Anyone else starting to feel like this AMN and Martinez stuff might all be staged so we have some “good news” to announce on the final day of the window when it turns out our CM for the season is Xhaka and Elneny?
Printable View
Anyone else starting to feel like this AMN and Martinez stuff might all be staged so we have some “good news” to announce on the final day of the window when it turns out our CM for the season is Xhaka and Elneny?
In the grand scheme of things, I just can't get that excited about it. These players live in a different world to us now. I used to drink down at the pub with half the Arsenal team, a long time ago. It's all changed, some say for the better - I'm not so sure. I was invested back then because I felt part of it, in a small way. But still connected. Now, it's just stuff that gets reported in the fake news media. We have no way of knowing the reality, one way or the other. But it does seem, in the absence of hard information, guessing is our best bet.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
And even when it all pans out, whatever players are on the pitch, it's not entertaining. Back, back, sideways, back. The odd moment when one of the tiny number of genuine players like Auba sweeps it into the net. I'll admit, I jumped up and was engaged again when he did that. But it's so rare now. Scraps.
If they stay, if they go. I don't think it really makes much of a difference.
Auba has signed. Apparently.
700m Euro release clause for Messi :lol:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53967083
Starting to think we may not sign him after all <_<
Won't believe it till it's on the BBC :sulk:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Funniest headline ive yet seen this season. "United beat off Spurs to land Van den Beek" What shit are they smoking at the toilet bowl?
Dawson's Creek was shit.
I think it is done too, otherwise he surely would have been sold to raise money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Best signing we could make this summer quite frankly. Without him there’s no chance we can even think about moving forward.
What you're missing is still around, you've just gotta go down the leagues to get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Messi hasn’t reported for training because he doesn’t consider himself part of the squad anymore. :lol:
Burning his bridges, just let him go tbf.
Most acrimonious falling out of a club legend ever? :lol:
https://www.arsenal.com/news/mkhitaryan-joins-roma
Mkhi joins Roma permanently.
Huge chunk of wages off the bill there.
What an awful swap deal that turned out to be with Alexis. :lol:
Swap deals rarely happen.
Us and Man Utd proved why. :lol:
Excellent.
So krates possibly off to Napoli for €4.5, and Shalke and Roma sniffing around Kola - deal, deal and deal.
We can sell Kolasinac twice, right?
Sure, we just get mustafi to change his name by deed poll, no-one will notice the differenceQuote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
:haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
I’m listening...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Deal (supposedly) agreed to bring Dani back for another year - one less thing to worry about, if true
Been reported by both Spanish and Italian journalists.
Good news if true, though i'd prefer a full signingQuote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Ornstein reckons Gabriel has already signed and has just been in isolation, seeing out his quarantine - club just waiting for that to be over before making the announcement.
Sounds like that’s probably true - there’s been zero new news on him for a good few days now, so I guess all the other clubs that were after him have moved on.
Yeah, everyone's talking about it like it's in the bag
https://www.theguardian.com/football...P=share_btn_twQuote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Thought this was a shoo-in since seeing his reactions on Twitter from winning the Community Shield.
You just don't react like that when you're still in theory at another club. :lol:
And his “see you soon” birthday message to Joe Willock.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
Never doubted Dani - it was just the Real factor that was making me nervous.
Great news if true, I know its short term but these sort of deals could become more common anyway. He provides some much needed quality on the ball in midfield.
It buys us time to deal with at least one problem on a different day - obviously if we do nothing else with the midfield this summer then we should have pushed harder to sign him now, but if this is what let's us go after players like Partey and Aouar (still not sure what to make of that one) then this is a good deal for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooner23
Got a horrible feeling his price will probably have doubled by next summer, but, you know... that's a 'next summer' problem.
could be we're shifting Ozil... :pray:
https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/footbal...ub_412455.html
It will have to take something insane like that for him to go because I have no doubt he's happy to sit out his final year here.
Something has obviously broken down in terms of relationship with the club hierarchy, it's not just footballing reasons anymore.
We are desperate to have him on board, well I am anyway, I'm not so sure a midfield of Xhaka and El Neny is the way forward!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooner23
I get the feeling that another good season and he will be ours, we will be in a position where we need to buy him regardless of the fee.
He's going to sit it out like the c*nt he is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
We've basically paid him off to leave, it would have cost us a fair few million.Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
What worries me about this rebuild is the difficulty we seem to be having shifting players. Most seem to be linked to loan aways, even younger players like Holding. Ive not been following the Kola, Torreira or Sokratis transfer news...but by all accounts it seems all these guys are loans with obligations to buy, I dread to think of the pitiful fees we will get for any of these guys.
The likes of Mustafi and Ozil at this stage appear to be in the "untransferable" bracket, in that no team is daft enough to make an offer, let alone match their current insane wages. In Ozil's case, I don't think we are in a position to pay him off, it will cost us millions.
The sad thing is we genuinely appear to have some kind of sensible plan to improve / rebuild the squad...but it hinges on outs. Where this becomes a bottleneck is that we have largely a squad of duds who are by all accounts seem very difficult to shift. Even some of our more what you would think would be sort after players, seem to be attracting little to no interest.
Spot on with everything you said, we can't shift any of these guys unless we pay them off or loan them out and we can't spend much before we sell, it's a shocking state of affairs and just shows how bad our transfer dealings have been.Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
Are there any other big clubs out there (or indeed PL clubs) who struggle to shift players like we do, I mean Elneny is still here! I'm amazed that with todays agent we can't shift any of these players.
Mhkitaryan we paid off to leave it seems, Holding Newcastle are only interested in a loan, even Kolasinac Schalke only seem to have an interest in loaning (this is the guy that came from there and was apparently good?). The others noone is interested in it seems.
the mistake is trying to get any money for somone like Mustafi - just get rid for free, then at least we're not paying his wages, neither do we have to look at his ugly face again
Gabriel is official
It would take a miracle to get rid of fairycake in any transfer window.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
He is useless, has a very bad attitude, is useless, he is souless, gutless, shameless and useless, is ill regularly, gets paid far far far far far far too much and he is useless.
What football team in the world is going to want a 'player' like that ?
He is fucking useless as well, lets not forget.
https://www.theguardian.com/football...ector-bellerin
£25m + £5m in add-ons for Bellerin?
I like Hector, but that’s really tempting, especially given his injury record and the fact that we have 3 RBs...
I would drive him there personally myself, we should bite their hand off for this given it will most likely secure us Partey.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Ornstein is saying that we are basically waiting on sales to trigger Partey release clause & that we are in discussions with Lyons over Aouar.
Adding Partey & Aouar to our midfield would be a 10 /10 window for me, both are amongst the very best in Europe in their positions right now, they would be major coups for us and would massively improve this team. In the case of Aouar, if he continues to develop he will be legit world class in the next few years.
Would be sad to see him go personally. He’s had an injury plagued 2 years but I think he’s still got plenty to give. Of course I get the situation though and it’s a tempting offer for sure, hopefully we push for something closer to 40m, PSG have a bottomless pit of money after all. If we’re going to sell our players of value then at least make it worthwhile.