SUMMER TRANSFERS - Your thoughts on who did and did not sign

[Wengerball]

You know we've got the rest of the season to no doubt moan and groan about shite tactics, baffling team selections why Ozil is being played up front as the lone striker .

Lets just enjoy for tonight our new world class addition

[mcdowell42]

We have 40m for the next transfer window

[rodders999]

Right, I'm off to bed to dream about being balls deep in Natalie Sawyer.

G'night mutha fuckaaaaaaas.

[Red Gunner]

Podolski posted this on his Instagram an hour ago:



Lewandowski next?

[Red Gunner]

Bendtner and Super Quality Park still haven't left us

[Nos89]

Ozil great signing. Money for January and Falcao from Monaco should be a target as they are not in Europe and he will realise he's made a bit of a mistake going to the French equivalent of Fulham.

[Red Gunner]

I still believe we will sign a couple of top class players, if we don't its beyond the joke.

Yes Rooney is coming as you have been saying all summer!

A txt I got a couple of weeks back, told me Rooney is coming. I have no reason not to believe the person who sent it to me.
I showed it to a few mates against Villa.
I hope it happens, surely Wenger has something up his sleeve?

Moral of the story: don't believe everything you are told.

[wilko49er]

He will fuck about with ozil in different positions.

[g88ner]

I'm really confused as to why we didn't sign a striker this summer.

David Villa would have done. As would Higuain. Hell, even Soldado. or.. well... a host of strikers would have done.

Wenger either has immense faith in Sanogo/Park/Bendtner or he's decided that Theo is ready to play as a striker if Giroud gets injured/needs a rest.

Strange. Especially as even Wenger (and Giroud) said we needed another striker

Oh well, delighted with Ozil though.

[QuartzGooner]

I'm really confused as to why we didn't sign a striker this summer.

David Villa would have done. As would Higuain. Hell, even Soldado. or.. well... a host of strikers would have done.

Wenger either has immense faith in Sanogo/Park/Bendtner or he's decided that Theo is ready to play as a striker if Giroud gets injured/needs a rest.

Strange. Especially as even Wenger (and Giroud) said we needed another striker

Reckon he really rates Sanogo and Akpom, and thinks Bendtner will do until they are ready.

[Jonny_Gooner]

As everyone else must be, I'm absolutely delighted with Ozil! I never in a million years actually believed that we would have ever spent this kind of money, or that a player of his quality would come to us now, but we did and he has! Couldn't be happier.

Yes it would have been ideal if we had someone like Higuain up front, but with a signing like this, I don't feel like I can moan too much!

Looking forward to seeing the little German in action now!

[SteveO 35]

As everyone else must be, I'm absolutely delighted with Ozil! I never in a million years actually believed that we would have ever spent this kind of money, or that a player of his quality would come to us now, but we did and he has! Couldn't be happier.

Yes it would have been ideal if we had someone like Higuain up front, but with a signing like this, I don't feel like I can moan too much!

Looking forward to seeing the little German in action now!

I don't think anyone is sad to see the arrival of the little German. I haven't seen a lot of him recently because I'm not an avid follower of Spanish football but the statistics about his assists and the Madrid reaction to him leaving say a lot. The way he destroyed England in the 2010 World Cup showed what a special player he was even then at 21.

The problem I think we have now is ensuring we keep an ambitious player who has played at a top club winning trophies for the long term. Best way to do that is to add special players like this on a regular basis. If we'd signed Ozil in the window where RvP was dilly dallying would we have kept him.....possibly.

I just hope the excitement doesn't get dampened by a sense of what might have been if we find ourselves massively short in other areas of the field which is an obvious threat right now

Look forward to seeing a genuinely 'world class' player wearing the shirt though

[Dodgyknee71]

Reading quotes from a few RM PLAYERS who seem genuinely saddened to see him go, there's also a good YouTube video of özils back heel tricks the fella looks mint to me. World class players don't come cheap and at 24 hopefully will be a great assets. Shirt sales will increase etcetc - I just now hope he attracts more players, my fears are unrest in the camp but that's another story.....

As a workmate put it to me earlier (spuds ST Holder) ... We lose our best player and you get Reals best player..you been through the shit period stadium move, limited funds etc.... This will be the beginning of a new era aka bergkamp etcetc...

Fingers crossed eh?


I personally ain't getting involved.... I will still support the ARSENAL whatever the weather.....(a part of me preferred it with 24k in a 70k ARSENAL STADIUM ) I just refuse to be a customer I liked it when we were part of the club

[King Henry]

I'm really confused as to why we didn't sign a striker this summer.

David Villa would have done. As would Higuain. Hell, even Soldado. or.. well... a host of strikers would have done.

Wenger either has immense faith in Sanogo/Park/Bendtner or he's decided that Theo is ready to play as a striker if Giroud gets injured/needs a rest.

Strange. Especially as even Wenger (and Giroud) said we needed another striker

Oh well, delighted with Ozil though.

In my opinion from everything I've read I think Wenger was initially confident that he could get Higuain for around £23m and that was what was agreed with Madrid. That would've changed when Napoli came in with their bid of over £30m and Wenger must've been advised that Suarez had a release clause of (over) £40m so the better option would be to spend a little more and get Suarez. Obviously then it turned out there was no such clause and by that point we had already missed out on a lot of the top strikers that had been available. It is a bit of a mess but I'd rather Wenger waited either until January or next summer and got a top class striker than just panicking and buying whoever's available.

I don't think our striking options are horrendous though. Giroud, Podolski and Walcott will probably be the three we alternate between up front and they are good options. I think Walcott's pace in particular with Santi and Ozil in behind will cause a lot of problems as they will constantly be looking to put him through.

[Red Gunner]

Reading quotes from a few RM PLAYERS who seem genuinely saddened to see him go, there's also a good YouTube video of özils back heel tricks the fella looks mint to me. World class players don't come cheap and at 24 hopefully will be a great assets. Shirt sales will increase etcetc - I just now hope he attracts more players, my fears are unrest in the camp but that's another story.....

As a workmate put it to me earlier (spuds ST Holder) ... We lose our best player and you get Reals best player..you been through the shit period stadium move, limited funds etc.... This will be the beginning of a new era aka bergkamp etcetc...

Fingers crossed eh?

I personally ain't getting involved.... I will still support the ARSENAL whatever the weather.....(a part of me preferred it with 24k in a 70k ARSENAL STADIUM ) I just refuse to be a customer I liked it when we were part of the club

What kind of unrest are you talking about?