Transfer Window Reaction & Season Predictions

[Ironing]

I'll react in about 1.5 hours

See you then

Good clearout - most important thing of all. Got rid of a load of shit. Cesc was inevitable. Nasri unfortunate, but less important than cesc, he was an inconsistent performer and we got good money.

Can't really comment on the incomings but first impression is I'm underwhelmed.

Too little too late

At one point it was Hazard / M'villa...

Cahill / Bolton (whoever fucked the deal up) are morons. Both set to lose out now

Overall pretty shambolic, like our start to the season

[Syn]

Well...5 new players in the last couple of days who will go straight into the team. Certainly hoping for a change in style of play. Interested to see how park and santos get on.

[Marc Overmars]

Helluva turnover of players.

Don't know what to expect really.

Lets wait and see, at least we have something to look forward to now.

[Kano]

Samir Nasri £24m
Cesc Fabregas £35m
Gael Clichy £7m
Eboue 4m
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas 1.1m
71m

Gervinho 10m
Alex Oxlade Chamberlain £12m
Santos 6m
Mertesacker 8m
Campbell 1m
Park 2m?
Arteta 10m
49m

A speculative 71m in and 49m out, with deductions from that 22m for salaries etc so not much left over, if i've got those figures right.

no way we could find a ready made replacement for cesc that would hit the ground running, so arteta and yoss are solid replacements for the middle with jack.

full back and centre back are solid too and it should resolve the issues we've had since the start of the season with the gaping holes through the middle of the team.

[Asthmatic Kitty]

if the arteta deal hadn't gone through it would've been pretty scary how thin our squad is, as it is it's just about acceptable.

i mean m'vila/hazard etc. would've been awesome but i would've been surprised if we'd pulled off any huge coups. we might just scrape 4th with this squad.

[Ironing]

Samir Nasri £24m
Cesc Fabregas £35m
Gael Clichy £7m
Eboue 4m
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas 1.1m
71m

Gervinho 10m
Alex Oxlade Chamberlain £12m
Santos 6m
Mertesacker 8m
Campbell 1m
Park 2m?
Arteta 10m
49m

A speculative 71m in and 49m out, with deductions from that 22m for salaries etc so not much left over, if i've got those figures right.

no way we could find a ready made replacement for cesc that would hit the ground running, so arteta and yoss are solid replacements for the middle with jack.

full back and centre back are solid too and it should resolve the issues we've had since the start of the season with the gaping holes through the middle of the team.

Er, if you're gonna include salaries, factor in the players that LEFT too...

[Coney]

Got some solid players which will hopefully provide the experience and resiliance that we need. Let see how the next couple of months go.

[Maestro]

Got some solid players which will hopefully provide the experience and resiliance that we need. Let see how the next couple of months go.

Fair

[Cripps_orig]

Bit shit tbh

[Grebbo]

I was really hoping for a big signing of £20m+

I think we've done quite well given it was the last minute.

Signed lots of experience and the squad is much better now.

It all comes down to the fitness of Arteta and Benayoun.

In conclusion: ok. We were always going to be weaker by selling Cesc and Nasri - there's not many players who can replace them and even fewer that are available and would want to join us.

We have a fighting chance of getting 4th, yesterday we had no chance.