Arsenal Sign Centre Back Laurent Koscielny

Post by **QuartzGooner** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:49 pm

augie wrote:Kjaer would be an excellent signing in my opinion and would line up as 1st choice alongside vermaelen with the french/polish guy as back up with djouru

With Song, Nordveit and Bartley for Carling Cup/emergencies. That I could live with.

USMartin · Post by **USMartin** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:24 pm

Vince wrote:What about Jagielka? He would cost about Â£15m.

15 million for Almunia's replacement? Better spent on Llioris in that case, no?

oh dear - check his record - he stopped Van Persie point-blank for Sheff United

Seriously rather get Kjaer any day f we're gonna spend money here...

DanielD · Post by **DanielD** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:27 pm

If he does sign; we have Koscielny, Vermaelen, Djourou, Campbell(?). That's not enough for me. Not any player is like Tommy who was already brilliant after a few games, and can you really trust Djourou and Campbell in terms of abillity and injuries? We need one more good, solid CB if we are to compete this season.

merson_is_god · Post by **merson_is_god** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:48 pm

Is this Kjaer fellow any good then? Who does he play for?

And is Kosceiny in the French World Cup squad? Is it a done deal? Heard nothing on Pravda!

USMartin · Post by **USMartin** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:17 pm

merson_is_god wrote:Is this Kjaer fellow any good then? Who does he play for?

And is Kosceiny in the French World Cup squad? Is it a done deal? Heard nothing on Pravda!

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/teams/team ... index.html

No K in the French NT - probably just as well for him

Kjaer is pretty good - as good as we would get I suspect

Vince · Post by **Vince** » Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:03 pm

USMartin wrote:
merson_is_god wrote:Is this Kjaer fellow any good then? Who does he play for?

And is Kosceiny in the French World Cup squad? Is it a done deal? Heard nothing on Pravda!
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/teams/team ... index.html

No K in the French NT - probably just as well for him

Kjaer is pretty good - as good as we would get I suspect

Yeah he's not , but some expected he could be in the squad because he did very well last season.

rigsby · Post by **rigsby** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:38 am

Djourou is a good player, I've always been impressed with him, I'ld keep Sol to help the players out. If we get a Keeper we'll finally have at least a promisingly good Defence

augie · Post by **augie** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:19 am

merson_is_god wrote:Is this Kjaer fellow any good then? Who does he play for?
And is Kosceiny in the French World Cup squad? Is it a done deal? Heard nothing on Pravda!

Kjaer is a danish international that plays for palermo in serie A. He is a young but agressive centre back in the vermaelen mould as in he is no giant but is no shrinking violet either. He is the right age for a typical wenger signing as well (early 20's) as he has yet to hit his peak age so wenger has enough time to screw up his potential

Not being racist when I say this but I would be more confident in his signing than I am with the polish/french guy cos I believe that scandanavian football is more like english football so the physical aspect wont be as much of a culture shock.

By the way I also have to say that I would be amazed if sol resigns with us as well

DanielD · Post by **DanielD** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:29 am

Was Kjaer linked with us whatsoever this summer?

augie · Post by **augie** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:34 am

DanielD wrote:Was Kjaer linked with us whatsoever this summer?

Has been linked with us for the last twelve months or so now

MEDINABOY · Post by **MEDINABOY** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:42 am

whoa whoa!!!!!!!!! this must be a sign of the times ,or is it desparation these players are not even seconed rate,we should be aiming a lot higher than that . why have they always got to be french or lowlanders ,is it our scouting network or AWs preference

augie · Post by **augie** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:56 am

MEDINABOY wrote:whoa whoa!!!!!!!!! this must be a sign of the times ,or is it desparation these players are not even seconed rate,we should be aiming a lot higher than that . why have they always got to be french or lowlanders ,is it our scouting network or AWs preference

Tell me the last Grade A signing we made ? I would suggest to you that we have never made a Grade A signing under wenger although a few have turned into Grade A players. If you still doubt our level of transfer targets can I refer you to the 37 year old keeper (schwarzer) that wenger is trying to sign now

By the way if we signed kjaer he would be one of wenger better signings

rigsby · Post by **rigsby** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:44 pm

whoa whoa!!!!!!!!! this must be a sign of the times ,or is it desparation these players are not even seconed rate,we should be aiming a lot higher than that . why have they always got to be french or lowlanders ,is it our scouting network or AWs preference

What are you talking about?

MK Gould · Post by **MK Gould** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:49 pm

DanielD wrote:If he does sign; we have Koscielny, Vermaelen, Djourou, Campbell(?). That's not enough for me. Not any player is like Tommy who was already brilliant after a few games, and can you really trust Djourou and Campbell in terms of abillity and injuries? We need one more good, solid CB if we are to compete this season.

The rumours seem to suggest that Campbell will go for the 2 year 1st team deal at Celtic rather than the 1 year back up deal at Arsenal.

Which will mean that we lose 3 experienced CBs (not including Senderous) and so far look to be gaining 1 very good prospect.....

Methinks that Wenger still has a lot of work to do before we can say we have a team to truly compete in the Prem next season....I'll start to look more closely at the rumours once the WC comes to an end!

PS Koscielny wasn't picked for France but I don't think has made up his mind yet between them and Poland anyway.

MK Gould · Post by **MK Gould** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:57 pm

augie wrote:
MEDINABOY wrote:whoa whoa!!!!!!!!! this must be a sign of the times ,or is it desparation these players are not even seconed rate,we should be aiming a lot higher than that . why have they always got to be french or lowlanders ,is it our scouting network or AWs preference

Tell me the last Grade A signing we made ? I would suggest to you that we have never made a Grade A signing under wenger although a few have turned into Grade A players. If you still doubt our level of transfer targets can I refer you to the 37 year old keeper (schwarzer) that wenger is trying to sign now

By the way if we signed kjaer he would be one of wenger better signings

I know what you mean....the last Arsenal signing that was truly Grade A was probably Bergkamp and he was here before Wenger!

I don't necessarily think that Grade A is always a good thing and a lot to be said for Wenger's scouting network and his success at discovering/nurturing talent. It's certainly a riskier approach though if you want to win things...... But just once it would be nice to think that we didn't pull out of the running as soon as one of our supposed rivals expresses an interest....

This Koscielny might turn out to be a great buy.....but at the moment he is hardly Grade A!