As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
Yeah but if you want to get your business done early, you have to pay top dollar.
We don't have that, we have already spent £77m in this window and brought nothing in as yet, so we cannot do what the like of Chelsea and City do and pay over the odds.
I'm glad the Ramsdale deal has fallen apart, no way is he a £30m+ goalkeeper. Not sure who we go for now (Onana won't come to us when he can have his pick of Europe), but we definitely need something. By the way, easy to be critical on the Martinez sale, but we wouldn't have got Partey without that money and there were no offers for Leno.
Also, why no love for Odegaard? I thought he was good last season, would take him if we can do it for £40m or under. Aouar would also be fine in that position.
He sums up everything about arteta's Arsenal - average and functional but no better than that. Rarely makes an incisive pass and even rarer is he a goal threat, but yet he is supposed to be a boost to our attacking threat ? Plus £40m for what he brings to the team is an absolute piss take - no way is he worth any more than £25m
Imo if you dont want to pay top dollar you get in early and do your business whilst your rivals are focusing on different players
Arsenal will consider a loan move for Houssem Aouar if other targets are missed. Arsenal remain committed to bringing in players on permanent deals rather than temporary ones - with Martin Ødegaard & James Maddison on that list. [The Sun exclusive] #afc https://t.co/cg2g1Yl3UJ
One day before the season starts and as usual, gaping holes all over the squad, the fucking wage-stealers still on the books, no progress at all with any interesting or exciting signings, frantic searches around Europe for bang average loan signings and out of the first three fixtures, we have the European Champions and Premiership Champions in two of them. This has got another insipid defeat to the Chavs and an 8-2 thrashing in Manchester, followed by a 2011 bargain-bin trolley dash on the night of 31st August written all fucking over it. How on fucking earth is this still happening? My fucking God this is disgraceful.
Arsenal have believed throughout this window that their business would essentially be conducted in two phases: there were certain targets who could be secured relatively early in the summer, others that they might need to wait for. [@TheAthleticUK] #afc https://t.co/yNm4SuUHmj
So Arsenal have planned a last minute trolley dash? Good one…
Don’t be surprised. Historically that’s how the market works for most clubs.
The bizarre premature post-mortem of our transfer activity from some on here makes no sense… why did they expect anything else?
The window shuts at the end of august.
But the season starts in mid August, and lets be honest and admit that we havent enough good players right now to see us through until then. City can bide their time buying fat tongue cos in the meantime they have goalscorers in their team anyway, but we cannot say the same when we will probably still have the likes of bellend in our starting 11.
It also should be said that our financial status demands that we need to get our business early cos we cannot afford to get dragged into some last minute auction where we are competing with other clubs
I totally agree that we’re not well equipped for the start of the season but is that a surprise? Historically most signings in Europe happen at the end of the window so, although It’s ridiculous that the transfer deadline is 3 weeks into the season, that’s the reality so we have to accept it.
He definitely improved our attacking when he joined. He is much, much better than Willian (yes I know that is a low bar).
Didn't score 8 goals in 11 games with two assists though did he? Which is exactly what the player he replaced in the squad did at Newcastle.
No, but Newcastle play a different formation and system to us. Can you honestly see him getting those numbers with us? He wouldn't even be a starter if he stays.
Let’s be brutally honest. Arsenal are a joke. When we come knocking the price goes up because we have so much previous for signing crap on massive wages. That goes for clubs and players in equal measures. Any average player wants to come to us because we pay ludicrous wages. Any club that we approach thinks they can charge the earth. God knows how many agents are touting players to us. There is zero strategy. Zero long term plan. We are lurching from disaster to disaster. Meanwhile anyone decent out of the youth side is overlooked because we would rather spunk £50m on crap. Martinelli, Willock, Nelson, Maitland-Niles, Azeez. Better then Elneny, Willian, Mkhitaryan, Kolasinac etc. Our strategy is a joke. We have all the squad players we need but want to ship them out for peanuts. We then want to spunk tens of millions on Chelsea outcasts. Why?? There is no fucking logic to it.
10 years ago or so we bought StatDNA, a data and statistics analyst company.
When Edu came on board he had the brilliant idea of dumping all our scouts and using this company as our sole resource on player assessment.
That my friends is the truth and the results speak for themselves.
LOL wasn't statDNA the reason we signed Elneny?, says it all really, guess it was his 'pass success rate' which swung it, of course 99.5% of those passes were sideways or backwards, but then statDNA was seemingly made on a Pentium II in the late 90's.
I am sick of hearing we can't spend x, we are in this position because those idiot American's who 'run' the club have let things go to sh!t, being 'hands off' is no excuse for incompetence, they need to pay off the dross and move the club forward, or better still sell the f*cking club to someone who cares more than seeing it as a piece of their pathetic portfolio of mediocre sports investments.
He definitely improved our attacking when he joined. He is much, much better than Willian (yes I know that is a low bar).
Didn't score 8 goals in 11 games with two assists though did he? Which is exactly what the player he replaced in the squad did at Newcastle.
No, but Newcastle play a different formation and system to us. Can you honestly see him getting those numbers with us? He wouldn't even be a starter if he stays.
Well, none of that justifies selling him. Obviously, our style is too good to cater for a goalscoring midfielder. Because we have them in abundance.
Well, none of that justifies selling Willock. Obviously, our style is too good to cater for a goalscoring midfielder. Because we have them in abundance.
I must admit selling a Hale End graduate on the back of scoring 8 in 11 for Newcastle doesn’t sit well with me. Partly because our other midfielders simply don’t score goals and… well… I don’t trust Arteta’s judgement so if Arteta thinks selling willock is the right decision then it’s almost certainly the Wrong decision!
#AFC look certain to spend over £100m before the window shuts and still want a new No2 keeper, striker (but that will most likely depend on Alexandre Lacazette going) and creative midfielder but the chances of James Maddison look slim. [@MirrorFootball] https://t.co/KUqItdh0as
