*Transfers special* Which players should Arsenal sell and buy in January?

All this talk about signing a world-class CM/DM and you guys are forgetting how unavailable they are. Mou resorted to getting Essien. Barca grabbed one of the only ones available this season in Song. Bayern splashed the cash to get Martinez. Manchester United brought Scholes out of retirement.

Pray that you guys can get Capoue or Lars Bender because those are the best DM's I know of that are remotely close to being available.

Yohan Modric wrote:

The Franchise wrote:

Yohan Modric wrote:

And that's the problem with Arsenal. Not buying big players.

I'm sure everyone deep down knows their target is to win the EPL and CL. Not finish 4th every season.

Aren't Arsenal suppose to be a top team?

They are not buying big players because either they cant afford to or Wenger think he can get players for cheaper who will eventually become top players.

He isnt wrong, but his method has it flaws also.

A top team? Do they look like a top team to you?

Atletico were once a top team. So where Aston Villa. So where Leeds.

Need to move on with the times, not everyone can be elite for their entire history. Or even most of their history.

They might say their target is win the title, they might even want to belive it...but anyone with 2 eyes can see thats not what they are right now.

Perhaps we should lament Atletico for signing Godin, after all why didnt they go for Vidic?

Well there's rumours Arsenal have 50m to spend in January.

Arsenal haven't sunk to Atletico, Leeds or Aston Villa's level. They're still at a high level and it is possible for them to compete for the title/CL etc.

People don't class Atletico as a top tier club. Arsenal are still a top tier club. It's just they're not competing for what they should be competing for.

They are just that, remours...heard them all before, never amount to anything.

And your being niave, they arent any more likely to win the league than Atletico are and no more likely than Valencia to win the CL. Need to stop looking at their name and have a think about what kind of squad they have.

And guys saying buy Hunterlaar or Ba. I understand Giroud needs competiton, no arguement there. However, you could never play either of them and Giroud at the same time. So basically it will always be one or the other, eventually someone will get sick of that.

There's money, 45m in January + 30m from the new deal with Emirates in the summer available.

Still a question whether Wenger will use it, or let some of it for his successor.

The exact amount is always a matter of debate, but we've all been lead to believe there is a good amount of money available to Wenger in January, and even more money will be available in the summer.

Of course, the money still has to be used wisely, especially when it comes to wages.

Thing is, they never say whether the reported money includes the wages and the agent fee in it.

I don't think we have 50m for jan, maybe 30m on just transfers. Unless Wenger loves Huntelaar, surely he can try for someone like Doumbia before.

RealGunner wrote:I don't think we have 50m for jan, maybe 30m on just transfers. Unless Wenger loves Huntelaar, surely he can try for someone like Doumbia before.

He'd cost you somewhere around €30m if you decided to pursue him.

Most reliable sources say that transfer fees and wages come out of the same budget. If that's true, the supposed £50mil kitty suddenly becomes a lot smaller.

FM prodigy Doumbia costs 30m? Football market has really gone mad....

Except he has been scoring consistently every season both in the league as well as in Europe to be considered more than just an 'FM Prodigy'..

The guy is 25 ffs,he's clearly a mature striker and CSKA wants to keep hold of him at all costs.Only a big offer would price him away from Russia and understandably so.

Surag wrote:Except he has been scoring consistently every season both in the league as well as in Europe to be considered more than just an 'FM Prodigy'..

The guy is 25 ffs,he's clearly a mature striker and CSKA wants to keep hold of him at all costs.Only a big offer would price him away from Russia and understandably so.

As i said before he will just go on a free then.... like Dzageov and Honda are about too or he will waste his career there like Akinfeev has.

CSKA have tried this greedy tactic before and nearly every time it has bit them on the arse... if they do it again then the same thing will happen again.

No one is paying 30m for Doumbia not in a million years.

All this gossip will be forgotten anyways when Arsenal win 4 of their next 5 games.

Shrekkisfat wrote:All this gossip will be forgotten anyways when Arsenal win 4 of their next 5 games.

Wish we could all share that faith.

Most of those games are against 'lower opposition'. We generally f*ck it up pretty bad against those teams. Same old same old.

Not even a month ago Arsenal was one of the most complete teams in the league and were destined to fight for the league................ the knee jerk in football is ridiculous. Splashing cash isn't going to resolve anything. They need to sign one or maybe two players max.

They need to sign a leader. Nobody in their team stands out to be influential. Wenger having no expectations doesn't help. A great man once said " Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor."

This continous of "top four" being a trophy is ridiculous. Players are going to use Arsenal to progress just as Nasri, RvP, Cesc etc have all done only to leave to fight for titles. Until Wenger decides to fight for the league, it's going to be the same. Arsenal right now lack a Viera or a Henry to help guide them out of trouble and find some form again. The players have no motivation and the ones that do can't do it alone (Cazorla).

EDIT: Hell even RvP last season.

Should of built the team around him...

Sell Chamakh, Bendter, Squicilli, Park
Buy DM, ST Capoue and possibly Ba

Who's exactly going to buy Chamakh, Squillaci and Park?

ynwa wrote:Who's exactly going to buy Chamakh, Squillaci and Park?

The teams who match that quality can't afford dem wages.. Same problem with every single player labelled 'Arsenal Deadwood'..

ynwa wrote:They need to sign a leader.

THIS.

'Collective Responsibility' doesn't work when half the sqaud hasn't seen a trophy in their lives and the other half haven't been at Arsenal over 2-3 years.

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ynwa wrote:Who's exactly going to buy Chamakh, Squillaci and Park?

The teams who match that quality can't afford dem wages.. Same problem with every single player labelled 'Arsenal Deadwood'..

It's the same problem Liverpool currently has with Carroll and Cole.

We had to loan Andy out and nobody is going to buy Cole. He's on 90k a week...

ynwa wrote:

srigooner wrote:

ynwa wrote:Who's exactly going to buy Chamakh, Squillaci and Park?

The teams who match that quality can't afford dem wages.. Same problem with every single player labelled 'Arsenal Deadwood'..

It's the same problem Liverpool currently has with Carroll and Cole.

We had to loan Andy out and nobody is going to buy Cole. He's on 90k a week...

We can't even find suitors to take Chamakh and Squidshite on loan

Surprised we could send out Ju Park though.. I bet we pay a major part of his wages!

We did that last year with Cole to Lille.

I think we even paid Aquilani to get off our books after Fiorentina wanted him. We didn't get no transfer fee despite Fiorentina giving us 3.5m...