van Gaal is his buddy though.
Petr Cech
This is looking more and more likely by the day. :drool:
Can't state enough what a WC keeper would give to this team. We haven't had one since Seaman ffs.
These relation type things are always exaggerated. The people at Barcelona hate Mourinho but sold Cesc to him. At the end of the day if it's an expendable player, the value is fine and the player agrees then usually a deal is done.
One would image Van Gaal would have much preferred to sell or loan Welbeck to Spurs on deadline day give our threat to them and our lack of alternatives beyond Sanogo for the 3 months after and Spurs were interested but he still came here didn't he.
Ricky1985 wrote:Mourinho isn't the all powerful figure at Chelsea that he might try to portray himself as, when it suits him. If Abramovich has given Cech his word, as has been reported, then there's sod all Mourinho can do about it.
Indeed, some fans imbue Mourunho with almost supernatural powers (understandably) but Abramovich will have the final word.
Gunner89 wrote:These relation type things are always exaggerated. The people at Barcelona hate Mourinho but sold Cesc to him. At the end of the day if it's an expendable player, the value is fine and the player agrees then usually a deal is done.
One would image Van Gaal would have much preferred to sell or loan Welbeck to Spurs on deadline day give our threat to them and our lack of alternatives beyond Sanogo for the 3 months after and Spurs were interested but he still came here didn't he.
Or maybe LVG realised Welbeck wasn't going to have much of an impact.
Chelsea wouldn't let us have Ba despite not wanting him themselves. Teams often allow players to leave on the basis they wont join rivals.
qs! wrote:Gunner89 wrote:These relation type things are always exaggerated. The people at Barcelona hate Mourinho but sold Cesc to him. At the end of the day if it's an expendable player, the value is fine and the player agrees then usually a deal is done.
One would image Van Gaal would have much preferred to sell or loan Welbeck to Spurs on deadline day give our threat to them and our lack of alternatives beyond Sanogo for the 3 months after and Spurs were interested but he still came here didn't he.
Or maybe LVG realised Welbeck wasn't going to have much of an impact.
Chelsea wouldn't let us have Ba despite not wanting him themselves. Teams often allow players to leave on the basis they wont join rivals.
Really? We'd be much worse with Sanogo for those 3 months.
IF you saw the leicester city away game he was an abomination. He can't even get a game at palace because he can't usurp a player who himself played next to nothing for his last 2 years here.
Anyways if Arsenal are going for Cech they must have an idea that it'll happen.
Are we "going for Cech" though? I've yet to see anything to make me think this is anything more than idle speculation.
And even if we did go after him don't forget we wasted half a summer trying to get Suarez from a club that had no wish to deal with us.
Why doesn't he bother with the second "e"?
@lorddulaarsenal wrote:Why doesn't he bother with the second "e"?
Adrian Mutu took it when he first moved to London.
But there's no 'e' in Adrian Mu....hey wait a minute...ah I get it!
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We're wasting our time on this, Cech will have other suitors and there's no incentive to let him join Arsenal. We've got a better chance of signing Benzema as far as I'm concerned. Don't know how he's made it onto everyone's muppet list
Don't see Wenger considering goalkeeper as a priority either. I'll be hugely surprised if we don't start the next season with the same keepers as this one, I reckon Wenger has a lot of faith in Szcz and he won't want to get rid of Ospina after one season either.
That's the ruthless streak I don't see in Wenger; I don't see him being prepared to ship out one of the goalkeepers we have if he could get his hands on Cech. They both want to stay, and I think that means Wenger won't even throw his hat in the ring regarding Cech.
I don't think that's accurate at all. We signed Monreal while we had two left backs who wanted to stay. We signed Ozil while we had 3 players who played at no.10, there's various other examples.
I think if he has the chance to sign a player he really rates, he'll go for them regardless of who he might upset. I don't know if Cech falls into that category, but if Benzema become available I don't think he'd worry too much about upsetting Giroud, Welbeck and Theo.
IMO those situations are different. Cazorla was playing on the flank at the time we bought Özil, and you always have the possibility to move attacking players around a bit. For the LB position Wenger was certainly fed up with Santos and was in fact looking to replace him. With goalkeepers you only really need two. Getting a third means you have to let one of the others go.
In Wenger's defense, I haven't heard HIM say he is desperate to keep Sneezey. He may very well feel the same way about him as he did with Santos.
Who knows what goes on in his head, but I reckon if he finds a player he loves and thinks they're good value he'll be all over that regardless of who's already in said players position. And Cech is excellent value given his current situation.
Sagna's signing was fairly out of the blue at the time, quite ruthless too since eboué looked so promising that season.
otfgoon wrote:I don't think that's accurate at all. We signed Monreal while we had two left backs who wanted to stay. We signed Ozil while we had 3 players who played at no.10, there's various other examples.
I think if he has the chance to sign a player he really rates, he'll go for them regardless of who he might upset. I don't know if Cech falls into that category, but if Benzema become available I don't think he'd worry too much about upsetting Giroud, Welbeck and Theo.
Yeah I agree. In fact I think thats almost exactly how Wenger will approach this summer. The only caveat is I doubt he has as many keepers he admires as AMs, wingers, strikers, etc