Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

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Originally Posted by Letters

I'm getting a bit sick of these players sulking.
STFU, Sanchez. You are under contract and you are paid very, very well. Yes, I'm sure you could get more elsewhere but by the standards of any normal human being you have more money than you know what to do with.
So stop whining and start playing. If you want to leave next summer then fine, you are free to do so.
But, for now, you are our player.

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Its too late for that now Letters, Sanchez is gone, he was sold a pack of lies by Wenger when he signed, the whole thing is a complete nonsense. We are in such a mess now, much much bigger than last season, our stars are on the verge of walking out for free, we can't shift the shit that Wenger has loaded the squad with and we are reluctant to pay market rate for quality signings. If we plan properly we could and should put the contract rebels up for sale and start scouring the market for suitable replacements, whatever the cost. We won't though, next summer will be absolutely brutal, you just watch.

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Originally Posted by Letters

I'm getting a bit sick of these players sulking.
STFU, Sanchez. You are under contract and you are paid very, very well. Yes, I'm sure you could get more elsewhere but by the standards of any normal human being you have more money than you know what to do with.
So stop whining and start playing. If you want to leave next summer then fine, you are free to do so.
But, for now, you are our player.

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I would sulk too, if I see people with worse capabilities than me getting a higher paycheck. I would sulk if I am a player that should be battling for the Ballon d'or playing for a team that has ambitions of ONLY turning a profit every season. He has every right to sulk, just like we have every right not to sell him anywhere.

Frankly, I cannot see why any world class player would want to play for, or stay at Arsenal FC. We are a good stepping stone club and you cannot blame players like Ozil and Sanchez if they want out. We are a club on a downward spiral.

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Originally Posted by selassie

Its too late for that now Letters, Sanchez is gone, he was sold a pack of lies by Wenger when he signed, the whole thing is a complete nonsense. We are in such a mess now, much much bigger than last season, our stars are on the verge of walking out for free, we can't shift the shit that Wenger has loaded the squad with and we are reluctant to pay market rate for quality signings. If we plan properly we could and should put the contract rebels up for sale and start scouring the market for suitable replacements, whatever the cost. We won't though, next summer will be absolutely brutal, you just watch.

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You only mentioned the bad stuff. You have to offset this with the positives. Wenger has signed. He's all sorted out and is committed to the club. As Ivan said, we scanned the world and found we already had the very best. I agree, if we lose our best players and get left with a giant bag of overpaid shit it won't be ideal, but we've dealt with losing our best players and carrying a giant bag of overpaid shit for over a decade now. We're very experienced in that respect and I have no doubt we'll see that experience spread liberally over the football pitch all season long.

If Sanchez has refused to play for us he's taking the piss. I can understand him wanting to leave but he's supposed to be a professional.

I wonder when we'll be announcing it is unavoidable that Alexis leaves, he has PSG DNA and we can't deny biology and his childhood dreams, we can't do anything if the player wants to go, we can't have uncertainty in the squad, Walcott is like a new signing and we don't have time to find a replacement - but we have a big war chest for the next transfer window? End of the week?

Wonder is Alexis will bother coming back between now and his transfer?

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Originally Posted by Penguin

If Sanchez has refused to play for us he's taking the piss. I can understand him wanting to leave but he's supposed to be a professional.

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The players are bigger than the clubs now. The Neymar deal cost more than the value of most squads in world football. 400 million quid when it all pans out, apparently. Massive joke of a non-sport.

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Originally Posted by fakeyank

I would sulk too, if I see people with worse capabilities than me getting a higher paycheck. I would sulk if I am a player that should be battling for the Ballon d'or playing for a team that has ambitions of ONLY turning a profit every season. He has every right to sulk, just like we have every right not to sell him anywhere.

Frankly, I cannot see why any world class player would want to play for, or stay at Arsenal FC. We are a good stepping stone club and you cannot blame players like Ozil and Sanchez if they want out. We are a club on a downward spiral.

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I don't blame Sanchez at all for wanting out, but sulk? No. He's not a child, he is a professional player. He has a contract with us and gets paid a silly amount of money by any reasonable standards. I doubt anyone at Arsenal gets paid more. For this season we should be telling him to stay and he should be working hard for us a) because he's a professional and b) to put himself in the shop window.

And are we in a downward spiral? How do you figure?
5th last season was the worst place we've finished in Wenger's reign and the 3 years before that we'd finished 4th then 3rd than 2nd.
Our points totals have been: 79,75,71,75
And in 3 of the last 4 seasons we've finished with a trophy, including last year.

We're stagnating and have done for years, there is no evidence of either a downward trend or us pushing on for bigger and better things.

It's a slow and steady decline. Every year the quality of our football drops, not by much but it's a steady and consistent drop off. All down to Wenger not haven't the first clue how to rejuvenate and energise this squad. His pathetic personal opinions on how football should be and what represents value and all his other bullshit that has been shown time and time and time again to result in nearly or glorious failure, but ultimately failure. In cup competitions we can take advantage of the one-off format. But when it comes to sustained competition we come up short, every single time. Badly on far too many occasions. Humiliating drubbings, season after season. And even now Wenger persists with his bullshit. Look at the state of the squad going into another season. What a joke. What a joke of a manager. Pure scandal that he's been rewarded yet again for his repetitive failure. There's only one direction with Wenger - down. But, according to the incompetent moron Gazidis, Wenger is the best in the business. So we'll see how the inevitable pans out again. Judge it at the end of the failure.

I agree the quality of the football has got worse, but the end result has been pretty consistent. There has been no clear decline there.
I don't think there is that much wrong with the squad. With a better manager we would be challenging with this squad.

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Originally Posted by Letters

I don't blame Sanchez at all for wanting out, but sulk? No. He's not a child, he is a professional player. He has a contract with us and gets paid a silly amount of money by any reasonable standards. I doubt anyone at Arsenal gets paid more. For this season we should be telling him to stay and he should be working hard for us a) because he's a professional and b) to put himself in the shop window.

And are we in a downward spiral? How do you figure?
5th last season was the worst place we've finished in Wenger's reign and the 3 years before that we'd finished 4th then 3rd than 2nd.
Our points totals have been: 79,75,71,75
And in 3 of the last 4 seasons we've finished with a trophy, including last year.

We're stagnating and have done for years, there is no evidence of either a downward trend or us pushing on for bigger and better things.

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As usual, you won't notice the fire until the smokes cleared and it's too late. We're in bad shape. We have no youth system and have failed to produce a group of players good enough to make our starting 11. Heck, what's worse, we've produced a bunch of players that are a drain on our resources and can't even attract the sort of ridiculous bids we've sesn the likes of Spurs and Southampton profit from. We're having to sell out players for knock down prices.

Since project youth has been a failure, you would think we'd a bit more proactive in the transfer window. More aggressive with our approach. That's not the case and our slow approach to building a quality squad means we'll eventually lose whatever talent we have in the squad. Same shit we saw with Cesc and RVP. It's worse now because we can't use the stadium as an excuse and the manager has really shown how behind he is tactically. It's not looking good.