Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

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Originally Posted by Özim

Totally agree, price tag is the primary criteria, we always want players on the cheap and take other clubs for mugs, they're not and won't have any of it we're professional lowballers and that's why other clubs take a dislike to us, the £1 bid a few years back was a debarcle and sums us up entirely.

I also think these rumours suit us, makes people think we're serious about going after these big signings, I mean come on Mbappe for 100+ million when we won't even spend half that, it's just total nonsense, that guy was never going to come here and we were never going to pay the transfer fee, apparently Wenger is "in" with his family now, guess it will come in handy if he needs somewhere to stay outside Paris :lol:

Let's not pretend though, we know the script, we know how it works as the same thing happens every single summer, I can't get my head round some people still believing it's changed, not after over a decade of the same thing.

Lacazette is now given our position the best we can get, who knows he might turn out to be a great goalscorer in the PL, we made our bed and have to lie in it, yes it would be great if we could get the worlds best but realistically given our position and our lack of ambition we're not going to get the superstar players, they can take their pick of the club they want to go to and would have to be a fool to come to us the worlds stalest club.

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Same shit, different toilet. So far it looks like we have the same mentality and strategy for transfers.

This fishing around the premium shelves is probably for the benefit of current players who are looking to get out, Ozil, Alexis, Bellerin, Ox. Our real business won't begin until Alexis is back from the Confederations Cup.

On the other hand, it's becoming harder to know what counts as genuine quality anymore

If we wanted three world class players we would have to spend possibly up to 250million

Everton who are big spenders now, have been adding wank to their squad 80 million on Jordan Pickford, Davy Klassen and Michael Keane. In what rational world are those three costing you more than 15 million combined?

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Especially the part highlighted, it's basically what I was trying to say earlier to Herb. We most definitely place the valuation of a player above the needs of the team and it's why we are in this mess.[/QUOTE]

Yep. If true about us having £200m to spend, that’s enough for at least two World Class signings. A striker and maybe a central midfielder or winger. We don’t need to spread that £200m so thin that we end up with cheap players. It’s what we’ve done in the past and the squad’s not really in bad shape. 3 players in from this transfer window should be enough if we don’t sell.

In the world of massive TV deals.

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Originally Posted by Özim

In the world of massive TV deals.

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Pretty much. I blame Sky. They started all this nonsense.

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Yep. If true about us having £200m to spend, that’s enough for at least two World Class signings. A striker and maybe a central midfielder or winger. We don’t need to spread that £200m so thin that we end up with cheap players. It’s what we’ve done in the past and the squad’s not really in bad shape. 3 players in from this transfer window should be enough if we don’t sell.

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This story about us having to sell to allow us to bump wages for Alexis and Ozil isn't going away. Supposedly the PL has rules that prevent clubs raising combined wages by more than 7.5% in a season, unless the difference is made up in additional revenue. Because we've dropped out of the CL we aren't going to realise any additional revenue. So we need to trim the wage bill first or else we can't secure contracts for existing stars, let alone bring new ones in. All in all it sounds like we have been mismanaged into a shit state.

Le Grove also reckons Chesney is on 100K a week. That can't possibly be true, can it? If that's true then it tops all the other insanity in football.

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Mind-blowing numbers show how player hoarding is crippling AFC transfer ambition
http://le-grove.co.uk/2017/06/23/min...sfer-ambition/

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The Dross 11:

Jack Wilshere – 0
Chezzer – 0
Ospina – 13
Gibbs – 18
Jenks – 5
Santi – 3
Theo – 29
Debuchy – 1
Giroud – 17
Perez – 9
Yaya – 0
Total starts: 95

Average starts per player: 8.6
Total Arsenal Games played last season: 55
Average first team utilisation of Dross 11 – 15.6%

So what we’ve learned from above, is these players barely touch the sides, bar two who contribute goals in Theo and Giroud.

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Here’s what these guys cost us.

Jack Wilshere – £90k p/w
Chezzer – £100k p/w
Ospina – £40k p/w
Gibbs – £65k p/w
Jenks – £45k p/w
Santi – £90k p/w
Theo – £110k p/w
Debuchy – £70k p/w
Giroud – £100k p/w
Perez – £70k p/w
Yaya – £40k p/w

= £820k per week
= £42.64m
= £448,842 per appearance

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If these numbers are even close to being true we are in deep, deep shit unless we start getting rid of players immediately.

I know he's gone now, but 3 years paying Sanogo 40k a week. Can that be right? An absolute fucking scandal if true.

Anyway, we desperately need somebody competent to come in and sort out this mess. If left to Wenger and if this problem is real and can't be bypassed, what we're looking at (unless we take a combine harvester to the current squad) is nobody who would attract large wages coming in unless significant players head out. It may be we HAVE to sell Alexis and Ozil if we want to do any business in the window at all.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

This story about us having to sell to allow us to bump wages for Alexis and Ozil isn't going away. Supposedly the PL has rules that prevent clubs raising combined wages by more than 7.5% in a season, unless the difference is made up in additional revenue. Because we've dropped out of the CL we aren't going to realise any additional revenue. So we need to trim the wage bill first or else we can't secure contracts for existing stars, let alone bring new ones in. All in all it sounds like we have been mismanaged into a shit state.

Le Grove also reckons Chesney is on 100K a week. That can't possibly be true, can it? If that's true then it tops all the other insanity in football.







If these numbers are even close to being true we are in deep, deep shit unless we start getting rid of players immediately.

I know he's gone now, but 3 years paying Sanogo 40k a week. Can that be right? An absolute fucking scandal if true.

Anyway, we desperately need somebody competent to come in and sort out this mess. If left to Wenger and if this problem is real and can't be bypassed, what we're looking at (unless we take a combine harvester to the current squad) is nobody who would attract large wages coming in unless significant players head out. It may be we HAVE to sell Alexis and Ozil if we want to do any business in the window at all.

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:lol: Piss poor management. Just when you think it can't get any worse!

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Originally Posted by Letters

Pretty much. I blame Sky. They started all this nonsense.

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They didn't start it without the help of the greedy pigs in football, Arsenal's board being one of the key conspirators. And now even this shit isn't enough for them, they are to the fore in plotting this 2019 Euro league. Clubs like Arsenal, Utd, Liverpool and more recently the chavs and the gypos have been working against the public good for a long time now. It's been all about stuffing their pockets with as much cash as possible, regardless of how much damage has been done to the game. And they'll keep on stuffing until the whole shitty heap melts. They know it's all coming down, that's why they are manoeuvring to eradicate most of the lower tiers in football and secure permanent spots in this abominable Euro cash cow. A few clubs with all the cash, everyone else reduced to Sunday park level. Scumbags.

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

:lol: Piss poor management. Just when you think it can't get any worse!

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All of Wenger's shit storms are converging into this coming season. The only thing propping this club up is the desperation of one fat Uzbek to own it. He alone is keeping the share price afloat. That's what allows Stan to sit there and permit Wenger to proceed, until we get to 2019 when the lock-in will either provide a glorious opportunity to sell up, or the crazy concentrated revenues will see Stan the leech's worth double, treble or quadruple. The bastard might be hateful, but he sure knows how to lock in a profit. Such a shame the football industry dropped its knickers and spread its butt cheeks for "his sort". Well I guess with FIFA and UEFA running the show it's little wonder cash and corruption is the main driver.