The ''no one is coming'' Transfer Thread

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Re: Is it time for a Summer Transfer Window Thread Yet?

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officepest wrote:
Nos89 wrote:Ham is still ham whether you buy it from Lidl or Harrods. There's no guarantee ham from Harrods is better than ham from Lidl. You're just paying extra for the brand name. City bought Fernando for £30m a Brazilian midfielder, we paid £7m for an Egyptian... There's little to no difference in quality.
‘fess up: you stole that from Aristotle, didn’t you? :lol: :wink:

You caught me...adapted from the words of Aristotle Onassis...

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Nos89 wrote:
Sean wrote:Guys, you're being sucked into a pointless debate. TOF won't sign what we need. We know this.

The Ozil and Sanchez deals have proved to be an aberration. He's still shopping at Lidl when we should be shopping at Harrods.

I see we're linked to a few more no-marks from Europe. Who fucking cares anymore? Nothing will change while TOF continues to stink the place out.

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Ham is still ham whether you buy it from Lidl or Harrods. There's no guarantee ham from Harrods is better than ham from Lidl. You're just paying extra for the brand name. City bought Fernando for £30m a Brazilian midfielder, we paid £7m for an Egyptian... There's little to no difference in quality.
Price tag is no guarantee of quality but plucking an extreme exampl and then coming up with phrases like that is the fundamental reason we have been held back this last decade as it is what our transfer policy has been based on.

Bet your bottom dollar that Wenger this summer will respond to questions about the fans' desire to see us spend big with comments like "Last season you tell me I should have signed Mahrez and Payet. If I had signed them you would have told me that they were not good signings because they did not cost a lot of money."

And there is a world of difference between chucking silly money at unproven players like Fernando, Paulinho etc. There will always be big name flops but just looking at strikers in the last few years the ones that have come with big reputations like Costa, Aguero and van Persie have won titles for their new clubs.

It's not price tag that breeds success, it is signing proven quality and the price tag is just a necessary by-product of that.

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Nos89 wrote:
officepest wrote:
Nos89 wrote:Ham is still ham whether you buy it from Lidl or Harrods. There's no guarantee ham from Harrods is better than ham from Lidl. You're just paying extra for the brand name. City bought Fernando for £30m a Brazilian midfielder, we paid £7m for an Egyptian... There's little to no difference in quality.
‘fess up: you stole that from Aristotle, didn’t you? :lol: :wink:

You caught me...adapted from the words of Aristotle Onassis...
:shock: What the knuckle dragger who used to be married to Jacquiline (Ex Presidents missus!)?


:wink:

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I really hope that Wenger (if he doesn't fuck off) does nothing as usual in the upcoming transfer market and leaves the funds to our next manager,Simeone, for the 17/18 season

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OneBardGooner wrote:
Nos89 wrote:
officepest wrote:
Nos89 wrote:Ham is still ham whether you buy it from Lidl or Harrods. There's no guarantee ham from Harrods is better than ham from Lidl. You're just paying extra for the brand name. City bought Fernando for £30m a Brazilian midfielder, we paid £7m for an Egyptian... There's little to no difference in quality.
‘fess up: you stole that from Aristotle, didn’t you? :lol: :wink:

You caught me...adapted from the words of Aristotle Onassis...
:shock: What the knuckle dragger who used to be married to Jacquiline (Ex Presidents missus!)?


:wink:
Yes, well a woman is a woman whether she's the widow of an American president or a wobbler from Benefits street. There's no guarantee etc, etc, etc.....

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Whoooosh! :roll:

Never mind...Never Mind. :?

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Arsenal duo Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 22, and Kieran Gibbs, 26, are reluctant to leave the Gunners this summer despite their lack of first-team football.(Evening Standard)

Yeah I bet they fucking are. Who else would give them endless contract renewals beyond their wildest dreams whilst spending almost the whole team on the treatment table or subs bench.

Arsene doesn't buy millionaires.....he makes them

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Arsenal could sign Inter Milan's 23-year-old Croatian midfielder Marcelo Brozovic, on long-term loan at the Italian club from Dinamo Zagreb, for £15m in the summer transfer window.(Tuttosport via Metro)

Errr....who? Perhaps the words "long term loan" are what naturally links him to us

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Arsene doesn't buy millionaires.....he makes them

I'm going to use this !

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SteveO 35 wrote:Arsenal duo Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 22, and Kieran Gibbs, 26, are reluctant to leave the Gunners this summer despite their lack of first-team football.(Evening Standard)

Yeah I bet they fucking are. Who else would give them endless contract renewals beyond their wildest dreams whilst spending almost the whole team on the treatment table or subs bench.

Arsene doesn't buy millionaires.....he makes them
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Ash-e-ley Williams is coming :barscarf:

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Robin_L wrote:Ash-e-ley Williams is coming :barscarf:
Footballers and their spit-roasts, eh?

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Robin_L wrote:Ash-e-ley Williams is coming :barscarf:
Fuck it and let's have him. His still better than Frankenstein look a like monster teeth Gabriel.

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To be linked with Carrick is a joke and might just be the nail in the coffin of my interest in AFC.

I do however like the look of Granit Xhaka. 6'1", an international for 5 years and Bundesliga experience.

Plus, anyone called Granite Chucker should be welcomed to the club, hopefully to be joined by Barry Bonecrusher and Pierrie Dontfuckwithme.

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GranadaJoe wrote:To be linked with Carrick is a joke and might just be the nail in the coffin of my interest in AFC.

I do however like the look of Granit Xhaka. 6'1", an international for 5 years and Bundesliga experience.

Plus, anyone called Granite Chucker should be welcomed to the club, hopefully to be joined by Barry Bonecrusher and Pierrie Dontfuckwithme.
Pierre dontfuckwithme has been scouted by Arsene 327 times but he's reluctant to pay €5m for him as he's inconsistent.

Bonecrusher has been ruled out as he would "kill" Walcott.

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