Morning all.
Arsenal’s on loan goalkeeper from last season, Emiliano Viviano is trying to get his club to sign Lukas Podolski:
Talking to Radio Blu, he said:
Who would look good in a purple shirt from the Gunners? Podolski, I think, could make a difference.
What a rotter, Arsenal bring him to one of the best clubs in the Premier League and that’s how he repays them!
On a serious not though, Lukas Podolski obviously impressed Viviano in training and why wouldn’t he, he’s got a left bullet shot on him like not many others in the league and I hope he stays. Last month he said:
As things stand today, I am an Arsenal player (and) it won’t change.
Going to London was the right step. I had the chance to go to a big club and to play in the strongest league in the world.
I am happy in the city, in the league, in the club. Those two years have been outstanding for me.
But what a flop Viviano’s loan was, he only played for the reserves didn’t he and in one game, I’m sure he leaked a number of goals!
Still, he’s gone thankfully as has Fabianski and it’ll be interesting to see who we sign to fill the latters boots. There have certainly been plenty of players names in the newspapers over the weeks, yet none have been signed and that comes to no great surprise.
It’s going to be hard to find a keeper who is prepared to sit on the bench watching Wojciech Szczesny play each week….
However, whether the club see it like that remains to be seen.
They have one of two choices in my opinion, sign and older and more experienced keeper who has just a few years left in his game which in turn would allow Damian Martinez time to mature as a keeper in both years and experience out on loan. Or, Arsene Wenger decides he wants a mature and experienced keeper in the squad who will really push Szczesny all the way for that number one spot. Szczesny has improved but I truly believe he can improve a lot more and the only way he’ll do that is if he has another keeper breathing down his neck… And he cannot be Polish! lol
Results from last night:
| Portugal | (1) 2-1(0) | Ghana | |
| USA | (0) 0-1(0) | Germany | |
| Algeria | (0) 1-1(1) | Russia | |
| South Korea | (0) 0-1(0) | Belgium |
Germany and the USA progress from Group G and from Group H it’s Algeria and Belgium. The rest are on their way home….
The knock-out stages kick off tomorrow….
Transfer Gossip just for Kev:
Well today Lars Bender and Mathieu Debuchy hit the headlines in the Express and Mirror and The Daily Mail suggest we are close to a deal for Loic Remy.
A £21 million bid is being prepared for Bender and £8 million for Debuchy.
The Metro, and this has to be the best of the day, report that £44 million could get us Arturo Vidal!
On that note, have a great day all, especially the birthday boy who is 21 again today.
Happy Birthday Wath!
happy birthday wath
Morning everyone.
For how long time have we been “close” to signing Remy, Balotelli?
Aurier was a “done deal” over a month ago, but until now, nothing!
And just read the Sanchez to Liverpoop rumours, please say it ain’t so!!
Wenger, where the hell are you!? Where are our deals!? 🙁
Happy Bday Wath 🙂
Good read,
“Sign him up Arsene. Oh, it is Arsene” lol
Happy Birthday Wath
Morning all
prize for first ?
You old git! Happy birthday mate!!!
wenger’s enjoying himself in Brazil, practically on vacation.
What’s that? Wath is….. 21….?!!!!!!!
😆 😆 😆
Wath wants a Bender for his birthday… 😛
I believe we are probably well into negotiations with at least 2 players. I just want definite names to feed off of lol.
One week I love Pod, the next I think he’s a waste of space. He seems so ineffective but you know he’s got goals
Vidal?? yes please….nice read Rico…..arsene enjoying himself in Brazil I see…..hope he is working on deals too
I thought he was a Desmond Tutu..
bender, sanchez or j. rodriguez, remy or martinez, aurier or debuchy, and a gk would be a nice set of deals IMHO…Goodmorning house, morning Rico
Good Morning to The Lady of the House and all fellow Gooners in residence.
Wath – Happy Birthday!
Ah to 21 again, knowing what I know today. Unfortunately youth is too often wasted on the young. Thus speaks an older and hopefully wiser man?
Would rather Schniederlin instead of Bender. Younger, better, prem experience
Happy birthday Wath… many more GG to guzzle…! 🙂
Lol it was José Manuel Cazorla that Atleti wanted to sign not our Cazorla!
happy birthday wath
Have a good one Wath , enjoy.
TS why let the facts get in the way of a page filler and all the so called quotes about sorting his future after the world cup , fiction pure fiction.
I wonder how Brenda feels about his star striker now that he is banned for 4 months from all football activity, including preseason training and exhibition games. At least he wont have to beg him to stay at Anfield as I doubt FC Farcelona or UnReal Madrid will come for him this now, maybe next season. Poor Luis will miss out on his big move to one of the Spanish giants and probably get a right bollocking from his significant other.
Yes Rico there is a god and he has a perverse sense of humour.
Potter – A good? ‘sports journalist’ never lets the facts get in the way of a good story. Truth be damned, publish anyway.
Not just sports journos C.G. . Following the emergence of the internet and rolling news programmes newspapers have become largely redundant. They now don’t actually print ” news” anymore solely conjecture and opinions.
Ginge – I see Aletico Bilbao are rumoured to be interested in signing MA8 to replace Herrera. As Michel has only a year left on his contract, that might be a good deal for everyone.
Potter – All too true unfortunately. Truth in journalism is almost become an oxymoron like Military Intelligence. The internet is great, but the standards of reporting are only as good as those of a site’s webmaster and few are up to Rico’s level.
Lol Potter, at least in this case they got the Cazorla part right… lol
Cg, Is Mikel originally from Bilbao? They only sign locals allegedly…
Suarez news:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671914/Suarezs-GRAN-takes-bite-FIFA-Chewy-Luis-grandmother-says-ban-barbaric-Uruguay-fans-wearing-fangs-gather-welcome-striker-home.html
Ginge – I believe Mikel was previously with their local rivals Real Sociedad, which could complicate matters.
very true with Alonso
Afternoon you lot……
Thank you for the birthday wishes…. closest I get to 21 is how many tots of GG i can manage….!
I thought Bender was all yours Kev…. 😉
Wath – It’s more than a few years, read decades, since I was able to drink my age. If I tried that now I’d die of alcohol poisoning with a decade or more still to go.
What did Grandad get you for your big day, besides a Bender that is?
Has Rico gone walkabout again, a day at the beach?
He offered me his pink spandex’s but I politely declined CG….
Rico packing for her hols CG, when ever she goes away it’s a guarantee that it’s going to piss down with rain for a week…!
Arteta was born in San Sebastian which is about 45 minutes drive from Bilbao on a good day. If your stuck behind a truck 1 1/2 hours. So he definitely qualified as Basque. As is Monreal born in Pamplona.
Kev must be quite the sight in his pink Spandex. Thank heaven I’m spared the opportunity.
Then at least Rico wont have to worry about her garden being watered while she’s away.
Morning all.
Gotta love the transfer season 🙂
Wath, my old mate, happy birthday champion!!!
Get a bottle or two of that Grey goose into ya 🙂
Def no problem with the garden being watered CG… lol
Kev in his Spandex is a sight for sore eyes mate…. He does love all the attention he get down Old Compton street though,…!
Cheers Scott,
I will try my very best mate… Only 2 bottle you say…? 😉
Well, for starters 🙂
Congratulations Wath!
MA08 is basque so he can be transfer to Bilbau.
Later, i’ll ask Athletic fans about those rumours
JM – I’ll be interested to see what their response is.
Well I’m off to bed. As there are no WC games today, I can have a long lie in.
Have a great day fellow Gooners. Keep The Faith!
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Night Cg
San Sebastian lots of top drawer restaurants there…….
Is it possible to be linked with any more players,someone out there has tipped us off..but who?
Prehaps we could invent a game like..
What would you do if All these fantastic Arsenal fans gave you £150million to spend on football players.
Would you spend it………………..Would you save it……………
………………………Good Game.. Good Game.
Prehaps a comedy instead.
San Sebastian lots of top drawer restaurants there…
And the Cidre and cheese
Every day’s a bonus eh wath !
Happy Birthday.
Fred, i’d give it back !!!
Afternoon guys and gals…
Over £30 million for a young English defender, wow, that’s crazy money….
I’d spend it fred, every single penny…
Lallana is having a medical at Liverpool.
Transfer window is starting to move then. Well, apart from ours….
Rico, did you expect anything different…lol Wath, have a great day mate, i’m sure you’ll celebrate in the appropriate manner…GG!!
Afternoon all..
there’s another young English talent who has hit the big time too soon. Come world cup 2018 he’ll be raking in 200k a week not giving a crap about playing for England. Too much, too soon.
Afternoon all
Not really Bt and until the window is officially open, I doubt we’ll hear anything but fingers crossed, once one is in the door, 3/4 others soon follow…
Agree Nickie, especially once he gets talking Rooney….
Moyes is off to Galatasary to manage again…
I think that’s why Lallana is so refreshing, ok he’s going to have a short England career but his talent has shone through, he looks like someone who has had to work his ar*e off to get where he is. I like that
Watching wenger showing off his skills..Are we seeing our first signing….Could wenger buy himself…Quids in
Fred, was thinking the same..Just think of the contract he would put himself on..
Gould knows what the turks will make of David,
Can’t wait for the first interview..Pidgeon Turk..from a jock..magic.
Happy Birthday Wath – look at all those footballers with the same bday as you 😉 http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/birthdays.html
Totts are interesting in Marcelo (RM)…
I’d have liked us to sign Lallana Nickie, but guess we have too many midfielders….
Again thanx all for the birthday wishes and as Micko says every day a bonus when you hit 21… I am expecting the zimmer frame any minute now Micko I know you’ve sent me one…!
Has Ts passed out with the Vidal links…. bet he done a Stan and creamed himself… Sorry rico had to be said… 😀
Wonder if he’ll be as bad as the wally with brolly was with his accents fred…
Rico, 2.09; thought you would buy a bungalow by the seaside and then spend the balance…
Wath, there’s enough Bender’s for all of us to have our own…
Old Compton St, I’m down there every day, sometime to sample some tea and cake in Patisserie Valerie, more often to keep the doors of my cab locked…
I daren’t let them see my spandex… 😉
I would Kev… 🙂
Wath, tsk tsk, just because it’s your birthday….. 😉
Good afternoon, lol
I can’t wait until next week, when all those shit sites on NewsNow can ‘exclusively’ reveal that Arsenal are releasing 11 players…
Then they can tell us that Wenger is interested in Balotelli…
They might push the boat out and suggest that Sagna might sign for ManCity…
Gotta hand it to them, no rumour is too old for them to rehash…
🙂 Kev, you are on form…
I need a holiday Rico… 🙂
Me too Kev 🙂
Every day’s a holiday….rain or shine!
Roll on 1st of July when all our dreams will come true!
rico, and about your favourite Arsenal player, Nicklas Bendtner? He is set to leave!!!
Disgraceful day
Hi Wath, if we signed Vidal i will give up on stats… lol
So defender Seamus Coleman has signed a five-year contract extension that will keep him at Everton until the summer of 2019.
How do they get their best players to stay without UCL and limited chance to win anything?
He’s gone JM 🙂
Maybe Wavy, just maybe… But then again…..
Frustration starting to build as City, United, Chelsea seem to manage signing players while we are……….waiting. This was the close season where we were going to catch up on our rivals and spend all the money promised for previous windows. Well, we will do well to even match others. And we have over 10m banked already. Plus 10 players wages off books like Billy Boy. So maybe we splash out 7m on a right back and Remy up front? Nice savings there. AW soon to come out with ‘quality players’ scarce at moment. He missed lamalla, Shaw, Costa, etc moving while on the beach. Spend £100m? Yeah.
Andrew, they’ll come surely, we just have to sit and be patient and hope….
Could mean that who we are after are still involved in the WC…
And no I don’t mean a toilet…. 😉
I think he’s preparing to live within his means prior to entering his final phase….the pension years.
He’s been shopping at Aldi for years, with the occasional visit to Waitrose eg Ozil but he loves a bargain and he’s far too old to change the habits of a life time. Sadly we have to suffer his general meanness as do the team, while all his opponents dip their bread and buy the best!
Wavy, I’m waiting to the end of the TW and I reckon it’ll be a good one…
I do hope you are right and I am wrong, although I’m never wrong, you know!
I’m often wrong Wavy but this time, I have a sneaky feeling I may be right. But I won’t brag about it if I am, honest….
Rico, your good and AW good, ref TW, may differ greatly, i think i’d take yours. lol
🙂 Bt… Let’s hope I’m right eh….
I’m off for the day, got to go walk the woofa…
Night all, have a good one….
You know why am relaxed about †̥ђƺ signing or signing?Its simply bcos arsenal have been surprising me lately(two years now).V.p was sold to a rival,we signed Santi and ozil and I can’t believe we won a trophy.Wow!…so we will sign someone important.
Arsene, swimming in the sea with his money belt on, talk about a recipe for disaster, no wonder he was puffing his cheeks out rico !!!
Wath, how was your meals on wheels today, everyone loves a big extra slice of cake !!! Lap it up birthday boy.
Over and out.
Morning all. New post up now
Hullo all HHers,
Still waiting for another surprise like last season on deadline day.
Hi Rico.
Happy Bd Wath
Can’t log on today