright, agree about Wellbeck done nothing wrong and Perez never really given a chance
strange as now linked with Mahrez, i would have thought a replacement for Cazorla would have been high on the list, especially as he is still hobbling around on crutches at present

Really can't understand why people rate Welbeck. He is a striker that has never scored more than 9 league goals in season....

[GoonerMuzz]

Yeah maybe, but that Lyon President seems a bit flaky....and with our negotiating team...

At around £55 million pounds looks a lot of money for this guy.....

Its the going rate for a 20-25+ a season goalscorer tbh. Much better option than Giroud and I note that he has been written off by the masses on here. I recogn once he gets going, he will score a hat load for us. We haven't had a goal poacher at Arsenal for years.

The player I feel the most sorry for is Danny Welbeck but we can't rely on him with his injury history.

Yeah last one was Ian Wright, agree about Wellbeck done nothing wrong and Perez never really given a chance
strange as now linked with Mahrez, i would have thought a replacement for Cazorla would have been high on the list, especially as he is still hobbling around on crutches at present

Really can't understand why people rate Welbeck. He is a striker that has never scored more than 9 league goals in season....

True that, but in mitigation i don't think he's been fit for more than half a season at a time

(This next bit is not aimed at you Nick)

Anyway not much point in other people bitching and moaning about transfers and potential transfers because no matter who we sign they wont be played correctly and people will say they are too crap for us when in reality under Wenger it doesn't matter a fcuk.

I'd genuinely be interested to know exactly who some of you think will come to our second rate club under our second rate manager that would actually make a difference in this current climate All i ever hear is he's crap, he's not good enough, etc etc but some of you are liviing way outside the reality in terms of who'd actually come to this club currently, unfortunately we'll get exactly who we deserve at the moment

[Herd]

Wellberck is good but will he stay fit enough to score 20 goals in a season ?
Giroud is good but as an out and out centre forward with someone playing off him but will we play that way ?
Both answers are NO .
So we will faff about in the transfer market doing a bit of buy sell action and try and cover up the Sanchez loss which seems inevitable .
Arsenal will have to be paying 2/3 time what they would have paid for players 3/4 years ago because of the rampant inflation in the market, but I've little confidence they will do so or start the season with a squad strong enough to win or even challenge for the league !

Luckily I don't care anymore ( OK a bit ) ,but I've no intention of going to more than a handful of games next year and those i do will probably be away ones !

[OneBardGooner]

We have a very good striker (though for me he is more a 'fox in the box' with Lucas Perez. Sadly he has been given hardly any game time because of wenger's utter incompetence as a manager.

I have heard various rumours that he want's out of Arsenal; and who can blame him.

I have seen post on here slating him, but when given the opportunity; regardless of the opposition we have been playing, he has either scored or contributed very positively to the game.

The opinions of Lacazette on here are somewhat polarised, what I DO know is that rather than splash money on someone who may or may not improve the team, because there is No way on Earth we are going to win the title while wengercuntslop is in charge. We should be seeing more of Perez or at least we should have so that at least we will
know for sure whether he is a viable option or not.

Also, it was widely reported that Perez was not a wenger signing but one done by Gazidis, the recent will Wenger stay or go debacle surely knocks that argument into a cocked hat, because we all now know that Gazidis is nothing more than Wenger's Gimp Bitch - and so the idea of him signing someone without his masters say so, is total bollocks.

[DB10GOONER]

I don't buy the Welbeck fitness thing as an excuse. He is bang average on a good day. His basic technique is quite poor, his first touch ropey as hell and his finishing is anything but instinctive.

Giroud is slightly better but he too is no more than average. Neither are near good enough to be first choice striker if you want to win the PL or the CL.

Lacazette? Who knows how he will adapt to the PL. He might hit the ground running or he might be utter shit. Let's not write him off before he's even kicked a ball, but equally I'm not overly excited by his signing...

[sk-gtfo]

I don't buy the Welbeck fitness thing as an excuse. He is bang average on a good day. His basic technique is quite poor, his first touch ropey as hell and his finishing is anything but instinctive.

Giroud is slightly better but he too is no more than average. Neither are near good enough to be first choice striker if you want to win the PL or the CL.

Lacazette? Who knows how he will adapt to the PL. He might hit the ground running or he might be utter shit. Let's not write him off before he's even kicked a ball, but equally I'm not overly excited by his signing...

Welbeck gets a lot of goodwill because he's a 'nice lad', English and has a very strong work ethic but sadly as you say the blunt truth is he is a fairly average player, I do think he's a useful squad player though because he works hard and can be useful in certain games, I would rather keep him and get rid of Walcott who has nothing in his game apart from pace, and at 28 he's going to start losing it very soon.

Giroud wont ever get utilised properly at Arsenal and he clearly wants to start games which now we have Lacazette seems unlikely, sell him on to Everton or West Ham along with Walcott. We need to make room in the squad for signings/wages so these two need to be moved on along with the obvious ones - Perez, Debuchy, Jenk, Gibbs and sadly Wilshere as well, although I'd rather keep him and get rid of either Coquelin or Elneny as those two are as average as you can get.

I doubt all this or even the majority will happen for the usual reasons - Wenger's stupid loyalty to certain players (who then stab him in the back), no proper structure of management at the club (Ivan tip toeing around Wenger ) and average players on big money because Wenger is a 'socialist'.

[Redarmy]

I don't buy the Welbeck fitness thing as an excuse. He is bang average on a good day. His basic technique is quite poor, his first touch ropey as hell and his finishing is anything but instinctive.

Giroud is slightly better but he too is no more than average. Neither are near good enough to be first choice striker if you want to win the PL or the CL.

Lacazette? Who knows how he will adapt to the PL. He might hit the ground running or he might be utter shit. Let's not write him off before he's even kicked a ball, but equally I'm not overly excited by his signing...

I prefer Wellbeck to Giroud think he contributes more to the team and works for the team, ear cupper does not do that
For Giroud its all about himself, grimacing looking at the sky.... he is annoying as fuck....yeah granted he does get some useful goals

But if you want to win titles and compete in CL both these guys are not up to it.....

[NickF]

I don't buy the Welbeck fitness thing as an excuse. He is bang average on a good day. His basic technique is quite poor, his first touch ropey as hell and his finishing is anything but instinctive.

Giroud is slightly better but he too is no more than average. Neither are near good enough to be first choice striker if you want to win the PL or the CL.

Lacazette? Who knows how he will adapt to the PL. He might hit the ground running or he might be utter shit. Let's not write him off before he's even kicked a ball, but equally I'm not overly excited by his signing...

I prefer Wellbeck to Giroud think he contributes more to the team and works for the team, ear cupper does not do that
For Giroud its all about himself, grimacing looking at the sky.... he is annoying as fuck....yeah granted he does get some useful goals

But if you want to win titles and compete in CL both these guys are not up to it.....

I would prefer Giroud to Welbeck based on the simple fact he will scores lot more goals than Welbeck. Agree though, neither are really up to it if you harbor ambition to win the league (which is why both are still here).