Comments on: Dagenham 1-2 Arsenal: Scouts Swarm After Deacon’s Winner

By: NZGooner

NZGooner — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:32:40 +0000

Below is the link for Wellington update, not sure if this means he is here already or about to start his month.

http://www.tribalfootball.com/fluminense-starlet-wellington-excited-joining-arsenal-preseason-1009261

By: dee

dee — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:48:03 +0000

it is a great idea except pompey have a transfer ban and were only allowed to sign 3 players 2 of which i believe have alread come in on loan so im assuming the next will be a goalie and plus wenger looks set to keep all our goalies this season as he is rather unsure of who will be 1st choice this season, it might be a you make an error you sit on the bench season for the goalies

By: Milo

Milo — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:27:39 +0000

Andrew to answer your question about how good Banega is that you asked in the last post, I’ll answer that for you. He’s the best defensive midfielder in Spain right now and one of the best in Europe. I saw him play 8-10 times last year, and every time he impressed me a lot. I also watched him at the world youth cup in 2007 and that is when I first saw what he could become. Those Championships were held in my country of Canada and all of Ardentina’s games were televised. We all saw Kun Aguero, but the second most impressive player by far in that tournament was Banega. He had a quiet final, but throughout the rest of the tournament he was the dominant force. People think that he isn’t good defensively, but from what I saw last year, he has markedly improved that side of his play. His release clause is only 8 million pounds and Valencia is bankrupt right now. They’d probably take 10-15 million pounds for him in a heartbeat!! I have a feeling he’ll either stay at Valencia or go to Liverpool.

By: JamesPond

JamesPond — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:59:53 +0000

Off Topic but does anyone know much about Lenny-Sowah why he left Portsmouth and us before. He was only here for short time.
He has moved to Hamburg to be 3rd choice left back to play thire tier german football instead of being a possible starter for portmsouth. They gave him playing time as a starter at left back last season for the last 5 games.

By: JamesPond

JamesPond — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:46:45 +0000

Mertesacker is ok. But who knows 4 years ago he was looking very impressive and maybe he needs a new challenge. Naldo his partners is more aggresive though and would be better for us i think. But im not sure with bremen defenders they concede just as much goals as us.

Geromel from cologne isnt bad either or hummels.

By: Joe24

Joe24 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:32:24 +0000

Yeah it’s not that far away either, if they left home early enough for training it’d take em just under 2 hours there and back… and if they moaned about it I’d say welcome to the real world.

They probably will blood some of their own reserves in there as well, Portsmouth reserves aint a bad side are they?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:30:05 +0000

there are so many player who will good for arsenal
but we must be linked with a player
random players means nothing

personally mertesacker might be a better CB

By: JamesPond

JamesPond — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:26:58 +0000

Yeah they do have great fans. I used to go quite often to fratton park when i was a boy.
But since i moved to germany 12 years ago i havent been there.
The players would have a great chance of playing time there they are very short on numbers and a lot of there reserves have been giving playing time numbers.

By: JamesPond

JamesPond — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:23:22 +0000

We scout so many players all other the world it doesnt mean much really. Sagna was talking about one game and they are possibly friends.
If Kiev want to get rid of him well then either he isnt good enough for them or he is possibly a troublemaker. If the rumours are true that we have been scouting him for years then they most likely wouldnt say something like that because it would bring the price down.

Btw Bengalio, Juan and Inler would make a perfect summer for me but i know it wont happen.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:21:03 +0000

Not a bad idea at all, if they went to Pompey we would see them play regularly.

By: Joe24

Joe24 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:18:21 +0000

Well obviously thats true andrew, I realise we’re not playing championship manager here. I reckon wenger should at least offer one or the other to Portsmouth for a month, and if they get played, increase it to three months, and if they’re still being played increase it to the rest of the season. It’d be good experience and a chance to see if they can hack it. (going by the whole league 1 at Brentford, chesney looks like he’d do okay but at least it’d give mannone a chance to get a bit of a repuation after he apparently didnt do too well on loan before…)

I feel for them too James… that John “Portsmouth Football Club” Westwood cant be an happy bunny!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:16:15 +0000

J wont know until there’s any news

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:15:04 +0000

I personally haven’t seen DIakhate play but Sagna thinks he’s good and wenger has send scouts to watch him play in france and in Ukraine
so there must be some interest in him if wenger is scouting him and now his clubs are willing to sell him

By: JamesPond

JamesPond — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:09:37 +0000

I agree we should send a goalkeeper, Eastmond, Bartley and Watt done to Portsmouth.

I really feel sorry for there fans how everything is running aggainst them.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:07:32 +0000

I just read his interview he will training with arsenal first team in august and he wants to impress wenger

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:06:21 +0000

its not upto us

By: JamesPond

JamesPond — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:05:39 +0000

I would be shocked if diakhate and marchtti would join us. Diakhate´s postioning is awful and he is a terrible defender imo. Marchetti isnt better than fabianski. If we had a decent psychologist fabianski would be a great keeper and senderos would be a starter. He has it in his locker but after one silly mistake he falls apart. The highly rated lloris doenst have more ability than fabianski imo.
All the gk´s we are being linked to arent better than Almunia.
Someone like Neuer or Bengalio would be perfect.

By: Yash

Yash — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:04:34 +0000

Wellington Silva was supposed to be at ARSENAL for the pre-season.. but why did he not travel to Austria.. Does he feature for Fluminense as a regular first-teamer in their league right now.. If you could tell Jay….

By: Joe24

Joe24 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:04:07 +0000

Y’alright people… I apologies for going off subject here but I’ve just been reading into the whole Portsmouth situation and really wanted some opinions on an idea! Anyway… It turns out they have no first team goalkeeper!!

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/squad/first-team.aspx

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but since Portsmouth are in a bit of trouble, there is every chance we could see them struggle in the championship next year… and since we at the Arsenal are looking to strengthen our number 1 spot this year… it looks like Mannone and Sczeszney may not get their chance, so what do you reckon of a loan move to a championship side in Portsmouth which is likely to have a lot of shots against ????

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:30:03 +0000

Well Reality is a bit different wenger will look at the needs and then decide
our necessities are a GK and CB
luxury can be a midfielder

GK
Almunia aside we have 3 goalkeepers in there 20s and any of them can become our no.1 in the next couple of years although Szczesny looks like the most likely and keeping that in mind
I think wenger’s first choice is Schwarzer who will be around 2-3 million, if he can’t get him then he can go for Marchetti in my view

CB
with only 4 CBs only Kos and Verm can be relied upon because DJourou is coming off an injury that has kept him out for a year and Nortvedit has just been brought into the first team
we currently have three right footed CB and one left footed CB so adding another left footed CB is more likely.
an in my view Diakhate will be our next signing his club want to sell him and arsenal have been tracking him for over a year now.
Diakhate for 7 million might be our 5th choice CB

as for a midfielder
Miguel Veloso has been linked with us and maybe because he’s was being tracked by arsenal and they want to stop his transfer to Genoa but I am not holding my breath on this transfer

I think Wenger will be smart
and buy Schwarzer for 3 million and Diakhate for 7 million they both fit the bill

as for a DM i will really want us to sign De Jong from city as I am sure he is surplus to requirements now at city and he wont be cheap but you wont better DM than him in EPL
(NOT Realistic Though)