jones wrote:
A high quality centre back plus a 50m rated winger on top of this business and you'd upgrade to a 8/10? You're seriously hard to please mate.
For me the announcement of Wenger retiring and Emery taking over alone made this window a 8/10 at least. Signing an experienced veteran in a position where we had the least depth, an organiser/leader type of centre back when we haven't had one since Mertesacker around 2014, an extremely exciting midfielder in the mould of which we've never had and even what's possibly the most arguable signing would be a massive upgrade on Cech and with lots of room to improve with the new GK coach and the rest of the backroom staff - and still as mentioned in the beginning the most exciting prospect is to see Emery getting to work with this squad. Forget window ratings I'm absolutely buzzing for the new season.
Yep, never mind the fact that we've finalised most of this before the World Cup kicked off. When Wenger announced his departure all I really expected was to have his replacement announced by this stage but the club have been delightfully proactive.
Couple that with a complete re-organisation of the senior and youth team coaching staff and a more pragmatic approach to transfers and I'd say this is been an extremely productive summer so far.
Sure in terms of player acquisitions we've not signed anyone at the level of Ozil, Sanchez or Auba from windows past but the reality of the situation is we're not a CL team right now and therefore options are limited and any available options will also come at a premium. But we've clearly gone out and added solid, sensible signings to positions that need them such that we've at least addressed the key weaknesses in the squad.
