Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

[Power n Glory]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40814854

Look at this dodgy shit. Hypocrites.

[Özim]

There is some truth in that because things felt a little different when we signed Ozil and then signed Sanchez. Heck, just signing Lacazette has peaked my interest compared to the way the season ended.

Agreed, what you want is to have something to look forward to and transfers play a part, getting to see some exciting signings in the new season always helps, as does signs of progress and looking forward to where your team will be in the coming season, problem for us is we pretty much get none of that, transfer windows are one big headache, the seasons always pan out the same, with the same issues and nothing ever seems to change in terms of the setup, it's all really dull.

I'm not saying the money in the game isn't ridiculous, because it is but ultimately football fans are interested in watching their team do well and haing something positive to cheer.

[Power n Glory]

Agreed, what you want is to have something to look forward to and transfers play a part, getting to see some exciting signings in the new season always helps, as does signs of progress and looking forward to where your team will be in the coming season, problem for us is we pretty much get none of that, transfer windows are one big headache, the seasons always pan out the same, with the same issues and nothing ever seems to change in terms of the setup, it's all really dull.

I'm not saying the money in the game isn't ridiculous, because it is but ultimately football fans are interested in watching their team do well and haing something positive to cheer.

If we had sacked Wenger this season and brought in a credible manager, that would sparked some interest from every Arsenal fan. If we'd have sacked Wenger and made 3 or 4 massive signings, we wouldn't even be talking about oil money corrupting the game and switching off. Make no mistake, I don't like how a few rich clubs have a monopoly on all the Balon D'Or candidates in football. I think having all the very best players in one team robs us of seeing the true potential of some really special players. Think Galatico Real Mardid era or Brazil 2006 World Cup squad. We're seeing it Barca and Real now. Cruyff said it best "I wouldn't put two captains on the same ship... we have to learn from the past," - This was when Neymar was moving to Barca. But all that aside, it's Arsene Wenger that's really killed my appetite for football. Even with absolute cunts running the club, I'd still watch if our football was entertaining.

[Xhaka Can’t]

People would look past that if we were better on the pitch, they do at other clubs that are more successful. At the end of the day most fans are interested in what happens on the pitch, if the club is doing well and going in the right direction generally people are happy.

If Kroenke invested in the club and we went out and signed quality players interest in the club would be much higher.

Some people would no doubt. But as I grow older and more cynical I look at what is happening in football, I become far more detached from it because it has become so corrupt and money orientated that I can't identify with it any longer.

These people don't inhabit the same world we do, and they sure as damn don't give a fuck about us beyond how much money they can extract from us.

So, increasingly, I don't give a fuck about them beyond my anger at how they are fucking up the sport.

[Özim]

If we had sacked Wenger this season and brought in a credible manager, that would sparked some interest from every Arsenal fan. If we'd have sacked Wenger and made 3 or 4 massive signings, we wouldn't even be talking about oil money corrupting the game and switching off. Make no mistake, I don't like how a few rich clubs have a monopoly on all the Balon D'Or candidates in football. I think having all the very best players in one team robs us of seeing the true potential of some really special players. Think Galatico Real Mardid era or Brazil 2006 World Cup squad. We're seeing it Barca and Real now. Cruyff said it best "I wouldn't put two captains on the same ship... we have to learn from the past," - This was when Neymar was moving to Barca. But all that aside, it's Arsene Wenger that's really killed my appetite for football. Even with absolute cunts running the club, I'd still watch if our football was entertaining.

I'm with you, almost everything is just so boring and repetitive and devoid of excitement and unpredictability, I'm kinda glad we're not in the CL as I can't watch bear to watch the same thing happen, at least the Europa league will be a different experience. It just amazes me that whatver happens there's just no appetite for any kind of change at the club (aside from the fans), the board are happy to see us regress and the manager doesn't care either, there's been absolutely no change.

I'm glad we finally signed a goalscorer of course, but that was more due to circumstances, as NQ said if Athletico hadn't been under a transfer ban he wouldn't be here, once again there doesn't seem to be any kind of plan, after last years disaster logic would dictate that you'd work hard throughout the summer to improve things, the reality is the backroom staff is pretty much the same and the squad is largely the same, all the deadwood remains and we've in my eyes made one significant signings so far which points to the fact we're really not too bothered abot making changes happen.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Have you seen the type of scumbags routinely signed on by that FIFA lot? The fewer directives from those bastards, the better. None at all would be my preference. When the head's like that no wonder the body is rotten. As usual, the media has a role to play here. Unfortunately, the role they have decided on is hype master general.

I didn't say it was likely I just said its what it would take.

If I thought for a second FIFA had any meaningful intention to clean up its act. Russia and Qatar would be stripped of the World Cup even if it meant no World Cup would be held.

[Niall_Quinn]

When are we going to get rid of all of the deadwood, we have so many overpaid, average players we need to get rid of, it's the same cycle as always, we don't pay for quality so end up stockpiling very mediocre players that we can't get rid of as we stick them on way more money than they deserve.

In a shocking development that could never have been predicted, the deadwood is refusing to leave. Apparently most want to stay and "fight for their place". London, big money, don't even have to play. I wonder why they want to stay? Complete mystery.

[Niall_Quinn]

Let's be honest here, we haven't fallen out of love with footbal because of the spending etc, it's because our club is sh*t and consequently everything is a massive disappointment, if we signing top class players every summer and being successful on the pitch noone would be feeling much discontent.

When you have to go through the same thing year after year with no signs of it ever changing your bound to lose interest, the football is rubbish, the players aren't hungry, the results are average, the transfers are inadequate, the owner is disinterested in the football side and the manager is on his own little crusade to only satisfy his own needs.

If wee were out there signing players of the quality of Lewandowski/Dybala every summer and playing great football and competing for the top prizes everyone would be happy, it's the fact we have a boardroom and manager who couldn't give a toss about genuinely competing and insisting they are right despite evidence to the contrary.

I thought about that. It's very true - if this club was being run properly and was competing, there would be a lot less discontent. However, there's no getting away from the reality of the disgusting characters that have fouled up the sport, nor their disgusting natures. The hype, the greed, the hypocrisy, the cheating. When you compare that to the borefest that is 99% of all games you'll suffer these days, win, lose or draw it's a disgusting state of affairs.

Players like Walker going for 50 mill and getting paid six figures a week? I mean good luck to the kid, daylight robbery and all but take it if you can get it. The characters I loathe are the bastards who pretend it's all for love, loyalty, community, tradition and the values of sport. Fuck them. It's all for money and it couldn't be plainer. That's why the quality has fallen off a cliff. Why even try when it's all plated up? The main job of football players these days is negotiating contracts via their agents. All that stuff on the pitch, that's of secondary concern. You can see it in the way they play. You can name on one hand the players who really love the game. Or can you? Like Wrighty, Vieira, Adams, that glorious bastard Keane. Shearer. Best, Moore, Charlton. Who are the modern equivalents? Raheem Sterling?

[Niall_Quinn]

People would look past that if we were better on the pitch, they do at other clubs that are more successful. At the end of the day most fans are interested in what happens on the pitch, if the club is doing well and going in the right direction generally people are happy.

If Kroenke invested in the club and we went out and signed quality players interest in the club would be much higher.

Is that true though? Look at all the hair tearing at teeth pulling at that ultimate scumbag club Barca. They are finally on the receiving end of the big money hype machine they helped invent. Now their fans are wandering around in a daze, wondering what has become of football and loyalty. Doesn't mean they have joined the philosophical ranks of the Arsenal inmates, but they are learning what this game has become. Despite all their success.

[Dicks and chicks]

Don't know why we are bidding for dembele he's off to barca we need to bid for psgs for sale players, anyone of them would drastically improve our team and would be a lot cheaper.