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You can't say we're investment starved when we went on a late night spending spree on deadline day. How much did we spend that night? £30m? How much have we spent in total?
Wenger had full confidence in Kosienly and I'd Vermaelen wasn't injured we'd have never bought Merts. That's Wener's decision. He brought in Kosienly when had an opportunity to buy a Prem proven player.
How much did we bank over the window? How much quality went out compared to what came in? If there's only one thing you can say with any confidence as an Arsenal fan these days, it's we are investment starved on the pitch. I agree about Merts, I don't think he'd be here if TV wasn't injured. Certainly Wenger is 100% to blame for the awful, awful decisions he's made with the defence. Whether he's to blame for not paying that extra few million for quality, we don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
This is my opinion on our summer spending spree:
Gervinho - Decent enough (not the best around obviously just good value), but lacks end product
Oxo - Lots of potential here, will be a very good player but I question spending the money we did on a player who won't be ready for a while....in a sense happy he signed, in another think we should have invested the money on top quality elsewhere
Arteta - Very good player, very talented, the only issue is his age ideally we'd have been looking at players in their mid 20's who are ready but will have quite a few years ahead of them so that we can build a team with them (bit of a panic buy IMO)
Mertersacker - Total panic buy, couldn't get who we wanted due to our incompetence so settled for this guy on the cheap, IMO nowhere near good enough
Benayoun - Another panic signing, hasn't done anything for a long time (was never that good anyway), was out with long term injury a joke of a signing IMO
Jenkinson - A kid with no experience, Wenger brought him into the team thinking he was good enough, but clearly at this stage he's nowhere near the right level (and who would expect him to be)
In short considering the quality we lost, a terrible transfer window once again...anyone competent would have never let this happen.
We shot ourselves in the foot. Wenger was content to go into the season with that weak squad but after that drumming and the injuries he was probably told to buck up his ideas or he'd be in serious trouble for the season. We couldn't bring in quality players because we left so late and nobody wants to sell their best player on deadline day. We played it wrong which is why we've ended up with the players we have now. If we'd have acted earlier, we could have bought Samba, Cahill or whoever else we should have bought. It just makes no sense to wrap up deals for young player like Oxo and Jenkinson so early and leave first team signing so late. I saw this coming from a mile off. As soon as Wenger benched Nasri, Clichy and Cesc towards the end of last season and lied to us by saying they were injured, I knew he had his eye on a Wilshere and Ramsey combo in the middle and Gibbs for left back. He was testing the waters as he always does.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
If he spend £13m on Oxo, another £10m on Arteta and still manage to pay Benayoun's wages, why couldn't we have found a younger central mid player that is better than these guys? It makes no sense to me. I've got problem with the signings and they could turn out to be gems, but one kid isn't ready, the other is injury prone and won't get many games and Arteta is approaching 30. He signed these players because he doesn't want them hogging the first team spot for long because he believes in Wilshere and Ramsey and that has always been the way he thinks when it comes to transfers.
I hope PHW the cheap cunt and Wenger are happy with turing us into a non competing selling club...look at the quality of players we have sold for various reasons in the last few season:
Cesc
Nasri
Ade
Hleb
Flamini
Diarra
Toure
Gallas
Clichy
Eduardo
Gilberto
Henry
Look what we have replaced these players with and ask yourself what these cunts care about...profit...fuck trophies and success.
We had no need to become a selling club, all that greedy cunt PHW had to do was allow that Russian billionaire and Dein to come back...so no i dont want to fucking hear about balancing the books when i have to pay £60 to watch a game of football with the shit we have.
Wenger - Out and take the board with you.
PS not to mention the fact that a so called great manager cannot fix a defence after 4 years....unbelievable
Look on the bright side.
After we've shifted Van Persie, we won't be a selling club anymore.
Of course we will Wilshere will be going to city for 60 mill well i say that, we say we ant 60 but sell him for 40 mill. With Aw claimin i had to let him go.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
It could be a frustration because we lost yesterday for all these reactions . But my opinion is we were very unlucky to lose . Coming to our poor defending the problem is not the players but the system . We attack as a team and it works but we don't defend as a team and we got caught up in counter-attact with 2 or 3 players only willing to defend and others watch like spectators . Thats our main problem .You could Arteta was gutted because he is used to defend like a team .
Yeah, these reactions are only born out of what happened yesterday.
Unlucky you say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
There was no bad lack involved sorry, just bad defending.