Winter Transfer Window Intrigue and Excitement.

[selassie]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-a8729001.html

I hope this isn't true

Bayern Munich want to take Arsenal head of recruitment Sven Mislintat back to Germany, and feel they can do a deal before the end of the season.

The 46-year-old is credited with having created one of the most sophisticated talent-spotting operations in world football at Borussia Dortmund, and was part of a grand plan to do similar at Arsenal on being appointed just a year ago, but Bayern believe that he would already be open to leaving.

Sources close to both the German champions and the Arsenal set-up say that the relationship between Mislintat and the new regime - headed by Director of Football Raul Sanllehi - has not gone as smoothly as anticipated.

Mislintat has put forward some strong recommendations for players that have not been followed up.

That comes at a time when Unai Emery is said to have taken a more active role regarding transfer targets than the German had anticipated, especially in a structure that was designed to dilute the influence of any head coach in that regard, after the all-encompassing power of Arsene Wenger.

Bayern hope to act on this as they begin a badly-needed overhaul of their own squad, and see Mislintat as the figure who can lead that.

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I hope it is true.

I'm not impressed by any signings (especially the Bundesliga contingient) we have brought in recently. Obviously that excludes Torriera and Auba, who AW had always admired anyway.

I personally would give Emery a long enough rope to do with as he pleases- at least if he is in charge of transfers no more excuses about recruiting players who don't fit his "style of play".

[AFC Leveller]

We are a sinking ship. Ivan left (weird after he finally got rid of Wenger) and If head of scouting leaves, it will all but confirm tat working with Kroenke is just impossible.

[Letters]

We are a sinking ship. Ivan left (weird after he finally got rid of Wenger) and If head of scouting leaves, it will all but confirm tat working with Kroenke is just impossible.

So Wenger wasn't the problem after all! Wenger



More seriously, although I do think he was a problem, I did always say I felt there were other things going on and getting rid of him, while necessary, wasn't a silver bullet.
Things do seem to be quite a mess at the club right now

[Marc Overmars]

We were a mess with Wenger and have continued to be a mess after him. The succession plan went to pot because Gazids left, this whole set up was his idea and now it’s crumbled without him because Raul and Vinai have other ideas.

Just pathetic from the club.

[Letters]

We were a mess with Wenger and have continued to be a mess after him. The succession plan went to pot because Gazids left, this whole set up was his idea and now it’s crumbled without him because Raul and Vinai have other ideas.

Just pathetic from the club.

Although, as I may have said, I never bought into the idea that Wenger was a dribbling imbecile, he had become a problem.
I expected more from Emery. I wasn't expecting miracles but I thought a manager who was a better tactician and motivator would get more out of this lot.
After a somewhat promising start it's all going to shit now and we're looking and playing pretty much the same as last year

[GP]

Come back Arsene, all is forgiven.

[Özim]

We were a mess with Wenger and have continued to be a mess after him. The succession plan went to pot because Gazids left, this whole set up was his idea and now it’s crumbled without him because Raul and Vinai have other ideas.

Just pathetic from the club.

Also it's very odd that Gazidis would leave 3 months after finally being in charge and putting things into place, pretty mercernary of him to be honest, he did a terrible job for 10 years appearing to achieve ver little and then as soon as he appears to be trying something he leave. Has to be said his player dealings were shocking, thanks to him we lost another player for nothing, this club has a very poor record when it comes to employing the right people.

[Özim]

Although, as I may have said, I never bought into the idea that Wenger was a dribbling imbecile, he had become a problem.
I expected more from Emery. I wasn't expecting miracles but I thought a manager who was a better tactician and motivator would get more out of this lot.
After a somewhat promising start it's all going to shit now and we're looking and playing pretty much the same as last year

Wenger is a big reason why we're a mess today though, looks at the team and squad, players who lack hunger, sub standard players all over the place, even the contract situations he has to take responsibility for, none of the big players should have ever reached the point where they had a year or less left on their contract, they should have been sold before that.

He also had players on too high wages and wasted a lot of money that could have gone to the new manager, all in all he was also a big part of this mess, he's not the only one I grant you that but he's certainly heavily involved, as is Gazidis and of course the owner, but few people didn't recognise they were as well, you just need to strt somewhere and the manager was the most logical. Ideally everyone would have moved on and we could have started with a clean slate but that was never realistic.

Incidentally we're crying out for a winger and IMO we had a very good one in Gnabry that we sold on, always thought he was pretty decent so for me it was an odd decision to sell him.

[Letters]

Come back Arsene, all is forgiven.

He's the Severus Snape of Arsenal, he was the good guy all along