Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Think he'd made his peace with it by then and Liverpool had sufficiently muddied the waters.

[Maestro]

The internal solution


Giroud

Ozil Sanchez Carzola

Xhaka Ramsey

Monreal Boss Gabriel Bellerin

Cech


......assuming no signing of significance is made, I think that should be our starting line up. But as usual injuries, tactical and selection buffoonery mean it can't happen

[Munchies]

Arsène Wenger discussed transfers at his press conference at the Stubhub Center on Saturday.

on transfer approach…
I buy players that I feel can strengthen our team. Today you have to be very strong inside the club when you are responsible, not just to buy [for the sake of buying]. There’s always a wave of opinions. I must say people are better informed today - they know all the players. They tell you always that you should buy but when you ask them who to buy, they become much shorter. If you look at the market in Europe, there’s a lot of money available but not many players who really strengthen the teams. If you look at the teams that spend the most money in Europe, they’re not necessarily the teams that won the championships. The global investment of the clubs around us didn’t stop Leicester winning the championship.

on transfers…
We are still on the market for players. [Be it] at the front or at the back - we are on the market. Unfortunately we are not alone.

on Mahrez and Lacazette…
The best way to conclude transfers is not to talk about them, which is very difficult in the press conference! We are on the market but I don’t want to talk specifically about any player because that makes it more difficult for me - and it’s difficult enough.

on if he expects to sign defender before the season starts…
Yes I do.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...2jKTPvc9bM7.99

[Munchies]

The Mirror are linking us with Johnny Evans now

Could actually see it happening!

[Özim]

He really isn't.

A journeyman striker who's only kind of come good recently right in the tail of his career, who's league goal record isn't any better than Giroud's and who couldn't even get ahead of Giroud and Gignac in the French squad for the Euros.

Completely off the mark,much better finisher than Giroud and just franly Deschamps is clueless so it's no surprise he didn't pick him, had he they might have won the Euros, the fact he picked Giroud and Gignac tells you all you need to know.

[Niall_Quinn]

Which doesn't really sound like a buyout clause at all. Kind of thing you include in a letter of intent rather than a formal contract so is it any wonder Liverpool mugged us off. I'd have been pretty unhappy with my agent in his shoes.

It doesn't matter if the clause was valid or not, the real issue was our £1 nonsense. It showed we were opportunity shopping and bargain hunting rather than going full guns for the player we needed and still need. Forget the clause, bang £50mill on the table, we're serious! Instead, here is our coupon, can we have your player please? No? Merd! And extra 10 or even 20 mill could have been recouped in no time, just by using the extra firepower to advance further in the CL, for example. Our cheapskate, value for money bullshit ends up costing us in the end. We're stupid arse savers in an inflation ridden market - now how dumb is that?

[Özim]

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...2jKTPvc9bM7.99

Here we go again the BS excuses, the biggest embarassment in football today.

[Özim]

Really interested to know if you actually believe this?

Wenger get's a lot of stick for missing out on Suarez/Higuain but I actually don't think you can blame him or the club.

We had an offer accepted for Higuain and then we thought Suarez was available. We met his release clause (supposedly it was disrespectful but that's rubbish) and the bid was rejected. Liverpool called our bluff that we wouldn't push it and take them through legal proceedings. As someone has already mentioned Suarez wasn't that bothered about coming to us so he didn't push it either. Had he really wanted to come to us, I think the deal would have been done. The real issue is that we lost out on Higuain in the meantime as Napoli took their chance while we were concentrating on Suarez.

Yes I do, Wenger takes plenty of blame, he controls most things at the club and he is as has been proven over the years not willing to pay the market rate.

You don't think bidding £1 over 40 million was disrespectful and didn't p*ss Liverpool off, in the end it did and they refused to sell and good on them to be honest, if you're going to be petty and cheap you deserve all you get, I've never seen any other club make such a nonsense bid, it's just us that embarrass ourselves with the low ball and ridiculous offers.

If we did things properly in the transfer market we wouldn't have so many issues at the club.

[Letters]

Here we go again the BS excuses, the biggest embarassment in football today.

It's just completely Pavlovian with you, isn't it? Literally knee-jerk.

[Letters]

You hardly ever chime in for any other debate unless NQ and Zim have said something about Wenger. You're not helping.

That is fair comment. There is a responsibility on all of us if we want to make this place better and yes, new posters would help although it's telling that on occasions when new people join they don't hang around long.