Winter Transfer Despair and Bafflement.

[Ernesto]

We lose our best player and somehow Wengers takes the edge off it by signing a Man U flop and claiming it's a good deal.

Frankly fans should be up in arms, the level of stupidity to have got ourselves in this situation is quite amazing, thing is by running down his contract he's basically been able to make people accept that we were losing him and that signing someone in return who hasn't turned up for 2 years is a good deal, we should never have been in this situation, we should be in a scenario where we have 80-90 million in our hands to spend on a replacement.

No excuse for this mess and this Man U reject changes nothing, why he didn't sell him last summer is beyond me, at least we would have had 60 million to play with and would have been able to bring a top class player in return (well, a normal manager with even moderate managerial ability would)

I like how you think that the 60mil would have been used to buy a player. More likely it would have paid Wengers wages for the next 7 years.

So far we've gained about 71mil from selling Cockslade-Chamberlain, wallcock and cockuelin. Could have bid for 2 players, better than all three of those, from those proceeds.

[Penguin]

Yes, about as fair as swapping a shiny Charizard for Pidgeotto.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ox - 40 mill
Theo - 20 mill
Coq - 12 mill
Alexis - 20 mill
IN - 92 mill

Greek kid - 2 mill
Miki - 20 mill
IN - 22 mill

PROFIT = 70 mill so far.

Dortmund want 55 mill for Auba
We bid 45 mill

Why is that, I wonder? Because at 45 mill our transfer profit is 25 mill, just shy of the earnings we could have expected from another CL humiliation. Add in the few quid we earn from the Europa and I guess we have covered the loss of the CL for the year.

So every extra million we have to bid on Auba is cutting into their divine profits and will have an effect on the bottom line. We'll also need to pay Ozil to stay, so that cuts into things even more. An extra chunk will have to go out for Miki's and, possibly, Auba's wages. But Alexis', Theo's and Coq's wages are off the books so this must be close to break-even considering how much we wasted on Theo. They have clawed more of it back from Jack with his pay cut (LOL). And I hear they have cut back in the canteen (I'm not even joking).

2 billionaires, not a penny invested. A quarter of a billion in the bank for unspecified "stuff". That bank balance is always climbing. Highest ticket prices in the world, milking the fans for twice as much as the average gypo pays.

This is a profile of a miser club.

We could easily up that bid for Auba and still be swimming in cash even if we end up posting a loss for the year. But I suspect there's a lot more riding on the balance sheet than football activities.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arsenal better not try to bill me for watching that for the last 20 minutes.

[Penguin]

So Sanchez is gone, no real surprise, Man U get a world class player who can score a lot of goals, real coup for them and will take them up a level as they now have a real matchwinning up front.

Meanwhile we get Mkhitaryan a guy who flopped at Man U

Yay

Wenger said:
"Henrikh is a very complete player. He creates chances, he defends well, he can absorb distances and he's very committed as well. I must say he's a player who has all the attributes. "


He can't defend I don't think (but then Wenger doesn't have a clue about defending so it makes sense he thinks he can defend). Apparently very commited as well, may be so but he's not a player who has any stomach for a fight when the chips are down.

Not too sure what to make of this guy, we'll have to wait and see what he offers, but having seen him at Man U, underwhelmed to say the least.

So when Wenger's thinking of his best attributes all he can think of is that he's committed and he can 'absorb distances'. Absorbing distances...

[Keith]

Sanchez - signs a 4 1/2 year contract?

Hopefully he keeps the levels up or those final two years could be painful for them.

[Gooner23]

Hopefully he doesn't then!

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Lol!

The whole things stinks to me......didn't even get extra cash with the deal in the end! If we don't get Aubameyang It will be an even bigger car crash.

I think had we sold Sanchez in the summer and signed Salah I'd have been gutted though.....so here's to hoping Mkhitarayan is the shit.

[GP]

Lets not forget that Micki tore up the Bundesliga.

I wouldn't pay too much attention to his year at Man U. Mourinho didn't even think Salah and de Bruyne were good enough.

[Marc Overmars]

As long as Aubameyang comes in, then I think it’s fair to say we would have produced a good statement of intent. Signing him changes the complexion of Alexis’ departure completely.

As it stands though, we’ve been done with the swap. Even with all the will in the world I don’t think Mkhi will prove to be half as good as Alexis.