Super Super Quality Transfer Speculation & Shit

[AKBapologist]

For the benefit of the club, we need to get relegated to League 2. This will benefit the club because the board and Wenger will go. As will all the players and a lot of the less serious fans. And the club will go bankrupt. But it will be for the best.

The worse thing that could actually happen to the club would be for us to win a trophy, because that would vindicate the manager and stratergy that true fans know is rubbish and keep a desperate man in the job so that he could further ruin this club.

[Ollie the Optimist]

7 years suggest he does, even before that he was frugal at best. The guy just wants to sign cheap unknowns and turn them into stars, doesn't happen very often these days I must say.

i accept that, and raise you a podolski

[Globalgunner]

My own personal take on our position is that given the relative strength of the squads, 3rd is just above where we should be. Mancity have way the best squad of players, ManU and Chelsea have better players than us overall and we are about the same as the Spuds and Newcastle. So given a set of equal calibre managers. City should be way above ManU with Chelsea abut 10 points behind and any of us Totts and Barcodes in either 4-6 positions. Problem is we have probably the 10th ranked manager in the league IMO.The reason i say that is that I can think of at least 6 managers in the EPL who would have done better than 3rd or at least closer to 2nd pointswise with the squad we have. So you can say the team have out performed themselves. So this begs the question, why do we have such a shitty squad. Why do we have 12-15 players that no one would wish upon their worst enemies. If we had better players in reserve and not have to play crap like Ramsey week in week out we would be so much better off and IF we have a better manger we could actually win things.

To my mind the mangers who have done best are, 1, Anderson Cooper at Newcastle for possibly being 3rd with the 5th best squad, 2 Ferguson for keeping pace with City, a much better squad,. Wenger would have gotten a honourable mention here for being 3rd with the squad we have, but whose fault is it that half our players are crap. Mancini is a duffer for being nose to nose with United having within his position twice the number of quality players and not knowing WTF to do with them. Chelsea are a mess because the players manage the team not the manager, they will be just as woeful next year if drastic changes arent made there.

[Özim]

i accept that, and raise you a podolski

Wow, one player from a smallish club for 10 million, think you need to put something more on the table.

[milla]

Enter another boring transfer window.

[Ollie the Optimist]

so if the players we are rumoured to sign were waiting for third place finish then the next few weeks will be very interesting. we have got everything they want, a good squad, good club and a bright future (i dont care what others say, thats my opinion, we have a very bright future for next season)

[Olivier's xmas twist]

The news is that the signing to be announced after the WBA game is M'vila. Fee £16-18mill.

Dare we dream?

So press confrence When ?

[Young Guns 11]

So press confrence When ?

Err...7pm on [insert correct date]

[Marc Overmars]

Judging by his tweets after the game, it looks like we probably won't be signing Benayoun.

Yossi.

[Niall_Quinn]

Judging by his tweets after the game, it looks like we probably won't be signing Benayoun.

Yossi.

Would be good news if we were signing a replacement. So not such good news then.