Winter Transfer Despair and Bafflement.

[Özim]

As if the guy would even consider coming here, maybe we should bid for their entire 1st team to scare Man City off, especially as we don't want to sell......until the summer when we can't.

Wenger is footballs most cringeworthy joke, Sanchez is going whether he likes it or not, would personally let them have him in January if they want him, we might get a bag of nuts and a diet coke in return at least, Sanchez has no interest in playing for us, you can see that, we'd save ourselves 6 months worth of wages as well, no point keeping some guy who's made it clear both on and off the pitch he doesn't want to be here.

[Power n Glory]

A player he should have signed about 15 years ago......

We were linked with him way before he went to City. No idea why we never went for him despite being desperate for quality in that area.

[Marc Overmars]

Kompany is past it. Can’t see what he brings to the table now that even a fading Koscielny doesn’t already.

We should have let those new transfer guys start in January.

[Cripps]

We were linked with him way before he went to City. No idea why we never went for him despite being desperate for quality in that area.

Probably for the best anyway. Would have turned into a clown in our defence and destroyed his career.

[Niall_Quinn]

A player he should have signed about 15 years ago......

These things take time.

[Niall_Quinn]

That would be doing City 2 favours...getting rid of junk and signing a class player for peanuts. Wenger could let them have Sanches plus money in exchange for Tweety bird

His injury record suits us though - can't deny that.

[Niall_Quinn]

Caveat - these stories are coming from the Daily Star. A "paper" that has no problem making shit up out of thin air.

But it does sound a lot like Wenger. Fail to do what needs to be done in the summer. The panic mid season and thrash about for any option that presents itself, provided nobody else wants the players and it's a stopgap solution at best.

What he's done here is cost the club 50 mill transfer fee when he decide to hang onto Alexis even though there obviously was no indication the player would stay. We've also been paying Alexis' wages since then, so that's another loss when you consider his form has gone down the pan most likely due to the uncertainty of his situation. And, as he does, Wenger pissed off both the gypos and the player with his last minute antics on transfer deadline day. As fuck ups go, this is a slam dunk. Nobody fucks up the transfer window like Wenger.

The sick joke is, that 50 mill would have secured Lemar early in the window. And if we'd have signed Lemar, essentially as a swap for Alexis and probab;y on lower wages than Alexis would have demanded to stay, we'd still have had a budget to go and sign some more genuine talent. This could have been enough to entice Ozil to stay. Instead we fucked around pretending to chase Mbappe after we''d already fucked him off the year before because Wenger wouldn't pay the agent.

This man is unspeakable. It hurts my head how a supposed businessman like Kroenke would allow this guy to run his primary asset. Yeah, Wenger helped build that asset value in the early days - something nice for Stan to take advantage of - but if Wenger is allowed to carry on Stan might just see that value starting to descend into the shitter. How long can the myth of Wenger prevail before everyone starts looking for the exit? Fans, players, backroom staff and... shareholders. If Usmanov decides he's had enough and sells up then he's the guy artificially propping the share price through his desperation to be involved. Would anyone else be looking to pay big money for shares in a club that is being turned into a clown show by the master clown Wenger?

[Cripps]

Mikel Arteta is being lined up as a future Arsenal manager as the Gunners plan for life after Arsene Wenger. (Daily Telegraph)

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Mikel Arteta is being lined up as a future Arsenal manager as the Gunners plan for life after Arsene Wenger. (Daily Telegraph)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Obviously we want a big name, but tell me after spending eighteen months with Pep....tell me you wouldn’t take him over Wenger right now?

[Globalgunner]

Obviously we want a big name, but tell me after spending eighteen months with Pep....tell me you wouldn’t take him over Wenger right now?

I would take the City head groundsman over our dated dunce.