Arsenal to battle Man United for Liverpool’s Sterling
Arsenal are having a battle with Theo Walcott over signing a new contract, and as the January transfer window draws ever closer, us Gooners are starting to think that we will soon be waving a not so fond farewell to our speedy winger cum striker. Arsene Wenger has professed his frustration, and I cannot blame him, because we could be losing one of the most influential players at the club, the man who made such an impression on Lionel Messi, the best player to ever walk the earth, that he described Walcott as the most dangerous player he has ever seen.
Anyway, if we lose him, we lose him. It won’t be the first time, and knowing Arsenal it won’t be the last time. What might help to soften the blow, however, is if we win the battle we are about to undergo with Alex Ferguson and Manchester United. Liverpool are in a similar situation to us with their tricky and talented winger Raheem Sterling. The player who has set the Premier league alight this season has just turned 18, but Liverpool have failed to persuade him to put his signature on the contract they have offered him.
The Sun reports that Arsenal and United are set to do battle in January to persuade the England international where his best interestslie. That’s an easy one, Raheem, they are in North London. Wenger is getting a lot of stick at the minute, but one thing is for sure, his players rate and respect him. He backs them to the hilt and has a fantastic record of getting the best out of them.
If Sterling wants to be played regularly and possibly become a striker, then his choice is simple, come to Arsenal. If Arsenal can do the deal, it will start to prove to the fans that we are serious about challenging the top clubs again. If, however, we fail to keep Walcott and replace him with some unheard of `prospect` or a player like Nani who used to be good, it will reinforce the idea that Arsenal are losing their grip on their status as a top club.
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And Arsenal Fans Should battle for Usmanov to takeover! LETS DO IT GUNNERS. SOME BANNERS WILL MAKE THE CHANGE! GIVE THE BIG RUSSIAN GUY SOME HOPE! LETS DO IT! Oh Bring us USMANOV!
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You can’t say for sure he would be played regularly or as a Striker.
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even if we lose walcott but gain sterling it will show dat nothing has changed nd wenger will continue 2 replace proper players wit prodigys
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So we’ll be going for Sterling and Zaha at the same time? But we already have Miyaichi, Gnabry and Oxlade-Chamberlain. Do we really need Sterling?
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To be honest, it would be great to have a group of young english players who all support Arsenal. Then we might start to finally see some loyalty around here!
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Walcott for sterling is a great deal for us. Sterling has a lot more potential than walcott and actually has a footballing brain. He is very similar to the ox. He’s already in starting 11 in liverpool. I think Walcott is at a dead end he’s not really a striker or a winger. Just a sprinter lol
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I support you Gooner! let us fans fight for what we want to be done in the club. we are the reason AFC still exist and so we have to decide with one mind, one spirit and determination to get our club back. I want to see in our next home game, banners written ( WE WANT USMANOV! WE WANT USMANOV! WE WANT USMANOV! WE WANT USMANOV!) with this way, the board will know we have lose faith and confidence in them. COYG!
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Hahahahahah
Like we buy players, play them out of position and they fail. Look at arshavin, podolski, ramsey, gervihno, etc etc…yes there as a time when we used to unearth a gem aka Henry but the club has been single handedly been dismantalled since the days of the invinibles by selling top players year in year out.
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Looks to swap-jobs
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The truth of the matter is that Asene Wenger must go, we need Pep Guardiola,
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Desperation has now set in. The staff at Arsenal are desperately scrambling to get potential signings to come and meet Wenger. Meanwhile Wenger is in his office playing Fifa 13 with Bould
Wenger: You deserve an MBE
Bould: Why?
Wenger: You just scored with combover in the game
Bould: Where is Gervinho BTW?
Wenger: We have potential signings coming in today and we couldn’t risk them bumping into him. He is in the basement looking after a fly in a jar along with Chamakh, Djourou, Squid and we had Diaby’s wheelchair wheeled down too
Bould: Not taking any risks?
Wenger: Nope. At this rate Arteta is becoming the new Denilson etc
Bould: Is that Raheem that just walked past.
Wenger: **** is he here? Is my tie straight? Have I got anything in my teeth? Is my hair ok?
Bould: Calm down Arsene
They bring Sterling in
Wenger: Bon jour
Sterling leans forward and shakes his hand.
Wenger: Let me show you around the facilities
Wenger and Raheem are walking along
Wenger: So have you seen anyone else?
Sterling: Yeah I was at Utd
Wenger: Oh how is ‘two bottles of Vodka a night’?
Sterling: What?
Wenger: Nothing
Sterling: Did you just call SAF a drunk?
Wenger: No not at all. He handles his drink very well
Sterling: He warned me about you
Wenger: OMG. What did he say? If it was that story from 99 then I got locked out and that is why I had no clothes on
Sterling: Riiiiiight
Wenger: No its true
Bould buts in
Bould: Do you get injured alot? We have excellent medical facilities here. Just last year we added a separate car park to the physio rooms. Now players like Diaby don’t need to wheel themselves across the able people car park to get there.
Sterling: Nah. Fit as a fiddle me
Wenger: So do you have any concerns
Sterling: Well yeah. The team is rubbish, you sell all your best players and you play players out of position.
Wenger: OMG you must have read my mind. I see you as a LB
Sterling: I have to go
Wenger: When shall we send the paperwork?
Sterling carries on walking. Bould and Wenger have stopped
Bould: I think we should put you in the basement next time too.
Wenger: I thought it went well
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Hahahaha ‘sign either Nani or Navas’ That is why fans shouldnt run the football club. I dont know what Arsenal need, I just leave it to the professionals. I just feel that Wenger is failing my trust at the moment, my heart says give wenger more time, my head says replace him.
Guardiola would be a dream i feel, but what do i know
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@Robin Van Payslip
You have too much spare time!
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One thing I noticed is that you said wenger always backs his players to the hilt…For me thats a massive problem.If he didnt slate them after the Bradford game then theres something wrong.He makes it to easy on the players.The players most love playing for him.Play shit and nothing happens.He needs to put fear in them to make them play.Anyway yes Sterling would be a great buy.But why should he be a replacement???Why cant we keep Walcott and sign Sterling.Show some desire for once.Take a step in the right direction.If we kept Theo,got Sterling,a striker and a DM it would be great.The whole club needs something positive to happen and I think the fans deserve something positive to happen.Gunner 4Life!!!
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We have enough kids already
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All i can say now is “we want our Arsenal back”
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We need Theo Walcott, he’s a better striker than Giroud, Chamark and Gervinho. Saheem should come in as an addition.
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Same old Arsenal. Same old Wenger.
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If theo wants to go, he can go and If he really goes to liverpool then I think the jokes on him……
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To me the transfers necessary are clear:
- Zaha: 10 mil £
- Llorente/Huntelaar: 5 mil £
- Sterling: 4 mil £
- Reina: 7 mil £
- M’vila/Capoué: 5-8 mil £
- Have Squillachi escorted off the premises by bodyguards and tear his contract apart.
- Make Arschavin sign a new contract for 30000£ a week less for a chance to redeem himself, if he chooses not to accept, see Squillachi case above.
- With the money available from squillachi’s departure you give Walcott 90000£ a week and give Wilshere, Sagna and Ramsey new contracts.
- For f***’s sake get off Chamakh’s back, i think he was playing very well in his first season but when that blob vPersie returned he was never given a fair chance anymore. Give him some playing time and he’ll flourish, i’m certain.
Cheers
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Robin – keep em cumin mate ! Pmsl AGAIN
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I hope we get our biggest signing next summer, PEP GUARDIOLA !! That would be the CHANGE!
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forget sterling he would be extremely expensive and theo would be way more dangerous in the immediate term
SIGNINGS
DIAME – 3.5
HUNTELAAR – 5
HENRY – LOAN
I don’t see the value in buying zaha when you are about to sell theo. We can’t hold onto these young players spend ages training them up and then sell them on. We may as well just buy someone of the required ability now it’s not like these young players are even cheap.
Offer theo a better deal and keep him.
That alone would make us stronger> Then focus on selling as many of arshavin, squillaci, chamakh, santos, ramsey and s, promote the youngsters gnabry, eisfeld etc. to the bench. I’d rather bring them on in times of need then the others.
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WHy buy him when we are going to sell him after 2-3 years?
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Must say that Walcott really where dangerous that night, a true game changer.
But something suggests that he (Messi) hasnt followed Theos career in the least.
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Get Nani in place of Walcott, because he has experience, and he isn’t having the best of times at United at the moment and we could take advantage of that. No more kids. especially on the wing.
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Where are you Leo on this one. Il take Sterling this euro is useless.
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I know we have alot of good young players and walcotts hitting form but we should by a striker regardless of where walcott goes but if we do sell walcott i’d love us to get sterking dynamic pace smarter player than walcott and gervinho.
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What a rediculous article u can’t replace theo with an 18 year old who’s had a good half a season not done much else and hasn’t scored any where as near as much as Walcott if he signs you’d have to get another rotational winger for the games he will deffinately be to inexperienced for – raheem sterling against real Madrid right now doesn’t sound to solid! I’d rather see zaha or nani – nani has been frozen out at united for some reason I think it has to do with his style of play and the way Fergie wants play your calling him rubbish but this is a man we saw tearing it up at the euros alongside christiano. He’s a big game player, scares defenders crosses well skills and pace and can change a game the only down point is wages of which he could arguably command 100k plus all the while according to you he’s sh!t – team balance is important but every now and then when things are not going right you need flashes of individual brilliance which we do not have atm there is no one to change the tide of a game at arsenal ATM man city have an abundance of strikers, Chelsea have Moses ect to bring on untd have an abundance to see out a game we don’t have anyone! A player like nani is probably just what we need someone to inject a bit of flair and unpredictability also up the competition I feel we need that desperately as I feel some players are getting complacent with the selection as they are almost garaunteed a game – cazorla, Arteta, wilshere and Giroud are in desperate need of competition, let’s get the levels high again! Do u think Walcott would have time to worry about being a striker if he was being challenged by nani for a starting place his demands would be laughable and he’d be told to move on whilst someone like zaha or sterling would be an unbelievable deputy 70th min nani off for zaha… Exactly!
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I agree with @flo completely with the transfers but chamaks time is done he cannot except the wage he is getting for the return he is giving he’s had chances against lesser aponents where he should be showing his class but it seems he has no passion no hunger no real desire or love for the club he’s a filler with no threat and unfortunately there are no games we can afford to give him time to bed in and be given time in
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