Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[Bergkampwonderland10]

I have a really hard time believing that it takes up a lot of resources to sign the likes of Asano and Holding to the extent of it affecting other major transfers we may want to do. We're a big club, with scouts and staff around the world. We can probably deal with three or four transfers at the same time if we really wanted to (see last minute trolley dash in 2011).

The reason we haven't signed striker is not because we've been focusing our efforts on Asano and Holding but more that since Vardy, Wenger hasn't found anyone else that he really wants.

It might also have something to do with clubs being unwilling to sell and quoting 78million for someone like Higuain.
I'd love it if we gazumped Mourinho in a signing... Let's say Pogba

[Bergkampwonderland10]

In all seriousness, Janssen and Wanyama would have been excellent additions to our squad and at bargain prices too. Not sure how Spurs got Wanyama for 11million?

[Xhaka Can’t]

Quarta ad honerem in infinitum.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

It might also have something to do with clubs being unwilling to sell and quoting 78million for someone like Higuain.
I'd love it if we gazumped Mourinho in a signing... Let's say Pogba

I wouldn't. 100 million is actually a big deal for us and spending that in one transfer would compromise our efforts elsewhere ....... and anyway, with Xhaka in now I'm not sure we could really use him.

If we're going to start operating as recklessly and flagrantly as Man Utd and City, we might as well blow the big bucks on Higuain who at least fulfils a long term problem area for us. Though as said, it's a completely ludicrous price for a soon to be 29 year old.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

In all seriousness, Janssen and Wanyama would have been excellent additions to our squad and at bargain prices too. Not sure how Spurs got Wanyama for 11million?

Wanyama publicly wanted out for ages plus I don't think he's that good either. Reminds me of Tiote, physically imposing but without the necessary technical skills to fit a top team that's inevitably going to dominate the ball.

Janssen yeah seems like it was worth a punt considering there's nowt much else available out there. I'd be livid if he turns into the next Van Nistelrooy at Spurs.

[selassie]

Toxic but as always Wenger gets away with it, a fair few fans decided to stand by the guy despite it clear he can't cut it. We all knew what was going to happen let's face it, so it doesn't come as a surprise, or it shouldn't at least. Somehow you hope it might be different even if you don't really believe it will be.

IMO Wenger is ruining this once great club and undoing all the work he did in the the early days, it's starting to become hard to remember what it was like when we were really good as it has been such a long time now.

Yep I agree Zim, to be fair the majority on here seem to have given up on him, me included. Still plenty of "Wengerites" at the stadium though, they seem to blindly back him no matter what.

Oh he's most definitely undoing all that good work. It's a shame really, we all know what he is capable of but he seems hell bent on doing things the "hard" way or what he would describe as "the right way". We've handicapped ourselves as a football club by placing self-imposed restrictions, it's all very boring and tedious.

[Toronto Gooner]

I'd be livid if he turns into the next Van Nistelrooy at Spurs.

At the same time, he could be another Ryan Babel or Alfonso Alves.

[Özim]

It might also have something to do with clubs being unwilling to sell and quoting 78million for someone like Higuain.
I'd love it if we gazumped Mourinho in a signing... Let's say Pogba

At the end of the day if you want a player you pay the going rate, there's no a hugely lucrative tv deal in place, we can afford it, other clubs pay it, if we're a big club as we claim we are we should be willing to as well. Besides the right signing bring much more money back in in terms of merchadising, marketing and success.

[selassie]

Also, people forget that we dedicated a huge chunk of years to investing in youth. It was our Plan A strategy for a while and we haven't produced the goods. Looking at other clubs that mix experience with youth and don't seems as focused in that area, it seems like we're really coming up short. It explains why we've had to change our youth academy coaches. It's been a failure.

Massively when you look at our noisy neighbours down the road, they built a team that challenged for the title last season largely based on youth.

The difference with their recruitment of youth seems to be that they buy specific players for specific roles. None of this shunting players all over the place to give them experience.

Poch has really shown up Wenger with Youth and our flawed youth recruitment policy. Our policy consists no more of taking random punts on youngsters hoping they come good, "hoping" is the key word here.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

At the same time, he could be another Ryan Babel or Alfonso Alves.

True and that's why you have scouts.

But it's not like they've been wrong in the past or that we've missed out on other top quality players from the Dutch League either (Suarez etc). The advantage with Janseen is that he was relatively cheap compared to most of the other strikers we've been linked to (Morata, Icardi, Lukaku, Lacazette etc) and I don't think he's necessarily any worse if at all then them.