We've reportedly put in a bid for William Carvalho. I've only seen him play a little bit (not nearly enough to make a comment on) but he's a bloody unit :lol:

According to some Portuguese punditry I've read, he also has a very underrated passing game which would be important for us. From what little I've seen mobility could be a big issue for him, but we've played with Arteta for years so seemingly won't be a problem.

If only we had a midfielder that was Flamini and Arteta combined. The physicality of Flamini combined with the passing of Arteta. Would literally be the perfect midfielder for us :lol:

Obviously youtube compilations should be taken with a grain of salt, however, he looks a very skilled tackler and can spray long passes with both feet. I personally would be very excited by this purchase, I think he's more what we need than a Khedira type. Plus apparently he's on like 8k a week (what I would do for that amount :shock: ) meaning he probably won't demand like 140k after tax like Khedira.

Edited by Jon90: 6/8/2014 01:05:40 PM

Edited by Jon90: 6/8/2014 01:06:01 PM

Yeah he'll be significantly cheaper after you account for reported wages between the two, and we can mould him into the player we want as opposed to Khedira who isn't a dm and won't ever be the one I think we need.

I'm definitely on the hype train, but I still want Schneiderlin :lol:

Schneiderlin was initially my favourite, but after his apparent desire to join spurs (for poch), I don't want him so much ;)

Can't see Southampton selling Schneiderlin tbh.

:lol: gotta love aa main page . One crap gale against monaco for a friendly and Lil Jon has said lets sell oli :lol:

Apparently the other day we signed Dan Crowley to a professional contract. IMO this is huge news - any young Arsenal games I've watched or even highlights I've got to see, he's been every freaking where. To me he seems like he has the general look/run/etc of Jack, but the passing range of Mesut.

I have seriously high hopes for this kid. I know it is way too optimistic, but I see him being more important to us than Cesc used to be, one day.

Ok so Champions League draw tomorrow night our time, I think it's at 2am. We will be drawn against one of Bilbao, Lille, Copenhagen, Besiktas or Standard Liege. Happy with anyone but Besiktas.

Copenhagen and Liege the ones you want.

Any of the other 3 could be problematic.

A quick trip to Belgium would be nice

Just read we're potentially lining up Agger if/when Verm leaves.

Fucking hope not.

:lol:

We'll do you a swap :lol:

Interesting to note that Carvalho played youth football as a #10 supposedly.

Watching the training session,some volleying and shooting being done, Campbell and Chamberlain are the ones crossing it in, Sanogo,Giroud and Sanchez the one's shooting. Sanogo on fire, only one scoring.

Possibly for Comm Shield?

Sanchez
Campbell-Cazorla-Chamberlain

He's going to do it isn't he :(

Tbf to him the whole quote was "We were never close to signing him (Khedira) because Jack Wilshere has come back fit and in midfield we have quite a few offensive box-to-box players," Which imo completely changes the context. Don't think it means we won't be signing a midfielder, just that he saw Khedira as too similar to the box-to-box players we already have and not a defensive midfielder.

Also looking like Vermaelen to Barca is close apparently. Means another defender will be coming in.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 8/8/2014 07:50:45 AM

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#AFC & #FCB agree fee around £15m for Vermaelen. Terms & medical over weekend. #MUFC ended interest after refusing player swap


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No way we could let Smalling go to Arsenal.

You know you've had a bad season when we can refuse our captain a move to United :lol:

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Arsenal continue search Vermaelen replacement & also in market for DMF, but may sign 1 player who can perform both roles #afc #bbcsportsday

Welcome to Arsenal WIlliam Carvalho :)

I still have a feeling Vermaelen will join us, it will be late in the window in my opinion though.

Now I said that, he will be in Spain on Monday.

If he does join you, you're going to be paying more than 15mil for an error prone, injury prone 3rd choice CB with 1 year left on his contract.

Wouldn't mind at all.

Besiktas in the qualifier.

If he signs for Barca, it will be Barca have picked up a good, experienced CB. All the best to him, a decent signing.

If United sign him, error and injury prone, overrated, money grabbing whore. He can fuck right off.

Time will tell what reaction it will be :lol:

In terms of what United are after, he suits us very well. Better players have failed after moves and lesser players flourish. Time will tell. But I have really warmed to the idea of him at United.

He is injury prone and error prone, 15 mil to any club for him with multiple years on his contract would be daylight robbery, with 1 year left it's pure :lol:

No doubt the price is crazy but if the club needs a CB, which we both really need, that's the price we have to pay. We bought an injury prone Arsenal captain for over 20m in the last year of his contract too. Depends how bad the manager wants that player.

(I know RVP had a fit season but Arsenal fans were playing the injury prone card when he was sold)

Yeah it sort of defeats the purpose of being in for him in the first place.

I'm with you though, I wouldn't mind him for the right price but I just can't see that happening.

Sanchez for 15mil+Vermaelan =p~ =p~