Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
We always seem to struggle with transfers, we pretty much had 3 months to get the players we needed in, you can make excuses about cost and clubs not wanting to sell but at the end of the day you should have a shortlist of players and backup options, I don't think we excel in that department.

Ozil was a fantastic signing but it can mask our deficiencies on the transfer front, we got rid of a number of squad players and brought in two players, think we could have done better than that and should have when taking into consideration the size of our squad and our backup options, there's really no excuse, as mentioned by someone else we have injuries every single season without fail due to the injury prone nature of some of our players.
But we did have a shortlist and we did put offers out on quality players, so what exactly do you want Arsenal to do? Offer more money? Make Higuain our best paid player and put him on the bench? I agree with Wenger on that, i wouldnt want us to put out top money, unless he's a 100% starter, Higuain wouldnt have been, Suarez would have and thats why we were willing to buy him, but Liverpools crack-smoking people only wants russian/arab money for him and tbh i dont want Arsenal to go there.

The excuses about us not getting more players and our squad being thin, really needs to stop. Except for a striker (and maybe RB, because we never know which jenk will show up), i think we have a brilliant squad and good cover on almost positions, something even silly money clubs like city and chelski dont have.