***The Official Arsenal Gunners" Thread***

[Krebstar]

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Oh gosh this is so great. World class keeper who still has many great years ahead of him. It's been so long since we've had confidence behind our back four.

I mean, I still can't believe it until it's 100% official...


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[~LiverpoolRed~]

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This will be the signing of the summer if it comes off. Top drawer keeper.

[Perceptor]

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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/24/arsenal-sign-romania-under-16-vlad-dragomir

Not the midfield signing I had in mind, but we are not even into the window yet....

[jb12780]

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Cech is official according to the BBC.

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[Krebstar]

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Cech holding an Arsenal shirt and smiling will be a great way to start the weekend.

£11m. Still can't believe it.

[jb12780]

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Arturo Vidal is the latest rumour. That would be massive if true, which I doubt it is.

[Krebstar]

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Arturo Vidal is the latest rumour. That would be massive if true, which I doubt it is.

Yeah, even reports that "it's done" for five years.

Not a chance I'm believing this one until it's on arsenal.com.


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[rsnomar05]

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The stuff on Arturo Lupoli's birthday from today's Arseblog is gold:

If you think I’m exaggerating about this, bear in mind this is the week when ITV Football (remember they used to have rights to the Premier League and Champions League and stuff), wrote the following article:

"Former Arsenal striker Lupoli turns 28*

Arturo Lupoli started out at Arsenal as a teenager, but things didn’t go to plan as he was last seen at Frosinone Calcio, who don’t seem great.

Today the Italian celebrates his 28th birthday, something we should all acknowledge."

That’s it. That was the whole piece. To be fair, it’s pretty informative. We now know Lupoli is 28 (or is that 29?), that Frosinone Calcio ‘don’t seem great’ (we could probably do with a yardstick here to help us assess that), and that his 28th birthday is ‘something we should all acknowledge’.

Have you told your kids today that Lupoli was 28 during the week? Did you, in the middle of an important business meeting or conference presentation, stop and tell everybody of this earth shattering fact? If not, shame on you, because it’s something should all acknowledge. I went to Arsenal.com searching for the swish video celebrating this momentous occasion, and there was nothing there at all which is firstly a disgrace to our great club, but also a shame on them.

The kind of shame that should see them paraded through naked through the streets of N5 while a stern-faced nun rings a bell shouting ‘shame … shame’, and the rest of us throw rotten fruit and buckets of piss over them.

Where were the stats pieces on Lupoli? The ArsenalFanTV interviews with all the Gooners who were so enthralled by him as a player? The blog posts about how Lupoli was actually the best player we’ve ever had but for the sake his career Arsene Wenger (who on the 7th day created God), let him go run wild and free in the Cottian Alps?

Arsenal fans make me sick with their laissez-faire-weather support sometimes. Maybe if we had all acknowledged Lupoli’s birthday, instead of remaining blissfully unaware of it until it was thrust into our consciousness as a piece of the very worst kind of clickbait imaginable, Petr Cech would have signed. Along with his mate Bob Lollipop, Morgan Schneiderlin, and a ‘World Class Stricker’.

See what you’ve done? I hope you’re all happy now.

* Two days later Metro took the Lupoli article and used it to link him with a £34m move to Man City because people there also have birthdays.

http://arseblog.com/2015/06/the-fans-who-cried-wolf/

[Krebstar]

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Seems like the Vidal rumors have been officially outed as nonsense.

Oh, Summer.

[cdawg44]

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s official… <a href="https://twitter.com/PetrCech">@PetrCech</a> has agreed to join <a href="https://twitter.com/Arsenal">@Arsenal</a>! Full story here: <a href="http://t.co/09V3x81fiQ">http://t.co/09V3x81fiQ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WelcomeCech?src=hash">#WelcomeCech</a> <a href="http://t.co/Ov0UmAk2U5">pic.twitter.com/Ov0UmAk2U5</a></p>&mdash; Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/615527655492993025">June 29, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[Krebstar]

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Don't stop, Arsene! Go throw some money at a DM!

[cdawg44]

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Don't stop, Arsene! Go throw some money at a DM!

I really hope we try and hijack Morgan Schinderlain's move to United. Especially if we are going to spend 25 million pounds potentially on William Carvalho. The Former is the much safer and better buy IMHO. William is an absolute monster in midfield, but watching him the Under 21s you cant help but notice his hips are stiff and he is not as agile as you would like there. Scares me with players like Hazard, Oscar, Silva, Di Maria, Eriksen, Sterling and Couthino all making runs at him over the course of the season.


I still think we'll chase a Striker, but we'll probably leave it late in the window and wait and see who's on the market and after we finish the summer clear out. Ryo and Diaby are already gone and I see another 3 or 4 people shown the door too. (Flamini, Podolski, Campbell and possibly Sanogo).

I honestly don't think we have to have a new CB like some have suggested. We just need to keep Kos healthy, and I think we've found something with Gabriel.

Also if we are able to get Jenko to sign a new deal and go out on loan again and see where he's at next summer, I'd been very happy with that. Debuchy may not be with us after this season especially with Hector playing so amazing well. Hector and Jenko settles the RB position for 4-5 years easily with Chambers providing solid coverage too.

[RoyceDa59]

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Great signing, never thought this would happen in a million years.

[rsnomar05]

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Yes, a DM signing is a must. If Wenger wants Coquelin to be our starting DM, I am perfectly okay with that. But that still necessitates a signing, because if Coquelin gets hurt (and everyone on Arsenal always gets hurt) you're back to Flamini and Arteta. Those two rotating as the starting DM last year was a trainwreck. So we still need a DM for depth even if Coquelin is the starter.

[Krebstar]

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Preseason matches in Asia will be airing on NBC Sports!

http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2015/06/30/nbc-sports-to-air-barclays-asia-trophy-as-arsenal-everton-and-stoke-head-to-singapore/