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

y va marquer

Does anybody rate Tiote?
I have a hunch he'd be good for us.

He's aggressive (maybe a little too much at times) but from what I've seen, and according to the Newcastle supporter that I know, his strength is in winning and keeping possession.

Would not offer too much creativity going forward but at the stage in games where we need strength and solidity in midfield (like when we're four goals up 🙂) he'd be useful?

Clrnc

Tiote would be an absolute dream buy for us. I rate him and I think he will be one of the best DM in the world sooner or later. He really did superbly in his 2 appearances against us to have made me noticed him.

Clrnc

Just have this idea of doing this, inspired by MDGoonah on A-M

In: Coentrao (£15M), A.Sanchez (£35M), De Rossi (£20M), Hazard (£20M), Ricky Alvarez (£0), Parker (£10M), Benzema (£25M) = £125M

Out: Clichy (£13M), Denilson (£5M), Fabregas(£59M), Eastmond (£500k), Randall (£500k), Rosicky (£3M), Almunia (£1M), Traore (£2M), Diaby (£10M), Watt (£500k), JET (£500k), Chamakh (£9M), Squillaci (£3M) = £107M

-------------------- Szczesny ------------------------
-- Sagna -- Djourou -- Vermaelen -- Coentrao --
----------- De Rossi --- Wilshere -------------------
------ Nasri ------- Hazard -------- Sanchez ------
----------------------- RvP ---------------------------

Fabianski
Lehmann
Eboue
Gibbs
Pedro (Loan)
Koscielny
Bartley
Miquel (Loan)
Coquelin (Loan)
Frimpong (Loan)
Song
Parker
Ramsey
Lansbury (Loan)
Vela (Loan)
Arshavin
Alvarez
Walcott
Wellington (Loan)
Miyaichi (Loan)
Bendtner
Benzema

WE CAN DREAM 😉

goon

A completely unrealistic dream, pure fantasy, and yet you still somehow end up with a first XI that is weaker or at the very best on about the same level?

C -

Captain

😆

Kel Varnsen

get rid of arshavin. he's a fun character and a brilliant player on his day, but right now he's a fat, no good slob. i want him gone more than i want chamack/bendtner gone.

or, rather, i want all three gone.

Armor

I want Arshavin Bendtner Squillaci Eboue and Rosicky replaced with proper footballers. Do that and we can get rid of the likes of Almunia Denilson Vela Traore and others who don't have a future here without needing a replacement.

CitizenNo9

left to me:

Almunia, Denilson, & Rosicky would be sold on Monday
Bendtner and Chamakh would be sold on Tuesday
Eboue and Clichy would be sold on Wednesday
On thursday I'll make it known to Diaby he's got a year to man up and to Arshavin that he's got the summer to shape up or he is gone
On Friday, I'd sell Almunia, Denilson, & Rosicky again for good measure!
On saturday I'll sit down and admire my work!
On Sunday, I'll plot my replacements and hire a defensive coach

Minimum: 1 CB, 2 strikers, I wing man ahead of Theo, 1 DM, I left back and 1 utility player who can play RB
On Monday I'll sit down with Cesc, these are the changes, you leaving or staying? if he wants to leave, I'll tell him to tell Pep to bring £60m and offer him to City for £100m!

but it's not left to me and we all know he won't do what is needed to be done, particularly the changes on the coaching side and partly because understandably he has snookered himself

Clrnc

otfgoon wrote:
A completely unrealistic dream, pure fantasy, and yet you still somehow end up with a first XI that is weaker or at the very best on about the same level?

C -

How so? Think its stronger in every area as well as second XI. See Dortmund this season.

Pepe LeFrits

Man United have released Hargreaves. Let's go for it! :p

Ricky1985

I should wait until I don't feel so bad about it all, but right now, I would whoop in delight if the following were sold:

Almunia
Eboue
Squillaci
Denilson
Diaby
Rosicky
Arshavin
Bendtner

And wouldn't care a jot if these players were sold:

Clichy
Djourou
Song
Nasri
Vela
Chamakh

The only players we have who are unequivocally good enough for this team, if we want to be the best, are Vermaelen, Fabregas and van Persie.

Rex

Harsh.

Clrnc

Harsh but understandable. Ultimately, all of us who are just fucking tired of Arsenal this season wants mega mega change.

Claudius

I'd keep Song. He's in that worth keeping category of Wilshere and Ramsey.
The rest of the players on Ricky's two lists can walk the plank

goon

Ricky1985 wrote:
I should wait until I don't feel so bad about it all, but right now, I would whoop in delight if the following were sold:

Almunia
Eboue
Squillaci
Denilson
Diaby
Rosicky
Arshavin
Bendtner

And wouldn't care a jot if these players were sold:

Clichy
Djourou
Song
Nasri
Vela
Chamakh

The only players we have who are unequivocally good enough for this team, if we want to be the best, are Vermaelen, Fabregas and van Persie.

Ricky, if you honestly think that Wenger has made such a mess of building this squad, then why are you prepared to give him more time, and how on earth can you hope that one summer can fix things?

CitizenNo9

good question!

Claudius

Because he apportions a large part of the blame to the players. I too think they are culpable, but as Biggus says...

... they are HIS creatures.

Burnwinter

The likes of Arshavin, Rosicky and Squillaci aren't Wenger's "creatures" a la Frankenstein. They came to us fully formed with their flaws and virtues in place.

kamikaze

the problem with a lot of people's lists of players they'd keep or sell is that they focus only or mostly on technique. they've got the same blinkers on as wenger. if the list were made in 2003, would ray parlour have been on it? or keown a few years before that?

Claudius

But that's part of the problem with Wenger's team, Kami. There are no thugs or grafters. It's just a bunchof skilled players, many of whom aren't very skilled at all. Parlour in his peak would improve us a lot today

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