Live Mercato Meltdown - 2012/13 (pants filled in 3,2...) (47 Viewers)

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enzo

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May 14, 2012
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I don't mind Bendtner being a bad boy. Conte will crush him. But all our current strikers are better than Bendtner.
 

KB824

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That excuse is only used when we're linked with a world class trouble maker like Tevez.
But Tevez has more talent in his right elbow than Bendtner does in his whole body.

And what is really disturbing in all of this is that Wenger plays his young players to a fault, yet his numbers have dropped dramatically from the time that he was 21 years old.


21 years old is when Bendtner's career seemed to have peaked. What does it tell you when a player the age of Bendtner is no longer in the plans of a coach who if anything, has proven that he can find and develop young talents.
 

Bianconero81

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Jan 26, 2009
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Yeah it got us far in the Champions league....
We had Capello back then :D

Still, the point stands. That strike force shits all over the mediocrity we have accustomed ourselves to over the past few seasons.

Vucinic, Gio, Matri, Quag, and potentially Bendtner. I'm betting top teams across Europe are dreading facing those guys :lol: :howler: Only Vucinic is capable of doing shit.
 

enzo

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On the other side, there are Asamoah, Giovinco, Marchisio, Pirlo and Vidal. We can win the tournament without a striker if we want :)
 

Catenaccio

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Jul 15, 2002
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Lets be realistic folks. We don't and never had a hope of winning the champions league this year. Its merely a question of getting through the group stages and possibly through the first knockout round depending on who we met.

We don't have the quality to go all the way. There are teams out there with players like Ronaldo, Messi, Iniesta, Aguero, Van Persie, Hazard, Torres......players who can make a difference and cost anywhere between EU30-100m when we are only ever prepared to pay no more than 25.

However, while I am frustrated with Marotta's false promises......if you cannot get a top player within your budget, then don't break the bank. One could argue that our priorities were not right in that we should have spent a greater %age of our transfer budget on a striker - which kind of makes sense.

But at this point in time, if players like Dzeko, Jovetic, and Llorente cannot be bought, we STILL NEED ANOTHER striker because we only have 4. Bentner may not be such a bad choice because we don't buy him outright and take him on loan.

We still have the option to potentiall buy a "top striker" but it would involve selling either Matri or Quags for a reasonable price. Most likely not to happen in this transfer window now.
 
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Lets be realistic folks. We don't and never had a hope of winning the champions league this year. Its merely a question of getting through the group stages and possibly through the first knockout round depending on who we met.

We don't have the quality to go all the way. There are teams out there with players like Ronaldo, Messi, Iniesta, Aguero, Van Persie, Hazard, Torres......players who can make a difference and cost anywhere between EU30-100m when we are only ever prepared to pay no more than 25.

However, while I am frustrated with Marotta's false promises......if you cannot get a top player within your budget, then don't break the bank. One could argue that our priorities were not right in that we should have spent a greater %age of our transfer budget on a striker - which kind of makes sense.

But at this point in time, if players like Dzeko, Jovetic, and Llorente cannot be bought, we STILL NEED ANOTHER striker because we only have 4. Bentner may not be such a bad choice because we don't buy him outright and take him on loan.

We still have the option to potentiall buy a "top striker" but it would involve selling either Matri or Quags for a reasonable price. Most likely not to happen in this transfer window now.
It would be alot better not to get Bentner. Why would we sell one of quags or Matri? We should sell one of Quags or Benter(If we get him). Matri is alot better then them, Matri would always be a good sub to try and make a difference, while benter and quags arent
 
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