Maldini even in his prime would have struggled in the premier league, too slowQuote:
Originally Posted by GP
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Maldini even in his prime would have struggled in the premier league, too slowQuote:
Originally Posted by GP
We do need defenders but whoever we sign there will make no difference if our midfield leaves them so exposed all the time.
You don't have to be quick if you can read the game, Adams wasn't quick but he read the game so well, Maldini was the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by HCZ
That's being generous!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumbledore
Exactly, if you want a player you don't wait until the last day of the transfer window, I know we always do but it's just stupidity, if we genuinely wanted one we'd have found someone before, Chelsea and Man City managed it pretty effortlessly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Evans isn't the answer.
Our defenders don't move all that much anyway. They mostly stand there watching shit happen. Maldini would probably add a bit of zip to the backline.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
Why don't we add a popcorn machine to the defence then? At least when they stand still and watch they can have some popcorn to view the action.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Too expensive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumbledore
Yes, let them play. They will learn, eventually.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Time for the last hour of Jim White Day on SSN.
Can't see how they're going to make it exciting, I would doubt anybody is moving now.
Beheading him?Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
15 mins left to sign some more playa
It’s all over!
Thank f*ck. Can we bin it now?
West Ham don’t want to sign African players because they cause mayhem. :haha:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dai...can-stars.html
Blacks :haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Just can’t behave themselves
Well, we actually signed somebody worth the effort. So for us, that's a decent window. And we made a profit, which is the main thing.
Giroud only given an 18 month contract! so he can basically sign for someone else next January.
TBH he scored two very Walcott like goals, nothing too dificult and a bit lucky. He looked at times like he had never set foot on a football pitch though, crap footballer, decent runner/goal scorer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumbledore
Arsenal's first-team squad now consists of just 23 players. And that's including the injured Santi Cazorla, and new youngster Mavropanos. So basically 21 players. Doesn't leave much room for injuries, which have been known to happen.
:doh:
They've realised lack of transfers are annoying people at last, but to fund these rather than spend some of the profits they're selling more players and bringing in money and also losing their salary off the wage bill. We're probably making even more money than we were before the transfer window now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumbledore
Well played Arsenal, must be the only big club in the world that never spends any of the profits, never challenges for big prizes and yet manages to keep the fans happy.
We failed with a last minute bid for Evans apparently (close shave that one), what I find funny is that it's almost as if we didn't realise we needed a defender till we lost to Swansea, why else would you put in a last minute bid?
Interestingly there's still no deal signed for Wilshire, not got much time left if we want to get him signed up.
Arsenal sell their top scorer in each of the past five seasons (Walcott 21 goals, Giroud 22, Sanchez 25, Giroud 24 and Sanchez 30) in the space of 14 days.
That's a lot of goals.
Got to balance the books and all that, wouldn't mind if we brought in a similar number to what we got rid of, but we haven't.
Not sure we can afford to let Wilshere go. Most of our midfield options would look more at home at Watford than a top 6 club.
I can't see us picking up any injuries, tbf. We don't move around fast enough. Bellerin's hair might break in a strong wind, I suppose. Or Xhaka could get blown over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumbledore
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
Out:
Ox
Coq
Theo
Giroud
Debuchy
Sanchez
Loan:
Akpom
In:
Davros
Mhiki
Auba
Anyone I've missed? :shrug:
Tbf, it was a last minute underbid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
Gabriel? When did he go?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aubameyang's Wang
Agreed. His new pay to play contract is quite lucrative, I think we are charging him 30K a game plus another 10 if he scores.Quote:
Originally Posted by Penguin
Top 6 transfer (net) spend 2017-18 (covering the summer and January windows)
@ManCity: £191.7m
@ManUtd: £127m
@LFC: £10m
@ChelseaFC: £68.1m
@SpursOfficial: £14.8m
@Arsenal: (–)£7.6m
:lol:
Oh yeh :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
In the summer I guess?
At least we aren't limping along like poor old Pep and his gypo paupers. Poor bastards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dumbledore
I think the club's argument is they are making the squad leaner but upgrading and improving its quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aubameyang's Wang
Mikhi > Theo
Auba <> Sanchez
The silly one was selling Giroud. I still don't get it. I guess they're looking at it and thinking Giroud is 31 and only gonna go downhill, we've upgraded Walcott and replaced Sanchez. So they think quality has increased and all by spending nothing as we're in a surplus over the last 2 windows. So all about quality and not about quantity.
Also anyone that says project youth was nothing but a disaster is wrong. It still affects us to this day. Look how long it took to shift Ox and Theo, the latter on silly wages.
I get the argument that we need to make the squad leaner and more efficient and improve its quality but imo we've made it too lean. We have a small squad now and for a team that has injuries regularly it doesn't bode well.
We also don't have a plan B now.
And the guy has been suspended.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
So, do African players cause mayhem? Is there an answer to it? Perhaps they do. Maybe they don't? Are we allowed to ask the question?
Giroud was never going to play and it's tough to expect someone who's scored over 100 goals for the club to sit on the bench just in case he's needed, he's spent the last 18 months phased out of the team. Can understand why we let him go, just wished we were a little bit more ruthless and flogged him on our terms in the summer.
I think they are generally, well behaved.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
It's only when they start dealing drugs, robbin, shooting and banging their spears against their shields that people start to take offence :coffee:
Sanllehi starts today.
SAS :bow:
although that is more or less the current league positions. And does it really matter if City spend money, they are actually pretty good to watch and De Bruyne is quality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn