Arsenal Banter Archive June 25 2016

25 Jun 2016 22:04:11
wales are doing more cruising than the ravers Subaru, I also want a word with xhaka when he joins Arsenal as he has put a right dent in my Subaru due to that penalty he took.

26 Jun 2016 00:01:12
Mind you raver you must be getting used to arsenal players putting a dent in the things you like.

26 Jun 2016 08:07:56
Top post's :-)

26 Jun 2016 10:17:36
What dent lol, you finish one place above us in that's it. Chelsea put dents into us by winning European cups etc we will never gave to worry about you lot doing that.

26 Jun 2016 14:42:22
Why don't you come back when its not been 44 years since you've won anything other than the league cup.

26 Jun 2016 17:54:31
The league cup lol what about the FA cups and European trophies we have won.

25 Jun 2016 14:02:35
I think it's weird that Arsenal looking to sign Arek Milik from Ajax, looks like the kind of player we would want to have. And in our price range!

25 Jun 2016 14:21:29
Milik played in Germany for 4 years between 2011-15, he only scored like 3 goals in over 20 games and only made 6 appearances for Bayer Leverkussen.
In his defence, he would of been between 17-21 during this spell.

Since he moved to Ajax, his goal to game ratio is almost one in 2 and is slightly less (not by much) for the national team.

I actually like the look of him from what I've seen, but then again, that's not much, so could be MOTD fever.
I don't think he'd be a bad signing, but I think right now, we're looking for players who are established, instead of 'could be', I think if we did fancy a striker who could work, we'll just keep hold of Akpom or maybe super Yaya!

That said, fun fact for you, Milik himself is actually an Arsenal fan.

25 Jun 2016 15:27:23
There's a good amount of young strikers with bags of potential about but we're looking for the finished article I think.

Players like:

Paco alcacer
Milik
Icardi
Morata
Embolo
Berardi
Plea
Sane
Bakambu

Etc etc

All with the potential to become deadly strikers but do we need the experience and leadership to go with the goals?

25 Jun 2016 10:19:25
Yet again we are in the middle of a transfer window and fretting about who we may or may not sign so It was interesting to read a post the other day about how big a club we are and how attractive we are to players, obviously after Vardy decided to stay at Leicester. Personally I totally get that decision and believe it would have made little difference, bar maybe two, which club made the bid.

In my opinion there are two clubs at the very top who most if not all players would love to play for at any point in their career, Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Below those two its really down to money, how much the club are willing to spend on fee and wages which would be PSG, City, United, Chelsea and maybe to a lesser degree Bayern Munich. It appears in this group though that United have not attracted the quality of player the money available to them should have done. They've made some bad choices after Fergie and been royally seen off.

I believe we fit into the next group along with maybe Juventus, Atletico, Napoli, Dortmund and probably Liverpool.

These are all my opinion and others may see that differently, I may have missed certain clubs but that's where I see us.

The point being that we are what, anywhere between 8th and 14th in the food chain with more glamour, more wages or both elsewhere along with a genuine chance of winning the biggest trophy.

So for me attracting the likes of Ozil and Sanchez says a lot more for our club and where we stand than many would think.

But it equally shows that with few top class strikers in the world and the top two having at least 2 of those strikers each how difficult it will be for us to get players of the likes of Lewandowski, Aubameyang, Lukaku, Higuian or Benzema.

We will have to take a gamble in my honest opinion which is where the difficulty lies, season before last Aubameyang did nothing, this season it turned to gold, season before last Lacazette was on fire, the opposite this season.

Then you find that striker who makes a difference and before you know it you have Ronaldo leaving for Madrid, Bale leaving for Madrid and Saurez leaving for Barca.

Pretty much every striker we are linked with you get either that player or their agent talking of going to Spain etc.

Obviously I want to get it totally wrong and Wenger to bid £60 million for Lewandowski and pay him £200,000 a week but there's more chance of the spuds winning the league than that happening. :-)

25 Jun 2016 14:17:40
Good post that stoner mate

I've been thinking we may have an unbelievable striker in our ranks already n we just don't know it, why don't we move Alexis up front and go spend the money on Marco Rues? Or a winger of his Calibre, Alexis is a lot like Suarez in the way he works and thinks. If we're struggling to get hold of a decent striker then this would be my plan B

Thoughts? :)

25 Jun 2016 17:58:28
I was thinking the same jegooner, and still don't see why not. He's a good finisher, great touch n dribbling, causes defenders havoc. Strong too.
But think we'll need to buy 2 goal scoring wingers on either side of him tho. Reus and Mahrez would do nicely.

25 Jun 2016 18:35:43
Top post Stoner.

25 Jun 2016 21:25:01
They would do nicely indeed waq:)

It may be the way to go if we can't get hold of any world class strikers.

25 Jun 2016 07:55:47
Chicarito anyone? Thought someone reposted Elneny's agents tweet which simple said 'chicarito 😉' does that mean he could be on the move?

25 Jun 2016 09:50:31
He's a great wee player would fit right at arsenal.

25 Jun 2016 09:53:46
I've said for a while id like Chicharito, he's a great finisher, takes up good positions and scores goals.

Problem is, he's only been at Leverkussen for one season and it was a very good season, so I can't see them wanting to sell and if they did, it wouldn't be cheap.

25 Jun 2016 10:20:31
Little chick cheep.

25 Jun 2016 10:37:33
Yeah he might keep us in top 4 but that's all, not a statement signing and another midget who can't score or defend corners.

25 Jun 2016 13:34:20
Agree steve. But he would be another good option as well as someone else.

25 Jun 2016 13:58:12
D16 as well as giroud, no, as well as aubamayang yes.

25 Jun 2016 14:21:38
So Steve your happy to get vardy but not Chico?

Laughable.

25 Jun 2016 14:59:06
D

I asked the question to one of the ed's about a month ago n ed said £15 would get him. 😳 Ermmm No brainer at that price no?

25 Jun 2016 15:10:55
Vardy is a lot better in the air than him, quicker and works harder.

25 Jun 2016 15:30:53
Steve

Nope
Only just
Nope

Little P is far better than Jamie vardy mate come on now 😄.

25 Jun 2016 17:25:04
Little pee that descibes him perfectly. didn't quite make it at man u, was a bench warmer at real and is really just a sniffer that's all. Sorry could nott do a job like vardy, good but not that good. I want star players not bit part.

25 Jun 2016 17:27:32
For £15 might be worth a shout for our under 10s. £15 would be a steal £25 too much.

25 Jun 2016 21:28:05
At both teams mate he should have been starting everyone says that, he's an out n out goal getter and would fit our style of play perfectly.

It's obviously your opinion buddy
But your WRONG ;) lol.

25 Jun 2016 22:01:10
Hes not good enough, i'm sorry, you might be happy with fourth but not me, he's not a top top striker, he's below that for obvious reasons, that's why he doesn't start for the top teams he's pkayed for. Anyway we aren't in for him thank god so all irrelevant.