ALL Transfer talk - merged thread

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Why as a club do we insist on hiring very obviously under qualified people for roles that demand experience.
Cheapest option? :rubchin:

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TeeCee wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:02 pm
Why as a club do we insist on hiring very obviously under qualified people for roles that demand experience.
Cheapest option? :rubchin:
Nah, legohead costs a fortune

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After today's game I can well and truly be confident that nobody is coming !!

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SteveO 35 wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2025 7:35 pm
After today's game I can well and truly be confident that nobody is coming !!

:barscarf:
Followed by Havertz picking up a 'knock' in the tin cup game, which turns out to be a season ending injury.

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sk-gtfo wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2025 9:06 pm
SteveO 35 wrote:
Sun Feb 02, 2025 7:35 pm
After today's game I can well and truly be confident that nobody is coming !!

:barscarf:
Followed by Havertz picking up a 'knock' in the tin cup game, which turns out to be a season ending injury.

To be honest, were that to happen, then playing any of Martinelli, Trossard or even Nwaneri through the middle would be an upgrade. I'm sure they're every bit as capable of heading wide from 3 yds, scuffing shots from 6 yards, or missing virtual open goals from 12 yards. Oh and mis-hitting 5 yard passes to teammates. I feel sorry for the poor bastard and I know he scored today, but he really is fucking awful and needs replacing.

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The 3 most important people in my life today are Porn-stein, Romano and McD, I’ll be waiting with bated breath for every one of their shit posts 8)

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Can we bid for Remy, Draxler or Higuain for old times sake :lol:

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BFG4 wrote:
Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:28 am
Can we bid for Remy, Draxler or Higuain for old times sake :lol:
I think we've used up all our funds with a late bid for Yann m'Vila mate, so no luck this time!

The internal market is still open for Tomiyasu and White though

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BFG4 wrote:
Mon Feb 03, 2025 9:28 am
Can we bid for Remy, Draxler or Higuain for old times sake :lol:
Just need to get Frank De Boer, Patrick Kluivert and Tony Cottee sorted first.

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rodders999 wrote:
Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:31 am
The 3 most important people in my life today are Porn-stein, Romano and McD, I’ll be waiting with bated breath for every one of their shit posts 8)


I'm afraid there will be no incomings today,not a hint of a rumour on twitter

I suggest locking it down till the summer transfer window .

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Utter negligence.

Utterly baffling

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the playing mantis wrote:
Mon Feb 03, 2025 11:20 am
Utter negligence.

Utterly baffling
Not really baffling when we don’t have a Director of Football to actually make the purchases for us. I said all the way along there was no way we were signing anyone this window, as we are going to spend in the summer

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Ayto has been biggest up by the manager

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Considering the strong rumors are that Edu left because Arteta was given more power as part of his new contract, a stand-in guy is not going to be able to do fuck all. Décisions are probably made by a combination of Arteta and Josh.
No chance we're getting a striker because Arteta only wants Sesko so he'll wait until summer, but then Chelsea will offer 20m more and we'll be scrambling for some unknown pubber, you know it's going to happen! :roll:

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There is such an extreme level of laziness about how we approach transfers. In over 5 years at the club, Artetas search for a striker led him to get Jesus from City(any google search of his goal scoring record could tell how that would go) and in place of looking for a striker a few years ago, he instead kept Nketiah and gave him 100K a week :shock:
His bright idea this month was to bid for Watkins knowing he had no chance of ever signing him.
When the season is over, we'll have missed out on the title again by a few points and it will be down to having a manager who will continuously leave us a few players short of success. Yesterday was brilliant but it papers over the cracks in the sense that when we meet a team who defend properly and are compact, we tend to look clueless because we don't have an option up front :o

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