Summer Transfers 2025 Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[KSE Comedy Club]

The Zubimendi deal was agreed upon in January, near as I can make out. Sociedad want to wait until July to conclude it for reasons of accountancy.

If transfer sagas drag out…I can’t say I really care as long as the squad looks like one that can compete come August 31st/September 1st.

The main frustration last summer and January was that we clearly needed a striker and didn’t buy one.

And as of yet.... we still haven't.

Not only are we deciding between Sesko or Gyokores but now today's rumors are we are looking at Barcola from PSG and Watkins again.

That would suggest the dithering is back and the thing with Watkins is, we didn't buy him in January as he wasn't our main target so if we are indeed looking at him again, then why didn't we just buy him when we were so desperately in need ffs

[HCZ_Reborn]

And as of yet.... we still haven't.

Not only are we deciding between Sesko or Gyokores but now today's rumors are we are looking at Barcola from PSG and Watkins again.

That would suggest the dithering is back and the thing with Watkins is, we didn't buy him in January as he wasn't our main target so if we are indeed looking at him again, then why didn't we just buy him when we so desperately in need ffs

Or it could suggest newspapers are simply generating stories or are in hoc with agents to put a clients name out there to generate interest

[KSE Comedy Club]

Or it could suggest newspapers are simply generating stories or are in hoc with agents to put a clients name out there to generate interest

Well yes there is that - or we could actually be looking at them.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Well yes there is that - or we could actually be looking at them.

We could but even if so given Barcola is a winger, that doesn’t suggest necessarily dithering over a Striker

[HCZ_Reborn]

Listen it feels to me like your passing everything through the most negative filter and not completely unfairly, the last two windows were a gigantic shit fest. It’s not that I trust the club to do what it needs to do, it’s just for me too early to be doom mungering over what we haven’t yet done….if you want to get in early and say I told you so a month or so down the line, you go for it. But ultimately I find that “expect the worst and you won’t be disappointed” generally never works like that, so if you require validation, there are others on here to do that better than I can.

If the club doesn’t set its transfer timetable to the whims of pensive fans then I’m not going to get too upset by that. I don’t need the instant gratification of a signing, I more want to know that a player has been signed that will improve us and if that takes time and haggling so be it.

The only choice we are really left with as fans is to give the club and the manager enough rope to hang themselves, the last time I got so wound up when something wasn’t happening was when Abdulbaset Al-Megrahi was released to go home to Libya on compassionate grounds (a lot more compassion than was shown to the poor bastards on that Pan-Am flight or on the ground in Lockerbie). He was expected to die within three months and the bastard went on living for three years. So every month I posted in frustration that he was still alive.

[Letters]

The main frustration last summer and January was that we clearly needed a striker and didn’t buy one.

it was interesting that Arteta also expressed some frustration about that which tells me it's not his fault, or certainly not entirely on him.

[HCZ_Reborn]

On the subject of people that are still alive, and makes me angry. Sidney Cooke….what keeps that rancid fucker going. At the age of 98, does he will himself to keep going in the hope of getting out so he can start abusing children again.

Would there really be an inquiry if a prison officer “accidentally” pushed the evil old cunt down a stair well

[HCZ_Reborn]

it was interesting that Arteta also expressed some frustration about that which tells me it's not his fault, or certainly not entirely on him.

Or he could be deflecting blame from himself?

He’s been given plenty of money to spend one way or the other and in 11 transfer windows, he’s continuously neglected to strengthen us in attacking areas. So he’s not singularly responsible, but neither is he free from responsibility

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

AW thinks we should sign Isak.

I think I can safely assume that Arteta will never go for him as long as he breathes seeing whom the recommendation is coming from.

Though it is a bit funny to see AW reinventing himself from a penny pincher to a realist when it comes to obtaining quality. Took him a while, but he got there.

BTW as much as I love the idea of Isak, I repeat I'd rather use the money needed to complete the deal to get 2 strikers. He's a great player, but not a god.

https://goonernews.com/blog/arsenal-...lexander-isak/

[HCZ_Reborn]

Is there enmity from Arteta towards Wenger that I’m unaware of?

Let’s be fair, Wenger was only frugal when he had to be. Last five years of his time he spent a fair bit of money (about 375 million odd)