Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

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...our slow approach to building a quality squad means we'll eventually lose whatever talent we have in the squad...

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Absolutely key to the Wenger problem. His unwillingness to focus on the key things other (normal) managers are getting on and doing. Those other managers view their position as employment. If they advance the fortunes of the team on the pitch, they keep their job. Maybe. If they slide they get the chop, for sure. Not Wenger though. He even came out and said winning or losing was only a part of this Arsenal culture he views as his own. As if he's the only manager we ever had or will ever have. He busies himself with a hundred and one things that are none of his damn business, or at least shouldn't be. You hear other managers, even the manager of the current champions, complaining because they don't have enough to do the vital things they need to do to ensure success. Not Wenger. He's there lecturing everyone else on sustainability and value, all the while neglecting his own vital task of ensuring we have the best possible squad we can have going into each season. The bloke's beyond the pale.

Looks like Perez is heading back to Deportivo for 10 mill.

Le Moron paid 17 mill for the guy and then sat him on the bench and paid wages. What a fucking cock :doh:

Yet we'll haggle over a quid in other cases.

Sadly for us it will mean 2 1/2 months simply isn't enough time to make any signings, everyone is against us :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40931420

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Originally Posted by Özim

Sadly for us it will mean 2 1/2 months simply isn't enough time to make any signings, everyone is against us :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40931420

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I see Wenger failed in getting the window shut 1 minute after it opens.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

I see Wenger failed in getting the window shut 1 minute after it opens.

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Yeah unfrotunately he's still going to have to drag the transfer sagas over a 2 1/2 months even if this happens, poor thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40848343

Just the £45 million for Sigurdsson.

Meanwhile at Arsenal:tumbleweed:

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40848343

Just the £45 million for Sigurdsson.

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Mental

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

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.

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We have a squad good enough to challenge for the title (in my opinion) and the stadium and global fanbase to sustain that, it's not that bad.

We have a manager who can't win us the biggest trophies and a board who don't care though, so that is not good, and there's no prospect of that changing any time soon.

Are Chelsea, Liverpool, City or Utd teams full of players from their youth systems? I don't know the answer to that but the amount clubs are throwing around to buy in players I'm guessing not.
Obviously it is desirable to develop players rather than buy them if possible though.

We are stagnating, that's the worst thing for me. But I don't think as a club we are in a bad position were a new manager to come in. We already have a squad good enough to challenge, or very close. We will probably lose Sanzhez in the next year or so but losing key players has happened before and we have rebuilt.

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Originally Posted by Letters

We have a squad good enough to challenge for the title (in my opinion) and the stadium and global fanbase to sustain that, it's not that bad.

We have a manager who can't win us the biggest trophies and a board who don't care though, so that is not good, and there's no prospect of that changing any time soon.

Are Chelsea, Liverpool, City or Utd teams full of players from their youth systems? I don't know the answer to that but the amount clubs are throwing around to buy in players I'm guessing not.

Obviously it is desirable to develop players rather than buy them if possible though.

We are stagnating, that's the worst thing for me. But I don't think as a club we are in a bad position were a new manager to come in. We already have a squad good enough to challenge, or very close. We will probably lose Sanzhez in the next year or so but losing key players has happened before and we have rebuilt.

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Chelsea, City, etc don’t have to depend on youth because they go out and buy what they require for whatever price as it’s needed. We don’t and that’s the point. Teams either develop their youth and throw in some unknown cheap gems to win titles or they go all out and buy the top players for the position they need. We do neither.

We’ve needed a striker since RVP left. From the day we signed Ozil, for anyone that has argued that we’d get more out of him if we had a better striker, it’s taken up to the last year of Ozil’s contract for us to sign the type of striker he’d arguably flourish with. That’s way too long to address a problem.

As said, we’re so slow to react, we end up losing the players we’re building a team around because we’re too slow to build around them. We don’t have a team good enough to win the title. You need to watch more of our games. We’ve needed a striker for a long time but we’ve needed a world class CM for much longer. Our defence is in bad shape as well with no leadership. That’s as it stands now.

If we lose Ozil, Sanchez and Ox with no replacements, we’re weakened. If we keep them, I can’t see a scenario where Wenger doesn’t decide to bench them or they take the piss and pull sickies. We’ve seen how Wenger has benched contract rebels before to probe a point and I’m sure we’ll see it again. You need to start thinking ahead. You’re dismissive today but as the season unravels, it will suddenly dawn on you. We’re not in good shape at all. The fact that we’re owned by Silent Stan and Wenger was just given a new contract says it all. We’re fucked.