Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

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31-08-2017, 04:24 PM
Niall_Quinn

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Originally Posted by Özim

I reckon it's BS, probably to make it look as if we tried (just like the Mbappe nonsense earlier in the summer) :violin:but if by some miracle it isn't then:

a) He's not a replacement for Alexis, he's relatively unproven, has 1 decent year behind him and doesn't seem to be a goalscorer, so we've gone back to where we were in that we're now short of a 2nd player who can get us goals when we need them
b) 92 million are we being serious? If we'd tried earlier in the window we'd have got him for a fraction of the cost, we must have a bunch of amateurs dealing with transfers

Either way it's been a disastrous window and this does nothing to resolve that, hopefully there will be a massive backlash after this.

Lemar is the sort of player we have needed for a long, long time. An all action, 100% energy, winner with great technique who can play effectively all across the middle. Fabulous player and a potential superstar. Which is why coming to Arsenal is the last fucking thing he needs in his life. Wenger will find the one way to ruin him. Even so, we'd get at least one good year out of him before he learned the Arsenal Way.

That said - a lot could still go wrong with the development of a 21 year old, Wenger aside. Injury, the weight of carrying such a big price tag, the jump from French footie to the PL. This is an incredible gamble if it is real. And we'll be guilty of the worst inflation in the market. We'll be the biggest financial dopers of them all.

LATEST: Lemar doesn't want to come here. He wants to go to Liverpool. You see what having a sane manager can do? See what the cost of Wenger's stock decline amounts to?
31-08-2017, 04:25 PM
Özim

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Lemar is the sort of player we have needed for a long, long time. An all action, 100% energy, winner with great technique who can play effectively all across the middle. Fabulous player and a potential superstar. Which is why coming to Arsenal is the last fucking thing he needs in his life. Wenger will find the one way to ruin him. Even so, we'd get at least one good year out of him before he learned the Arsenal Way.

That said - a lot could still go wrong with the development of a 21 year old, Wenger aside. Injury, the weight of carrying such a big price tag, the jump from French footie to the PL. This is an incredible gamble if it is real. And we'll be guilty of the worst inflation in the market. We'll be the biggest financial dopers of them all.

LATEST: Lemar doesn't want to come here. He wants to go to Liverpool. You see what having a sane manager can do? See what the cost of Wenger's stock decline amounts to?

I'd agree he would be a good signing, but not as a replacement to our star player and a guy who gets 25 goals a season, as an addition to our squad great but as a replacement very underwhelming.
31-08-2017, 04:26 PM
Marc Overmars

Deal for Lemar unlikely say SSN. :lol:
31-08-2017, 04:30 PM
Niall_Quinn

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Originally Posted by Özim

I'd agree he would be a good signing, but not as a replacement to our star player and a guy who gets 25 goals a season, as an addition to our squad great but as a replacement very underwhelming.

Of course. Any sane manager would have added a Lemar to the Ozil, Alexis and (still talking about sane managers) Vidal and Draxler. And any sane manager could have extended Alexis' contract months ago by putting 300k on the table. And any sane manager could have signed Vidal for 32mill. And Any sane manager could have signed Draxler for 35 mill. And the same sane bloke could have got Lemar a couple of months ago for 50 mill. And all this was totally manageable because we could have sold the deadwood to fund half of this. Including Walcott and Giroud and Welbeck.

But that would have required a long term plan and a sane strategy that lacked panic and complete incompetence.

Now we are losing our best players, or at best hanging on to players who don't want to be here and won't be here next season. And we're being snubbed by 21 yr olds even though we've bid the earth.

You couldn't fuck this up any more thoroughly if you were deliberately trying to destroy the club.
31-08-2017, 04:30 PM
Globalgunner

No sane player would want to join us. We may have better luck with getting Draxler, possibly on loan. Also we should ask for Van Dijk, also on loan.
31-08-2017, 04:32 PM
Niall_Quinn

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Originally Posted by Globalgunner

No sane player would want to join us. We may have better luck with getting Draxler, possibly on loan. Also we should ask for Van Dijk, also on loan.

Draxler already said no. That one is off the table and in the taxi home. The Van Djik thing was always just media speculation I think.
31-08-2017, 04:35 PM
Özim

Allegedly we withdrew our offer for Lemar :lol:

https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.co...l-deadline-day
31-08-2017, 04:38 PM
Globalgunner

Wenger with no where to hide.
31-08-2017, 04:39 PM
Niall_Quinn

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Originally Posted by Özim

Allegedly we withdrew our offer for Lemar :lol:

https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.co...l-deadline-day

No.

Just no.

They are purposely trying to make this club the world's biggest laughing stock.

People will talk about this insanity for years to come.

This is just crazy.

They have literally put this bid out there as a stunt to make it look like they were serious about spending money.
31-08-2017, 04:40 PM
McNamara That Ghost...

How the fuck would they know?

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