As I said, I agree with you to a certain extent that Wenger tranfer policy is frustrating. I accept he should have dealt with our obvious problems sooner rather than later, but if those two, do come eventually, it will be after the second match of the season, without proper pre-season training with the team.augie wrote:DanielD wrote:I too, am critical of Wenger's transfer policy, but after he finally brings in a CB (past his prime? he's 30, for his position it's the right age), I clap and hope he turns into a Vermaelan, rather than Cygan.
If Schwarzer does come too, Wenger will improve our chances greatly to do something better this season. I think it's probably the best you could hope for, in terms of transfers. Leaving City aside, I think Arsenal made the most out of this transfer window.
Seriously ??We have let more players leave than we have brought in and in an already too small squad surely it leaves us further in the mire than ever ?
To break down your point in more specific detail can we look at the goalkeepers situation - here we have a position where wenger all but came out publicly during the summer and admit his dissatisfaction with his current options. He has had over 3 months now to sort it out yet we are going into the 2nd weekend of the season with the same options as we had last seasonIf he was waiting to see how the keepers scenario unfolded at man shitty and we ended up signing shay given or joe hart then I could have understood it but if, as is expected, we end up signing schwarzer then it is unbelievable that it would take so long to buy a player that we first made an offer for some months ago
Secondly, and every bit as crucially, where has this supposed transfer kitty gone ?Everybody (even the akb) has agreed that he has about 30m to spend this summer but yet we have only bought kos for 10m (dont include chamakh cos he was a bosman and I am sure his wages would be offset by the wages of those departures like gallas) so again I ask where has this money gone ? To say that he has made the most of this transfer window suggests that he has used the funds at his disposal to strengthen where needed and that clearly is not the case
But, I'm upset with people slagging off these two players before they got a game for Arsenal, and even worst, before they actually signed for us.
) populating the english game so the game was, and I dont mean to be harsh here, a little bit more primitive than it is now. Back that a physical/dirty defender or four was applauded and expected even but nowadays there is more of a balance between finesse and physicality and like it or not we do not have any physicality.....anywhere on the pitch much less defense 
