Yeah, I'd lay off Javi too. I think Schweinsteiger would have been a better signing from Bayern if we wanted to take a punt at someone with a dodgy injury record.

Yeah, but i dont actually want to believe that Alex in Berlin will actually get us Auba.

Szczesny allegedly just followed the official Roma account and a bunch of Roma players on Instagram. Not sure whether to post that here or in the houseboat thread.

Maybe he's just a fan of Totti as well?

Apparently Di Marzio has confirmed that Szcz is leaving for Roma. Don't have a link, so don't read too much into it.

Its all over the internet now. Sky Italia also reporting. Looks like its happening. There's even talk that it could be a 2 year loan. Perfect solution, if true. We have 2 better goalkeepers and a young hungry one as #3. Happy.

I hope, it's a loan for Szcz. Two year loan at a top tier club would be great for him and team balance.

This came right out of the blue.

Any loan move for Szczesny would be a good move imo.

Sensible move for all parties, if true.

I think he is a better long term bet than Ospina but sitting on the bench would, more than likely, hinder his development.
Hopefully he does a Courtois and returns a ready-made number 1.

Klaus wrote:

Yeah, I'd lay off Javi too. I think Schweinsteiger would have been a better signing from Bayern if we wanted to take a punt at someone with a dodgy injury record.

To be fair though Javi tore his ACL and has taken him time to recover from that.  Don't think he has had too many injuries before that.  Think if we made a big enough offer there could be a chance, Pep seems to want him in defence and he has mentioned before he prefers to play CM. 

Martinez' injury was much worse than "just" a torn ACL, he'd do well to return half the player he was. Used to be a big fan but I'd steer clear too.

Yeah, exactly. My personal observation is that it tend to take years for players to get back completely from such extensive injuries, if they get back at all. Most don't. It's like leg breaks. If you're over a certain age when it happens you're pretty much done. I can only think of Henrik Larsson who was past 25 when he broke his leg and came back better than he was before. And his body was a bit unique in the modern game.

I think it means that we offered them 4 million.

I'm just glad we've learned from the Liverpool incident and didn't offer them 4 million and £1. They might have been offended and refused to take him.

Flamini is 31. He's probably finished. 4m is ridiculous business. Maybe Gala are making up for all the times the Flamster moved on a Bosman between clubs.

Klaus wrote:

I'm just glad we've learned from the Liverpool incident and didn't offer them 4 million and £1. They might have been offended and refused to take him.

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He'd cost more than Poldi... 😆

Fuck me, Poldi truly has hit the highest of lows. He's just a Twitter-maniac now.

Oh I do, but I'm quite fond of Szcz for some reason, probably because he's always seemed to really love the club.

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Jenko has one of the all time great resting faces

😆 It's one of those faces that would look virtually the same if you turned it upside down, barring the fact that he'd have a mouth on his forehead.

🙂 The advantage of having eyes almost exactly halfway down the face.

I truly like Carl and i hope that maybe he develops enough to be our utility-backup man and a mascot without the fans seriously taking a mickey out of him for not being top quality.

Wenger said today that "Flamini has a knock " and will miss the Emirates Cup....yeah right....a knock ;D. And that "Szczesny might not be available."

That's absolutely wonderful. Just a mere sight of those two anywhere near our match day squad usually boils my piss.