The ''no one is coming'' Transfer Thread

[Redarmy]

Hope the club sees sense and takes Arteta on in some coaching role. Although his legs went a couple years ago he's always been a classy professional. Don't think you've ever seen him acting a fool at 3am in some nightclub or getting into fights.

City fans are already happy about poaching another one of our ex players.

Might be a decent coach technically some day but he hasn't done any badges or anything.

To be honest the bloke hardly screams "winner" and although I admire his professionalism he is one of Wenger's favourites and his presence in the squad the past two years has underlined our soft-centres approach to building a squad.

Seems like a nice guy but don't understand the clamour to keep him on personally.

It would have been ideal if he was playing for us earlier in his career as I believe he is ideal captain material. You can tell he was well respected by the players and staff. Should've retired two years ago but don't blame him necessarily for that.

Might not have achieved much in his career but as was mentioned, he is wanted by Pep for a good reason. What better person to add to your coaching staff than a rivals ex captain.

Decent fella it seems....he said himself he was not good enough for Arsenal first team.....

[Redarmy]

Here we go again another fucking 3 months of torture in the transfer market....Xhaka this one will drag on until another club comes in and hijacks it

Arsenal have offered 43 million euros for the 23-year-old, while the Germans are holding out for 45 million euros.

What is that Wengers fucking problem?????? offered under a million for a Bolton CB FFS

[Poldi]

DON'T sign Xhaka, not for 43 million, not for 4,3. Just don't. Not fit to wear that shirt. not by a mile. Arrogant pr*ck, easily picks up yellow and red cards, totally invisible in important games (worse than what critics in Germany claim to be the case for Özil)

[MrT]

DON'T sign Xhaka, not for 43 million, not for 4,3. Just don't. Not fit to wear that shirt. not by a mile. Arrogant pr*ck, easily picks up yellow and red cards, totally invisible in important games (worse than what critics in Germany claim to be the case for Özil)

He's exactly what people have been crying out for. Am arrogant tough c*nt with solid technical ability. He is highly rated for a good reason and only 23.

[Kvltman]

DON'T sign Xhaka, not for 43 million, not for 4,3. Just don't. Not fit to wear that shirt. not by a mile. Arrogant pr*ck, easily picks up yellow and red cards, totally invisible in important games (worse than what critics in Germany claim to be the case for Özil)

If the bolded parts are true he will fit right in with some of our lot!

[northbank123]

Haven't seen the bloke so can't comment on him specifically but people would have levelled the same accusations at Pogba.

[Midz]

Lots of stories in various media about Arsenal almost signing or agreeing personal terms for this player and then the other day on SSN they run a story saying that Wenger rubbishes any rumours about us signing him.

It sure is gonna be a torturous few months ahead.

[StuartL]

Lots of stories in various media about Arsenal almost signing or agreeing personal terms for this player and then the other day on SSN they run a story saying that Wenger rubbishes any rumours about us signing him.

It sure is gonna be a torturous few months ahead.

Wenker never (well hardly ever) talks about a signing before it is sealed (he leaves that for the I nearly signed him comments a year or two later)

[Henry Norris 1913]

i'm sure the metro and mirror will be bastions of truth this summer regarding transfer rumours. we'll be hearing how xhaka has already purchased a house in london in june, he'll have signed for dortmund in july

[Poldi]

DON'T sign Xhaka, not for 43 million, not for 4,3. Just don't. Not fit to wear that shirt. not by a mile. Arrogant pr*ck, easily picks up yellow and red cards, totally invisible in important games (worse than what critics in Germany claim to be the case for Özil)

He's exactly what people have been crying out for. Am arrogant tough c*nt with solid technical ability. He is highly rated for a good reason and only 23.

Okay, I'm a bit biased towards him, because he's playing for Cologne's arch rivals Gladbach, but so did Reus, who I highly rate.

[Poldi]

DON'T sign Xhaka, not for 43 million, not for 4,3. Just don't. Not fit to wear that shirt. not by a mile. Arrogant pr*ck, easily picks up yellow and red cards, totally invisible in important games (worse than what critics in Germany claim to be the case for Özil)

He's exactly what people have been crying out for. Am arrogant tough c*nt with solid technical ability. He is highly rated for a good reason and only 23.

Okay, I'm a bit biased towards him, because he's playing for Cologne's arch rivals Gladbach, but so did Reus, who I highly rate.

[GranadaJoe]

Here we go again another fucking 3 months of torture in the transfer market....Xhaka this one will drag on until another club comes in and hijacks it

Arsenal have offered 43 million euros for the 23-year-old, while the Germans are holding out for 45 million euros.

What is that Wengers fucking problem?????? offered under a million for a Bolton CB FFS

Supposedly he's got a 19.7mil buyout clause that comes into effect next season. It makes sense to negotiate, but the brinkmanship on both sides is scary, because we never seem very good at it.

[rodders999]

We're gonna smash our transfer record going for Morata from Juve according to the evening standard. Get those ST renewal forms in folks he's gonna spend BIG

[GoonerMuzz]

We're gonna smash our transfer record going for Morata from Juve according to the evening standard. Get those ST renewal forms in folks he's gonna spend BIG

[Wilson]

If Wenger is so concerned about money. Why did he renew Arteta's contract last season at 80k a week? We paid 4m a year to a player who was a glorified assistant manager. Thats all I heard about Arteta, was the support and guidance he offered. No one could justify his position at the club as a player, so he was jutsified in other ways. By the way, the actual assistant manager Steve Bould, earns 5k a week. Wasnt just Arteta, Rosicky also penned an extension in 2015 - at a rate of 85k a week.

So we paid out 8m in salaries for two non-essential players the club did not need. Yet Wenger is supposedly caught up on a 7m euro valuation difference on Khaka, which is less than the salaries he freely gave Arteta and Rosicky without second thought.

Why count the pennies on a piece of business that could add real contribution to the success of the team, yet not count the pennies when dealing with players who really wont make any contribution?

I have always said Wenger is negligent with allocating our resources. He overspends on players we dont need, yet under invests in players we do need. His socialist wage bill was one of the biggest dog sh.. policies eve invented. He thought if you pay the players as close to parity as possible, it would foster collective responsibility and team harmony. When really, when he paid Bendtner, Almunia, Squallaci, as close as he could to the likes of Nasri, Cesc and RVP. It made it harder to keep the later form the clutches of other teams who would offer high wages, whilst we couldnt get rid of the former three, because they didnt want to leave thier salary.

He is horrible at dealing with the business/football combination. His judgement of players is poor (sells players for stupidly low fees compared to what other clubs get). Fundamentally undervalues players like Suarez, both the value he could offer to the teams capacity to win, and failed to see that his value of 50m could become 70m+ in only one year.

I know people hold Wenger up as economic expert. But, I take the opposite view. I think he knows Jack shit about football economics. Like his ability as a manager, his expertise on economics is rooted in delusion. He is such an ignorant man - to portray himself as an expert on matters he knows nothing about.