As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
highburyJD wrote:I don't think Wenger is panicking.
So when the other clubs ramp up their prices, he will just pull the plug!
I don't think he's panicking either - but that's the narrative the club have allowed to develop. In fact, read some of the Cabaye articles and there's often a mention to the bid being in response to the Villa game and "spend some fucking money" chants.
The club have set themselves up for this in a way the media could only dream of. We'll have more column inches written about us than any other team now. Excellent work
You'd be forgiven for thinking we go out seeking for bad publicity.
One hoped that having left all our business to the last minute 2 seasons ago, lessons would have been learned but alas no.
Last season the club seemed to have learned some lessons because regardless of what you thought of them as players Giroud and Podolski were recruited 'early doors' and played a part in pre-season
Why on earth we have allowed this situation to develop this year is beyond any of us
SteveO 35 wrote:One hoped that having left all our business to the last minute 2 seasons ago, lessons would have been learned but alas no.
Last season the club seemed to have learned some lessons because regardless of what you thought of them as players Giroud and Podolski were recruited 'early doors' and played a part in pre-season
Why on earth we have allowed this situation to develop this year is beyond any of us
because none of us have worked 30 years in football that's why steveO so this must be the work of a genius,bloody simple!!
Ha ha - I genuinely hadn't seen this when I posted just now. So we're already up to £47m for Williams, Michu and Cabaye......just 2 more weeks of panicking to go before the deals get closed out at around £60m in total
And all three of them are just squad players at best
ONE ARSENE WENGER........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
Ask yourselves - £80m for two world class strikers.......£60m for three Joe Average no-marks. The Wenger school of economics
Ha ha - I genuinely hadn't seen this when I posted just now. So we're already up to £47m for Williams, Michu and Cabaye......just 2 more weeks of panicking to go before the deals get closed out at around £60m in total
And all three of them are just squad players at best
ONE ARSENE WENGER........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
Ask yourselves - £80m for two world class strikers.......£60m for three Joe Average no-marks. The Wenger school of economics
He's really going to do it.... pay way over the odds for average shite, I can't wait to see him finally drummed out, it will be one of the happiest days of my life...
ONE ARSENE WENGER........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
Ha ha - I genuinely hadn't seen this when I posted just now. So we're already up to £47m for Williams, Michu and Cabaye......just 2 more weeks of panicking to go before the deals get closed out at around £60m in total
And all three of them are just squad players at best
ONE ARSENE WENGER........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
Ask yourselves - £80m for two world class strikers.......£60m for three Joe Average no-marks. The Wenger school of economics
He's really going to do it.... pay way over the odds for average shite, I can't wait to see him finally drummed out, it will be one of the happiest days of my life...
ONE ARSENE WENGER........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
In the space of a few months we've gone from Fellaini, Rooney, Suarez, Higuain, Bender and Bernard - all international class players to a couple of journeymen at Swansea and a poor man's Arteta.
ONE ARSENE WENGER.........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
Ha ha - I genuinely hadn't seen this when I posted just now. So we're already up to £47m for Williams, Michu and Cabaye......just 2 more weeks of panicking to go before the deals get closed out at around £60m in total
And all three of them are just squad players at best
ONE ARSENE WENGER........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
Ask yourselves - £80m for two world class strikers.......£60m for three Joe Average no-marks. The Wenger school of economics
He's really going to do it.... pay way over the odds for average shite, I can't wait to see him finally drummed out, it will be one of the happiest days of my life...
ONE ARSENE WENGER........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
In the space of a few months we've gone from Fellaini, Rooney, Suarez, Higuain, Bender and Bernard - all international class players to a couple of journeymen at Swansea and a poor man's Arteta.
ONE ARSENE WENGER.........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
It really couldn't be made up this!!!
ONE ARSENE WENGER.........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
Oh if Williams plays for Arsenal, so can I
Oh if Kebab plays for Arsenal, so can I
Oh if Michu plays for Arsenal
Sanogo plays for Arsenal
If Wenger bosses Arsenal, so can I
Looking forward to super super quality players like barry, kalou, flamini or from french ligue 1 or 2 joining us. Fingers crossed that none of them has already set their mind on becoming a postman even if we bid for them
Meanwhile Spurs are weighing up a £30m bid for Willian, a player of proven CL class and who terrorised the Chavs in that competition
Still I bet Barca are shitting themselves that Ashley Williams will be preparing to man mark Messi in the last 16....and that 'no shots on goal' record in the Nou Camp will be banished to history when Michu weighs in with a hat-trick
ONE ARSENE WENGER........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
If we'd bought Cabaye six weeks ago for 8-10 mil I'd have been relatively happy. Experienced, intelligent, flexible, infinitely better than Ramsey, but he's hardly the answer to our problems at the moment.
Williams as 3rd/4th choice CB would be OK, but nothing more and not at more than 8mil or so.
Michu, likewise. Maybe 15mil in the current climate. A very good player to have in the squad, but nothing special.
So we get rid of the Squid, Djourou, the Forehead etc and replace them with marginally better players, but for a lot more money.
GranadaJoe wrote:If we'd bought Cabaye six weeks ago for 8-10 mil I'd have been relatively happy. Experienced, intelligent, flexible, infinitely better than Ramsey, but he's hardly the answer to our problems at the moment.
Williams as 3rd/4th choice CB would be OK, but nothing more and not at more than 8mil or so.
Michu, likewise. Maybe 15mil in the current climate. A very good player to have in the squad, but nothing special.
So we get rid of the Squid, Djourou, the Forehead etc and replace them with marginally better players, but for a lot more money.
SteveO 35 wrote:Meanwhile Spurs are weighing up a £30m bid for Willian, a player of proven CL class and who terrorised the Chavs in that competition
Still I bet Barca are shitting themselves that Ashley Williams will be preparing to man mark Messi in the last 16....and that 'no shots on goal' record in the Nou Camp will be banished to history when Michu weighs in with a hat-trick
ONE ARSENE WENGER........THERE'S ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER
Dun forget we still have Bendtner. Bet Barca defenders will be gasping in horror when they see a Danish bull charging towards them
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