Winter Transfer Ignorance and Dart Throwing.

[Letters]

I'm just waiting for the news that we've recalled Mavropanos 2 weeks after sending him out on loan...

I read that quickly and thought Mavropanos had a sequel.

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Sounds like we’re getting cold feet.

I’m not totally fussed though if I’m honest. I’d rather we just ride out the season and do it properly in the summer.

I reckon it all hinges on whether it's an option to buy or an obligation to buy at the end of the loan - you don't send your technical director out to hold the player's hand on the plane unless you're sure about him and most of the figures are already agreed.

Either way, I don't think it stops us going after another CB signing - can't see Mustafi and Mavropanos surviving the summer, Sokratis and Luiz will both be down to their final years (and I can't see both being offered extensions), Chambers will probably be out until 2021, and Holding is working his way back from a year out.

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I read that quickly and thought Mavropanos had a sequel.

Tbf, if he played for spurs that would definitely be a DVD.

[Marc Overmars]

Eriksen has signed for Inter.

They seem to be signing everyone these days. Doubt they will stop Juve though.

[Özim]

Sounds like we’re getting cold feet.

I’m not totally fussed though if I’m honest. I’d rather we just ride out the season and do it properly in the summer.

Don't hold your breath for the summer, we probably won't have much having spent this summers money last summer (on Pepe and Saliba) and probably with no CL football.

With Kroenke not willing to put his hand in his pocket I expect we'll be going for bargain basement signings and probably will have a bit more of what happened with Mari too.

[Özim]

I reckon it all hinges on whether it's an option to buy or an obligation to buy at the end of the loan - you don't send your technical director out to hold the player's hand on the plane unless you're sure about him and most of the figures are already agreed.

Either way, I don't think it stops us going after another CB signing - can't see Mustafi and Mavropanos surviving the summer, Sokratis and Luiz will both be down to their final years (and I can't see both being offered extensions), Chambers will probably be out until 2021, and Holding is working his way back from a year out.

If it's agreed though, the deal doesn't collapse after you've given him a medical.

Arteta wants to turn around Mustafis career so don't expect him to be leaving. Common sense works, however at Arsenal not so much, we went and spent 72 million on a winger when our defence was the major weakness so just because it's logical it doesn't mean it's going to happen.

If we do get a CB it won't be a top quality one, it'll be the usual cheapish buy.

[Mac76]

Arteta wants to turn around Mustafis career so don't expect him to be leaving.

very depressing - can't he see the guy is a massive bucket of grade A steaming shite???

[Letters]

very depressing - can't he see the guy is a massive bucket of grade A steaming shite???

Don't hold back, will you?

[Mac76]

Don't hold back, will you?

i could have gone further....

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If it's agreed though, the deal doesn't collapse after you've given him a medical.

Arteta wants to turn around Mustafis career so don't expect him to be leaving. Common sense works, however at Arsenal not so much, we went and spent 72 million on a winger when our defence was the major weakness so just because it's logical it doesn't mean it's going to happen.

If we do get a CB it won't be a top quality one, it'll be the usual cheapish buy.

Mustafi is another one who is going to be down to the final year of his contract in the summer. Ignore what's being said - do you see anyone at the club falling over themselves to offer him a new deal? No one wants him here - not really. They'd get rid of him in a cold minute if they could.

I'd take Arteta's words with a massive pinch of salt - he's basically said the same about every player in the squad, a) because he knows he's probably going to be stuck with this same group until the summer, and b) because, quite frankly, getting the best of them is the job he's being paid millions of pounds a year for.