The 2015 Transfer Rumours Thread

[Gunner Rob]

Christ, how on earth does Wenger think your current squad will challenge Chelsea and City for the title? Is he that deluded?

The thing is, he's had a perfect chance to go and strengthen Arsenal and then kick on towards a title and maybe do something in the CL, now that Fergie has gone, Mourinho is having 3rd season syndrome etc.

City fans are pissing their pants - everyone around them are shite, and I include us (Man Utd) in that as well.

Because unlike every other top manager in world football Wenger is not under pressure to win a title.Finish 4th pick up £8.5m in wages.As Mourinho said a Specialist In Failure.

But the fans who turn up every other week and keep quiet when we have no ambition must take a lot of the blame.They are just playing Kroenke's and Wenger's gameI started my boycott 6 years ago.I watch games on tv at my local bozzer knowning Wenger and Kroenke are not getting any of my money

I have said for a while that the season ticket holders are actually Wenger's greatest supporters - they are the ones that have kept him in a job. if enough people like yourself had boycotted the stadium a couple of years ago then Wenger would not have got a new contract and he would not be here today. I have gradually stopped going myself, partly due to my match going friends also deciding that enough was enough. the few times I attended last season was dismal, the atmosphere is now non existent. it is over priced rubbish leading to nothing

[Redarmy]

Christ, how on earth does Wenger think your current squad will challenge Chelsea and City for the title? Is he that deluded?

The thing is, he's had a perfect chance to go and strengthen Arsenal and then kick on towards a title and maybe do something in the CL, now that Fergie has gone, Mourinho is having 3rd season syndrome etc.

City fans are pissing their pants - everyone around them are shite, and I include us (Man Utd) in that as well.

There is a large number of Gooners who do firmly believe the rumour that le cock is on a bonus for making a transfer profit - the number of fans believing that is increasing with every transfer window

And where is the substance to back up such a claim, besides somebody said....

[Redarmy]

Clearest indication that no striker was ever coming was Clueless giving a bang on average Giroud a payrise of £130k per week and headless chicken Walnut £140k per week.

Absolutely criminal how this guy has no reservation in wasting money on proper shit and average players.

Just think on Walcotts wages, after 7 weeks he has pocketed over a million, the lad has done well for himself.....whos laughing

[Gunner Rob]

the only rumours that I can see on twitter is that there is to be a protest at the Emirates at 7pm tonight

protests are coming

[Goonuz71]

Any protest will be One Man and His Dog !

.......Where's Natalie ?.......

Even the Scum have signed 5 players compared to our 1

[DB10GOONER]

Have we signed anyone yet?

[swimmer1]

Gutted there was no arsenal quiz on Twitter I wonder why ?

[arseofacrow]

Just need to get this off of my chest. I'll go back to watching from afar and never posting when I'm done.

Perhaps I'm deluded and perhaps this is just the same as it has been for years, but this feels a bit like a watershed moment. I think people who suffer from addiction call it a "moment of clarity."

See, I've watched The Arsenal when we were shit. Proper shit. I can live with us being shit. I can even live with us not signing anyone and showing no ambition. I can live with fourth place and I can live with going out of the Champions League at the last 16 stage every fucking year. It's annoying, but I've chosen to support a team who play a game. That's the thing with games - sometimes they go your way and sometimes they don't.

What makes this all impossible to take is the ticket prices. As I'm sure you all know, our stadium move was supposed to propel us into the stratosphere of European football enabling us to compete with the upper echelons. Sure, we've got a bigger stadium and our ticket prices are eye-wateringly high, but it's all for the good of the team. Right?

I won't bore you with how it all turned out because you all know the story. I suppose I should be thankful because, since I moved out to the States five years ago, not being able to attend The Arsenal has been a bitter pill to swallow, but the longer and longer this shit goes on for, the less and less sore I feel about it. If I were still living in Enfield I'd like to think I would have stopped going by now as a form of protest but I probably wouldn't. At least this way around I have no choice in the matter.

Yes, I'm geographically detached from it now, but it still annoys me. My dad, uncle and brother still go. They're still paying the highest prices in the country (I think I read the highest prices in Europe somewhere) - which would be fine if our board and manager had ambitions lofty enough to match the ticket prices. But they don't, and they won't.

Thankfully due to the globalization of football, most Arsenal fans these days don't give a fuck about the ticket prices, because it makes no difference to them. We have one of the biggest followings in Asia, don't you know? We've got 6.25 million followers on Twitter, so who gives a shit what a few thousand people who attend matches think? The beauty of having a global fanbase is that the fans who actually attend games and pay for tickets are a HUGE minority. Therefore their views and opinions will always be drowned out. No one in a senior position at the club will be held accountable for the fleecing of the fans and the whole thing will carry on ad infinitum. Though I want him gone, a different manager will not change the course of this train, chums.

To be clear: I am not simply whining about the lack of signings. I don't mind us signing no one. But do we really need to be charged an arm and a leg to watch this bullshit unfurl each year? Do we need to pay the highest ticket prices in the country/Europe in order to always be two or three players short?

Please accept my sincerest apologies for my ramblings. You may all now return to talking about that girl on Sky's tits

I feel in much the same way, Tony. Not as far away as you but am pretty much completely apathetic to going back to watch any games.

I don't demand signings, nor that we win the league. Growing up I didn't even believe we were in the same competition as Liverpool. I do ask that we do our best and if that the club is charging Harrods prices, that it acts accordingly. Investment where required.

I don't demand an injection of oil money but don't want billionaires taking money out of the club.

And the manager has to change and realise where he's going wrong, or he has be told by someone and we move on.

I hate that I feel so distant (in every respect) to what once felt my local club.

[SteveO 35]

Sky Sports laughing at us along with the rest of Europe - the only team in Europe's top five leagues not to have signed an outfield player in this transfer window

Three hours until the Gator arrives.....

TO1AW

[Arsenal Till I Die]

Just throwing it out there.....Berbatov is on a free.

[nut flush gooner]

Just throwing it out there.....Berbatov is on a free.

Guaranteed the lazy fucker weighs 20 stone now. No thanks.

[REB]

wish it was 6pm so to lock this fucker down

[OneBardGooner]

Have we signed anyone yet?

What he said.

[defleppardisking]

We are about to set a new record of signing one player and no outfield player. Wenger and his boys must be thrilled about that.

[OneBardGooner]

Just need to get this off of my chest. I'll go back to watching from afar and never posting when I'm done.

Perhaps I'm deluded and perhaps this is just the same as it has been for years, but this feels a bit like a watershed moment. I think people who suffer from addiction call it a "moment of clarity."

See, I've watched The Arsenal when we were shit. Proper shit. I can live with us being shit. I can even live with us not signing anyone and showing no ambition. I can live with fourth place and I can live with going out of the Champions League at the last 16 stage every fucking year. It's annoying, but I've chosen to support a team who play a game. That's the thing with games - sometimes they go your way and sometimes they don't.

What makes this all impossible to take is the ticket prices. As I'm sure you all know, our stadium move was supposed to propel us into the stratosphere of European football enabling us to compete with the upper echelons. Sure, we've got a bigger stadium and our ticket prices are eye-wateringly high, but it's all for the good of the team. Right?

I won't bore you with how it all turned out because you all know the story. I suppose I should be thankful because, since I moved out to the States five years ago, not being able to attend The Arsenal has been a bitter pill to swallow, but the longer and longer this shit goes on for, the less and less sore I feel about it. If I were still living in Enfield I'd like to think I would have stopped going by now as a form of protest but I probably wouldn't. At least this way around I have no choice in the matter.

Yes, I'm geographically detached from it now, but it still annoys me. My dad, uncle and brother still go. They're still paying the highest prices in the country (I think I read the highest prices in Europe somewhere) - which would be fine if our board and manager had ambitions lofty enough to match the ticket prices. But they don't, and they won't.

Thankfully due to the globalization of football, most Arsenal fans these days don't give a fuck about the ticket prices, because it makes no difference to them. We have one of the biggest followings in Asia, don't you know? We've got 6.25 million followers on Twitter, so who gives a shit what a few thousand people who attend matches think? The beauty of having a global fanbase is that the fans who actually attend games and pay for tickets are a HUGE minority. Therefore their views and opinions will always be drowned out. No one in a senior position at the club will be held accountable for the fleecing of the fans and the whole thing will carry on ad infinitum. Though I want him gone, a different manager will not change the course of this train, chums.

To be clear: I am not simply whining about the lack of signings. I don't mind us signing no one. But do we really need to be charged an arm and a leg to watch this bullshit unfurl each year? Do we need to pay the highest ticket prices in the country/Europe in order to always be two or three players short?

Please accept my sincerest apologies for my ramblings. You may all now return to talking about that girl on Sky's tits

Well articulate mate. Thing is as much as I wish I could just walk away from it - I can't The Arsenal have always been a part of my life...and always will be...And as much as my head knows it is no longer a 'Sport' but a Business...My heart just can't let go.