Winter Transfer Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[Niall_Quinn]

This Cunha rumour seems to have legs.

All I'll say is my mistrust of signing Brazilian attacking players, with all the baggage they come with, persists. I've not really noticed him, but from what I can see the Jesus parallels are accurate.

I'd prefer any of the other attackers mentioned over him and would really hate if we spent real money to make this deal go through seeing as Villa recruited Maelen from a bigger club for only £20m.

Yeah, it's the waste of money and extra wage bill for an average player that plugs a hole, rather than somebody who will improve the team and prospects. Do we really have nobody at all in the squad or reserves that could step in and do at least what the likes of Jesus does in an average match (which is not much) - that really would be an indictment of squad depth if true. Look at the kid over at Utd, why don't we have a couple of young strikers eager to get out there and give it a go? How much worse could it be than what we have already seen up front?

[Mac76]

Yeah, it's the waste of money and extra wage bill for an average player that plugs a hole, rather than somebody who will improve the team and prospects. Do we really have nobody at all in the squad or reserves that could step in and do at least what the likes of Jesus does in an average match (which is not much) - that really would be an indictment of squad depth if true. Look at the kid over at Utd, why don't we have a couple of young strikers eager to get out there and give it a go? How much worse could it be than what we have already seen up front?

I'm very much in favour of that, MLS and Nwaneri, plus Nicholls before he was injured, have shown enough to allow others to get a shout.

That said I think Cunha is better than people here give him credit for, definitely a more reliable scorer than Jesus and if we can do a reasonable deal, given I'm not sure what doable options there are elsewhere, I'd be ok if they go for it

[KSE Comedy Club]

The problem now of course, is there are 3 other clubs in for him. Newcastle, Forrest and Chelsea.

We spent so much of this window dithering, pondering, looking, admiring, exploring that is has allowed a potential bidding war situation

[Letters]

We spent so much of this window dithering, pondering, looking, admiring, exploring

I mean, to be fair literally none of us really have the foggiest clue what goes on behind the scenes.

[Mac76]

I mean, to be fair literally none of us really have the foggiest clue what goes on behind the scenes.

No, but I think Arteta/Arsenal have at the very least an optics issue when it comes to attacking players, in that they fail to get their primary target and then give up fairly easily

I'm clinging on to the hope there's another Trossard type they at leasst have their eye on

[KSE Comedy Club]

I mean, to be fair literally none of us really have the foggiest clue what goes on behind the scenes.

True but they should have had their targets identified and ducks in a row to go straight in on day 1 of the window.

Instead we got 'internal solutions' etc, until several injuries later, it forced their hand.

[HCZ_Reborn]

True but they should have had their targets identified and ducks in a row to go straight in on day 1 of the window.

Instead we got 'internal solutions' etc, until several injuries later, it forced their hand.

The Winter transfer window should really be for sticking plaster solutions. The problem is with that, who are we going to get on loan that any club will be tempted to agree to. We are monitoring Cunha because we think there’s a chance that Wolves will sell.

Last summer? I don’t think it comes down to poor planning. I think the plan as mystifying as it is was to gamble on the attacking players we had last season to get the goals we need.

[Niall_Quinn]

The problem now of course, is there are 3 other clubs in for him. Newcastle, Forrest and Chelsea.

We spent so much of this window dithering, pondering, looking, admiring, exploring that is has allowed a potential bidding war situation

I call that salvation. Go get your man, Newcastle, Forrest and Chelsea.

Meanwhile, could we please get serious about signing a striker? We actually need one, no joke.

[Niall_Quinn]

The Winter transfer window should really be for sticking plaster solutions. The problem is with that, who are we going to get on loan that any club will be tempted to agree to. We are monitoring Cunha because we think there’s a chance that Wolves will sell.

Last summer? I don’t think it comes down to poor planning. I think the plan as mystifying as it is was to gamble on the attacking players we had last season to get the goals we need.

There shouldn't be such a window, it's only there so the pigs can feast twice.

But seeing as it is there, no reason to make it a sticking plaster - make it decisive.

Decisive - Arsenal? Okay, mutually exclusive.

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

https://www.deloitte.com/uk/en/servi...ey-league.html

Ok, some good news for a change.

So finally it seems our "improved performances" have started affecting our revenue, which we grew by almost €200m last season, the biggest growth of any top club.

The thing that affects transfers is it seems our total wages to revenue is actually not increasing by much and with the guys we got rid of in the summer and the few people that came in, it's likely the pattern continues, that's if we can "challenge" for the title like last year and reach the QF of the CL.

Now Deloitte's figures are absolute, and covers last season (not the financial year like UEFA's does). Also UEFA's "squad" to revenue ratio is also very particular and might not include some of the things the Deloitte figures does e.g only the 1st team squad is actually accounted for in UEFA's measurements and I believe the revenue elements might be narrower.

However from what I can see we are doing better than all of our real rivals when it comes to wages to revenue ratio (except the Spuds, their figure looks remarkable) and thus the excuse that we can't bring in anyone of quality because we are trying to rein in squad wages seems like what it is, another tired excuse.

Anyway, good to see our improved performances is finally impacting the books (especially broadcast revenue) and the least our Miserly Manager can do is try and keep up with the pace he set for himself.