Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

Let's get real, we're not going to sign anyone decent, were mickey mouse merchants, we belong in the Vauxhall conference not PL in terms of transfers.

We've been here, seen it, done it so many times before and we're almost always left disappointed, neither the club nor manager are interested in spending money and bringing in top quality, all they want is cheap nobodies, firstly so th club can save a few pennies and secondly so the manager can pat himself on the back and tell people you don't have to spend money to win things.

If we were interested in signing players then these alleged rumours about us being interested in someone would quickly turn into concrete signings, they don't because we're more interested in letting rumours circulate so that people don't think we're doing nothing and just enjoying our summer holidays.

The pretence is over now, for year we hid behind the stadium investment as the reason why we couldn't spend, that's not there any more and it's clear as day that all along we just didn't really want to spend.

Get use to being disappointed, that's what this club does best, that and generating money for the guys that matter at the top.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

The Kos thing with Bayern sounds a bit worrying. If we lost Kos :haha: we'd be fucked beyond belief. Would be textbook Arsenal, going into the window looking for a striker and coming out having lost our best defender instead.

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:haha: I know, classic Arsenal!

As for Sanchez and Ozil hard to see why they would want to stay, surely they've realise by now that Wenger isn't interested in signing quality players, I'd imagine when they move here he spun them some story about being the best team and winning stuff and they assumed that involved bringing in quality, Ozil seems to be calling for us to sign a striker, I hope he's prepared to be disappointed as many former have been in the past. Once players see through the nonsense they don't have much of an incentive to stay.

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Originally Posted by selassie

:haha: I know, classic Arsenal!

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I think most half decent players would be reluctant to sign a new contract if they have other optons at big clubs available, they would have surely cottoned on we aren't serious competitors for the major trophies and won't sign the players to ensure we have more of a chance.

The only players who stick around are players like Walcott and Wilshere who know they're onto a good thing getting paid big bucks for being injured most of the time or not performing, at most other clubs they'd be out on their ear, ut not at Arsenal, you can probably last a decade there if you're clever.

Koscielny should really be looking to move if he wants any major success, he's 30 now and it's his last chance and he won't really be around when we have a new manager and perhaps a chance of winning the big prizes again. If he sticks around he's just going to end up with a couple of FA cup medals and some 4th place trophies, not exactly a cabinet full of medals.

From LeGrove:

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News just in… Apparently we have made contact with Mauro Icardi’s reps about bringing him to London. Here are his stats for the last three seasons:

Goals 47
Mins/goal 145
Conversion (excl pens) 24%
Assists 12
Mins/chance created 81

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So more second tier shite, but this time with a 50mill Euro price tag attached. Better to leave the money in the bank so Stan can mortgage a new ranchthe new manager can spend it.

In 2032.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

From LeGrove:



So more second tier shite, but this time with a 50mill Euro price tag attached. Better to leave the money in the bank so Stan can mortgage a new ranchthe new manager can spend it.

In 2032.

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:lol: He's the next rumour we're putting out there, this should keep going for a few weeks, maybe enough time to take us into the new season.

Icardi is 23, there's probably more to come from him and he's already a 1 in 2 striker.

Honestly, I really think people desperate for something that just isn't attainable or worse still, doesn't exist.

Every top striker had to start somewhere until they exploded. We're far too quick to write off players, unless it's someone so obviously shit like Sanogo then we need to give them a chance.

From Arseblog:

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We play a friendly against Lens on Friday night, then there’s some travel and a trip to Californeeeee to play two games on Thursday 28th and Sunday July 31st. There’s more travel as we hit Norway to play Viking FK on August 5th, then it’s Pep Guardiola and Man City on August 7th in Sweden.

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That's some pretty impressive round-tripping. Would have been nice for our new striker to be involved in some capacity, such as actually being part of the club, but you can't always have anything. I guess the players back from the Euros won't be involved much. So it looks like we have two real pre-season games in there and the rest is money spinning. Which means we'll end up with knackered players that didn't go to the Euros and knackered players who did. Consistency. We're a long way from camp in Austria because Wenger doesn't like fucking up the players even before the season starts. But the money compensates I suppose.

Can we sign a player before Friday? Or is it better to wait until the season starts, dump hm in it and hope he floats? Or is it cheaper to sign nobody at all?

I'll believe these rumours when they happen, personally just think some guy is putting these rumours out there and that none of them are actually true.

Let's face it we won't be paying 50 million for anyone, Wenger has already shown his hand, he wants to spend 20 million max, that's why he went for the one season wonder.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Can we sign a player before Friday? Or is it better to wait until the season starts, dump hm in it and hope he floats? Or is it cheaper to sign nobody at all?

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We should wait until the end of the transfer window, that's the best time and where you have the most choice, clubs are desperate to sell their star players then you see because they have plenty of time to replace them.