Sicario2 - Tier 1 problem is if you choose to view player transfers as a shopping dash at Louis Vuitton, then it’s easy to be cynical and the club’s ambition and intent.
I fully understood what Arteta said when he said there are 3 parties and they all need to be aligned. And the stuff you really want usually takes time. See how drawn out it’s been to get Raya, Zubimendi, Ode, Rice and others. They all eventually got here after a very drawn out courtship process. It’s not just about what Arsenal want. If all 3 parties don’t love the deal in that moment, you’re fucked.

It’s easy for someone to like the Marmoush deal despite @jones saying he’s going nowhere. City desperately need a forward after failed signings and Alvarez sale. They gave a barely proven player a £14.5m salary. And they gave the team £60m.

Christ on a bike, why is the window staying open till Monday evening? Friday night would've been perfectly sensible.

Burnwinter I suspect they accounted for this insanely long champions league and europa league program. Usually these competitions are done by December. Remember, participants can register up to 3 new players for knockouts.

lorddulaarsenal please no. I don’t want 6 months of false arguments about how signing Garcia got in the way of a striker.

Claudius He needs to sign the GK and a defender this window, just to send a message to the Arsenal fans that he'll get what he wants not what they want

We should keep an eye out for the best young players at United and Chelsea. Do the same to them where we legitimately feel someone can be part of the team.

Rashford to Villa on loan might conceivably keep our Watkins bid alive ... ?

Saw a thing saying that with Merino's signing and Raya's (delayed) transfer, we've already had two of the top five deals by size for players over 28 in world football since the end of season 23–24. Might as well increase that to three of the top five eh?

Claudius Watkins just turned 29 and 4 years ago was playing in the championship. He’s hardly a vet.

Rashford to Villa could work in our favour

Claudius We definitely aren't losing Jesus at the end of the year because he's wrecked his ACL. No point selling Trossard either because we won't get a fee to speak of and he's still useful. We sign Watkins, I'm quite certain he'll be an overpaid bench option at best by the time he's 31, he'll go the way of Jesus. I'm against it. I don't think it's a move that'll bring us silverware.

Villa acting like a big club.

If we were signing Asensio, I'd think we were acting like a small club.

We are so lame in transfer windows. Pathetic.

I bet we end up signing Watkins and taking Tel on loan. Which would be a great way to end this window.