Winter Transfer Despair and Bafflement.

[Niall_Quinn]

Does walking around bollock naked swigging from a bottle of Glenfidich and singing along to brothers in arms by Dire Straits really count as work?

Dire Straits

I don't think so.

[Cripps]

I do most of my best work at night.

Criminal activity

Niall Montana

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Dire Straits

I don't think so.

Don’t be coy, we’ve all heard the recording of you slurring along to Sultans of Swing

[Niall_Quinn]

Don’t be coy, we’ve all heard the recording of you slurring along to Sultans of Swing

Dodgy geezers sitting outside my squat and fooling nobody with their fake moustaches might have heard that, on occasion, I suppose.

[Cripps]

Herbert's posting regularly today

Back to slacking

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Herbert's posting regularly today

Back to slacking

You can’t return to something you never gave up on

[Cripps]

Ozils asking for £330k a week from Barca apparently

[Niall_Quinn]

Ozils asking for £330k a week from Barca apparently

That'll be the signing-on bonus he would get in the summer rolled into his main demand. These are the prices that have to be paid - thanks to clubs like Barca.

[Cripps]

Wenger says ozil and Sanchez will be staying until end of season unless something "unbelievable happens"

In other words if someone stumps up enough money they're gone

[Niall_Quinn]

There is a long list of big name stars that Arsenal have bungled signing. Recently it was Kylian Mbappe and most famously it was Zlatan 'I don't do auditions' Ibrahimovic.

Add another name to the nearly men of north London: Antoine Griezmann. In the summer of 2013 Griezmann was coming off a season where he had broken into double figures for goals for the first time for Real Sociedad and clubs were taking note.

Specifically the then 22-year-old was attracting interest from Arsenal, with Griezmann's former agent Eric Olhats in touch with Gunners' scout Gilles Grimandi.

That same window saw Arsenal fail to land Luis Suarez with the infamous £40million and £1 bid and could only stand by as Gonzalo Higuain opted for Juventus over the Emirates.

Griezmann has revealed himself to be another potential Arsenal striker who saw his move to the Emirates collapse and as a result he has ruled out ever moving to the club.

He writes in his new autobiography of the mini-saga: 'I waited, I waited, and I kept waiting. When there was no news, Eric called Grimandi, who said that the manager was still interested in me [and] to keep waiting.

'Finally a few hours before the market closed, he let us know Arsenal would not make a move. I don't like to be told something and for it not to happen.

'So when Eric told me later that the London club were interested again I told him "Forget it, after the blow they gave us".'

Thankfully Arsenal signed Yaya Sanogo that summer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...Griezmann.html