Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

[Özim]

Can we use the "we make stars we don't buy them" excuse yet?

Or even "we don't want to do a Leeds"

Or perhaps "Chelsea are buying all the players so Wenger can't have them"

[Özim]

Peanuts really.

Though he hasn't really played enough to warrant any sort of attention over the past few years. Stock is pretty low.

Yeah it is peanuts, other clubs get 20 million for this rubbish players, ours are so rubbish we get 5-7 million only taken Wenger almost a decade to work out they aren't up to scratch though.

[Marc Overmars]

Sky are reporting that we've rejected a 50m bid from City for Alexis.

[Letters]

We could end up PAYING to lose Alexis to our rivals?

They've done it. I didn't think they could, but all credit to them. They've found a new rock bottom.

...

It can't possibly be true. It has to be a troll on the loose.

But it it is true...

OMFG.

In what sense is it "true"?! Is there any actual credible source for this?
It would be complete madness if we do that but I seriously doubt we will.
According to the BBC City have bid £50m

[selassie]

Sky are reporting that we've rejected a 50m bid from City for Alexis.

Yeah that is what I am hearing too. Apparently we want 70mill for him or Sterling to be included in the deal.

I think we'll fold in the end and sell him to them for around 60mill.

I doubt we'll finish top 4 with Sanchez here anyway so I honestly don't care if he stays or goes.

[Niall_Quinn]

In what sense is it "true"?! Is there any actual credible source for this?
It would be complete madness if we do that but I seriously doubt we will.
According to the BBC City have bid £50m

I said, It can't possibly be true. So, in some ways, I wasn't claiming it was true.

[Letters]

I said, It can't possibly be true. So, in some ways, I wasn't claiming it was true.

Apart from the bit where you said "but it is true"...

[Letters]

Seriously. Is this what we've come to now?
We're going to start losing our collective shit over things which are clearly bullshit and not going to happen?
Come on, lads. There's plenty to whine about if you're that way inclined, there is really no need to make up stuff.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Seriously. Is this what we've come to now?
We're going to start losing our collective shit over things which are clearly bullshit and not going to happen?
Come on, lads. There's plenty to whine about if you're that way inclined, there is really no need to make up stuff.

Even if it's ultimately BS, the fact that people are prepared to believe the absolute worst about the people running the club and their competence is a damning indictment of the poor level people view these folks which is all from their own doing.

[Niall_Quinn]

In a perverse way, we hold all the cards here.

Alexis will have plenty of choices in January and his wage demands can be obscene because there's no fee involved. So the gypos might lose out if a Utd or a Bayern get interested. This is probably their best opportunity to get the player. I wouldn't think gypoland would be Alexis' first choice and if a better option was available he'd take it.

On the other hand, for the player, busting a gut trying to bail out a sinking ship for a another soul destroying season under the lunatic Wenger is hardly appealing. A whole season down the drain. Not ideal at this stage of his career and if he takes it easy then his stock might fall and he'll end up with fewer options in the summer. I'm sure he wants to get on and get back to doing what he does best.

So there's an incentive for both the gypos and the player to get this deal done.

Of course we're the drunken village bum who has fallen down a stairs, shit himself and woken in a pool of vomit only to discover we've coincidentally coughed up a key (we thought was a pretzel) to unlock what the gypos and Alexis are searching for. And we get to posture around in front of disgusted bystanders claiming we're keeping the prize for ourselves, even though we have no idea how to use it. But as soon as the pubs open again we'll fold and barter for as many drinks as we can get.

70 million, I'd guess. And, provided that turd Sterling is not coming the other way, I'd say that's the best way out of this now. Alexis doesn't want to be here (because he's sane and has a career to be getting on with), if we hung onto him it would give the club an excuse to do fuck all else in this transfer window. Which might happen anyway, they've never been shy about pissing on the fans for amusement. But at least it would expose more fans to the realities of what these people are. If anything has come out of the latest Kroenke and Wenger farce it's a drawing together of the fanbase into a more unified loathing of what's happening at this club.