Winter Transfer Despair and Bafflement.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

There's a very stark comparison to be made with Arsenal.

Liverpool and Utd and Soton and the spuds and other clubs are spotting talent and nurturing 50mill, 75mill, 100mill and bigger sell-ons to the really insane market in Spain where the lunacy is quite normal. Ultimately the Spanish taxpayers and Spanish TV audience will pay this latest transfer fee.

At Arsenal we used to spot talent and sell it on for comparatively crazy fees. We don't do it any more and even when the opportunity presents itself to limit the damage and temporarily bridge the opening gap, Wenger fucks it up. It was a 60 mill bid for Alexis is the summer, that's the only reason we could bid 90 mill for Lemar. Somebody else's money plus our usual 30 mill on top. The 60 mill portion became irrelevant because the money was only passing through - if we hadn't fucked it up.

We can blame Kroenke for being a tight wanker - but the reality is Wenger is an absolute dinosaur who is incapable of getting into sync with the modern market. The poor fool is still looking for value when value has no relevance whatsoever to the fees being paid today and how they are structured.

The point of what I said is that is very difficult to make any comment about anything in football without the first response being "what about Arsenal". I don't get it, do I have to put a disclaimer in my posts every time I want to offer a comment on another club?

Don't know what you mean about the Spanish market being the really crazy one though.

[Niall_Quinn]

This Zaha nonsense is starting to gather steam. If that's going to be the limit of our ambition then we'll be continuing the trend of heading backwards. Why it would even be suggested we need another Theo Walcott is a complete mystery.

[Özim]

What a rubbish replacement he would be, be just like Wenger to replace him with someone sub standard, the guy hates to spend decent money on proven players. Give me Mahrez (or anyone else who is decent like Draxler) over this guy any day of the week, at least the latter scores goals.

[Cripps]

I like Zaha but he should be Walcott's replacement, not Sanchez'. He'd be f*cking mad to come here though, if he had a brain cell he'd go to Spurs and play under Pochetinno.

I can see us going for Mahrez to replace Alexis and I'm not sure how I feel about that. He's good on his day but he seems a bit hot and cold. He is very direct though which I like and something we need, to breakaway from the general tippy happy shite our squad has in its DNA.

I would prefer Draxler but Mahrez wouldn't be too bad I suppose.

[AFC Leveller]

I would love Mahrez, provided we kept Ozil though. If we lost both Ozil and Alexis then Mahrez alone wouldn't be enough.

Mahrez is a goal scorer, creator and PL experienced, he ticks all te boxes for us and we could do a lot worse.

[Cripps]

BREAKING: Schalke’s Leon Goretzka will sign a pre-contract with Bayern Munich ahead of a free transfer next summer, reports @SPORTBILD https://t.co/MHhiLgTZrz

[Niall_Quinn]

BREAKING: Schalke’s Leon Goretzka will sign a pre-contract with Bayern Munich ahead of a free transfer next summer, reports @SPORTBILD https://t.co/MHhiLgTZrz

He should be our main January target then.

[selassie]

I don't want us to make any big/any purchases until Wenger is gone, I don't trust him and don't think we will recover from the mess he will make of it, he's botched up the squad as it is over the past few years. It will take us a few years to clean up the mess regardless of who is in charge. If no signings until Wenger is gone means we slip into Mid Table and lose half of the team then so be it.

It's absolutely over for us until Wenger has gone...we are just sliding backwards now and the least amount of damage he does the better it will be for the Football club, he should be barred from making any purchases until he's gone.

[Ralpheroo72]

Exactly how I feel about it all

I don't want us to make any big/any purchases until Wenger is gone, I don't trust him and don't think we will recover from the mess he will make of it, he's botched up the squad as it is over the past few years. It will take us a few years to clean up the mess regardless of who is in charge. If no signings until Wenger is gone means we slip into Mid Table and lose half of the team then so be it.

It's absolutely over for us until Wenger has gone...we are just sliding backwards now and the least amount of damage he does the better it will be for the Football club, he should be barred from making any purchases until he's gone.

[Niall_Quinn]

Don't let Wenger know - he'll always do the opposite of what the fans want.