Winter Transfer Window Intrigue and Excitement.

[I am invisible]

I think we could be in for quite a brutal culling over the next couple of windows?

There’s older players there like Kos, Nacho and Cech who must all be on pretty big wages by now, and they’ve got to be approaching the end of their time with us. And Lichtsteiner was only signed on a one year deal - I’d be surprised if that gets extended.

Chambers and Elneny both look like they’re done at this club, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we gave Welbeck the option of a free transfer or a reduced contract.

(I’d love to think that Mustafi was on the way out too, but for some reason the world of top flight coaches seem to have this collective illness where they can’t see that he’s crap?!)

Xhaka will probably stay - he has his limitations, but he is at least occasionally useful, and turns in a decent number of good performances. Plus he actually plays a role that Emery wants. Don’t know if he’ll be here until the end of his contract, but I think we’ll be seeing him next season.

Lacazette could be a bit of a wild card? I’m a big fan, and I certainly wouldn’t push him out, but I do wonder what the club’s reaction would be if he asked to leave (or if we received a big offer)? Again, given the need to free up wages and reinvest, I wouldn’t be surprised if the club didn’t fight it too hard.

All in all I wouldn’t be shocked if we see this squad stripped right back to little more than academy graduates and Mislintat’s signings (plus two or three players who we just can’t shift) before we start the rebuild...

[Marc Overmars]

Cesc is off to Monaco.

Still one of the best passers this league has ever seen IMO.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Close to signing Suarez, apparently.

Best Suarez in Premier League history tbh.

Barca are our feeder club.

[SMatthews]

If it’s true, then Ramsey may be on his way out this month.

[Özim]

Best Suarez in Premier League history tbh.

Barca are our feeder club.

I'm not a big fan of Suarez, not sure he's that good to be honest, seems an odd signing to me, hasn't really pulled any trees out at Barca.

[Özim]

I think we could be in for quite a brutal culling over the next couple of windows?

There’s older players there like Kos, Nacho and Cech who must all be on pretty big wages by now, and they’ve got to be approaching the end of their time with us. And Lichtsteiner was only signed on a one year deal - I’d be surprised if that gets extended.

Chambers and Elneny both look like they’re done at this club, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we gave Welbeck the option of a free transfer or a reduced contract.

(I’d love to think that Mustafi was on the way out too, but for some reason the world of top flight coaches seem to have this collective illness where they can’t see that he’s crap?!)

Xhaka will probably stay - he has his limitations, but he is at least occasionally useful, and turns in a decent number of good performances. Plus he actually plays a role that Emery wants. Don’t know if he’ll be here until the end of his contract, but I think we’ll be seeing him next season.

Lacazette could be a bit of a wild card? I’m a big fan, and I certainly wouldn’t push him out, but I do wonder what the club’s reaction would be if he asked to leave (or if we received a big offer)? Again, given the need to free up wages and reinvest, I wouldn’t be surprised if the club didn’t fight it too hard.

All in all I wouldn’t be shocked if we see this squad stripped right back to little more than academy graduates and Mislintat’s signings (plus two or three players who we just can’t shift) before we start the rebuild...

I'd be happy for us to sell all those guys (including Xhaka please ) but not Lacazette, he really makes things happen and is a danger I really rate the guy, moreover Auba is nearly 30 so he won't have years left at the top, so selling Laca would be foolish.

Let's face it though, this club reall messed up, we kept Wenger for far too long, allowed him to waste loads of money on substandard players and when we finally did get rid we did so at a time when we were out of the CL and thus hampered by the wage rule, we made it as difficult as possible for any manager to follow a guy who had been here for over a decade too long, pretty poor to be honest.

So far we've been hampered and our signings have been a bit hit and miss, Torreira the highlight with Guendouzi decent and Sokratis and Leno OK and Lichsteiner awful, if we don't get into the CL we're going to need to do better than we have so far with signings as it's certainly been a bit hit and miss.

Would rather have seen players like Xhaka not being given new contracts however, even if it meant letting him walk away on a free, as quite frankly we'd struggle to shift him for any significant wage anyway, the damage with players walking away for free was done many years ago, losing Sanchez who was great for us meant being lumbered with Mikhi who hasn't been much good, Ozil we had to give mega wages to to keep and now wouldn't be able to sell, Wilshere walked away for nothing when we could have got 30 odd million a year before and Ramsey who also had market value walking away. Just wish we could let a few of the duds walk away like Mustafi and Xhaka because they only hamper us and have no market value now.

[Penguin]

A culling might be just what we need. Too many players in this squad still have the Wenger mentality.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

If we've don't have much money... I don't think any of us should expect a culling anytime soon.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Any culling will be in the summer I’m sure. We do need to start changing things around though, and any new players coming in under the new regime should add something different at least.

[Marc Overmars]

Apparently Bayern have bid 35m for Hudson-Odoi.