Guest Vigge Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Baptista Bullshit.... Where we gonna play him CB? We need defenders, not a brazilian AMC, wouldnt mind him after we sign like 4 defenders though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
womblemaster Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 better than emre. if dyer goes then we should go for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vigge Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hmm, Yes better than emre indeed, wouldnt mind Baptista now that Barton is out. But still replacing Baba & Carr and give some alternatvies to the Taylor/Rozenhal partnership, is preferable IMO. I have been away in China for a couple of weeks just got home. Have this sick feeling that the transfer window is slipping through our hands after getting home, maybe its just jetlag. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Clearly Allardyce wants at least 4 more defenders. Signing players like Baptista isn't going to change that. Also we've got 2 and a half months left in the transfer window, 2 weeks in its bizarre to think its slipping away, don't panic for fuck sake.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShearMagic Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Clearly Allardyce wants at least 4 more defenders. Signing players like Baptista isn't going to change that. Also we've got 2 and a half months left in the transfer window, 2 weeks in its bizarre to think its slipping away, don't panic for fuck sake.. Umm window closes at the end of August... so around about a month and a week away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alberto2005 Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Clearly Allardyce wants at least 4 more defenders. Signing players like Baptista isn't going to change that. Also we've got 2 and a half months left in the transfer window, 2 weeks in its bizarre to think its slipping away, don't panic for f*** sake.. Umm window closes at the end of August... so around about a month and a week away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Was just about to edit that just before you posted when my PC died.. f****** hate PC's I meant one and a half months (well more or less, one month and 9 days to be exact). We're basically a quarter of the way through the transfer window.. why panic?.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DazzaNufc1892 Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 you can sign a player in february if you want, so its a pointless view saying how far we are in Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hmm, generally it seems to be accepted that while you can arrange transfers at any time (pre contracts ect) nothing goes through officially until July 1st. But after looking around for long enough it does seem that the official start is the day after the season ends. Good to know.. Still most good players aren't in a position to consider transfers until at least June (and often July if they've been on International duty before there holiday). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 you can sign a player in february if you want, so its a pointless view saying how far we are in Yes you can sign someone more or less (agree in principle to a move). But we're talking about major team strengthening here, not the odd signing. To be able to do that you need to get the season out of the way and then internationals and holidays. Which is usually mid June to early July time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoU Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Baptista would be a great signing imo. Great versatility, great physical presence, great player tbh. He has of course still not adapted fully to the PL. But it seems he has the right attitude, so he will (and if there is a manager able to make players adapt to the english... well we've got him). He's a player I've always hoped would come to play for Newcastle, but always thought there wasn't a chance in the world. If it's true he wants to come here and that the price is only £6 mill.. I say get him! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I'd love to have Baptista here but if we did sign him, obviously we need to do it quickly. He said he wants to see what the new Real coach wants to do with him but I say definitely sign him up this window. 3 - 4 Defenders in 1st and then try to get Baptista in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 I like him I'd take him for 6 or even £8m if need be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooneyToonArmy Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 comments from his time with Arse "My girlfriend and my mother are frightened about not seeing the sun in England. They miss being in Madrid." Baptista, known as 'The Beast', has not been impressed by some of Arsenal's rivals. "The teams from the north of England are terrible," Baptista said. "When we play them I have counted their centre-backs booting up to 30 long balls upfield per game. "Over here they value a corner kick more than a fancy flick. I am lucky to be with Arsenal, as they are a team that likes to play proper football." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/6570853.stm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brewer Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hasn't been any good since he left Sevilla, flopped when he tried to step up to a big club Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hasn't been any good since he left Sevilla, flopped when he tried to step up to a big club Well should be fine here then! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohmelads Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hasn't been any good since he left Sevilla, flopped when he tried to step up to a big club Maybe there's something in that, but his performances for Brazil show he certainly isn't frightened by the big stage or big expectations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ryunufc Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hasn't been any good since he left Sevilla, flopped when he tried to step up to a big club Maybe there's something in that, but his performances for Brazil show he certainly isn't frightened by the big stage or big expectations. it was not easy to be in the same team with zidane, beckham and robinho, either baptista was played out of postion or did not get to play as large part as he had in seville. a good thing about baptista, if we need to get a new AM, compared to other foreign based AMs we have been linked with is that he already spent a season in england and 9 goals with arsenal was not a very bad return for a player who tried to settle into a very different league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Hasn't been any good since he left Sevilla, flopped when he tried to step up to a big club Maybe there's something in that, but his performances for Brazil show he certainly isn't frightened by the big stage or big expectations. it was not easy to be in the same team with zidane, beckham and robinho, either baptista was played out of postion or did not get to play as large part as he had in seville. a good thing about baptista, if we need to get a new AM, compared to other foreign based AMs we have been linked with is that he already spent a season in england and 9 goals with arsenal was not a very bad return for a player who tried to settle into a very different league. I dont know, apparently we should get rid of players that score 17 goals in their debut season, Baptista would be torn apart here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 don't like him at all. Scored a nice goal in the Copa America tho. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 He scored 9 goals in 24 Premiership games for Arsenal. That's actually a pretty good record, especially considering a lot of those were probably sub apearances (?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 He scored 9 goals in 24 Premiership games for Arsenal. That's actually a pretty good record, especially considering a lot of those were probably sub apearances (?). Soccerbase only have him down as scoring 3 in the league for them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasy Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 He scored 9 goals in 24 Premiership games for Arsenal. That's actually a pretty good record, especially considering a lot of those were probably sub apearances (?). Soccerbase only have him down as scoring 3 in the league for them. Yes I think they're probably right actually. Wikipedia's record for him is messed up now I take a better look at the whole thing (the League, Cup and Europe goals don't add up to the totals at the end...). Ten goals in 35 games seems to have been his total record, so not to good then.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 He scored 9 goals in 24 Premiership games for Arsenal. That's actually a pretty good record, especially considering a lot of those were probably sub apearances (?). Soccerbase only have him down as scoring 3 in the league for them. Yes I think they're probably right actually. Wikipedia's record for him is messed up now I take a better look at the whole thing (the League, Cup and Europe goals don't add up to the totals at the end...). Ten goals in 35 games seems to have been his total record, so not so good then.. 4 of them came in one game against Liverpool in the cup! Tbf to him though alot of those appearances were from the bench. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohmelads Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 He scored 9 goals in 24 Premiership games for Arsenal. That's actually a pretty good record, especially considering a lot of those were probably sub apearances (?). Soccerbase only have him down as scoring 3 in the league for them. Yes I think they're probably right actually. Wikipedia's record for him is messed up now I take a better look at the whole thing (the League, Cup and Europe goals don't add up to the totals at the end...). Ten goals in 35 games seems to have been his total record, so not so good then.. 4 of them came in one game against Liverpool in the cup! Tbf to him though alot of those appearances were from the bench. Didn't he play some games in midfield for Arsenal as well? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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