Winter Transfer Despair and Bafflement.

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Taken from Facebook:

Ornstein talked to Arseblog, here are the important points:

-Alexis Sanchez fought with Koscielny in training. He was a problem in the dressing room, even though Arsene Wenger denied it. As Wenger would never criticize his players in public. Alexis wasn't very popular in the squad, kept to himself. Also, Alexis was never given a contract extension after the summer window as his relationship with his teammates wasn't good, which is very different from Ozil's case.

-Alexis did love his time at Arsenal.

-Mino Raiola is the one who gave United and Arsenal the idea about Mkhitaryan/Alexis swap

-Sven Mislintat pushed the Aubameyang deal. Gazdisis, Sven and Hussy getting photographed put a lot of pressure on them as Arsenal fans knew they were in Germany for Auba so to return to England without him would anger the fans.

-BVB got annoyed by how low the first offers were.

-Giroud was not pressing for any move. He was happy at Arsenal. But he was needed to make the Aubameyang transfer happen.

-Arsene Wenger has never been totally convinced by Alexandre Lacazette. Arsenal were looking at both him and Auba in summer, but Lacazette was cheaper so the board pushed the Lacazette deal.

-Ornstein has heard Arsenal are looking to offer Elneny a new contract.

-It really takes a horrendus result in a game (like 8-2 vs United) to make Arsenal active in the transfer market.

-Mustafi was offered to WBA in a swap deal for Evans last summer.

-Arsene Wengers power is being diluted. Gazidis preparing for the post-Wenger era. But his power being diluted is not a bad thing for Wenger, as thats how it was when David Dein was here.

In addition Ornstein reiterated that after the Aubemeyang deal that the club stated there was no significant money for transfers remaining, although he speculates that a low ball offer came in for Evans on the 31st after we sold Giroud because the sale bolstered our coffers.

[Cripps]

So where the fuck is all the money?

[HCZ]

So where the fuck is all the money?

We have about 180million in cash reserve but no business is ever going to blow its entire cash reserve

Plus unless we clear the wage bill first, that money has to be used towards wages as well

Plus there is the signing on fee and agents fees....the actual transfer fee to buy a player out of his contract is often the tip of an iceberg.

I would say if we clear out more of the shit in the summer off the wage bill and maybe get some transfer fees for some of them, we can spend most of that amount and still strengthen the squad quite a bit.

[Özim]

So where the fuck is all the money?

There are some very large back pockets at Arsenal, you should be able to find the money in those.

[Özim]

We have about 180million in cash reserve but no business is ever going to blow its entire cash reserve

Plus unless we clear the wage bill first, that money has to be used towards wages as well

Plus there is the signing on fee and agents fees....the actual transfer fee to buy a player out of his contract is often the tip of an iceberg.

Thing is other clubs spend much more than us, I'd beleive this is not for the fact we've been trimming the wage bill and our net spend has been very low for years, not being funny but TV money has gone through the roof so we make ample to cover salaries, fees etc.

The cash reserves don't pay the wages, the income does and we're always in profit so that's money over and above, fees, wages etc.

[Cripps]

We have about 180million in cash reserve but no business is ever going to blow its entire cash reserve

Plus unless we clear the wage bill first, that money has to be used towards wages as well

Plus there is the signing on fee and agents fees....the actual transfer fee to buy a player out of his contract is often the tip of an iceberg.

I would say if we clear out more of the shit in the summer off the wage bill and maybe get some transfer fees for some of them, we can spend most of that amount and still strengthen the squad quite a bit.

Bollocks.

We spent fuck all for 10 years.

We've been breaking even since.

Where the fuck is all the money?

[HCZ]

In offloading Sanchez, Walcott, Coquelin, Ox, Giroud, Debuchy off the wage bill that’s cleared about 25 million a year off the wage bill.

But Ozils new contract, Aubemeyang and Mkhitaryan have easily replaced that.

[HCZ]

Bollocks.

We spent fuck all for 10 years.

We've been breaking even since.

Where the fuck is all the money?

Between 2013 and 2017, we spent near on 300m on transfer fees and made very little in the way back

So to answer that question. Wenger has spunked a good deal of it up the wall.

[Cripps]

Little in the way back

[HCZ]

Little in the way back

Unless you’ve found a sexual innuendo in there I’m not sure what the joke is

Between Van Persie in 2012 and Ox in 2017 can you name me a player that we got more than 15 million in cash for?