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Heard today that it's only 50:50 that Zaha will even commit to England and may end up playing for the Ivory Coast.

This opens up the African Cup of Nations issue again for me. The other thing is I'm just not sure he's better than our current options. I also just think we could use the £9 million better elsewhere

Also, if we're going down a different managerial path in the summer, would we be better waiting for the new guy to come in?
Is Zaha the guy who's going to get us 4th place, to allow us to get a top European manager for next year

SammyDroppedHisShorts wrote:Mock away

You guys will never know how close we came to signing Goetze, just remember we got Eisfeld instead because of how much Dortmund wanted to keep the lad, but I am happy to have got the wrong name.

Zaha will be an Arsenal player deal is done

I say no more but remember to apologise to me when it happens.

here we go again

Anyway, regardless of whether we believe Sammy's latest 'my mate down the pub says so' rumour, do we want to spend £15m+ on this bloke

Why is it on the rare occasions we get the cheque book out that its always on a gamble - Walcott, the Ox, now this lad. Zaha is getting rave reviews for playing in the Championship. I would much rather spend £20m on Dzeko than I would Zaha and if City really do go mad an buy Falcao we could end up getting them to pay an element of his wages just to get shot of him.

Zaha isn't going to solve any of the 4 biggest squad problems i.e. a lack of GK options, a CB that can head the ball, a CDM to rotate with Arteta / allow him to be more effective and a central striker of the highest quality required to play that lone CF role. Another attacking wide man ?? Only Wenger could sign someone in that position when we have Feo, the Ox, Arshavin, Rosicky, Gnabry and his new left winger Ramsey

richpye wrote:Heard today that it's only 50:50 that Zaha will even commit to England and may end up playing for the Ivory Coast.

This opens up the African Cup of Nations issue again for me. The other thing is I'm just not sure he's better than our current options. I also just think we could use the £9 million better elsewhere

He IS better than Gervinho

SammyDroppedHisShorts wrote:Steve

The difference is this

Goetze was in talks
Zaha is a done deal, you know the club won't say anything till Jan window is open.

I put my neck on the block with the former and lost my head...with the latter my head is to be stitched back on

Sammy I will hold my hands up and admit it........I kinda believed you back when you said that we were buying gotze I suppose a large part of my belief was based on the hope that the club/manager finally seen the need to buy quality but alas, as usual, we were let down
Quick question on this deal though sammy.......how much is he gonna cost us ? I want to know how much up front and if any players going the other way in exchange. I have serious serious reservations about this deal (if it goes ahead) - why are we continually tying up whatever transfer budget we have on unproven rookies who may or may not ever be good enough ? If he buys another winger then what does that say about the futures of miyaichi (who has impressed me on rare occasions I have seen him) and gnabry ? Are we now writing off the investment that has been made in them to date ? Are wingers the only players we buy these days ? So many questions but tbh there are no answers out there that will please me - I want us to buy a DM, a first choice left back, a keeper and a striker but most of all I want us to buy players that are proven quality right now cos the jam tomorrow plan has gone tits up a long long time ago

Isnt it obvious we need another winger so he can play in goals,we dont buy superstars we make them

Just thought I'd bump this thread , it looks like it needs a boost,unlike other previous rumours threads.

augie wrote:

SammyDroppedHisShorts wrote:Steve

The difference is this

Goetze was in talks
Zaha is a done deal, you know the club won't say anything till Jan window is open.

I put my neck on the block with the former and lost my head...with the latter my head is to be stitched back on

Sammy I will hold my hands up and admit it........I kinda believed you back when you said that we were buying gotze I suppose a large part of my belief was based on the hope that the club/manager finally seen the need to buy quality but alas, as usual, we were let down
Quick question on this deal though sammy.......how much is he gonna cost us ? I want to know how much up front and if any players going the other way in exchange. I have serious serious reservations about this deal (if it goes ahead) - why are we continually tying up whatever transfer budget we have on unproven rookies who may or may not ever be good enough ? If he buys another winger then what does that say about the futures of miyaichi (who has impressed me on rare occasions I have seen him) and gnabry ? Are we now writing off the investment that has been made in them to date ? Are wingers the only players we buy these days ? So many questions but tbh there are no answers out there that will please me - I want us to buy a DM, a first choice left back, a keeper and a striker but most of all I want us to buy players that are proven quality right now cos the jam tomorrow plan has gone tits up a long long time ago

Resale value. If they're young and never really fulfil their promise we can still more or less recoup the transfer fee (as we will if we sell Feo). If they turn out to be class we can flog them 3 or 4 years later at a huge profit.

I like this thread

Any news on Goetze, Zaha, Kalou, Schwarzer or Joe Cole yet ?

Actually we'll probably sign the last two on that list in January when we find out Chesney's out for a year and Walcott is sold to LIverpool for £8m

A positive status. Diaby was seen jogging today. He will be like a new signing


Just for you stevo hot off twitter by some bloke

mcdowell42 wrote:A positive status. Diaby was seen jogging today. He will be like a new signing


Just for you stevo hot off twitter by some bloke

Music to my ears mate and more enjoyable than any transfer rumour could ever be

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SammyDroppedHisShorts wrote:Mock away

You guys will never know how close we came to signing Goetze, just remember we got Eisfeld instead because of how much Dortmund wanted to keep the lad, but I am happy to have got the wrong name.

Zaha will be an Arsenal player deal is done

I say no more but remember to apologise to me when it happens.

And if or perhaps when you're wrong again what do we get in return?