Comments aren't very complimentary towards our Kos, I am not amused 🙂

Well I found it amusing in an ironic way.

Gazza M wrote:

not liking these kos to real rumours. hopefully its just hot air, because i can easily see his head being turned by them

If its a swap for Ramos then ok. If its Ramos to United and Kos to Real then we'd be totally fucked.

The Ramos rumours seem like your standard big player looking for a better contract by making idle threats of leaving. Dani Alves did the same thing a few weeks ago before signing a new contract with Barcelona.

Very few players WANT to leave Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern. Unless you go to one of the other two, you are inevitably moving down a step playing wise.

They might want to leave for personal reasons. Perez just criticised Ramos in public, for instance.

No way would he sign for a bogstandard United side if he were to leave, though. He'd probably end up with Pep, Xabi and Javi at Bayern instead.

Qwiss! wrote:
Gazza M wrote:

not liking these kos to real rumours. hopefully its just hot air, because i can easily see his head being turned by them

If its a swap for Ramos then ok. If its Ramos to United and Kos to Real then we'd be totally fucked.

Unless we said we wanted Benzema as part of the deal, which is supposedly how all these dominos lined up as a result ManU wanting Ramos as part f the deal for De Gea.

Truly hope Wenger will be as ruthless with others too, as he was with Ospina. Giroud first and foremost.

marv3llous wrote:

Truly hope Wenger will be as ruthless with others too, as he was with Ospina. Giroud first and foremost.

Will ultimately depend on which style AW wants to retain as the primary structure. 
He may still want the back to goal linking CF because he feels more teams will sit deep & compact against us which will negate a lot of space for front to goal style players.  I suspect that as more clubs have more money to spend and more quality on the pitch, that they will be more willing to be organised in defence (as opposed to just sitting deep & compact with 4 rows of 4 inside their defensive 3rd), and will also look to be more decisive/efficient in attack.
That said we've seen players like Sanchez & Suarez thrive & IMO the key is the early transition to get the ball to the attacking players through the midfield.  As such I think our midfield & style has been more built towards retaining possession with more lateral passing as our first option, and transition forward with ball at feet.  Our emphasis is primarily more on the quality of the final pass as opposed to the type of passing through the middle.

Turkish media reporting that Lukas Podolski's €3.2m move from Arsenal to Galatasaray is almost complete.

Think our Poldi lacks the hunger to be a top level player.

He has plenty of talent, he's just never worked on his weaknesses and that's down to a lack of hunger.

Name one attribute of his which you think is top class, apart from his shooting, which is obviously not enough to cut it at the top level.

Poldi is just limited.. Its the reason he was never a dead on starter for either us or Bayern. He could be a lesser teams clear first choice, and he seemed to work well within Germany's system because he has so many other players around him that could pick up his slack. Its hard to argue with 125 caps for a power like Germany.

However, his finishing is top class and he can score goals others can only dream of when he gets the chance. Unfortunately, in this day & age of the modern game, his choices of team is also limited because of his lack of all around game.

Doesnt help that with age he has slowed down even more and runs even less. Just not enough anymore.

He would have been a great striker in the days of 4-4-2

Podolski in Turkey, ahead of his move

To bad it did not work out, I am a big Podolsky fan.

So so far from what we need as a lone CF.

However, as others have said he would be great in a dual striker system and was serviceable at times on our LWF.

Odd that he got so few chances while Theo has had far more. Do you feel Podolski is really that much more limited than Theo, or is that Theo's pace is to impactful to ignore?

General Mirth wrote:

He would have been a great striker in the days of 4-4-2

He still can be. But who play 4-4-2 nowadays?

MistaT wrote:

So so far from what we need as a lone CF.

However, as others have said he would be great in a dual striker system and was serviceable at times on our LWF.

Odd that he got so few chances while Theo has had far more. Do you feel Podolski is really that much more limited than Theo, or is that Theo's pace is to impactful to ignore?

Theo just offers more. I always thought we looked pretty dangerous the few times we played Walcott and Podolski on opposite flanks though. I'm not really sure what happened with Podolski here, Wenger sort of pushed him into his shit form of his latter years. I think he just didn't like his work rate. He was decent enough in terms of goal return for us.

Sad to see Podolski go, was so excited when we signed him. Agree that he would have been of more use in a 442 but he really isn't enough on the wing in our current system.

Hopefully his massive wages go towards someone of first team quality!

Qwiss! wrote:
MistaT wrote:

So so far from what we need as a lone CF.

However, as others have said he would be great in a dual striker system and was serviceable at times on our LWF.

Odd that he got so few chances while Theo has had far more. Do you feel Podolski is really that much more limited than Theo, or is that Theo's pace is to impactful to ignore?

Theo just offers more. I always thought we looked pretty dangerous the few times we played Walcott and Podolski on opposite flanks though. I'm not really sure what happened with Podolski here, Wenger sort of pushed him into his shit form of his latter years. I think he just didn't like his work rate. He was decent enough in terms of goal return for us.

He also disappears a lot. Not a criticism of him, just that he'd let the game pass him by before picking his moments. As a number 9 that's a great quality to have. As a winger or a lone striker, not so much.

Rorz wrote:

Hopefully his massive wages go towards someone of first team quality!

100.000 from Poldi go to Cech. It worked out fine.

that's a wage trade you make everyday. with 8million net transfer fee - that's exactly the philosophy that i have been preaching and Wenger is taking note of. you get rid of the guys between roster position 12 and 20 in the squad and replace them with guys who will be important starters. Podolski was an obvious choice, but there are one or two others for whom July should be squeaky bum time!

A certain little Spaniard falls into that category...

That same Spaniard who was a starter in almost every team Wenger picked throughout the season?

That's the one.

I am willing to bet good money that Cazorla will be a squad player for the better part of next season. If he is still here that is.

A useful squad player that is. Someone that every championship winning team needs. Quality, versatile, dependable.

Yeah, but this is what I responded to.

Claudius wrote:

that's a wage trade you make everyday. with 8million net transfer fee - that's exactly the philosophy that i have been preaching and Wenger is taking note of. you get rid of the guys between roster position 12 and 20 in the squad and replace them with guys who will be important starters. Podolski was an obvious choice, but there are one or two others for whom July should be squeaky bum time!

Claudius is right. You're wrong.