You say that, but (if you're sad enough) check out the transfer thread leading up to Sept 1st 2013. I did just now (augie wrote:safcftm wrote:Never know, you might just be waiting for the right deal to come off. If you could get someone like Benzema I reckon you'd be challenging for the title even if it was your only major signing, might just be a case of waiting until later in the windowBFG4 wrote:I haven't posted on here in a while, but again we see the crazy logic of Wenger. We sign a quality Gk, but ignore the need for a world class striker. Wenger will be able to convince the AKB'S that Giroud is the next pele, but anyone with logic knows he is an average player, who shouldn't be at the club. Considering city and United are both spending big, we will back at home in 4th by the end of the season.
He who hesitates is lost
To be fair, who can he be waiting on ? Quality players do not stay on the shelf for long and everyone can see that the chavs and citeeh are now upping their transfer market urgency and manure are already way ahead of us in their summer dealings, so what are we waiting for ? There are very few top quality strikers and DM's that are gettable in world football and we should be FAR more aggressive in the transfer market than we are - please don't believe all the bullshit about what we might be doing behind the scenes because I don't know any transfer in England that happens without some public talk of it happening.
) because I seemed to remember very little being said about Ozil before his whirlwind signing.And it's true, there's the odd mention but nothing more until a couple of days before he signed. In fact, 4 days before we signed Ozil you said people were beyond help if they thought we'd sign anyone of note
And SteveO did his usual thing of saying "Ozil isn't coming" and I'd written that Id given up hope of us signing anyone.
Point is, we don't know and we won't know until the window shuts. And if we didn't know 4 days before the end of the window, then how can we possibly predict it 5-6 weeks earlier?
Also, you say quality players don't stay on the shelf for long - I agree! (
) but it's worth qualifying that by adding that those players go on the shelf at different times in the window. Ozil, Bale and Di Maria signed very late in the window, and I'm sure there's endless more examples.
That said, most of the top players that come to mind did sign early in transfer windows
so you still have a point
Personally I would think splashing £15m on a striker like greedybarndoor would make more sense - both have questionable attitudes but at least greedy has proven that he can do it (if the mood suits him) at the top level, and at half the cost would make a more sensible gamble imo
