Summer Transfers 2025 Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[Letters]

We aint signing anyone of note Guys. Deep down, we all know it.

I'd be surprised if that's true and disappointed if it is.
There surely has to be recognition in the club that we are light up front and that needs addressing if we are serious about challenging next year.
With the CL run we should have the money to splash out.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I think my observation is that there is a chasm of difference between going out of your way to piss off and alienate fans and pandering to the whims of fans. If you were the coach or the director of football, you wouldn’t give a fuck who the fans think you should buy and when you should get a transfer completed by, because you have your own internal considerations.

Arteta is a stubborn fuck, but I think there’s no question that he is prepared to do everything to win the big prizes (whether he’s capable of delivering remains to be seen), I have my many differences with him but I think there’s absolutely no doubting his ambition. KSE? I’m not sure I can say the same, although of course they’ve had success with superbowl wins for the Rams franchise, as well as other sports….but too often it feels like they are satisfied with champions league qualification as an ends in of itself because the club is part of their asset portfolio.

If it appears we dither, a) it’s partly because spend more time looking at what we do as a club relative to other clubs b) KSE care more about overheads than success.

If that is the case, there’s not a lot we can do about it….they are never going to sell up because solid assets will always be more valuable to people who have that much wealth than liquid assets.


This is not to say we won’t get the players we need to win the titles we want, it’s just there’s less guarantee of that because it isn’t the first priority of the ownership.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I'd be surprised if that's true and disappointed if it is.
There surely has to be recognition in the club that we are light up front and that needs addressing if we are serious about challenging next year.
With the CL run we should have the money to splash out.

Oh we will sign players (and some of note) whether it will be enough signings and whether they will be in areas we need enough to get us where we need to be, that remains to be seen

[KSE Comedy Club]

I think my observation is that there is a chasm of difference between going out of your way to piss off and alienate fans and pandering to the whims of fans. If you were the coach or the director of football, you wouldn’t give a fuck who the fans think you should buy and when you should get a transfer completed by, because you have your own internal considerations.

Arteta is a stubborn fuck, but I think there’s no question that he is prepared to do everything to win the big prizes (whether he’s capable of delivering remains to be seen), I have my many differences with him but I think there’s absolutely no doubting his ambition. KSE? I’m not sure I can say the same, although of course they’ve had success with superbowl wins for the Rams franchise, as well as other sports….but too often it feels like they are satisfied with champions league qualification as an ends in of itself because the club is part of their asset portfolio.

If it appears we dither, a) it’s partly because spend more time looking at what we do as a club relative to other clubs b) KSE care more about overheads than success.

If that is the case, there’s not a lot we can do about it….they are never going to sell up because solid assets will always be more valuable to people who have that much wealth than liquid assets.


This is not to say we won’t get the players we need to win the titles we want, it’s just there’s less guarantee of that because it isn’t the first priority of the ownership.

This is all sadly very true.

We also had reports yesterday I think, that we are the most well run club in the PL and could spend £200m without worrying about PSR.

[Letters]

Oh we will sign players (and some of note) whether it will be enough signings and whether they will be in areas we need enough to get us where we need to be, that remains to be seen

I don't think we need to go crazy. We weren't far away last year. Only Liverpool were better than us and we've talked about how a few things went for them and against us. Had that gone a different way the gap would have been smaller IMO. In Europe, semi-finals isn't to be sniffed at and we dominated PSG for enough of the 2 legs to suggest that with more up front we could have beaten them.

We need a proper striker and just generally need a bit more depth. But I don't think we have much to do in order to challenge next year.

[Marc Overmars]

I have faith that our summer will be a good one. The faith is because I think it’s likely that Arteta could be sacked next year if this team can’t push on again or even worse, struggle to qualify for the CL. So I think the club will give it everything this summer to try and make next season a success. Can’t be any excuses next season.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I don't think we need to go crazy. We weren't far away last year. Only Liverpool were better than us and we've talked about how a few things went for them and against us. Had that gone a different way the gap would have been smaller IMO. In Europe, semi-finals isn't to be sniffed at and we dominated PSG for enough of the 2 legs to suggest that with more up front we could have beaten them.

We need a proper striker and just generally need a bit more depth. But I don't think we have much to do in order to challenge next year.

I don’t know if we need to “go crazy” but the squad is already quite thin and is likely to get thinner

I think we need a minimum of one striker, a player that can play anywhere amongst the front three and a creative midfielder at bare minimum.


We also need to make sure no money is spent on this Goldilocks left back position, we’ve got MLS and we’ve got Calafiori as a backup that’s better than most sides have. We also shouldn’t be fannying about trying to bring in a reserve goalkeeper and turning that into another Goldilocks position, we don’t need to be eating money that needs to be spent primarily


Really I don’t think we need Zubimendi unless we sell Partey , I’d like to sign him but I think it should then trigger us letting go of Merino.


Everything needs to be geared towards creating more chances and scoring more goals

[Letters]

Everything needs to be geared towards creating more chances and scoring more goals

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Everything needs to be geared towards creating more chances and scoring more goals

This line above is really everything, and TBH, if you look at our rivals, we actually have the easiest job to do because we are certain all we need to resolve is this, and this alone. Plus we've known this for a year, so our headstart should give us another solid advantage.

Anyway, let's see how it goes, but I tell you for free that I've got my fingers crossed this summer.

[KSE Comedy Club]

I don't think creating chances is necessarily the issue - we created loads this season, we just didn't have anyone to finish them.

I do think adding creativity will help to an extent, but two goal scorers is the big one.