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Lukas Podolski

flobaba

He's a true professional GM. Being 100% committed shouldn't be too hard regardless of his thoughts about staying or leaving. Plus he actually loves the club as well. But I don't doubt for a minute that he is not seriously considering his future here, what with our ambitionless and '4th place is all good' ways. If he wasn't, he'd either be one of the greatest legends the club has ever seen, or just a man lacking a personal winning desire. And he doesn't strike me as one to be classed as the latter.

Don't know how I feel about Podolski coming in as his replacement if that's what it's going to be (with us, that's really the more likely scenario).

y va marquer

If we've already done most of the negotiating on the Podolski front it's more likely he's planned as a player who will play alongside Robin?
I doubt we're so far ahead of ourselves that we've already decided on a replacement.

Rex

Hope Podolski is an attempt from the club to convince RVP we are ambitous.

I would just like to say that Gazidis, when talking about our profits the other day, pretty much ruled out Arsenal from spunking £25-30m on the one player. Götzes and Hazards won´t happen any time soon. 🙁

Mirth

flobaba wrote:
He's a true professional GM. Being 100% committed shouldn't be too hard regardless of his thoughts about staying or leaving. Plus he actually loves the club as well. But I don't doubt for a minute that he is not seriously considering his future here, what with our ambitionless and '4th place is all good' ways. If he wasn't, he'd either be one of the greatest legends the club has ever seen, or just a man lacking a personal winning desire. And he doesn't strike me as one to be classed as the latter.

I agree, he'd be mad to not feel let down by the direction taken but I don't think he's looking for an excuse to leave like Nasri, Adebayor and Fabregas. That's all.

And whoever we bring into replace van Persie will be underwhelming, unlike Fabregas we can't restructure our front three and hope for the best. We need a goal scorer capable of 20 goals a season immediately and we don't even have any bright prospects coming through either.

lorddulaarsenal

I think we'll see podolski, Suarez, yacob plus another unknown youngster at best

Ricky1985

Who's Yacob?

Klaus

I'm not sure why but I have a feeling that Wenger will go for Marvin Martin in the summer.

Mello

Wengerish signing

flobaba

y va marquer wrote:
If we've already done most of the negotiating on the Podolski front it's more likely he's planned as a player who will play alongside Robin?
I doubt we're so far ahead of ourselves that we've already decided on a replacement.

I dunno. Ade played 'alongside' Henry, but in retrospect it seems to me that Wenger was fully preparing for the King's departure.

mak

Podolski is the type of signing that will see us start challenging for major honours again. Experienced, proven, and he has the type of qualities that will fit right into England.

y va marquer

Sounded interesting until I realised the source was Goal.com
Suggests that we could could get Podolski for as little as £8.5m if Cologne get relegated.
Does not seem likely that they'd get relegated though does it?
🙂 Arsene would love a deal like that though.

http://m.givemefootball.com/view.aspx?edid=167058&path=/premier-league/arsenal-could-get-podolski-on-the-cheap

Rohit

Ricky1985 wrote:
Who's Yacob?

There was a rumour about us being interested in Claudio Yacob, an Argentinian midfielder, a few days back.

Ricky1985

Cheers, Rohit.

http://www.london24.com/sport/arsenal/there_is_a_90_chance_that_he_will_move_to_arsenal_1_1226874?

Former Bayern Leverkusen manager, Reiner Calmund, says he has spoken to Podolski and a move to Arsenal is 90% likely. Also he says Podolski is "fixated" with moving to England. This is going to happen isn't it.

Captain, RWA, anyone, tell me he can play Robin's role no problemo.

Mirth

In fairness, not many thought Robin could play Robin's role a few years ago. And some still don't.

Armor

Not convinced he's coming. And from what i've been told he's not really suited to the no 9 role.

Rex

We could never sign someone like Podolski if we didn´t have CL footy btw.

Claudius

Isn't he playing for relegation-threatened club, Rex? I think we offer better prospects than his current employer, even without CL

Mirth

Rexy is being sarcastic.

I quite like what I see of Podolski, he's a strong runner, great shooting technique and works hard. I think he'll make us a lot more direct and it's more important to get another goal scoring the first 11 before finding a back up striker.

Rex

I am! 😆

QuincyAbeyie

If Podolski comes this summer, I think our attack will work. I know we're currently depending too much on RvP, but even for the last two matches, we have had Gervinho and Ox on the BENCH. Gervinho is better than both Walcott and Benayoun.

Podolski can play all across the front three, can't he? Will be an excellent addition both quality- and depth wise.

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