Winter Transfer Speculation

[Özim]

Are you still going on about this? You are comparing two completely different things. They have a transfer ban hanging over their heads (currently suspended on review) so with that in mind, why would they sell one of their best players when they have no hope of replacing him? Martinez wasn't one of their best players. He was very underwhelming. Used mostly as a sub and hardly scored any goals. It wasn't working out so they sold him.

This was also clear enough from the player, someone who Chelsea have supposedly been after for ages but have yet to put forward a bid:



You need to stop basing your opinion on the internet and actually pay more attention to things. Which may be hard as you have very little interest in football and rarely watch games.

Completely disagree I'm afraif, money talks in football if you offer enough a club will sell and we all know how fickle players are, one minute they are kissing the badge the next they are playing for your rivals.

Had we bid early in the transfer window pretty sure we would have had a decent chance as it would have given Athletico a chance to find a replacement, we never try though we just sit there like lemons.

There's plenty of excuses and you've just put forward another one, big clubs and managers don't make excuses they make things happen, it's the club with small club mentality that do.

[Kano]

Completely disagree I'm afraif, money talks in football if you offer enough a club will sell and we all know how fickle players are, one minute they are kissing the badge the next they are playing for your rivals.

Had we bid early in the transfer window pretty sure we would have had a decent chance as it would have given Athletico a chance to find a replacement, we never try though we just sit there like lemons.

There's plenty of excuses and you've just put forward another one, big clubs and managers don't make excuses they make things happen, it's the club with small club mentality that do.

The quotes are they as a caveat - they had a transfer ban confirmed earlier in January, so they were not going to sell to anyone. Atletico are in competition for La Liga, why would they sanction the sale of their best player mid-season? Not a single club put forward a bid for the guy. Both Falcao and Costa were sold in the summer.

If you had more to offer than cliched statements I'd take you more seriously but you hardly watch football, you are basing all your opinions on this from the internet and it's just another way to showcase your bitterness towards Wenger. This one is a real reach, even by your standards.

[Özim]

The quotes are they as a caveat - they had a transfer ban confirmed earlier in January, so they were not going to sell to anyone. Atletico are in competition for La Liga, why would they sanction the sale of their best player mid-season? Not a single club put forward a bid for the guy. Both Falcao and Costa were sold in the summer.

If you had more to offer than cliched statements I'd take you more seriously but you hardly watch football, you are basing all your opinions on this from the internet and it's just another way to showcase your bitterness towards Wenger. This one is a real reach, even by your standards.

Athletico aren't a big club, they're punching above their wait but it's been shown that if a big club offers enough they sell. Just because it's January that doesn't change a thing, as I said if you don't try you don't get and we don't try.

At the end of the day if a bid comes in and a player wants to leave there's little use trying to keep him, I wouldn't say we have that amount of influence after our decade of failure but we always take a defeatist attitude (just as you've just proved), it's always can't, won't, isn't......winners don't think like that I'm afraid.

Your words are mere speculation, there's no proof they wouldn't sell, it's just an opinion, like I said they sold Martinez and if a transfer ban was such a worry you wouldn't risk that in case there was an injury.

Once upon a time we signed Arshavin in January, I'm sure he was key to his club as well.

[Kano]

I think the transfer ban is pretty conclusive and logical proof.

And I've already told you that Martinez was not a key player. Half his games were from the bench and he hardly scored, so that doesn't hold up at all as an example. Griezmann is their main striker, they aren't going to sell him when you potentially can't find a replacement and blow their chances of the title. Just keep rolling out the cliches, one might come true soon.

[Özim]

I think the transfer ban is pretty conclusive and logical proof.

And I've already told you that Martinez was not a key player. Half his games were from the bench and he hardly scored, so that doesn't hold up at all as an example. Griezmann is their main striker, they aren't going to sell him when you potentially can't find a replacement and blow their chances of the title. Just keep rolling out the cliches, one might come true soon.

Torres is their main striker and had they sold Griezman they could have kept Martinez or signed someone else, I'm sure they could find someone in a month, most clubs can.

[Niall_Quinn]

Can you please stop talking about transfers in an Arsenal transfer thread!? It makes no fucking sense.

[Kano]

Torres is their main striker and had they sold Griezman they could have kept Martinez or signed someone else, I'm sure they could find someone in a month, most clubs can.

You mean Torres, the player who has started more games from the bench this season - they striker that has catipulted them up to second in the table with his fearsome strike rate of two goals so far. The guy they are likely to sell at the end of the season. That guy?

You won't replace somone like Griezman mid-season. Which is why is so rarely happens at this stage. It's lunacy to do so. Look at what happened to Liverpool ever since they grabbed the money over logic.

[Özim]

You mean Torres, the player who has started more games from the bench this season - they striker that has catipulted them up to second in the table with his fearsome strike rate of two goals so far. The guy they are likely to sell at the end of the season. That guy?

You won't replace somone like Griezman mid-season. Which is why is so rarely happens at this stage. It's lunacy to do so. Look at what happened to Liverpool ever since they grabbed the money over logic.

Yes that one, rumours circulating Costa will return to Athletico....so much for a transfer ban. Looks like we should have gone for Giezman after all, now that they've sold martinez tho, no chance

[Kano]

I'll go check out the official statments in The Daily Star right now.

[Özim]

I'll go check out the official statments in The Daily Star right now.

Make sure you do, you may learn something about the world of transfers and making things happen rather than letting them fall on your lap.