Friday's press conference

[Özim]

I just don't get it. So we're going to wait until Clichy, Nasri and Cesc fuck off before we enter the market? So we'll be cash rich and desperate, and every club and every agent in Europe will know it. Why aren't we doing our business early and have done with it. Why don't we take control for once, rather than just react to what happens?

Baines/Enrique + Gervinho/Hazard/Parker + Samba + Cahill = happier fans, settled squad, better preparation for next season.

Why the waiting around? I just don't get it.

Like the new site by the way.

Let me explain:

We're waiting for season ticket holders to sign up, once done Wenger will come out saying "we will get in 1 maybe 2 players maximum", then we'll make one or two mickey mouse signings and he'll say "the team is young and they have one more year of experience, we have Vermaelen and Diaby back and they are like new signings."

[Özim]

Seriously though, his words from the BBC:

But Wenger recently claimed that it will be late into pre-season before there is significant movement in the transfer market.

"We are in a waiting period, everybody is waiting," said the Arsenal boss in an interview with Alsace TV.

"Everybody has their cards in their hands, hoping for the big transfer. There is nothing moving yet. The period will be more active at the end of July when we will need to really strengthen the team."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13984029.stm

Someone please explain to me what is wrong with this guy? A waiting period....wtf for....surely it makes more sense to make your signings early and have your pick rather than wait for everyone else to sign players and be left with scraps and not time for them to be prepared for the season.

Seriously he really enjoys rubbing it in doesn't he? If we sell the likes of Cesc, Nasri and Clichy before signing players, clubs will know we have cash to burn and will push up the price..does he have no common sense at all?

[Cripps_orig]

This guys just pisses the fuck out of me now. Just fuck off you cunt.

This is to Wenger not Zimm btw.

Everyones waiting? Wtf? Man Utd have bought 3 players. More importantly so have Sunderland. I say more importantly cos with this prick in charge, we'll be rivaling them rather than Man Utd in the near future.

Just go and give us Arsenal fans some hope again.

[Marc Overmars]

I'm guessing he's waiting to see how many of his players do one and how much he'll have to burn. It happens every year, our transfers are generally dictated by who leaves first. That's why you always hear shite about our priority being to keep hold of our best players, no other top club talks like that.

Good team building, Arsene.

[Joker]

Why set an arbitrary time frame in which transfers are expected to take place? This makes no sense. If the right player is available, surely it makes sense to act as soon possible, otherwise another club could move in and complete the transfer while we're standing still. This is probably to do with Wenger wanting to drive the price down as much as possible, and not wanting to enter the market too soon and appearing too keen, because he worries that sends the signal that we're desparately in need of signings, which could increase the fees clubs are asking for their players.

Of course, the grim reality is that by waiting until the end of July, quite a few of our targets will probably have moved on to other clubs, or have agreed a new contract with their existing clubs. Moreover, it gives any new players coming in less time to get used to the club, their teammates, our style of football etc, which will hinder our preparations at the start of the season, which could be especially damaging as we face a really tricky start to the season.

Wenger has definitely lost the plot, and the quicker he fucks off out of the club the better.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Seriously though, his words from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13984029.stm

Someone please explain to me what is wrong with this guy? A waiting period....wtf for....surely it makes more sense to make your signings early and have your pick rather than wait for everyone else to sign players and be left with scraps and not time for them to be prepared for the season.

Seriously he really enjoys rubbing it in doesn't he? If we sell the likes of Cesc, Nasri and Clichy before signing players, clubs will know we have cash to burn and will push up the price..does he have no common sense at all?

this is a stupid suggestion here but perhaps just perhaps he has bid for players and now is waiting for all the paperwork, wages etc to be dealt with meaning it wont be done till late preseason?

[ElusiveGooner]

Yes there is a conference on Friday.

What i would like to see is the music from the start of the x-factor/that redman song playing, all the lights dim, just a long enough pause as the music grows quiet...footsteps.....a door opening....Arsene Wenger...followed by Karim Benzema....followed by Moussa Sissokho....followed by the giant frame of Chris Samba.....followed by Gervinho.

Wenger aproaches the stand and gives the finger to the lips "shhhhhhhh" sign, he holds up a board, we squint to read it, it says....Rosicky, Denilson, Eboue, Clichy, bendtner all have gone.

Wenger then points to his new guys, gives a thumbs up to them and then simply utters "fuck the haters" and walks away, back into the private rooms...

If only....

[Toronto Gooner]

This guys just pisses the fuck out of me now. Just fuck off you cunt.

This is to Wenger not Zimm btw.

Everyones waiting? Wtf? Man Utd have bought 3 players. More importantly so have Sunderland. I say more importantly cos with this prick in charge, we'll be rivaling them rather than Man Utd in the near future.

Just go and give us Arsenal fans some hope again.

I am not 100& certain how accurate this site is, http://www.soccernews.com/soccer-tra...gue-transfers/, but it shows that confirmed transfers in the EPL so far are:
Sunderland 5
Newcastle 4
Man U 3
Norwich 3
WBA 2
Wolves 2
Spurs 1
Swansea 1
Arsneal 1
Liverpool 1
Fulham 1

9 of those were free transfers.

I cannot really say that here has been a huge amount of activity.

[fari]

what a way to start the month...lord have mercy

[Cripps_orig]

I am not 100& certain how accurate this site is, http://www.soccernews.com/soccer-tra...gue-transfers/, but it shows that confirmed transfers in the EPL so far are:
Sunderland 5
Newcastle 4
Man U 3
Norwich 3
WBA 2
Wolves 2
Spurs 1
Swansea 1
Arsneal 1
Liverpool 1
Fulham 1

9 of those were free transfers.

I cannot really say that here has been a huge amount of activity.

Maybe not but why do we have to wait for it to be busy for us to get players? As usual he's using this as an excuse so when we miss out on quality players, he can use the "man city, chelsea, bognor regis etc offered more money and we can't compete with that" instead of getting in early for these players.

Point still stands. He can fuck off and if that seems disrespectful to Wenger then it was meant to be.