So how is everyone feeling over transfer activity

[Özim]

So past experience, no solid knowledge about what we may or may not be doing this summer.
Thought so.

Well years of the same thing happening would allow you to hazard a pretty good guess. Trouble is with Wenger people say the same thing every season, wait till wait till the end of August, wait till Xmas, wait till the end of January, wait till the end of the season.....then it all starts again.

Nothing ever changes and nothing ever will, we're well schooled in the art of negotiating at Arsenal.

[Ollie the Optimist]

would quite like us to go out and spend 50 million on a name, see him flop and then listen to zimm etc moan about how wenger should have watched him first, and how he wasted all that money etc etc

[Özim]

would quite like us to go out and spend 50 million on a name, see him flop and then listen to zimm etc moan about how wenger should have watched him first, and how he wasted all that money etc etc

a) We'd never do that
b) We don't need to spend 50 millon to buy quality
c) It's unlikely he's flop over time, top players come good 99% of the time and pay back their transfer fee

[Letters]

Well years of the same thing happening would allow you to hazard a pretty good guess.

I think guess is the key word there.
I see lots of people on this thread expressing frustration but I've not seen anyone yet say who it is we were after and have failed to get or what the problem with wages or fee was (as Elche claims, but doesn't back up).

If y'all want to get frustrated about things when you've no idea what's going on then go nuts. I'll wait till the end of the transfer window and see what's happened then. Or at least until I've heard some far more solid statements about who we may be after.

[Elche]

I think guess is the key word there.
I see lots of people on this thread expressing frustration but I've not seen anyone yet say who it is we were after and have failed to get or what the problem with wages or fee was (as Elche claims, but doesn't back up).

If y'all want to get frustrated about things when you've no idea what's going on then go nuts. I'll wait till the end of the transfer window and see what's happened then. Or at least until I've heard some far more solid statements about who we may be after.

The WBA guy Obdemwinge...has said that not only Arsenal have bid but he didn't like the wage offer. Sources today and two local TV guys in the Midlands have discovered the price offered was 4 million, this came from a WBA Director. Matt Lawson of the Express has now talked to the player who said to him yesterday that the wages could be OK but Arsenal and WBA cant agree a fee.

All this info from many sources of varying levels, is just too much to ignore...this is the type of info around on Samba and Gervinho...there is not this info for example on Cahill therefore I don't know what is true or not.

We cannot stick our heads in the sand and not believe the difficulties because the info is from too many varying sources...the evidence comes from the fact that other transfers have been proved correct by this method.