Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

[Niall_Quinn]

Santi has been signed up, hasn't he? So there's 90k tied up for a player who will be injured all next season. Another 90k tied up in Wilshere, who also never plays. These are not the worst players, in fact it'd be great if we could get a season out of either of them. But the fact is we can't, so what the fuck are they still doing here? Get rid of two players who never play anyway and we can pay Alexis. If we can get Alexis to sign then that's the best business we can do in this window. There's nobody being touted around who is better.

[Niall_Quinn]

Lemar was the prime cut, but he's off the menu so supposedly we're back in for stewing steak in the form of Mahrez. Yes, that lazy bastard who can't be bothered unless he fancies it. Move along, this is not the leader you are looking for.

We should go back in with a 50mill bid for Lemar. Or, more likely, add an extra pound to our last offer.

[Özim]

This story about us having to sell to allow us to bump wages for Alexis and Ozil isn't going away. Supposedly the PL has rules that prevent clubs raising combined wages by more than 7.5% in a season, unless the difference is made up in additional revenue. Because we've dropped out of the CL we aren't going to realise any additional revenue. So we need to trim the wage bill first or else we can't secure contracts for existing stars, let alone bring new ones in. All in all it sounds like we have been mismanaged into a shit state.

Le Grove also reckons Chesney is on 100K a week. That can't possibly be true, can it? If that's true then it tops all the other insanity in football.







If these numbers are even close to being true we are in deep, deep shit unless we start getting rid of players immediately.

I know he's gone now, but 3 years paying Sanogo 40k a week. Can that be right? An absolute fucking scandal if true.

Anyway, we desperately need somebody competent to come in and sort out this mess. If left to Wenger and if this problem is real and can't be bypassed, what we're looking at (unless we take a combine harvester to the current squad) is nobody who would attract large wages coming in unless significant players head out. It may be we HAVE to sell Alexis and Ozil if we want to do any business in the window at all.

Mismanaged to the highest degree, this is all Wenger, totally screwed us over with his dum ovepay dross policy and sitcking to sh* players, the guy is incompetent beyond belief, we're now seeing the effects of having this overrated control freak in charge for far too long.

Well done Mr Wenger I hope you're pleased with yourself. Yup the guy definitly loves the club.

[Niall_Quinn]

Tough news this morning. Apparently we may be out of the race to sign Mbappe. The media is reporting Madrid seems the more likely destination. They also reported that grass is green and water is wet.

[Niall_Quinn]

Some fans are saying Mbappe should start ahead of Zlatan in the Almost Signed 11. At 18 years of age? With only the one season under his belt? Sorry, but he's on the nearly signed bench for me.

[Özim]

Tough news this morning. Apparently we may be out of the race to sign Mbappe. The media is reporting Madrid seems the more likely destination. They also reported that grass is green and water is wet.

Never saw that one coming!

Some people actually believed we had a chance of signing this guy

[Özim]

Some fans are saying Mbappe should start ahead of Zlatan in the Almost Signed 11. At 18 years of age? With only the one season under his belt? Sorry, but he's on the nearly signed bench for me.

No way, we should ease him into the almost signed team, almost give him games now and again and maybe a few almost sub appearances until he's ready to play for the almost first 11.

[Özim]

Tough news this morning. Apparently we may be out of the race to sign Mbappe. The media is reporting Madrid seems the more likely destination. They also reported that grass is green and water is wet.

Do you think we'll still sign his family?

[Özim]

There's some news about Lemar today as well apparently:

MONACO have been left 'surprised' by Arsenal's low £31million bid for Thomas Lemar and do not think Arsene Wenger is serious about signing him, reports claim.

Wouldn't be a real surprise if this was true would it, if we're being honest!

[Niall_Quinn]

Test their resolve by bidding £30,000,001

These "signings" are part of the negotiating process with Alexis and Ozil I think. Mbappe was the biggest non-starter in the history of football transfers. And Lemar may well be as talented a player as Mbappe, so if the likes of Sterling are 50mill we may have to go just a bit higher to get this player (who is not available at any cost).

Or, we could try identifying players who are genuinely available for transfer and put in realistic bids. Just an idea I'm kicking out there.