Re: The Official Summer Transfer Rumours Thread

[Twoism]

Also World Cup year so wheee

[Sri]

... and potentially early end to the transfer window

[Jay29]

And it's Wenger's final year on his current contract

This year better be good because 18/19 is going to be a disaster.

[Sri]

Good lord.

[Sina]

Yeah Wenger not allowing director of football in gonna cost us big times
otherwise had one year to prepare for departures and build new team (if not like for like replacements )

[Jay29]

Gabriel close to joining Valencia.

And we plan on playing three centre backs this season?

[Sri]

Mertesacker, Koscielny, Mustafi, Holding, Chambers, (Monreal, Kolasinac, Elneny, ...)

Yeah, we are not *bleep* at all

[Jay29]

We're trying to sell Chambers, too. So it'll be:

Injury prone Koscielny
Retiring Mertesacker
Shkodran "must dive into every tackle" Mustafi
And 21 year old Rob Holding



Monreal is a centre back now. Not being able to sell Gibbs might turn out to be a blessing.

We're selling Gabriel for just £10m, too. I literally have no idea what the plan is at the moment.

[Jay29]

Defensive worries aside, Draxler could be available.

Has the time come for Draxler to become an Arsenal legend?

[EL Patron]

We're trying to sell Chambers, too. So it'll be:

Injury prone Koscielny
Retiring Mertesacker
Shkodran "must dive into every tackle" Mustafi
And 21 year old Rob Holding



Monreal is a centre back now. Not being able to sell Gibbs might turn out to be a blessing.

We're selling Gabriel for just £10m, too. I literally have no idea what the plan is at the moment.

Also El Nenny can play there

[Sri]

Defensive worries aside, Draxler could be available.

Has the time come for Draxler to become an Arsenal legend?

Haven't followed him in the last few months, has he improved? I remember some concerns regarding what he could offer earlier..

Also, who else will be on the out-list at PSG? Krychowiak could be useful?

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Fantasy aside, reality is that we'll not make any signings because of deadwood.

[Rascar Capac]

Defensive worries aside, Draxler could be available.

Has the time come for Draxler to become an Arsenal legend?

Haven't followed him in the last few months, has he improved? I remember some concerns regarding what he could offer earlier..

Also, who else will be on the out-list at PSG? Krychowiak could be useful?

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Fantasy aside, reality is that we'll not make any signings because of deadwood.

PSG have got a whole lot of players that could help our cause. One among Lucas or Draxler is going to be sold. We can force them on the left wing as we normally do.

Krychowiak is probably available for a knockdown price after his horrible debut season. I personally believe he's not flashy enough for PSG's liking. We could probably see if he's available, as we were supposed to be interested in him before.

And finally one among Aurier/Meunier must be sold and are gonna be available for a nominal price.

AW with his French connections can easily get shit done if not for the deadwood.

Instead of the actual deadwood such as Debuchy and Gibbs, we're selling part-time deadwood Gabriel, for a 5mio(?) loss.

All our deadwood players suddenly doing a Bogarde on us.

/rant.

[El Gunner]

It's just turned really sour this window

[Raptorgunner]

Arsenal star Shkodran Mustafi in talks with Inter Milan over possible transfer - report

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/842726/Arsenal-transfer-news-Shkodran-Mustafi-Inter-Milan-Arsene-Wenger-football-gossip

[El Gunner]

absolute bull^^

[mani88]

Gabriel confirmed

.com:

Defenders Left: Koscielny, Per, Mustafi, Holding, Chambers

Alternates: Monreal, Kolasinac, Elneny

Are they enough???

[Hapless_Hans]

What about the Polish kid?

[mani88]

What about the Polish kid?

Is he even ready for first team?? Is not labeled as first team player on .com as well.

[Jay29]

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[Hapless_Hans]

What about the Polish kid?

Is he even ready for first team?? Is not labeled as first team player on .com as well.

I don't know, but he's 19 isn't he? If at 19 he isn't ready to be the 6th backup option, he'll never be ready.

You enumerate 5 CBs and 2 more players which can easily be used as a CB in Kolasinac and Monreal. How many do you want?
That's more than enough in numbers.

We have 4 CBs in Hummels, Martinez, Boateng, and Süle. Now, Boateng and Martinez have been injured so Alaba has been playing in central defense, as he often has in recent times.
We've had games played in recent years where Kimmich and Xabi Alonso had to play CB because of injuries. We had a CL quarter away at Juve featuring a central defense of Kimmich-Alaba

It makes no sense to ask for more defenders, and if a unusual number of them is injured or not available, you'll have to look for stop gaps. That's normal.

[EL Patron]

What about the Polish kid?

Is he even ready for first team?? Is not labeled as first team player on .com as well.

I don't know, but he's 19 isn't he? If at 19 he isn't ready to be the 6th backup option, he'll never be ready.

You enumerate 5 CBs and 2 more players which can easily be used as a CB in Kolasinac and Monreal. How many do you want?
That's more than enough in numbers.

We have 4 CBs in Hummels, Martinez, Boateng, and Süle. Now, Boateng and Martinez have been injured so Alaba has been playing in central defense, as he often has in recent times.
We've had games played in recent years where Kimmich and Xabi Alonso had to play CB because of injuries. We had a CL quarter away at Juve featuring a central defense of Kimmich-Alaba

It makes no sense to ask for more defenders, and if a unusual number of them is injured or not available, you'll have to look for stop gaps. That's normal.

Think it's due to the fact that we are looking to loan him so he can pick up some real first team experience.

[silver]

Did we really sell Gabriel?

I know he was crap but at least he was a CB, not a LB posing as a CB...

[Raptorgunner]

Tbh, Gabriel had better season than Mustafi.

[Jay29]

Wenger asked about Mustafi rumours in his press conference today: didn't deny them, just gave a vague answer about not knowing what could happen. That's in stark contrast to Alexis/Chamberlain, who he said weren't going anywhere.

Wtf are we doing

Also said that our pursit of Lemar is dead.

[Jay29]

Arsenal offered Ox £180,000 p/w to stay. Ox rejected it.

Bin him and sign an actual right back imo.

[Sina]

hope we get good money for AOC
offloading Mustafi would be great too
Not bothered if we sign anyone
in fact transfer ban as long as Wenger is in charge would be nice

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