Groundhog summer transfer window thread

[Simon]

Finally! A signing we can all cheer about.......


http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... nal-ladies

[DB10GOONER]

think sagna's crossing's been pretty good this season...he's laid some on a plate for giroud, who's by and large squandered them

It certainly has improved on the last 4 seasons of terrible crossing, I'll give you that, mate - but I'd still say it's mostly shit. Either hits the first defender, goes straight into the keepers hands on the goal line or out for a throw on the far side. Gibbs is worse.

[Theoperator]

think sagna's crossing's been pretty good this season...he's laid some on a plate for giroud, who's by and large squandered them

It certainly has improved on the last 4 seasons of terrible crossing, I'll give you that, mate - but I'd still say it's mostly shit. Either hits the first defender, goes straight into the keepers hands on the goal line or out for a throw on the far side. Gibbs is worse.

Guess it only needs to be spot on once or twice a match

[augie]

think sagna's crossing's been pretty good this season...he's laid some on a plate for giroud, who's by and large squandered them

It certainly has improved on the last 4 seasons of terrible crossing, I'll give you that, mate - but I'd still say it's mostly shit. Either hits the first defender, goes straight into the keepers hands on the goal line or out for a throw on the far side. Gibbs is worse.

Defensively he is outstanding and will throw his head in anywhere to win the ball If we are honest, sagna and mertesacker are the only two proper defenders we have in the squad - gibbs, tv5 and jenskinson view themselves as players who enjoy rampaging up the field and are not, in my opinion at least, defenders in the truest sense of the word

[Theoperator]

think sagna's crossing's been pretty good this season...he's laid some on a plate for giroud, who's by and large squandered them

It certainly has improved on the last 4 seasons of terrible crossing, I'll give you that, mate - but I'd still say it's mostly shit. Either hits the first defender, goes straight into the keepers hands on the goal line or out for a throw on the far side. Gibbs is worse.

Defensively he is outstanding and will throw his head in anywhere to win the ball If we are honest, sagna and mertesacker are the only two proper defenders we have in the squad - gibbs, tv5 and jenskinson view themselves as players who enjoy rampaging up the field and are not, in my opinion at least, defenders in the truest sense of the word

Youre forgetting our friend Mathieu

kos is OK too, though both are better at taking legs away

[augie]

think sagna's crossing's been pretty good this season...he's laid some on a plate for giroud, who's by and large squandered them

It certainly has improved on the last 4 seasons of terrible crossing, I'll give you that, mate - but I'd still say it's mostly shit. Either hits the first defender, goes straight into the keepers hands on the goal line or out for a throw on the far side. Gibbs is worse.

Defensively he is outstanding and will throw his head in anywhere to win the ball If we are honest, sagna and mertesacker are the only two proper defenders we have in the squad - gibbs, tv5 and jenskinson view themselves as players who enjoy rampaging up the field and are not, in my opinion at least, defenders in the truest sense of the word

Youre forgetting our friend Mathieu

kos is OK too, though both are better at taking legs away

I'm not forgetting about kos at all - in my opinion I would compare him to kolo toure in kolo's prime in that his speed allows him time to react to danger rather than anticipate it and the undoubted improvement he has made is down to playing alongside a more natural defender who can organise and boss a defence around
As for the flamoney suggestion the guy is a midfielder and not a defender

[augie]

On a more general note, how the fcuk can the chavs buy a player, hardly play him, decide that he isn't good enough and yet sell him to a german club for almost double what they bought him for ?? Me being me, I am wondering if there is some "fudging of figures" (corruption to you and me) which will aid the chavs in their bid to appear to be financially complaint with upcoming regulations

[DB10GOONER]

think sagna's crossing's been pretty good this season...he's laid some on a plate for giroud, who's by and large squandered them

It certainly has improved on the last 4 seasons of terrible crossing, I'll give you that, mate - but I'd still say it's mostly shit. Either hits the first defender, goes straight into the keepers hands on the goal line or out for a throw on the far side. Gibbs is worse.

Defensively he is outstanding and will throw his head in anywhere to win the ball If we are honest, sagna and mertesacker are the only two proper defenders we have in the squad - gibbs, tv5 and jenskinson view themselves as players who enjoy rampaging up the field and are not, in my opinion at least, defenders in the truest sense of the word

Agreed 100%. Jenko is the best crosser of a ball at the club but he is terrible defensively and I'd rather have Sagna there defending well and shitting his crosses than Jenko crossing well but shitting his defending (unless Jenko learns to defend).

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

think sagna's crossing's been pretty good this season...he's laid some on a plate for giroud, who's by and large squandered them

It certainly has improved on the last 4 seasons of terrible crossing, I'll give you that, mate - but I'd still say it's mostly shit. Either hits the first defender, goes straight into the keepers hands on the goal line or out for a throw on the far side. Gibbs is worse.

Defensively he is outstanding and will throw his head in anywhere to win the ball If we are honest, sagna and mertesacker are the only two proper defenders we have in the squad - gibbs, tv5 and jenskinson view themselves as players who enjoy rampaging up the field and are not, in my opinion at least, defenders in the truest sense of the word

Youre forgetting our friend Mathieu

kos is OK too, though both are better at taking legs away

I'm not forgetting about kos at all - in my opinion I would compare him to kolo toure in kolo's prime in that his speed allows him time to react to danger rather than anticipate it and the undoubted improvement he has made is down to playing alongside a more natural defender who can organise and boss a defence around
As for the flamoney suggestion the guy is a midfielder and not a defender

Gotta disagree there me old mucker, kos is by far and away a better footballer than kolo ever was and if it wasn't for kos's pace mert the submarine would be shown up for his gigantic turning circle and complete lack of pace.

Mert has done well this season but he needs a very good ch alongside him

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

think sagna's crossing's been pretty good this season...he's laid some on a plate for giroud, who's by and large squandered them

It certainly has improved on the last 4 seasons of terrible crossing, I'll give you that, mate - but I'd still say it's mostly shit. Either hits the first defender, goes straight into the keepers hands on the goal line or out for a throw on the far side. Gibbs is worse.

Defensively he is outstanding and will throw his head in anywhere to win the ball If we are honest, sagna and mertesacker are the only two proper defenders we have in the squad - gibbs, tv5 and jenskinson view themselves as players who enjoy rampaging up the field and are not, in my opinion at least, defenders in the truest sense of the word

Agreed 100%. Jenko is the best crosser of a ball at the club but he is terrible defensively and I'd rather have Sagna there defending well and shitting his crosses than Jenko crossing well but shitting his defending (unless Jenko learns to defend).

I think jenkinson can become a very good right back but needs to have more composure rather than the headless chicken approach, he has the attributes and hopefully will progress.

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

I will also add that we look much better defensively mainly because of flamini, I know some on here will never give him credit even if he scored a hat trick in the cl final and won it for us 3-2 but it's true imo.

[augie]

Gotta disagree there me old mucker, kos is by far and away a better footballer than kolo ever was and if it wasn't for kos's pace mert the submarine would be shown up for his gigantic turning circle and complete lack of pace.

Mert has done well this season but he needs a very good ch alongside him

I'm not saying that kos isn't a better footballer than kolo but was merely saying that imo their pace gets them both through a lack of defensive positioning at times. I also agree that kos's pace is important to our backline and especially to our BFG but isn't that the way it is meant to be ? I mean partnerships are allow about each bringing something to the table that the other cant and that applies to centre backs, centre midfielders and to strikers - I argued (to huge ridicule I might add) in the summer that our best centre back partnership had to be our BFG alongside either kos or tv5 cos tv5 and kos are too similar to function as a partnership

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

Gotta disagree there me old mucker, kos is by far and away a better footballer than kolo ever was and if it wasn't for kos's pace mert the submarine would be shown up for his gigantic turning circle and complete lack of pace.

Mert has done well this season but he needs a very good ch alongside him

I'm not saying that kos isn't a better footballer than kolo but was merely saying that imo their pace gets them both through a lack of defensive positioning at times. I also agree that kos's pace is important to our backline and especially to our BFG but isn't that the way it is meant to be ? I mean partnerships are allow about each bringing something to the table that the other cant and that applies to centre backs, centre midfielders and to strikers - I argued (to huge ridicule I might add) in the summer that our best centre back partnership had to be our BFG alongside either kos or tv5 cos tv5 and kos are too similar to function as a partnership

I agree they are our best partnership in that I never rated tv5, granted he puts in 100 per cent every game but he was always a wild swipe of the boot that would be sliced or a stupid foul away from causing us problems not to mention he was sometimes more forward than our striker.

I am not convinced that meet is good enough in the air, granted he has got better but Sagna is the best in the air in our back four.

[topgoon]

On a more general note, how the fcuk can the chavs buy a player, hardly play him, decide that he isn't good enough and yet sell him to a german club for almost double what they bought him for ?? Me being me, I am wondering if there is some "fudging of figures" (corruption to you and me) which will aid the chavs in their bid to appear to be financially complaint with upcoming regulations

It did seem a bit iffy but with the lawyers the Russian has in tow, no one would be mad enough to question it publically.

[SteveO 35]

Sanga has delivered some of the best crosses I've seen this season (usually fluffed by he of the 50 pence head)

Can someone please post a video link to some of these supposedly wonderful Jenkinson crosses because all I can recall whenever I've seen him is shouting at the telly as another shitty daisy cutter gets cleared