For everyone that is saying we need to sign someone NOW, who is it that you want us to sign? Tel for 60m? I love his potential but you're paying for his development into that player up front and that's a very risky gamble. He also likely wouldn't have a huge impact this season anyways other than being another body.

Who are these other strikers or attackers that we realistically could get right now?

    Also as an aside, I do still think that Watkins may move this window with the amount of links that Villa has to Felix, Rashford, Asencio. Everything that has been written about them states they are going to be up against it with PSR even with the Duran sale so someone else will likely need to go if they intend to move forward with any of those deals. I could see Watkins moving towards the end of the weekend if they get progress on those deals. Watkins for 60m would be something I could get behind, although I do think that would mean no Isak/Sesko in the summer.

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    Ok. Fun times.
    We only have a couple of days to go. Who could we realistically sign that would make you content with this window?

      I've started to make peace with the idea we ain't getting anyone. Obviously, not telling anyone else what to do, but maybe we should start sharing coping strategies.

        naz seal the isak deal for the summer. 120m, locked in and ready to go for preseason. not sure it fits the 'realistic' criteria, but that's pretty much the only thing that would please me at this point

        Another one bites the dust

        Looks like it’s Watkins or bust.

          Rashford on a straight loan might be better than no-one to be honest. We just need a body.

          He is still a name and he will still make opposition managers think and you would hope he has a massive point to prove so the motivation should be there. Also got a good CL goal scoring record.

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            samthegooner but that's just it, our historical spending is a problem. People act like we've spent so much money, but we really haven't at all. Fuck ups like Pepe happen to every big club, but when Arsenal make one little mistake, we can never sign a winger ever again. It's all a lie. We can spend, we just don't. We can afford to make mistakes, we can afford to take chances, but we don't. It's a lack of ambition.

            The fact that 60m sounds expensive to us is part of the problem. If Mbeumo goes to Newcastle and we get nobody, then we've officially chucked it. They already have my Isak for fuck's sake!

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              Coombs disagree. we seem to have memory holed the significant write-off and subsequent spending program the kroenkes signed off on. in phase 1 we paid alot of guys to fuck off, some of which was very costly in the form of pepe, aubameyang and ozil.
              id argue our main problem isnt a lack of ambitious spending, its a lack of efficient spending. the kroenkes have done their bit. if they're deciding to tighten up and demand a bit more bang for their buck, Id be reticent about to throw stones at them about that decision. people might argue they're pulling up stumps when we're right on the cusp of winning, but on the flipside you can argue that they've put in more than enough to turn around say 'we've acquiesced to everything youve asked for over 4 years - now go out and make it happen'