England squad leaves on Monday.

Claudius wrote:

mdgoonah41 wrote:

guess im the only one who thinks this is a mistake. blah

What do you expect Wenger to do instead? Get Aubameyang? Benzema? 

I'm not totally convinced that we're signing Vardy in lieu of signing a proper #9, but Lukaku would be the best option in my opinion. Morata or Sturridge would be exciting too.

this type of signing would be so the complete opposite of every other wenger signing. paying £20m for a guy who has 1 great season at the top level.

i think vardy is actually okay. better than giroud probably, but hes a real short term signing. if we are planning on sorting our the mid term too, then fine, but this just seems odd. at least with kante he is young and you could sort of understand it. vardy is basically at his peak. its mostly downhill from here

i was worried we signed xhaka and wouldn't have anyone on the other end of those sweet long passes. 20m transfer fee and 120k a week for the next 4 years is great business if we get two top quality seasons out of him because it's not like we're shrewd wage spenders anyway. theo is on 140k/week for fuck's sake. and theo's commercial profile isn't greater than vardy's right now. so much money is being wasted on theo, welbeck, geeroo, chamberlain, etc. god damn that's depressing reading.

Vardy will be faster at 33 then Giroud has ever been.

I'm all for this. The guy is determined to win and we need more players like that. He's fast, is a good finisher and works damned hard. He's not just a counter attacking player. He's a proper handful in and around the box and will supply movement up top we desperately need

By the way the way Ornstein tweeted I'm not sure if he's just confirming that the other reporter broke the news. If he's confirming reports through his own sources then sounds very promising.

mdgoonah41 wrote:

i think vardy is actually okay. better than giroud probably, but hes a real short term signing. if we are planning on sorting our the mid term too, then fine, but this just seems odd. at least with kante he is young and you could sort of understand it. vardy is basically at his peak. its mostly downhill from here

People need to worry less about the long term. Most players we buy for the future don't amount to much in the end. We paid £16 million for Welbeck two years ago and that's money that we just pissed away. We could have just burned that cash in the stove instead. He will never turn into anything useful.

Paying £20 million for someone like Vardy and taking the 2 or 3 good seasons he'll immediately give us is brilliant business in comparison.

Exactly, we've worried about the future for too long. We need to start worrying about the here and now a bit more than we have done in the past.

You see its the hope that kills you- At a time when I'm considering not bothering to watch any more games until hes gone, something like this comes up.
Imagine if he did change our formation and style and got Ozil hit longer passes on the counter attack to Vardy.....Imagine never having to look at Welbeck in an Arsenal shirt again.....

Bah but we're dreaming.

Klaus wrote:

mdgoonah41 wrote:

i think vardy is actually okay. better than giroud probably, but hes a real short term signing. if we are planning on sorting our the mid term too, then fine, but this just seems odd. at least with kante he is young and you could sort of understand it. vardy is basically at his peak. its mostly downhill from here

People need to worry less about the long term. Most players we buy for the future don't amount to much in the end. We paid £16 million for Welbeck two years ago and that's money that we just pissed away. We could have just burned that cash in the stove instead. He will never turn into anything useful.

Paying £20 million for someone like Vardy and taking the 2 or 3 good seasons he'll immediately give us is brilliant business in comparison.

burning it would have been more cost effective because you don't have to pay the burnt cash wages.

Meatwad wrote:

i was worried we signed xhaka and wouldn't have anyone on the other end of those sweet long passes. 20m transfer fee and 120k a week for the next 4 years is great business if we get two top quality seasons out of him because it's not like we're shrewd wage spenders anyway. theo is on 140k/week for fuck's sake. and theo's commercial profile isn't greater than vardy's right now. so much money is being wasted on theo, welbeck, geeroo, chamberlain, etc. god damn that's depressing reading.

we have the pieces to play a more direct game if vardy comes. 

alexis and vardy pressing up font is a nightmare for defenders. 

i just hope people temper their expectations on his goalscoring. i doubt he'll repeat the feats of last season. im more pleased by the qualities he brings and the tactical options he opens up

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

I'm all for this. The guy is determined to win and we need more players like that. He's fast, is a good finisher and works damned hard. He's not just a counter attacking player. He's a proper handful in and around the box and will supply movement up top we desperately need

Agree with most of this, more than anything is a winner and a competitor like Alexis. Ozil played brilliantly with Ronaldo at Madrid, and Ronaldo wasn't playing little one-two's and layoffs around the box- he was on the last man's shoulder and making runs. Vardy does that too.

Agree with Klaus as well. This team is basically built to win now, if at all, and not later. Many of our key players are in or entering their prime; many of our rivals are in transition periods. We need to try to take advantage while we can.

Big Willie wrote:

Exactly, we've worried about the future for too long. We need to start worrying about the here and now a bit more than we have done in the past.

I've always said that- Football and indeed the world now is too dynamic and fluid, things are out of date as soon as they appear and things thought impossible are possible.

Vardy would be nailed on to bang in 20 goals for us

if we are going short term id rather we spent the £10m in wages and signon fee that ibra would demand. id take ibra's next 2 seasons over vardy's

We started with a plan to pay Theo upfront last season. Vardy will be infinitely better at CF, even if he can't keep his standards up from last season.