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SteveO 35 wrote:

mcdowell42 wrote:Dréossi says negotiations for Y M'Vila transfer to Rubin Kazan are under way but another bid has come in from UK not NUFC

You love this thread don't you buddy?

Can we top 348 pages? Deadline day alone must provoke another 50 odd surely?

Ah i can take it or leave it

mcdowell42 wrote:

SteveO 35 wrote:

mcdowell42 wrote:Dréossi says negotiations for Y M'Vila transfer to Rubin Kazan are under way but another bid has come in from UK not NUFC

You love this thread don't you buddy?

Can we top 348 pages? Deadline day alone must provoke another 50 odd surely?

Ah i can take it or leave it

348 pages? Pah !!!! It was almost a milyon I tell ya

Goonuz71 wrote:

Barriecuda wrote:Benteke would never work with Arsenal's set up, he's too much of a straight-forward, typical central striker. Doesn't have the versatility for the Arsenal style. That's what Wenger would surely think, I tend to agree with that summation of him.

Don't confuse that with unabashed support for some of our current players...

BUT .....isnt that what we need sometimes a plan B .... like i said before ...gotta be better than the forehead ....and he's working his socks of trying with a Villa team that are more shit than that lot from the lane

Hasn't he declared that he is a Gooner too ? something along the lines of I am happy at Villa at the moment but my dream is to play for Arsenal.

It's my dream to play for The Arsenal too but that doesn't make me good enough though mind you as long as wenker is in charge and the Klingon in the team then I suppose I still have a chance ?

Havent seen it mentioned on here by Mbiwa has completed his £7m move to Newcastle United. I mean come on, its not as if we couldn't afford him and he's French with African heritage ffs. He ticks all the boxes of a Wenger signing but of course, silly me, hes not super quality. I mean he might actually know how to defend and we cant have someone who might not conform to the sacred rules of Wengerball. Carzola used to shoot from distance a lot- fortunately ODL is correcting this unacceptable behaviour at the Ministry of Truth, I mean London Colney.

On a serious note £7m is good value for a 23 year old French international defender and certainly worth taking a chance on. Its interesting that when Newcastle are struggling with their aims for the season that the chairman and the manager go about trying to rectify the problems with the squad as a matter of urgency. Compare this with the deafening silence from Arsenal as the VT slips further and further from sight.

Its a sad state of affairs

mcdowell42 wrote:Mbiwa has joined Newcastle on 5 year contract and Bordeaux striker yoan gouffran has announced on twitter tht he would be joining Newcastle as well

BUMP FOR WENGERBALLS

mcdowell42 wrote:

mcdowell42 wrote:Mbiwa has joined Newcastle on 5 year contract and Bordeaux striker yoan gouffran has announced on twitter tht he would be joining Newcastle as well

BUMP FOR WENGERBALLS

mcdowell42 wrote:

Deise Gooner wrote:Who is this Memz_Dogi guy on twitter. He clearly knows as much as McDowell about transfers but my timeline is flooded with his tweets

Yeah he's on mine as well

The fucker blocked me because i had the audacity to question him

Arsenal to make late moves for West Ham's Diame & Barça's David Villa - Mirror via ( @th14Renato

mcdowell42 wrote:Arsenal to make late moves for West Ham's Diame & Barça's David Villa - Mirror via ( @th14Renato

I honestly think villa is the guy we want, but I just can't see barca letting him go. Cue wenger giving it large how we almost signed a quality player! I love diame too, better than diaby and just as injury prone! Those two could easily muster up 10 games between em rather than diabys 4

Wengerball wrote:Havent seen it mentioned on here by Mbiwa has completed his £7m move to Newcastle United. I mean come on, its not as if we couldn't afford him and he's French with African heritage ffs. He ticks all the boxes of a Wenger signing but of course, silly me, hes not super quality. I mean he might actually know how to defend and we cant have someone who might not conform to the sacred rules of Wengerball. Carzola used to shoot from distance a lot- fortunately ODL is correcting this unacceptable behaviour at the Ministry of Truth, I mean London Colney.

On a serious note £7m is good value for a 23 year old French international defender and certainly worth taking a chance on. Its interesting that when Newcastle are struggling with their aims for the season that the chairman and the manager go about trying to rectify the problems with the squad as a matter of urgency. Compare this with the deafening silence from Arsenal as the VT slips further and further from sight.

Its a sad state of affairs

I'm not exactly crying over the fact we missed out on this Yanga Mbiwa guy to be honest. Maybe i'll be proven wrong. Come back to me in a few years if he turns out to be the missing piece in Wenger's jigsaw.

Dan_85 wrote:
I'm not exactly crying over the fact we missed out on this Yanga Mbiwa guy to be honest. Maybe i'll be proven wrong. Come back to me in a few years if he turns out to be the missing piece in Wenger's jigsaw.

I agree.

From what I have seen he is about the same as Coquelin.
No disrespect to either player, both appear to me to be at the level of squad players who get the occasional start and can cover a variety of positions to a reasonable level.
Useful types to have in any squad, and we had a few like that in the 2002 - 2005 years such as Kanu, Wiltord and Edu who were mostly decent above average components with the occasional flash of brilliance though did not start too many games.

But cannot see Mbiwa be a catalyst for any great improvement at Arsenal.

Fuck me. With all these French players Newcastle have accumulated they may as well have the French national anthem played at St. James' Park before the start of games.

Haha imagine if we'd signed this African-born French defender from 12th-placed Ligue 1 side who also supplied us with Giroud... don't think too many on here would have been happy that we'd spent £7m on him. Yet because he goes to Newcastle some people are complaining we're too tight to sign him. No pleasing some.

northbank123 wrote:Haha imagine if we'd signed this African-born French defender from 12th-placed Ligue 1 side who also supplied us with Giroud... don't think too many on here would have been happy that we'd spent £7m on him. Yet because he goes to Newcastle some people are complaining we're too tight to sign him. No pleasing some.

Exactly.....if it were up to some people we would be signing 225 players this transfer window