Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

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Depressing, but you're right.

[Özim]

This Goat person , Bayern thing, is the reason I can never be mad with what clubs like Chelsea, PSG, City are doing. You try and build up the so-called "right" way. And every season, your best players are getting plucked from you. Even if you manage some success, because you're not one of the so-called clubs with "history", it doesn't matter.

There's always going to be bigger, better clubs out there. The only thing you can do is do your best to improve and increase your appeal, Man U are a pretty desirable club who can sign most players but that's because they've been massively successful.

That doesn't stop them losing to players sometimes of course, but it happens only occasionally and when it does they re-invest the money.

If you want to keep losing all your best players though, well then our policy is perfect, don't spend, don't buy top players, don't win anything and don't be too concerned about it.

[IBK]

As said before and Zimm has just said the same, they have to remain ambitious. The current crop probably have dreams of playing for bigger teams but over time, 10 years from now, if Dortmund remain ambitious, there will be future young players that will want a long career at Dortmund. It’s what we had when RVP joined and the other young players. They grew up watching us win titles and wanted a part of it. Unfortunately, we haven’t come close to repeating that winning formula and we’re now only interested in balancing the books.

This is the worst thing. We have lost a great deal of lustre through sheer mismanagement and lack of ambition. We used to be able to attract top talent because of our, and our manager's reputation. We are far less of a draw to players now and it could easily become a vicious circle.

[IBK]

Yes I do.

Showing ambition isn't flash in the pan success with no plan for success afterwards tbh.

Not sure I agree with you there. Clearly we used to have ambition. Not building on success is mismanagement rather than lack of ambition. But if ambition means doing everything you can to win stuff, then we are simply not ambitious any more. And the worry is that at board level, there's noone left with any true desire for footballing success.

[Özim]

Not sure I agree with you there. Clearly we used to have ambition. Not building on success is mismanagement rather than lack of ambition. But if ambition means doing everything you can to win stuff, then we are simply not ambitious any more. And the worry is that at board level, there's noone left with any true desire for footballing success.

We had ambition when Dein was around yes, but actually I was talking about Dortmund here.

Nowadays we're not ambitious, we don't aspire to compete with the best or indeed win trophies, 4th is what we aspire to and that's no ambition.

[IBK]

We had ambition when Dein was around yes, but actually I was talking about Dortmund here.

Nowadays we're not ambitious, we don't aspire to compete with the best or indeed win trophies, 4th is what we aspire to and that's no ambition.

...and Fiszman - although ironically he ousted DD...

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Are we not ambitious or is it more to do with the fact we don't have the money due to building a new stadium. That should all start changing now that we have our sponsorship deals coming to renewal, so lets wait and see.

I don't think its a concidence that Wenger says we must make a £20-25m profit on every transfer window.

[GP]

Are we not ambitious or is it more to do with the fact we don't have the money due to building a new stadium. That should all start changing now that we have our sponsorship deals coming to renewal, so lets wait and see.

I don't think its a concidence that Wenger says we must make a £20-25m profit on every transfer window.

I think that's a lot to do with it. We always knew that short-term there would be a lot of belt tightening. 2013/14 was always the target, with the commercial renewals.

Time will tell.

[Özim]

Are we not ambitious or is it more to do with the fact we don't have the money due to building a new stadium. That should all start changing now that we have our sponsorship deals coming to renewal, so lets wait and see.

I don't think its a concidence that Wenger says we must make a £20-25m profit on every transfer window.

We're not ambitious, it's clear the club are only interested in money...everything they do and say is indicative of that.

There's nothing to wait and see and nothing will change, people have been making excuses about this and that for years, but let's face it there's no sign of anything changing.

This belt tightening BS is precisely that, it's a good excuse for them to rake in the cash and spend nothing.

[Cripps_orig]

Arsenal have revived their interest in Sevilla's 26-year-old Argentine defender Federico Fazio.
Full story: Daily Mail

The Gunners are also interested in Hamburg's 28-year-old goalkeeper Rene Adler after being priced out of moves for Sunderland's Simon Mignolet and Asmir Begovic of Stoke.
Full story: Daily Mirror

FC Basel's Austrian defender Aleksander Dragovic, 22, is ready to snub a move to Arsenal and German side Borussia Dortmund to join Everton.
Full story: talkSPORT

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