So how is everyone feeling over transfer activity

[Flavs]

@ Flavs

First I think you have to separate the moaners from the realists.

I have the moaners are all on my ignore list, the realists or at least the more reasoned among them arent

[Olivier's xmas twist]

No suprize but my annual frustration mode is kicking in just now.

We seem to be standing still as usual while many of our rivals strengthen. We appear to be after players but there are problems as always with the fee, the wages and the fact they choose other clubs.

Why can't we go for a player and just get the deal done...So much dithering or waiting for other clubs to do their business.

Some might say...Hey you don't know what's going on...Well in this World today we know a hell of a lot. We know that Gervinho has been in talks because his club said so, we know Samba has been in talks because his Coach has said he wants to join...and so on.

But this feels like most Summers...it will fly by and we'll hope that deals are done later. Leaving no time to prepare.

Anyway just venting...and this is the general opinion on line. With Twitter and Facebook you have incredible access to large quantities on fans.

Finally you have the business of Cesc, Nasri, Clichy and Bendtner...what happens to them...we should be strengthening, if we lose any of them...we'll replace but it won't strengthen...For me it's the same old BS.

None of knows whats going on, thats why people are upset. People forget we are only in june and have time to do deals.

who cares if the mancs and the pool have deals done.

no one has signed major players have they. im sure we will have our deals done soon, you feel its being hinghed on fab and samir going to who we bring in or let go.

i say watch this space, if it comes to last week in july and nothing is done then il be worried lol

[AKBapologist]

The bare minimum for me this summer...
New EPL centerback
Experienced replacement for Clichy
Alverez replacement for rosicky
Gervinho replacement for bendtner
Top tier striker as good as RVP or better
A winger if Nasri leaves

If we can't accomplish the above by the time CL qualifications begin then this transfer window would have been unnsucessfull and potentially leaves us weaker relative to the competition.

[Alan B'stard]

As always two extremes. Our captiulation in 4 comps in 5 weeks - and the manner in which this happened was humiliating. And if individual matches such as the CC final; the away game at Newcastle and the home game against Spurs cannot be described as humiliating, then I struggle for an alternative word.

In the context of how difficult it it to achieve, finishing 4th in the league is no disgrace. But for all the (limited) highs of last season we ultimately underperformed when it counted.

yeah we did but even the lowest lows of last season dont get anywhere near 'humiliation.' Outside of a narrow internet using / never been to a match / only started following footy in the 90s fraternity moaning like this gets laughed at.

And rightly so.

[Cripps_orig]

challenging for the league, being in a cup final and beating the only team to beat barca in the CL is your idea of humiliation?

You don't know you're born

Being humiliated in every competiton last season is my idea of humiliation

[Alan B'stard]

we werent humiliated in the carling cup. We threw it away ourselves.
Ditto the league.
We left the CL with our heads held high.
EVen losing to united in the FA cup we created more in one match than any other visiting team in recent times.

No humliation is what leeds have gone through over the past few years, or liverpool. Having to put up withj snide remarks from 'big four' fans and the hatred of GHELs everywhere doesnt even come close - and just confirms how spoiled arsenal fans have become.

[AKBapologist]

It was the most humiliating season of AW reign to be fair. Medias never bemoaned harder, united fans have never gloated harder, and I have never felt so unoptimistic since he arrived.

[Xhaka Can’t]

challenging for the league, being in a cup final and beating the only team to beat barca in the CL is your idea of humiliation?

You don't know you're born

In a last four of a second rate Cup competition that included a Championship Club and two teams relegated to the Championship and ending up with nothing.

An anaemic performance to get knocked out of the FA Cup. - following a replays against Leeds, Leyton Orient and barely hanging on at Home to Huddersfield.

Collapsing from top of the easiest CL Group in living memory to be drawn against Barcelona.

Challenging for the league until the point of our annual collapse - despite having no other distractions as a result of the above. Rather than pushing on when in a position where winning the League was within our control to being over taken by two teams who were between 8 and 11 points behind us. And while doing this, managing to fall victim to the biggest ever comeback in Premiership history.

The constant talk of fighting to the end only to go out with the biggest wimper anyone can remember.

Yeah, nothing embarrassing about that at all.

[AKBapologist]

Throwing cups away in comedic fashion instead of being out played is more humiliating. Not sure who'd normally agree otherwise.

[Flavs]

Being humiliated in every competiton last season is my idea of humiliation

and yet we still finished 4th, Wenger is doing his job then really