summer '22 transfer craziness and stupidity

[Mac76]

Dont worry. We are keeping Xhaka. Just like a new signing

Is that true!?

[Marc Overmars]

Palace away on the first day. Friday night football.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Went well last year.

[HCZ_Reborn]

These are the kind of fixtures where we cannot argue that we are being chucked in at the deep end. We don’t play any of the so-called top six sides around us until the sixth game in (away at United and man is that club in a state)

Palace (A), Leicester (H), Bournemouth (A), Fulham (H) and Brentford (A)

I don’t think you could get much more favourable fixtures to start a season. It’s time for the club to pull its finger out, get the signings we clearly need and give Arteta no excuses

[KSE Comedy Club]

I'm not going to argue that ou squad needs serious strengthening but as long as we get our business done over the next month or so I'm not going to panic about what other clubs are doing.

I agree with you.

However, we also don't want to be left behind by other clubs during and after we have done our business.

There is a certain amount of relativity when it comes to what other clubs are doing.

[KSE Comedy Club]

I'd love to know what goes into "preparing" our bids? Do we gift-wrap them or nestle them in a basket of muffins or something?

I think it's more the financial documents.

It's more difficult when you have to work out the monthly payment breakdowns over 10+ years, rather than just saying 'a payment of £20m will be made'

[HCZ_Reborn]

I agree with you.

However, we also don't want to be left behind by other clubs during and after we have done our business.

There is a certain amount of relativity when it comes to what other clubs are doing.

Oh I think bare minimum we probably need to be bringing in four-five players

If Pepe goes we need a winger, even with Nketiah staying we arguably need two strikers, we need a central midfielder who actually is comfortable on the ball and I’d argue a fullback who can play on the left and right side of defence as relying on Cedric and Tavares is borderline suicidal

Don’t get me wrong, I in no way expect this to happen

[IBK]

It is not paranoia. They are better than us at the moment and the gap will increase the way things are going. They are buying already and we have bought another one for the future.
We haven't just got a rookie Manager, we have a rookie in recruitment (Edu).

The evidence of last season suggests that the 2 teams (at least when our key players were available) were pretty equal. The evidence also shows that our transfer business last Summer was really good. Why all this constant negativity about our team when the transfer window has been open all of 6 days?

[KSE Comedy Club]

The evidence of last season suggests that the 2 teams (at least when our key players were available) were pretty equal. The evidence also shows that our transfer business last Summer was really good. Why all this constant negativity about our team when the transfer window has been open all of 6 days?

Our transfer business wasn't really good, it was just good.

Lokonga - not ready seemingly
Tavares - awful

then in January we stripped the squad to the bare minimum and we are now at least 6 players short, not to mention having other players we need to shift on and replace - Xhaka, Pepe, etc.

Pre season is on the 27th of June, which is a week away.

We really cannot afford to be waiting the whole window to bed in new players. It has happened the last few years and players like Pepe have suffered because of it.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Did Pepe suffer as a result, or did we suffer as a result of bringing a player in based on nothing more than one or two good seasons in a domestic league far inferior to our own?