The Transfer Deadline Countdown Thread - Summer 2011

[raidersoftheark]

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Dunno what he's complaining about. Newcastle have done some good restructuring with the Carroll money. Ba will get them goals, Obertan couldn't hack it at United but has pace and tricks and can certainly be a threat and Cabaye has been excellent for about 2 years now at Lille.

 

[Kain]

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Also, lol at the Spuds turning down £40M for Modric.

OMG.

Seriously?

They could have bought a far superior player for that cash with about £15m spare to boot. Idiots.

Sp**s are playing a dangerous game there, as we know all too well when a player doesn’t want to be at a club they can become a real hindrance.

Torres was the same last season for Liverpool, and ended up moving during the January window, the damage was done and his mind was elsewhere.

Makes you wonder if the media will do the same thing to Sp**s as they did to us when Fabregas was here, every time he has a good game bringing up 'Barcelona' incessantly no matter what. Every time Modric has a good or bad game they’ll bring up the potential Chelsea move.

 

[qs]

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thank god

wouldve been fuming at yossi with 8

was hoping for wilshere to grab 8 next season

Been waiting for you to come online. You got that no more signings after CY Park prediction a bit wrong didn't you

 

[qs]

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Dunno what he's complaining about. Newcastle have done some good restructuring with the Carroll money. Ba will get them goals, Obertan couldn't hack it at United but has pace and tricks and can certainly be a threat and Cabaye has been excellent for about 2 years now at Lille.

Nah they've cut their wage bill by a **** load and made about £50m in profit in the market this year.

Imagine if we did that..... wait a minute :shock:

 

[been]

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thank god

wouldve been fuming at yossi with 8

was hoping for wilshere to grab 8 next season

Been waiting for you to come online. You got that no more signings after CY Park prediction a bit wrong didn't you

lol Im perfectly happy with being wrong

however I still have my doubts over these signings

panic buys? good buys? maybe a bit of both?

interesting how most people here think our defensive woes are solved and we have a "spine" by signings internationals over the age of 25 :|

 

[Arsegum]

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I never envisaged we bought so many players on deadline day, really un-Arsenal like. It looked like the United drubbing really rubbed it in for Wenger. Regardless of who we might have bought instead (Hazard, Cahill etc)at least now we have something to build on, some hope to salvage our season.

It just hurts to think what could have been if Cesc had stayed.

 

[baccy_man]

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I was thinking that it was a pity that we did not get Arteta a couple of seasons back when we first showed interest, him and Cesc would have been good together.

 

[Armor for Sleep]

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Well that was fun. I'm probably single now but it was worth it.

 

[marco]

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RIP Arsène wengers arsenal.

the most unspirational summer one could imagine.
We lose 8-2 to man utd and the only player of any quality appears to be a german centre back.
arteta and benayoun should have been bought in to replace diaby/denilson/rosicky not fabregas and nasri.

disgraceful management and penny pinching once again from wenger the board.
im still slightly in the camp that wenger hasnt got the cash to spend but the whole of last night i kept waiting for the big transfer the player that was going to lift the entire club.
instead we get 2 injury prone mifielders who would get nowhere near chelsea/man utd/liverppol or man citys team actually the wouldnt even make the yids ****ing 11.

we are still 1 injury away from having djourou or kosielny or jenskinson play in defence. why not buy samba or cahill get the depth in at least 1 position.
im a bentdner fan but the fact that we cant sell him due to his wages just shows how appalling badly the finances have been handled given 50K a week to kids who arent proven and then telling the top players ala nasri + tv and rvp next summer that we can pya them 120k a week.
why ****ing not??

the man utd wilshere taping up will start in the next 6 months and he will be either a man city or man utd player in 1 years time, and i couldnt blame him one bit.
at least we are playing by the UEFA financial rules though, i will remember that when im driving back from bolton midweek in january having wasted anohter 70-80 quid watch this pile of **** not turn up for an away game.

 

[Anzac]

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Arsenal
Too little, too late? No strategy, no foward plan? Yes to all, but at least Deadline Day's flurry showed Arsenal still possess enough ambition not to die on their arse. Moreover, if you can forgive a second bad pun, at least they stuck to their guns when they finally entered the market to do the business that ought to have been done months ago.

For all the talk of panic pervading at the Emirates - a suggestion endorsed by Everton's understandable bemusement bordering on anger that the Gunners returned with a bid for a player they hadn't mentioned during talks about Phil Jagielka - the established fact that they refused to match Mikel Arteta's £75,000-a-week Everton contract was admirably nerveless. The Gunners, by common report, were resolute and prepared to keep walking away until Arteta blinked first.

Yet Arsenal's refusal to pay a wage that even Everton accept is the going rate also serves to inspire two other less than admirable points. Firstly, it acts as a damning reminder that both Abou Diaby and Manuel Almunia - the goalkeeping equivalent of Winston Bogarde? - are still at the Emirates collecting a reputed £60k a week, and it's the generosity of that flawed collective wage-plan which explains why Arsenal have struggled so blindly to offload their deadwood this summer. Secondly, their relative and considerable wage austerity at the top of their ceiling remains the foremost reason why Arsenal cannot attract A-list talent and were reduced to haggling with paupers and collecting Chelsea cast-offs as the clock clicked towards 11pm.

Arsenal have the arrangement of their wage-plan substantially wrong. They pay too much for mediocrity, and aren't willing to pay enough on established class. Until they alter their stance, they'll never make it big again.

 

[lee1001]

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RIP Arsène wengers arsenal.

the most unspirational summer one could imagine.
We lose 8-2 to man utd and the only player of any quality appears to be a german centre back.
arteta and benayoun should have been bought in to replace diaby/denilson/rosicky not fabregas and nasri.

disgraceful management and penny pinching once again from wenger the board.
im still slightly in the camp that wenger hasnt got the cash to spend but the whole of last night i kept waiting for the big transfer the player that was going to lift the entire club.
instead we get 2 injury prone mifielders who would get nowhere near chelsea/man utd/liverppol or man citys team actually the wouldnt even make the yids ******* 11.

we are still 1 injury away from having djourou or kosielny or jenskinson play in defence. why not buy samba or cahill get the depth in at least 1 position.
im a bentdner fan but the fact that we cant sell him due to his wages just shows how appalling badly the finances have been handled given 50K a week to kids who arent proven and then telling the top players ala nasri + tv and rvp next summer that we can pya them 120k a week.
why ******* not??

the man utd wilshere taping up will start in the next 6 months and he will be either a man city or man utd player in 1 years time, and i couldnt blame him one bit.
at least we are playing by the UEFA financial rules though, i will remember that when im driving back from bolton midweek in january having wasted anohter 70-80 quid watch this pile of **** not turn up for an away game.

 

[Vela]

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Dortmound have revealed we bid £35 mil for Mario Götze. The club, player, and his family decided he is too young to make the move. #Arsenal

 

[Accomplished]

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Dortmound have revealed we bid £35 mil for Mario Götze. The club, player, and his family decided he is too young to make the move. #Arsenal

It definitely feels like we were looking for someone of real quality but found dead-ends wherever we looked...

 

[redwhiteAustrian]

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Well, we better start being ambitious a bit earlier than just a couple of days before deadline.

 

[illmatik]

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Dortmound have revealed we bid £35 mil for Mario Götze. The club, player, and his family decided he is too young to make the move. #Arsenal

If we bid weeks earlier, he would have been an Arsenal player today

 

[Floating]

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Dortmound have revealed we bid £35 mil for Mario Götze. The club, player, and his family decided he is too young to make the move. #Arsenal

If we bid two years later, he would have been an Arsenal player today

Fixed. Did you even read the reason why they rejected the bid?

 

[redwhiteAustrian]

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I think it's also possible they decided against it, because they simply didn't have enough time to make a decision.

 

[Irish_Owen]

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Dortmound have revealed we bid £35 mil for Mario Götze. The club, player, and his family decided he is too young to make the move. #Arsenal

If we bid weeks earlier, he would have been an Arsenal player today

And if we'd offered Sporting Lisbon a couple million more, we'd have signed Cristiano Ronaldo. But ifs, buts and maybes usually mount to nothing.

 

[Y va marquer]

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So glad this window is now closed.
The most stressful ever.
Saved by signings in the final days plus Oxlade looks a star in the making.

 

[Proof]

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Dortmund have revealed we bid £35 mil for Mario Götze. The club, player, and his family decided he is too young to make the move. #Arsenal

At least, we were interested. Gotze said in an interview that Barcelona and Arsenal are his favourite clubs. Since Barca are full of playmakers, there's a good to see this lad in an Arsenal shirt.