Winter Transfer Window Intrigue and Excitement.

[selassie]

We’ve been linked with loads of players this window, but yet still no one actually signed.

I thought we had seen the end of fucking about all window until the last day or two???
Even with only having loan deals as options, why the fuck are we waiting so long!

And what’s with all the players in their late twenties/early thirties?!?
Ffs, what is going on at this club?

We needed to strengthen this window to help secure top four and possibly win the europa league, but we have so far come up with nothing.

Our transfer policy is totally scatter gun IMO. We don't seem to have any real long-term plan in regards to squad building.

We actually seem to be avoiding young players....or at least are linked to a lot 20's / early 30's players which is madness considering we are pleading poverty.

[Özim]

Not sure why we’d want a guy who’s being shipped out halfway through his first season at a new club. Hardly sounds promising. He also signed a 6 year contract - God knows how much he’d cost to buy with five of those left.

Not sure if you're talking about Martins or Malcolm but both have talent and could be something special, unlike the likes of Suarez. Perisic is fine but at 29 it makes no sense whatsoever, for me we should be looking for players who we can build a team with, not short term stop gaps that will need replacing before long.

[Özim]

Our transfer policy is totally scatter gun IMO. We don't seem to have any real long-term plan in regards to squad building.

We actually seem to be avoiding young players....or at least are linked to a lot 20's / early 30's players which is madness considering we are pleading poverty.

Totally agree, if we have no money why spend it on players who will need replacing in a few years, hardly common sense, this clubs finances and transfer dealings are such a mess.

[Bumble]

Totally agree, if we have no money why spend it on players who will need replacing in a few years, hardly common sense, this clubs finances and transfer dealings are such a mess.

maybe the plan is to buy more senior guys to buy time for the youngsters to mature and slowly get into the first team squad.

if we have good youngsters in the reverses then give them a game. Spurs fluked upon Harry Kane as I think he only played due to an injury crisis as he was about to go on loan again. Why not us?

[Özim]

maybe the plan is to buy more senior guys to buy time for the youngsters to mature and slowly get into the first team squad.

if we have good youngsters in the reverses then give them a game. Spurs fluked upon Harry Kane as I think he only played due to an injury crisis as he was about to go on loan again. Why not us?

We don't have that many particularly good youngsters. To me we need quality to build a team, we've waited for years now and we don't want to wait for another decade in the hope the youth scheme part 2 comes off.

Spurs seem to have an eye for spotting talent for cheap, we don't that much is clear.

[SMatthews]

If we don’t have many good youngsters, and are unable to to spot new ones, and we don’t want another youth project anyway, and selling valuable assets is a bad idea and buying estlabished older players is a no-no, any alternatives?

[Özim]

If we don’t have many good youngsters, and are unable to to spot new ones, and we don’t want another youth project anyway, and selling valuable assets is a bad idea and buying estlabished older players is a no-no, any alternatives?

Buy established players in their mids 20s or players who have shown they have real talent.

Buying players in their late 20s makes zero sense though, it's just money down the drain, money we cannot afford, Liverpool sold Coutinho for loads because he was young enough to have a huge market value, that's what we need to do.

Alongside that we can try and spot some young talents in the way that Chelsea, Spurs, Man City seem to and hope they make it.

[Letters]

Buy established players in their mids 20s or players who have shown they have real talent.

Apparently we don't have the money to
I have no idea why but our owners are not willing to invest any of their own money, they're only interested in the business side of things.
This is why getting rid of Wenger, while necessary, was never going to be a silver bullet. We have other problems as a club.

[SMatthews]

Buy established players in their mids 20s or players who have shown they have real talent.

Buying players in their late 20s makes zero sense though, it's just money down the drain, money we cannot afford, Liverpool sold Coutinho for loads because he was young enough to have a huge market value, that's what we need to do.

Alongside that we can try and spot some young talents in the way that Chelsea, Spurs, Man City seem to and hope they make it.

Sounds pretty expensive.

Emery: "At the moment the club is telling me this is not a good moment to buy new players. But the club say to me in the summer it is going to be different, & we are going to have chances to take and spend money to buy players."

That Adidas money needs to be life changing to make any sort of real difference.

[Özim]

Apparently we don't have the money to
I have no idea why but our owners are not willing to invest any of their own money, they're only interested in the business side of things.
This is why getting rid of Wenger, while necessary, was never going to be a silver bullet. We have other problems as a club.

We're willing to pay 35-40 million for someone who is 29 we musrt be able to find players in their mid 20s for that surely?

I agree about the investment though, pretty pathetic.