Clrnc wrote:
Claudius wrote:
This is a summer in which Balotelli, Lewandowski, Mandzukic, Costa, Lukaku moved.
Cavani, Benzema and Falvao all rumored to be in play, one of them signing an extension.
Finally, if all we wanted was a Sanogo upgrade, this is a summer when Ba, Eto'o, Lambertini, etc moved. Others like Remy and the Swansea boy are probably attainable.
Either Wenger does not want a striker, which means he's blind to squad quality; or he's incapable of getting a deal done.
No chance of Lewandoski, Costa, Lukaku and Ba. The latter 2 because Mourinho won't sell to us, the former 2 because we didn't have any chance from the start. The deal was agreed.
We didn't pursue Balotelli and Eto'o for obvious reasons. Cavani and Benz isn't for sale, Falcao is out of Wenger's price range.
There's a reason why Liverpool couldn't get Bony, was way overpriced. The only one that was gettable is Remy.
I agree that getting in that marquee signing is a bit ask since they won't come cheap or easily and the likes of Bayern, Madrid, City and Chelsea seem to be stockpiling talent these days and maybe Wenger has genuine reasons why Mandzukic or Balotelli aren't suitable for us.
However,
We could do better than Sanogo.
We could do better than our current defensive midfielders.
We could do with another defender.
There are very few people calling for a Cavani or nothing, most reasonable fans would be fine with Giroud up front this season if they knew that we were genuinely trying to cover the cracks elsewhere.
As it stands, the my feeling is we've only bought Ozil and Sanchez to further consolidate our hold on the top four places now that there seem to be more challengers. Anything else we get from this season is a bonus.
