Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[AKBapologist]

Wenger hasn't spent any money yet. The last player he bid on is having a medical in napoli today. So colour me a cynic.

[Özim]

so it's gone from we'd never spend that much, living in cloud cuckoo land etc to what an idiot for spending 40million on one player.

Goalposts shifted again

We'll never buy him, so nothing has changed. I wouldn't however want us to blow our entire budget on one player, we need a lot more than that to improve the team.

This is a pipedream signing, Liverpool want 55 million we've offered 15 million less and they don't want to sell. He's not coming, move on.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Interesting piece from Arseblog this morning. He’s deadest against the Suarez move and it’s understandable but I didn’t realise so many people had mixed views on the transfer. Maybe I should pay attention to Twitter.

It's really split the fans from what I see, almost 50/50. It's an interesting one, for me, I'd prefer other players like Higuain, but want Suarez over having no one. I won't cheer his name, ill cheer the fact my team scored a goal

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Suarez is quite easily in the top range of attackers, imo. Easily. I don't say strikers because for me he's not really an out and out striker regardless of his actually-very-good scoring record with us; he goes where he likes and does what he likes and that is not always anywhere near the goal.

But in any case, £40m no longer necessarily gets you the biggest names and the biggest talents.

And for not cheering him Yes you will.

[Cripps_orig]

Interesting piece from Arseblog this morning. He’s deadest against the Suarez move and it’s understandable but I didn’t realise so many people had mixed views on the transfer. Maybe I should pay attention to Twitter.

Arseblog is a bit shit tbh.

Twitter

Don't understand why some are against having quality players in this terrible squad.

[Grebbo]

John W. Henry ‏@John_W_Henry
What do you think they're smoking over there at Emirates?

For me this is the clearest indication that Suarez will not be sold to us. An owner saying stuff like that means it's game over for us IMO.

I can understand why we dropped our interest in Higuain if we thought Suarez was available but we're now in danger of not signing any top striker.

I actually think we wont sign a striker if we can't get Suarez. Instead Wenger will strengthen midfield to try and compensate for Giroud and try again next summer for Surez or whoever.

[Niall_Quinn]

We're not signing anyone of note this summer. Stupid numbers like £40mill, Rooney's £200Kpw wages, etc. All fantasy stuff designed to appease the fans until the window shuts. We already had the best striker in the league. If we can afford £200K for an inferior Rooney then why didn't we pay RvP that amount and keep him here? Then we could have strengthened the team around him this summer in key areas like the midfield, the supposed £70mill could have been used to great effect. We could have changed the whole message, for the fans, the players and our rivals. Instead we sold up and now find ourselves in the ridiculous position of having to bid silly amounts for what we already had. This is as clear an indicator as you can get that all this huffing and puffing around players like Suarez, Higuain and Rooney is a con job.

This summer's business was concluded last summer when we sold RvP. That deal was the real indicator of our intentions. All the rest is bullshit. Anyway, finances don't work like that in business. If you have £70mill this year then you would have anticipated the fact or else you aren't running the business properly. You don't need the money sitting in the bank, you just need to know you have a model that will generate the money at a predictable point in the future. Then you can invest on that basis. That's how we built the stadium, that's how we could be building the team if we were serious about it. Instead these ****s have the fans believing they have a bag of cash ready to spend. They do have the cash, all of their actions suggest it won't be prised from their claws.

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The dude Bernard looks like a good move, hopefully this comes off. Pacey, good contol, good crosser from what I can see.

Ideally, we want another striker. I'm with Zimm. 25mil would be more than enough for a quality striker, without the baggage. You put players around a goalscorer who can create chances, you don't need him to be RVP or some wonder player. Just someone who works the line, and can take 70% of the chances created.

We need some quality in midfield, and probably a RB (I'm assuming Wenget is moving Sagan insode to CB as cover).

You can get that for 70mil easy.

But it is a pipe dream, as I just have no faith we'll go outside of our comfort zone.

Ok but in all honesty who would we get for £25m as a striker these days that is available?

From what I can see, we need a striker, a winger, a DM, a CB and GK. The first 3 need to be good quality, £15m+

[Bury Da Bwoy]

the board are a bunch of fakking clowns


hugain is having a medical today at napoli

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We're not signing anyone of note this summer. Stupid numbers like £40mill, Rooney's £200Kpw wages, etc. All fantasy stuff designed to appease the fans until the window shuts. We already had the best striker in the league. If we can afford £200K for an inferior Rooney then why didn't we pay RvP that amount and keep him here? Then we could have strengthened the team around him this summer in key areas like the midfield, the supposed £70mill could have been used to great effect. We could have changed the whole message, for the fans, the players and our rivals. Instead we sold up and now find ourselves in the ridiculous position of having to bid silly amounts for what we already had. This is as clear an indicator as you can get that all this huffing and puffing around players like Suarez, Higuain and Rooney is a con job.

This summer's business was concluded last summer when we sold RvP. That deal was the real indicator of our intentions. All the rest is bullshit. Anyway, finances don't work like that in business. If you have £70mill this year then you would have anticipated the fact or else you aren't running the business properly. You don't need the money sitting in the bank, you just need to know you have a model that will generate the money at a predictable point in the future. Then you can invest on that basis. That's how we built the stadium, that's how we could be building the team if we were serious about it. Instead these ****s have the fans believing they have a bag of cash ready to spend. They do have the cash, all of their actions suggest it won't be prised from their claws.

You can't keep a player if he doesn't want to stay, so its not as easy as that. If he wasn't so intent on leaving he would have remained here.