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  1. #1
    Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
    I am not oppressing you at all, simply as our Canadian colleague has pointed out, our players become our players when they join us.

    We need new players.

    I wish we could get rid of some as well, like Walcott. Hate him.

  2. #2
    Quote Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige View Post
    I wish we could get rid of some as well, like Walcott. Hate him.
    A lot will be going. So many that I expect we have to keep Theon just to keep up the homegrown quota in the squard.

    Debuchy, Blenkinsop, Gibbs, Wilshere, Perez, Alexis, Giroud, Elneny, Campbell, Sanogo. Ox

  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    A lot will be going. So many that I expect we have to keep Theon just to keep up the homegrown quota in the squard.

    Debuchy, Blenkinsop, Gibbs, Wilshere, Perez, Alexis, Giroud, Elneny, Campbell, Sanogo. Ox
    don't forget Sir Chesney.

    That's an full 11 and a sub's worth of players leaving.

  4. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    A lot will be going. So many that I expect we have to keep Theon just to keep up the homegrown quota in the squard.

    Debuchy, Blenkinsop, Gibbs, Wilshere, Perez, Alexis, Giroud, Elneny, Campbell, Sanogo. Ox
    Caramel soy lattés for all round Theo's gaff.

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    A lot will be going. So many that I expect we have to keep Theon just to keep up the homegrown quota in the squard.

    Debuchy, Blenkinsop, Gibbs, Wilshere, Perez, Alexis, Giroud, Elneny, Campbell, Sanogo. Ox
    Alexis and Giroud are the only ones worth giving a **** about really. Ox seems to have this idea that he can play in central midfield, so if that's what he wants let him go and look a tit in someone else's midfield.

  6. #6
    Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
    A lot will be going. So many that I expect we have to keep Theon just to keep up the homegrown quota in the squard.

    Debuchy, Blenkinsop, Gibbs, Wilshere, Perez, Alexis, Giroud, Elneny, Campbell, Sanogo. Ox
    Going nowhere.

  7. #7
    Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
    Going nowhere.
    You think Giroud will want to stay with Lacazette coming here?

  8. #8
    Quote Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige View Post
    You think Giroud will want to stay with Lacazette coming here?
    Maybe not but I don't think AW will really want to sell him.

    I’m not sure Lacazette is as clear cut as the media may have us believing. Their chairman is an awkward bugger to deal with and at some point AW will walk away on the basis of his valuation being exceeded.

    Suppose it all depends on the lad Sanchez going or staying, we would not pony the money for Lacazette last summer so to now go an extra 10m-20m seems odd though our needs may have changed.

  9. #9
    Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
    Maybe not but I don't think AW will really want to sell him.

    I’m not sure Lacazette is as clear cut as the media may have us believing. Their chairman is an awkward bugger to deal with and at some point AW will walk away on the basis of his valuation being exceeded.

    Suppose it all depends on the lad Sanchez going or staying, we would not pony the money for Lacazette last summer so to now go an extra 10m-20m seems odd though our needs may have changed.
    I don't see the link between Lacazette and Sanchez to be honest. Both can play in the same team and play in different positions. Wenger clearly doesn't rate Giroud highly enough to play him every week, otherwise he wouldn't have picked Danny ****ing Welbeck ahead of him so i don't see us going into the new season with those two as our main striker options even if Sanchez stays. As for what they valued him at last year compared to this, we do have about £40m extra to play with this summer and one of our signings came on a free, so i imagine there's around £100m or so in the budget and they'll probably sign two more players. Last year £100m had to go on a centre back, centre mid and a striker so that might have been why they didn't want to stump up £50m+ for Lacazette.

    Just a theory of course. Nobody really knows.

  10. #10
    Quote Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige View Post
    I don't see the link between Lacazette and Sanchez to be honest. Both can play in the same team and play in different positions. Wenger clearly doesn't rate Giroud highly enough to play him every week, otherwise he wouldn't have picked Danny ****ing Welbeck ahead of him so i don't see us going into the new season with those two as our main striker options even if Sanchez stays. As for what they valued him at last year compared to this, we do have about £40m extra to play with this summer and one of our signings came on a free, so i imagine there's around £100m or so in the budget and they'll probably sign two more players. Last year £100m had to go on a centre back, centre mid and a striker so that might have been why they didn't want to stump up £50m+ for Lacazette.

    Just a theory of course. Nobody really knows.
    You know as well as I do that the fact we may have an extra 40m or whatever means nothing when it comes to Arsenal. That 40m would sit very nicely in the bank.

    You correctly point out that none of us know what is going to happen. I myself simply don’t see Wenger as the 50m-60m striker type, much more suited to cheaper options, last summer for example with Vardy and ultimately Perez.

    He will see Sanchez, Giroud, Walcott and Welbeck as options. Now two of them leave and things change.

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