Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

[Letters]

From your initial reaction, you had no idea we were using StatDNA. You pulled a face as if to say Zim and Marc were making it up.

This is what I pulled a face about:

Who would have thought that signing a player purely purely based on stats was maybe not the wisest idea

My emphasis. That is made up. We don't do that, no club does. But we do use stats as part of our scouting. All clubs do.
No, I hadn't heard the name of the particular software we use but of course we use stats as part of the process.

[Niall_Quinn]

‘One hundred per cent never exists, because in our job never exists,’ said Wenger.
‘But today, yes. I think all the three will stay. I will fight for them to stay.
‘It’s my decision, but after the board has to, of course, agree with me.
‘And if they don’t agree we have to consider it as well, and I will accept it. But the board is behind me on that.
‘(Keeping them) It is a financial sacrifice. It is a sacrifice that you have to calculate, how much it costs.
All that is taken into consideration, the financial sacrifice is not as heavy as it looks. I am a football manager, I want Sanchez to stay, and that’s it.
‘After that, all the financial implications, for me, is less important. But at the end of the day you have to afford it as well.’

This is SO heroic. SO ambitious. Well done Wenger, you are SO heroic. 200 million worth of players potentially walking away at the end of the season but the heroic Wenger says, fuck that, who cares, this is about football and we'll heroically take the hit.

On the other hand. If the club is prepared to take a 200 million hit next season - THEN WHY NOT TAKE IT NOW YOU CUNTS?

Spend some fucking money! Spend some of those millions that have been pouring in from the TV contracts, spend some of the cash mountain that has been accumulating in the bank. Then maybe our current stars won't leave at all. That's how you show some GENUINE ambition and that's what our star players have been asking us to show. AMBITION. That's how they were tricked into coming here in the first place. That's why Cesc and RvC fucked off. That's why even Henry had to leave in order to compete at the very top level.

I'm not buying this bullshit for a second. Money you never had is not money lost. If our top players leave next year we haven't lost any money at all. We just haven't gained the money we could get now if we sold them. And the only reason we aren't selling is because of the Wenger contract farce. The wounds are still raw on that one and these bastards know they can't push any further for the time being.

So next season they'll wring their hands and ask, what can we do? As our stars walk out the door and every other top player watches that and concludes, fuck, no point go there. That team is going down. And the fees will be even higher next year so if we won't spend now then why the fuck will we spend next season?

These are the last few days in which the club can act to avert disaster and long term second tier status.

And they won't act. They'll just let things slide, as always. Because they are greedy bastards first and foremost, and their incompetence runs a close second.

And if that leech Kroekne can slime his way to 2019/20 then we'll sign up for that poxy Euro league and he'll flog the bitch for billions. Job done. Wenger will have been the key instrument in allowing that to happen. That's why the two of them cooked up his contract extension in the summer.

There are no heroics here, no ambition. Just deceit and greed.

[Power n Glory]

This is what I pulled a face about:



My emphasis. That is made up. We don't do that, no club does. But we do use stats as part of our scouting. All clubs do.
No, I hadn't heard the name of the particular software we use but of course we use stats as part of the process.

Of course that's an exaggeration because we know cost was considered too.

I have no problem with us using StatDNA. We should use it. But if you have idiots using the machine, we get these sort of problems. Again, before signing him, did anyone consider the fact he didn’t speak a word of English and communication is vital to a defence. Did we not arrange English lessons for him? It just strikes me as another odd decision. It’s similar to the Kimi Kallstrom signing. Where is the due diligence? Were they so blown away by the stats and price that all common sense went out of their heads?

[Özim]

Let's be honest here, we are clueless in the transfer market, the way we conduct our business is embarrassing, no other club in football goes around doing things like us, there's the extra pound for Suarez, there's all the lowball bids for players when the selling club say how much they want or that they aren't for sale (so only a huge bid would convince them otherwise), there's the chasing one player all summer (even if he says he's not leaving) and having not alternative when it invariably doesn't happen, there's the lack of planning seemingly having barely any targets listed to go for.

Then there's the overpaying of dross and consequently being stuck with them when they turn out to be rubbish due to inflated wages and then there's the fact we allow arguably our 3 best players to run down their contracts without batting an eyelid and then claim it's an ideal situation.

This club is comical, almost everything it does is wrong, hell we only ended up with a striker this summer because Athletico were on a transfer ban, the only thing we're good at is buying cheap nobodies noone else is interested it, yes we're good at that even if they do turn out to be rubbish in the end.

No excuses, the incompetence at this club is quite something, every summer it's the same, we're left scratching our heads wondering what went wrong, they never learn, never change, never plan, they must be spending all summer looking at stats on their super yachts because I'm not sure what else you can put this level of incompetence down to.

[Özim]

This is what I pulled a face about:



My emphasis. That is made up. We don't do that, no club does. But we do use stats as part of our scouting. All clubs do.
No, I hadn't heard the name of the particular software we use but of course we use stats as part of the process.

Wrong use of words from me, however the emphasis on using stats with this transfer was something Wenger felt he had to point out which suggests it played a big part, he was proud at the fact it minimised risk, in reality if it has it's failed badly because ths guy has looked like a chump from day one, not sure who they sent out to watch him but he must have been reading the stats whilst the game was going on.

[Power n Glory]

Let's be honest here, we are clueless in the transfer market, the way we conduct our business is embarrassing, no other club in football goes around doing things like us, there's the extra pound for Suarez, there's all the lowball bids for players when the selling club say how much they want or that they aren't for sale (so only a huge bid would convince them otherwise), there's the chasing one player all summer (even if he says he's not leaving) and having not alternative when it invariably doesn't happen, there's the lack of planning seemingly having barely any targets listed to go for.

Then there's the overpaying of dross and consequently being stuck with them when they turn out to be rubbish due to inflated wages and then there's the fact we allow arguably our 3 best players to run down their contracts without batting an eyelid and then claim it's an ideal situation.

This club is comical, almost everything it does is wrong, hell we only ended up with a striker this summer because Athletico were on a transfer ban, the only thing we're good at is buying cheap nobodies noone else is interested it, yes we're good at that even if they do turn out to be rubbish in the end.

No excuses, the incompetence at this club is quite something, every summer it's the same, we're left scratching our heads wondering what went wrong, they never learn, never change, never plan, they must be spending all summer looking at stats on their super yachts because I'm not sure what else you can put this level of incompetence down to.

That's without mentioning Park, Kallstrom and Perez.

Oh along with Sanogo, Bischoff and Santos.....anyone else?

[Özim]

Interesting when asked about whether he'd be busy in the transfer market yesterday Wenger said getting players out of the club is also very time consuming so yes he will be busy, the guy is focussed on brining in cash rather than improving the team, he doesn't seem to be able to handle more than one deal at a time.

[Niall_Quinn]

That's without mentioning Park, Kallstrom and Perez.

Oh along with Sanogo, Bischoff and Santos.....anyone else?

If it was all written up as a football fiction it would be considered too fanciful for print. And don't forget the lies. Don't forget the endless stream of lies and promises that flow out of this club. The biggest of all being the stadium deal. Building a stadium for a world class team.

[Power n Glory]

Interesting when asked about whether he'd be busy in the transfer market yesterday Wenger said getting players out of the club is also very time consuming so yes he will be busy, the guy is focussed on brining in cash rather than improving the team, he doesn't seem to be able to handle more than one deal at a time.

Yet the fool doesn’t know what a Director of Football does and questions it like he has everything under control.

[Niall_Quinn]

Yet the fool doesn’t know what a Director of Football does and questions it like he has everything under control.

He does have everything under his control. That's the problem.