Winter Transfer Panic Buying and Misery.

[Gooner23]

Just listened to Ornstein's latest transfer update on Arsenal, was quite interesting.

- Reckons we are definitely after a top no. 10, with ESR to be his understudy and hopefully successor in time.
- May need to wait until the summer though. Not keen on Erikson (phew), Isco unlikely to happen and Buendia not top of our list and likely to be too expensive at 40 mil. Brandt could be an option.
- As others have reported the focus on Jan is outgoings. Sokratis, Mustafi and Ozil the three most likely to leave.

[Chippy]

Just listened to Ornstein's latest transfer update on Arsenal, was quite interesting.

- Reckons we are definitely after a top no. 10, with ESR to be his understudy and hopefully successor in time.
- May need to wait until the summer though. Not keen on Erikson (phew), Isco unlikely to happen and Buendia not top of our list and likely to be too expensive at 40 mil. Brandt could be an option.
- As others have reported the focus on Jan is outgoings. Sokratis, Mustafi and Ozil the three most likely to leave.

Point 3.

Now that we have appeared to have steadied the ship in our slide down the table (towards the relegation places), this window and the pre-season MUST just be about getting rid of the dead wood, and there is plenty of that.

This coupled with the emergence of Saka, Tierney and Smith-Rowe, the future may have a glint of light........probably.

[selassie]

Just listened to Ornstein's latest transfer update on Arsenal, was quite interesting.

- Reckons we are definitely after a top no. 10, with ESR to be his understudy and hopefully successor in time.
- May need to wait until the summer though. Not keen on Erikson (phew), Isco unlikely to happen and Buendia not top of our list and likely to be too expensive at 40 mil. Brandt could be an option.
- As others have reported the focus on Jan is outgoings. Sokratis, Mustafi and Ozil the three most likely to leave.

I personally think Brandt is our best option. He was playing at a really high level last season for Dortmund in the Bundesliga and CL. I'm not sure of the reasons why but he has been on the bench for them mostly this season, Reyna (another one of Dortmund's wonderkids) has his spot in the team.

I've watched Brandt a bit over the years and I think he's a decent player, technically excellent, both footed and quite versatile. His development has stunted a bit so to speak, as a teenager he was being talked up as a future world class player, but despite that...I think he could do a decent job for us.

Of the other options, Eriksen and Isco only really provide short term options and both would come on massive wages, NOT interested.

Buendia is decent enough, but I don't think he's an upgrade on ESR and he is absolutely not worth 40million in this current market.

[I am invisible]

It’d be worth getting Brandt just for the insult to Özil.

“You know what this team really needs? A German no.10!”

[GP]

Dortmund fans aren't upset about Brandt leaving. Very inconsistent, apparently.

[Mac76]

Point 3.

Now that we have appeared to have steadied the ship in our slide down the table (towards the relegation places), this window and the pre-season MUST just be about getting rid of the dead wood, and there is plenty of that.

This coupled with the emergence of Saka, Tierney and Smith-Rowe, the future may have a glint of light........probably.

i still don't agree Ozil is deadwood, if we need a No 10, why buy one when we have a perfectly good one on the books FFS? it's only Arteta's stubbornness that's keeping him out of the team surely so why doesn't he grow up and make Ozil part of the PL squad for the second half of the season - there's NO WAY he's not gonna be better than Willian

[I am invisible]

Don’t do it to yourself, mate - Özil won’t do shit for us at this point. Picture someone who’s the same age as Willian, but who hasn’t played competitive football for 9 months - that’s pretty much what you’d be getting if you brought him back. He never put much effort in even at his peak - why on earth would he bother now?

[Mac76]

Don’t do it to yourself, mate - Özil won’t do shit for us at this point. Picture someone who’s the same age as Willian, but who hasn’t played competitive football for 9 months - that’s pretty much what you’d be getting if you brought him back. He never put much effort in even at his peak - why on earth would he bother now?

Well he does still train with the squad, but i get your point.

but I still think he'd be better than Willian even if he literally had not walked a step in nine months

[GP]

Ozil is never kicking a ball for Arsenal again.

[Mac76]

Ozil is never kicking a ball for Arsenal again.

Probably not, but it's still a scandal - I hope he spills the beans and pours a ton of sh*t over Arteta when he leaves