Arsenal Banter Archive December 29 2014

29 Dec 2014 18:17:38
Grzegorz Krychowiak just tweeted:

"I reached an agreement with an English club, but the transfer can not be made official until all the parties have put their signatures on the contract."

in a second tweet he said"

"I will keep you informed of the details later.'

any chance this english club is arsenal ed?

{Ed025's Note - a good chance i would suspect mate..

I don't know anything about him, can anyone enlighten me please? what we've been looking for or another cheapie?

{Ed025's Note - polish international eden, decent player but not a worldie mate..

I've seen him play, both for Sevilla and Remis, and he's very good. Very tall, very physical, still quite young, so he's got time to improve. He's not a bad distributor of the ball either. I'd probably prefer Schneiderlin to him, but if he is not available, then I think he could be a great shout.

By the way, sorry for only calling him 'him', but his name is a real bother.

Standard wenger then ala flamini on a free rather than matic for 20 mil

{Ed025's Note - at least he is a proper DM eden, and for my money a better shout than flamini or arteta...but nothing is agreed yet mate..

Yeh fair one mate, I was just thinking the difference between going for the title and settling for fourth. but yeh fingers crossed a DM and CB who are solid come in. if he brings two first teamers in it would change the whole complexion of the team for me. just hope we don't get a couple stop gaps on the wage bill that don't really add a lot

{Ed025's Note - he would improve the team imo eden, just dont bank on him yet though mate..

I never bank on anything mate have no fear! ever the pessimist :P

28th of December is the Spanish equivalent of April Fool's Day - the Dia de los Santos Inocentes!
So no, he won't be signing for us :'(

{Ed025's Note - i hear thats the case LT, but he is interested in joining the PL, and arsenal is his preferred destination..make of that what you will mate..

29 Dec 2014 19:48:30
By all accounts Dec 28th in Spain is our aquivilant of April fools and he has said it was a joke.

Everyone is reporting it as a transfer prank.

Standard. that's about right .

To be fair I know nothing of him but if he's a proper DM and Ed025 says he's ok it has to be step in the right direction, at the very least it would be recognition of the problem and an attempt to right a wrong

Thanks for the nod Red, hey ho it was a nice thought while it lasted :-)

Haha bloomin' typical

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The fact that a few on here know nowt about the bloke is a tad worrying.

Another Wenger Basement Bargain deals

Día de Los Inocentes

Correct Red

Totally agree Banbury mate, but anyone who is a DM and was born and DM and comes from along Long line of DMs from both sides of his family would at least be an admission of their continued existence and be reason alone for hope of one day having one in our team again.
To actually try and sign one would be lovely but to actually achieve it would be nothing short of emotional

29 Dec 2014 15:35:14
anyone still doing the old fantasy football? and what do you think is cisse likely to get a lengthy ban for that elbow and if so is jovetic fit enough to start and worth a gamble

29 Dec 2014 09:24:44
For me wiliam carvalho and Winston Reid would represent a reasonable January. Cover in the 2 most important positions. Reid could adequately cover kos and carvalho is a step up in quality to what we have.
There will have to be a few departures. Even if loans either Campbell or podolski, maybe coquelin. We have so much depth up front with theo returning to full fitness, ozil due back soon and wenger likes sanogo whose barely had a look in. Both Campbell and pod need more game time and it doesn't look like happening here.

29 Dec 2014 09:55:30
Having watched them both my opinion is they would be pointless stop gaps, Carvalho came onto the scene with a bang but has looked pretty ordinary to me since then in a fairly weak league. Ridiculously high buy out clause too.

We can afford and should be buying much better quality.

I'd take Reid now and a world class defender j the summer. Carvalho I'm unsure off not seen much but ccan he handle the prem pace

Get wanyama in

Not convinced by either of them. Would prefer Van Dijk & Schneiderlin or and Sissoko.

Fabien Delph is available on a free come the end of the season, given AW recent preference for young English players I can see that happening given the chance. I think he's developed into a very good holding midfielder too, I'd like to see him at AFC. Vlaar from Villa is also a decent buy, a fully committed leader at the back and far more mobile than Mert. I think Villa would be absolutely mad to sell both but given their personal circumstances (out of contract or playing in a team far below their true level) I can't see them hanging on to them for very long.

/Son1ka

Just reading begavic is a free agent this summer . I think he's s solid goalie

{Ed002's Note - Someone is teasing you.}

I thought that he had a longer deal eds. Was in a paper today and thought surely not

{Ed002's Note - The papers know how gullible football fans are and were probably just having a joke with you for the holidays.}

No to Carvalho for me, would rather someone like schneiderlin or bender, however unrealistic that may be.

Paper talk is part of the fun. Love the rumours