Quote Originally Posted by Kano View Post
What level did you expect to be available at this time of year, especially early in the window? And that comment complains he didn't go forward much and kept it simple - isn't that what we need at the moment alongside Ramsey? Looking at his stats he has played 91 games in two and half seasons, so he seems fairly integral to Basel.

And picking out one poster on another forum, no matter his nationality, hardly makes him the authority on Elneny. That's as daft as someone coming on here and quoting Letters elsewhere as the most rational and informative Arsenal fan.
That's a bit of an excuse, if you have the money there's always someone, yes sure you'd have to pay more but that's what happens when you make poor managerial decisions and fail to adequately recruit in the summer transfer window thus forcing you to spend in January.

As for picking on a posters comments, well trouble is noone else knows anything about this guy, so to have someone who has seen him play for years comment isn't unreasonable.

The trouble is with this guy, is yes he could be some kind of bargain buy, but on the same token he could be an average joe we end up being stuck with for the next 5 years which effectively rules out us signing someone of quality for that period.

At the end of the day we can make all of the excuses we want, but he's an unknown, pretty cheap and a typical Wenger signing, a few come of these come off but plenty of these don't as well and once again Wenger is being Wenger and making cost the primary criteria, let's face it you wouldn't have found one person on this forum (possibly any) who would have touted this guy as a potential signing.