summer '22 transfer craziness and stupidity

[I am invisible]

Arsenal fan twitter meltdown is quite the experience

I liked Douglas Luiz as a player I’d have gone for him a year ago but what can you do. I’d still take him and Tielemans next summer. Bit worried about overall squad numbers and think it was mad not to buy a central midfielder but the apocalyptic meltdowns are something else

I know, right? The hysterics get a bit much some times - we’re top of the league, with a 100% record and we’re playing some good, dominant football, but everything’s shit and all our players are bums and Arsenal are the worst club in the world to follow.

I’m just amazed no one is ever prepared for it - if you can guarantee 3 things in life it’s that refs will fuck us, injuries will fuck us and we’ll always be a couple of players light. Accept those three fundamental truths of life and you’ll breeze through each season in a zen-like state of utter tranquility.

[I am invisible]

I don't understand what we are doing with the squad. How are we going to manage the Europa and PL with this tiny squad? A few more injuries and we are down to the bare bones.

I get the logic - if you have a smaller group of more adaptable players then you have a better chance of keeping everyone engaged and motivated because there’s more minutes to go around. I don’t think it was meant to be quite this small though! They very obviously wanted at least another couple of players to choose from.

Guess we’ll find out just how adaptable this squad is now!

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On the plus side, it feels like we’ve finally cleared out the last of the sad-sacks who were moping around the place, bringing the mood down - what we have left looks light, but at least it should be super-focussed with everyone pulling in the same direction.

[Mac76]

The problem with Arteta is he won't throw the League Cup like he should or put enough younger players into our early Europa ties.

He'll play that firat eleven into the groumd and it'll all fall apart again.

Sending AMN out on loan is crazy given he's a decent utility player

[KSE Comedy Club]

To be honest from their point of view it makes sense, why get in money 20% of which you have to give to Man City for a player that lets be honest when and not if Gerrard is sacked could be the difference between whether they stay up or not.

Of course it’s too early to say they will be in a relegation scrap for definite but they aren’t getting anything at the weekend

Regarding the comments of the silly fool above you, we needed a central midfielder (two arguably) before the injuries happened. If we were going to strengthen in attack I’d have preferred an out and out striker to contrast with what we’ve got given we can play Skeet Ulrich and for that matter Eddie wide right if the need arises.

They signed another midfielder so they had cover.

They are now in a position where the player may also not want to bother playing for them anymore as he clearly wanted the move to happen by all accounts.

Villa have been a bit stupid here imo. They just thought they could up the price at the last minute and it backfired.

Apparently everyone involved in the negotiations were a bit bemused as it was understood that Villa would listen to offers of £20m+.

I hope he leaves them on a free now.

[KSE Comedy Club]

The worrying thing for me is that we ended last summer with 24 senior players registered.

This summer we have ended with 23.

This is not good when everyone and their dog knew we needed a CM'er and we had at least a week before the window shut to find one.

Not good enough for me on that front despite the solid signings we have made, and decent start.
We are just one more injury away from disaster now.

[Mac76]

I know, right? The hysterics get a bit much some times - we’re top of the league, with a 100% record and we’re playing some good, dominant football, but everything’s shit and all our players are bums and Arsenal are the worst club in the world to follow.

I’m just amazed no one is ever prepared for it - if you can guarantee 3 things in life it’s that refs will fuck us, injuries will fuck us and we’ll always be a couple of players light. Accept those three fundamental truths of life and you’ll breeze through each season in a zen-like state of utter tranquility.

Some of the reaction might be OTT but I suspect it's partly based on the fact that we're already now just winning our games on sheer willpower, but once we drop points that bubble will be burst and without the ability to change things much, we'll struggle to find new ways of beating teams - Arteta's hero Pep rotates a lot but it's not something Arteta has learnt from him

[Chippy]

On the plus side, it feels like we’ve finally cleared out the last of the sad-sacks who were moping around the place, bringing the mood down - what we have left looks light, but at least it should be super-focussed with everyone pulling in the same direction.

I agree.

The priority was to get rid as much of the dead wood as possible, and I believe that we have, including ANM.

As Mandela8 has already said, this smelt like a panic buy, so probably good that it did not go through?

We are very short on players, but we will have to use what we have until January. Obvs.

[HCZ_Reborn]

They signed another midfielder so they had cover.

They are now in a position where the player may also not want to bother playing for them anymore as he clearly wanted the move to happen by all accounts.

Villa have been a bit stupid here imo. They just thought they could up the price at the last minute and it backfired.

Apparently everyone involved in the negotiations were a bit bemused as it was understood that Villa would listen to offers of £20m+.

I hope he leaves them on a free now.

Given how bad Villa were in midfield against us (literally Xhaka was successfully pressing Kamarra) I think it’s fair to say they could probably use both Dendoncker and Luiz. The idea that Villa were going to sell him seemed to change after Wednesday night, Villa didn’t just score when Luiz came on they looked much better in general. I don’t buy into this bollocks that they didn’t want to sell to us or some shit like that. Gerrard wanted to keep him so they were going to hold out for much higher.
Yes it’s frustrating for us, but we should have had the position covered months ago. If we were truly sensible we’d have let Xhaka and Elneny go and brought in players like Luiz and Tielemans who would have improved central midfield immeasurably.
Luiz of course was a panic buy in so far that, that is what motivated us to sign him but definitely would have been an improvement on what we have.
I think in many respects the reticence to sign players was about getting players off the wage bill first.

[Letters]

Hope Villa go down tbh. Wankers.

Why, because they didn't cave to a player's whining and agitating for a move? Nah. I mean, I hope they go down because I think it would be funny, but not because of this.
We've been on the other end of that way too many times and we always cave. Just once it would be nice to say to a player "No, get on with it, you signed a contract".
Possibly counter productive in some cases if it affects squad unity, but I'm sick of players and agents having all the power.