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.
Pato...bloody hope not he's always injured and has been on the verge of being good for about a hundred years, not keen on Berbatoss but would rather have him than Pato.
Personally I would go to Fulham tell them Berbatoss is going to leave on a free anyway and no one's going to buy him from you, so let's take his wages off your hands for a nominal loan fee, Berbatoss gets to put himself in the shop window for 6months playing up top against the weaker opposition in the league, the odd sub appearance in bigger games just to keep possession. That could get him a big fnal contract in Turkey to one of the big boys there who always buy aging big European players.
I think that would work, gives Giroud a rest and we get a player who has experience in big games to help the squad in the run-in.
It's not what I would want but I just don't see us spending any big money till the summer so if it's a cheapy option better a player who knows the prem and can hit the ground running than Pato.
MrT wrote:Oh and we can add Lewandowski to the long list of players Wenger ''looked at'' that always seem to get away for some odd reason.
Wenger on Lewandowski: " “We looked into it but honestly he [Lewandowski] signed (with Bayern) 1½ years ago”
The Arsenal manager said: ‘Yes we looked into Lewandowski but honestly he signed for Bayern one and a half years ago, everyone knows that.
‘They can only make it official now because he is in the last six months of his contract.
‘We are like everyone, we look out there and see what is happening. If an opportunity turns up, you know as well that all the big players are at big clubs at the moment and they go for important targets.
'Unless you have a club in a desperate financial situation it will be difficult.
'If we find someone like Gnabry at that age when noone knows them, then maybe. But I just said many times we don’t rule anything out.'
Wenger also admitted he has an interest in Bayern striker Mario Mandzukic, but the Germans insist they will not sell.
Wenger said: ‘Lewandowski is at Dortmund until the end of the season and they will not sell Mandzukic now - maybe at the end of the season.’
topgoon wrote:Personally I would go to Fulham tell them Berbatoss is going to leave on a free anyway and no one's going to buy him from you, so let's take his wages off your hands for a nominal loan fee...
Fulham are fighting to stay up so I don't understand why they'd let one of their best players leave. Saving up on his salary doesn't seem like an incentive at all.
If there ever was a loud enough come get me call....
You love setting them up on a plate for me don't you mate?
Jackson Martinez isn't coming
I set em up and you knock em out the park, perfect synergy.
Oh and we can add Lewandowski to the long list of players Wenger ''looked at'' that always seem to get away for some odd reason.
Wenger on Lewandowski: " “We looked into it but honestly he [Lewandowski] signed (with Bayern) 1½ years ago”
Perfect timing because as the virtual Drogba's virtual Arsenal career is drawing to a close, we've got the virtual Lewandowski to take over the virtual strike partnership with the virtual Ibrahimovic. The virtual Ronaldo and Yaya Toure will still be providing the virtual assists
SteveO 35 wrote:Perfect timing because as the virtual Drogba's virtual Arsenal career is drawing to a close, we've got the virtual Lewandowski to take over the virtual strike partnership with the virtual Ibrahimovic. The virtual Ronaldo and Yaya Toure will still be providing the virtual assists.
And the virtual Messi is about to return from injury. It's all looking up...
what annoys me is that just because we have this striker crisis - Giroud, Bendtner, Walcott, Sanogo injured there is this feeling in the media that we HAVE to buy a striker.
hang on a minute - we needed to buy a striker this month anyway because Wenger was so incompetent in the summer.
in fact it is mainly the fact that Giroud has been run into the ground that there are these problems in the first place.
rodders999 wrote:So basically Wenger is saying Bayern tapped up Lewandowski if they agreed to sign him 1 and a half years ago but could only announce it now?
rodders999 wrote:So basically Wenger is saying Bayern tapped up Lewandowski if they agreed to sign him 1 and a half years ago but could only announce it now?
Tomas (poster on this site, not Rosicky ) was saying long ago it was a done deal.
I just don't understand how it's accepted as part and parcel over there and why Dortmund fans are so happy to take it on the chin. Struggling to think of anything that could be more symptomatic of Bayern's completely dominant position within Germany. Some might think it's refreshing that Dortmund fans are not incredibly bitter but I certainly wouldn't be waving the fucker off with a packed lunch to Bayern to join his mate Gotze whilst Bayern continue to pull away and Dortmund start to slide back out of contention just like previous Bundesliga winners in the last decade like Wolfsburg and Stuttgart.
"Fulham are fighting to stay up so I don't understand why they'd let one of their best players leave. Saving up on his salary doesn't seem like an incentive at all."
Wiith all due respect to Fulham, Berbatoss bailed on a decent scum team right at the end of a long summer transfer window, leaving them in the lurch. Berbatoss doesn't seem remotely interested in a relegation scrap, not the type of player you want in that situation.
His agent Dantchev is one of the biggest w**kers around when it comes to screwing a club over to get the best deal for his client.
The sweetner could be sending them one or two of our promising young players on loan. Bent will always get the odd goal, they have enough steel in the middle but very little creativity, send them Zelalem/Toral and snap their hand s off quickly before the yank realises they're being short changed
