The Almighty 2015 Summer Transfer Window Thread

Anyone who is unhappy with Alexis is a fucking idiot. I'm just saying I think Reus on the left & Alexis on the right would be even better and a whole lot more beneficial to the entire team.

It would be beautiful.

Left seems to be best for Alexis though...

I would squirt a bucket full of gold if our forward line was Reus-Giroud-Alexis with Ozil pulling the strings behind them.

Left seems to be best for Alexis though...

We're the first club where he's really played there. He's too good of a player to be limited to one side. he's just as effective on the right as the left imo

I just asked if anyone else noticed he look bit sluggish. Look where you people went from there.

I would squirt a bucket full of gold if our forward line was Reus-Giroud-Alexis with Ozil pulling the strings behind them.

And if Theo stay( he should) Reus/Alexis/Theo when we need to destroy team with pace !

Theoretically he won't score as much from the right.

I hope he stays fit, Second season of our players scare me. Santi, Poldi, Giroud, Ozil, Nacho, Jack, Serge had something in common. Ramsey had a Brilliant season and then he got married. I hope Alexis stays fit, i dont care how many goals he would score, his work rate and space he creates for others is just out of the park, i hope he keeps doing that for us.

Ramsey had a Brilliant season and then he got married.

LOL

Ramsey became too selfish. He needs to go back to playing simple football. Ozil would have had a brace against Liverpool if he had done what was required when he was 1v1.

Ozil would have had a brace against Liverpool if he had done what was required when he was 1v1.

If Ramsey had squared it to Özil in the first place, the sequence of events that would proceed after would've been different. Özil probably wouldn't have scored from a free kick since we probably wouldn't have gotten a foul in the first place.

I know this was a weird post, it's just what I instantly think when people say things like that. Not that I have any issues with it.

Point is he had to pass it. If that's Chelsea, we get punished. Actually Liverpool nearly punished us for that (thank fuck for Markovic's shitty pass). No place for stupidity like that, Jack did the same against United at the Emirates and we got punished for it.

Klopp has confirmed he'll leave Dortmund in the Summer and also said he isn't looking planning to take a year off. He's City bound if you ask me. All I want now is Arsenal to sign Reus. He can't join City.

Klopp has confirmed he'll leave Dortmund in the Summer and also said he isn't looking planning to take a year off. He's City bound if you ask me. All I want now is Arsenal to sign Reus. He can't join City.

His reputation exceeds his talent, but still Man City is the only logical option. Van Gaal will get at least another year, Mourinho won't leave Chelsea until he wins a Champions League trophy with them, Ancelotti is doing great at Real Madrid, Guardiola has god status at Bayern...Barca probably want to continue promoting from within.

The only other option than Man City is one tier below, which would be Liverpool, Atletico, an Italian team (take your pick, Jurgen - you won't be there for long regardless of how you perform in that corrupt shithole of a country). Maybe even Spurs.

I still think his true talent lies somewhere in the mid-table Premier League range. Great motivator and lots of cool guy image, but hardly a great tactician.

Klopp must be a shoe-in for City now. Which only heightens the chances of getting Simeone/Guardiola at Arsenal. Which either way would be fantastic, regardless of my distaste for Pep a little bit; he's still a phenomenal manager whose tactically ahead of pretty much everyone on the planet.

he's still a phenomenal manager whose tactically ahead of pretty much everyone on the planet.

Gah, no thanks. Completely untested on non-perfect squads, was only ever tactically relevant when tiki-taka was the dominant force in football for a short period. He's similar to Van Gaal in that he tries different positions for players and if they happen to play well he is hailed as a genius.

I wouldn't want to find out the hard way what happens to Guardiola if he actually has to build a team and adapt to players who aren't already fantastic.

Klopp must be a shoe-in for City now. Which only heightens the chances of getting Simeone/Guardiola at Arsenal. Which either way would be fantastic, regardless of my distaste for Pep a little bit; he's still a phenomenal manager whose tactically ahead of pretty much everyone on the planet.

Wenger = 2xKlopp in 19years at help AW never had Arsenal in this position with Equal number of injuries and limited finances.

Comparing Guardiola to Van Gaal is a bit of an insult to Pep. As I said I'm not his biggest fan but I doubt you'd find a more dedicated manager in football.

He's completely adapted to Bayern now, he even said he hates the term tiki taka and would never want his team to pass the ball for the sake of passing it.

He also inherited a Barca squad that was winning fuck all iirc with Madrid dominating the league for years. Barca fans were unhappy with the Iniesta-Xavi partnership and Pep made it work.

I fucking despise Barcelona, but he made them into one of the best teams I've ever seen. Heynkes (fuck knows how to spell it) was a better manager of Bayern than Pep was imo, but he is still merking it.

I would like Arsenal to be Pep's first 'real' challenge, and if it fails then it would still be successful regardless; probably as successful as Arsene/Simeone would be.

The only questionable thing regarding Pep for me is his transfer history. But again you have to ask yourself how much influence he's been able to have on the in's/out's at Barca and of course at Bayern.

SO with Klopp out maybe will be easier to fight for Reus ? They can justify selling him for some reconstruction of the team.

The only questionable thing regarding Pep for me is his transfer history. But again you have to ask yourself how much influence he's been able to have on the in's/out's at Barca and of course at Bayern.

How is that the only questionable thing? He literally has zero experience of non-world class teams. He took over a Barca squad that was just entering the start of its peak, with a young Messi bailing them out of trouble on a weekly basis. Take Messi out of it and Guardiola's career would have been drastically different.

He then took over the most well-balanced world class teams in recent history - Heynckes Bayern.

Neither of these two jobs have prepared him for a stint at Arsenal. He would destroy this club. He would unsuccessfully experiment with formations and players out of position like Van Gaal, and he would transform the club too rapidly from what Wenger has built.

We can't just praise him for every positive and then shift blame for anything negative. Guardiola was just as much in control of transfers as he was of tactics. This is a manager who bought Chygrynsky for about £23m, had him for less than a year and then sold him back to his club for a £5m loss.

I don't want that at Arsenal.