Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

And yet Wenger can get us second. He's a genius!

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Yes, he is.. after charging the highest ticket prices and picking up one of the highest paycheck in Europe for nearly a decade, that is a humongous achievement. He should be knighted tbh..

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Originally Posted by Maestro

How do you get a work permit? A good lawyer helps.

Most South Americans turn up at mid to lower clubs in Spain or mid to top sides in Holland and Portugal. They do their initiation one or two seasons to get their papers sorted and boom they become available, but even then we are always last off the mark if at all we are interested.

Regards the scouts, yes they are shit but Wenget has the power to revamp that whole department but he never does, so they must be meeting his expectations or they file reports on top talent only to be overruled by the overlords opinion of talent and value.

Either way we are screwed, and that's the good bit because all expectation has been sucked out of us too. In fact we are not grateful enough for what we have, fucking fickle fans.

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Not sure how we can pass comments on the scouts when we hear nothing from or about them. Going by the hilarious and ridiculous list of players we could have signed, it sounds like the scouts are doing a great job. But how do we know who they watch and who they don't? Any club with big resources will have scouts in the main territories, watching the same players a lot of the time and a lot of it comes down to timing and getting in ahead of rivals. Their job is just to locate, watch and present the data. Beyond that the senior decision makers at the clubs are the ones that have to do something with that. So the by the sounds of it, the scouting is shit, the negotiations are shit, the coaches are shit, the manager is shit and a lot of the players are shit. Whoever said the fans didn't know what they are talking about.

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Originally Posted by fakeyank

Yes, he is.. after charging the highest ticket prices and picking up one of the highest paycheck in Europe for nearly a decade, that is a humongous achievement. He should be knighted tbh..

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He can't be knighted silly!

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Originally Posted by Kano

Not sure how we can pass comments on the scouts when we hear nothing from or about them. Going by the hilarious and ridiculous list of players we could have signed, it sounds like the scouts are doing a great job. But how do we know who they watch and who they don't? Any club with big resources will have scouts in the main territories, watching the same players a lot of the time and a lot of it comes down to timing and getting in ahead of rivals. Their job is just to locate, watch and present the data. Beyond that the senior decision makers at the clubs are the ones that have to do something with that. So the by the sounds of it, the scouting is shit, the negotiations are shit, the coaches are shit, the manager is shit and a lot of the players are shit. Whoever said the fans didn't know what they are talking about.

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:haha: ...and the fans are shit too

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

He can't be knighted silly!

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The French equivalent is the Légion d'Honneur. He won't be getting one of those any time soon.


Because he already has one.

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Originally Posted by Douglas Reynholm

The French equivalent is the Légion d'Honneur. He won't be getting one of those any time soon.


Because he already has one.

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And deserved as well.

But he's well past awards these days.

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Originally Posted by Maestro

:haha: ...and the fans are shit too

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Arsenal have the worst fans.

We're worse than the Russians.

And they're cunts.

we need to sort ourselves out, where's Heavy D, Fam, TY and Claude

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Originally Posted by Kano

Not sure how we can pass comments on the scouts when we hear nothing from or about them. Going by the hilarious and ridiculous list of players we could have signed, it sounds like the scouts are doing a great job. But how do we know who they watch and who they don't? Any club with big resources will have scouts in the main territories, watching the same players a lot of the time and a lot of it comes down to timing and getting in ahead of rivals. Their job is just to locate, watch and present the data. Beyond that the senior decision makers at the clubs are the ones that have to do something with that. So the by the sounds of it, the scouting is shit, the negotiations are shit, the coaches are shit, the manager is shit and a lot of the players are shit. Whoever said the fans didn't know what they are talking about.

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Yep, i'm with you on this Kano. I don't think scouting is the problem, I think the decision making regarding bringing players in is and the fact that we aren't as "en vogue" as we were say 10 years ago.

As an example, 10 years ago + we cleaned up the French Market when they had young talents coming through, any young talented french player would run a mile to play for us, not the same anymore, we've been turned down recently by quite a few young french stars and by clubs that are questionably not more attractive than us, examples, Kingsley Coman turned us down for Juve, Griezmann turned us down for Atletico Madrid.

Wenger is not lying when he says French have a wealth of young talent and he is aware of them, the scouts most likely are too, the problem is that we are in a queue to secure their signatures and are quite far down the queue when it comes to enticing them here, well far down in respect to other big European clubs.