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Thread: Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
    Premature doom and gloom. We need to judge this at the end of the season.
    Stop being ridiculous. We should judge things before they happen.
    Like when Giroud came on in the FA Cup final and you said what a ridiculous substitution it would be and were completely correct as Giroud contributed nothing.
    Lolz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
    About as much oversight and competence as the Trump White House

    At least people actually get sacked from the Trump administration.
    Unfortunately, not the one who is the most incompetent...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
    35 million Xhaka has been a huge hit hasn't he.
    Wait...so now you're saying spending a lot on a player doesn't mean they will be a hit? You started this argument discounting Kolasinac as a signing because he was free
    You've moved the goalposts so far that you're now arguing the exact opposite of where you started.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    Wait...so now you're saying spending a lot on a player doesn't mean they will be a hit? You started this argument discounting Kolasinac as a signing because he was free
    You've moved the goalposts so far that you're now arguing the exact opposite of where you started.

    No I'm saying the Bundesligue is sh*t and thus the team of the season over there really doesn't amout to that much. This guy also happens to be an unknown who was free and on the face of it didn't have a host of top clubs after him despite being free.

    As I said I would have preferred a known quantity and seeing as Xhaka supposedly one of the outstanding performers in the Bundesligue when he came has been dreadful I'm not too hopeful about this guy, particularly with Wenger record regarding signing defenders who can't defend. IMO it's a risky signing as we really don't know if he'll be any good, now sure he's free but he does take up squad space so if he doesn't work out we'll be stuck with him like we are with a number of players, we should be signing players who are more likely to be a success, players with a proven record at this stage.

    But you can keep making up some nonsense about what I'm saying if it makes you happy
    Last edited by Özim; 02-08-2017 at 08:27 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    Maybe they did. But whether they did or not is irrelevant. He is by all accounts a good signing but Zim doesn't think so.
    What's amusing is Zim constantly changing his argument and moving goalposts so he can keep believing what he believes rather than conceding any ground.
    It looks like he could be a good signing but I’ve hardly seen him play and hadn’t heard of him prior to us signing him. I don’t think you, GP or Zim have ever seen him play for Schalke so it’s too early to judge. Posting up Team of the Year doesn’t change the fact that he’s not a household name in football, but that doesn’t make him a bad signing either. It’s a grey area.

    I think you’re missing the overall argument and caught up in trying to win a point. The original arguments is getting lost in the sauce. Didn’t this start with GP saying this is shaping up to be good summer, as if we’re doing something different we haven’t seen before? We’ve signed one big signing and signed a freebie.

    If Kolasanic wasn’t free would we have even signed him? Was it another case of us seeing an opportunity to find quality on the cheap? He managed to run his contract down to year and bids were coming in for him last year but I haven’t seen that we were linked with a move for him last year. I’ve seen he was linked to Chelsea, Liverpool and Juve. So I question what promoted us to sign him. Was it the talent or price tag? I suspect price tag. Even with Lacazette I think the club thought they’d have to bite the bullet. We were linked with Lukaku and Morata last summer and we’ve seen the price they’ve gone for. Laca was the cheaper option out of the three.

    We’ve still got a lot of work to do. Question marks even hang over Lacazette’s quality and if he’s even enough to make a difference. Personally, I think he’s a good striker but it’s a wasted signing without a better midfield supporting him. He’s not a Suarez, Sanchez type.

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    Neymar given permission to speak to PSG.

    http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40800757

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    I can't under$stand why h€ would want to go there
    NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.


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    Quote Originally Posted by GP View Post
    I can't under$stand why h€ would want to go there
    You don't?

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    How can this be ok under financial fair play? Does a percentage of the fee arrive at FIFA in a brown paper bag?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thierrymon View Post
    How can this be ok under financial fair play? Does a percentage of the fee arrive at FIFA in a brown paper bag?
    It'll have to be a brown paper lorry with these sorts of figures.
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