The Arsenal Thread XX

There have been no respected papers saying that we're in for Lars Bender. Telegraph isn't respected.

Baptista? Higuain? Latter only really became widely known until we were in very advanced negotiations, like with Ozil.

Holiday one week before the PL starts?! Are you sure??

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They're one of the most reliable sources of United news, seem to be quite good for Chelsea too. Who are some reliable Arsenal journalists/sources?

Lol Higuain was known for ages.

Baptists is from years ago and according to Reyes' Wikipedia, it seems like it was just a compromise to get Reyes off the books. Reyes going the other way was rumoured for ages too according to that...

Jeremy Wilson is the only some-what reliable journalist from Telegraph, but he is hit and miss, and doesn't necessarily report things first either. For Arsenal we have Ornstein (BBC) obviously, and supposedly Cross (Mirror) has an inside-contact but he has lost his reputation over the years with dodgy reporting.

Not until the advanced stages. No one took it seriously before that. Reyes was a different case because he wanted to move, he pushed for it. No one new Baptista was coming our way though.

Cross is just a c*** who supports Arsenal, he doesn't have any contacts in the business anymore.

Lol, whatever you say tom. I can't go through and trawl back through the rumours last year to do with Higuain, all I remember is that you were strongly linked with him for quite a few weeks before your Suarez bid and then everything fell apart.

Useless talking about Baptista/Reyes anyway because it was nearly a decade ago and it wasn't under Perez.

Silly to suggest that you have some kind of agreement with Madrid in this way. It's not as if Madrid tend to make huge noises when getting rid of players anyway, Higuain to Napoli was done very quickly after you lot ****ed up.

I've heard that our Khedira bid is like €30M! Why don't we just go and bid €40M for Martinez instead?

Weren't they supposed to be given an extended break or something ?


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I've heard that our Khedira bid is like €30M! Why don't we just go and bid €40M for Martinez instead?

Podolski has 115 caps and almost 50 goals for Germany. He also had a couple substitute apps in this WC i think. I don't give two ****s whether he contributed or not, he's a don and should lift that trophy.

If we're buying Khedira for the sake of buying a DM, its a mistake. He's not a DM and he's not particularly better than any of the others who can play CM in our team. I've long been unconvinced by him. We just really need to reconsider our suicidal tactics against the better teams.

It's a huge mistake. Schneiderlin would be the perfect signing, but it looks like he is going to become yet another lost opportunity for Arsenal.

I know a lot of people don't rate him, but Joe Allen would have been a great DM signing, too. I don't think Arsenal are looking for a box to box guy like Vieira was, so the DM role is going to be an unsung hero and they are available for much less than is being touted for Khedira.

It's a huge mistake. Schneiderlin would be the perfect signing, but it looks like he is going to become yet another lost opportunity for Arsenal.

I know a lot of people don't rate him, but Joe Allen would have been a great DM signing, too. I don't think Arsenal are looking for a box to box guy like Vieira was, so the DM role is going to be an unsung hero and they are available for much less than is being touted for Khedira.