didierforever

luiz for 50mil...

BA staying is probably one of the best transfer news i have heard so far. he is a great 2nd/3rd striker. costa/lukaku/ba would a nice fit. will make each other perform better by the competition.

damn. i always forget iva. his versatility gives us some immense cover. CB - JT, GC, iva, zouma RB - azpi, iva LB - RR/moreno/shaw, azpi and a couple of youngsters like omerou and pva(?) as backups if needed. makes sense. kalas was really impressive in the oppurtunities he got. just really sad that 2 away matches in PL at anfield and carrow road and 2 clean sheets cant get u a spot in the squad for the next year. probably next to next season then.

fiberglass was the captain. he is responsible for the way his team performs on the pitch. the way his team shows character and fight on the pitch.the mentality that arsenal show on the pitch and arsenal's was shown like his. and thats why i say his abilities dont outweigh his liabilities. his best position is still out for debate. the position we want him to play in for us, he has not played for 3 years (club and country). his mentality has massive question marks. also his defensive work has massive question marks which will simply be the most important aspect of the B2B we want to buy.

ohhh... why? we were lucky with JT this season. may not be so next season. we need depth in the defence unlike last time. he should be here competing with zouma for the 3rd CB spot.

oh ya... the same midfield in arsenal that was conceding 4 goals after going 4-0 up. the defence organizations of that midfield was so laughable that a semi-pro team could score. his "abilities" in no way outweigh his deficiencies which are MANY!!! barcelona used him in a 3 man midfield sacrificing iniesta on the wings, as a false nine, a winger yada yada yada... and he was average everywhere. his best position in barca would be false 9. defensively i dont think he contibutes half of what jose would want for a B2B or a DLP. defnitely far from the player we need for 30mil.

are we talking about the same fiberglass that has been hopelessly average in la liga against deep defences with a striker like messi?

quality options? lets see cunt fiberglass' career. won jack squat with arsenal, in the last 3 years, he has won one la liga and copa del ray. barca's 3 years before that was 2 CLs, 3 La ligas and 1 copa. they have mightily regressed since cunt fiberglass has gone to barca. in 2011-12 pep changed his complete tactics, formations just to accomodate the cunt. this year they sold thiago alcantara. this guy has a massive loser mentality which cancels out all and any technical ability of his. also, we are still trying to find our identity. believe me we wont find it thru players like etoo, cunt fiberglass and fsw who are anything but chelsea. as for options, we have rakitic, kovacic. we can buy kroos (since cunt fiberglass himself would take nothing less than 150kpw dont think kroos' wage would be an issue).

cant believe people WANT him here. this guy is a cunt. and not just a normal cunt but a special kind. its shameful how much the fans just love playing fifa/fm that they will WANT any whore of a player. remember ballack and lamps. if this cunt comes here, it will be worse than the benitez appointment.

i dont think staying in england is what is essential here. the player needs to be "irrespective of nationality or age, have been affiliated to the FA or Welsh FA for a period of three seasons or 36 months prior to 21st birthday" which piazon is. i might be wrong but thats my understanding of the matter.

happy bday... big pete.

piazon will be under-21 next year. but he will be HG whenever he is registered.

come on ATM... make those wankers cry!!!

we do have enough HG players. plus lamps WILL be our 5th CM without a doubt (otherwise we have bigger problems). that slot can go to chalobah/baker and we can still keep the HG quote.

why are we so concerned about HG player quotas considering we buy a new LB (rodrizuez), new CM (rakitic) and a striker (costa), this will be our squad PL squad GK - cech, thibaut, blackman (HG) defenders - JT (HG), GC (HG), azpi, iva, rodriguez, zouma (HG), kalas (HG). cole/pva/bertrand (HG) CMs - matic, rambo, mvg, rakitic, chalobah/lamps (HG) AMs - hazard, oscar, willian, salah, schurrle, traore/piazon/moses (HG) strikers - costa, mr. X (torres/mandzukic), lukaku (HG) so atleast for the PL squad we have enough players to get by. infact we can buy a new CB and loan out kalas probably. CL squad GK - cech, thibaut defenders - JT (HG-1), GC (HG-2), azpi, iva, rodriguez, kalas (HG-2), cole/pvs/bertrand (HG-2) CMs- matic, rambo, mvg, rakitic, chalobah/lamps (under21/HG-2) AMs - hazard, oscar, schurrle, willian, salah, piazon/traore/moses (HG-2,under21,HG-2) strikers - costa, mr.x (torres/mandzukic), lukaku (HG-2?) in this we have some problems. we can name 23 players (blackman and zouma are under-21 so they dont need to be listed) out of which we have ENOUGH association trained player (HG-2) but just one club trained player (HG-1). last year essien was sacrificed. similarly if we "sacrifice" the 6th AM spot, coupled with JT, and 2 other players to be named (under-21), we can fulfil that quota too. hence, i simply dont see what the hoopla here is?

the weird part is that people can see THAT about barca but not about their OWN club. no GOOD (not even average, i think) strikers, no good CMs, a total lack of any identity or style of play. selling the club's POTY twice in a row, getting new talents like schurrle and willian and helping them acclimitize and fighting against a vastly superior squad in man city. yet, we were in the CL semis and in the title race till the 2nd last day (while being the favourites till the 34th game, the title actually slipped after the sunderland game which was 35th, i think). and yet, people say this was a failure.

SIGN HIM UP!!!!!!!!!!!

arsenal are actually having a bus parade for FA cup...

loaning him IS the best possible option. specially with a success at a mid-table team like wba, then a europa team like everton and now maybe,,, ATM/bvb. selling lukaku gives us no profit. just like selling sturridge dint give us any "profit". the loss in the number of goals, plus buying another striker in a couple of years after mandzukic gets 30 years old simply negates any 2mil profit we would get out of lukaku by selling him for 20mi.

its actually very simple. when people think we are about to buy some1, they expect the guy to score in every match. if that does not happen, the forum crashes. last season when we were in for cavani, i remember him playing a confed match in which he dint score. people lost their minds saying how can we buy another torres for 50mil.

oh!!! so there are better strikers that are available than him who? cavani - 70+mil suarez - 80mil aguero - LOL messi - LOL falcao - 60mil + coming off a bad injury. so who exactly? when i asked u for a list of reasons, i meant on a technical basis. not on a reply "if he stays fit and continues scoring", if mario stays fit and continues scoring he should be our first striker. if bamford/feruz can do, even they can be our first striker. the question was to give me reasons why he should be taken as a first striker ahead of mario. like why should matic be first choice DM ahead of mikel, cos he is a better shield, far more dynamic, has a better passing range, can join in the attack etc,etc... these are a list of reasons. and since u think i took it out of context, so i went back and checked it. in 3 different posts, i have mentioned MINUTES. only u here think costa will be a nailed on starter, rest people will be talking about minutes. look at TOPTB's discussion about benzema and higuain. it will always come down to minutes. If we sign both these guys, we ll see how many minutes each of them will get. Will it be costa having 3 times the minutes of mario (as u predict a 45-15 distribution) or a more sane and level headed 55%-45% distribution. and real at the other part. do u even read my posts. MINUTES, i talk about MINUTES. i know what happens in real life unlike you. BA might have made 29 appearance but he got a total of 884 minutes. thats why i dint say appearances but MINUTES. again please read before replying. If we sign both these guys, we ll see how many minutes each of them will get. Will it be costa having 3 times the minutes of mario (as u predict a 45-15 distribution) or a more sane and level headed 55%-45% distribution.

lukaku may have been getting minutes and maybe when we bought etoo he thought that even those minutes would go out of the window. he was already losing the striker spot in chelsea and just dint want to lose the striker spot for belgium too to benteke. he is a 20 year old. maybe he panicked. maybe he made a mistake. but so what? one mistake does not mean me sell him specially when he can be a major asset to us. simply dont see why we should be selling the best U-21 striker in the world right now.

moses had a good season for us. in one season we had already brought hazard and oscar, and we simply dint have enough budget left to throw another 20mil on an AM. moses was bought to be a squad player who maybe could get better. and he fulfilled his job. sturridge was a mistake, i accepted that. costa is not prone to injuries. its obvious he was used too early be simeone. he simply was not fit enough from his previous injury but condiering the stakes, it was a fair risk. pep dint use mandzukic against united in the first leg. reason - he is an idiot. cos as soon as mario was bought in, he played a header in the path of bastian, who scored. i am agreeing with u that lukaku should be kept. i dont want mandzukic if we are getting costa.

marin , moses??? marin was 23 when he was bought. moses 22. torres was a transfer screw up. are we going to judge everything on torres? our board has done EXCEPTIONALLY well in the last 3 years (dont forget mata). the only mistake i can say is sturridge. 25/26 year old is the perfect age. costa is no where near his peak. 27/28 is normally considered to be the age that a player peaks. costa has had just a couple of good years and he has a looooooong way to go in his career. lukaku will be sold if we buy mandzukic, not costa. now THAT would be a poor transfer. but to say this about costa is just wrong.