2nd? oh yeah!!!

not that i think we can afford Ribery now, but he will play ahead of Samir if he come to the Emirates. no question about "where would we fit him in" at all IMO

well, maybe that's the part where le Boss can improve on

i do agree that very very seldom le Boss bought someone to replace the first teamer who are very much talented and performed quite OK for his first season such as Samir. Bobby was bought after we lose Overmars. the same with King Henry, he was brought in after we lose le Sulk. Gallas also was brought in after we lose Sulzer

but there were few cases where le Boss bought in someone to improve certain areas of the team. e.g. Gilberto was brought in while we still have Edu and Ray Parlour

Arsene Wenger has his own estimation of the value of any players that he really want. and he will not go over his own estimation of the top value for any players in the world just for the sake of getting the player he want

of course that just my opinion on how i see le Boss's behavior in transfer market

i only want to see Titi hold the Big Ears. if he's not playing, i could not be bothered who win tonight

but of course come 2.45, i'll be in front of my tv to watch the final

Robin, world class? don't think so

so, scoring a single goal makes you world class. the "legend" that is Pascal Cygan scored twice in a match against Fulham few seasons back, so does that made him world class in your eyes?

even his performances last season doesn't warrant him our main striker status just yet. for e.g. he's not always played in the striker position whenever we go with 1 striker in any matches. but of course that just my opinion

and me, world class? no no, but i'd like to think i can give my thoughts independently about our players without the Arsenal-tinted glass on

fair enough bro if you think he's world class. he's still inconsistent for my liking, even his free kick last season still pretty hit and miss. he is certainly still too inconsistent to be called world class in my eyes

like SG said, different people have different criteria in classifying world class status. i just think the term being used too loosely by football fans nowadays

kaka91, if Cesc goes to Real Madrid (or anyway away from us for that matter) will you still love him?

haha..no worries kaka91. it's not a trick question. just asking because i want to know since i find it very hard to "love" a player nowadays. i do like to know how you feel towards Kaka now though, but that is OT so maybe it should not be discussed in here

i do love Titi also though

and Denilson better than Matty? haihz..we all can debate all we want but the league position and the performances doesn't lie la. if i am being nice, i will only say Matty complement Cesc waaaaaaaaaay better than Denilson does

This post has been edited by toshio14: Jun 12 2009, 07:37 PM

haha..you must like Kaka to a high degree to be having his name as your username. so it's perfectly OK to ask how you feel towards him i think..hahahaha

talking about as if you are his girlfriend, my fiancee always scolded me "you love Arsenal more than me right? always want to watch football only".

my response is "no la, where got". but in heart always say "but i did met Arsenal before i met you " bwahahahahahaha

roy, i believe it'll be better if you open a new thread on the matter you want to discuss as it seems to me to be a perfectly valid and interesting topic to discussed about. and the topic also applied to football world as a whole, so chances are you will get better and broader view of the issue if a specific to be opened in Football Lounge instead of discussing it in here

back to our club. does anybody realize that 2 of the major transfer rumors for us is regarding 2 of the captains of other clubs? IINM the 2 Thomas that we are rumored to be interested in are both captain of Ajax and Stuttgart. i do believe that we are genuinely interested in the 2 Thomas, and for me this shows how much le Boss believes in the talent of this team but feels that there're not enough leader in the team

if that is indeed the case, i am fully agree with le Boss

This post has been edited by toshio14: Jun 17 2009, 11:20 PM

typical British media (am assuming Telegraph is British media) transfer rumors i.e. no direct quote whatsoever from the man himself. not even a quote from his agent in that news

on the other side, 20 million pound for a player that only have only 1 more year left in his contract is a good business. not to mention an injury-prone player that is

if we are to sell Robin, we do not have to buy a striker. if there's 1 place where we are already more than covered, it is the striker department

Ade, Dudu, Nik and Carlos Vela. IMO, Theo also fall in the striker category hence we should not worry too much about losing Robin

assuming we sell Robin, the money can be better spend on the other areas that we are weaker at now i.e. the central of the defense area and midfield area

kaka91, i don't think WE should be worry with selling Robin just because YOU only have faith in Dudu and Robin out of all our striker. i think the correct statement should read YOU should be worry with selling Robin because YOU only have faith in Dudu and Robin out of all our striker

disclaimer 1 : capital usage is not to show i'm aggressive or anything, just to ensure my main point clearly delivered

disclaimer 2 : i already pretty much establish my thoughts on the news which is "the rumor is sh1t" before i start my argument over selling Robin

i actually have faith in Andy to play as a second striker just as well if not better than having Robin occupying 1 of the striker positions

or to put it better in a nicer words, i think we can survive losing Robin if it is for the money that being rumored about and also for the fact that him having only 1 more season on his contract with us

p/s : rupa2nya i forgot to put up Andy name as 1 of the strikers that we have earlier

what i'm saying is we can survive losing Robin if it meant we going to get loads of money and the funds can be channeled for recruiting reinforcement for the weaker department that we currently have

i'd like to avoid selling any of our players to our premiership rival as much as we can but i could not be bothered too much about it to be honest. because i know given as little as 2 correct signings, we will improve our team massively and will seriously challenge for the BPL title next season

Owen Hargreaves? no, another injury-prone players
15 million? yes please

Robin certainly played well last season. but do remember we have to wait for almost 4 seasons for that

and no, we do not have the start all over again at the striker department as we do not need to buy anyone. there's weaker area that we should be concerned of. beside, i think Andy if deployed in the second striker role will make our strikers looks very good; performance-wise of course

This post has been edited by toshio14: Jun 18 2009, 05:16 PM

we did bought Andy right? that's a good start

good, i like the fact that this deal concluded early. now TV can have more time together with the team before the season start. add the fact that we'll have a harder Champions League qualifying matches this year, it is a very good indeed that we conclude this deal as early as this

welcome to the Arsenal Thomas. play well, and it won't be long before Gooners all around the word call you the Verminator

Kolo will never be used regularly as DM due to below reasons

1. he's not a DM
2. he doesn't have the stamina to play there
3. he's not really having the best positioning sense
4. le Boss said so

and i'm with SG in this, there's no way we should let Billy G and Kolo out of the club for 4 and 10 million pound respectively. there are worth more than that. individually, there are among the best central defenders in the league

they certainly worth more than that in the world where Chelsea and Liverpool bid almost 19 million pound for Glen Johnson

This post has been edited by toshio14: Jun 20 2009, 11:09 AM