y va marquer wrote:
Nela wrote:
For me it's not really the Draxler deal specifically that's so frustrating. It's everything. Özil is the exception. But really, we should have signed 2-3 more top quality players last summer. We persued Higuain for what seemed like forever(not to mention Jovetic before that). We put in an embarassing and incompetent bid for Suarez, all the while never serious about actually paying his worth.
We've had 3 transfer windows to adress our problems up front. Nothing.
We tried to sign Bender and Cabaye, but didn't want to pay their worth and ended up with a free Flamini. Flamini is a good squad addition and all, but come on.
I think I'd understand this better if we were languishing 12 points from the top.
We're hanging in a bit a the moment and the next month could indeed be painful but I suppose it was never going to be as simple as signing the cherry on top star striker in January to seal league victory.
But it's never simple, is it? We didn't sign one in the summer either even though it was the single most important thing to do.
The disappointment doesn't stem from expecting the club to make a world class signing in january. It stems from knowing that there was never any real chance of us reinforcing the squad in any way, no matter how bad things got. Never mind how promising they looked for a while. We don't sign players to add depth to a working team and we don't sign players to plug emerging gaps. We'd rather run this season down the drain and then spend the summer haggling for players again.
And this isn't just on Wenger, obviously. This is about the people employed to do our scouting and transfer business. It's been pretty clear for years now that they are slow and inefficient at doing their job. The number of transfer windows we have fucked up lately is mindblowing.
We've gone two years without a proper forward now. It's january 30th and we're sitting here hoping for bloody Vucinic to arrive on a six month loan so we don't have to endure Bendtner (or worse, Sanogo). You couldn't have made this stuff up if you tried.
