As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
MK Gould wrote:Did you know that South Korea are ranked 33 in the world, whereas Eden Hazard's Belgium are ranked 37th? They are also ahead of Ghana, Nigeria and the Czech Republic. And some 22 places ahead of Scotland.
For Park to be their captain and to have over 50 caps is quite some achievement..... despite some of the comments on here that are bordering on xenophobic or possibly even racist.
And I can understand what people are saying about it being cheap. But that doesn't in itself make it bad. Have to say that I for one know little about Hazard or Young - and I suspect that I'm not alone.... And yet most of you would have preferred that we'd paid £26m for one rather than £3-5m for the other.....
Citeh have proved how badly things can go wrong over the last few years by waving their cheque book around......Adebayor being just the latest in a long line. Of course though, they can afford a few duffers along the way whereas we can't.
Park may not be the answer to our striking problems - although I take a lot of heart from Vince's comments - but I do think this should be seen, and applauded for what it is. A good/canny piece of business!!!!
So you think this kind of signing is just what we need? This little guy will appease our need for an out and out goalscorer?? This guy will replace the turbo shit Chamakh?!
This is good business why? Just because he was cheap as chips?? How many of Wengers recent 'cheap as chips' signings have proved to add 'quality to the squad? Oh that's right, Squilacci, definitely..
Babatunde wrote:When I first saw this thread, I thought it was a Joke.
Then I remembered that Wenger FC (as Arsenal is now serving him obviously), is nothing but a big fat Joke.
I watch an awful lot of French football as Marseille are my second team...
When I heard about this signing, I thought it was April 1st. So let me see....
You have a club who have made £67 million in the last three weeks on transfers (Eboue, Cesc, Nasri). This cub also had £40 mil to spend in summer. This club also has a transfer facility of £41 mil from Toure and Ade still untouched.
The club has just hiked the price of tickets 6.5%. The club is hemorrhaging players and has scraped over £280k a week off the wage bill. The manager claims he is only after 'Super super class players'. And THIS is what the result is? Some piece of shit Monaco dandy for 3 million Euros??!
The other thing I just do not get with some fans is the 'why don't we wait and see how he turns out'. Sorry. But when you are paying the most expensive ticket prices IN THE WORLD, you should be signing top quality. You should not have to 'wait and see' if he is good or not. When Chelsi signed Mata, their fans don't 'wait and see' how god he is, he is proven quality. When Ash Young and Phil Jones signed for ManYoo, they don't 'wait and see', this is what big cubs do.
Then there is the other range of excuses that sound like 'he is a squad player'. I remember hearing the same things about Eboue and Diaby, yet they play very often due to ludicrous injuries and squad depth. When will ppl realise that Arsenal is now a team full of squad players!!!
Why would Arsenal be looking for squad players when they don't have serious first teamers! Playing Jenkinson, Frimpong, Gibbs and Song in CL matches? These are ALL squad players! As is Koscielny etc.
The other question I'd ask is how many cheapskate French league/French signings has AW made in the past seven years that have turned out to be quality? Name just one if you can. Chamakh was it not said 'Wait and see'? We did. He's shit. That's why he was cheap and playing in France.
Shitachi: 'wait and see'. Again Frenchman, cheap. Shit. Koscielny 'wait and see'. Highest league goals tally conceded in over a decade!!! etc etc.
It is clear Arsenal is no longer a big club for me and it makes me sad. Would ManYoo, Chelsi or even Liverpool be anywhere near such a player? Then why are we then?! And is the weak-arse French league the ONLY league Wenger is allowed to recruit from?
It's just absolutely farcical but hey...that's Arsenal these days.
libertine wrote:So you think this kind of signing is just what we need? This little guy will appease our need for an out and out goalscorer?? This guy will replace the turbo shit Chamakh?!
This is good business why? Just because he was cheap as chips?? How many of Wengers recent 'cheap as chips' signings have proved to add 'quality to the squad? Oh that's right, Squilacci, definitely..
Don't twist my words. I never said this "...is just what we need". I said "Park may not be the answer to our striking problems....but I do think this should be seen, and applauded for what it is. A good/canny piece of business".
My point is that people were w*nking over the possibility of making a big money signing of someone they'd probably never previously heard of and who had no Premier League experience. Just because this guy is Korean and "cheap as chips", doesn't make him a bad buy....
Part of me is depressed at yet another Wenger signing - cheapo, Ligue 1, never-heard-of-him.
But I don't think you'll ever need to worry about him:
- not putting in 100%
- becoming the big-I-am charlie
The Manyoo Park is a player whose industry I have admired. And despite him being a "god" in his homeland, I've never heard anything from him the UK press.
I just yesterday came back to Singapore from Korea and they are lovely people. Love their football (and baseball it seems) work hard, and the country seems well organised. And without knowing Park Chu Young was coming, I bought a Korea flag as a souvenir so am prepared for when (if?) I ever get back from the far east and get to use my season ticket and watch him put 4 past the y*ds.
If he can sign players on the cheap from relegated sides why not Scott Parker? Wouldn't be massively expensive and bags of premiership experience to go the with the talented youngsters we have in midfield,Jack Rambo and Frimmers.
