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He should sort you out at set pieces, he's very strong in the air. He's very calm and a great tackler, but clean with it, I can't remember him making too many bad ones. He isn't very quick though, werder play a deep defensive line and he'll need someone quick alongside him to make up for that I would think.

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toythatkills

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From GAF:

We're going mental over here. Mert is on his way to have his medical, we're in discussion with Blackburn over Samba, and Bolton's chairman just confirmed that we have made another bid for Cahill "Not accepted, nor rejected yet."

We're gonna have more centre-backs than the rest of the Premier League combined :lol:

It's like Wenger's picked up a copy of The Sun from two months ago and just gone "SIGN ALL THESE."

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Hang on. I said he was a shit manger. Correct. He really fucked things up for Liverpool. Are you going to deny that?

You're the child for not acknowledging this. Except you did? Because it's true.

Oh but thanks for telling me that he played for the club and won stuff I NEVER KNEW THAT. Douche.

Pretty much, I +1'd you for that. We've had a shit load of dross come through. Players we thought might be good turned out to be worse than average. Cheyrou was a brilliant one, "The new Zidane". Biscan was a disaster, Traore was comic genius, Kewell never performed, Cisse looked cool. Champions league winners though!

Recently it's been Keane, Babel, Pennant, and what happened to Gonzalez a while ago? Scored on his debut then was awful.

Further back there's Meijer, Dundee, even Collymore.

It's all the fault of Graham Souness; he started the shitness :P

Arsenal should sign Cattermole. He's just the violent thug you need AND he hardly ever gets sent off (when you compare the severity of his challenges to his red card ratio).

Cheyrou was bad. Biscan wasn't, he was class until Houllier fucked him about by playing him as a CB, RB, winger, basically anywhere but CM.

Traore was signed for peanuts and was a competent defender at a lower level. Kewell was immensely talented but with a horrible fitness record. 'Cisse looked cool' sums up your opinion.

What about Hamann? Hyypia? Henchoz? Xabi Alonso? Luis Garcia? Yossi Benayoun? Arbeloa? Reina? Finnan? Riise?

Meijer came on a free at a time when we had no strikers. Collymore was amazing with Fowler until his mentalness shone through.

We were shite for 20 years because our leadership from the board was non-existent. David Moores didn't want to make a single decision and right now that's what Arsenal are suffering from. When you haven't got a strong direction at the top, what do you expect?

But I wouldn't think someone like you would actually consider something beyond whatever shite is regurgitated in the media.

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Art Vandelay

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In fairness though his game has never been about pace. He's more likely to be the guy cutting stuff out before it goes wrong and sticking his bonce on balls into the box. I could see him forming quite a fruitful partnership with Vermaelen's more cavalier approach, just not with any of our other centre halves.

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I don't know everything about him but he's 26, tall and has 75 caps for Germany. That's not a bad start. He might not be the quickest but if you asked me what nationality I'd like to help seal up and organise our defense a German would be high on the list.

Innit. I don't get the negativity with this at all. He's fucking perfect-he's also a life-long Gooner.

From GAF:

We're gonna have more centre-backs than the rest of the Premier League combined :lol:

It's like Wenger's picked up a copy of The Sun from two months ago and just gone "SIGN ALL THESE."

It's all a bit mental. All the talk seems to be that one of Cahill and Samba will be signed tomorrow morning and that we're gonna pony up for one of M'Villa, Goatze or Martin.

Fun times.

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Which begs the question, why wait until now?

Funnily, I was talking with someone this morning about this.

It's two fold I think-1. Sunday. 2. Samir Fucking Nasri.

It seems like he'd 'promised' to stay at the start of the Summer for this year with the promise in return that he could go wherever for a free next year. Meant that we had less cash to spend now and less of a need to get another player in. He then went and started talking to PSG and we got a fuck-tonne of cash from Man City who didn't want to miss out on the KD Lang-a-like.

The defensive signings are a bit of a fuck-up though. Should've been done in June.

EDIT: Sorry, 3-fold. Barcecuntinglona. Should've fucking lumped up for Cesc in June when we were expecting/asking them to. Instead they spent all summer chasing Sanchez and then arguing with us over £10mill or so. If they'd have been half-fucking useful and less of a shower of twats, we'd have had £20mill or so to spend straight off in June on a replacement.

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Looks like Mertesacker and Santos are signing according the Guardian. I'm not gonna lie and pretend I know much about them but Mertesacker is a German international and has to be better than Squillaci (although that can't be that hard!).

Other targets being mentioned however are not making me very happy, Malouda and Benayoun, I mean come on! Not bad players but hardly replacements for Nasri and Cesc. Why are we shopping in the bargain bins if there's £70 million to spend?

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Other targets being mentioned however are not making me very happy, Malouda and Benayoun, I mean come on! Not bad players but hardly replacements for Nasri and Cesc. Why are we shopping in the bargain bins if there's £70 million to spend?

I agree, although I do think that some of the money will be used to top up our current players worth keeping; Van Persie, Vermaelen, Ramsey, Wilshere and Walcott. I'm okay with that otherwise we'll have to go through the whole Cesc/Nasri thing again in 2013.

EDIT: forgot Wilshere

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I agree, although I do think that some of the money will be used to top up our current players worth keeping; Van Persie, Vermaelen, Ramsey and Walcott. I'm okay with that otherwise we'll have to go through the whole Cesc/Nasri thing again in 2013.

I think there is some truth to that, and I do think that Wenger really sees Song/Frimpong, Ramsey, Wilshere as the future midfield 3. However, one marquee signing would do the world of good for everybody, let's hope it happens before the deadline!

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Because you need to sign twenty players.

No, we actually need to sign about 5-6 players, a defensive coach and a new medical staff.

9h, and y9ur s1g is fuck1ng r1d1cul9us, by the way.

Or, if you prefer - "Gh, and ygur sig is fucking ridiculgus, by the way."

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So Chu Young Park is taking the #9 shirt. I think the only annoying thing about this late activity is that we have essentially managed to bag two recognised internationals from Germany and Brazil in the space of 24 hours, when we've had all summer to do this.

Edit: We're told #afc have now ended their interest in signing Gary Cahill from Bolton @SkySportsNews

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Edit: We're told #afc have now ended their interest in signing Gary Cahill from Bolton @SkySportsNews

That's probably for the best really. It's easy to see why Wenger shops abroad when players like Cahill command fees close to £20m. I don't think Mertesacker would be everyone's first choice, but he far more experienced at a much higher level than Cahill at under half the price. You can't really argue with that.

I do wish we'd blow the back doors off with an amazing midfielder though. I'm all for us living within our means and it's nice that we cut our cloth according to our budget, but the material we're fashioning this season's pantaloons from is the finest diamond encrusted silks from the far east. Let's go fucking mental and buy Roy of the Rovers or something. I'd be much more cheerful then, especially if Squillaci buggers off.

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Great to see some new signings who may not be the 'super-quality' that Arsene was banging on about but a few steps above the deadwood that are heading out the door. I assume Cahill will find a home easily enough but will he get the money he wanted and will he regret not signing with us?

I'd still like to see one more defensive signing, just to keep everyone on their toes/account for injury. And one marquee player in the middle, but I think it's fair to say that there will probably only be one signing tomorrow.

From gunnerblog: Against United it was: "Traore - Koscielny - Djourou - Jenkinson. Against Swansea it could be: Santos - Vermaelen - Mertesacker - Sagna."

We shouldn't have waited so long, though.

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Great to see some new signings who may not be the 'super-quality' that Arsene was banging on about but a few steps above the deadwood that are heading out the door. I assume Cahill will find a home easily enough but will he get the money he wanted and will he regret not signing with us?

I dunno why he'd join Spurs. He could either get CL this season with Arsenal, and if a fee isn't agreed just wait until he's free and get it next season instead (though maybe not with us) because he'd be able to go wherever he wanted.

Instead Bolton are going to say "you can only talk to Spurs" and all of a sudden he's tied into the pointless Europa League and next season probably bugger all. He may as well stay at Bolton.

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