Winter Transfer Window Intrigue and Excitement.

[Mac76]

I’m not sure this comes down to planning because Ramsey by all accounts was ready to sign.

Then Gazidis left and new regime didn’t want to entertain him so you have to hope their decision proves to be right.

it's tricky isn't it - a real impact player who seemed content with not necessarily starting every game is a real asset, but i guess it's the scale of his wage demand that's the issue - all caused by the Ozil deal of course.

can't the club go to both him and Ozil (if they want) and say 'we'd like you to stay but things are different now and we need to renegotiate your money'?

after all they're both on - or asking for - such fantastic sums that surely if they like it at Arsenal taking a cut isn't such a big deal - is it?

[Globalgunner]

Why oh why is anybody pining after Ramsey. I wish he could leave today. This a player who wont win you games talk less of titles. 60th percentile player asking for 90th percentile wages. Good riddance!

[SMatthews]

it's tricky isn't it - a real impact player who seemed content with not necessarily starting every game is a real asset, but i guess it's the scale of his wage demand that's the issue - all caused by the Ozil deal of course.

can't the club go to both him and Ozil (if they want) and say 'we'd like you to stay but things are different now and we need to renegotiate your money'?

after all they're both on - or asking for - such fantastic sums that surely if they like it at Arsenal taking a cut isn't such a big deal - is it?

I’m not sure he is an impact player. 62 goals in 11 years is pretty poor for an attacking midfielder. He’s only scored 38 league goals in that time - that is shocking.

[Marc Overmars]

Yeah I had hoped he'd become a bit of a Lampard type player for us but he's never been consistent.

13/14 he was exceptional though and I think we may have had a shot at winning the league if he wasn't injured during the second half of the season.

[Marc Overmars]

There are reports that we're looking to take Suarez on loan because we can't actually afford his transfer fee in this window.

If that's true then I don't think we can be expecting to get back into the CL anytime soon, if that is an indicator of our financial clout.

[SMatthews]

There are reports that we're looking to take Suarez on loan because we can't actually afford his transfer fee in this window.

If that's true then I don't think we can be expecting to get back into the CL anytime soon, if that is an indicator of our financial clout.

I doubt we're skint, I reckon it's more to do with how we're budgeting every season. Ornstein said a bigger budget would be available in the summer - whether true or not, who knows. We've spent quite a bit in recent seasons, but the problem is it hasn't been put to good use.

[SMatthews]

Emery’s confirmed what Ornstein said about loan players only in this window, so hopefully he’s right about the summer too.

[Özim]

Music to Stans' ears this, no money to spend, this is his perfect scenario, unbelievable how we're scraping around for pennies to be honest, we're like the paupers of the Premier League, a league literally rolling in money and yet we've can't afford anyone after a very moderate spend last summer (previous signings last season were covered by sales we'd made).

On top of that we're stuck with overpaid duds and losing the few players who worth anything and we could have sold for nothing, what a mess! Liverpool were where we are a few seasons ago, the only difference being they have some very valuable assets to sell, we've got literally noone of any real value, the last administration really have a lot to answer to after this mess they've left behind, one of them lost deservedly lost his job of course and the other decided it was time to move on and make money elsewhere.

[Özim]

There are reports that we're looking to take Suarez on loan because we can't actually afford his transfer fee in this window.

If that's true then I don't think we can be expecting to get back into the CL anytime soon, if that is an indicator of our financial clout.

Suarez is a bit of a nobody, he's 25 and hasn't really stood out, been moving around clubs for peanuts for years, don't get why we're even interested, I guess it highlights how far we've fallen that we're going after this guy.

CL seems a long way away right now, we lack quality and don't seem to have the money to change that it seems (or we just have an owner who doesn't want to spend any of the precious money he hasn't even spent on us).

[SMatthews]

I can see the logic it for this window at least. The summer is going to be the period that shows how serious the owner is about backing Emery. For now, we’re in the mix for the top four which is where we should be at the moment.