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The Shopping List—aka We've got flipping great wadges of cash

tazmania

Going by the latest rumours:
-Hazard
-One of Cahill/Jagielka
-One of Montolivo/Kaka(not gonna happen)

I guess that's the best we can hope for. I'm hoping we can bring in two defenders who are preferably better than the Cahill's and Jagielka's of the world but we're too late with that. I also hope we can bring in one of those crazy talented youngsters (Eriksen, Geotze...etc). We should raid Dortmund for some of their players.

Captain

Plus M'Vila.

Captain

Also, Cahill is made for Arsenal. Wish we would just lump them the £15m in the morning and be done with.

Timbob

At this stage, even in the wishlist I dont think it's feasable to come up with a scenario where we can actually get a good enough squad to challenge for the league title. Absolute best case scenario, while maintaining some semblance of realism, is that we get 3 good players who could make finishing in the top 4 relatively straight forward.

Ricky1985

3 starters of real quality and we'd be good to go mate.

Btw is it just me or is it hotter than hell in London tonight?

Qwiss

If we signed those 3 I'd be hopeful of getting 3rd and confident of getting 4th. We wouldn't be winning the title though. Gotta go for the FA cup this year.

Ricky1985

Wenger says we will buy experience.

“We will buy. People feel I’m stubborn, I’m not, I just want to do the best for the team and to buy the right players. If I have shown one thing in the last 15 years, it’s that I have brought good players here. We will bring experienced players. But people just say 'buy’ but it’s to buy the right player which is difficult.”

lorddulaarsenal

Heard it all before ricky

Biggus

Fair go Yak, Silvestre and Squillachi had plenty of experience.

YounGunner

I would prefer to bring in 3 quality attackers than 2 attackers and one defender. The starting players in the midfield and forward line apart from RvP and Wilshere lack any sort of real quality and the depth in those positions is shockingly poor as we saw against Liverpool.

If we can't keep the ball we put too much pressure and strain on the defenders and if we can't score goals we won't win enough games.

Cill

Todays pipe dream:

----------------------Szczesny---------------------
Sagna---------Cahill----------Vermaelen---Gibbs
----------------Martinez-----Wilshere------------
Gervinho-------------Ramsey--------------Hazard
-------------------------RVP------------------------

Subs: Fabianski, Koscielny, Jenkinson, Song, Chamberlain, Theo, Benzema.

Sent on a rocket to the Sun: Squillaci, Chamakh, Arshavin.

lorddulaarsenal

ramsey looks burnt out - need to rest him, but getting martinez or someone like mvila, lucho or even parker would allow us to do just that

y va marquer

In his interview with Téléfoot on TF1 yesterday Wenger said that there is no direct replacement for Fabregas, that he would be replaced in stages.
Internally by Wilshere and Ramsey and externally by recruiting players like Ryo and Oxlade.
We are a little bit like the cradle of Europe
"nous sommes un peu le berceau de l’Europe" he mused.

That's why clubs like City and Barca - who have scouts all over the globe, come and raid our squad for the Nasri's and Cesc's of this world - they can't find them anywhere else.

"Dites-vous bien si les clubs viennent chez nous pour nous prendre les Fabregas, Clichy et Nasri, ils ont des recruteurs dans le monde entier, et s’ils viennent chez nous, c’est qu’ils ont pas trouvé ailleurs"

I think I see where he's going with this and I don't like it.

Captain

That's fine but there is no internal replacement for Nasri because Arshavin is shit now so he better get it sorted.

Burnwinter

If it's really impossible to trouver Nasri and Fabregas d'ailleurs, then we're fucked. We're guaranteed to see a decline in our quality if our best players leave and they're irreplaceable.

Has there been anything semi-concrete in terms of a transfer link in the last week by the way? The Arsenal news tray seems ensconced in a heavy funereal silence.

kamikaze

y va, those wenger quotes are deeply troubling. my french is rusty, but he basically admits we're a feeder club and says top class players are irreplaceable.

Captain

Galatasaray said to have made a second bid of 10m euro for Podolski and cologne aren't far from accepting it. Can't believe these moves we are missing out on.

Claudius

True, Capi.

I think we can go after 2 Germans and 2 Englishmen:
Podolski: 10m pounds
Gotze: 25m pounds
Parker: 8m pounds
Cahill: 15m pounds

Comes out to some 60m pounds, which is a lot of money, but should be affordable given our summer business. 3 of the players are just solid professionals, nothing exciting, but will plug the gaps we have in our team. Parker especially is a nice stop-gap while we wait for Ramsey and Frimpong to mature. And then there's Gotze. He could turn out to be the type of playmaker who will help us make the most of our unhappy forwards. Arsene, stop wengering around and read this post.

Gazza M

lol stop Wengering around... some pearlers on OMIT lately

Mirth

I like that list. Gotze would be immense but even without him, it looks like a solid group of players to stop the rot.

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