speedy wrote:

Yep hes 30 next week. It's ideal for emery because he knows managers generally only last a year or 2.

I get this feeling too. We need long term strategy, not short-term tactics.

21 - 23 year olds should be the pool we're looking at.

No thanks. Why is it so hard to avoid having so many amateur decision-makers at a massive enterprise like Arsenal?

It’s a loan with option to buy, nothing to lose by this, if he doesn’t work out send him back in the summer when we have funds availabe for other targets. And he would be an upgrade on all our wide options. He might even be a Sven signing since he knows him from his time at Dortmund.

Ray wrote:

It’s a loan with option to buy, nothing to lose by this, if he doesn’t work out send him back in the summer when we have funds availabe for other targets. And he would be an upgrade on all our wide options. He might even be a Sven signing since he knows him from his time at Dortmund.

This.

Don’t know what all the hysteria is tbh. Is he better than what we have now? Yes. Can he help us secure top 4 this season? Yes. Do we have to buy him? No. Is he less flakey than Mhki? Yes.

I don't really see why age matters at all when it's talk of a loan.

In an ideal world, Quincy, you are able to do what Guardiola has done. He has put down a 3-5 year vision, and then he has been able to go to and secure the best young-to-mid career players who can help him execute that vision. Fortunately for him, he has the money to make this a quick and painless job.

On our side, I think we similarly need to have a clear vision, and we also need to go after young-to-mid career players. Only difference is we have to be more resourceful than Pep in our search as the laws of finance actually apply to us. I do not see how Perisic builds a 3-5 year vision. He just serves expedience - get them to Europe, and then see. The counter-argument might be “what if we don’t make it to Champions League? We will be even more fucked!” But even if we do make it to Champs League, we will have lost 6 valuable months in defining and fleshing out the 3-5 year vision. Every transfer window is so incredibly valuable right now. We did so well in June. We should be building on that with additional young quality fullbacks or wide forwards right now. Not this.

If its obligatory to buy him for 35m then no way.

Honestly we need more ballers and less workhorses like him in our team. There's not a single name linked with us that excites me.

Ffs

You can only laugh at this point.

Perisic? No thanks

IF we are serious about Perisic (and along with the talk re Mata), then why not Banega?
If the strategy is to look to experienced players in order to regain top4 sooner rather than later, then surely having players who are familiar with the new style and/or meet the requirements regardless of age is a no brainer?

goon wrote:

Ffs

You can only laugh at this point.

Yeah. At the Jiminy Cricket cunt's spelling and grammar.

The thick cunt.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

Banter FC

Like PEA, another signing that - if it goes through - would be about 2 years late

In saying that, i think him and kola would be a good duo down the left. PEA would gobble up his crosses/cutbacks as well

Our loan inquiry has been rejected, according to Sky.

Loan, with option to buy, only please.

Submitted a transfer request apparently.

Starting to want anyone

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert wrote:

Starting to want anyone