Summer Transfers 2025 Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[Marc Overmars]

It appears that Sesko is our guy. Fabrizio Romano has confirmed that we’ve opened talks with Leipzig.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Good, shame that we probably won’t try and bring in a second striker. But I think Sesko is the right choice

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fuck Romano.

I think Gyokeres would be better for the here and now.

Think we'll regret it personally.

To be honest, should be both Gyokeres and Sesko.

[Niall_Quinn]

Sounds like Arteta is winning the war and is set to ruin the transfer window. The first real test to see if we could run a coordinated, professional outfit and we've fallen back to Wengerisation. Well, this will cost the club a decade of progress. Arteta will be long gone but the damage will be enduring.

I wish they would just sell Odegard from under his arse and force him to build a team that can seriously compete. But it won't happen. The leech owners are busy with plans to upgrade the stadium and rob more people. Arteta is fantasising about signings who can bump his possession numbers up by 0.043% and the new sporting director doesn't really have that much to do at all, except vainly try to explain to them all what's actually required to get shit done.

Same arseholes.

[Mac76]

Fuck Romano.

I think Gyokeres would be better for the here and now.

Think we'll regret it personally.

To be honest, should be both Gyokeres and Sesko.

Was about to write the same, Arteta's going for an outside-the-box utility player rather than someone like Gyokeres who regularly scores strikers' goals (including in the CL btw not just Portugal)

Plus as you say Sesko's a 'project', not the finished article.

Apart from Timber Arteta's signings have been woeful - Havertz was bought for a position he can't play in and Arteta got lucky he could actually do an ok job upfront instead, same with Merino but with bells on, Cala and Zin are both fails, again particularly in the position he wanted them to play in.

I fear Sesko will be the same, we need a straight up poacher but he'll put Sesko at LW or something and still not have someone where they need to be to score the goals we need

[HCZ_Reborn]

Lot of complaining about this on Twitter as well

One of the few occasions where I’m aligned with Arteta on this, not just because I don’t particularly want us to sign Gyokeres but I actually like what I’ve seen of Sesko as a player.

Also Gyokeres isn’t a goal poacher anyway, in fact Sesko fulfills more of the attributes of the typical no9.

I absolutely would like us to sign more than one striker and treat Jesus as a write off, but even then I think I’d more go for someone who can play along the front three like Mbeumo or Adeyemi.

One of the things I admire about Liverpool is the interchangeable front three model (well not so much now but what they had with Salah, Mane and Firminho) and being able to adopt something like that would be good in my view

[KSE Comedy Club]

Fuck Romano.

I think Gyokeres would be better for the here and now.

Think we'll regret it personally.

To be honest, should be both Gyokeres and Sesko.

Exactly, and now watch Gyokores go to chavs or something and bang in 30 goals this season.

Like I said earlier, when the easiest and most obvious choice is staring us in the face, we will do the opposite, fail and then make excuses.

There was no point bringing Berta in if transfers are going to be overidden for more of Arteta's vanity project players.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Also, there is no evidence to suggest that Sesko is going to become a prolific scorer.
I've got numpties on Reddit saying he has a 'higher ceiling' - why, where is the evidence? He has averaged around 15 goals per season in his career so why does everyone think he's gonna come and score more suddenly?
If it works and he's the next Henry, then yeh he has and it's great.
But if it doesn't and he can only manged 15 goals a season (which is average and not what we need) then we will have wasted money.

If he is more of the same then we will be in the same boat next season.

More of what hasn't worked should not be the basis for our summer transfer plans.

[Marc Overmars]

Newcastle signed Isak off the back of a 10 goal season in Spain. I’m pretty sure had we splashed out back then we would have been scratching our heads and crying about that.

I just think rarely are there guarantees with strikers and their likelihood of becoming prolific. It’s just about taking a chance on someone who could be a good fit and hoping they level up. I’m not fussed really about Sesko or Gyokeres, we’ve put off signing a striker for so long that I don’t care at this point, I see upsides to both so just get it done.

[Niall_Quinn]

Let's just hope the return of Havertz doesn't encourage them to avoid spending at all! I've sat through many Arsenal transfer windows thinking, no WAY would they try to pull that again!

But yeah, it's simple. Arteta will be made up if he can get 2 x Havertz and play his backs-to-goal system with interchangeable Havertz/ Sesko as part of a complex, rotating triangle/ sometimes diamond/ sometimes rectangle with a little bit stuck on the side (or BOLLOCKS system, in layman's terms). Joke is, he's willing to spend more than we'd have to to get a proper striker - so we'll lose out on another signing too.

Arteta's an arrogant fuck. He's just seen his patter-ball get us nowhere near a title and leave us unable to stick the ball in the net against a lame PSG. So try, try again. Meanwhile teams like Vill and Newcastle and even Liverpool have rediscovered an ancient football secret, drawn from times before Peps walked the earth. If you kick the ball towards the opposition goal and run a bit faster - you have more chance of scoring!