Summer Transfer Misery 2017/18

[Niall_Quinn]

I remember. We never even used to call the post game threads 'match reaction' it was 'player ratings' and we all used to give scores to the players with a brief summary on performances. We'd have way more varied discussions on GW. But it got to the point where we'd see the same players have poor performances or players played out of position and the focus started to go on why the manager kept on picking certain players. The post game thread stopped being about analysing performances and rating players. It morphed into posters venting after a poor performance. Letters and others would always say people are moaning too much and being 'doom and gloom' merchants, kneejerk reactions, etc, but I'd say something as simply as changing the post game thread name to 'match reaction' stopped us all from looking through the teams performance on a whole and picking out the one or two good performances even on a shit day.

But anyway, that's a side note. It's been frustrating to watch this team and I can't understand why Wenger hasn't worked out how to play certain players. I've never understood why he'd never pair Cesc and Rosicky in the middle with a strong DM or Nasri and Cesc with a strong DM in a 4-3-3. If he was looking at how Barca played, we needed a least two technical ball players in the middle of the park to create our version of Xavi and Iniesta. Instead he'd play Nasri or Rosicky on the wing and have two technically limited players behind Cesc such as Denilson, Song, Diaby and Flamini. It has taken him an age to figure out that you need two midfield wizards to play a 3 man midfield the way we want. But then again, he still hasn't worked it out. It's damn shame we had to lose both Cesc and Nasri before ever seeing Rosicky play CM and by then his career was finished. Same goes for finally seeing Cazorla as a CM. He can finally stumble on to a good thing but still not know what sort of player he should buy. He should have gone all out for Kante over Xhaka and should have been looking into Santi's understudy immediately. Instead, he's still trying to play Ramsey as a CM along with Xhaka.

Well I'm not so sure about any of that, tbf. Maybe, maybe not. It's an areas where the divide between fans and professionals ought to be observed. However, at this particular club, I'd give more credence to the views of the fans than that of the manager, because we have so much evidence.

[Power n Glory]

Fuck him and his past achievements. A sellout is a sellout. The only thing I'll countenance in regard to the old, weak fool is it's possible, possible, he thought he was doing the right thing. But many who choose the easiest and most profitable path make the same claim.

Nah. Fuck him.

I hear the anger. On some days I feel the same. It's hard to separate the Wenger of the past from what we're seeing today because it's led us to this.

[Niall_Quinn]

'At the end of the window, reviewing all activity, we have once again improved the depth and quality of the squad,' Gazidis wrote in an email sent to players and staff on Friday via the Daily Star.

'Everything is coloured by results... a positive performance at Liverpool would have coloured this transfer window very differently,' he continued.

'We have had a poor start to the season but have the quality to turn it around and turn around performances and compete for the title'.

Ivan the Lizard.

[Penguin]

"a positive performance at Liverpool would have coloured this transfer window very differently"

Of course it would have

[Gooner23]

Just read about that.

He's either thick and totally out of touch with reality, or (as I suspect) towing the party line as instructed by his superiors Kroenke and Wenger.

Either grow a pair or fuck off you spineless coward.

[Marc Overmars]

Yes, everything is knee-jerk, Ivan.

Cunt.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

This is for Zim when he deigns to reappear on here,

This is why I don't agree with you about making people like Wenger or Gazidis meet fans groups. Read the bullshit both have come out with and the more than understandable reaction to it of people on here. Do you honestly think they'd be any more honest with fans groups?. No it's more spin and more bullshit. We aren't going to get questions answered because principally neither even acknowledge that there was a problem.

Yes it would have been different, but to suggest people would have been happier with our transfer dealings if we hadn't lost at Liverpool is totally disingenuous.

[GP]

Ivan should be killed. Or sent to The Wall.

[Munchies]

Ornstein posted a long post about our Summer

https://twitter.com/bbcsport_david/s...18820073132032

What a load of BS. Club is run by cunts. Belelrin can fuck right off too

[Niall_Quinn]

This is for Zim when he deigns to reappear on here,

This is why I don't agree with you about making people like Wenger or Gazidis meet fans groups. Read the bullshit both have come out with and the more than understandable reaction to it of people on here. Do you honestly think they'd be any more honest with fans groups?. No it's more spin and more bullshit. We aren't going to get questions answered because principally neither even acknowledge that there was a problem.

Yes it would have been different, but to suggest people would have been happier with our transfer dealings if we hadn't lost at Liverpool is totally disingenuous.

It's not the answers that are important, it's the questions and the removal of the media filter that pitches softball questions that lets these liars off the hook.

But anyway, now we know. Ivan has spoken. Wenger's the best manager we could find and the transfer window showed we are ambitious. Great news.