Up the Arse! Goons Thread

[glenferry23]

Must've been an ACL for Welbeck. That's a damn shame, has a had a bad run of injuries for a few years now.

Definitely means we need to be active for forwards this summer. And I hope that doesn't just mean a recall of Sanogo.

Wenger might be tempted to retain Joel Campbell given Ox and Welbeck are out for sometime. But for Joel's sake, I hope he leaves and finds first team football elsewhere.

 

[glenferry23]

We're ******. Significant cartilage damage requiring 9 months out? He would've been better off doing his ACL.

Watch us not sign a forward, and watch us have an absolute season from hell.

We can't possibly not buy a forward this window.

Yes I know it's Wenger and he's been grossly negligent before, but surely this is different.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

We can't possibly not buy a forward this window.

Yes I know it's Wenger and he's been grossly negligent before, but surely this is different.

Wenger will retain Walcott and Joel, Recall Sanogo and Akpom.

 

[PendlePie]

We can't possibly not buy a forward this window.

Yes I know it's Wenger and he's been grossly negligent before, but surely this is different.

We seriously don't know this, and have nothing to give us confidence that it'll happen. It's all up in the air with Wenger until he actually does it.

 

[PendlePie]

Wenger might be tempted to retain Joel Campbell given Ox and Welbeck are out for sometime. But for Joel's sake, I hope he leaves and finds first team football elsewhere.

Ox will be back for the start of the season

 

[NTRabbit]

Ox has never been a forward, and never been considered to be a forward by anyone, including himself and Wenger.

 

[PendlePie]

Yeah, that too

 

[NTRabbit]

The major stumbling block is Walcott, as long as he's still around we have a centre forward option in the squad, despite how bad he is.

 

[PendlePie]

Walcott has to be the #1 priority in terms of pissing players off. Hopefully it's done early on.

 

[NTRabbit]

And I see Everton did us no favours, Newcastle hosting Spurs is now a dead rubber

 

[PendlePie]

Really no difference between 2nd and 3rd. Coming 2nd would do nothing for those of us who want the club to change the way it operates. A result against Villa and 3rd is sealed + automatic UCL qualification.

 

[Genesis67]

Really no difference between 2nd and 3rd. Coming 2nd would do nothing for those of us who want the club to change the way it operates. A result against Villa and 3rd is sealed + automatic UCL qualification.

Would've affected which UCL pot we'll go into, wouldn't it?

 

[PendlePie]

Would've affected which UCL pot we'll go into, wouldn't it?

Does it? I'm not so sure

 

[NTRabbit]

Really no difference between 2nd and 3rd

No difference between finishing above and below the yids and I stopped reading

 

[Genesis67]

Does it? I'm not so sure

A quick Google says it doesn't, so I'll shut up now!

 

[Cruyff14]

Shame about Welbeck. 9 months out is huge, poor guy can't catch a break. Just so injury prone.

Hopefully we tie the Xhaka deal up early.

 

[glenferry23]

Ox will be back for the start of the season

Wouldn't count on that with his track record. But as long as there's guys like him, Walcott etc congesting the squad, it provides an excuse not to acquire the required players.

 

[The Filth Wizard]

I wouldn't be too fussed about the Sanchez murmurings. One thing we know about this guy is he is a perfectionist and he's been far down on his output from last season and the start of this season after his layoff. I wouldn't be surprised if all of this so called discourse was within himself.

I'd expect to see both he and Ozil running about in an Arsenal jersey in a few months time.

 

[glenferry23]

http://www.espnfc.com.au/story/2869...fficial-granit-xhaka-bid-gladbach-chief-eberl

The cat and mouse Arsenal transfer game has started early this year.

 

[PendlePie]

It's all posturing. None of the quotes from that article or Xhaka himself mention Arsenal specifically.

 

[glenferry23]

Exactly.

The way the tabloids can engineer a headline or story from some basic, generic comments is amazing.

An Arsenal transfer is usually a lot more dramatic than it needs to be though.

 

[windyhill]

4-0 v villa.

 

[Tomnat Tigers]

We better be trying to get Gotze across. Would play the role Iwobi has been playing, only he would play it 10 times better.

 

[bok_party]

Let's not be foolish and think that buying these world class players means that things are fixed. Players need to adapt and form chemistry too so even if Wenger finally does buy what we need, it won't necessarily fix things.

 

[Tomnat Tigers]

Let's not be foolish and think that buying these world class players means that things are fixed. Players need to adapt and form chemistry too so even if Wenger finally does buy what we need, it won't necessarily fix things.

Most world class players don't need time to adapt given they would have already spent time in one of the top three leagues in the world. Hell you could argue most world class players come from either Barca, Real or Bayern.

Take Gotze for instance, he already has a understanding with Ozil, is use to a similar system from his time at both Dortmund and Bayern and is familiar with the pace and toughness of the league from his time playing in the bundesliga and champions league.