Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[Özim]

I tend to think most clubs actually speak to the player's agent first, sound out interest....agree in principle on personal terms and then approach the club. It's massively underhand but that's modern football.

Is that not considered tapping up though?

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Is that not considered tapping up though?

Why yes....yes it is

[Özim]

Why yes....yes it is

Risky game then, always thought they clamped down on tapping up if they caught you out.

[Marc Overmars]

I tend to think most clubs actually speak to the player's agent first, sound out interest....agree in principle on personal terms and then approach the club. It's massively underhand but that's modern football.

Player power.

Kind of admire Liverpool for their stance on Suarez, even though we were the ones who missed out.

[Özim]

Player power.

Kind of admire Liverpool for their stance on Suarez, even though we were the ones who missed out.

Had to be us didn't it, every other club manages to get their player and we somehow manage not to, I agree though but in the end we just didn't want to pay the money, he's now worth 3 times that amount.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Player power.

Kind of admire Liverpool for their stance on Suarez, even though we were the ones who missed out.

When it comes to release fee clauses it's one of those few times where we actually engage with the club before the player. I am fairly sure we never spoke to Suarez or his representatives. Although the £40m and 1 pound bid was an embarassment, it was largely irrelevant in that had we bid 50million we still wouldn't have got him.....i don't think Suarez ever wanted to come to Arsenal, he joined Barcelona a year later that was the move he was holding out for (and in all honesty who can blame the horrible cannibalistic racist)

Same with Vardy clause, we met the minimum release fee in his contract before establishing whether Vardy wanted to join us or not.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Risky game then, always thought they clamped down on tapping up if they caught you out.

Well probably not going to be as brazen about it as Chelsea were over Ashley Cole

[Letters]

every other club manages to get their player and we somehow manage not to

Yes. Every other club always manages to get their transfer targets.
We never do.

That is definitely a fact.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's a fact when it comes to the striker we've needed for 4 years, going on 5. It will be hard to believe if we go into another season without solving that problem.

[Letters]

We got Giroud
And Welbeck.

Hmm
The level of striker who would really improve us doesn't grow on trees but I agree it's a problem, one we've not solved. Not for the want of trying but we've not landed any of our big targets in that area and it'll cost us again if we don't sort that out.