Depressingly true.
Robin van Persie
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Depressingly true.
Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't Gill come out and say we're working on a few more signings each summer for the past few years with absolutely diddly-squat materialising?
We bought DDG, Young and Jones last summer.
3 weeks to the end of the window and Persie himself remains silent on everything, so far but I don't blame him.
Being 29, having a family and also thinking in the same time about his football ambitions may be a bit complicated and he'll have to make decision to move on with things or trust Arsene Wenger that he's finally gonna lead Arsenal to win in Premiership or somewhere else.
Of course, it would be nice if he could just say, where he wants to play next season but no pressure... no pressure at all, Van.
Being 29, having a family and also thinking in the same time about his football ambitions may be a bit complicated and he'll have to make decision to move on with things or trust Arsene Wenger that he's finally gonna lead Arsenal to win in Premiership or somewhere else.
Of course, it would be nice if he could just say, where he wants to play next season but no pressure... no pressure at all, Van.
No but you would say that to help the IPO, cnut.
Will be interesting to see if the mystery player besides van Persie is a winger as second choice to Lucas. Seeing as we were sure of Lucas being signed just a few days ago, I can't imagine us having a backup ready this soon.
Probably a left back.
Probably a left back.
I mean to say when we're coming to the end of the transfer window. He's always saying it and we usually sign nobody after he has said we're working on signing more players.
feck off.
You're making things up, Cunto.
Och, there's no doubt that we're world class at talking about deals we might get done at some indeterminate point in the future.
For me, Gill stating we're working on a few things is the nail in the coffin for our transfer dealings.
That's all very well but if we ignore all the players that we actually did sign, he has a point...
Value in the market and hopefully value in words...
You think that we will being a 'few' players in?
Easy, Brophs. Anyway, I reckon there's too much fannying about by us. Either put up or shut up.
berbatov is worth feck all. do you honestly think a team will pay 10 million for him?
RvP isn't going to move below 20 million quid IMO.
Thank you, the amount was for demonstrative purposes and irrelevant. My point was that, if SAF gets a couple million quid more for Berbs than he anticipates, it may make him more willing to pay an extra couple million for RvP also, as it'll just be "the extra Berbatov cash".
Good effort missing the point though, VoetbalWizard.
Eh? Did my half-hearted Fergie imitation not make it obvious? If I didn't have such unshakeable self-confidence I'd think my jokes weren't all that funny.
I think we are trying/aiming to bring in more than one.
Yes.
We'll very likely get van Persie, once Arsenal has held out for a bit more money, and we wanted to spend £30m on an unproven 19 year old winger, so it's not out of question that we might have a bit of cash to spend on at least one more player besides van Persie.
I'd be surprised if we don't get two more players with van Persie being one of them.
We're not the only ones and it does seem to be the way things are done these days. You get a few signings sorted out early on in the window (e.g. Kagawa, Podolski, Borini) then a really long quiet period followed by transfer madness in the last few days of the window. I guess it's all down to brinkmanship over fees, by both parties.
RvP seems like our last roll of the dice to me.
Hazard
Modric
Lucas
We are not doing very well so far.
Us wanting van Persie is not a result of us not getting Lucas - we've been working hard on both of them at the same time, because we wanted both. We very nearly got one (Lucas) and we're still in a good position to get the other (van Persie)
Moutinho would be the coup de grace for me. Not too much speculation, but exactly what our midfield needs
It's for another thread, but it would be almost negligent on Fergie's part not to bring in a left back. And since he is a half-decent manager I don't see it happening.
Just let us have Coentrão you cnuts. Or Marcello if not.
At some point, yes but remaining 3 weeks is surely enough time to bring 2 or even more quality players.
It's not our fault that players turn into cynical cash grabbing slaves when only they'll hear word - "Project" from some oil pimp businessman.
Perhaps. I'll be shocked if Fergie actually thinks he's getting for under £15m, though...I hope he gets his man, rather than lament what could've been cum start of the new season. And why have we started making our transfer targets public knowledge? First Lucas and now Persie. Putting pressure on them?
I was saying hello, cockface.
It's almost as if people forget we signed players early on, or as if other clubs are signing players just days after showing an interest and all getting their first targets.
Yeah, it's all a bit odd. If I was into conspiracies I'd wonder if Fergie himself is getting pissed off at being pipped at the post for recent targets and indulging in some politics to up the ante with Gill and the people holding the purse-strings.
We're going to be that pathetic Jewish kid at Christmas, again, aren't we?
Yeah.
Going by Gill comments i am sure we won't be bringing anymore players.Looks like a publicity stunt to me.
Even Sarah Michelle Gellar, who's Jewish had true Christmas in her childhood.
David Gill is such a fake Santa.
Exactly, look at Chelsea and Hulk, that looked nail on to follow directly after Hazard, yet here we are and it seems unlikely to even happen now.
Seconded.
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Hold on Roberto, so you can't say anything about players but you can reject bids for Balotelli yourself?
Do. Not. Trust.
Spot the odd one out.
Yeah we've missed out on a few targets we clearly had official offers for. But lets not make up extra ones when there is no need.
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