Quote Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner View Post
he did line benzema up but he said he wnated to stay at real like hazard too he was coming then changed his mind as reports in france say. Lille did not want to lose their best too players.

end of the days Aw's mind was on Cesc which was a mistake but then should not Gazidas who's job it was to get players in being doing that why did he not.
Sorry but that's simply not true, these were just rumours....Lille said categorically Hazard was untransferable so he was never coming, Benzema we couldn't afford, didn't bid for and were only weakly linked with.

We all knew Cesc and Nasri were going (though Wenger wanted to keep hold of the latter and lost 20 million which made no sense), thing is though we could have done our business much earlier. Gazidiz (Wenger's puppet) basically said Wenger was right about the "waiting period", what a crock a sh*t if we wanted players we could have bid for them, we didn't and were too cheap for the quality ones in the end so ended up with panic buys (it seems some of it was wasted money that we could have used to sign players that could make a difference and be around for a few years).

Gazidis has been awful frankly, the guy seems to sit on his arse, pick up his paycheck and repeat Wenger's words like a broken record, in that long interview recently he sounded just like Wenger with a different accent and slightly better grasp of English, he's a marketing muppet tbh.