Tam Given your comments on how we were/are right to hold out for Gyokeres/Eze
Nope, I never claimed to know that and I'm not claiming to know that kind of thing now. That's my point. I'm not a telepath. I'm a realist.
What I've said is it's easy to imagine conditions that explain Arsenal's behaviour in the market and are more plausible than the disgruntled fan view: that everyone working on transfers for Arsenal is a village idiot with a circus act in which he punches himself in the face while stuffing banknotes down the trousers of the front row.
And I reckon the previous palaver around the scandal of Gyökeres not having yet been signed, and our further scandalous failure to throw money at the deal to ensure it was closed, really supports my view here.
Because how did that go? Firstly, we signed Gyökeres. Secondly, we got a good deal. Thirdly, the tail end of the delays of his transfer were caused by Arsenal considering a switch to Isak. So all the evidence we now have suggests Arsenal's work on that deal was rational and successful, and the fan theories about it were miles off.
Now the mood is this: the same transfer team has done something moronic with Madueke, while scandalously failing to throw money at Palace to close Eze. Also throw in that we spent far too much on Madueke, but we simultaneously made a catastrophic error by signing Gyök instead of spending £80–90m more outbidding Liverpool for Isak in mid-late August.
Now, I'm not saying we've gotten the last 10% out of every deal, but I'm saying we fans know jack-diddly-squat-shit about negotiations and many of us thrive on drama like vampires in a soap opera.
