Winter Transfer Window - Cold and Lonely.

[Niall_Quinn]

I do sort of get Wenger's argument that the January window is a waste of time. An organised and purposeful club should have all its business queued up by May, ready to pull the trigger in the summer. Any manager who knows what he's doing should surely know well in advance what type of player they need and should be working even further in advance to get the scouts deployed properly so they have a wide range of options when the manager asks the questions.

Any manager who enters the transfer window and STARTS the process of identifying targets is surely incompetent.

Of course opportunistic targets might emerge, but on the whole this January window should be redundant. Then again, transfer windows are all about money and who gets what and at what percentage. So in that respect two windows makes perfect sense.

[Dicks and chicks]

Diego Costa going to china massive boost to us

[Goonermerree]

I do sort of get Wenger's argument that the January window is a waste of time. An organised and purposeful club should have all its business queued up by May, ready to pull the trigger in the summer. Any manager who knows what he's doing should surely know well in advance what type of player they need and should be working even further in advance to get the scouts deployed properly so they have a wide range of options when the manager asks the questions.

Any manager who enters the transfer window and STARTS the process of identifying targets is surely incompetent.

Of course opportunistic targets might emerge, but on the whole this January window should be redundant. Then again, transfer windows are all about money and who gets what and at what percentage. So in that respect two windows makes perfect sense.

Didn't there used to be transfers all year round? So making just two was a move forward from that. No manager can legislate for injuries, if we'd bought someone last January we would have had a better chance at winning the league. You're not going to get a world class player, but a good one will sometime suffice.

[Özim]

Me. I wanted him here. But it would have been shameful, that's true. The idea was Wenger might knock this silly plan of his on the head and start playing proper football with wingers and strikers and centre forwards and even defenders. It's true, Vardy in the current system would be laughable. That's why he didn't come. I suppose the one decent thing Wenger has done is solve the problem by moving Alexis up front.

Right up until he moved Giroud back there.

Let's be honest here, Vardy has been rubbish for the very club he scored loads for last season, they play the right game for him and yet he's really not scoring any goals. Everything points to a guy who had one good season and will be remembered for that and nothing else, it was always a risk with Leicester players.

What we needed was a top player, who would guarantee goals and Vardy clearly wasn't the answer.

[Niall_Quinn]

Let's be honest here, Vardy has been rubbish for the very club he scored loads for last season, they play the right game for him and yet he's really not scoring any goals. Everything points to a guy who had one good season and will be remembered for that and nothing else, it was always a risk with Leicester players.

What we needed was a top player, who would guarantee goals and Vardy clearly wasn't the answer.

No, Ranieri has changed the system quite dramatically, probably because they lost their real star player Kante. And hoping for a top shelf striker is a waste of time, Wenger would never spend the money. He'll spend 90 mill on second and third tier players, no problem. But the thought of taking that whole 90 and splashing it for somebody like Lewandowski doesn't come into his reckoning, or if it does he manages to keep it a deep secret. We wasted that 90mill because these new players fill holes that Wenger had left in the team, but they don't move us on a level. Vardy would have been no different to a Xhaka, or a Perez and at the time we desperately needed a striker, he was available, cheap and could do a job. That was the whole criteria. No the ideal one but you have to be realistic when it comes to Wenger.

As it is, he moved Alexis up top instead. A good move which he is now undoing for some inexplicable, Wengerish reason. So it could have worked out better for us but Wenger has knocked that on the head too.

[Niall_Quinn]

Didn't there used to be transfers all year round? So making just two was a move forward from that. No manager can legislate for injuries, if we'd bought someone last January we would have had a better chance at winning the league. You're not going to get a world class player, but a good one will sometime suffice.

Transfers all year round worked okay back then but would be a disaster now. If the gypos were locked in a title battle with us going into the last few weeks they'd just buy Ozil and Alexis. Could never work now. And players didn't have the power back then. You can imagine some of the shits requesting a transfer as soon as they got knocked out of a cup or thought they couldn't win a title.

[Goonermerree]

Transfers all year round worked okay back then but would be a disaster now. If the gypos were locked in a title battle with us going into the last few weeks they'd just buy Ozil and Alexis. Could never work now. And players didn't have the power back then. You can imagine some of the shits requesting a transfer as soon as they got knocked out of a cup or thought they couldn't win a title.

No,that's why two set transfer windows were brought in avoid that;

[Özim]

Atletico Madrid could be forced to sell some of the club's top players, including 25-year-old France forward Antoine Griezmann, due to the complex financing they have used to push through their controversial move to their new home for next season.

If this is true this is our chance, a top striker available.

[Niall_Quinn]

If this is true this is our chance, a top striker available.

Greaseman from Crewe Railway Worker's Union FC is available for £5k. Is that who you mean?

[fakeyank]

If this is true this is our chance, a top striker available.

Heard United is interested. Besides I am not interested in seeing him play wide on the wings.

The one person we need from Atletico is Simeone.. thats the person who can significantly change our club, not a player. We need to change our moron of a manager first and the rest will fall into place.