Arsenal Banter Archive May 09 2013

09 May 2013 19:20:34
Just think, if the spurs only get a draw against stoke. We'de only need to beat wigan and we can start celebrating St totteringham's day. ( it seems to be getting later and later every year. )
Bearing in mind the sh#t season stoke have had. How many times have stoke lost at home in 18 games.
A. 4
They ain't no mugs. I just don't want it to go to the last game. The thought of all the games going on at the same time, wth soccer Saturday darting between them all. I'm just going to puke my ring up I know it.
So all together now. SWING LOW! SWEET CHARIOT!
Flybo

09 May 2013 18:16:17
Arsenal and Chelsea have joined the scramble to sign Wayne Rooney this summer, a web site has learned.
Ed, how do you rate this rumour? Personally, I can't see it happening. {Ed027's Note - Nope don't rate any Rooney news until Utd say he's leaving

If its from a certain football website, in the same article it says the transfer window opens in 11 days time! That should show how reliable that source is!

^^^Window does open in this country when the last game has been played its Europe that is June

No the window in this country don't open after the last game of the season it opens on the 1st of july
Ali

Was und the impression the window opens between July 1st and August 31st.

English clubs can do transfers between each other when the last competative game has been played. But we cannot do transfers to/from europe etc until 1st July.

Bergkamps apprentice

^ what he said

09 May 2013 18:27:12
If we win our next 2 games we are in for Robert Lewandowski. Only stumbling block being wages. Dortmund don't want to sell another star to Bayern and Man United look less than appealing atm.
The main players are chelsea, Man City and The Arsenal.
We are definately in the mix.

Chances of pulling it off are more likely than other seasons. His asking price will be 15-25 mil due to being in last year of contract. Players like cavani falcao suarez and rooney are on the market this summer aswell so bigger teams have bigger fish to fry.

Everyone say a prayer.

kirbykirbs

He will be sold for at least 25m. RVP was sold for 24m aged 28. Lewendowski is 24 and had consistent injury free seasons at Dortmund.

Pretty sure suarez and Rooney are not for sale! However Higuain is also available this summer.

Personally I think if we could get lewandowski for 25 million we should jump at the chance- we would then have fantastic striking options and backup.

exiledclockender

09 May 2013 17:22:53
So with Rooney unwilling to work under moyes (or so we're told)

who would be willing to take him on if A)his wages were reasonable (im talking 80k wage cut from his 200k p/w) and b)we got him for £25mill ;thanks to RVP deal and fergie still being at utd.

Personally I've always seen rooney as a poor mans ibrahimovich, strong and a good eye for goal. but doesn't suit our team at all. less he is playing DM!

Said it yourself, doesn't suit our team

09 May 2013 16:57:04
I know people are talking about Rooney but how about Javier Hernandez? I will prefer him to Jovetic as he will be cheaper and as good if not better.
And we can use the money saved towards a world class forward. In my opinion Higuain will be best for us, then we will have some strike force!
Opinions please!

09 May 2013 14:17:34
Hey edd's,
Any news on jesus navas? I remember some people last year on the forums saying he had some troubles with home sickness so he wouldn't leave spain, but he has recently came out saying he might have to leave sevilla, and he is the type of quality out and out winger arsenal could use.
Thanks
Podolskiing {Ed027's Note - Jesus cleared up the home sickness business years ago, he's travelled with Spain since, I still doubt he would leave the Country

09 May 2013 13:05:25
Just a thought but anybody think it might be worth a question to united about rooney if he wants to leave, would rather him with experience of prem and adding to our british core, rather than jovetic?
probably won't happen but I wouldn't look past buying british or at least within from the prem for our summer signings?
midland gooner

I'd take Rooney I think (just)

We need to realise that if UTD let a player leave it is usually because they are not good enough for them, so why would we want their cast offs?

Plus he is on 200k per week +

Silvestre was a good example, what a waste of wages!

Tevez, de Rossi, piqué? Were they not good enough? Rooney only has 2 yrs left if they sit on him to long hell go for free or dirt cheap

De Rossi? You mean Pogba?

No, I think he means Rossi

No I meant Rossi the striker

Dandan

Add C Ronaldo to that list maybe?!

09 May 2013 09:43:11
If we beat Wigan it will mean that Newcastle are safe, so they will have nothing to play for when we play them.

Lol. I don't think that's the right way to look at it. Even if they are out of the relegation zone, I don't think they will just bend over for us

Depends on Newcastle result on this weekend. If Newcastle loose this weekend and we beat them on the last day and Wigan wins on the last day, Newcastle can go down because of their inferior goal difference.

09 May 2013 09:06:16
alex ferguson has gone, as a leeds fan I would like to point a few things out. I believe arsenal are the only club to build a team to win the prem without spending crazy money on transfers and wages. Blackburn took spending to a new level breaking the british transfer record for shearer with jack walkers millions, chelski have abromovich, man city have the arabs and no one else has won it. if ferguson could not have brought in the best players available he should have been shot unless they went to mcfc or Chelski. nasri and van persie have both left arsenal for bigger wages and probably because in the future their new clubs will attract better players than arsenal because of these clubs crazy wage structures. I believe man u contest no more than 8 even contests a year. their wages are on a different level to other teams so obviously the players are. the media love ferguson so will never point out it hasn't been a level playing field for most of his tenure. leeds fans loved coming to arsenal in the fa cup, hopefully we will be playing you in the prem soon, but please don't hold your breath.

Life is never fair mate. you can go on and on about how things are always stacked up against you. I don't like man utd, but i'll give them their due.

saying that it was inevitable the team of pensioners came to an end so will their era.

no more bias referee decisions. Manchester United will not be aware of this new era of fair play. watch how they bury moyes just cause he could not smooth talk the refs.

google an article from tv about fergie time, over a season, it averaged to 79 secs a game extra. in that same season, united won 6 games in those 79 fictional secs. and went on to lose on GD. if it was not for those fictional minutes, deduct 18 points and you will see where they actually stood.

liverpool got the second highest with 59secs extra average. and they won 1 game in all their fictional minutes.

City 50 secs, spurs 25 secs, arsenal 18 sec and chelsea had time taken away with -31 secs.

but of all the fictional minutes. united gained 18 points, liverpool 3 points, city 5 points, spurs 4, Arsenal 4.

Courtesy of opta stats for those who want to look at it.

Like you state although you can't doubt Ferguson's success, with the huge income at Utd's disposal which is near double what other teams have incuding Arsenal/ Chelsea/ Liverpool/ City /Spurs
most managers would have had good success at Utd.

Look at all the record buys Utd have made look at the likes of Ferdinand, Rooney, Ronaldo big bucks on young players that other clubs could not afford the risk on at the time. Utd were also very lucky in the early years to have the likes of Beckham, Scholes, Giggs and the Nevilles to develop all into starts all at the same time. Rarely does it happen that you get soo many young players develop at such a rate at the same time.

Its the same as in Spain were Barca and Real Madrid dominate because of their financial power other teams do not really get a look in.

When the PL started when they porned themselves all over the globe backed by the PL to get to the global commercial brand power they have today. Utd were the Premier Leagues golden apple which helped make them both rich.

No doubt all clubs have enjoyed increased Tv revenue from the PL product but it is Manchester United that the PL has benefitted the most by making them into the global brand they are today.

Yes Utd were a big club before the PL but only really in the UK not globally like they are now. Utd have cornered the market in particular the far east and its hard for any other team to get a look to increase commercial revenue in these markets.


Chelsea and City can only compete by having the secuirty if rich owners that will cover the huge losses they make. Arsenal have done very well in my book to challange Utd when you compare the incomes of each club.

09 May 2013 00:25:40
if we end up selling verminator and sagna who would take a punt on micah richards if we could land him on the cheap? think he is an arsenal supporter aswell!

He ain't played that much though, has he? cpt. Jenko better optin than him

If he stayed fit Richards would be perfect. Jenkinson is good but not ready. Ideally he should have gone on loan when we first signed him but injuries prevented that. We would continue to learn from someone like Richards who has European and international experience. Plus Richards could cover at CB.

I agree that Richards is the sort of squad player we could do with.

My thoughts exactly great right back who can cover centre back and dmf if needed!

08 May 2013 22:43:17
I get so dissapointed when I see all these arsenal-supporter listing up all the players we "need" at the club. Saying we need to sign many class players this summer is stupid, you haven't understood our situation at all. What we need is a 2 or 3 top class players. Not 5-6 mediocre players.

Loic Remy, do we need a pacy striker when we got walcott who is established in the team?
Do we need a centre back when we have a realy good back four (guys, we can afford to bench TV5)
Do we realy need a GK when we have two great goalies competing for the nr1 spot in Fab and Sczezney?

If we have 70m, wouldn't you rather have us spend it on let us say two great players for 35m each, and keeping out best players?

Well said, DM and a creative spark is what we need. We should try to get top drawer.

Recon we defo need a golie to replace Fabianski who is out of contract and not that good! would prefer Tim Weise to compete with Schez.

"Saying we need to sign many class players this summer is stupid, you haven't understood our situation at all. What we need is a 2 or 3 top class players" What are you talkin' about? Your startin and finishin your own arguments. We need a goalie to give Sir'Szczesny sum competition. he's became too comfortable.

What a silly post. You slag off people who say we "need" the sign many class player and then say we "need" to sign top class players. doesn't make sense. I agree though 2 or 3 really good players is better than 5 average ones but I think pretty much everyone here agrees with that.