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Good for Barnsley, pulling off something so difficult. How the hell they managed it, who can say?Quote:
Barnsley have signed striker Clement Rodrigues on loan from Bastia until the end of the season.
The club have the option to make the deal permanent in the summer.
Arsenal better not use the excuse this summer of BT shutting down all the landlines. We tried to call, but no phone!
They won't save money on the line rental though, because BT still plans to charge for that, as well as standard call charges. They must have attended the Stan Kroenke school of customer relations.
Come down to the Emirates then, for all the peace and tranquility expected of an expensive establishment.Quote:
Busy night at Fratton Park
As an Arsenal fan, I beg to differ.Quote:
West Ham boss Graham Potter has given a tantalising reply to Sky Sports when asked if he wants to get any more players in before the deadline...
"We'll see. You never know what happens in the window..."
Barnsley signing strikers. :bow:
Tel signed, they got the medical done. All wrapped up.
So, on we go. All we need is for Havertz and Sterling to outscore Salad and out-dive Gakpo and title is in the bag.
I don’t know how true this is, but Ornstein seems to suggest that Villa if anything were trying to elicit interest from us in Watkins (in order to avoid having to sell Duran presumably) they valued him at 60 million but we were only prepared to pay around 40 million.
Only if the Kroenkes have secretly bet their entire fortune on Liverpool winning the leagueQuote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Terrible window which says everything about Arteta and the club's lack of understanding of how we needed to bolster our attack
I already thought the league was gone but IMO the CL was at least a possibility if we'd brought another striker in
At the risk of being a contrarian, I gave up on the league when we drew at Villa and Liverpool had beaten Brentford and subsequently Bournemouth. I equally don’t see top four status being imperilled and I never saw winning the champions league this season as a viable prospect (even with Chelsea and Man City who have done better in the competition than us, it took them a few attempts to make the breakthrough). We haven’t made a single final since 2006, and haven’t been in a semi final since 2009…yes we’ve been out of the competition for six years but we were still in it up to 2017.
We’ve never really managed to make our sea legs in the competition, and it’s not to say we won’t get to the semis or something this time but I think when you look at how naive we looked tactically against Bayern Munich last season it doesn’t bode well.
We are not the kind of club who are going to buy a player just to benefit us for the rest of the season. I don’t think any club operates like that, not even Man City (I think their signings are as much for the future as a top four charge this time around)
I said I didn’t think we would win the title without signing a striker and I stand by that. And I do think it’s a gamble to put so much pressure on Havertz to stay fit and get us the goals (especially when he’s had glaring miss after glaring miss in the last few games).
I would have liked to see us sign a player on loan just to provide cover and I can only speculate as to why that wasn’t possible. But at the same time, if the club are rationalising that buying a striker that is just ok means less funds to go after a top striker in the summer then I can kind of get that. But of course it means that especially given the summer transfer window we had last year that if we fuck that up, it’s going to be Bedlam….the club is putting extraordinary pressure on itself
I think nothing short of signing Sesko or Isaak plus Zubimendi and another attacking midfielder/winger will be acceptable