Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[Niall_Quinn]

"On the whole transfer market, very little is happening"

TF is the man on about bruh?!

The club most likely to nick our 4th place trophy has signed Pogba, Mikki and Zlatan, plus a few others here and there.

But that's all!

[Letters]

Huh? It's a small article and the majority of the quotes in it are him talking about having to be cautious because of the wealth of English clubs. I paraphrased the headline yes but I didn't have to look for anything.

Are we even talking about the same thing? The link you posted was this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37115355

The headline is "Arsene Wenger: Arsenal 'ready' to spend money in transfer market"
The quotes from Wenger in the article are:

"I can reassure people we're ready to spend the money we have. It's important to spend money but more important to spend it the right way. There are two markets, one for English clubs, one for the rest of Europe."
"[Ramsey] should be back after the international break".
"It is dangerous. English clubs suffocate themselves by buying players at a high price with high wages, if it goes wrong you are left with players with high wages, the identity of the buyer multiplies transfers by two or three or even 10 times more."


And from that you got he's moaning about tax?

[Niall_Quinn]

It's just weird tabloid press stuff.
I don't understand why some people act like he's an ex who dumped them in a callous way and now want to pick at anything and everything he says, even if they agree with it
It's just bizarre, irrational behaviour and it doesn't add anything to debate.

Because it would be nice, after a hard week, to enjoy a football match on the weekend and have a bit of interest in the outcome. That's about it. No demand for trophies, no demand for hundred mill players, just some nice football and the an interest in proceedings throughout the season. Without the foreknowledge of inevitable collapses and embarrassing Euro campaigns. Without the frustration of consistently seeing a squad with gaping holes in it and knowing that squad might deliver the football and interest the typical fan wants to see, if only those gaps were plugged.

And there's one man who stands in the way of all that and deliberately does everything in his power to deliver the opposite of what the fans demand. And not only that, blames the fucking fans when he gets called out for his bullshit.

Is it really any wonder many fans are sick of the guy and just want him to GTFO? And sure, they'll say as much. Totally understandable.

[Power n Glory]

It's not funny, it's sad. The guy just talks total shit these days. And everything he says is a pre-excuse for the failure he fucking well knows is ahead. Invariably. The guy's a joke. As an economics professor, theologian, philosopher, fine - but as a football manager he's nowhere, just a sad comedy figure shitting out his bullshit excuses. Always everybody else's fault, always some crappy reason why he can't and won't do his fucking job.

You have to laugh at him. It's crazy. I don't know where the lack of pride and motivation comes from. I mean, Mourinho calls Wenger a specialist in failure, we end up play Jose's Chelsea for Wenger's 1000th game and he ends losing 6-0. Where is his pride? How do you end losing by such a wide margin, his heaviest defeat at the hands of Mourinho under such conditions? I don't get it.

[Power n Glory]

Neither the draft or the wage cap stops you from investing totally in the team. Plus let's be honest, even if attendance was at maximum would it have stopped someone like Kroenke moving the franchise back to LA anyway?

Do you follow American Football and actually know what you're talking about or just being defensive?

[Marc Overmars]

Are we even talking about the same thing? The link you posted was this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37115355

The headline is "Arsene Wenger: Arsenal 'ready' to spend money in transfer market"
The quotes from Wenger in the article are:

"I can reassure people we're ready to spend the money we have. It's important to spend money but more important to spend it the right way. There are two markets, one for English clubs, one for the rest of Europe."
"[Ramsey] should be back after the international break".
"It is dangerous. English clubs suffocate themselves by buying players at a high price with high wages, if it goes wrong you are left with players with high wages, the identity of the buyer multiplies transfers by two or three or even 10 times more."


And from that you got he's moaning about tax?

Yeah, he said the same thing about English clubs having to spend more last week too. They are excuses.

[Niall_Quinn]

£8m bastard!

#8mill a year for 10 years of failure is, in fact, a scandal. I don't know why some people scoff when this man's ill-gotten reward is mentioned. Every time, mention how expensive this flop is and the usual suspects leap in. For sure, other incompetent fools at other clubs are robbing the fans too. But we're concerned about our club and our manager and as far as I can see and according to the record books this guy is well and truly fucking overpaid - by about £8mill I'd estimate.

[Letters]

Yeah, he said the same thing about English clubs having to spend more last week too. They are excuses.

OK, so we are talking about the same thing.

So you think

"WUMger bemoans the English tax imposed on PL clubs."

us a 'paraphrase' of the headline:

"Arsene Wenger: Arsenal 'ready' to spend money in transfer market".

OK...

[Özim]

You have to laugh at him. It's crazy. I don't know where the lack of pride and motivation comes from. I mean, Mourinho calls Wenger a specialist in failure, we end up play Jose's Chelsea for Wenger's 1000th game and he ends losing 6-0. Where is his pride? How do you end losing by such a wide margin, his heaviest defeat at the hands of Mourinho under such conditions? I don't get it.

He has no pride and that result was a real humilation for him, honestly getting hammered 6-0 in your 1000th game by a man who has been slating you in the press, doesn't get worse than that.

Worst part about it is, Mourinho was spot on the guy is a specialist in failure, his comment about being able to play kids with no pressure on him to deliver success was also correct, other managers at big clubs have pressure on them to succeed but not the specialist in failure.

[Özim]

Yeah, he said the same thing about English clubs having to spend more last week too. They are excuses.

Spot on, it's laughable he comes out wit this BS about being ready to spend, he's spouting nonsense though, he's had all summer and last summer to spend and he's not done it, all he does is make excuses, some of them totally made up, like the fact there's no movement in the market when every club has been signing players all summer.

You'll still find people trying to defend his ridiculous words though, there is no defence frankly.