Morning all.
No doubt everyone has seen the story about Robert Lewendowski being for sale in January for just £7 million by now, but in case you haven’t, it’s true. Well, according to many newspapers. Dortmund want to sell him and pocket a few pounds rather than let him walk away for free in the summer.
That’s cheap though, seriously cheap and a very very cunning move by Dortmund.
We all know that if the striker had a couple more years left on his contract, his value would be around the £50 million mark, if not more, so to set a valuation so low is doing one thing in my opinion and that’s opening up a bidding war between clubs in the Premier League and across Europe. It’s also sending out a huge message to Bayern Munich. Dortmund really don’t want their man to play for their biggest rival in Germany.
The price may start at £7 million, however, I very much doubt it will end at £7 million but if he is sold, I suspect it will be for an amount well short of his true value.
Chelsea, Manchester City will no doubt be ready to make a bid for the player, Manchester United might also be in the hunt as they don’t know what Rooney has planned and RvP isn’t getting any younger. Liverpool too.
But do they all have the cash that we do?
I would say no, not without selling first.
Brenda Rogers might see this as the perfect opportunity to sell Suarez and snap up the Polish striker, but Arsene Wenger could very well believe that Lewendowski is the final brick in our attacking wall. He’s hinted many times he wants a striker and he’d be hard pushed to find a better one, especially for the kind of price Dortmund might be willing to accept….
I sure hope so.
What he and the players need to do now is get through this next few weeks with flying colours.
First up is Chelsea in the Capital One Cup tomorrow night. That fixture is followed by Liverpool at home, Dortmund away and then, just before the players head off on international duty, we head to Old Trafford.
Four very big fixtures, four very difficult fixtures…..
Tomorrow night we’ll be without the injured Mathieu Flamini and the banned Mikel Arteta. The latter has been speaking about his sending off against Palace:
It was a very harsh decision to send me off. Chamakh kicks my fight foot, I have seen it on television. It is 40 yards away from goal too.
It is true that I tried to block him with my hand but then he came with his left foot into my right calf and then we were both on the floor. It was never a tackle from me.
Harsh as it may have been, Arsenal aren’t going to appeal the decision as Wenger had it in his mind to rest the player tomorrow night in any case so he should be at his best on Saturday. He’ll need to be.
But without Arteta and Flamini, who will Arsene Wenger put his trust in to be the rock in our midfield?
Emmanuel Frimpong, Nicholas Yennaris, or maybe the youngster, Alfred Mugabo ?
Or will Aaron Ramsey be expected to fill the role and play another 90 minutes?
Thank goodness that’s something Arsene Wenger will be worrying about and not me. Whatever he does, I hope it works out right as I’d really love for us to progress in this competition and go on to win it.
Transfer gossip:
Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Bello, a pacey winger who signed for Fiorentina in the summer, having been on loan there for the previous season, was reportedly being watched by our scouts at the weekend. Apparently Dick Law was in the stands watching together with the players agent Alessandro Lucci.
After being told by SkyItalia that our scout was in the crowd watching him, the player said:
I did not know, I learned from you now. It’s something that pleases me, but I’m happy here at Fiorentina and later we’ll see.
Fiorentina won the match 2-1 if you’re interested and both goals were scored by Cuadrado…
That’s it for another day….
Top of the morning all.
Lewandowski….offer 17 million now, i reckon 🙂
Morning Rico.
Morning Scott.
£17 million would be a bargain… AW could test the water when we travel to Germany and Szczesny could check out the player, see if he’d be interested. If it’s a big ‘no’, forget him and move on to another striker..
Before we know it, the transfer window will be open again.
Not sure about the winger though, Ts mentioned something about an ownership – and in any case, would be strange if he moved again within the same year..
Lewandowski is the ONE we should go after!!!
He will make us serious title contenders and boost our european hopes of winning CL veeery much!!
Offer 7million and a quid…………….
Would that be “derisory”, Wath lol
That’s more likely Wath 😉
Scott – £2 then.
I think we should go hard in with 40 million for him. Lets get our man. I still think it could cost upwards of 45 million for him. Think about it, do you really think that tit mourinho will wont us to get him? He knows we will be unstoppable if we had lewandowski up top, same with man united and shitty.
Welcome Dan and Ad.
I suspect many teams would fear us getting him Ad. As far as the player goes, I’d say we are his best option, other sides are flush with strikers, we however aren’t and he’d be huge with us..
But we have to make sure we stay where we are or very close to the top when Jan comes around..
It depends if he wants to play, or be paid i guess.
With us, he would be a sensation.
Fingers crossed.
Exactly Scott.
Rico, tell Wath…that is the second time this year i have been right 🙂
Morning Rico,
It is nice to think that we can be linked with this player or that and not be whistling in the wind.
Giro has been a relevation this season but his style of all action chasing the ball takes a lot out of him and like many I think it is essential we find another striker to rotate with him.
A winger to rotate with Theo would not go amiss either, but I have never heard of Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Bello before — still if he is quick ……………………….
🙂 Scott, you just have…
Morning Hb, apparently we were looking at him in the summer before he moved, but his ownership issues put us off. Not sure how much truth is in that rumour though…
Scott, twice in one year……….. Are you taking the “p”….? Surely not twice once was an effort and I’m not sure about that one either as there is a stewards enquiry….!
As far as Lewandowski goes you offer as little as possible thats acceptable to Dortmund as we’ll need plenty for his signing on fee and wages thats for sure
Wath, fair call…the first one is still awaiting review 🙂
Off for the night……have a great everyone.
Night Scott…. take it easy…..!
Night Scott…
It seems moreenyo is crying about the fixtures already… little wanker just trying to focus all the pressure on us…! The man is such a classless tosspot…!
Did you see his celebration yesterday Wath. He’s a horrid little squirt!
I would refer to him as something a little more descriptive than that Rico but “House” rules don’t allow it….! Obnoxious little twat…!
😛 Wath
Afternoon all,
I feel we’re going into the tough period with our first team looked jaded already.
I’d like wenger to give the youngsters their chance tomorrow night. We need to concentrate on the league if we want to compete with Liverpool who have nothing else.
Good that this season looks like the injured will be back for the crunch time rather than the usual where we lose them.
Good point re the injured Bradster. Three big players are soon back and we’ll need them.
I worry about tomorrow though, if we lose, it could really dent our confidence ahead of the weekend and the Dortmund game…
And it’s about time AW beat Mourinho.
All of Swartzer, Bertrand,Willian, Mata, Mikel, Essien, Luiz, Azpillicueta, & Etoo either did not start or were on the bench and used yesterday. That is likely to form his team tomorrow, not exactly an inexperienced team of wanabees. Whatever team we pick will have to be strong enough without impacting on Saturday’s game against Liverpool.
I’m not sure we have enough in the squad to do that Potter, not unless we play the first team.
Who plays ‘DM’ seriously worries me..
I see our confidence dented if we do put out a strong side and get beaten. Then the same players need to pick their tired bodies up against a rested Liverpool.
At least give us the confidence of let’s show Liverpool what the first team can do.
Gnabry signs new long term deal apparently (various news now sources )
Fair point bradster.
It’s a tough call for AW, that’s for sure. I guess who he selects will show us where is priorities are.
That’s great news if true, the big German clubs will soon be after him, if not the Spanish too…
AFC.com have confirmed the Gnabry deal ..
Afternoon All…
Afternoon Rico… There was a mighty wind blowing outside my window at 4/5am this morning…
Talking of wind, good to see Wath back on here this morning… 😀
Gnabry is great news, let’s hope it’s for 5 years at least.
Mourinho is up to all his usual tricks, lumping all the attention onto Arsenal.
That guy has definate psychopathic tendencies. A control freak.
He cultivates a following from the Press, so that he can use then to send out his messages aimed at diverting attention from his actual intentions.
Meanwhile he lies, cheats and manipulates in the extreme, regardless of who he hurts or even destroys.
He has no saving graces. Everything he does, is calculated to help him succeed, and sod the consequences, or the damage he does to football, or anyone he perceives to be in his way…
A horrible person, who has all the qualities to become the President of FIFA….
I was speaking to a guy at Selhurst Park Saturday, who said that he is a part-shareholder in AST…
He claimed that Arsenal currently have approx £150 million that they can use in transfers.
He said that the club have had funds of that nature for the last three years.
He also said that Kroenke is, or will, take money out of Arsenal…
And that that is what he cur dangly does at all his US franchises…
He also said that he didn’t like/trust Usmanov either…
Between a rock and a hard place I thought!
Cur dangly???????
Currently… 🙄
Afternoon Kev, sure was gusty 🙂
It brought a tree down in my road Rico…
Any damage out your way?
Offski, lata Rico…
Oh no, not too much damage I hope…
We got very lucky Kev, apart from the remaining apples dropping, nothing…
Go steady on the roads Kev..
£150 million to spend on transfers Kev, why do I believe that to be true…
And I totally agree re Jose, just why I was against him ever being the manager of Arsenal.
I’m off for an hour or two now…
Good day all.
Nice post, late in reading today. November to be a defining month for our season again? We have had our best start for many a year so maybe this is the year we take the dreaded November by storm!
Check this out, TH14 still got it, total class!
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/439718/VIDEO-Arsenal-legend-Thierry-Henry-adds-to-spectacular-goals-collection-for-Red-Bulls
Thanks Lewis, good afternoon to you and all..
What a great goal. Utter class player…
Off for a while, dinner to cook..
Boo!! Hello, rico. Howdy?
Boo to you too agag, good to see you back, I was having a worry, hence my mail 😉
I’m good. Still on hols, rico. 🙂 Haven’t seen much of Arsenal. 🙁
Ah, that explains your absence, I did wonder if you were jet setting 😉
Enjoy what is left of your holiday…
I’m off for the day so night agag and all…
‘Til tomorrow…
So Djourou and Flamini go down at the same time with groin muscle strains. Interesting to see who gets back first.
Morning all.
Cuadrado is a interesting player.
I’ve watching last game and a few games before
Podolski running and training again any day now….
Might be a bit too soon for Lukasz to be ready for Dortmund?
But I’ll be glad to see him back.
Still no news about Oxlade-Chamberlain yet.
But maybe Walcott could be close to a return to the squad?
I suspect that Arsenal will be facing a multi-million pound Chelsea ‘reserve’, with Chelsea ‘youngsters’ like Essien, Mata, Eto’o etc, tomorrow evening?!!!
Morning boys and girls 🙂
Night Kev, Morning Scott and all…
Morning Rico.
Morning Adam. Nice to see the sunshine.
Blue skies here. Nice day for a walk.
Shame Saville’s chauffeur couldn’t hang on until after his trial!
Morning all,
See you guys are having quite some hectic weather.
It is Adam.
Morning Bradster, for 12-24 hours it was a bit windy but all calm now and a beautiful sunny day…
Hi all.
Any new signings 🙂
I only saw bit on the news, rough seas and trees in the streets.
Yes, and many counties left without electricity but I think it’s all getting back to normal now…
Stay safe guys.
Bush fires here one week….storms there the following.
Mother nature is boss.
Thanks Scott, it’s a beautiful Autumn day here today 🙂
Mother nature sure works in mysterious ways…
New post up now…