Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

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Let us know if you see any decent strikers out there...

[saintnickle]

Let us know if you see any decent strikers out there...

And managers

[AFC Leveller]

And managers

and physios and qualified medics.

[LDG]

and physios and qualified medics.

And pics of hot young bints

[Niall_Quinn]

And a whole bottle bank full of bottles

[IBK]

He tried to, didn't he? He tried to get the best striker in the country. Maybe the next best option wasn't available in the January window and he wasn't prepared to blow a ton of cash on somebody he doesn't actually want. Could be many reasons, some of them not revealed to the public. We'll do big business for a top striker in the summer. Not winning the title in a year when nobody expected us to even compete is not the disaster it is being made out to be. Chances are the club is trying to do things properly, get the right player in. Especially given the huge amounts of money at stake and the fact we can't just keep buying players until we hit on a random formula that works - like the chavs and gypos have been doing. We have real business considerations to take into account.

Sorry, but an almost naive bid for Suarez and an attempt to sign Higuain that was blown away by Napoli does not excuse Wenger's behaviour. I mean fielding an embarrasingly deficient Sanogo as our second choice striker this season can and has been regarded as laughable.

[Niall_Quinn]

Not trying to excuse his behaviour, just pointing out additional possibilities many of which are never considered in the rush to assume signing a player is just like going to the supermarket and picking what you want. I emphasise, we need to run our club like a business, unlike the chavs and the gypos. We cannot just buy somebody in on a 50/50 chancer. We thought the Suarez bid was naive, but it has since been revealed it was completely realistic and laser targeted. If John Henry was a man of his word or had any integrity Suarez could have opted to leave. As it is, Henry is a liar whose word is literally not worth the paper it's written on. Wenger can't be blamed for that. We certainly went after the right player and we certainly did our homework. I guess because Wenger has principles he wasn't prepared to go beyond the bounds of the stated contract. In other words, he wasn't prepared to be robbed by a man whose word is valueless. That's the right attitude, unfortunately it's not an advantageous attitude in modern football. Actually fairly happy we didn't get Higuain either. I think he was a viable option back then because we didn't know what sort of cash the club was prepared to part with. Since the Ozil deal we can do a lot better than Higuain, who we would have had to pay extortionate rates to secure in the end. I think we'll do our first £50mill signing in the summer.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

and physios and qualified medics.

I think it's a fallacy that somehow our medical staff are incompitent, it's a combination of having players in our side who are susceptible to injury and having a manager who over trains his players and doesn't seem to have a proper rotational system to make sure certain players aren't overplayed.

Look how many injuries have occurred in training, it's not a coincidence.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

. I think we'll do our first £50mill signing in the summer.

Hmmm, that depends on whether we finish 4th which is in no way guaranteed....i just hope even if we do it's not on Draxler.

[IBK]

Not trying to excuse his behaviour, just pointing out additional possibilities many of which are never considered in the rush to assume signing a player is just like going to the supermarket and picking what you want. I emphasise, we need to run our club like a business, unlike the chavs and the gypos. We cannot just buy somebody in on a 50/50 chancer. We thought the Suarez bid was naive, but it has since been revealed it was completely realistic and laser targeted. If John Henry was a man of his word or had any integrity Suarez could have opted to leave. As it is, Henry is a liar whose word is literally not worth the paper it's written on. Wenger can't be blamed for that. We certainly went after the right player and we certainly did our homework. I guess because Wenger has principles he wasn't prepared to go beyond the bounds of the stated contract. In other words, he wasn't prepared to be robbed by a man whose word is valueless. That's the right attitude, unfortunately it's not an advantageous attitude in modern football. Actually fairly happy we didn't get Higuain either. I think he was a viable option back then because we didn't know what sort of cash the club was prepared to part with. Since the Ozil deal we can do a lot better than Higuain, who we would have had to pay extortionate rates to secure in the end. I think we'll do our first £50mill signing in the summer.

Hmmm - yes - but the 'naivity' lies in Wenger having no plan B (a desperate loan bid for Demba Ba excepted). Its the fact that (IMO) Wenger knew that an addition, proven striker was needed to contest the league over the season - and accepted the inevitable falling short in favour of sticking to his valuations. That's it, in fact. The fact that Wenger hoped against hope that his squad would do it, rather than equipping it to.