Summer transfer joy and happiness

Overmars has spoken... https://www.skysports.com/football/n...ech-hes-better

If he was that easy to sell he’d of been out the door straight after the Europa Final whistle.

Well just forget about Zaha (please) and just go for him out right.

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Originally Posted by SMatthews

If he was that easy to sell he’d of been out the door straight after the Europa Final whistle.

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Speaks volumes that there isn’t a single bit of interest in him, that we’ve heard of anyway.

Proper dud of a player and we’re completely lumbered with him.

Maguire hands in a transfer request.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Maguire hands in a transfer request.

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Personally i don't like that fathead, do we know where's he's going?

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Originally Posted by selassie

Totally agree, especially with the bit highlighted. The end of the season collapse is absolutely on Emery's head, we were in a very strong position until the collapse.

Also, I am getting the feeling that some players don't actually rate Emery as a manager, Auba and Laca seem quite vocal about their dislike of him, well subtly anyway by liking posts about questioning his methods etc.

This window has been an absolute disaster so far, Emery is obviously not driving these deals, but he needs to make Raul and Vinay aware that new bodies are needed ASAP.

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Emery already knows he's on borrowed time IMO, and is in no position to push his luck, let's face it his lack of authority was exposed last January when the club said he'd not be able to sign anyone

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Originally Posted by Aubameyang's Wang

Maybe that is our plan, piss off as many clubs as possible, sign no-one and then claim that we tried to buy players but the clubs didn't like our offers?

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The old Wenger trick "yes, i theenk we could buy messi if we wanted..." :haha:

Having lost Ramsey, Welbeck and Cech....we are currently a weaker squad of players than last season.

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Originally Posted by Mac76

Emery already knows he's on borrowed time IMO, and is in no position to push his luck, let's face it his lack of authority was exposed last January when the club said he'd not be able to sign anyone

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Not sure that’s true at all. Raul has said he is no fan of the winter transfer window as he sees it as pointless. Whoever the manager, we wouldn’t have signed anyone - especially now we know the state of the finances.

De Gea about to sign up to a £350k a week salary at Utd.

The penny is going to drop soon that signing up to these contracts makes you set for life but kills your sporting ambition. Just look at Neymar, Ozil, Sanchez and Pogba - you’re stuck in limbo until your contract runs out as no-one can afford to buy more than one of you a season.

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Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice

Having lost Ramsey, Welbeck and Cech....we are currently a weaker squad of players than last season.

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Pound for pound, yes. Ramsey’s the only real miss out of those 3 for me though (and even he came with his own set of headaches in terms of form, fitness and who you could partner him with).

In some ways I think we might actually have a better spread of options now, even if most of the players we’ve promoted to the first team are very raw still? Two of them are natural wingers (as is our only modest signing) and the other 3 look like they could fill in several areas across the attack and midfield. (Obviously I’m not expecting any of those guys to hit consistent, top-level form every week, but if we play the numbers game with them then we only really need one or two of them to be fired up and in the zone each week.)

Plus there’s the knock-on effect to consider. If we have proper wingers in the side, even if they’re inexperienced, then maybe (hopefully!) we won’t have to suffer Özil and Mkhi on the wings ever again! Maybe we can move Iwobi central, or possibly even push him into a 3-man midfield (he’s not really got the consistent end product to be a top winger or a no.10, but as a ball-carrier from midfield I think he could be more useful)? And of course playing with wingers means we can rest / rotate Auba and Laca, and keep them fresh across a long season.

Player-for-player you have to say we’re a weaker squad right now... but I can actually see a few more options when I look at this current group, which is something.

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Originally Posted by SMatthews

Not sure that’s true at all. Raul has said he is no fan of the winter transfer window as he sees it as pointless. Whoever the manager, we wouldn’t have signed anyone - especially now we know the state of the finances.

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ok, but that's still kind of my point where you say 'Raul has said' ie Emery has no real say and don't forget he'd been making noises about needing to buy players in January not long before Raul said any buys were off the table...

made Emery look a bit out of the loop at best....

Isn't that the whole point of the new set-up? The manager focusses on the team while the suits do all the other stuff? Back in January Emery did say we needed a CB, then said the club told him things would be different in the summer and towards the end of the season said buying was one of the best ways to improve the squad. He's hardly been quiet. If Raul and Vinai said they were pleased with his performance, saying he's 'out the loop' makes no sense. Either way it's the same situation any manager here would find themselves in.

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Originally Posted by I am invisible

Pound for pound, yes. Ramsey’s the only real miss out of those 3 for me though (and even he came with his own set of headaches in terms of form, fitness and who you could partner him with).

In some ways I think we might actually have a better spread of options now, even if most of the players we’ve promoted to the first team are very raw still? Two of them are natural wingers (as is our only modest signing) and the other 3 look like they could fill in several areas across the attack and midfield. (Obviously I’m not expecting any of those guys to hit consistent, top-level form every week, but if we play the numbers game with them then we only really need one or two of them to be fired up and in the zone each week.)

Plus there’s the knock-on effect to consider. If we have proper wingers in the side, even if they’re inexperienced, then maybe (hopefully!) we won’t have to suffer Özil and Mkhi on the wings ever again! Maybe we can move Iwobi central, or possibly even push him into a 3-man midfield (he’s not really got the consistent end product to be a top winger or a no.10, but as a ball-carrier from midfield I think he could be more useful)? And of course playing with wingers means we can rest / rotate Auba and Laca, and keep them fresh across a long season.

Player-for-player you have to say we’re a weaker squad right now... but I can actually see a few more options when I look at this current group, which is something.

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well I hope we give the youngsters a go as without playing them we will never really know if they can cut it although it is a bit of a risk throwing 3 or 4 in at the same time. but its easier to be a young attacker than a young defender imo. We might have a few more options its just time will tell if its good options or not.

just spend the money on the back four.

Apparently close to signing Dani Cabellos from Real on loan. Supposed to be a talented young CM by all accounts. Starred in u-21 team that just won the euros. Has been capped by the senior side a few times too.

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Originally Posted by I am invisible

Pound for pound, yes. Ramsey’s the only real miss out of those 3 for me though (and even he came with his own set of headaches in terms of form, fitness and who you could partner him with).

In some ways I think we might actually have a better spread of options now, even if most of the players we’ve promoted to the first team are very raw still? Two of them are natural wingers (as is our only modest signing) and the other 3 look like they could fill in several areas across the attack and midfield. (Obviously I’m not expecting any of those guys to hit consistent, top-level form every week, but if we play the numbers game with them then we only really need one or two of them to be fired up and in the zone each week.)

Plus there’s the knock-on effect to consider. If we have proper wingers in the side, even if they’re inexperienced, then maybe (hopefully!) we won’t have to suffer Özil and Mkhi on the wings ever again! Maybe we can move Iwobi central, or possibly even push him into a 3-man midfield (he’s not really got the consistent end product to be a top winger or a no.10, but as a ball-carrier from midfield I think he could be more useful)? And of course playing with wingers means we can rest / rotate Auba and Laca, and keep them fresh across a long season.

Player-for-player you have to say we’re a weaker squad right now... but I can actually see a few more options when I look at this current group, which is something.

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I get where you're coming from, but those junior squaddies were always there available for us if we wanted and deemed them of sufficient value.

I watched Saka in the Europa league game at the ground which a lot of fans spoke him up after. I actually thought the game essentially passed him by for an hour and then he came into it as the opposition got a little tired and demoralised.

Nelson I was pleased progressed abroad but I've never quite rated him as much as many of our fans either. Reiss Nelson and Willock are curious to see more of and like but I fear none will really get the consistency of playing time they will need to garner the best of their talents.

Mhki when he isn't doing the sublime to pathetic clown act he is fond of, is actually a very good player. Of course like the rest of them we can neither sell him or loan him and the clearout many of our fans were licking their lips about before the season ended has obviously, as it never was going to, materialise.

Not in the least bit interested in us signing some Real reject youngster, they don't seem to have a particularly good youth setup and loads of them seem to flop despite being massively overhyped when there. As for loan deals, no thanks, buy them or don't bother.

I'm disappointed in Emery, he's literally doing next to nothing right at the moment, from the way his team plays, to the mentality, to the players he's interested in, no wonder PSG got rid of him he on the face of it seems to lack any real drive for success. We've gone into pre-season without signing anyone at all, he may as well have kept Ramsey because he's found noone to either replace him or bring in so far, so waht was the point of letting him go on a free? Nothing seems to change, again we had no plan, we knew who was leaving and yet couldn't get any deals lined up, what a sorry state of affairs.

Getting disallusioned with everything at this club, we never seem to be able to get things right, we have an owner who doesn't care, a manager who doesn't seem to know what he's doing, players who lack motivation and hunger and a transfer team who seem to be just as bad as the previous team from observations so far. What I've come to realise about this club is it literally never learns from it's mistakes, it's just rinse and repeat time after time, there's no smart thinking or getting ahead of the game, it's the same shoddy, indadequate method time and time again.

I think this club is finished unless someone buys Kroenke out, because without some drive for success at the top you're going to end up with mediocrity, because noone else is top notch, money rather than sucess seems to be the motivator at this club.

Trippier on his way to Atletico for £20m.

I noticed Jenkinson started the friendly last night. How is he still here because I thought his contract was up? Don't tell me he's got another year to go...

Who signed Jenkinson, Ozil, Elneny, Mustafi etc ?

Who let Ozil's contract run down and then gave him 350k a week to stay ?

What a fucking idiot Wenger was and Arsenal are still paying for it and will be for a while yet.

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Originally Posted by Bumble

well I hope we give the youngsters a go as without playing them we will never really know if they can cut it although it is a bit of a risk throwing 3 or 4 in at the same time. but its easier to be a young attacker than a young defender imo. We might have a few more options its just time will tell if its good options or not.

just spend the money on the back four.

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Tbh, I wouldn’t expect to see more than 1 or 2 chucked in at the same time (unless we’re talking Europa League or League Cup games) - just enough to let us play proper wingers in the system that Emery wants to play. But even if they’re just coming off the bench, if that lets us change our shape and try something different for 20 minutes each game then it’s still more than we have been doing up until now.

Maybe someone will emerge as a consistent performer as the season goes on, but to start with I’d simply go with who looks best in training each week. Make it competitive and see who wants it the most.

Or maybe none of them will really hit the top level we need. If that happens then at least we’ll have given everyone a year of first team status and probably added £20-30m to their valuations in this crazy market (plus they’ll be on modest wages so they’ll be easy to shift). This could be just as important to us in terms of squad-building as retaining the one or two who look like they’re going to be something special.

Agree about the defence - hopefully we’ll have enough to recruit in all the areas we need to, but if money is genuinely that tight then I’d spend everything here and get creative in the other areas.

Who rejected 60m from City for Sanchez and instead took a swap from Utd for the feckless Mikhitarian. Signed Mustafi and before him a lanky German who couldn't jump but tilted instead. Xhaka as midfield lynchpin.

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Originally Posted by Globalgunner

Who rejected 60m from City for Sanchez and instead took a swap from Utd for the feckless Mikhitarian. Signed Mustafi and before him a lanky German who couldn't jump but tilted instead. Xhaka as midfield lynchpin.

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Gazidis: :doh:

We have signed actor Tilda Swinton.

https://i.imgur.com/iTlUFIi.jpg

At least that shit hair will make him noticeable on the pitch.

What a stupid little prick. Looks like Dr Strangelove.

Emery says we are targeting 3 or 4 “expensive” players.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Emery "says" we are "targeting" 3 or 4 “expensive” "players".

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You missed a few extra sets of quote marks out there.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Emery says we are targeting 3 or 4 “expensive” players.

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And I'm going to be the president of Somalia :coffee:

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Originally Posted by SMatthews

What a stupid little prick. Looks like Dr Strangelove.

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:haha:

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Emery says we are targeting 3 or 4 “expensive” players.

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God knows. I don't get why the Prem is relatively quiet this year. La Liga has splashed over a billion (better TV deals there I guess) but the likes of Liverpool (you'd expect one or two additions), Spurs (one in, one out), Chelsea (:haha:) and ourselves have not done much. Aston Villa are the biggest spenders so far!

He says him, Mustafi and Kolasinac lost a bet with Lacazette on the crossbar challange.

I can see it now......
Ozil walks in with his hair dyed - Mustafi, Kola and Laca piss themselves laughing!! 'OH MY GOD' 'he actually went through with it!!!' :haha::haha:

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Originally Posted by SMatthews

God knows. I don't get why the Prem is relatively quiet this year. La Liga has splashed over a billion (better TV deals there I guess) but the likes of Liverpool (you'd expect one or two additions), Spurs (one in, one out), Chelsea (:haha:) and ourselves have not done much. Aston Villa are the biggest spenders so far!

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I can understand Liverpool given they already have an excellent squad with their key players all at great ages. Makes sense for them to keep the powder dry.

As always I’m sure things will kick off in the closing weeks when players start to get itchy feet.

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Originally Posted by SMatthews

What a stupid little prick. Looks like Dr Strangelove.

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:haha:

"Gentlemen, gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"

:lol:

Don't mention the war!

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Emery says we are targeting 3 or 4 “expensive” players.

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If anyone believes that then they will believe anything.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Emery says we are targeting 3 or 4 “expensive” players.

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I believe him.

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Originally Posted by dostoy

If anyone believes that then they will believe anything.

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seems a bit late to put this stories out after the season ticket renewals!!!

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Originally Posted by Globalgunner

Who rejected 60m from City for Sanchez and instead took a swap from Utd for the feckless Mikhitarian. Signed Mustafi and before him a lanky German who couldn't jump but tilted instead. Xhaka as midfield lynchpin.

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Per was a very good signing and didn't pay too much for him neither.