Maximus

What a start to the season!!! 3 games in and we have eboue as our starting wing forward..... again!!!!!

VdV is better than Kranjcar, and he is one of the very few players in their squad with the experience of playing in Champion's league. He will defenitely improve them.

Alex Hleb will now play this season at Birmingham!! He made 34 appearance for Stutgart, and was impressive in the champions league home match against barca, but still couldnt find a top club. BTW,He has a 4 year - 90m Euro buyout contract with barca. Looks like Birmingham,Spurs and Bolton have done really well with the transfers.

:P ..will be funny if that happens. But the wheeler dealer will pull it off, im sure. WTF?!!!Did they teleport him to London??

Everyone but Arsene can see this. :unsure: Also a midfielder with a 'dark side' should help. oh.. that and injuries.....

Will be a perfect match. But Mancini wont let him go to Spurs. Birmingham interested in Alexander Hleb???

I dont think any arsenal supporter is hoping that buying shwarzer will solve all our problems. At best,he's a solid PL goal keeper - with aging reflexes - certainly more commanding in the box than almunia and fabianski. May be arsene plans to bring some competition for almunia and flappy which is not a bad thing. Spotting a goalkeeping talent may not be the problem for arsene, the real problem is, he ridiculously undervalue them. We were linked earlier this summer with names like Buffon,marchetti and frey, mertesacker and emir saphic etc. but i was sure that nobody is going to agree with arsene's valuation of those players. He really seem to underestimate what confidence a signing like buffon would bring to the squad.

With Bendtner already injured,All eyes on chamakh now. All of a sudden, chamakh signing becomes very important looking, than just a 'decent buy'. If we dont have RVP for the chelsea away match (Oct 3rd), our chances of getting points from your lot becomes slim and a bad result could affect the confidence of the squad.

So it's the last day... Mark Schwarzer may be a last minute addition. But knowing arsene i am preparing myself to face the disappointment.He has already submitted the same 2m bid twice (two different managers though). So a new improved offer is not a possibility, which is a shame really. With the other three signings, it looks like arsene has done good.

:unsure: Might have happend before i started regularly following arsenal - I am willing to delete those lines my post if theres any links. i couldnt find one though.

I was suggesting that its been a long time - almost a decade since then... and i thought it has nothing to do with the cesc story.

Arsenal never announces the name of the players they are going to sign. In chamakh's case arsene has always - link1, link2-maintained he is happy with the stikers he has- both in numbers and quality. Its always the players agent or the clubs that leaks these news to the press for their advantage. And I strongly disagree to the sudden consensus here that all clubs do the same - that is publicly pursuit a player after their managers/clubs declares that the player is not for sale. I cannot think of more than three or four clubs, rich clubs(or the clubs with gigantic debts). And in almost all the cases the pursuing club has ended up paying the right price for both clubs. In case of fabregas,There is no point in complaining to UEFA, unless fabregas himself hesitate to cooperate with arsenal - like berbatov did with Sp*s.So far cesc have been respectfull towards arsenal, unlike barca players/staff who states things like "arsenal will end up selling him to barca" and "arsenal have fabregas on loan". But if he does, i think we should put a formal complaint and from the clubs response so far in this issue, i think we will. And for the record, i dont think barca have done anything 'illegal' so far, just think they were 'a bit' classless and arrogant in this whole issue - especially after the club officially declared that cesc is not for sale in a strong language.

This is the latest from a barca official in my knowledge. Barcelona sporting vice-president Josep Maria Bartomeu says :

I doubt that.

Gasfart is having a brainpart! In 2001 he says,.. FFS!!!