Yanking the New Transfer Thread Chain (R)

Yea, but if we lose RVP then maybe the equation changes.

I'm not a Dempsey fan boy, but if we can get him for 7-8M then I wouldn't mind. One thing we've learned is that you can never have enough depth.

I wished Dein stayed to handle all our transfer stuff. That man made Arsenal very ambitious, and I'm sure he would've change this club to it's full potential. We're lagging behind! We need a good business man like Dein.

If we lose RvP, I would like to see us go after Ezequiel Lavezzi and Seydou Doumbia. I hope we don't lose Van Persie, but if we do, I rate these two very highly, and Lavezzi could be an Arshavin type player, without the disappointment.

EDIT: I see now Chelsea are in on Doumbia. Well forget that then.

I didn't realise good businessmen go behind the backs of the other members of the board to try to take control of the company.

Had Dein had his way from the start we'd either still be playing at Highbury or be renting out Wembly. How would that have worked out ?

You do realize that Sneijder and van Persie can't stand one another, right? When they play together for the Netherlands, Sneijder steadfastly refuses to even pass to RVP. If we sign Sneijder, Robin is LONG gone.

fiszman was by no means perfect either. don't forget that originally he slaughtered dein for wanting to bring kroenke in, then turned around and did that very same thing, so basically he spent a lot of effort trying to thwart dein only to achieve the same result in the end that dein would have achieved much earlier, turning any gap between them into a chasm that became unfixable (seemingly, to me, out of pure spite...and possibly similar in return from dein).
he also brought edelman and gazidis in. that could hardly be called a success.
also, afaik dein never tried to "take control" of the company. he wanted investment into it. that makes the investor the owner and controller, not dein. you claim dein was the one wanting complete control, but, looking at it from another angle, you can apply that claim to fiszman equally as well.

For real? I thought it was RVP and Robben only

I guess all of us are making assumptions to some degree as to what happened, but the difference between Dein and Fiszman is that Dein tried to do it without the backing of the board. Whether it was the right decision or not in the long run,(and remember a lot of the people clamouring for Dein to come back are the same people that are slagging off Kroenke too and missing the obvious irony) once Dein had done that there wasn't really going to be a way back, and Fiszman had too many people on his side. Dein gambled and lost.
As for Dein not having control, lets look at whats happened now. Kroenke owns Arsenal. But who runs it day to day? Basically it's Gazidis. Which is probably where Dein would be had his plan worked. Likewise had he managed to persuade Lady Nina to sell her shares to Usmanov, he'd be the one running it from day to day with Usmanov sitting behind him.

For all deins shadyness, I would take him back in a second

I would also love to watch iniesta and xavi as our mf....while charlize theron is serving me grapes and giving my hourly blowies....
what the ******** are you talking about man?
every summer...some ********ing moron "i would love sneijder".....
sneijder's wages are approximately double what our highest earners make...

We can't just lose RVP. People need to stop thinking that. He is under contract. If he doesn't sign an extension, Arsenal still won't sell him except for BIG money. We won't "lose" him.

He would essentially be lost if Arsenal sell him and pocket most of the profits without replacing him with a high quality striker.

lulz, yeah Balotelli sucks. Let's see, scored in the drubbing of ManUtd, scored the WINNING PK in the FINAL minute in a crucial game vs Spurs, did a helluva job in the title decider, is only 21, full Italian international, oh and he scored 13 goals in 23 league games which would make him Arsenal's 2nd leading scored. yep he sucks smh

Those two are useless. I think that when you lack knowledge of the local market and let's be real the MLS isn't eating off the same table as the EPL it just puts you at a competitive disadvantage in an industry where many deals are brokered, if not all deals, based on relationships which imvho Law and Gazidis seem to be lacking.

Law has been wit Arsenal since the Dein days, iirc

He is trash. How dare he score goals?

Balotelli isn't amazing, look at dzekos goal record and he's average. Balotelli is disruptive and not worth the massive fee

podolski could fill in at any of the front 4, really, while dempsey would be best at either of the two outside spots with a minor chance at filling in at the central attacking spot (but i don't think his skillset fits how we play that role at all).

that said, if benayoun goes back and park and/or chamakh goes, i wouldn't mind getting both. we could use the depth. i'm so sick and tired of, every year, come january we pick a random position to have a crisis at each year.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/sep/23/arsenal-premierleague
in a far more minor role though.

Hmm, cant quite put my finger on the point where I said Balotelli cant score goals. Oh, thats because I didn't. I was talking about attitudes. I can't see a massive amount wrong with Hazards attitude.

Ive heard that bullsh*t too many times now.

if we sign giroud you have to believe van persie is gone. there's no way on earth wenger would spend cash to have 3 left footed strikers all fighting for the same spot at once, especially when we have 2 non-scoring right footers who are supposedly forwards.

arsenal target nick powell has just scored a beautiful goal in the cheltenham/crewe playoff final.

Who does Sneijder think he is, Alex Song???

Did Sneijder constantly lose the ball in MF at the worst possible time, thereby allowing the other team to break and put pressure on the out-of-positon back 4?