Of course, the ultimate driving force of that was Henry who could run a hundred several times quicker than any defender or midfielder in the EPL! That helps alot! But certainly i've always loved watching Walcott just take off with the ball like he did against Liverpool. Pace is the way to go it seems, we can't match City or United or Chelsea for power in midfield only for skill passing and pace we own every club in europe!

Yeah there does seem to be a pattern to our buys in the attacking third. Seems Arsene wants to go back to having some genuine pace and the players that scare defences with their pace. Will be good to have Gervinho, Chamberlain and Miyaichi as well as Walcott who all have that pace.

What Miyaichi's work permit, and us wanting it so badly, does seem to signify, imo at least, is that Samir Nasri could be on his way very soon. Add to that the signing of Chamberlain and him going straight into the first team.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 10/8/2011 08:50:50 PM

I think he's trying to create a new team with an English spine.

Jagielka/Cahill (make it happen!), Gibbs, Wilshere, Ramsey (We'll let Wenger off with this one), Walcott, Chamberlain
The best teams do seem to have a good mix of domestic and foreign players, perhaps that's what Arsene is doing.

Then there's Benik Afobe, Kyle Bartley and Emmanuel Frimpong all on the brink of the first team.

Sanchez watt has a huge rap on him too, perhaps he might be one in the next 2 to 3 seasons i dont know ive just heard to watch out for him

Ahahah, great humour here, you guys seen this yet?

[youtube]hDBLSUKJiDY[/youtube]

:lol: :lol:

That would be nice to see in a few years, I hope that's his long term plan.

It's clear in terms of finance, Arsenal's debt is being payed off easily and so whilst we probably wont have too much of a chance at winning any silverware for another 4 or 5 seasons, by the time that comes we will have the best financial position of any team! Man City already owes their owner 500m pounds, though he converted it to equity, and man u owe over 700m pounds. in comparison, Arsenal's is down to the low 100m from more than 300m after the Emirates was built. Then when the bonds are payed off the emirates will be expanded again to fill in some of the gaps and sink the pitch apparently so that the fans are closer, and then that will be ridiculous - revenue would be something like 100m pounds a season! imagine having most of that to spend on players and we will just be unstoppable in 10 years. manu and liverpool will be a decade behind us and God knows what will happen to city by then, and chelsea cant do anything about their stadium or anything because of Stamford bridge restrictions and stuff so they will basically be out the picture altogether. It's scary how much money Arsenal make.

i like the idea of having a pacey forward line, the best example of that counterattacking football is displayed by Germany i think, with the quick one twos, pulling it down the wing and then cutting in. The only thing im not too happy about is, arsenal seem to want to walk the ball into the net, i understand we play unbelievable football, but we need more players to be shooting. I just really want to be back to our greatest and dominating the premier league, i miss those days.

selling cesc and nasri = 60m
buy torres from chelsea = 40m
win champs league give 20m bonus to team.

all problems solved??? lol


Edited by beersandwich: 11/8/2011 03:17:19 PM

And why would we buy Torres :lol:

I'd rather spend the money on a relacement for Cesc(most likely Mata), and a top class CB and maybe another striker if Bendtner leaves like expected.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 11/8/2011 03:20:19 PM

jokes. torres is shit now, he is the new schevchenko. there is something about chelsea that destroys peoples souls.

you wander tho, if wenger had the cash would he even buy an established player for mega bucks? inside you kinda want him to go out and buy sneijder and benzema and any other crazily expensive player for sale.

Edited by beersandwich: 11/8/2011 04:32:28 PM

If Cesc leaves I think he will be straight in for Mata. Whether he's established enough for some people I don't know :lol:

Also lets say nasri leaves within the next week, unless we've bought a CB by then I can see Wenger just stumping up the cash for either Cahill or Jagielka. He won't worry about spending money on a replacement for Nasri.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 11/8/2011 04:51:27 PM

haha torres? why torres hes injured now, and we need a lethal striker, we need that deadly touch that Henry had just that killer instinct

We have that in RvP, and he showed it last season. He's the reason I can't see us buying a big name striker.

Reports in France that Nasri could complete his move to Man City today. I for one would be happy with that tbph.

Must watch for Arse fans


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDBLSUKJiDY&feature=player_embedded#at=260

Of course now with Cesc most likely leaving there is rumours linking us to every midfielder you can think of :lol:

Reports in Spain that there is already an agreement in place with Mata to sign him as soon as Cesc leaves.

Also reports that we've expressed an interest in Shakthar midfielder Jadson who would be an excellent signing.

that was hilarious!

does anyone else think that Jack could play Cesc's role at arsenal?

Depends if we buy Mata. If we do like I think we will then he will play Cesc's role. If not I think it'll be more Ramsey there than Jack.

and this Jadson character i saw on the BBC website that they could pick him up for around 8-10million pounds. Is he any good though? I just youtube'd him and he seems like a pretty decent pick. And whats this news were trying to get our hands on Bryan Ruiz or something like that

Edited by Gooner: 11/8/2011 09:32:38 PM

From what I've seen of him for Shakthar he's been great and if we can get him for 8-10m plus Mata it would be excellent.

Apparently we've declared our interest in Ruiz. Would be very happy with signing him.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 11/8/2011 09:34:28 PM

But even if we do get Mata, then he'd still be playing on the wings you'd think wouldnt he? Hmm i think as a player Wilshere is better then Ramsey for that position, but you never know, because i see wilshere as not only a great player but a strong player even for his size

Have you seen much of this Ruiz guy? he seems like he has the lethal touch i think we need

Mata will most likely be bought as a replacement for Cesc, not Nasri. Ramsey has shown during pre-season that apart from Cesc he's the best player in that position at the club.

As for Jack, he's a better tackler than Ramsey and works so well with Song in the middle that I wouldn't wanna break it up.

As for Ruiz, he's got a great scoring record for Twente and is very versatile, can play anywhere across the front line which will add some serious depth upfront.

is scott dann any good? hes in a shit team lol

why not buy samba or cahill. unless hes going to buy 2 defenders??? it seems weird :(

i think samba would be great. he seems like a psycho and at blackburn they only train corners and goal kicks from robinson :lol:

lol did you watch any of the premier league last season? Dann wasnt too bad, he was strong and they did well in the backline

Don't let the team Scott Dann is from fool you. He is an excellent defender and would be a good signing. I would rather Cahill or Samba, but wouldn't be complaining if we got Dann.

Apparently we've called a press conference for 9am London time tomorrow so 6pm here. Pretty sure it's not the usual pre-match press conference because that happens later in the day.

Nvm.

The BBC's Dan Roan on Twitter: "Arsenal have called an early Arsene Wenger press conference at 0900 tomorrow - could be interesting."


Edited by Gooner: 11/8/2011 10:42:44 PM