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Jamie. said:
Was the best young CB in Europe at Palermo, him and Munoz were the match made in heaven.

He needed one more year in Sicily before he moved on, still got top ability he just needs a Champions League club to get confidence and show his talent on a big stage because Kjaer really relishes big games. Needs a Wenger type coach who will encourage him alot rather than a Mclaren who pretty much ignored him and treated him like he treated Grafite/Diego...Terribly.
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Lol your love for Diego and Amuari is just beyond bounds..

Yeah he was very good player at Palermo.. Would like to see him in Premier league but not at City, Chelsea or Liverpool. For me Wenger is the best manager to handle him. He will use his ball playing skills to max..
 
Reckon Vermaelen's injury could be a blessing in disguise. Might force Wenger to reconsider how much we need a defender, particually after how some (Squillaci and Djourou) have performed in pre-season. If (hopefully he won't) Verms was to go down for a month or so, I'd really hope we didn't need to rely on Kos, Djourou and the French clown.
 
philly said:
Reckon Vermaelen's injury could be a blessing in disguise. Might force Wenger to reconsider how much we need a defender, particually after how some (Squillaci and Djourou) have performed in pre-season. If (hopefully he won't) Verms was to go down for a month or so, I'd really hope we didn't need to rely on Kos, Djourou and the French clown.
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Yep I think Wenger has to go and sign Cahill or Jagielka add some solidity to the back four. Also Barton or Parker in Midfield??
 
ScyllaJoe said:
Also Barton or Parker in Midfield??
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Barton - Never in a million years.
Parker - Not sure. 8 million for him is alot for a guy we might only get 2-3 good seasons from. But then again, he would be a good addition to the team and be a good player to rotate with Song. Would mean Frimpong would struggle for games though. But with Song (and potentially Frimpong) gone for African Nations we need another DM.
 
philly said:
Barton - Never in a million years.
Parker - Not sure. 8 million for him is alot for a guy we might only get 2-3 good seasons from. But then again, he would be a good addition to the team and be a good player to rotate with Song. Would mean Frimpong would struggle for games though. But with Song (and potentially Frimpong) gone for African Nations we need another DM.
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Frimpong won't be going to ACON. He's not even played for Ghana yet. No, I wouldn't go for Barton or Parker personally. Frimpong is definitely good enough to cover for Song IMO.
 
philly said:
Barton - Never in a million years.
Parker - Not sure. 8 million for him is alot for a guy we might only get 2-3 good seasons from. But then again, he would be a good addition to the team and be a good player to rotate with Song. Would mean Frimpong would struggle for games though. But with Song (and potentially Frimpong) gone for African Nations we need another DM.
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8 Million wouldn't be alot though if he helped you win trophies
 
Apparently Arsenal are stepping up persuit of Cahill and Chamberlain. Chamberlain medical could be in the next 2 days. Cahill story comes from the Fail but hoping it's true. At the moment, I'd be happy with Scott Dann as long as we sign a CB.
 
Joss said:
Apparently Arsenal are stepping up persuit of Cahill and Chamberlain. Chamberlain medical could be in the next 2 days. Cahill story comes from the Fail but hoping it's true. At the moment, I'd be happy with Scott Dann as long as we sign a CB.
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Couldn't really put it better myself, our current defender situation is just pathetic and if the season started now and no more signings were allowed we'd struggle to finish 5th.

Though I most certainly would prefer Jagielka out of the 3 English options.
 
Redrup said:
Couldn't really put it better myself, our current defender situation is just pathetic and if the season started now and no more signings were allowed we'd struggle to finish 5th.

Though I most certainly would prefer Jagielka out of the 3 English options.
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So would I.

For some reason, I'm relatively confident we'll get another defender. Wenger is clearly working on it, but come August 31st, if we still don't have a CB, I pray to god that he'll do what he did with Arshavin and just pay whatever it takes to sign one of them.

*Jamess* said:
Sky Sources: Alex Chamerlain is having a medical at Arsenal
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Twitter disagrees ;)
 
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deal done.

BBC Sport - Arsenal sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain from Southampton

15m, hmmmm a bit over the top. ahh well. now time to sell cese, nasri, nick, and eboue to get in mata, and a CB (cahill, camba, dann phil Jalienka ????)

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Via twitter sources.

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It's a decent signing. I do think that 15 Million could have been used to strengthen other areas of the first team though.
 
this ^

i wonder how much do we have on the bank. and considering selling cese for 40m (IF) , might not be a problem.
 
Quick question for Arsenal fans. Do you guys think Wenger knew all along that Cesc would leave this summer and bought Gervinho with the intention of switching to a 4-4-2? Gervinho would definitely fit best as a striker if he played for Arsenal and I don't see Wenger spending that kind of money to put someone on the bench (Walcott, Arshavin, and Nasri--Mata if Nasri leaves--would start on the wing over him, and Van Persie would of course start at striker over him). So maybe he knew Cesc would leave and decided that Arsenal would switch to a 4-4-2, with Gervinho and Van Persie up top, Walcott and Nasri (or Mata) on the wings, Song as the holding midfielder (Diaby as a back-up), and Wilshere as the CM (Ramsey as a back-up). This is wild speculation and I haven't heard anything about Arsenal's friendlies this season or what formation they've played, so I realize I'm probably wrong, but it's just a thought.

I have a feeling he'll stick with the 4-5-1, sell Nasri and Fabregas and put Gervinho on the wing with Ramsey playing as the CM (or Wilshere at times). I hope not, and if that happens they should definitely buy a steely, ball-winning DM with good distribution to support the playmaking CM, since Ramsey or Wilshere are not quite ready to fill Cesc's shoes yet. A midfield trio of Song, Wilshere, and Ramsey might not be good enough. If this happens without a good DM brought in I don't know if they'll be able to stay in the top 4 (I think Liverpool will be great this season). Of course they'd make tons of money with the Nasri and Fabregas sales, and if they did stay in the top 4 it'd be a testament to how great a manager Wenger is and that it is possible to succeed in the Prem on a negative transfer budget. But this season I think it's risky to try and prove that point.
 
since gervinho is vesatile up front, we CAN switch to 4-4-2, like how we played against benfica. but wenger might stick to teh orginal 4-2-3-1, were ramsey replces cese, and gervinho on the left and walcott on the right.

but it could change IF mata comes.

in a 4-4-2 mata left, walcott right, and gervinho + rvp up front.

cm's will be ramsey/wilshere and song

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this must be a joke. why should Arshavin Leave ?

RIA Novosti: Arshavin and Lazovic close to joining Anzhi - Football - Sports.ru
 
Not really happy with the signing of Chamberlain... Young talent, sure, but 11(?) million seems too much. Would've rather we signed a new CB.
 
its on course i think mate. cahill deal possible.

and is TV5 injured again. NO!!!!

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if u where to choose between two forwards, who will it be.

Chamahk or Bentdner. ????


just wanna know cuz some fans in Fb are ranting about Bentdner atleast better than Chamahk, whilist Chamahk is a better aerial player to say the least.
 
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