Burnwinter just to say I soooooo agree with all of this! Have always been vexed by this notion that it doesn't matter how much we spend.
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100 percent. casually burning 100m+ on raya and havertz still sticks in my craw. of the 500-600m we've spent under arteta (can't be arsed looking up the exact number) there's about 150-200m that was spent on questionable buys that arguably haven't moved the needle
That Raya money isn't even spent yet. It'll be out of next summers budget. I suppose if they can sell Ramsdale for the amount they're spending on Raya its acceptable. They've shown zero sign of being able to do that though. Everyone predicted last summer would be different because they were selling quality but they still failed to get decent money for anyone. Even the Xhaka deal which looked decent starts to look less than when you pay £65m for a downgrade.
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No thank you. His mate Reiss can hardly get any mins so not sure adding another enigmatic winger will aid our cause.
If we want to get someone in Jan we will. Wouldn’t worry too much.
Gazza M it’s incredibly hard to spend efficiently. Pretty much every club in the bracket we fall in to has seemingly wasted money. On aggregate though our spend is pretty decent when compared to rivals
The squad rebuild has been a striking success and Raya can be made to make sense if Ramsdale is sold for over about £18m—though I fear he'll go for under ten. If Havertz becomes any kind of valued regular I'll accept it, and I'd love to see that.
We just can't keep doing what we've been doing though. On the sales front, the poor results have been partly due to the direct devaluation of good players by the manager's selection practices.
Put bluntly, if we keep doing this we're all in on winning multiple major trophies with this squad. Without another step up in profile and revenue we won't be able to sign adequate players or compete.
If we can't make a profit on Ramadale then we need to change the suits doing the selling.
Qwiss If this is what it's going to be we should sell him in winter to some desperate outfit. I think we've got Buckley's chance of getting what we paid, we'll get Leno money again.
I’m pretty sure we’ll see an addition to the attack this coming window. It obviously needs a boost.
Wonder if we’ll engineer a loan with an obbo to stay within FFP?
lorddulaarsenal Nusa or bust
I think we need more explosive pace, direct running, and unfussy finishing, whether in the wide areas or at CF. I want someone obsessed with scoring goals.
Linked to Takefusa Kubo today. He’d be a good back up for Saka
Also still being linked to Zubimendi.
Yeah been very impressed with Kubo this season. Didn't realise he have this level to his game and he has been improving tremendously. Looks unplayable at times
He does. Not sure if it’s a purple patch but he has that elite nimbleness to evade defenders. One hell of a pausa on him too.
Think I’d rather him than Neto for the right hand side though I see Neto as being more versatile and he carries a more blunt overpowering running threat.
Shall we get both? 
lorddulaarsenal Also still being linked to Zubimendi.
Wonder if the plan is to use him as our No.8
Surely you'd play him at 6. He's probably the most obvious high quality choice for the role with how we play.
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There's also houseboat links to Santiago Gimenez. Looks good.
He looks a bit lacking technically but probs would be an upgrade to the squad