Other Clubs transfer thread Jan 2017: Page 6 - The Arsenal discussion community: One More in the Tolly

Other Clubs transfer thread Jan 2017

Claudius

Aubameyang only ever talks Real Madrid. I think he'd rather go hungry in Dortmund than come be a performer at Cirque Arsene.

BWoolley

True that - Morata -> AC Milan apparently. Seems like we will come up empty again. Who knows - maybe Henry Onyekuru will save us in 2025.

Clrnc

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
If throwing out the deadweight that was Sagna and Clichy means also buying new fullbacks, they're looking great.

They have basically discarded all their useless players on high wages, moved some first teamers to become fringe players (Yaya, Kolarov etc). Funny whoever we sold them are all duds basically, none performed for them at all.

Don't even know where does this leave Aguero, Sterling. Won't be automatic starters. Bernardo Silva will be absolutely top class, plays like a young David Silva, only better.

Claudius

BWoolley wrote:
True that - Morata -> AC Milan apparently. Seems like we will come up empty again. Who knows - maybe Henry Onyekuru will save us in 2025.

If that happens while we fiddle with Giroubeck, I'll just quit watching.

Bryant

Claudius

We probably still need to solve this Wenger issue. If he goes, then we get a new manager and DoF. If he stays, we still need to solve the DoF issue.

Things are set up for a busy August of picking up more Perezes.

Klaus

I genuinely can't see us signing anyone of note this summer. We'll keep one of Özil and Sanchez and that will be our big coup.

The fees that these Monaco players are starting to go for are so way out of our ballpark that it isn't funny.

Ricky1985

Bryant wrote:

City having to spend €45m on Mendy because we beat them to the signing of Kolasinac can only be a good thing.

Kolasinac named in the Bundesliga Team of the season btw:

Clrnc

Lemar, Fabinho, Bakayoko won't come cheap too.

Just drop 150m for Fabinho and Mbappe for them.

Ricky1985

That's the dream, Clrnc!

I can take or leave all of their other players. Good though some of them are.

Ricky1985

Lots of rumours around that they're going to announce Kyle Walker and Fabinho tomorrow as well.

Clrnc

Heard Walker is pretty much done. No idea about Fabinho. They are very close to Mendy as well.

Have to give it to Pep, ruthless to clear the deadwood and signed players right after the season ended. Probably started all these in the midst of the season. That's what you call forward planning.

Ricky1985

It's not really Pep, it's the whole team they've bought to put around him. Half of Barcelona's backroom team now work for Man City.

And of course they have money to burn, which helps.

Claudius

They have as much money as us. Just more organized. Wenger is like a prison ball and chain, slowing us down. This summer promises to be the worst yet.

Ricky1985

They have a lot more money than us. Obviously.

That doesn't mean we can't get some good players in though. It's going to be difficult to beat them in many head-to-heads through the summer though.

Clrnc

Ricky1985 wrote:
They have a lot more money than us. Obviously.

That doesn't mean we can't get some good players in though. It's going to be difficult to beat them in many head-to-heads through the summer though.

It's not about the money, talking more about the swiftness in concluding and targeting deals. The amount of early signings we did under Wenger, we can count with both hands. We often prefer to leave it to the last day as Wenger admitted as much to get what he perceived is a fair deal. He is always willing to scrimp on a little, to the detriment of our results before the window ends.

lorddulaarsenal

Yep we'll end up with a couple of scrubs late on in the window

Anzac

Clrnc wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:
They have a lot more money than us. Obviously.

That doesn't mean we can't get some good players in though. It's going to be difficult to beat them in many head-to-heads through the summer though.

It's not about the money, talking more about the swiftness in concluding and targeting deals. The amount of early signings we did under Wenger, we can count with both hands. We often prefer to leave it to the last day as Wenger admitted as much to get what he perceived is a fair deal. He is always willing to scrimp on a little, to the detriment of our results before the window ends.

And yet with our finances we don't need to do so,.
AW's willingness to sacrifice the football in order to hold out for a possible bargain signing means it's no wonder the team & squad lacks balance.

Anzac

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
Yep we'll end up with a couple of scrubs late on in the window

We tend to talk the talk but are not prepared to pay market values,
and in holding out for a bargain we miss signing players than could actually resolve some of the issues,
because we have delusions of grandeur as to the type of quality player we should be signing.
I'd rather sign 2nd tier players who address the team issues, than sign a top class bargain that only improves the level of quality and yet doesn't resolve / address the issues.

lorddulaarsenal

Reminds me of that "we'll only sign top top quality" BS. Yeah ok so where are they then?

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