Arsenal Banter Archive July 12 2014

 

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12 Jul 2014 23:24:34
Edd is ospina a target

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{Ed002's Note - Yes.}

12 Jul 2014 21:41:58
what you guys think if I told you not only we chasing kherdira but also going for reus from dortmund. just what I heard

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12 Jul 2014 22:14:01
I would say,

" Barman, pint of what the bloke is drinking please mate".

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In the words of John W Henry,

What are you smoking over there?

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My thot exactly. We have enough germans to convinced him, plus we have Wenger(which players wanna work under).

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12 Jul 2014 20:10:59
Just hearing from my son the chelski are trying to hijack the kkhedira deal

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That's been the chat all day and they are more than capable, it really is down to Wenger and his chat to convince SK to come to us.

I doubt we will pay the 150k a week that the German is demanding

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Seen the same thing Spanish.

Would be gutted if it happened but the way the window looks like going, we will buy someone

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12 Jul 2014 19:41:24
So the place for 3rd is being played tonight. Is there anything more pointless and unwanted?

1st = everything
2nd = first loser
3rd = nothing
4th = cue massive celebration and hysteria. Worth more then a f.a cup and league cup. (well apart from last season)
5th = the best spurs can ask for
6th downwards = who cares

Flybo

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I don't believe they play it for any footballing reasons. It's ridiculous. It's not the Olympics, there's no bronze medal.

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Should play for fourth place :')

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12 Jul 2014 21:19:23
Nah Saint,

4th place mean's nothing.

Oh wait,

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It's fun watching just how awful David Luiz is tho. If he was sold for 40m I expect us to get 10 billion for vermaelen

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12 Jul 2014 19:36:41
Chelsea also seem to be in talks with the German ( SK ), I hope the prat Maureen doesn't nab him

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If we match them £ for £ he will chose us I'm sure, Chelski will want to do all they can to either stop us getting him or make us pay more than we had too.
The horrible one is obsessed with hurting Arsene at every opportunity, for him its not business it's hatred

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{Ed002's Note - Chelsea have more important things to be doing about worrying about Arsenal. You are paranoid.}

12 Jul 2014 20:35:32
Lets hope Mert, Ozil and The Pod have a quiet word with him.

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12 Jul 2014 21:42:53
As Gazidis said about Sanchez, "We're really glad he's committed to us, he had a lot of options and he chose us".

No reason to believe that Khedira wouldn't chose to join Arsenal. :-)

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Ed do Chelsea actually have interest in Khedira or are they set on Pogba?

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{Ed002's Note - Try the Chelsea page.}

I'm not paranoid Ed its just you and everyone else in the world who's trying to get me to think I am

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12 Jul 2014 22:16:45
Good point Jenjen.

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12 Jul 2014 19:19:06
So Tottenham are planning a £17m bid for Draxler.

This is flipping hilarious. Draxler turned down a move to us after we offered Schalke £37m! How in the blue hell do the expect to sign a player of his quality and potential for that pathetic price?! We can offer him better wages, Champions' League football and silverware. All the spurs can offer him is a new manager every 6 months, mediocre football, low ambitions and abuse from us lot.

Well played Tottenham. Well played.

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12 Jul 2014 19:23:12
I can't even say spurs any more Eds?

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12 Jul 2014 18:25:08
Just posted a picture of Khedira, Ozil, BFG & Podolski at WC hopefully a good sign of things to come at Arsenal.

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Where is the pic? Can't find it. Cheers

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12 Jul 2014 20:39:25
Its up there now

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Just hope the next time that picture is taken they will all be wearing Arsenal shirts!

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12 Jul 2014 16:36:57
any eds have any info on what the plan is for Joel next season?

any news or rumours been said about where he will be? or any bids/interest for him?

i've been a fan of his since we signed him and really hope that he gets his chance to come into the team.

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{Ed002's Note - Nothing beyond what I said before.}

Although he deserves a shot this season, I don't think campbell will ultimately make the grade with us. I just don't see him as a consistent enough goalscorer to really challenge Giroud, nor is he really as good as the other wide attackers we have now with Sanchez and Walcott.

To be honest for me we still need another big physical orthodox central striker to give Giroud decent competition for that spot and if we did get one (I am think Jackson Martinez or Benzema) I would be cashing in on Campbell now while his profile is still high after the world cup.

Sonogo hard to tell if he will make it but I would be loaning him out now.

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12 Jul 2014 16:19:59
Collymore reported that he spoke with Khediras agent last night and he said we are in "Advanced Talks" with him!

Seems its gone past the offer stage.

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{Ed002's Note - His agent is discussing a new contract with Real Madrid as well.}

Sounds like a very far fetched story to me, not that were talking to Khedira's agent that's very believable but I'm struggling with the bit that any one would talk to stan collymore who didn't have to

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Could also say, a wise move from his agent as he knows Stan is in the media.

Just hop we get Khedira instead of Chelsea

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12 Jul 2014 20:30:18
He also probably said 'put you're window down a bit mate I can't quite see in'

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12 Jul 2014 21:21:55
1404, behave yourself.

(Made me laugh though).

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12 Jul 2014 15:54:03
Granted Banbury, if Khedira can make Mesut feel more at home and bring out the best in him, then Khedira does have the edge on the others!

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12 Jul 2014 15:16:08
Hi everyone, i'm still excited about Sanchez move. I watched him for long time during his experience with U.S. Udinese in Italy. I think that he will fit perfectly the Premier League and Wenger's football credo.
I also hope that the Boss will bring to us a really good DM(Khedira, Bender or an equal one). But to compete at all levels I think that we need a top signing also in defense, I love Per's determination and Laurent's anticipation, but I think is not enough.
For me we need guys like Hummels, Barzagli, Benatia or Varane.
Ginter and the others are decent players but not top players

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12 Jul 2014 15:09:57
How many Liverpools fans does it take to change a lightbulb?

None, they just sit around and talk about how good the old one was.

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12 Jul 2014 16:02:19
Love that.

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How many Manchester United fans does it take?


5.1 to change it and 4 to take turns in driving the car up from daaaaarn saaaaaaaarf! Lol

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12 Jul 2014 17:13:53
Nice!

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They would treat the lightbulb as one of their own and when it stopped working would collectively say WE GO AGAIN

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12 Jul 2014 19:08:01
Lallana, Can and Lambert have joined Liverpool FC to "play at the top level".

No news yet from the club on how they plan to transport them back to the 1980s.

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Brilliant jenny! Haha

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12 Jul 2014 19:22:10
Pretty sure LFC came 2nd last year and Arsenal came 4th. Just saying!

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12 Jul 2014 19:24:26
How many Jack Rodwells does it take to change a light bulb? none he had to phone someone at Everton to come out and do it for him because he couldn't work out how to do it. not a joke a true story.

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Just having a laugh JC no offence is ment mate :-)

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12 Jul 2014 21:24:57
I think it will take just one, Steven Gerrard.

But he will slip on the ladder, so they will all have to just sit in the dark.

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12 Jul 2014 21:51:35
Anyone fancy a glass of Liverpool red?

Bottled at Selhurst Park, May 2014.

Just saying :-)

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12 Jul 2014 22:18:05
Hehe Jenjen,

love it.

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12 Jul 2014 14:18:38
Out of Khedira, Sypder and Bender I really couldn't care less who we get, as long as we get one of them. so go on Chelski, pay over the odds for Khedira, we'll just get someone else.
I think Khedira is immense, but unlike Sanchez, he isn't a unique talent, there are enough players that can do his job, harsh but true!

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Fair comment LG

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Sorry should add

As already been said before Khedira would be good for Ozil

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Shall we get a welsh DM in for rambo?

or a polish RB for shezza?

to be fair though, with the german in the middle our spine of the team would be german. and them spines be stong!

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12 Jul 2014 17:14:50
who is spyder?

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12 Jul 2014 18:05:48
Gooner,

Morgan Schneiderlin from Liverpool FC, Err, I mean Southampton FC.

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12 Jul 2014 13:04:26
hi couple questions if anyone can help please. why did we drop all interest in aurier and it looks like debuchy is as good as signed, surely aurier is a much better long term prospect? also are we in for any CBs we definatly need cover, especially if vermalen leaves, but what I want to know is are we just going for cheap back up or a marquee CB who can challenge kos and mert. I really hope someone can tell me its the latter, someone who can push them both and replace mert when we are facing pacey attackers, like the germans do. any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks

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12 Jul 2014 13:48:56
If you scroll down or search you will see some of the eds have answered all the questions. As some are too lacy :p. I shall repeat. I believe we went for debuchy as arsene does not want to hinder the progress of jenks and bellerin. And the defenders we're looking at are ginter Williams and hiltzle something or other I can't remember

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With regard to Aurier, you may be right that as a long term prospect it may have made sense. But what I want and I believe the majority of fans want is that now finance is not a problem to an extent we can forget the phrase "long term" and start thinking more short term and immediate success. Aurier may take 3-4 months to fully adjust and settle. Then he'll be off for the Africa cup of Nations for a month. And in the past we have suffered from losing players to that completion just as the season really gets busy. Debuchy on the other hand needs no introduction to the premier league.

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Get both, loan jenks out all season, if needed rescind the loan in jan IF NEEDED

but then next season we may well have 3 first choice right backs.

though having 2 LBs of similar skill didn't effect us this season :P

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Like others are said I think Aurier is off the radar now we are close to Dubuchy, Wenger will not want to hinder the progress of Jenkinson too much by buying both, just as Jenkinson is starting to make progression with more first team starts. I don't think Wenger sees Jenkinson as a loanee anymore and as valued first team squad member. Debuchy and Jenks would be fine by me as our RB's.

Aurier don't forget being African would miss larges chunks every other season due to the ACN and I think that puts a lot on Mangers off buying African.

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12 Jul 2014 11:39:05
Not so much a rumour as a comment. Been reading up a lot recently on steve peters and psychiatrists in sports in general. From watching arsenal over a good few years I think it's the mental fragility that let's them down time after time. Steve peters worked with Liverpool last season and by in large most players(mostly brittish) put the success down to him. My point is with all our signings and evident potential this season, I think it would be a crime to not have someone like him on board to prepare us mentally for a title challenge. Any thoughts?

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Didn't stop Gerrard slipping on his back side against Chelsea and then heading the ball to Saurez in the World Cup

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Liverpool did better because Rodgers is a good manager.
. and suarez is a goal machine.

if the signings they made this season gel straight away they will be a proper top 4 team again, at least have a better claim to it than utd I hope!

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12 Jul 2014 11:21:30
Apologies in advance Ed002, but let's really show we are truly a force again and beat Chelski to Khedira.
How many times have they trumped us on players in recent years?
Singing Khedira ahead of them would be a real statement.

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The sum of Ozil and Khedira is even better than both of them individually. They seem to have a real understanding on the pitch. I hope this rumored bid goes through.

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12 Jul 2014 11:06:02
is the Debuchy deal off? I ask because there hasn't been an announcement and we are looking at Javi Manquillo, even though Lee Dixon tweeted about the signing of the full back from Newcastle?

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12 Jul 2014 10:49:38
Wenger will have to move quickly to get Khedira,, Chelsea will fly in with a big wage offer

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Khedira would be literally a singing and a half because get him and you get the very best from Mesut Ozil

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Agreed, that's why Wenger should agree to his wages

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I think we will ultimately get out bid financially in trying to get Khedira, there will be a lot of competition for him. I think it might worth putting a bid in to get other clubs scrambling then sneaking Bender in under the radar.

I think we still need a orthodox big physical central striker for Competition for Giroud and especially if TV5 goes a CB is a must.

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12 Jul 2014 10:12:46
WHAT WOULD MAKE ARSENAL A WORLD BEATER?

With th acquisation of Ozil & now Sanchez. I think we headin in th right direction but in my opinion we lackin one person to complete it. That person is none other than Marco Reus.

Plays on th left wing, has great finishing, a set-piece guru(what we lackin), sets up play for teamates(through balls & crossing) & MOST importantly. He's consistant.

With THAT in mind. Imagin a front three of Reus(LW), Sanchez(CF) & Walcott(RW). With Ozil behind thm wit Ramsey in th heart of it all. Wilshere, I want him to go back to th basic a bit. Not out of th teams plans at all.

NOW A QUESTION FOR U ALL(including eds). Do u want us buyin an average cf or winger this season and risk not buyin Reus (or a World Class cf or winger)
OR
Risk not buyin now but buyin Reus(or a player of his quality) next season

I would like to hear your thots?

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Reus won't be joining Arsenal.

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Y not?

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12 Jul 2014 09:43:04
Jerome Boateng put a photo on Twitter: "My room-mates and me after today's training." This include Ozil, Per, Podolski & khiedra! Not many Chelsea players present so surely Khiedra would rather play with his mates! persuade him boys.

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12 Jul 2014 08:59:41
Please #bring back Malaga gooner! Ed's
He might have details on the next signing.

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{Ed001's Note - odd that the two big fantasy signings you have made in the last year he has missed!}

Dags has been to busy watching the world cup and monitoring the Sanchez and Remy situations to slip into Malaga mode this summer me thinks

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12 Jul 2014 16:07:07
I am giving Malaga a well earned rest, lol.

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I'm sure Malaga is reading this but shout out to dags, hopefully we can secure a backup GK and a DM soon, don't really care who but Le Boss S'il vous plait.

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12 Jul 2014 07:50:15
hi guys

sanchez is a top signing still can't believe we are doing business this early in the window don't know if I feel disappointed or excited? just hope we follow it up with more top signings or am I just being greedy

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12 Jul 2014 04:50:12
I, d expect we should put a bid in for luiz Gustavo, he could solve our defensive midfield concerns.
smokescreen names being mentioned at the moment.
inserted in his contract is a release clause that comes into effect after world cup for brazilin which if a BIG club come sin for him, its considered.

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12 Jul 2014 01:28:54
Hi Eds, any updates on the bid made for khedira?
also any news regarding griezman? heard he rejected a new deal. any interest remaining from arsenal?
because if as being touted sanchez may be used in a central role then someone like griezman on the left would be immense.

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{Ed027's Note - we're interested in Khedira as Ed002 has said. We have Ox and Poldi for LW, our no.10s can also play their, dont forget Sanchez can play their if needs be. Then we have Joel, who may stay with us

Yh I agree, regarding the LW, just feeling a little greedy after the sanchez signing I guess :)

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{Ed027's Note - if Podolski were to leave, then yes. But it looks like he's happy to stay with us. Though i do think if Cologne have a decent season he could be lured back next summer

12 Jul 2014 01:22:51
Sooo now the rumours of Khedira coming to THE ARSENAL are speeding up. A great engine, technically good and will add much needed power, but. if we are look for an out and out defensive midfielder, he's probably not it, he's far to adventurous for that.
Having said that, I would love him at Arsenal and would certainly be a huge upgrade on Flamini and Arteta.

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12 Jul 2014 07:37:46
I love Kheidra but he is not a DM. Xabi is the DM in that Madrid Team and Kheidra is very much a box to box midfielder who looks like a DM due to his immense physical presence.

Possibly Wenger could convert him but for the money being quoted by the media it would be a huge risk.

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If we sign him he would play in the arteta role. Wenger has never played with a 'true DM' even Gilberto Silva and Petit who both played the more defensive role alongside Vieira played box-to-box

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12 Jul 2014 00:08:08
Still can't get over yesterday. Have we really signed Alexis Sanchez?
We have signed Madrid's and Barcelona's second best player in consecutive windows! LOVE IT! Can't believe either of them have been let go by their respective former clubs? Oh well, their loss.

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11 Jul 2014 23:52:56
Well Yuck Fou the Korean International is definitely not on our radar.

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11 Jul 2014 23:49:54
Chelsea also have eyes on Khedira . chop chop Arsene let's get this one done

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11 Jul 2014 22:53:07
Hi Eds what's the latest with Debuchy?

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{Ed027's Note - should be confirmed next week, guessing Monday