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Claudius

Good night, folks. Glad we can get on with rest of season. Nothing I loathe like the transfer window

Tam

Fulham are looking to re-sign Willian.

I first read that on the Sky Sports transfer programme, there it was badged as Willian returning to one of his old clubs. Nearly had a heart attack.

Gazza M

pay the aaking price for isak in the summe. job done

flobaba

Gazza M unless there are PSR constraints I don't see why Newcastle would want to sell Isak. They've got oil money too...

lorddulaarsenal

Not even a single link to a defender

Qwiss

This window has been a massive failure by the transfer team.

Burnwinter

Claudius Suspect the bigger issue here is going into a transfer window without Edu or an immediate replacement.

Yep. I'd still like to know how it panned out with Edu—for instance whether he Don Draper'd us by taking opportunities over to the Marinakis multi-club empire.

Qwiss This window has been a massive failure by the transfer team.

Dunno about that, but if this was Jason Ayto's audition any permanent sporting director role ought to be a very hard sell for him—"I saved us money for summer by not signing anyone, but also didn't manage to sell any of our dead wood, in fact I didn't do anything we could publicly announce at all" isn't really cutting the mustard.

Claudius Knowing we want Zubi, Isak/Sesko/Williams and Garcia - I hope we get a DoF in before march so we can execute.

Stakes are now very high for the summer. If we don't end up getting Zubimendi in and we don't get a forward of great stature in along with him, it'll be the first time we truly look like we're just pissing away league titles.

JazzG

I’m 50/50 on this. One one hand nest time we drop points everyone is gonna point to this window and say we should have bought someone. They won’t be completely wrong either but where we fucked up imo was the summer, this window is hard to do good business in.

On the other hand who really moved this window that would have elevated us? It is a sign of poorly run clubs who go out and make panic signings and all future business ends up being more expensive once clubs clock on that is how you do business. We may have also received indications from players that summer moves were a possibility and unlike city we don’t have endless amounts of money so need to make sure we don’t waste money now and then regret in the summer.

Coombs

JazzG On the other hand who really moved this window that would have elevated us?

Wrong question.

JazzG

What he is saying makes complete sense but we are one Kai Havertz injury away from a crisis. We are taking a massive gamble here and relying on little to no more injuries up top and hoping our players don’t burn out by the end of the season.

MistaT

JazzG — I hate tweets/statements like this. He’s not told us anything new.

Coombs

JazzG it really is such a load of horseshit. Nobody should buy this rubbish.

JazzG

MistaT The gist is we weren't gonna overpay for someone who we didn't really want. If one of our actual targets became available we possibly would have done so.

Coombs Do you think we should have just bought players in for the sake of it?

awooga83

The damage has been long term neglect of the recruitment of forwards. We have needed to do business there for the last 18 months but constantly overlooked it. The talk drum last summer seems to have suggested that Havertz great end of season form convinced the coaches he would be good and we didn't need to bolster but that is a really awful way to make an assessment on a player because a 6 month run doesn't prove they can consistently deliver and if you look at Havertz everything we see about him today is not really new or previously unknown.

DiabyKungFu

I think the one thing that makes no sense is us keeping both Tierney and Zinchenko.

Coombs

flobaba Player. Power.

Qwiss

flobaba we are not getting Isak. That's why I hate this "keep your powder dry" stuff so much. There are good forwards out there, just get one and stop waiting for a unicorn. Not even getting a stop gap loan when Havertz is our only CF for the rest of the season is awful. I hope people who are defending this decision will keep that energy when Sterling ends up playing striker for us at some stage this season.

Claudius

Suspect the bigger issue here is going into a transfer window without Edu or an immediate replacement. By all accounts, they’ve stuck to a sensible long term plan which is Isak etc.
just based on the turmoil the squad faced in the first half of the year from overuse in the forward areas, it would’ve been good to have a plug in place. Of the players who moved, Tel seems most attractive but his price was high if not first choice.
Not taking Watkins now means high focus on Sesko/Isak etc., but my worry is we also pursued Sesko last year.

Knowing we want Zubi, Isak/Sesko/Williams and Garcia - I hope we get a DoF in before march so we can execute.

Claudius

That said, interesting window. Like last summer, Liverpool has done nothing. United also kept their powder dry.

Only move I’m intrigued by is Gonzalez to City especially given how we outplayed their midfield on Sunday.

Qwiss

Claudius Liverpool don't need anyone and still have question marks over Salah, VvD and Trent. It makes sense for them to wait till summer.

United did a lot of out going business. They're trying to clear house for an overhaul.

Our circumstances with the Jesus and Saka injuries are very different. City are also suffering with injuries but they went and did a lot.

tazmania

Let's see where we are a few months from now. I suspect this will go down as the worst transfer window in history but we'll see.

This summer has to be explosive no matter what anyone says.

Coombs

tazmania I'm not holding my breath. I don't trust this ownership at all, and I don't think we'll keep Arteta forever.

Gurgen

So we didn’t even sign Trabelsi or Benzema?

Gazza M

Gurgen nary a mexes or bodmer in sight

JazzG

Gurgen

We finally got our man!

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