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@ Ibime,
How about Silvestre. . . 'the  geriatric'?
which kind nigga im be?

tkb417:
that doesnt apply to modern day footie
Terry and Carlvalho are similar in thier approach to games and they had a solid understanding b4 injury crept in
RIO and Terry for national team and some other examples like dt
modern day football will not look at 5 or 6 b4 going for players. Ability is the mian thing

Terry and carvalho are not similar
Terry is a traditional stopper, last man in defence, while Carvalho plays in front of him.
Vidic is a traditional stopper also, while Rio plays in front of him
Campbelll was a traditional stopper, while KT played in front of him.
Though,modern footie has changed all this, with so many strange formations etc,
but footie is still traditional by nature!

tkb417:
[b]all ur players have lost form[/b]I think form in footie is directly related to the form of the team in question. when a team is passing thru difficulties, it tells on the players
Gallas, Clichy, Almunia all had some teriible spells and i dont think KT shld be singled out
Fabregas too was a bit lukewarm last season

nuff said, dude is gone; who are you buying?
how many are you buying cos to me, ure back to square one. Buy one lose one doesnt sound good to me cos you people had defensive issues in terms of numbers, quality and all.

Now debosky
i wanna remind you of ur crazy arithmetic of being 300% better than UTD cos u didnt lose any player as at that time
do ur maths again and lets know what you come up with

No way. . . .
Almunia's best season as an Arsenal player was probably last season. . .
and with some of the injury woes,the likes of Nasri, RvP and Song(2nd half of the season) were outstanding.
Truth be told,Kolo has not been the same player since returning from ACN 08.
I am a great fan and would always hold him special.
I wrote here that i am still gutted he was sold, but eh, he can't play for Arsenal forever.
Wish him the very best at Citeh and hope he break's Ade's ankles in training
Meanwhile, we've sold 2, bought 1.
A correct asessment can only happen on September 1, 2009

tkb417:
oh i see
when you buy, you sell

i tot the plan for wenger was to add to the defenders he had cos he singled out the backline as the place to shore up.
so why would an addition be equal to a subtraction?

it makes no sense, dont you think so.

@Tkb417,
Nope
Gallas and Toure combo never worked because they are both Similar players.
The traditional number 5!
Our best performances in defence generally had always been Gallas/Senderos, Toure/senderos,Gallas/Djorou or Toure/Djorou
(You can see I tacitly didnt include The Geriatric one )
Apart from the fact that combo didnt work, they didnt get along in real life.
It got so bad, that KT leaked it to the Press and
AW also commented about it in the PRESS!!!(I have never heard him comment about such before)
Things got so bad in january that KT(Mr Arsenal) handed in a transfer request.
Many of us dismissed it as a joke, but by the end of the window, it was well known that it actually opened.
KT even gave an interview on arsenal.com to reiterate that he's commited to the cause,bla,bla, bla
In fact, in many Arsenal blogsites, the debate has been raging since end of 08/09 season over who should go,Gallas or KT?
with many, though, admiting that KT has lost form since the ACN, but on sentimental reasons would prefer him to stay.
(So many arsenal fans still can't get over the fact that an ex-Chav was made a Captain of Arsenal)
It was only a matter of time, before one of them left,and since Gallas quashed the rumour of his leaving us, KT looked like the person to go.
Wenger hasn't said he's through with his signing of defenders.
Another one may come in to join Vermalen.

debosky:
What is new in this story? We all knew City tried to buy Kolo in January so there's no revelation there. All he said is that there was some talk of going to City. He handed in a transfer request but we flatly rejected it then.

Abeg.Debo, tell them
Maybe they didnt read the news back then.
Once Vermealen was signed, we knew one of Toure and Gallas would leave.
It was only a matter of time.

[quote author=invisible! link=topic=270819.msg4275784#msg4275784 date=1249015681]The rumour mills are busy again, Fabregas seen in Madrid, any plans to sign for Real?

Which big player will want to still stay with a buncha mediocres and be certain from the beginning that he will win nothing?[/quote]Don't you think it's 'daft' of you to post this kind of rubbish so early in the morning?
Look at the 'man in the mirror' and he will tell you the TRUTH!

The Chavs here are funny.
One says she posts rubbish
Another one has admitted to being daft!

dayokanu:
HNIC, Compare what you have won in the last 2 seasons to what Chelsea won and you would have an idea of how sorry you guys are.

@ dayo
Arsenal won nothing
and Chelsea won the FA cup
Thats all
We have won more cups than them
More EPL
More FA cups
Was in the UCL final before them.
With all the money they have, they will always be below us!

dayokanu:
Madrid have won 2 league titles in 3 years tell me how many Assanal has won in 4 years ZERO

HNIC so do the maths and tell me based on money spent since 2007 How come Chelsea is much more succesful than Assanal.

You have never finished in the league higher than them, Since 2007 you have never gone farther in the CL and they have won trophies whooping you guys en route

We are not disputing the highlighted
but they have spent more than us since 2007. . . . simple
Including paying the wages of one Mineiro guy
What does he do for Chelsea these days?

[quote author=invisible! link=topic=270819.msg4273213#msg4273213 date=1248970692]Those worthless coaches got us some fantastic results, including whopping your sorry arses 4-1![/quote]We whopped your sorry arses 2-1 too at the Sinking bridge with Van Persie on the double.
You couldn't even score on the nite.
Djorou did the scoring for you.

dayokanu:
Arsenal
Nasri 13million
Arshavin 17milla
Eduardo 8milla
(I dont know the amount paid on Sagna, Ramsey and others)

Chelsea
Bosingwa 15milla
Deco 8milla
Anelka  15milla

All signing as at end of last season Most players Mourinho got in his last season were free transfers

Pizarro, Ben Haim

@ Dayo
stop this misinformation ooh
If you include Dudu and Bacary
How about Belleti-3.75 million?
                 Malouda-13.5million?

dayokanu:
Which clubs have been in 2 UCL cos obvoiusly Arsenal has sent more than Chelsea since 2007 when Mourinho was sacked

2007- Arsenal knocked out in second round of CL
2008 Arsenal knocked out in quarter finals of CL
2009 Arsenal knocked out in Semis by Man Utd

You have started again
Your claims can't just be true.
add to Chelsea's purchase of Anelka and Zhirkov,Deco and Bosingwa. . . .I have not sat down to think of anymore.
Chelsea has spent more than Arsenal

@ Brash
JK has been reading too many blogs.
Citeh ain't on our level.
Even Ade tried to stop his move to Citeh, when he suddenly realised it was a small club and tried moving to Manure or Chelski.

@ Dayo,
read wetin you post na?
I was sure when I was answering you that you would convert to Dollar, euro or Yen
The Reyes fee said, . .'depending on the success of Arsenal,could rise to 17m
Now, how much success was there when Reyes played for us(Or we won the CL2ce)
Did Reyes complete his contract?
We didn't pay 20m for Reyes!

dayokanu:
The highly-rated 16-year-old is moving to Arsenal for a fee that is expected to be worth an initial £5m, but rising to about £12.5m.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4614538.stm

12.5m Pounds was how much in Euro/Dollars in 2006

Read the highlighted. . , . . .
That is expected, is a  guess by the BBC(means they weren't sure)
Arsenal did not disclose the fees, unless you were there when the signing went on.

Meanwhile, our biggest signing ever  is Arshavin at around 16.5 million.
compare that to the other teams who have spent over 20m on players regularly.
maybe you will understand where the shoestring budget comes from

edoyad:
Mr. Dayo
If you dont know what a shoe string budget is i'l tell ya.
It's a budget far smaller in comparison to other clubs who've been in 2 UCL Champions semi finals in the last 3 years. Some thing no German Fan could ever have a comprehension of, hard as they try.

Dude,
are you commenting on Dayo's posts?
Truth be told.
The other chap said AW is the only manager that could get us into CL places every season on that shoe string budget and he changed it to 'We haven't won anything since the telephone was discovered'.
Did the original poster talk about AW winning anything?
What he should have done was to mention managers that could get an EPL team into a CL place with the shoe string budget, but alsa, he went on and on about how we bought Reyes for 20m?Are you sure it was 20m or 50m

dayokanu:
Geez Are you for real? What Magic are you talking about here? No European trophy. No league in 5 seasons No trophy in 4 seasons and you talk of Magic

Shoe string budget? Yet Walcot was bought for 17milla, Reyes 20milla, Arshavin only God knows how much. Shoe string

walcott for 17m,Reyes for 20m. . . .  and Diaby for 35m,Denilson for 45m,Nasri for 50m
The gods will be angry if you pour out lies on Thursday oooh!

Walcott was not bought at 17m, neither was Reyes at 20m.

ahonohai:
Not necessarily. . .the business model is essentially self sustaining if you look at the fact that gate reciepts just about equate the loan repayments. What the board are looking at is not overtly rocking the boat by being prudent financially and only making purchases that would clearly improve the team i.e AA23 and Vermaelen.

I still think all these are knee jerk reactions.
AW has not said he won't spend anymore in this window.
He has said, he feels the team is strong enought to compete and will add more to it only if necessary.
Ehen, let's wait na.
He has about 32 days more.

I didn't expect him to come out and say:
'Now that I have gotten rid of those 2 silly Africans and I have over 40m,i am set to splash the cash'
Not his style at all.
Letz wait and see

TTBD!
thread to be discontinued!

I can't wait for tonight.
whether its friendly or not,
It will be a cracker
Y'all had better beat BM or else DK will desecrate this thread till Xmas

presido1:
Dude don't come too hard on him, hez your london neighbour and[b] sometimes all of you think alike.[/b]

Think alike
The Chavs think like the Spuds

[quote author=invisible! link=topic=270819.msg4270737#msg4270737 date=1248949087]If you sell all your African players just because of the ANC, you will sell all your European players during the Euro, sell your Russian players during the winter! [/quote]There is absolutely no sense in the highlighted.
I have even tried to see the humour in it, but only an idiot would find drivel funny!
Do you watch footie at all?
Or you think we are discussing Rugby
Stupid analogy!

PDF:
 i think also that he's rily covering up for the fiscal problems at arsenal which SAF seem to know abt.
Kip ur fingers crossed gunners!

Those two silly old men are geting too close for my liking!
How else can SAF know about Arsenal's fiscal problems,if not through AW!!!
@PDF
_{just kidding}

I don't even know what to say about the Paddy rumour.
all i know is that he would be better than Silvestre
and would slap the taste out of the mouth of any misfiring player!

@proudly9ja,
All I am saying is that it's the 29th of July.
Window closes on 31st August.
A flurry of activities in the market will take place before then.
Your analysis of doom and gloom will look premature if AW adds 2/3 players that he has probably identified.
Let's wait till then.

I am happy for Anderson oooh.
Chei. . .
So he can score a goal for Manure in open play
Or was it a clone??
Where is Sauron?

debosky:
We all need a bit of perspective – these days of 24/7 news and constant drip drip of speculation and blog hysteria is getting to people.

The highlighted is fast becoming the problem with Arsenal fans.
Goodness me, it's only July 29 and people are making assumptions.
Are you watching this league for the very first time.
People here just read drivel over the net, take it hook, line and sinker,then come here to spit it out.
Decipher yourself and stop leting some silly footie analysts in cyberspace influence your thinking.

eyonigger:
I bet the assassin will be leaving after this new season, no better player to spice up his attack.

Are you by any chance his agent? or his PA

@Debosky
I just wrote that,looking at the flip side!
I am still gutted.
I can't believe Kolo Toure is leaving us.
He was a gem!

BlueDiva:
[b]Why do we like old players?[/b]How can we be bidding for Pirlo?

It's Historical.
You are called 'the Pensioners'. . . . . Ain't it

All doom and gloom.
Come on guys!
Look on the flip side.
Word has it that Kolo Toure was ready to go for free at the end of next season.
What if he was injured for most of this season, or contracted malaria again and he would be at the ACN in the winter.
15/16 million ain't bad at all
Don't get me wrong.
Kolo was a great player and one of my favourites.
But soldier go, soldier come, barracks remain

@Tkb417
Really, the best picture will be after 31st august.
There will still be more activity in the transfer window.
Did u say, Chelsea has Sheva back
As a player or as a coach

tkb417:
whoever wrote this must be drunk

I didnt write it, but truth be told.It's only Citeh sending shivers down the spine of anyone.

Top 4 haven't bought any big name yet.

Take a look at these names:

Owen, Valencia,Obertan(Obatala ),Zhirkov,Turnbull,I keep forgeting that reserve bluescum that joined the chavs(Wetin be im name),Johnson,Vermaelen

Apart from Vermaelen,

Who else strikes fear into anyone?

This piece was culled from the net

It really looks like the sale of Toure is going to happen, its quite sad really. I remember when he came on as a sub against Chelsea, to chants from the chavs of "who are yer" he then promptly scored! However, he is not the player he was when he played with Campbell . To my mind he's never been the same since he got malaria. Sometimes a player needs to move on to find their form again, my main concern is that it addresses the area which Man City are lacking in, their defence. I just hope we buy Hangeland, he is what we need a tall centre back, who doesn't bottle headers (remember his goal against us Mr Gallas), a leader and experienced. It he was to line up next to Vermaelen we would have the captains of their respective National sides. My worry now is what is to happen to Gallas, he was superb once stripped of the captaincy, but he only has a year left on his contract, will he be sold on or play out his contract? Sorry i forgot to state this is the worst pre-season ever! Personally I hated the pre-seasons with Viera will he, won't he stay. Until Man Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea strengthen their teams significantly I won't be sweating too much.

Like I have said earlier, i would be gutted to lose Kolo Toure,but like the guy said above, he's not really been the same Kolo for some time now and getting good money for him in the last year of his contract looks good(he could walk away for free at the end of next season)
However, what worries arsenal fans the most, is getting replacements.
Would we use the money from Kolo's sale to get a top notch defender
Why we were pissed last term was that, we lost Flamini, Diarra and Gilberto in one season and failed to replace them?
It was a recipe for disaster.
Come on, AW,Gazidis et al, you have got to do something here, . . . . and fast also!

Ain't nowhere in that Arshavin interview that insinuated that Arsenal would be battling for 4th place with Citeh, Everton and co
The tabloids just like Redknapp said can be silly at times.
A bogus headline would get People rushing to read or go and buy,so You will put something like:
"Arshavin says Arsenal will battle Everton,Citeh and Villa for 4th place'