Coombs wrote:
Tambourine Man wrote:

Not too upset that we aren't signing anyone. Would rather this than panicking and blowing a load of cash on someone shit for the sake of it.

Why?

Because a large part of the reason why we are in this mess is the fact that we have overpaid for average players that we now cannot get rid off. Partey and Aouar were the right profile of player to target. We have missed out on them and I would rather not see us now spend that money on projects that may or may not make it. 

No one we can realistically sign is going to be better than what we have without overpaying so let's just ride the season out and take stock of what is needed at the end of it. Then next summer be more aggressive and be so earlier on. 

So another lost and pointless season. I could get hit by a car tomorrow, ain't nobody got time for this shit.

All our 'targets' (Aouar, Partey, Coutinho, Jorginho) played for their clubs this w/end, so it doesn't look likely there'll be any action for any of those.

If we do sign someone (big IF), I reckon it'll be someone we have not been linked to previously. 19 hours to go.

We could also be getting punished for dropping Raul. If he was tight with all the snakes and part of their world of briefcase payments, we might've just sent ourselves back to the pre-Raul days of above board deals for Park and Joe Campbell.

Coombs wrote:

So another lost and pointless season. I could get hit by a car tomorrow, ain't nobody got time for this shit.

On the flipside, next summer is nailed on to be a big one for us with the amount of expirings we have. If we fineigle CL football it could be even bigger

Claudius wrote:

We could also be getting punished for dropping Raul. If he was tight with all the snakes and part of their world of briefcase payments, we might've just sent ourselves back to the pre-Raul days of above board deals for Park and Joe Campbell.

There's still briefcase payments going on, word to cedrics 4 year extravaganza

That was during Raul’s tenure

Claudius wrote:

That was during Raul’s tenure

Certainly appears his departure was part of clearing the decks in regards to making sure we signed players Arteta wanted if we were going to spend sizable funds.

What are our non-HG numbers like now the UEFA window has closed - do we still have a surplus?

Anzac wrote:

What are our non-HG numbers like now the UEFA window has closed - do we still have a surplus?

We have to drop 2 of our first teamers out. I am guessing we will drop Sokratis and Mari (Since he's injured)

Clrnc wrote:
Anzac wrote:

What are our non-HG numbers like now the UEFA window has closed - do we still have a surplus?

We have to drop 2 of our first teamers out. I am guessing we will drop Sokratis and Mari (Since he's injured)

We'll probably try to loan out a couple of players to the championship. Really Ozil should be dropped out, we know Arteta doesn't want to play him.

Im still holding a tiny piece of hope that in certain weeks suddenly Ozil wakes up and feel like doing something productive for us.

In reality though what a fucking piece of useless cunt. Hard to forgive a player like him, utter sabotage

I hope we stay strong on Ozil. Its a battle of wills at this stage, he should never start for us again.

Sounds like Mari and Cedric missed the cut according to pl website?

Cedric, jesus what a mess

Qwiss! wrote:

Cedric, jesus what a mess

There has to be a way to jail Raul for that one.

These agents though. They get to eat a cut on the player’s pay. Then for whatever reason, they also want to get these 10-30% cuts on the inter-club transaction fee. As if clubs can’t just call each other. It’s such a massive market inefficiency. All other mature markets, especially for such expensive services have reasonable transaction fees in the order of 0,5 to 5%.

It’s much easier for us to build out a contract team around Huss Famy and pay them £1-2m a year to execute all trades. But for whatever reason, football has allowed agents to capture and constrict it

Agents have their place in the sport, if they aren't there players get exploited to hell by clubs and leagues. Plenty of agents invest their own money into young talents and care for them like they're family, it's mostly cancerous trash like Mendes or Zahavi who give them a bad name.

Agents are like business consultants to clubs, they actually like dealing with them as they cover plenty of work for them plus they're useful to have around to play the fall guy whenever there's an issue with a player when more than half the time it's the club who fucked up.