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Mik Merino

QuincyAbeyie

Clrnc Edu spend the whole summer telling people to be excited doesn't help.

He literally told us we wouldn't be disappointed in the end of the window. 😆

Clrnc

QuincyAbeyie

Segway

QuincyAbeyie Oof what an own goal.

Coombs

Mirth not sure a Partey injury was as big as that then, nor would it have been now. More importantly, how exactly have we mitigated that very probable occurrence? We're down two midfielders any way you slice it. Merino doesn't count if he can't play.

Mirth

Coombs Merino hasn’t died. He’s picked up a normal injury in training and at worst will be back in November

Coombs

Mirth if he's broken his shoulder, he's not cover for anyone. There's no use taking a long term view, the season is now. It's Timber all over again.

Pepe LeFrits

We should have kept Vieira and sold Eddie. Now we need to keep Eddie as we can't find anyone. That's a big fuck up in short term planning.

Signing Merino and Calafiori looks great though.

Havertz establishing himself as first choice 9 should make a big difference compared to what we started with last season. IF he's fit Arteta will be much more willing to rotate Saka (and Martinelli) with Jesus than he was with Nelson.

Clrnc

Pepe LeFrits it's the overall shared minutes that's worrying. We had to find dependable cover to trim Havertz and Saka minutes by around 500, but now all of them have to share the additional 2500 minutes left by our players. We also have additional 2 UCL matches this year.

This is a huge gamble on everyone fitness in a year we had Euros and Copa.

Pepe LeFrits

Pepe LeFrits We should have kept Vieira and sold Eddie. Now we need to keep Eddie as we can't find anyone. That's a big fuck up in short term planning.

Though maybe Arteta is going to give Nwaneri loads of minutes and he'll be amazing and suddenly our attacking depth will be awesome

Mirth

Pepe LeFrits We should have kept Vieira and sold Eddie. Now we need to keep Eddie as we can't find anyone. That's a big fuck up in short term planning.

Has Eddie left? Agree this is probably the biggest unforced error blunder

Mirth

Coombs how can it possibly be the same as Timber? The guy was out for 12 months vs 3 months. That’s a 9 month upside!

Honestly it’s the timing that’s unfortunate. If this happened in Nov no one would associate it with the transfer window

Pepe LeFrits

Clrnc it's the overall shared minutes that's worrying. We had to find dependable cover to trim Havertz and Saka minutes by around 500, but now all of them have to share the additional 2500 minutes left by our players. We also have additional 2 UCL matches this year.

This is a huge gamble on everyone fitness in a year we had Euros and Copa.

Well Merino should reduce Kai's minutes as he'll be used in midfield less, Jesus will reduce Saka's minutes I think.

There's always potential for additions in January as well.

Coombs

Mirth exactly. But it did happen now, and now is the only time to fix it. If they don't, that's on them.

Qwiss

Pepe LeFrits I mean I'm all for this. And I'd rather he got the minutes than having people like Vieira, Elneny, etc in the squad ahead of him.

Pepe LeFrits

Mirth Has Eddie left? Agree this is probably the biggest unforced error blunder

Haven't seen any confirmation. I reckon it'll fall through

Mirth

Coombs I think a bot hacked into your account

daredevil

QuincyAbeyie

Just saw the presser, he said it's a small fracture, whatever comfort that might offer.

goon

daredevil

My 6yr old fractured his arm and was back to trashing the house the same night. If Merino is too soft to make the Brighton squad then we’re better off without him.

Coombs

Mirth I think you'll find that I am perfectly unreasonable on my own when it comes to Arsenal. Hackers not needed.

daredevil

goon

Has it? It feels like that every single window.

Meatwad

Henry talked about Keown and the like roughing the forwards up in training to toughen them up for the challenges ahead. Big Gabi is just doing his job.

daredevil

Segway

Two very good signings this summer solving two big problem areas. Easy 7/10 window for me. Biggest downside is Merino potentially being out longer than a month.

RocktheCasbah

Lads, go out and drink a beer, light a jizzler, whatever... Beefing about a lack of action tonight, perceived or otherwise, isn't going to change the reality of it. It's really not worth winding yourselves up about.

Brighton tomorrow is what counts. I don't think we've even got a match thread yet!

Don Pacifico

RocktheCasbah ❤️ this.

I'm sure some will disagree with me on this but I find it difficult to be too vexed with the knowledge of where we've been for the last decade or so. We're a serious side now with an improving squad. Yes, we're all disappointed about our attacking options but there is so much to be positive about.

Gazza M

daredevil defense was a big problem area worth sinking another 40m into?

even the most balanced non-hysteric arsenal figures online are calling this window a bag fumble. it's OK to call a spade a spade and admit we got our calculus wrong this window

and to those saying we have it good compared to past years - yeah, that's exactly the point. times like these come along every 20 years or so for our club, and before you know it they're gone again, and you're sat there all misty eyed for another 20 years wondering about what could have been.

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