Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Ollie the Optimist]

Back to that point again, there was nothing stopping Wenger from signing a £20m - £25m striker last season on wages of up to £150k.

were there any 25 million pound strikers last year? of those who were sold, who would we have got? genunie question this. higuain is a no go last year, suarez too and rooney.

ibrahimovich was sold but too far out of range, only one i could think of is dzecko but he just won the league. this year, having 40 million to spend on one player opens up more doors

[Xhaka Can’t]

Ollie: "baah, baah, baah, baah, baah, baah, baah."

This is exactly what I mean when I say Wenger has become a cult leader. His sheep like following have forsaken rationality and much prefer to spout deluded drivel with scant regard to how asinine it makes them sound - even in light of the glaring obvious.

I await to see after we this window closes and the tight wad penny pinches his way to once again assembling a squad he thinks is good enough to catapult us towards the coveted trophy, if he'll be offered any reprieve by even the staunchest of worshipping disciples.

Yeah the legion of people spouting the same is deafening.

[Özim]

There's always 25 million strikers out there if you want them badly enough, we just weren't interested.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Citeh are going to/have signed Negredo for £24 million or something.

[Ollie the Optimist]

There's always 25 million strikers out there if you want them badly enough, we just weren't interested.

but who was out there last year that we could realistically have signed for 25 million? i genuninely cant remember. higauin, well we saw what mourinho did to us with a loan for sahin so we can rule that one out, suarez goes for 40, fergie wouldnt have sold us rooney. who else is there?

[Niall_Quinn]

Boom

Bit of a damp squib. When somebody states something you have to listen to ALL their words to understand what they are saying.

The first trophy is to finish in the top four,"

First comes before second third and fourth. He's not saying his ambition is to be 4th, he's saying 4th is the minimum requirement. The first requirement. Then comes the other trophies and collectively this is the ambition.

Of course it's fine saying that. Then you have to investigate the motives. 4th is considered a trophy because it brings in cash and (if we ever fancied getting serious about it) top players who want to play in the CL.

I can see where Wenger is coming from, I understand it and don't feel the need edit his words so I can make shit up. But I don't agree with him. I don't agree with the way the club has gone about doing business over the last 8 years.

[Niall_Quinn]

There's no transfer news, not unless you want to hear about who everyone else is signing.

It'll be one player and it'll go to deadline day.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

but who was out there last year that we could realistically have signed for 25 million? i genuninely cant remember. higauin, well we saw what mourinho did to us with a loan for sahin so we can rule that one out, suarez goes for 40, fergie wouldnt have sold us rooney. who else is there?

so there was not one striker in the whole world that we could have realistically bought for £25m last year?

[Özim]

Bit of a damp squib. When somebody states something you have to listen to ALL their words to understand what they are saying.



First comes before second third and fourth. He's not saying his ambition is to be 4th, he's saying 4th is the minimum requirement. The first requirement. Then comes the other trophies and collectively this is the ambition.

Of course it's fine saying that. Then you have to investigate the motives. 4th is considered a trophy because it brings in cash and (if we ever fancied getting serious about it) top players who want to play in the CL.

I can see where Wenger is coming from, I understand it and don't feel the need edit his words so I can make shit up. But I don't agree with him. I don't agree with the way the club has gone about doing business over the last 8 years.

Yes but you can't ignore how proud he is of getting 4th either, he's often congratulated his players and glorified this achievement, he genuinely thinks this a top achievement.

When it comes to being in the CL and signing players, how does that affect us? We don't sign players of a high enough calibre that that actually matters.

If the guy did everything he could to win I'd understand it more, trouble is he limits us with his strategy and tactics and refuses to see the flaws despite the same pattern appearing season after season.

People don't like to hear it but he has an incentive to achieve 4th and spend little as well, let's not forget what he earns and that by restricting spending it not only allows him to point out how much money he makes the club but also means less pressure on him from the board, since there's little outlay. He justifies his salary and no success by highlighting profit.

[Xhaka Can’t]

It'll be one player and it'll go to deadline day.

As many as that?