Winter Transfer Ignorance and Dart Throwing.

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Don't hold your breath for the summer, we probably won't have much having spent this summers money last summer (on Pepe and Saliba) and probably with no CL football.

With Kroenke not willing to put his hand in his pocket I expect we'll be going for bargain basement signings and probably will have a bit more of what happened with Mari too.

It’s the wage bill that’s killing us - if you look for a list of what everyone’s earning, you can see at a glance just how much waste there is there. Draw a line through the squad at the £90k/wk mark, and I reckon we could afford to lose almost everyone above that line, except Auba and Leno, and replace them with players on half the money (or less).

Honestly, I’m no fan of the Kroenkes, but we really shouldn’t have to ask them for a penny to sort this mess out. This club generates more than enough to be competitive, even without CL revenue - we’re just not making it work hard enough. If I were the owners of the club, I think I’d want to see some evidence that the people spending the money can actually be trusted with it before I gave them any more...

[Bumble]

It’s the wage bill that’s killing us - if you look for a list of what everyone’s earning, you can see at a glance just how much waste there is there. Draw a line through the squad at the £90k/wk mark, and I reckon we could afford to lose almost everyone above that line, except Auba and Leno, and replace them with players on half the money (or less).

Honestly, I’m no fan of the Kroenkes, but we really shouldn’t have to ask them for a penny to sort this mess out. This club generates more than enough to be competitive, even without CL revenue - we’re just not making it work hard enough. If I were the owners of the club, I think I’d want to see some evidence that the people spending the money can actually be trusted with it before I gave them any more...

think for years we have overpaid in salaries, even when everyone was lauding Wenger for not spending money.... the money was being spent on salaries instead of transfer fees.

Anyway looks like Pablo Mari is joining on loan. anyone know if he is any good? think he has played for a couple of 2nd division clubs before Flamengo

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think for years we have overpaid in salaries, even when everyone was lauding Wenger for not spending money.... the money was being spent on salaries instead of transfer fees...

Yeah, it was that communal wage structure he implemented - sounds reasonable in theory, but in practice it’s no way to run a business. Instead of keeping everyone level and happy we’ve ended up underpaying (and losing) the rare genuine stars we’ve had and overpaying a majority of average players who have then become incredibly hard to shift. Hoping we’re seeing the beginning of the end of that now.

...Anyway looks like Pablo Mari is joining on loan. anyone know if he is any good? think he has played for a couple of 2nd division clubs before. Flamengo

Great, now we’re gonna have Greta Thunberg showing up on our doorstep.

Honestly, can’t say that I really know anything about him, bar what I’ve read since the weekend. Tim Vickery (South American football expert, who’s opinion is generally trustworthy) seems to rate him very highly, so that’s promising, but who can say how he’ll take to PL football?

What I will say is that the bar is extremely low right now - basically, if he’s a) better than Mustafi and b) fit then it’ll probably be a good deal for us at that price. If Arteta can make our collection of shell-shocked, fatally-flawed defenders look semi-competent with just a bit of structure and organisation then I guess there’s hope for anyone, right?

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What I will say is that the bar is extremely low right now - basically, if he’s a) better than Mustafi and b) fit then it’ll probably be a good deal for us at that price. If Arteta can make our shell-shocked, fatally flawed defenders look semi-competent with just a bit of structure and organisation then I guess there’s hope for anyone, right?

agree, though the bar is extremely low as i genuinely believe there's 5-a-side players in the crowd on any given match day who are better than Mustafi

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Pablo Mari is confirmed

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/1222508885006848000

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Media in transfer windows.

Absolutely fucking clueless.

[Marc Overmars]

Hope he turns out to be more useful than our recent loan signings.

Which shouldn't be hard.

[dazthegooner]

Well it's on Arsenal.com. Also just seen Giroud would be open to a move to the spuds

[Globalgunner]

Well it's on Arsenal.com. Also just seen Giroud would be open to a move to the spuds

He will fit right in. Giroud knows how to make a DVD

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He will fit right in. Giroud knows how to make a DVD