What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly - Transfer Thread

i haven't missed any points

joe hart is a very big talent and a marked improvement on our keepers

we cannot afford buffon and hart could force a move as he seems to resent man city

u have this football manager mentality u can't seem to shake of buying world class players every season and saying wenger is useless because he doesn't buy the players u want

 

IMO, we aren't in for Buffon (and never were), and if Hart were available, he'd have a host of clubs willing to buy him, which would price us out. Therefore, this really is a trivial conversation.

 

It isn't a "football manager mentality." It is how literally every other major club in this world operates. If you have a glaring weakness in your team and you don't have the players at hand to solve it, you go and buy a good player to fill that void.

Wenger is only useless if he does nothing about the GK situation. He doesn't have to buy Buffon, but he has to do something. There must be an attempt to rectify this glaringly obvious issue. If Almunia and Fabianski are our #1 and #2 on September 2, 2010, then he has completely lost it.

 

Ever and always in this thread.

 

barca and united dont

although united spent alot on established players, not many were world class but became it under ferguson

 

So let's review what I said:

You have a glaring weakness on your team and you don't have the players at hand to solve it, so you go out and buy a good player to fill that void.

Barcelona and Manchester United don't do this?

The world class designation is your own. I just ask that something be done about the goalkeeper position. If you gave me a choice between Buffon and Hart, I'd take Buffon. I like either option much more than playing Almunia another game. Unfortunately, I don't think either is likely to happen. But something needs to.

 

but united took risks and developed talent and got the best player in the world out of it

i personally agree we should splash the cash, but to label wenger incompetent if we don't is a joke

 

If he does not attempt to fix the position, then he is incompetent to serve as the manager of the club. We know the club has the capacity to do it and we also know that this position singlehandedly gives away points and ruins otherwise winnable matches.

To see those things and choose not to try to make it better is to be stubborn to the point of negligence and he would no longer be fit to be the manager.

 

http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/2...join-race-to-sign-bologna-goalkeeper-emiliano

Emiliano Viviano? interesting.

 

Chamakh in London

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_6159930,00.html

 

we're easily into 2 figures in gk rumours at the minute! lol

 

What about Mandanda from L'OM?

Lets see, Adler, Viviano, Lloris, Frey, De Gea, Asenjo, Hart, Robinson (please NO), Buffon, Sorenson...

Who else? Thats 10 and I know there have been others!

 

green, neuer?, reina, akinfeev, gordon?

 

Yeah. Plus this also breeds resentment of certain players from our fan base. Denilson especially and Diaby too to some extent. We are hurting the team in the present supposedly to "protect" the future of players who are mediocre in the first place. We end up blaming the player, but it's the coach who's really more at fault.

 

Yeah, I really wonder why we don't do more of that.

 

I don't buy this. To a significant extent, playing time = credibility. Gilberto lost a step to the point where we couldn't afford to give Gilberto playing time any more. But he still wanted to continue his career as a competitive player. I don't think we had any better choices with him.

 

Yeah, but it does happen every once in a while. For a while, the Buffalo Bills were thought to be in the frontrunners to get Tim Tebow on Jim Kelly's sayso.

 

he wouldve been perfect backup for song

 

Dunga was playing in Japan in 1998, yet captained Brazil at the world cup

it doesn't mean much, if we being honest

also, would Gilberto enjoy being a squadable player? Would he still start for Brazil as a squaddie player?


In saying that, I agree with you about having an older head to teach the young pups at CM

 

all those keepers and you still have almunia in nets? are you really arsene wenger in disguise?

 

Transfer news not directly related to Arsenal, but:

Thierry Henry is going to the New York Red Bulls.... How the mighty have fallen.

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/news/story?id=5194974

 

not exactly sure how you came to that conclusion