simonsays

we must have been quoted some pretty high prices if the £40m we have in the bank won't cover it. What happened to the plan we had in place - lying sack of s**t

Don't get too attached to any good player who emerges this season, as soon as we get a half decent offer for them they will be away. Thats what happens when you support a small time, selling club. Wigan Athletic with bigger crowds. And thats no offence to Wigan who are a better run club with an owner who cares about his club and comes across as a reasonable human being. Arsenal must be a small-time, selling club too? That comparison is really valid. Or possibly not. They're selling their two best players.... Look, if you think us and Arsenal are the same type of club at the moment then there is no hope for you. Obviously they are light years ahead of us, but i think the comparison is a valid one as it seems neither club is able to persuade their best players to stay when the big clubs come calling. To be fair this probably applies to the vast majority of teams in the Premier League.

is it wrong that I am already resigned to losing him next summer?

scruffy bast**d - shirt untucked, no tie. You'd never see Cabaye dressed like that

this

Raylor against a powerhouse like Gervinho= Rape. Isn't he playing on the left for Arsenal? Nevertheless, Simpson against a powerhouse like Gervinho = rape

He was always going and Liverpool was always the most likely destination, so although i really didn't want to see him go I'm not surprised. What would really bother me is if we didn't have a new left back in by the weekend - we have known for months he was off so not to have a replacement lined up would be criminal. It's not like Carrol where the bid came out of the blue, they have had the entire summer to sort this out

If if he does get a new contract I can't imagine it will be anything like that. If the contracts Ashley is giving out are as heavily performance related as we are led to believe we won't end up paying him anything anyway.

isn't Wilshere supposed to be carrying an ankle knock which will keep him out of the England game on Wednesday? Let's hope Capello plays him anyway and he has to miss Saturday

what a lot of sh**te - which young players have come in the last 3 or 4 years and failed massively to live up to their potential? You could just as easily say the same thing of Man Utd who have brought in a number of young prospects who have failed to make the grade recently. It hink our youth development is currently one of the few areas for optimism at the club

I'm would actually be quite pleased with this signing (as long as it isn't the last). He can play on the wings, and up front. he has a lot of pace and is seemingly quite skillful. Fair enough his end product is often dissapointing, but that is the sort of thing that often only comes with getting a run in the first team - very often fringe players (particularly at big clbs) are so desperate to take their chance in the first team they try to score the wonder goal or go for a mazy dribble rather than looking for the simple pass. I think he might do quite well here

People highlight free transfers not because it reduces the quality of the player, but because it hammers home the fact there's no reason we shouldn't be putting the money we've saved towards buying players in the other areas we need strengthening. I think its more that people aren't convinced we are buying the players who are the best fit for the club and that instead we see a player, realise he is free/has a release clause and buy him because it is seen it as a good deal which may result in future profit. I don't have a problem with this approach as long as we are prepared to spend money on players we need when necessary - as of yet I haven't seen much evidence of this.

Perhaps - just seems like a it of a coincidence that he said that a claimed injury would scupper the deal, and now we have heard that due to an injury the player is not currently thinking about moving clubs

# It was his agent who said he was injured? What is this pleb on about? He came out and said that before the agent made his statement, so maybe he knows something

Back to Shane Long guaranteed http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2021248/Shane-Long-tells-Hammers-come-him.html I f***ing hope not if he costs £8m. Why does anyone give a s**t how much we spend on a player. To be honest I couldn't care less why we spend on a striker as long as we get someone in. It's not like any money we save will be spent on other players.anyway

Demba Ba

Why would him being French make a difference to whether he needed a visa or not?

Eh? He could have said weeks ago that we weren't in for N'Zogbia. How is mentioning it in a press conference just before it is being reported that he is signing for Villa sparing us from false hope?

bye bye Baggio

Is he classed as home grown? Can't remember how long he has been at Arsenal.

I actually thought he looked okay on the ball. What would concern me is that, whilst he looks a good all-rounder, I'm not sure that there's any one feature of his game that would really trouble the better Premiership defences. A definite upgrade on Lovenkrands though. He has a lot of pace, which is something we have been sorely lacking. I agree with what seems to be the consensus on here - I'd take him but for a more realistic £4-6 million

Course not, soon as they heard his £90k a week wage demands they buggered off.

You don't rate him or think he's proved himself in the top flight but you are still happy for him to be our first change from the bench? I'm not advocating Ashley's policy of taking our squad to pieces (I wouldn't want to see defenders or midfielders leave), but if he completely replaces our strike force for next season I would be delighted - none of our current strikers are good enough IMO

Exactly - it's not as simple as just saying Shola and Lovenkrands are not good enough, lets palm them off on someone else. Someone actually has to want to buy them. True, but that's irrelevant to whether we should be selling Leon Best. Is it? The management clearly feel he's not good enough and that they might be able to get a reasonable fee for him. I'm not going to get overly worried by the fact that we may soon have two cack strikers in our squad rather than three