Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[Özim]

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.

Here we go, always an excuse, I completely disagree, we haven't tried hard enough and haven't wanted to enough, as I said every other club manages to land players they need, it doesn't take 4 friggin years to sign a decent striker if you're genuinely after one FFS and no goal shy bambi isn't one of those!!!

If you believe any of the rumours and most of them are just that rumours, then you'll understand that if we are trying to sign players we go in with lowball offers which are never going to succeed and then don't follow up, moreover we never seem to have more than 1 target on our list, what kind of club is this FFS, well we know actually because as it says in the article NQ

Scott Rosner, a sports business professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, divides the sports tycoons into two categories, between ‘win maximisers’ in it for ego or reflected business benefits, and ‘profit maximisers’ in it for the money.

Roman Abramovich and Sheik Mansour would fall into the first group. Kroenke definitely sits in the second category.

Oh and so is the manager btw, football always comes a distant 2nd to money.

[Niall_Quinn]

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.

All our competitors landed their targets, and not all of them are moneybags clubs. Where they haven't bought they've promoted from within. We go for cast-offs and misfits because they are relatively cheap. It's not the availability, enough money will shake anyone loose. It's the will to get the job done and accept the market has moved on since the days we were signing hidden potential comparatively cheaply. Those days are gone, regardless of how desperately Wenger wants it to be otherwise. What has the real cost been since RvC left? One title? Two? For want of a striker who can stick the ball in the net on a regular basis. It's one of the fundamentals of the game, like defending, and Wenger leaves us short. But we know this, it's a situation that has been going on forever, or at least it seems like that. There's no excuse for it either. Gazidis' bullshit doesn't hide the fact we have a pile of loot in the bank and more money than we can handle pouring down from Sky and BT. We can afford to spend, in fact we can't afford not to. But try explaining this to the greedy bastards in charge and the prehistoric manager.

[Özim]

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.

Yeah but it's not for a lack of trying, we're just unlucky, every other club is just unreasonable and we can't compete with the big clubs

[Özim]

All our competitors landed their targets, and not all of them are moneybags clubs. Where they haven't bought they've promoted from within. We go for cast-offs and misfits because they are relatively cheap. It's not the availability, enough money will shake anyone loose. It's the will to get the job done and accept the market has moved on since the days we were signing hidden potential comparatively cheaply. Those days are gone, regardless of how desperately Wenger wants it to be otherwise. What has the real cost been since RvC left? One title? Two? For want of a striker who can stick the ball in the net on a regular basis. It's one of the fundamentals of the game, like defending, and Wenger leaves us short. But we know this, it's a situation that has been going on forever, or at least it seems like that. There's no excuse for it either. Gazidis' bullshit doesn't hide the fact we have a pile of loot in the bank and more money than we can handle pouring down from Sky and BT. We can afford to spend, in fact we can't afford not to. But try explaining this to the greedy bastards in charge and the prehistoric manager.

:goodpost: Absolutely spot on, a few years back we could have signed Suarez or Higuain for a fraction of what they cost now, sadly we were too dum and too greedy to do so, now we have to pay more and if we don't we won't get a decent striker, Arsenal doesn't set the market prices, you either go with it or accept being also rans, I'd say we're more than happy being also rans as long as the money pot remains full to the brim.

If trying is, going in with a lowball offer for one player, an offer than is never going to be accepted in a month of sundays, or going after players who have publicly stated they arent leaving the club or just sitting there and waiting for the waiting period to end and having one target on your trasnfer list, then yes I guess we have tried.

[Özim]

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

That is definitely a fact.

If you look at what happens in the market yes clubs looking for a striker or a specific position generally get one. Once again though you find excuses for things that can't be excused, you need to wake up and smell the coffee tbh, it's long overdue.

[Kano]

Inter president Erick Thohir told Inter Channel: "We're not going to sell Icardi. We've received offers - from Napoli too - but we're not going to sell him. We extended his contract a year ago."

It would take another ridiculous bid to prise him away. Wonder how creative the shit bag writers can get with this one for people to swallow again.

[selassie]

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.

Come on Letters, they are out there, we just don't want to spend the money to acquire them, it's as simple as that. As said by NQ & Ozim, it's not like we've only recently found a need for a new striker, we've been passively trying for about 4 seasons now.

[Ralpheroo72]

Is it the waiting period yet?

[Letters]

Is it the whining period yet?

Always.

Always...

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Come on Letters, they are out there, we just don't want to spend the money to acquire them, it's as simple as that. As said by NQ & Ozim, it's not like we've only recently found a need for a new striker, we've been passively trying for about 4 seasons now.

I'm not convinced they are, and it's not even necessarily about money. Assuming we were prepared to spend 60million on Lewandowski or Aubemeyang.....would they want to join us, or would they want to wait until a bigger club comes calling.