SSN - Arsenal make contact over Downing

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He would not be my first choice but would be happy if Rosicky could be part of the deal (mind you, after his performance in the CC final I am sure McLeish thinks he's as useless as most Arsenal fans believe). SSN reporting Dowling would still rather go to Liverpool though - a team that has not won the league for over 20 years. How we have fallen.
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franksav63 wrote:
REBEL GOONER wrote:one minute people are moaning about our lack of squad and the next its he's shit lets not buy him :banghead:

id have him, he was villas best player last year, beats players ,gets goals and who gives a fuck about the price , spend our money wenger :twisted:
I have to admit, that I initially moaned, but Gunnersaurus has convinced me now... :? :?

sorry frank i didnt mean you :oops:

its just i cant read threads moaning about our lack of squad and the next thread people are moaning about buying an england international. i hope we sign him and get another one or two english players with him and get some fight back into our team like the good old days of george grahams early teams :barscarf:
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REBEL GOONER wrote:
franksav63 wrote:
REBEL GOONER wrote:one minute people are moaning about our lack of squad and the next its he's shit lets not buy him :banghead:

id have him, he was villas best player last year, beats players ,gets goals and who gives a fuck about the price , spend our money wenger :twisted:
I have to admit, that I initially moaned, but Gunnersaurus has convinced me now... :? :?

sorry frank i didnt mean you :oops:

its just i cant read threads moaning about our lack of squad and the next thread people are moaning about buying an england international. i hope we sign him and get another one or two english players with him and get some fight back into our team like the good old days of george grahams early teams :barscarf:
Yes, it would be great to get back to thoses days.
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He would be pretty good at Liverpool, Carroll would love him.
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IW8Goalmachine wrote:He'd prefer to go Liverpool well that sums up our club a fucking laughing stock but can you blame him who in their right mind would want to play for wenger these days
you serious ? we're in the CL for fucks sake :banghead:
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franksav63 wrote:
LDB wrote:I dont see why so many people seem not to rate him at all.. Whenever i watch him he seems to play with far more purpose then anything we put on the wing and call a winger.

Ofcourse he is going to be overpriced but now is not the time for penny pinching.
Is he really an upgrade on the greedy bastard that is Nasri??? :? I think you'll find the answer is a resounding NO... so we shouldn't even be thinking of buying him..
Different kinds of players tbh.. clearly nasri is the better footballer but downing is effective (at least most of the times I've seen him).

When not in the kind of form of the first half of last season Nasri is about as effective as my left nut. Besides, i thought the thread was about what we think of downing not what do we think of downing assuming that he is a replacement for nasri?
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I think at this stage of the summer, it's actually important that we're just seen to be spending big, currently it looks like Arsenal are a failing, selling club. When the better players at a club are looking to leave, it's telling you something. Also, remember RVP and Walcott will have 1 year left on their contracts at the end of this coming season so this all happens again next year!
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Henry Norris 1913 wrote:
IW8Goalmachine wrote:He'd prefer to go Liverpool well that sums up our club a fucking laughing stock but can you blame him who in their right mind would want to play for wenger these days
you serious ? we're in the CL for fucks sake :banghead:
Not in the cl yet there's the small matter of a playoff to come....wenger breeds losers now and that mentality is firmly within the club
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i'll give him a chance, but again it's not position we need filling :banghead: :banghead:

nothing against Gervinho, Downing, etc, etc - but we need another keeper and at least 3 more defenders
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van Persie ain't going anywhere, is never fit enough, Theo can walk if he likes...
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scousers offered £15m for him, we probably offered £15.1m, after all, wenger is working nite and day trying to sign new players :banghead: :banghead: . im sure he will also be offered an extra £5.50 a week, to convince him to come to the emirates.
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Rosie_titters wrote:i'll give him a chance, but again it's not position we need filling :banghead: :banghead:

nothing against Gervinho, Downing, etc, etc - but we need another keeper and at least 3 more defenders
To be fair our wide players were as weak as our centre backs last year.
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DERRY GOONER wrote:scousers offered £15m for him, we probably offered £1.5m
Fixed.
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Seems a very strange signing for your lot to go for, can't see what he'll offer you at all tbh
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Gunnersaurus wrote:
Rosie_titters wrote:i'll give him a chance, but again it's not position we need filling :banghead: :banghead:

nothing against Gervinho, Downing, etc, etc - but we need another keeper and at least 3 more defenders
To be fair our wide players were as weak as our centre backs last year.
that's because Wenger is playing Bentdner, Arshavin and Walcott out of fucking position. True we don't have any decent wide players, but surely the defence has to be sorted first

i can't watch another season of Kos, Djourou, Squilliaci getting robbed at set pieces and corners - every week you can already see what's going to happen. And how long will it be before chesney confidence get's shot to pieces because of the crap in front of him
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