Clint Dempsey

lorddulaarsenal

Lot of noise about this one

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2127927/Arsenal-close-Fulhams-Clint-Dempsey.html

Not convinced. Hope it's not at the expense of the super quality we're all waiting for

Klaus

Dempsey and Podolski would be a bloody good attempt to get more goals into the squad. At ten million he's good business.

RonBurgundy

Good player but let's be honest, we'd all prefer Kagawa (let alone Götze/Hazard).

lorddulaarsenal

There's no need for gotze. We have eisfeld

y va marquer

Klaus wrote:
Dempsey and Podolski would be a bloody good attempt to get more goals into the squad. At ten million he's good business.

I agree. Goals we need, goals he brings.

asajoseph

He's a pretty good player who's having a career year.

Captain

What's that about Sagna? Hadn't heard that anywhere else.

lorddulaarsenal

Maybe wenger is attracted to his versatility?

asajoseph

He's got knock. Like clap, but less serious.

lorddulaarsenal

Captain wrote:
What's that about Sagna? Hadn't heard that anywhere else.

They dropped a bit of bullshit in there for good measure

asajoseph

If we sign Podolski, I'm not sure I think there's room for another senior attacking player here unless someone we're not expecting leaves the club.

DāftYoda

asajoseph wrote:
If we sign Podolski, I'm not sure I think there's room for another senior attacking player here unless someone we're not expecting leaves the club.

I think that Podolski in is a cover for RvP out, so maybe Dempsey in as well ?

asajoseph

We aren't going to sign Podolski to ONLY play when Van Persie is out (i.e. the roll Chamakh has played this season - bugger all!).

If we get Podolski, I would expect to see a lot of him up the left, as well as taking the pressure off Robin up the middle (i.e. covering for injury, and allowing to come off after 70 minutes every now and then, and maybe even resting him). With that in mind, and Theo, Gervinho, Chamberlain and maybe Miyaichi coming back as well, I'd be surprised to see space for Dempsey open up anywhere.

Tony Montana

We have people scouting Dempsey? I thought they only scouted youngsters.

Timbob

Agent trying to get more money out of Fulham and/or drum up interest.

Claudius

Podolslki / Dempsey would be very good summer.
What do people want? An exotic name or someone who can come in and perform from day one?

Klaus

I think people hope for a Kagawa/Hazard signing, but there are only a handful of players like that on the market this summer. Most of them are unlikely to move to begin with, and if they do richer clubs than us will be in for them.

Qwiss

Claudius wrote:
Podolslki / Dempsey would be very good summer.
What do people want? An exotic name or someone who can come in and perform from day one?

We're pretty well stocked in the positions Dempsey plays already so if we're signing someone else to go into that area of the pitch I'd rather we signed a real world beater.

Unless you think we're signing him as back up for RVP in which case I'd rather a proper striker.

invisibleman18

Good player, settled in London and a pretty proven goal scorer with tons of premiership experience. Hard to see a negative if we were to sign him although I can't quite work out where/when he would play. Be a good signing but I can't really see it happening.

Ivansen

Dempsey would be a decent squad player for us. Wouldn't say no for about 10-12 mill. He could do the left forward position in the matches where we need solidity and fight rather than pace and skill, ie in the matches that Yossi and Ramsey have been playing on the wing.