Saw someone mention earlier today that we seem to shut down lines of communication to journos - signing Ryan was a surprise, so was Odegaard till a few days before he was actually loaned in and as a result, a lot of the tabloid speculation on our transfer targets is even less informed than usual. Hope that's the case and we pull something good out of this window.

goon wrote:

Seems like we're linked with half a dozen centre mids (Bissouma, Neves, Colhalnoglu, Brant etc) but none of them strike me as the first choice targets. I'd like to be pleasantly surprised by who we actually go for.

Most of this is rubbish. Let’s see what Edu does

Gunnerblog was quite interesting to listen to on arsecast extra. You always have to ask yourself who the source of the story is and what they would have to gain by putting it out there. Given that it's highly unlikely to be anyone from Arsenal, there's no point stressing about being linked to any player x or y.

goon wrote:

Gunnerblog was quite interesting to listen to on arsecast extra. You always have to ask yourself who the source of the story is and what they would have to gain by putting it out there. Given that it's highly unlikely to be anyone from Arsenal, there's no point stressing about being linked to any player x or y.

I liked the discussion. It helped put all the rumours in perspective. We are linked to at least 10 players right now in the news. How much of that is real.

Claudius wrote:

goon wrote:

Gunnerblog was quite interesting to listen to on arsecast extra. You always have to ask yourself who the source of the story is and what they would have to gain by putting it out there. Given that it's highly unlikely to be anyone from Arsenal, there's no point stressing about being linked to any player x or y.

I liked the discussion. It helped put all the rumours in perspective. We are linked to at least 10 players right now in the news. How much of that is real.

Yeah, I figured I had a good idea of how it all worked and to be fair I think I did, but a couple of bits were illuminating. For example when he mentioned that one journalist will pick up a tidbit of information form a source, lets say the players agent. Then all the other journalists will pick up on it, check with the same source, get the same info and publish it too. We all assume the news is widespread so it much be true, yet it's all come from that same snippet of information.

Clrnc wrote:

Claudius wrote:

I liked the discussion. It helped put all the rumours in perspective. We are linked to at least 10 players right now in the news. How much of that is real.

When Bell says it, its real. The rest not important.

Nah, not anymore. He clearly had good source with Partey's inner circle, but it's unlikely he'll get the same insight with every player out there. 

These days I don't think there's much difference between anything he says and guys like Wheatly. In fact most of what he says is second hand information.

goon wrote:

Gunnerblog was quite interesting to listen to on arsecast extra. You always have to ask yourself who the source of the story is and what they would have to gain by putting it out there. Given that it's highly unlikely to be anyone from Arsenal, there's no point stressing about being linked to any player x or y.

There are plenty of parties to any transfer though and some have an interest in generating publicity. Partey was linked to us for months before we signed him.

I'm not saying it's all nonsense, I'm saying there's no point getting worked up over what is very likely a source with an agenda.

Saliba should be there, and ESR isn't a winger.

Clrnc wrote:

Imagine if we have a good window where we strengthen everywhere we wanted with our top transfer target and sold all the liabilities/unwanted. On paper it looks like this.

-----------Onana
Celik--Tapsoba--Gabriel--Tierney
----Partey----Neves
Saka---Odegaard---ESR
--------Auba

Still don't fill me with confidence that we can break the top 4. If the top clubs just signed one of their top transfer targets, Chelsea/Haaland, City/Kane, United/Sancho, Liverpool/Konate, we still look way off on paper.

That team playing Artetaball will score fuck all. All the same problems from this season remain.

Ridle Baku isn't exactly on the market but nobody wants to play for or live in Wolfsburg for long, coming off a massive season too. Dodo who plays for Donetsk might be worth a shout too, other RBs are either in the wrong age bracket not attacking minded enough or not attainable for us I think.

Edu and Arteta present thee with the grand “Treading Water Window” and it looks a little something like this:-

Xhaka out Neves in
Ceballos out Joan Jordan in
Bellerin out Trippier in
Willock out - Odegaard in

Fin

Fucking hell that's too real.

jones wrote:

Ridle Baku isn't exactly on the market but nobody wants to play for or live in Wolfsburg for long, coming off a massive season too. Dodo who plays for Donetsk might be worth a shout too, other RBs are either in the wrong age bracket not attacking minded enough or not attainable for us I think.

I watched the Euro U-21 final and he really caught my eye. Superb RB, complete package.

Jed wrote:

jones wrote:

Ridle Baku isn't exactly on the market but nobody wants to play for or live in Wolfsburg for long, coming off a massive season too. Dodo who plays for Donetsk might be worth a shout too, other RBs are either in the wrong age bracket not attacking minded enough or not attainable for us I think.

I watched the Euro U-21 final and he really caught my eye. Superb RB, complete package.

He’s a rare RB in that he can do both sides of the job.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Edu and Arteta present thee with the grand “Treading Water Window” and it looks a little something like this:-

Xhaka out Neves in
Ceballos out Joan Jordan in
Bellerin out Trippier in
Willock out - Odegaard in

Fin

Trust the process.