SUMMER TRANSFERS - Your thoughts on who did and did not sign

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Red Gunner wrote:From today's game:

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I wonder if that's Calo?! :shock: :o :lol:

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Red Gunner wrote:From today's game:

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When did we sign Dean Gaffney????????

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afcforever wrote:
SteveO 35 wrote:Suarez isn't coming
Rooney isn't coming
Rooney is 8)
I think he already has :shock:

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Nice disguise :lol:



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Seat of the pants management. Fucking hell, making it up as he goes along. :roll:

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I see we are now being quoted £25m for one season wonder Michu, £20m+ for overrated Bender etc

Here comes our worst fears come true......the senile old fruitcake wasting the money that we've supposedly taken years to acquire in a one week PANIC PANIC PANIC session

Honestly I'd rather finish 12th and see the back of this old fart and get in someone capable of building a 10 year team like Klopp

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French lower leagues will be bracing themselves for the transfer assault from Wenger with his Tesco club card. :barscarf:

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green gooner wrote:French lower leagues will be bracing themselves for the transfer assault from Wenger with his Tesco club card. :barscarf:
If it was possible to buy shares in St Etienne or Lille I'd go ahead now and fill my boots because the price would have trebled by the end of the month when M.Clueless fills their coffers

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SteveO 35 wrote:I see we are now being quoted £25m for one season wonder Michu, £20m+ for overrated Bender etc

Here comes our worst fears come true......the senile old fruitcake wasting the money that we've supposedly taken years to acquire in a one week PANIC PANIC PANIC session

Honestly I'd rather finish 12th and see the back of this old fart and get in someone capable of building a 10 year team like Klopp
Agreed... Why give the delusional geriatric old :censored: a chance to spend the fabled warchest, he'd only waste it on more third rate injury prone wasters!

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Brady's left peg wrote:
SteveO 35 wrote:I see we are now being quoted £25m for one season wonder Michu, £20m+ for overrated Bender etc

Here comes our worst fears come true......the senile old fruitcake wasting the money that we've supposedly taken years to acquire in a one week PANIC PANIC PANIC session

Honestly I'd rather finish 12th and see the back of this old fart and get in someone capable of building a 10 year team like Klopp
Agreed... Why give the delusional geriatric old :censored: a chance to spend the fabled warchest, he'd only waste it on more third rate injury prone wasters!
We had the chance to sign a number of top class strikers - one of which is still an option. If we bid £50m for Suarez they'd sell. Rooney was never coming - he wants to join Chelsea, Higuain would have joined in a heartbeat and Jovetic could have been secured from 1st June as we did with Podolski before other clubs got their new managers in place

Now we are fishing around in the Category B signings bucket, everyone knows we are desperate and someone like Swansea will see us coming from a mile away with full pockets and demand big prices for players like Michu and Williams.

All of this is 100% the fault of the manager and the board. This business should all have been wrapped up ahead of the Asia tour and these players should be fit and raring to go in Arsenal colours now.

That is my problem with Wenger, he makes the same mistakes. I was prepared to forgive the break up of the 2004 team because I felt he was genuinely building a team to rival it in 2008 but he then allowed that team to disintegrate and replaced top players with overrated kids

Now he is repeating the same mistakes of 2 years ago where he will do all of his transfer business when we are already nine points off the league leaders and desperate to sign whoever is available late in the day at inflated prices. He never ever learns. As soon as 4th place is secured he removes all of the mistakes from his memory as its mission accomplished

We have 2 fit centre halves right now. the TV5 injury has been known for weeks. The fact that we have more games than any other team in August has been known since we beat Newcastle. Now The New Tony Adams is suspended. Wenger has had weeks to sort this out.

Gibbs is now injured. TV5 out for weeks as above, Santos long since gone and recently Miquel loaned out. Not a single fit left footed defender at the start of the season at one of the world's richest clubs. One man responsible = Wenger.

The man is embarrassing himself and the club. Tonight we are the laughing stock of the PL.

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SteveO 35 wrote:
Brady's left peg wrote:
SteveO 35 wrote:I see we are now being quoted £25m for one season wonder Michu, £20m+ for overrated Bender etc

Here comes our worst fears come true......the senile old fruitcake wasting the money that we've supposedly taken years to acquire in a one week PANIC PANIC PANIC session

Honestly I'd rather finish 12th and see the back of this old fart and get in someone capable of building a 10 year team like Klopp
Agreed... Why give the delusional geriatric old :censored: a chance to spend the fabled warchest, he'd only waste it on more third rate injury prone wasters!
We had the chance to sign a number of top class strikers - one of which is still an option. If we bid £50m for Suarez they'd sell. Rooney was never coming - he wants to join Chelsea, Higuain would have joined in a heartbeat and Jovetic could have been secured from 1st June as we did with Podolski before other clubs got their new managers in place

Now we are fishing around in the Category B signings bucket, everyone knows we are desperate and someone like Swansea will see us coming from a mile away with full pockets and demand big prices for players like Michu and Williams.

All of this is 100% the fault of the manager and the board. This business should all have been wrapped up ahead of the Asia tour and these players should be fit and raring to go in Arsenal colours now.

That is my problem with Wenger, he makes the same mistakes. I was prepared to forgive the break up of the 2004 team because I felt he was genuinely building a team to rival it in 2008 but he then allowed that team to disintegrate and replaced top players with overrated kids

Now he is repeating the same mistakes of 2 years ago where he will do all of his transfer business when we are already nine points off the league leaders and desperate to sign whoever is available late in the day at inflated prices. He never ever learns. As soon as 4th place is secured he removes all of the mistakes from his memory as its mission accomplished

We have 2 fit centre halves right now. the TV5 injury has been known for weeks. The fact that we have more games than any other team in August has been known since we beat Newcastle. Now The New Tony Adams is suspended. Wenger has had weeks to sort this out.

Gibbs is now injured. TV5 out for weeks as above, Santos long since gone and recently Miquel loaned out. Not a single fit left footed defender at the start of the season at one of the world's richest clubs. One man responsible = Wenger.

The man is embarrassing himself and the club. Tonight we are the laughing stock of the PL.
He doesn't care... his own ego will always get in the way. I honestly believe he is getting early onset dementia or Alzheimers, the decisions he makes go against common sense some of them are downright ridiculous, there can be no other reason than Wenger losing his marbles.
I was stood a few rows away from the villa fans today and those :censored: rubbing our noses in it fucking hurt, we even had our own fans turning on each other and fighting amongst themselves. :box:
Thanks Wenger for doing fuck all this summer, could someone please tell me how he justifies a seven million quid salary. :evil:

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Have to admit, I'm rather dismayed by the stories linking us with a £20m+ move for Michu :? :?

Is he better than Higuain?? - that's surely the barometer here, because he's the player we decided we didn't want to sign even though he was within budget and wanted to join.

Signing a worse player is unacceptable, surely? :?

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g88ner wrote:Have to admit, I'm rather dismayed by the stories linking us with a £20m+ move for Michu :? :?

Is he better than Higuain?? - that's surely the barometer here, because he's the player we decided we didn't want to sign even though he was within budget and wanted to join.

Signing a worse player is unacceptable, surely? :?
It's trolley dash time because the dithering old :censored: has fucked up yet another transfer window, players should of been sourced back in June or July but because of Wengers constant procrastinating all of the top class players available have found new clubs.
I remember very well the AKB's constantly banging on about patience... well this is what patience gets you when Wenger is involved! :banghead: :banghead:

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g88ner wrote:Have to admit, I'm rather dismayed by the stories linking us with a £20m+ move for Michu :? :?

Is he better than Higuain?? - that's surely the barometer here, because he's the player we decided we didn't want to sign even though he was within budget and wanted to join.

Signing a worse player is unacceptable, surely? :?
It's desperation. He wanted Higuain but then thought he'd get Suarez so stalled, Higuain wanted to come to us and delayed joining Napoli until it became apparent we had pulled out of the deal (for whatever reason).

Now he can't get Suarez he's apparently turning to Michu, a player who was available for peanuts not so long ago. If our extensive scouting team had bothered to look at unfashionable Rayo we could have had him for £2m. Now Swansea and everyone else knows we're desperate any player we try to sign will have mysteriously increased in value.

Yep, waiting until the fag end of the market to do a trolley dash makes perfect sense.

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