The Goon Blog claiming we made Connor Wickham a VIP guest at the Barcelona game:

Connor Wickham, the young Ipswich striker, was a VIP guest at the Emirates for the first leg of our Champions League tie against Barcelona last week. Considering I was of the mind we aren’t really that interested in him it was quite a surprise to me, I don’t have any further information and your man over at YoungGuns is far more informed on this matter than I am. However, it is interesting so I thought I’d mention it..

YoungGuns hasn't mentioned anything yet.

Not keen. Looks like a bendtner type

I want a sharp intelligent mover, rather than an aggressive lumbering type

Looked good in the first leg up at Ipswich. Better talent than I previously gave him credit for, but still not sure I'd want him here if I'm honest.

Wouldn't want him here. Don't look better than Bendtner

As in...

ARGH! Why do people still respond like this!

not...

ARGH! NOTANOTHERYOUNGSTERILOVEFERNANTOTORRES!!!

Doesn't look like anything special to me, but then I've only seen him 3 times and he's 17.

19 days later

I think we should put in a 30M bid for Schweinsteiger.

Yeah I know I'm insane......

yeah that's crazy talk

he'd kill frimpong as much as wenger's killing steve boulds opportunity

Crazy talk when we have Ramsey to be fair.

Spending £30M on a position where we already have Fabrgeas, Wilshere and Ramsey, when we have limited funds, sounds like crazy talk to me mate.

When did Schweinstieger become a true leader? You honestly think one player would be able to make up for the lack of experience that runs right throughout this team? Even then quality is still the most fundamental thing that we lack.

he'd go a long way to helping. we're talking about a genuine world class player here

Yeah, but it wouldn't change the fact that Fabianski/Szczesny, Vermaelen, Walcott, van Persie and Fabregas miss half the season through injury and we have shitsters like Squillaci, Denilson, Diaby, Rosicky, Bendtner, and Chamakh coming into replace them. Schweinsteiger would get swallowed up by the mediocrity surrounding him just like most of our other good players do, as nearly all good players would.

We need to improve the areas where we'll be weak going into next season, that's where our money must go, not on an area of the pitch where we have some of best talent in world football. That's how I see it anyway.

fair enough, but if we're adding true class, this is a guy we should look at - defensively we need a left back, and uptop we need a striker and/or a pacey wide man

I think we need a top class wide man with serious speed and goals in him, and a proper alternative to van Persie - seeing as Chamakh's playing like his feet are tied together at the moment.

Hazard out wide would do nicely, but I can't really think of a striker.