Winter Transfer Non-Arrivals and Goodbyes

[KSE Comedy Club]

Free transfer?!

Ah well, at least he’s off the wage bill.

Big, big summer needed.

There wont be big summer if we don't get top 4, and that looks to be the likely outcome now.

Awful, awful window

[KSE Comedy Club]

Relying on 2 strikers who have no future at the club anyway. How have we fucked it this bad?

Balogun will be the only registered striker on the books come the summer.

lol

[Gooner23]

You have to hand it to Edu, he is excellent at selling players for no money.

[dazthegooner]

And to make matters worse the Spuds managed to sell Ali to Everton for £40m we only fot £35 for Iwoibi

[Globalgunner]

And to make matters worse the Spuds managed to sell Ali to Everton for £40m we only fot £35 for Iwoibi

TBH. Alli has twice as much talent as that junkster Iwobi. Alli is a Spud POS though, always will be. Everton bought both Iwobi and Walcott from us....for fair money. In return they gave us the deadweight that is now our manager. I think the Toffees got the better deal. At least they can offload our junk while we are seemingly in a Vulcan mindmeld with the poorest Arsenal manager in 40 years

[Globalgunner]

Im pretty sure the Greenwood situation contributed to Utd canceling Lingaards move at the last minute. He seemed all set to go to Newcastle.

On a lighter note. What is Aubameyangs Wang going to call himself now?

Xhaka`s needle or Arteta`s pointer?

[Mac76]

We've signed a new defender but ofc we won't actually play him, he's on loan until the summer then we'll send him on loan again next season - maybe in five years he'll be "ready"

https://www.arsenal.com/news/trusty-...b-remains-loan

[Ralpheroo72]

When will the Summer Transfer Non-Arrivals and Goodbyes thread be ready?

[I am invisible]

We've signed a new defender but ofc we won't actually play him, he's on loan until the summer then we'll send him on loan again next season - maybe in five years he'll be "ready"

https://www.arsenal.com/news/trusty-...b-remains-loan

This guy is never playing for Arsenal! Stan's just using us to funnel is Colorado players into the European market.

[IBK]

Am I barking up the wrong tree here or is all the hand wringing over January transfers a bit hysterical? Our best performances this season have been without Aubameyang, who hasn't played since 5 December, and has scored the grand total of 4 EPL goals this season. He had a mediocre season last season, scoring 10 EPL goals - which is ridiculous for a £350K pw striker - and had discipline issues that clearly threatened the focus and well being of the team. Even if he had stayed - making an about turn would have been an issue for the manager - and there's nothing to suggest that he would have been anything but an extra body up fornt rather than making a real difference, or that we would have found a buyer for any kind of real transfer fee at the end of the season. We couldn't have risked another Ozil and have to remember that we can't force the player to leave - so I can see the logic of (a) accepting a move where he agreed to go, and (b) getting his wage bill off the books.

It would have been great to get the right striker in, but I can see the common sense of not just buying anyone - and then risking another Willian...or another mediocre player that did not work medium term.

Aside from perhaps AMN, I can't see that any of our departures has changed anything. Let's not get hung up on a shitty January where we nevertheless had some encouraging performances, in circumstances where the team was decimated and on its last legs physically.

Yes - failure to bring in fresh blood is dispappointing and a risk. But our aim this season was Europa League and we only have EPL matches left - no other distractions.

We have a long break before our next game, and hopefully fitness issues can be resolved as a result. Persisting with Martinelli as our major goal threat (whether re-purposed as a striker or as part of a decent front 4 - Saka; ESR; Martinelli; Odegard) is not such a bad prospect - so let's see what happens. At the end of the season if its turned to shit, then of course we will point to a January transfer failure as the cause, but for me its not as cut and dried as that yet and we shouldn't get carried away by our failure to land the player we want/need in what traditionally is not a productive transfer period for Arsenal.

Don't fall into the trap of seeing what other clubs are doing - largely in desperation - and forget that up to January (and even against Citeh) this team was doing really well.