Arsenal Rumours Archive August 29 2011

29 Aug 2011 23:09:32
Telegraph.co.uk -
Arsenal agreed a £6.2 million fee on Monday night with Turkish club Fenerbahce for the Brazil left-back Andre Santos

29 Aug 2011 22:28:02
We need better than Benyoun or Alex of Chelsea , god we're finished as a club , mid table this year , and it's all Arsenes Fault . please someone on the board act now or else its a rapid downhill spiral from now till the end of the season .

Why oh why do you trust this board and Silent Stan more than our manager? Sure, he makes tactical mistakes but the Board are responsible for the lack of investment into the first team and bringing in replacements for Cesc and Nasri. Wenger stated on many occasions it was important that they both stayed. Why would he say this and then not replace them if he was at all authorized to do so?

Alex is a class above every other defender we have except for vermaarlen

Agreed! We need versatile defenders who can get stuck into to the ankles of attackers and shoot from distance too

How crazy are the people who keep asking for Wenger to be replaced...the club came 4th last season..beat Barcelona, were beating them in Spain until RVP was unfairly sent off, should have won the League Cup and have qualified for the champions league for the last 15 years playing some of the best football in the world...do you really think any club can compete with 1 billion n Man City have spent...of course Arsenal are going to lose players...yes this is a rough patch but now is not the time to panic..there is no point in bidding 25m for a player when Man City, Chelsea or Liverpool will bid 28m and double his wages..I don't think anyone gets why we are coming in so late...it's part of the game. Do you really think Arsenal could have outbid Chelsea for Juan Mata...answer no...so they backed off and are able to agree deals for 2 or 3 chelsea players. Everyone knows everyone..a deal isn't just about 1 player in 1 player out.

29 Aug 2011 22:26:00
Santos, Cahill/Alex, Elia, Benayoun + Park to sign before Wednesday.

Essex Gunner

29 Aug 2011 22:21:37
Arsenal could have bought many players in
break the wage structure
still be finally sound ... how you ask

by the greedy board who sold their shares for 100's of millions instead of selling it for nothing and giving back the money to the club they so called love.

Arsenal is about money now not about the football for the board

Why don't you sell your house and give the money back to the community.

You obviously understand very little about the board and see them as an easy target

29 Aug 2011 23:29:34
Just heard we are in for Andre Santos from Fenerbache, quality left back IMO, so maybe the deals should be

Andre Santos
Gary Cahill
Park Chu Young
Hazard (Heres hoping)

That should help us get back on track, and when suspensions expire and players come back from injury, we should have a pretty good squad, good enough at least to challenge for a top four spot.

Ted

29 Aug 2011 22:01:09
get ballack de rossi honda cissokho jagielka and borrielo then you can challenge for top 4

red devil

Or alternatively YOU could pull your head out of your arse

Nuff said off you trott red devil before your mother realises you are out your cot

Ballack? overrated even in his prime but well past it now and a definite attitude problem. happily any of the others though.

29 Aug 2011 21:19:58
Hi Ed,
the writer of an arsenal blog called Le Grove is saying on twitter that we are in talks for a big money exciting midfielder...do you have any idea if this is true and who it might be?
Thanks
S23

According to goal.com its goetze..but unsuccessful as of yet

Looks like it's definitely a defensive midfielder, and Le Grove mentioned that it was similar of the caliber of player Wenger signed pre-2006. Reyes like? That was exciting to be fair.
De Jong or De Rossi?

Le Grove said it's not Goetze. They also said, 'exciting doesn't mean creative'.
Sounds like a defensive midfielder. I'm assuming it's De Rossi.

Le Grove (in my past experiences) seems to be full of racist teenagers banging on about FM style signings and stuff they just made up....

So obviously it's there word or my word; but would take everything on their with a pinch. Last time I went on there to try to find common ground they were spamming up GoonerNews sites and being abusive.

Ended up they all started ganging up on me calling me a spy lol because I asked them for their views minus the vitriolic angst.

Didn't go down too well Big player? Well that could mean anything, personally Arteta and that Brazilian LB in, Arshavin upfront with RVP and Song and Frimpong sharing cleanup duty.

yeah Arsenal will be rocking again

"it was similar of the caliber of player Wenger signed pre-2006"

if def mid- vieria
then it must be someone like de rossi

Wouldn't it be Yann M'Vila the Rennes midfielder Arsenal bid 22 million pounds for?

This is the guy who will be replacing Nasri. XHERDAN SHAQIRI. Swiss international from FC Basel. Very Very good player.

29 Aug 2011 21:48:50
i think the signing of andre santos would be a very good one for us. if we get him and a good CB maybe alex or gary cahill, we would have a good defence. Also if we can bring in a couple of midfielders. i dont know how true it is but im hearing we bid 26m euros for mario goetze but dortmund say they want 35mil. I think im begining to get a bit of hope that we could still have a great season if we can pull this off.

andre santos
alex
benayoun
park chu young
mariou goetze/eden hazard

Optimistic gunner

I think we will sign the top four players mentioned but no hazard or goetze but even with out them would be happy with those signings.

Connor

Mariou Goetze's agent has aid he will not be leaving for another 2 years

29 Aug 2011 21:41:19
Goal.com Arsenal agree £6.2 million fee for Andre Santos

Hehe people slating Wenger about his rubbish transfers?

You show me another manager who can get in a quality LB fitting the description, who is better than who we kicked out for the space ... and cheaper too

I will show you a picture of Arsene and Fergs shaking hands

29 Aug 2011 21:18:56
Park Chu Young and Fenerbache's LB Andre Santos have both had medicals today, and are expected to be announced as Arsenal players very soon

29 Aug 2011 20:57:58
rumours saying you have signed andre dos santos from fenerbache no one saw this coming :p

29 Aug 2011 20:54:03
Arsenal 2 sign Andre santos from fenerbache

29 Aug 2011 19:47:32
Isn't their an exemption rule for korean players that if they win the Asia cup they are exempt from the mandatory military service....if I remember correctly Celtic let their Asian player go for this reason

Yess If Was To Win A Major Cup
With His Country

As aceltic fan i can confirm this

29 Aug 2011 19:29:27
i am an everton supporter and the big rumour is that arteta is on his way to you lot and is currently having a medical

told around 12 million


bigd

Hmm ok thanks- good player, if true, hope moyes has time to get 1 or 2 in for you b4 weds.

Yeah we maybe giving them Bendtner as a sort of exchange

Why the bloody hell would Everton want Bendtner? LOL

Oh yeah they have less bodies than us Jesus Arsenal used to stand for prestige - you know harmony through victory, respect all of that;

We spent 4 years bemoaning Barca then go and try to steal players just the same leaving 24 hours for the other club

Honestly Arsenal where is your soul you had better recover it and fast

Really hope Arsenal make yet another amazing comeback :) I have faith, and to the Evertonian - I really believe Moyes would have already planned for this ... Most likely Wenger can sort some stuff out even though everybody slates his transfer dealings;

They are actually pretty good apart from the last 2 years.

Cheers Bigd good luck to Everton

29 Aug 2011 19:14:22
made contact over benayoun. he would be sat on the bench doubt he would get a game as i feel we have better players already, not good enough. kinda shows that we cant attract the quality we need. not looking good. i mean come on arsenal, theres a reason he cant get a game at chelsea

I think he would be good to add depth to the squad actually, he would easily have played for us at old trafford yesterday. but he better not be the replacement that wenger is bringin for midfield
BD

Benayoun will sign for arsenal

He's better than Rosicky for me. But I'll agree that he's certainly not the quality of player I'd hope to attract.

29 Aug 2011 19:06:31
I can let you know now that Baines, Jagielka and Fellaini will NOT be joining Arsenal unless Wenger pays serious money. Everton need to buy a replacement and time is running out. Why have you left it so late?

Arsenal get baines or jagielka i think baines then get 1 defence mid m'villa
3 mids elia, mario gonzlaez,hope hazerd.
3 strikes chu park,hugo rodeage wigan,and adam johnson, left back andre santos and cb cahill and alex.and a goalkeeper who dont mind sitting on the bench like liverpool doni

secret rider

29 Aug 2011 19:01:37
Arsenal Fc is not a football club any more it's business and many making company thanks. Guys pls don't keep any big expectations I mean big signings it won't happen so please guys don't hope for it will be the same wenger summer

Agree.. ontop of that we had a very greedy board who should have sold their shares for and given the money back to arsenal FC

29 Aug 2011 18:29:14
I can confirm we are in transition. We will sign either 2 cb's or one and a left back,

Cahill and Baines or some experience back up player

In the creative area's expect an name but not from the top draw.

We will fight for 4th, and tempt talent in Jan, for next reason. The pressure is off and at last the kids can develop. We probably will win a cup if we respect the competition.

Posted by: Rog da Dodge

I'm an Evertonian and can tell you Everton will not let Baines go because it would cause murder and Moyes has said he defo won't sell him

All the decent players will be cup tied come January

29 Aug 2011 18:21:44
Hi everyone, I would just like to know what people think they will do if we don't make a handful of significant signings?

Write an angry email to the board and Wenger.

We will be f.....

29 Aug 2011 17:49:55
Hazard says he is definitely staying. gutted. it has taken him quite a while to say this so maybe we were negotiating but mucked up the negotiations again or maybe wouldn't offer him big enough wages. Or perhaps negotiations broke down because of the park chu young deal.

Either way, we are almost certainly not getting him and it is starting to seem like we wont sign a top quality midfielder.

He said he was stayin all along thats not the 1st of him sayin it

Where did you find this out ?

Smoke and mirrors.
We've agreed their price and they've agreed to keep their mouths shut.
Wednesday.

29 Aug 2011 17:40:38
I'm not an arsenal fan (Liverpool infact) but before you start eating my face off I thought I'd poinb something out to all arsenal fans.
Park chu young is from Korea and every man has to do 2 years service for the army before he is 30. Park hasn't done his yet and he is 26 so you would only be getting a max of two years from the next four.
This is why Liverpool pulled out their interest in him and turn to bellamy.
Please post this in rumours ed's so arsenal fans can see this :) thanks
JAZZ

Its by 35 for the army thing

Not strictly true. Exceptions can be made.

Thanks mate, it has already been brought to our attention though :-)

Hmm..I heard he meets the exemption rules...we'll see.

Everyone knows this already.Its been posted like 3 times

I have read that the reason arsenal will be paying £5million for him instead of 3 is because we are paying 2 million towards getting him out of doing the national service

Bellamy should make for a better long term signing...

I think there are exceptions also.
benayoun would have had to serve in the israeli army but he met some criteria that allowed him to continue playing football.
perhaps being an international player would do it. Maybe the service is posponed until the player retires from football. Just a thought

29 Aug 2011 17:12:28
Is anyone else tired of hearing the words 'He has great potential' we need players that have shown there potential and willing to play beyond it for example
Gary Cahill
Scott Parker
Phil Jagielka
Lucho Gonzalez
Alex
Yossi Benayoun
Not only would these players give Arsenal the exprience we would also have players that allow the youngsters to push forward with confidence

Yep could get all those for 50-60 mil I guess- I hear where you're coming from...let the young players develop and mature around them- its what we've missed for many seasons now.

Benayoun could have same impact on Arsenal that Ginola had for Tottenham. A big money signing wont necessarily solve the problems straight away (ie Torres at Chelsea).

That's right.
Vieira, Pires, Bergkamp, Henry bring up the youngsters.
What have we had since? slightly older youngsters helping kids.

29 Aug 2011 16:38:12
Arsenal to sign make a swoop for manchester city winger adam johnson to replace samir nasri, I work in the FA at the bottom and its rumour going round as capello belives johnson is to good to be sitting on the bench week in week out

Why would Man City sell him?? They (unlike Arsenal) see the value in having a deep squad.

What as cappelo got to do with it?

They would sell him because Mancini doesn't like him. Previously, City's board would not allow him to be sold to a rival, but since Mancini secured CL football and won the FA cup, he has more power in the club now, so it is more likely he will be sold.

Adam johnson wants to stay up north fact

29 Aug 2011 16:21:42
i bet all my respect for arsenal we will not sighn any1 otherthan park young who we dont need. can we hae some diciplin in the squad in the frst 3 EPL games we have at least 1 person sent of in all of them its ridculous :( source: me


LOOSING HOPE :(

Lets get some truth for once,whos fault is it wenger or the board do we have money or do the board want to keep it all,we need the truth and either wenger or the board out as we are a total joke,if its the board hit them where it hurts and stay away and hopefully they will f off

To LOOSING HOPE :(

Common Sensei here, dude we are all feeling gutted about the united result, I think we all saw a loss coming but nobody really considered such a heavy loss...

The discipline issue is just caused by widespread panic, new authority angles with new capt etc - and maybe the old inexperience didn't help matters.

There were good signs though - Walcott berating Jenko for a bit of defensive naivety (he FINALLY seems to want to take some responsibility and not just leg it around aimlessly). Also he has already scored a couple of goals, which we are screaming out for.

TV5 came back in looking pretty good and we should see him back in 2 weeks, alongside Kos (possibly a new CB too) with Sagna and Jenko either side. I doubt we will buy another LB now until January, though we clearly lack LBs 2 would have been better.

Finally Van Persie: He should have been made captain YEARS ago, none of this rubbish about Thierry or Cesc just because of their glamour value.

I for one ALWAYS preferred VP as a man, a player, and as an Arsenal man.

So if we can just forget for 5 mins the humiliation suffered at OT, and look to the future it is not so bad:

I see Arsenal bouncing back violently against the Swans, you can bet your bottom dollar they are pantsing it

Arsenal have been deal a savage blow - but we will rise again.....

29 Aug 2011 16:12:56
What Wenger needs to realise is that the entire club needs a huge lift

Therefore, he needs a major signing to help with this (and i mean a major signing)......similar impact to when Dennis Bergkamp joined.......

The only Berkamp out there now is Sneijder

I agree and the best way to get it, is for AW to go

Great point mate,it sends out a statement of intent....hazard could be our Bergkamp.....

The best way is to get rid of the board not wenger, itdoesnt matter who is mananger as long as the board arnt sanctioning the wages needed to sign the big players

The board won't spend money. Wenger has shot his bolt. They are equally responsible for the state that AFC are in. It's a disgrace.

29 Aug 2011 15:56:47
park chu young will be the last signing for arsenal bad times ahead as much as i hate to say it arsenal will not finish in the top 4 then our remaining star players will leave
this will happen.

watford gunner

What the hell are we doing buying a Korean unknown. We would have been better off keeping Vela & saving the fee for someone else Completely lost it at AFC.

He's hardly an unknown, he is the South Korean captain

And apart from korea has anyone ever hard of him he played for monaco who got relagted

29 Aug 2011 15:39:05
baines being linked by the metro. not his biggest fan but would be happy with that. apparently we are willing to bid 12m, not sure that will do it.

oleg maputo

Everton turned down 24m plus Bridge in June so no, 12m isn't going to be anywhere a deal and Wenger knows it.

Well apart from Ashley Cole there isn't a better left back in the league, so maybe you should start being a fan haha. Baines is fantastic.

12 mill and the rest if its a player that can score you will have to pay for him stop being bl***y tight and get your hands in your pockets. or say bye bye to the prem

Even though i think he should be valued at around 15m... everton will not look at anything that is less than 20m

29 Aug 2011 15:09:27
lille are chasing benayoun poss replace for hazard talk sport

If we take him from lille then they defo wont sell

29 Aug 2011 17:50:16
except hazard says he is staying

29 Aug 2011 14:52:34
surprised aw has,nt stepped into take scot parker on 12 mnth loan can break down the play outside box scores goals and does,nt shy away from tackles we be good in front of your back 4 would be good for the youngsters they look good just abit rash from there of lack of experience

Wenger Doesnt Rate Him

That's funny cos I don't rate Wenger anymore.

29 Aug 2011 14:27:57
Arsenal fans who travelled yesterday will get a refund plus a free game ticket. Confirmed on Arsenal.com

Nice gesture - but feel sorry for them having to watch this dross all over again

The very least the board can do

My reading of it is that they will get a free ticket for another game, but not a refund for yesterday.

No refund the club will pay for a ticket to an away game tho

Surprising the board have decided to let some money go

Surprising the board have decided to let some money go

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i'd be surprised if they have... probably been deducted off the transfer budget

I went and in honesty the team were so terrible they can stuff their offer. If they have any dignity and any repsect for the fans they will buy big quickly. At the very least we need two defenders, two midfield players and a forward, ideally make that three defenders and three midfielders.

Might get a box of hankys to wipe there tears with aswell lol

Dont give us a refund,we want new players

2 humiliations for the price of 1.
what a bargain
QUALITY

Easier to refund 60 - 120 grand , not even equal to couple of weeks of nasty and cesc wages . People keep comparing situation to lfc last year problem is arsenal will have no change of ownership or manager , compare to forest with cough built a club killed the club .

As I read this the agree/disagree sat at agree-8 disagree-2, rather ironic

29 Aug 2011 14:16:44
I understand the board was furious with Arsenals performance on sunday, and have told Arsene wenger in no uncertain terms, that any more performances like this will not be tolerated. The board are also very upset that they have been accused of not making funds available,when there is a substantial amount available, but they leave the recruitment of the playing side to arsene wenger, and as for not being high payers we are the 4th highest in the prem league. Behind City, Chelsea ,Man.utd, but that is to be expected, as they are 3 of the richest clubs in the world. There is money there, if it is not spent that is down to wenger not the board.

Ok stan thanks for coming on here and speaking up for a change:)

sorry don't believe a word, still not convinced

Thats b/s the board asks the manager what positions he would filled and the discuss players then the board not aw pursue those targets

1. who are you leave your name
2. what is your source

you cant just come blagging random stuff

Scooby dooby K

Do you "understand" this from a reliable source?
A more reliable source than Lady B-S and Usmanov who have both been quoted in the press as saying the exact oposite.
I don't doubt you, I am just interested if this is an inside story or pub tale.

The point is the wage cap is down to the board not wenger there may well be money to be spent but you trying telling a playing to come and play for a club where he can get half the money he will get else where Get a clue before you write such stupid things mate

Bollocks, of course the board would say that. Shift the blame. If they wanted things done they would get done, end of story. And they need to stop going on about this wage malarky - we do not pay our best players anywhere near enough, and we pay our scrotes far too much, that is the only reason why we are near the top of the wage thing, because they assess it collectively. The fact that Joey Barton has just signed for QPR on wages equal to Fabregas is an absolute disgrace. How's about paying Bendtner 30k a week and Fabregas (at the time) 150k, that would be more like it. person board.

Raz

Is that you Peter Hillwood?

Rob

I think your way off here with the wages thing maybe your a little confused arsenal are not the 4th highest payers in the leauge they have the 4th highest wage bill which is way different this is distored due to high squad numbers and young players recruited on big wage s

I strongly believe this post. I am also not surprised by the reactions to this post that just about sums the state of the Club and ignorance its fans, atleast the majority of them. One look at the Financial statements could throw light on the Free Cash available with the club. Not everything may be used for transfers, still it could give a sufficient indication

You are joking? Is it not obvious that the situation we're in now is because of the board, yet they have the front to have a go at Wenger for the situation they've put him in and expect him to take the blame? Ridiculous

Mike.

Actually, we aren't ignorant. We pay rubbish players who don't start for the team more than the entire Fulham squad. Tell me that's us fans being ignorant.

"I strongly believe this post. I am also not surprised by the reactions to this post that just about sums the state of the Club and ignorance its fans, atleast the majority of them. One look at the Financial statements could throw light on the Free Cash available with the club. Not everything may be used for transfers, still it could give a sufficient indication"

speaking of ignorance... we don't pay the 4th top wages, already explained above- so that discredits that post straightaway- just because there is money there, in fact we all know there is bloody money there, but the willingness to let wenger spend it?

Are you saying that the Board are furious at the performance or the fact that we shipped 8 goals?
If it's the latter they should pay more attention, we finished last season playing very poorly. So they used the closed season to:-
(a) Line their pockets
(b) Insist that AW strengthens the squad with all the money that's burning holes in their pockets.

29 Aug 2011 14:08:24
plain and simple arsenal need usmanov as owner and david dein as chief exec.wenger stays on as manager and is giving the resources to invest properly.at the swansea game arsenal fans need to chant for dein and usmanov and banners put all around the stadium.

29 Aug 2011 14:02:06
Players we need

Cahill
Vertonghen
M'vila
perreria- from palermo
Class midfeilder to replace Nasri ?
Chu young

Cahill , Vertonghen , M'Vila & Perreria will never join Arsenal since they lost Fabregas & Nasri.
So they will not attract anyone.
Van Persie will probably leave in the summer if no big signings come in.

29 Aug 2011 13:55:58
I see newcastle are linked with santon of inter...surely with traore off to QPR, arsenal will make a bid as well? His young and talented...seems an ideal wenger signing. I believe he can play both lb and rb (?), so would provide cover for both positions...not sure about price, but seems a no brainer to me.
LG

Why would he join you lot when he is signing for a much bigger english club the mighty toon

29 Aug 2011 13:37:34
Arsenal will arrange medicals for both Bolton Wanderers centre-back Gary Cahill and Lille™s impressive youngster Eden Hazard within the next 48 hours.
Arsenal were at first interested in the services of Everton centre-back Phil Jagielka however his price tag put the Emirates side off with Wenger now agreeing a deal with Bolton for Cahill that will see the 25 year old join up with Arsenal within the next 48 hours.
SOURCE: FootyBunker
Arsene Wenger appears to have been spurred into action by yesterday™s shocking display at Old Trafford and according to this source, moves to sign two much needed additions are very much in the works. The Arsenal boss has thus far only brought in two teenagers, Carl Jenkinson and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and Ivory Coast striker Gervinho but a string of injuries and the departures of Cesc Fabregas, Gael Clichy and Samir Nasri have left the North London club in something of a crisis.
There has been a fair amount of back and forth in relation to Arsenal™s interest in England international Gary Cahill and a recent war of words between Wenger and Bolton chairman Phil Gartside threatens to derail a move to bring the Trotters man to North London.
Arsenal are now willing to offer around £12m for the former Aston Villa man and given that Owen Coyle brought a replacement for Cahill in January, David Wheater, a deal may well be on the cards. Wenger needs defensive reinforcements as last summer™s signings Laurent Koscielny and Sebastien Squillaci have struggled.
Thomas Vermaelen appears the club™s only truly reliable centre back and Cahill would be a solid partner for the Belgian international.
The second player said to be heading to Arsenal is Lille playmaker Eden Hazard, seen as an ideal replacement for Samir Nasri. The young Belgian will cost Wenger in the region of £22m and he is a long term target who happily combines youth and experience.
The 20 year old Belgian is closing in on 150 top tier appearances and helped his Lille side to their first domestic title in over 50 years. Hazard is also a regular in the Belgian international set-up.
Arsenal are also looking to complete deals to sell Nicklas Bendtner and Manuel Almunia before the end of the transfer window.
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yay good news

Not yay. footybunker is not reliable.

All these words you are trademarking, are we not allowed to use them again?

Rubbish - Hazard will do one more season and win more trophies then head for Barcelona or Real. why on earth we he come to a mid table side with delusions of grandeur?

After yesterdays display i fookin dont think hazard,huingin or kaka would be interested in joining us ....considering there will be other clubs interested also.

I bloody hope youre right

29 Aug 2011 13:42:30
Arsenal set to bid for Alex & Benayoun from Chelsea.

IN ARSENE WE TRUST

IN difficult times true fans support their team and not look for scapegoats. Wenger has done more than any other manager in our history. He loves the club and has ensured our future is secure.

Transfers :

Bids will be made but only 1 player to come realistically.

Please stop silly rumours like Hazard, benzema and Kaka. NEVER due to wages .....simple logic

Young to come.

Other hopefuls:

1. Cahill
2. Jagielka
3. Baines
4. arteta

Please stop Arsene out rubbish. Remember form is temporary whereas class is permanant.

KEEP THE FAITH GOONERS

29 Aug 2011 13:06:04
Yossi benayoun close to signing

JTW

Please no, is it not bad enough signing a bargain basement striker without a midfielder not good enough for Chelsea or Liverpool

I reckon he'll be as bad as Arshavin and Rosicky

29 Aug 2011 12:55:14
What are the chances of

Park
Felliani & Baines - Everton double
Cahill
Hazard

I'd rather Jags over Felliani if we are to raid Everton. and still sign cahill

Rob

The chances - hmm well I would say the chances of Aliens landing tonight in my graden are around 0.5%, however, the chances of these signings happening are around 0.05%. So all in all not that good really - hey did I just see lights behind the shrubbery and what's that little green man.......

29 Aug 2011 12:31:15
Traore out on loan to QPR
Jenkinson could be next out on loan

Arsene must be buying a few

I have my suspicions that Wenger actually registers far more players than we ever get to hear about or see...

I mean the rules cover squad and team registrations, but there are no rules saying you cannot train say 500 recruits at your ground and sell them off on load or whatever.

For all we know there could be dozens of wonderkids lying around, it's probably how Arsene manages to 'find' them again the next season lol

Stranger things have happened and perhaps this is why when we are all panicking Wenger is going on about working hard and needing time.

I mean if it's hard work and it needs time then it's pretty much done I assume

3 more bodies hopefully

29 Aug 2011 12:11:48
Traore is on his way to QPR according to sky sports & the daily mail. I have constantly asserted that it is pointless speculating about a new LB as Wenger categorically stated in July that he was happy with what we have in the position. However, with one of his guarantors for Gibbs' injury record on the way out, maybe we will see a shock late move?

It is a bit of a shame we could not get botelho a work permit yet, he looks fairly promising. but i would be very happy to see wenger go back on his word having identified LB as a problem area. As for a new signing, I doubt any of us would know a name until they were at the medical.

oleg maputo

And that's the way it should be. As soon as we are linked with a player everyone (especially Tottenham) are all over it like a rash. Consequently the price goes through the roof and that's us out of it.

Yes he did say that, however, if you recall he said we have gibbs and traore and even tv5 can play there if necessary.

Well...that's 1 option about to leave, another who's injury prone and our best CB by far...filling in at lb?

Playing sagna there seems wasted, althoigh he has done well, playing one of the best RB's at lb all time just seems a complete waste of his ability imo.

He must have someone lined up surely?

29 Aug 2011 11:35:29
i know buying a player is a problem here at afc but the bigger problem is keeping them here once they get better
Even rooney almost quit from mu last year but they managed to KEEP him

For 250000 A Week do You Know How Much Debt There In

By going further into debt with his 250K per week wages,something which the Arsenal board are not prepared to do.What happens when this FIFA/UEFA ruling comes into effect that your annual wage bill can only be a certain % of your annual turnover.Clubs are going to struggle even more,and you may see more clubs going into administration.The way the Arsenal board is keeping the wage bill down,will stand the club in good stead when this new ruling comes into effect.

Rubbish reply post above do you think Barcelona and Real Madrid run at a profit?...its cashflow, not profit that the UEFA ruling is all about> We wont have to worry about European football at all if we don't make a few purchases before the deadline - Highbury Hank

Rooney on £250,000 a week? What utter rubbish. You obviously read the Daily Sport
Try £150,000 plus add on's involving Nike and image rights etc. United couldn't pay a player that wage, hence the Sneijder deal falling through.
And United may be in debt but they service it with the amount they sell worldwide.

29 Aug 2011 11:27:10
Hazard is not coming, so would people stop saying it. Its never going to happen. The only signings will be Chu-Young, Chaill and M'villa (who is the big signing)

I Doubt M'villa Is Coming Hes Cup Tied

How am i suposed to beleive u if u cant spell cahill have faith dude we need cheering up

I agree we need a massive player to come in all those will sign lets hope hes got a surprise in store, why did he bid for sneijder he must of known we cant afford his wages,WASTING TIME.

29 Aug 2011 11:25:42
Many shocking moments in the match yesterday, but the reaction of Rosicky when Rooney scored his first free kick was jaw dropping.
Sums Arsenal up at the moment.
LincolnGooner

What was his reaction?

As Rooney took the kick, Rosicky didn't jump he slowly walked forward. Didn't look back once.
Waster.

29 Aug 2011 11:25:16
We all need to back Mr Wenger more than ever and get behind the team like our fans did yesterday Arsenal would be an even darker place without Mr Wenger.

When the financial fairplay ruling come's in next season no one will be in a better position than Arsenal. Mr Wenger and the board have a plan, patience is the key, don't listen to the cut throat media

There is no one else I would rather manage my club, be careful what you wish for

Glen

What a awful post - when the fairplay rule comes in you will be in even more trouble as you wont be able to sign big names as you will be out of the Champions League and your income will be massively depleted. Now is the time to sign the big names Personally Id 8-2 be a Gooner right now

How will we be in better position. Are Man City players all leaving and Manu players all leaving. For this to work in our favour its going to take years not next season why do you think these teams have spent all this money this season and then will replace with one new player when needed. We will be no better through this fair play rules its a load of bull.

Ill back him when he stops making stupid desicions and gets on with signing players that are actually good enough not chasing some crap person that cant play in the prem.

£400 mil = mockery of ffp
For those who haven't a clue what I'm talkin bout it's the money citys owners brother "legally" gave his brothers company (city)

29 Aug 2011 11:49:51
Would love it if the board threw 45m at everton for baines, jagielka and fellaini, I'd even throw in some of the dross so everton would have some players but still want Cahill as well

29 Aug 2011 11:41:34
The week leading upto the champions league 2nd leg it was obvious that we wouldn't sign anyone until we knew if we qualified. All that time though I honestly believed that we had lined up at least 3 players were to make it through, in that we had spoken to clubs and agents etc and made in known of our interest and if we did qualify we would quicky wrap up these deals. Accourding to rumour, quotes and reports it seemed that these players would be the CB we need Jags/Cahill/Dann a striker Zarate and a high profile creative mid Hazard/Kaka/Martin all for somewhere in the regin of £50 million which to me at least seemed very realistic even for us due to all the sales. But now with just 2 and a bit days to go we are signing a striker from who looks ok but nothing specialand prob get Cahill on last day but it now seems there will be no major signing, no creative replacement and without that I am really starting to get worried. Like I said though still 2 days to go and pull this out the bag

Im with you on most of that. I, like you, thought that we had players just waiting to sign providing we got through into the Champions League. It was cetainly the impression that the papers gave. I get very cheesed off with all the money that is in the board but we lose players due to the wage structure. (Nasri went...Mata ent to Chelsea) How may others have we lost out on due to wages? It also seems funny that we have been going down hill since David Dean was forced out. Didn't he want AFC to pay higher wagers and spend more He was also excellant in negotiations and Arsene's right hand man. He took alot of pressure off Arsene

29 Aug 2011 11:08:32
We are just awful at the moment because most of our players are reserves.
If we had our strongest team Szczesny,Sagna,Koscielny,Vermaelen,Gibbs,Song,Wilshere,Rosicky,Walcott,Gervinho and Van Persie we could've beaten Man U or at least got a draw or maybe lose by only a goal or two

There still not good enough, we need a few signings.

Connor

Don't talk s**te - none of those players you mention would have united quaking in their boots - just face it your 'bubble has burst' or the wheels have fallen off

We are light years behind Manu, and im sick of hearing people saying if our 1st team was all available, that is y teams like Manu have whats called a squad. We DONT.

Why we always have the longest list of injured players in PL? Something's got to be wrong.

If we'd had a full side out it could have been kept to a four goal margin - still not as good as Exeter or Crawley but better than the rubbish we put out yesterday.

Plus if we have a weak squad out we should play more defensive than we did. Instead we have players out who wouldnt track back (AA, TW etc..)

29 Aug 2011 10:51:42
Not liking the rumours we are interested in our rivals defensive cast away's.... Really, Alex is not the answer Wenger.....

Yes he is, he is class

Connor

Hi Ed's never posted on hear before. I would like to say I've been on this site and watch all the comments, On the sacking of Wenger and the booing of the players which I think is a discrace and total lack of respect. (I can understand why it's happening) I think we should be showing backing for Wenger and players, we should be doing more to get the board out and bring back David Dein Like making baners and protest after games get the board out. As for signings I hope you can give us good news as we need 4-5 players 2 c'b and two midfeilders and a striker. If we fail at this I think vp will leave in Jan {Ed007's Note - Welcome to the site.}

Whether he is the answer or not he is 10 times better than Djourou.
At least he's usually awake.

He's a good player, a apart from tv5 he is better than anyone else we have- a good experienced pl player? Just what we need. sign him now

Realisically Chelsea arent our rivals anymore

29 Aug 2011 10:40:40
morning eds, i have seen a few people about RVP to liverpool. is there any truth in this story or is it liverpool fans wishful thinking? {Ed007's Note - Damien Comolli was seen on Sky at OT yesterday and LFC fans assumed he was there to watch/sign someone, I think he was just at a football match.}

Here's one Liverpool fan that doesn't wish it, good player but misses far too many games through injury, no thanks

MR EM

He is not going he just became our captin
he is our star

29 Aug 2011 09:11:37
I see we're linked with alex of chelsea again.

Chelsea value him at 10mil, arsenal at 7mil-

is this the problem with arsenal in the transfer market ? If the selling club value the player at a certain price, who cares what arsenal value the player at?

They are the selling club and set a price, ok haggle a little bit, but if the selling club maintain that they still value him at a certain price, then that is the DAMN PRICE AND PAY UP- pay or shut up comes to mind-

problem is I think arsenal then do 'shut-up' and walk (mata comes to mind, etc), when they realise the club won't budge.

Is this 'penny' pinching attitude hurting our club ? If we're talking about a few mil difference and not 10+ mil or a crazy difference in valuation, I think this is well beyond cutting your nose of to spite your face and is seriously starting to hurt us as we constantly miss out on targets.

Who is responsible for that? Wenger or the board?

Personally, I am sick to death of this business first attitude and football second- I don't want us in debt, but I don't like the priority or precedence of business 'shrewdness' (so called...) at all costs first and footballing decisions second.

The irony being, despite what the club may think, it will cost us more in the long term.
LG

Y Alex hes 29 years old, Y not dann much younger. We are after all players nobody else wants. If they do want them they go buy them while we wait and pick off the scraps left over. Our transfer policy STINKS.

Not paying 1m more for Schwarzer last season says it all. Fulham want 4m - we offer 3m final offer. Bloody ludicrous.

StEvE

29 Aug 2011 10:24:37
Guys this is off topic and more to do with Man united so please dont get mad at me...but on the topic of the England team....dont you guys think Capello should be looking at this and just think "i will pick Rooney, YOung and Welbeck on a regular basis as part of a 442 because these guys will be playing/training together week in and week out...they have quality and more importantly what the england team lack the most is CHEMISTRY. As an England supporter even though im a gooner i would not midn seeing most of this young united team make the majority of the new face of england since they are young, hungry and know how to play together let me know what you guys think...as england fans not gooners please

Scooby dooby K

Better player than Young and Welbeck have played for england,nothing never happened..Dont get carried away,United won against poor team ,really poor teams

Absolutely. ever since welbeck came on the scene i thought he was outstanding. a better prospect than carroll for me. would be very excited to see a team which blends these talents with the likes of wilshere and walcott. and i would certainly add smalling and jones to your list as well. i hate fergie for getting refs in his back pocket, but have to admire the squad he is building.

oleg maputo

This isn't a rumour for a start but what on earth is your point? They are some of the best players in England for a start so of course they should be in the England team. The fact they play with each other is a bonus but it wouldn't matter either way. Rooney, Young, Jones, Welbeck, Smalling could all play for different clubs - they'd still be mainstays of the future England teams. I have absolutely no idea what your point is because there aren't many English players who are as good as them so the chemistry argument is redundant. They will play because who else is there?

mhc503

I don't give a rats ass at this moment in time what Capello and England should do

Munnster

England always has good players - but they never win anything, not because they are not skilled enough ... far from it

Which is why we have this constant expectation to win things What lets the England set up down is not the players; it is the league. Nobody wants to come out and say it - BUT none of the players could care less for England except for their own selfish reasons.

Proof of it is how when the Euros are on, the only players playing well for England HAPPEN to be the same ones being looked over by megbucks Chelski or City

I mean let's see - We went through Becks, Owen, Gerrard, Rio, Terry, Cashley the lot - all suddenly 'hit form' during club negotiations.

Funny that

29 Aug 2011 10:17:58
What do you fans think would be better. go out and try buy one amazing player and Gary Cahill before Wednesday. i mean spend a huge amount of money on someone like Wesley Sneijder and trash our wage structure (like what utd would do)?

or

Try buy Cahill, Jags, hazard (nowhere near as good as sneijder) and another half decent player for the center of the pitch.

Agree for the first option, disagree for the second?

Its just a question no need to rip me out of it :)
Rob

Jags, Vertonghen, M'Vila, Hazard, Cisse/Benzema.

If the board want to show we are serious get them in. 2 players won't solve anything.

mhc503

29 Aug 2011 09:30:26
We are currently 25/1 to win the EPL title, even after yesterday. Somebody is having a laugh..
Big G

Bookies aint stupid, it was one game that had 6-8 first teamers out. All this panic over one fluke game is stupid and i guess the bookies agree.

29 Aug 2011 08:57:51
is it just me or do you guys ask yourself "what the hell has wenger/scouts seen in Traore to even spend a penny on him?" he was aweful yesterday

Scooby Dooby K

Hes off to QPR, SSN.
Must menn we have a left back coming in, hopefully.


A GOONER

Ssn says he off to qpr so good for ya

He floging him to qpr so stop moaning

C;mon, you know better than that.. he's been at Arsenal for years, we keep loaning him out cos he's C##p.

It was looking like the guy was going to turn out ok a couple years ago, he just never matured like everyone had hoped since. Good luck to the guy at QPR.

Im not moaning...i just asked if you agreed with what i was thinking...learn how to read nitwit

Scooby Dooby K

Yes i do agree, but he's still been on the books for years

29 Aug 2011 08:44:08
Players who simply arent good enough to grace an Arsenal Shirt

Almunia
Fabianski
Traore
Djourou
Squillaci
Gibbs
Eastmond
Rosicky
Arshavin
Chamakh
Bendtner


Players we need

Experienced keeper to challenge WS
Left Back
2 Centre backs
Central midfielder
Left Winger
Right Winger
Striker

Players i have no idea why we bought

AOC (do we need another young midfielder with potential could of saved 12 M)
Joel Campbell (WHY WHY WHY)
Yung ( France Lique 2 striker yes i can see Terry worried about him already)

Players i like to see us sign

Hugo Lloris
Aly Cissohko
Scott Dann
Gary Cahill
Owen Hargreaves
Mikael Artete
Eden Hazard
Marvin Martin
Daniel Sturridge

Paul

You Do Realise parks Team Were Relagated

Oh so you want to throw out the entire squad? Dreamer we are not Chelsea / City there is just no way we could afford to even think about planning about dreaming of doing that

Besides you love Bendtner ;)

CD

What I disagree about this post is, that I think Gibbs is talented, but a top LB should be brought in to nurture Gibbs. Chamakh is good, but his fitness is appalling, and Rosicky was really good before he got injured, but I agree, maybe he is past it. Also I don't think we need Lloris with Szcezny and it would be better to buy a better back up. Szcezny is class Other than that, i agree with you, if only that happened, but I only see us bringing in 3-5 players: Young, Cahill, Hazard (maybe), Elia (maybe), M'Villa (maybe)

Easier to list the players that ARE good enough i.e. those wh would at least have made the bench three years ago - Szczeny, Sagna, Vermailen, Song, Wilshere, and Van Persie to a man not one other would have made the squad let alone the team.
Walcott continues to flatter to deceive, Gervinho too early to say, Gibbs, Koscielny, Squilacci, Djorrou, Rosicky, Arshavin, Chamakh, Jenkinson, Diaby, Almunia, Traore Bendtner all just taking money for nothing.

Owen Hargreaves?? Lol are you out of your mind?? That is without a doubt the stupidest thing I have read on here......

We bought AOC because we could have him on 20k a week.

Why have you left out Diaby. he should be on that list to go as well.
Also im puzzled as to why Arsene let Jay Emanuel Thomas go without giving him a chance in the first team. He's better than Bendtner ever was.

29 Aug 2011 08:31:09
i went to the game yesterday and it was like swansea wouldnt lose 8-2 its stupid i left at half time anyway that is how bad it was

Well done Call yourself a fan? Disgrace

I'd of stopped to the end and sang my heart out

I hope your proud of yourself Go buy a Chelsea or City shirt

cammy out

xxx

Maybe you should of stayed and showed support for the players like the rest of the travelling arsenal fans did, it's not down to the players the manager and board need to step up and take responsibility

Let's hope you are never in need of some support when you're half way dead on the ground

Call yourself a supporter that is disgraceful

Arsenal fans such as yourself, no disrespect are not helping the club long term with that terrible attitude...

Infact I am just going to give you both barrels, you deserve to hear it straight.

It's going to get worse before it gets better so if you are not down for the cause brother then ship out Chelsea was trendy a few years back I hear City are the new rich kids on the block ;)

Come on you love Arsenal

CS

If you left at halftime your not a true Arsenal fan...

Arsenal till i die

Iam an arsenal fan from swansea and the way we played yeaterday my 1st team will destroy the gunners on the 10th

I was at the game too. Yeah we were losing, badly but your not gonna get anywhere by leaving your team when they need you most. Your a disgrace.

29 Aug 2011 08:05:38
Wegner needs to go, needs a new challenge.

Give Tony Adams a change

He could hardly do a job with portsmouth, what makes you think he'd be able to manage arsenal only a year or so later?

But Adams has failed in every Managerial job he has been in I prefer Morinho

F*** off with that crap bad memory what that man did for this club jesus only three games in u calling for hes head . A.W will turn it around.True Arsenal fan. galway Gooner .

29 Aug 2011 05:35:30
Arsenal will sign at least 3 players before the end of the transfer window. However It is incredible to listen to the panic merchants calling for Owen Coyle and Martin O'Neil..what do either of them know about champions league football..Martin O'Neil had the entire Aston Villa team against him as well as the fans..you will be sorry if you don't start getting behind the team. The biggest problem is actually the lack of noise and support at the Emirates. Obviously the transfer dealings have been a PR disaster and it is unbelievable to think that finances are so tight that at 2 central defenders and a left back could not have been signed before..so all isn't right behind the scenes.

Lol you have the balls to blame the fans for our performances. Fool.

I agree anyone calling for O'neil or Coyle to replace Wenger is just are crazy. Ancelotti would be a far better choice

Finally someone with some sense....

29 Aug 2011 02:27:06
Headr rvp to liverpool

Nah don't think so- they don't need another striker and more importantly they don't have another 25-30 mil to spend- plus if rvp decided to leave don't think he'd join another pl club imo

I doubt it pal, hes a right sick note, he riminds me of jamie redknapp and darren anderton, no thanks
Jaydee

RVP wouldn't touch Scouse with a 20 foot bargepole.

Even if there was NO hair gel AT ALL in London still wouldn't move

29 Aug 2011 00:40:54
this is what everyone was dreaming for in june:
out:
alumnia
ebour
bendtner
rosicky
chamack
squillaci

in:
cahill
baines
hazard
gervinhio
scott parker/m'villa/melo
mata
a top class striker
and nasri and fabregas to stay

now look at what we have...
out:
eboue
nasri
fabregas
clichy

in:
AOX
gervinhio
jenkinson
park?

But are you surprised by this, given the type of players we have been getting for the l;ast 4/5 years. Do not forget that Gervinho will be off in January to the Africa Nations Cup.