Up the Arse! Goons Thread

[Sir Deadly]

Watford and Palace have spent more money than Arsenal.

Now that's ****ing sad...
Do I bother setting my alarm for the game tonight?

 

[Benno_900]

We cant afford his wage and he didnt want to play for Arsenal.

Not point in blaming the club.

Why can't we afford his wages?

We can afford 140k p/w on ****ing Walcott.

 

[Latro]

Why can't we afford his wages?

We can afford 140k p/w on ******* Walcott.

He would want 300k a week and would not want to play for Arsenal anyway.

 

[Benno_900]

He would want 300k a week and would not want to play for Arsenal anyway.

He is on 240k p/w and nobody can prove that he didn't want to play for Arsenal.

 

[bok_party]

It's much much much harder to do now.

Clubs are picking the smaller leagues apart looking for the next bargain, then you have the bigger clubs like Chelsea buying any youth player that shows an ounce of talent and farming them out for the next 3-4 years.

If you look at our transfer history since 10/11 it hasn't been terrible -

Good - Very good - Amazing

Cazorla
Giroud
Monreal
Ospina
Mertesacker
Koscielny
Sanchez
Ozil
Cech

Serviceable - Good

Arteta
Ox
Paulista
Ramsey
Podolski
Flamini
Chambers
Welbeck
Podolski

Not good enough

Debuchy
Campbell
Gervinho
Santos
Chu-Young park
Jenkinson
Squillaci
Chamakh
Miyaichi
Wellington Silva
Sanogo
Vivano

Most of those are the same kind of speculative buys the other clubs have been making.

The problem now is players like Santi Cazorla (who was a good player but not amazing) cost us a reasonable €19m. The same kind of player is going to cost us double or triple that now.

Look at Giroud £9.6 million for the top goal scorer in France 5 years ago.......now people are saying Lacazette for £60-£70m. Its madness.

Yeah I get that but surely we could be signing one of these guys instead of them going to stoke or Watford. Surely they would rather play for Arsenal?

 

[Latro]

He is on 240k p/w and nobody can prove that he didn't want to play for Arsenal.

Do you really think he would choose to play for Wenger over Jose?

 

[Benno_900]

Do you really think he would choose to play for Wenger over Jose?

I really think he'd prefer CL football since he still hasn't won one.

 

[Latro]

I really think he'd prefer CL football since he still hasn't won one.

Why would he come to Arsenal to win the Champions League?

 

[Cruyff14]

And you really think he's going to win that with us?

 

[Benno_900]

We're not signing Ibra to carry him.

You know the point of signing world class players is to actually improve the team?

Signing a player of his quality could have a huge impact on the rest of the group. Look how Giroud and Ramsey performed when we signed Ozil.

 

[Benno_900]

Why am I posting like he's still an option?

**** off Kroenke. **** off Gazidis. **** off Wenger. **** off Jose. **** off Ibra.

 

[Benno_900]

Good discussion.

Even Stelling is mad.

 

[Hawks1523]

It's so depressing to see literally everybody stating the painful obvious, the club telling us we have money, but doing nothing with it.

Even more depressing to think players actually don't want to come to us.

 

[Shoei]

At his Friday news conference, Conte admitted that Chelsea are in need of defensive reinforcements before the end of August -- but he is adamant that they will not be held to ransom if suitable fees can't be agreed.

Asked if he would be happy for Chelsea to pay too much to secure a player this summer, Conte replied: "No, I'm not comfortable. I don't like to pay a lot of money. If a player deserves us to pay [lots of] money, then it's right. But for a medium player, it's right to pay the right price, not £20-30m over. That's not right. The money is not mine, but I don't like it the same. I don't find it right.

Antonio Conte says it is very difficult to sign quality players this summer.

"At this moment it's very difficult to buy because if you ask a player of the medium level, they might ask for £55m. For this reason, it's a crazy market. It's very difficult to enter the market with these prices and in this condition.

When Wenger says it everyone loses their shit

It clearly shows that Arsenal aren't the only club finding it difficult to do business this window.

Pundits and "Experts" can run their mouths all they want but they aren't the ones involved in whats going on behind the scenes.

 

[kreglze]

Good discussion.

Even Stelling is mad.

Truer words haven't been spoken.

 

[Hawks1523]

 

[kreglze]

Actually decided to start Kos... Still no way Holding should be starting at CB, going to kill his confidence so early in the season.

 

[Benno_900]

Holding over Chambers? Interesting.

Would like to have seen Giroud start but reasonable team selection.

 

[Shoei]

Probably the best we could hope for.

Ehhhh Walcott........

 

[PendlePie]

Alexis up front? Playing with two wingers who don't get on the ball enough?

It's a shithouse setup.

 

[kreglze]

Ox was good for the time he had last game I thought. Hopefully he can continue with that.

 

[Shoei]

God i hate Walcott.

 

[kreglze]

Look alright at the moment.

 

[PendlePie]

Not really. That sloppy, careless piece of play is what will cost us a red card. Coq and Xhaka are an accident waiting to happen.

Playing this formation with these players is plain awful viewing.

 

[Shoei]

I mean honestly....