Groundhog summer transfer window thread

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1989 wrote:Today proved again that we need a new striker, and not any new striker, someone who will bench Giroud.
Ditto this - should be a given - what a difference it would make to this team, so obvious but...

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1989 wrote:I like your optimism.
Last time we spent £15m in January we bought Arshavin. Served a purpose for about a year I suppose

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I need some serious fucking cheering up and wine isn't working !

I know nobody is coming ( :D ) but can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.......convince me that a fucking quality striker is coming in and who it will be???

By the way Remy isn't quality........Ba is average........Suarez isn't coming.....so who the fuck is it ??????!!!!!

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH ITS DRIVING ME FUCKING MAD :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

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GranadaJoe wrote:
Red Gunner wrote:
g88ner wrote:
GranadaJoe wrote:I'd love us to buy a superstar striker, but I'd settle for a good loan. Cavani, Hernandez, Ba, Remy etc, any of them would be a distinct improvement on our current options.
Have I missed something? :o why would Cavani be available on loan? didn't PSG spend £50m on him a few months ago? :shock: :?
When it comes to transfers, people say some bizarre things on this forum :lol:
I know Cavani is left field, but it was being reported that he was looking for a move because he's behind Zlatan Ibrxxxx.
I though he was doing well there. He has 9 goals in 8 league starts for PSG. That's better than Zlatan, who has five league goals.

If Cavani does want to leave PSG, I think it'll be a permanent move not a loan one.
GranadaJoe wrote:I'd be very surprised if Costa was available, or interested. He's just got into the Spanish squad and Atletico are a big club and doing brilliantly.

I like to dream though.
If we make a massive bid for Diego Costa, we'll get him. We're a bigger club than Atletico.

Is he worth it though? I don't know.

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SteveO 35 wrote:By the way Remy isn't quality........Ba is average........Suarez isn't coming.....so who the fuck is it ??????!!!!!
Cometh the hour, cometh the men...

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Red Gunner wrote:
SteveO 35 wrote:By the way Remy isn't quality........Ba is average........Suarez isn't coming.....so who the fuck is it ??????!!!!!
Cometh the hour, cometh the men...

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I said I needed cheering up you fucker ! :D

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Red Gunner wrote:
SteveO 35 wrote:By the way Remy isn't quality........Ba is average........Suarez isn't coming.....so who the fuck is it ??????!!!!!
Cometh the hour, cometh the men...

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That joke is more worrying than funny :(

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Thomas Vermaelen vows to stay and fight for Arsenal future

Thomas Vermaelen has said he still has a future at Arsenal despite his appearance in the 1-0 defeat at Manchester United being the captain's first league start of the campaign.

The defender has slipped behind the preferred pairing of Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny but, with the former unable to play due to illness, Vermaelen was chosen for what was only his sixth appearance of the season. Although his place in the Belgium squad for the World Cup finals in Brazil has been assured by the coach, Marc Wilmots, Vermaelen still wants as much game-time as possible.

"I'm still confident I can play for this club," he said. "I keep reading stories that I want to leave. But that's not the case. I'm still focused on the team. I am always positive. In any case it is not about my situation. It's what the team do and I am really happy that we're top of the league."

Of his late inclusion Vermaelen added: "It wasn't hard. I go into every game ready to play. I always make sure I'm mentally ready and physically ready to play, so it wasn't difficult. I knew it could happen at any moment so I'm always ready. I've been saying it for weeks and months and all of a sudden it happened."

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... nal-future

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Having been totally gutted on Sunday I could only think of the bad things, but in hindsight TV did pretty well and his performance may be a silver lining to a very dark cloud.

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Ah, we're linked with Benzema again. The transfer window must have arrived! :lol:

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Red Gunner wrote:Thomas Vermaelen vows to stay and fight for Arsenal future

Thomas Vermaelen has said he still has a future at Arsenal despite his appearance in the 1-0 defeat at Manchester United being the captain's first league start of the campaign.

The defender has slipped behind the preferred pairing of Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny but, with the former unable to play due to illness, Vermaelen was chosen for what was only his sixth appearance of the season. Although his place in the Belgium squad for the World Cup finals in Brazil has been assured by the coach, Marc Wilmots, Vermaelen still wants as much game-time as possible.

"I'm still confident I can play for this club," he said. "I keep reading stories that I want to leave. But that's not the case. I'm still focused on the team. I am always positive. In any case it is not about my situation. It's what the team do and I am really happy that we're top of the league."

Of his late inclusion Vermaelen added: "It wasn't hard. I go into every game ready to play. I always make sure I'm mentally ready and physically ready to play, so it wasn't difficult. I knew it could happen at any moment so I'm always ready. I've been saying it for weeks and months and all of a sudden it happened."

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... nal-future
Top man Vermaelen. That's the kind of attitude we all want to see.

We are blessed to have Mertesacker, Koscielny and Vermaelen as our CB options.

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1989 what have you been smoking? I'll give you BFG but christ on a bike we can't win anything with vermaelen anywhere near the side

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Dan_85 wrote:Image

Ah, we're linked with Benzema again. The transfer window must have arrived! :lol:
The number of people even on this forum who have put something along the lines of "Wenger knows where we need to strengthen, he won't ignore it".

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Benzema isn't coming

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SteveO 35 wrote:Benzema isn't coming
Wenger + January window..... Nobody's coming!

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