Bit early to predict anything yet. But if we haven't heard anything solid about flights for medicals, serious links etc by January 25 we'll know it's at best a couple of patchwork / musical chairs signings.

He just never lets on to what he really thinks on the transfer front

I'm not liking any of the rumours at the moment other than the mbiwa ones which arent convincing enough. we need jenks to get injured

Squad is thread bare and isn't balanced in a million years. There's no way Wenger believes his own words because there are at least two players who are free to leave if somebody stumps up the readies and quite possibly more if the right amount is bid.

Overall, this is going to be another underwhelming window, even when we sign a couple of players. Our only hope is the extent to which we can show internal improvement.

That's where Big Bad Abou comes into the picture...

FEBravo wrote:
Wenger wrote:

"We have a good squad, a balanced one. At the moment nobody can go out, unless we buy somebody."

So first we can't buy unless we sell first, and now we can't sell unless we buy.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-at-the-moment-no-one-else-is-going

And further more

"We have Rosicky and Diaby coming back, they will be like new signings. If you look at our squad, it’s quite complete."

Quite sure I have heard that at least for 4 fucking windows already

"You have other ways to sort out problems inside a club like getting your injured players back, getting everybody focused and motivated"

I really think he is trying his best to intentionally wind people up. Fucking hell

And best is these 2 lines

“We do not want to bring in average players. We only want to bring in an exceptional player. At the moment we have not found him."

“The second thing; can we afford them? Most of them, yes. A few of them, no. Can you afford Messi today? Certainly not. But we can afford 90 per cent of them.”

The 10 percent is the exceptional player, yet we can't afford them. = no signings.

did he really refer to diaby and sicknote as new signings? i know we're supposed to ignore his transfer window bs... but thats still extremely annoying

Arsene has become a parody of himself.

It's worrying when this guy seems to be a truer reflection of Wenger than the man himself:

@wengerknowsbest
Arsene Wenger's magic. He wears a magic hat. And when he saw the transfer window. He said: "I don't know about that."

Gazza M wrote:

did he really refer to diaby and sicknote as new signings? i know we're supposed to ignore his transfer window bs... but thats still extremely annoying

He didn't refer to them as new signings. At least not in the video press conference, and that is where the other quotes came from.

nobody goes out unless we buy ... ok ok ok.

when you read shit like this it just makes you want to scream and then you look at that neck of his and notice that it's perfect for strangling.

He has horrible PR to keep coming out with this 'exceptional' top, top, super, super quality stuff. But I do understand where he's coming from. He always talks a good game but it's not what he delivers. People keep looking at what Newcastle or other teams buy and say "well he's better than Chamakh. Why haven't we bought him?".

We can't just progress by having players better than the shitsters we hardly ever play anyway. We need to have better players than first-teamers. Of course you need good squad depth but that comes easily through buying someone who goes straight into the first team and then demoting a current first-teamer.

We need top players. And unless you spot a great bargain (like Cazorla), you're going to end up with 6/10 players like Giroud's. Top players who have proven themselves at a high level cost a lot of money.

The other biggest mistake that fans make - and one that I can't stand - is comments like this in relation to Man City having a £27m Dzeko on the bench:

"Nathan Cockerton ‏@NathanCockerton
@jackwhitehall I'm a man city fan and I totally agree, but, arsenal payed nearly £27M for mertesacker, santos and the forehead-man #business"

More commonly the argument goes: "Why do we have Squillaci, Chamakh, Djourou, Arshavin... on the payroll? For all that junk, we could've funded another Van Persie." How about trying to remember times in pretty much every recent season where we've been so thin that we've struggled to field a real line-up? This season injuries, so far, have been manageable. Usually we're down to starting 5 of our shitsters by now. So we can't get rid of 4 players for 1 player. That's why we buy 3x£10m players instead of buying a 1x£30m player. The numbers look strong now because of an abnormally good period wrt injuries.

"We only look for exceptional players, but we cant afford them" What a waste of time wengers is

That's not what he said.

Its what he means though

He obviously doesn't.

There or thereabouts

Cazorla is exceptional, and he plays for us. For instance.