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.
Irish Gooner wrote:Promote local lad Jay Simpson to first choice. He loves the club and is a great finisher.
Not seen that much of him, he did start well when on loan but only saw him a couple of times, he does have some pace on him though from what i did see.
There will an awful lot of gutted Gooners everywhere if this deal breaks down now What are the chances of this move forcing milan to enter the fray ? I think that is the only way we will get more than 20m for this *word censored*
Like a lot of Gooners I am not that inspired by the possibility of that bordeaux striker replacing him - it isnt that he isnt good enough but I dont know enough about him and I would prefer if we bought an established quality striker Anyway that is for another day and for now we should just focus on getting shot of the greedy mercenary lazy *word censored*
goonersid wrote:This is all so well and so good, but it will be a complete disaster if the cash is not used to buy another striker, and just who would we get? There won't be too many decent stikers on the continent looking to come here given our wage structure and the 50% tax rate.
If he does go it will weaken the squad in an area where we are already light given the proneness to injury of most of our strikers. So I would be very concerned until I see a replacement.
Selling an ineffective player who has long since given up is not weakening the squad.
This is good news, now the team can go back to the snappy passing which teams cant cope with (rather then all this slow, sideways passing bollox that gets broken down at the wings when Ade gets it and passes back to who passed it to him) and if a plan B needs to be used then Wenger will just send for Bendtner for his height.
Ain't ideal but then Ade is no loss and would rather that then have to watch his arrogant excuse of a footballer lead the line any more.
When did we acquire a plan B And what do we do when rvp and ed get injured, which will undoubtedly happen in the first few weeks of the season, the simple fact is when you sell and don't replace it weakens the squad no matter who you are selling.
augie wrote:There will an awful lot of gutted Gooners everywhere if this deal breaks down now What are the chances of this move forcing milan to enter the fray ? I think that is the only way we will get more than 20m for this c**t
Like a lot of Gooners I am not that inspired by the possibility of that bordeaux striker replacing him - it isnt that he isnt good enough but I dont know enough about him and I would prefer if we bought an established quality striker Anyway that is for another day and for now we should just focus on getting shot of the greedy mercenary lazy c**t
Go on, admit it Augie, secretly deep down you love the guy and will miss him when he goes!
goonersid wrote:This is all so well and so good, but it will be a complete disaster if the cash is not used to buy another striker, and just who would we get? There won't be too many decent stikers on the continent looking to come here given our wage structure and the 50% tax rate.
If he does go it will weaken the squad in an area where we are already light given the proneness to injury of most of our strikers. So I would be very concerned until I see a replacement.
Selling an ineffective player who has long since given up is not weakening the squad.
This is good news, now the team can go back to the snappy passing which teams cant cope with (rather then all this slow, sideways passing bollox that gets broken down at the wings when Ade gets it and passes back to who passed it to him) and if a plan B needs to be used then Wenger will just send for Bendtner for his height.
Ain't ideal but then Ade is no loss and would rather that then have to watch his arrogant excuse of a footballer lead the line any more.
When did we acquire a plan B And what do we do when rvp and ed get injured, which will undoubtedly happen in the first few weeks of the season, the simple fact is when you sell and don't replace it weakens the squad no matter who you are selling.
Arshavin will be the second striker next season.His favoured and best position
goonersid wrote:This is all so well and so good, but it will be a complete disaster if the cash is not used to buy another striker, and just who would we get? There won't be too many decent stikers on the continent looking to come here given our wage structure and the 50% tax rate.
If he does go it will weaken the squad in an area where we are already light given the proneness to injury of most of our strikers. So I would be very concerned until I see a replacement.
Selling an ineffective player who has long since given up is not weakening the squad.
This is good news, now the team can go back to the snappy passing which teams cant cope with (rather then all this slow, sideways passing bollox that gets broken down at the wings when Ade gets it and passes back to who passed it to him) and if a plan B needs to be used then Wenger will just send for Bendtner for his height.
Ain't ideal but then Ade is no loss and would rather that then have to watch his arrogant excuse of a footballer lead the line any more.
When did we acquire a plan B And what do we do when rvp and ed get injured, which will undoubtedly happen in the first few weeks of the season, the simple fact is when you sell and don't replace it weakens the squad no matter who you are selling.
Arshavin will be the second striker next season.His favoured and best position
That would be the obvious thing to do, just like playing him in the fa cup semi-final So don't be surprised to see an increasingly frustrated Arshavin on the left wing.