Summer Transfers 2025 Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

@ regarding Madueke......

Its a Saturday Morning, the kids wake me up that they want to have cereal but we've run out of milk. I dress up, dash to the local corner shop and find out they've also run out of it and its the same all over due to some temporary disruption (IDK....the local cows observing Sabbath ) though the owner says to me they'll get some tomorrow.

I'm pretty upset, as I am now contemplating driving to the Asda superstore 10 mins away, but as I leave the store I notice a slight discount on Pepsi and it hits me that we've only got like 3 bottles left at home.

I take the deal, head home triumphantly and the kids and the wife look bemused at the silly grin on my face. I let them know we'll get the milk tomorrow when the shop has some in stock as I can't be bothered to drive and waste petrol (it is expensive you know).

I wonder if they think I'm the best dad in the world, I mean it is Pepsi, it was available , you know you can never have enough of it

Chelsea didn't necessarily need to buy Joao Pedro before the CWC, they did however, went the extra mile and thanks a lot to his contribution, they won the trophy. Definitely half of his transfer fee has already been justified and paid within a week or so of signing him, these are the kind of people that you give props to.

[HCZ_Reborn]

@ regarding Madueke......

Its a Saturday Morning, the kids wake me up that they want to have cereal but we've run out of milk. I dress up, dash to the local corner shop and find out they've also run out of it and its the same all over due to some temporary disruption (IDK....the local cows observing Sabbath ) though the owner says to me they'll get some tomorrow.

I'm pretty upset, as I am now contemplating driving to the Asda superstore 10 mins away, but as I leave the store I notice a slight discount on Pepsi and it hits me that we've only got like 3 bottles left at home.

I take the deal, head home triumphantly and the kids and the wife look bemused at the silly grin on my face. I let them know we'll get the milk tomorrow when the shop has some in stock as I can't be bothered to drive and waste petrol (it is expensive you know).

I wonder if they think I'm the best dad in the world, I mean it is Pepsi, it was available , you know you can never have enough of it

How long did you spend typing all that out?

So that analogy (I think that’s what it was, it could be a recollection of when you once went shopping on lack of sleep or a hangover) might work if we don’t end up buying a striker.

Your analogy at the moment is more, I went to the shop to buy toilet paper, I did also need toothpaste and dishwasher tablets but because I was caught short without toilet paper a while back I got angry with myself for even considering buying toothpaste and dishwasher tablets without first having bought and paid for the loo roll

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

https://www.givemesport.com/arsenal-...d-of-gyokeres/

It was a joke but apparently the rumours have started

[Marc Overmars]

https://www.givemesport.com/arsenal-...d-of-gyokeres/

It was a joke but apparently the rumours have started

Let’s face it, it’s perfectly within the realms of possibility that any average Chelsea player would be available to us if we wanted them.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Let’s face it, it’s perfectly within the realms of possibility that any average Chelsea player would be available to us if we wanted them.

I want to say just because it’s conceivable doesn’t mean it’s likely but I did that with Madueke.

Madueke is one thing, but needing a striker and coming up with Nicholas Jackson because it’s easier to shop at Chelsea, yes I think would raise the question. What the fuck are we doing.

Edit - Fabrizio Romano try as he might is no Ornstein and never will be, but last five minutes he’s spoken about progress being made in the Gyokeres deal. I think Sporting are under pressure because of bringing in his replacement, they call it hard ball I call it playing at silly buggers

[Mac76]

Let’s face it, it’s perfectly within the realms of possibility that any average Chelsea player would be available to us if we wanted them.

...and that we would be dumb enough to buy them

[Mac76]

Amongst all the hype and speculation, some interesting facts from a transfer story i saw - Gyokeres is much more reliable injury-wise than Isak, no surprise given he's built like a tank


Season Games missed
Alexander Isak (2023/24) 12
Viktor Gyokeres (2023/24) 0
Alexander Isak (2024/25) 9
Viktor Gyokeres (2024/25) 3

[Mac76]

How long did you spend typing all that out?

more hypocrisy from someone who floods the board with really long TLDR posts - this relaunch of yours as Mr Normal really is a joke

[HCZ_Reborn]

more hypocrisy from someone who floods the board with really long TLDR posts - this relaunch of yours as Mr Normal really is a joke

See this is why I have you on ignore. I actually have the honesty to admit I don’t like you (or to be specific do not like the person you come across as on here), you pretend to be above the fray and yet these kind of snarky little comments come from you all the time….kind of betray the opposite. And don’t pretend it’s just in response to my own snark, you constantly do it.

Yes I write lots of long posts (which you and the person to which I was replying to are only too quick to point out). But I think we can safely say that I’m not the only person to write long and convoluted points.

I’m not mr normal I’m not mr sensible, but on certain things I’d prefer to approach them from a rational stand point rather than just rage and make up things (because your opinion that Arteta is trying to engineer the collapse of the Gyokeres transfer is certainly no less absurd than my claims about him based on the Amazon documentary)

[Mac76]

And don’t pretend it’s just in response to my own snark, you constantly do it.

No, it's just now and again, but there are times when you're just so blindingly contradictory it's hard to not just simply point it out

it undermines everything else you say

Yes I write lots of long posts

so why have a go at someone else for doing the same thing?