Winter Transfer Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[KSE Comedy Club]

I suppose they have enough cash now to actually follow through on that. Normally that's talk designed to force up the price. I heard they have been comparing him to Henry of late - I'm sure they didn't mean any offence. I;d say in the summer they'll come after us for something like £150mill. And we might just be desperate enough by that stage, especially if we follow the Wenger playbook this January.

He's certainly not worth over £100m and if that is the price (which it will be) then Gyokores is the clear best value proposition.

[KSE Comedy Club]

A bit more on the Deloitte money league info

Seems PSR wise, we are in a very good position to spend still, but the last part acknowledges what we really all know to be the case:

https://www.footballinsider247.com/s...b-record-news/

Arsenal have a “huge” profit and sustainability (PSR) capacity to make new signings before the transfer window closes on 3 February.
That is the view of finance expert Stefan Borson, who exclusively told Football Insider the message the north London giants have been giving to their fans around PSR is not completely straightforward.

Deloitte’s 2025 Money League revealed Arsenal generated a club-record revenue of £615million in 2023-24 – a 32 per cent rise on the previous year’s £465million.
They also managed to grow their commercial revenue from £171million to £222million, while the matchday income at the Emirates surged from £103million to £132million.

But Arsenal’s wage bill increased dramatically from £235million to £326million last season, where they finished second in the Premier League behind Manchester City.
Mikel Arteta’s side have so far failed to agree any new signings in the January window despite recently suffering injuries to several key players.

Borson insisted Arsenal have the spending power to add to their squad after their financial results have been revealed for last season.

“There is some room to grow commercially, but it’s a solid set of results,” Borson told Football Insider.
“The wage bill is up a lot. It was up last season by 40 per cent, which isn’t a huge surprise when you see what the impact is on the pitch.
“But I guess just in one year, that is a big move.
“It’s really just confirmation of everything we already knew, which is Arsenal are well and cautiously run.
“They are in good shape financially and have got huge PSR capacity.

“The message that they are trying to give to fans around PSR has not been completely straightforward.
“They have space for investment, but at the moment, they are choosing not to spend, which of course is their prerogative.”

[Mac76]

We're talking to Villa about Duran apparently - given he scores a goal a game nearly but can't get a start, it seems a good shout though I'm sure it would be for an inflated price

[Niall_Quinn]

Appears we are desperately trawling around with no real plan. There's a new name every day but nothing ever progressed.

[Niall_Quinn]

In case anyone was wondering. We haven't signed a striker yet.

Moving into that fun period where teams we try to deal with would have to find replacements in record time.

It's so crazy. We'd probably be right up there at or within striking distance of the top spot with city nowhere in sight. For the want of somebody who can just stick those chances in the net.

[HCZ_Reborn]

We're talking to Villa about Duran apparently - given he scores a goal a game nearly but can't get a start, it seems a good shout though I'm sure it would be for an inflated price

Feels a bit of a lazy git to me, scores some absolute blinders but isn’t doing a lot to influence the overall game, not making loads of runs to make himself available for passes or passing to others, even for Villa he’s more likely to be brought off the bench as a super sub.

That and I can see no evidence of him having a brother who plays football, so we couldn’t buy him as well for novelty value

[Niall_Quinn]

Feels a bit of a lazy git to me, scores some absolute blinders but isn’t doing a lot to influence the overall game, not making loads of runs to make himself available for passes or passing to others, even for Villa he’s more likely to be brought off the bench as a super sub.

That and I can see no evidence of him having a brother who plays football, so we couldn’t buy him as well for novelty value

And they want 80mill which brings the added advantage of us getting nobody in the summer. So this would be it, our striker for the next 3 years. Not a planned target but a desperate rush to Tesco before it shuts. It may even be better to get nobody at this stage.

[Marc Overmars]

Duran would soon have his ability to score worldies coached out of him anyway.

[HCZ_Reborn]

And they want 80mill which brings the added advantage of us getting nobody in the summer. So this would be it, our striker for the next 3 years. Not a planned target but a desperate rush to Tesco before it shuts. It may even be better to get nobody at this stage.

I think it’s bollocks anyway, feels like an agent is touting a move for his client (because West Ham and Chelsea have been sniffing about) and is trying to get some commitment by making up shit about other clubs being interested. Seems like the perfect Chelsea signing, a player with some talent but doesn’t produce consistently.

I think if we do sign anyone it will be on loan. Which makes sense, if they perform sign them outright, if they don’t…send them back.

With loans though they tend to be the type of thing agreed on deadline day

[Niall_Quinn]

I think it’s bollocks anyway, feels like an agent is touting a move for his client (because West Ham and Chelsea have been sniffing about) and is trying to get some commitment by making up shit about other clubs being interested. Seems like the perfect Chelsea signing, a player with some talent but doesn’t produce consistently.

I think if we do sign anyone it will be on loan. Which makes sense, if they perform sign them outright, if they don’t…send them back.

With loans though they tend to be the type of thing agreed on deadline day

Yeah but I also read some crap somewhere that one of the proposed loan deals, from a Spanish club is all I can remember, would be with no option to purchase. So it'd be a temporary band-aid and if it did work out we wouldn't be signing the player anyway.

And why did we borrow Sterling? He's not on the pitch much, and when he is he doesn't do anything. Hopefully we aren't committed to buying him.

Got to make sure it's the right type of loan.