Yaya Sanogo - it's official!

[Kano]

it's all very symptomatic of the lack of connection between the people who run the club and the fans, which is not exclusive to our club to be honest.

big speak about money to spend etc yet the very first person through the door, on the very first day of the official transfer window, is some unknown kid no one could give a shit about.

hardly a statement of intent or a message from the top to the fans that things will change, we care as much as you do and we are determined to push the club forward.

just a surefire way to create more trepidation and uncertainty about the season ahead.

bigger more important players may even follow but after an opener like this, it just means that peoples interest will continue to wane, rather than fly the flag high.

[Letters]

He's hardly been paraded in front of the fans and press as a marquee signing

Obviously we're all jaded from previous summers but it's only the first day of the transfer window, not the last.

[Kano]

he doesn't need to be paraded but the club needs to be far more on the front foot to turn around the fans perceptions, which it seems unprepared to do apart from the usual rhetoric.

as i said, other signings may well follow but how jaded and skeptical will most fans be by then?

[Letters]

as i said, other signings may well follow but how jaded and skeptical will most fans be by then?

Depends who the signings are.

[Power n Glory]

It’s a bit too early to say this is a sign of things to come but I can understand why this rattles a few nerves. We’ve been down this road before. But given the amount of noise the club have made to clarify our financial position, I’d say this is another one of Wenger’s vanity projects. He enjoys the gamble when developing young players. We didn’t need to sign this player but it’s his choice. Regardless of our financial state, he’ll always make these sort of signings. This is what he likes to do which is why I say project youth was self-imposed. Regardless of the budget, there were better players out there we could have invested time and money in.

[Letters]

I'd understand more moaning if there was a week till the transfer window close, we'd done bugger all all summer and then suddenly this kid was our summer signing. We're all jaded by the summer dealings, or lack thereof, but it is only right at the start of the window.
Saying stuff like this stops us signing any other forward is wumsense.

[Niall_Quinn]

It’s a bit too early to say this is a sign of things to come but I can understand why this rattles a few nerves. We’ve been down this road before. But given the amount of noise the club have made to clarify our financial position, I’d say this is another one of Wenger’s vanity projects. He enjoys the gamble when developing young players. We didn’t need to sign this player but it’s his choice. Regardless of our financial state, he’ll always make these sort of signings. This is what he likes to do which is why I say project youth was self-imposed. Regardless of the budget, there were better players out there we could have invested time and money in.

Well let's be fair, we've been down this road like clockwork every summer for years. It would be an extreme anomaly if we were doing anything different this year.

[Niall_Quinn]

I'd understand more moaning if there was a week till the transfer window close, we'd done bugger all all summer and then suddenly this kid was our summer signing. We're all jaded by the summer dealings, or lack thereof, but it is only right at the start of the window.
Saying stuff like this stops us signing any other forward is wumsense.

Too late to moan if we leave it until the close of the window. Besides, they get away with it if we leave it until then and you are left with the simple choice, put up with it or stop supporting the club you have supported all your life. Vital, therefore, to moan load and clear from day one so the ****s know we are watching them. If everyone gave them an inch by shutting up they'd be a mile down the road by morning.

[Özim]

Didn't everyone think we should conclude out transfer dealings early to a sign the players we want without having to compete with out clubs for them and also give them plenty of time to integrate with the squad in order that they're ready for the new season?

Got no problem with signing a guy like this in the hope he might turn out good, but let's face it our clubs transfer record is dreadful and more often than not signings of this type are seen by the management as reasons not to sign big name players due to the number of players competing for a particular spot (Walcott, Giroud, Podolski, Sanagogo, Gervinho, Campbell.

[Marc Overmars]

In all seriousness this signing is just a punt from Wenget, we've seen plenty of these nothing players come and go over the years and I expect this won't be any different.

It's early doors and I'm sure we'll see some proper players come in, starting with Higuain.