Transfer Madness – YouAreMyArsenal Live Blog Coverage of the Last Day of the Transfer Window
On August 31, the footballing world will be abuzz with all the madness that is the last day of the summer transfer window. Here at You Are My Arsenal we are no different and we intend on covering the last day in all its glory with a Live Blogging event. YAMA’s own Michael Price and Jamie Dalton will be in and out all day with various panelists to cover all the activity of the day right down to the 11PM (BST) closing of the transfer window.
Join in and ask us anything you want. We’ll run down the latest news for Arsenal as well as some of the other big changes in the leagues all across Europe.
We kick off the fun at 9AM UK time (0400 EST).
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Interesting article. Thanks although I think your heading, Transfer Madness – YouAreMyArsenal Live Blog Coverage of the Last Day of the Transfer Window | You Are My Arsenal could be more concise lol! Keep it up!
The folks calling Arsenal greedy and/or stupid are past the point of addressing. It’s like being in an abusive relationship that you refuse to leave. To your girlfiriends you sob and moan and compare bruises, but then you always go back for more of the same. Why? If the love is gone, leave. Is it because he promises you diamonds? (But then gives you only pearls….) Find a real Man (City or United, or QPR if you like the underdog/loser type) that will love you properly…..Or put another way…..Stop moaning, biotch….(or, as I’ve been told, “Feck Off”……)
That’s not to say that all’s well in North London…. The club has been laid bare, undressed by our horrendous start to the league season and our squeaky passage into the CL. In terms of the transfer window we have also been shown the naked truth about where we stand in the pecking order of football clubs. Barca played us for Cesc and City played us for Nasri. We did likewise with Everton for Arteta and maybe some of the other clubs for the other transfers. And, if you believe the reports of substantial bids made but rejected, we have tapped up some good talent in France and Germany. (Maybe, I haven’t seen M’Vila, Martin nor Gotze actually play matches….have you?). Their clubs wanted too much (which is maybe a good thing) but they at least know we’re interested…. leaving them, essentially, “on loan” at their current clubs, while we recalibrate their valuations for future windows….
This (unfortunately) is the state of the system. Some may argue that we’re hoarding money, but there are salaries to pay and (hopefully) a few good players who will need contract extensions and pay raises. The last thing we needed, coming off 8-2 at OT, and 1 point from 9 in the league, was to put all our money on the “New Vieira” or the “New Cesc” (at the deadline, for too much money) and then throw them onto the pitch demanding that they get us the results we (desperately) need to get us our annual trophy (a top 4 finish). And if you think we should have bought a Sneijder or Schweinsteiger, well, go back to your video game…..
Far better to do what we did: shipping out players that have failed to come good while buying proven, mature, experienced professionals to (hopefully) plug the gaps. We are instantly poised to at least give it a run, while still retaining the financial resources to continuing rebuilding through improved contracts and future buys of (expensive) prospects. In a perverse way, it’s actually exciting. With our backs to the wall, we need to draw a line in the sand and fight to hold our place. The future (finally) has arrived. And, who knows, maybe if we can do so in the long contest (the league) we might be able to create a little magic in one or two of the cups. All told, for me at least, it’s far less grim than trying to hang on to talent that have had their heads turned and are looking for a way out. (We’ll see how ‘Arry does at Spurs, with Modric and Bale this season, much as we watched Hodgson try with Torres at Liverpool).
Arsene and Arsenal are up against it now, and you could argue that a toilet, even after you’ve unclogged it and, finally gotten it to flush, is still a toilet…..but right now, for me at least, the porcelain has taken on a tiny bit of shine….
@HighburyTerraceSteve,
You kinda came full circle there.
“Leave Arsenal, if you’re not happy. But I’m sticking with my less shiny toilet!” Is that the moral high ground now?
Shades of gray/grey, Steve-o. There’s probably times when you really get on your wife’s nerves, complaining again about how your posts just got bumped down on YAMA. But that doesn’t mean she’s filing for divorce.
Arsenal *is* behaving in a greedy and stupid fashion. Is that even subjective anymore? But it wouldn’t bother us, if we didn’t care. This’ll is the club I love. I just don’t like how it’s behaving right now. If we were on Facebook the state of our relationship would be ‘It’s complicated.’
As a kid,I lived through the Giants of the late 70s/early 80s. If I didn’t walk away from that, I’m not leaving Arsenal over this, thank you very much.
@vibe4arsenal, Good stuff, Vibe….It made my wife laugh…..(She pointed out how DAG just started a new thread and my latest writing is gone gone gone…..And speaking of wives, everyone has the prettiest one at home, they say, but it’s not so….. Mikel Arteta does……)
Are you talking about the football Giants? I was a Niner fan and I remember a playoff beatdown in maybe ’86 or ’87 that was about the only thing I could remember to compare to last Sunday’s match at OT….
As for “greedy” and “stupid”…..I find a little bit to actually admire in the management of the club. When surrounded by characters of means buying all the latest toys one response is to buy toys of your own. After all, banks lend money…. Another response is to attempt to partake of the good life (in various ways) while saying “no” to things that aren’t worth it, while building sensibly for the future. That’s what I try to do in my personal economic world and I feel fortunate that my football team does likewise. Sure, we could have gone for some key reinforcements to actually try and win (actual) trophies, but at least we’ve (sort of) been in the game and look to be there again after our dire summer…..
For the moment I take heart from the fact that it’s do or die for the real prize (CL football) and that we’re rolling the dice to try and get (back) there. I also like that we’re making bids and otherwise tapping up some prospects in the continental leagues while retaining the financial means to get them (when they’re fully baked) and/or keep our better players. But now I’m just repeating myself…..Still, I prefer re-hashing my own ideas rather than hearing others (not you) going “Wah, wah, wah” (“wah”)…..
@HighburyTerraceSteve,
Ha. Well, the Giants of the late 80s early 90s were another thing all together. I think the final score of the game you reference (in ’86) was 41-7. I remember Jerry Rice headed towards a long, open TD early in the game, his fumbling the ball, completely untouched, and it was all G’ints after that.
That’s it’s ‘do or die’ for 4th is exactly the problem. Look at how we all reacted (give or take stagg, who could yet be right) after deadline day.
‘Well, that should do the job…
…of keeping us in 4th.”
The bar just keeps getting lower and lower. Somebody’s stoopid here and I refuse to point the finger at us for sticking with it.
Please tell your wife I noticed that DAG created a whole new thread just to bump you, as well. That she even knows this says nice things are your relationship and the part her tolerance plays in it. (Don’t get me wrong…my gf is probably even more tolerant…she and her father sat and watched most of Sunday’s second half with me. So Irene was only the second biggest disaster felt here.)
(Ah, I just looked up that Giants/9ers score…49-3…my bad.)
Very interesting:
http://www.wherehasourarsenalgone.webeden.co.uk/
Apparently we could’ve got Elia too?
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/951690/eljero-elia:-i-snubbed-premier-league-interest-for-juventus?cc=3436
Guess that died once we bought AOC. Elia always seemed to play alright for Holland when I’ve seen him.. Guess it doesn’t matter now anyway
@OziKenyan, we could have bought a LOT of players, but when it comes time to actually SPEND THE MONEY for REAL PROVEN players…
we walk away every time.
We were asking for big money for Cesc and Nasri, because they are “stars”…. and we GOT IT.
But when we want to buy players, we always balk at the asking prices.
Thats what seperates the REAL BIG 4 in the EPL…
City United Chelsea and Liverpool… from Arsenal.
Those teams are willing to spend whatever is needed to get big name players.
Arsenal, are only interested in putting MULTIPLE MILLIONS into the pockets of the club, board, executives…
its DISGUSTING.
@stag133,
I am waiting to see Arteta and Park play.
I would hold my comments till then.
But generally speaking, it seems that apart from Suarez, Liverpool have bought a lot of average players.
I see us going past Liverpool (it may be tight), and in the best case, ahead of Chelsea too ( first impression of AVB hasn’t been great).
Sadly, United and City are too far ahead of us, and this time, the title looms beyond us.
I cannot think of any one or two players who could’ve changed that.( not even if whole of the amount from our marquee sales was invested on two players)
So, under the circumstances, when there is a reluctance on the part of the board to part with their money, and fighting for the title next to impossible, I think Arsene’s made some pretty smart buys, both for the present and the future.
@soccerfreak, We aren’t in the same league as Chelsea right now… there might not be 1 or 2 places on the entire pitch we are equal to them… and certainly most managers are better than Wenger on game day.
We won’t be close to Chelsea in the standings… they’ll be 7 to 10 points ahead of us at season’s end… and they’ll be in 3rd Place.
Suarez and Carroll are MILES ahead of our strikers, and they are playing without Gerrard at the moment. They just beat us at the Emirates, and we are 6 points back of them already.
You can dream all you want. We tried last second 2nd tier signings, only to quell the masses, and we made 30 MILLION in profit from the sales of Cesc and Nasri alone.
absolute GREED.
and absolute idiocy from the management of this club…
@stag133, GREED yep.
@soccerfreak, Liverpool made potentially the best signing, yesterday, by acquiring young Coates, Copa America WINNER with Uruguay
@Arsenalistul,
Agreed.
@Caribkid,
Ok.
I’ll agree with your judgements for now.
Haven’t seen Coates. Maybe lost a lot of interest in watching football overall.
I think my argument originated from the fact that being an Arsenal fan since the last decade, I cannot still imagine us falling behind Liverpool, that too, right at the start of a new season :(
So my gut feeling still sees us 4th or above.
So if Arsenal had lost only 4-1 on Sunday, would any of these players have come? I think maybe only Santos but Per, Arteta and Benayoun might not have. In terms of panic buys, they are a lot better than a certain Silvestre but on the whole I agree with the words stop-gap or just a band aid to stem the bleeding. But no diagnosis for why the bleeding took place will ever happen. I like Arteta and wanted him at Arsenal 2 years ago so not sure what will happen now given his recent injuries but will Arsenal be able to take advantage of his corner and free-kick deliveries? Wenger won’t but maybe Arteta and Per might need to have a little chat and get TV in on the plan.
I would also like the book you mention Stag, a sequel of how to turn a superclub into an upscale Everton type of team. I would also like more insight into how the transfers go down. What annoyed Bolton so much? I refuse to believe it was just the price. And was Yann even in the picture? Or Arsene said Yann but Stan heard Yossi? No truth ever comes out just speculation from people close to people close to people who work at the club.
@sachin, I think Santos, Mertesacker and Park were in the bag. And I think we’d have gotten Benayoun as well, not sure of Arteta.
Benayoun, I had a sneaking suspicion we were going to get him. I think he’ll surpass expectations if he stays fit. He was, by far and away, Chelsea’s best performer preseason. So much so that I took a punt on him on fantasy football the first few weeks**. I can’t comprehend why he didn’t get starts when the team was clearly crying for a creative player like him. And he works so well with Torres.
** Naturally, I sold him after 3 non-starts just 2 days back, whereby the fantasy gods laughed at me and ensured he moves to Arsenal! Feel free to thank me for making this one happen…
The key to getting 4th place this season is how long will it take for the team to gel and how far behind Liverpool we will be at that time.
Liverpool addressed their last remaining weakness by getting Coates at CB. I also thought that in losing Meirles today was a slight backward step for them even though they got Bellamy.
@Caribkid,
Fair comment. Despite the huge turnover, there’s still half a dozen players lucky to be at AFC. Chamakh, Arshavin, Rosicky, Diaby, Squillaci and Almunia. Any of that lot could easily have found themselves ‘moved on’.
I think Chamakh and Arshavin are examples of Wenger’s slightly whacky approach to integrating players into his team – he doesn’t structure a team to it’s strengths he seems to ‘let it happen’. Rosicky and Diaby are testimonies to his refusal to admit he got it horribly wrong (re crockiness), Squillaci and Alumunia are his refusal to admit he gets it wrong with talent.
@Kiwi,
Agree in most part.
Think that Rosicky is still a decent squad player, wont rock the boat and offers experience in some situations.
Diaby? Well this season will define his AFC career. Either he realizes his great potential or becomes another JET and gets offloaded next season.
You also left out Nicky B, who I felt could have been a decent player if given the right opportunities. Arsene has definitely destroyed him, but hopefully he will go somewhere else and prove himself in the right situation.
@Caribkid, I do think these signings certainly help that bid for 4th. Liverpool have some good tools to work with now but they also have their boogey teams like Arsenal. Both Liverpool and Arsenal will drop points but a case of which team can get a good run and like you say, how long Arsenal will take to gel.
Lot of people were making the valid point about why was Coates not even on Arsenal’s radar? He was not expensive and cost the same amount I believe as Arsenal got for Clichy. Given how much soccer Wenger watches, he surely must have heard of a little tournament called Copa America? Commoli said that he was tracking Coates for 2 years. So what were Arsenal doing? Diego Lugano didn’t cost PSG too much either. No chance for Arsenal to hijack that deal? I was impressed with a lot of the Uruguay players at the Copa but then again Oscar Tabárez is an amazing tactician that can get the best out of his players and get his squad to line-up in various formations and work themselves into the ground.
The beauty of (such substantive) change is that no one knows what will now happen. I like the idea of that book Stag.
But for me the interest is now in the new players and their meshing with the bits I like in the existing (i.e. Vermaelen, Wilshere, Sagna, Szczesny) and the bits I’m a little bit open minded about (Ramsey, Song).
I gave up on Wenger 3 years ago and nothing he’s done since convinces me that he has the ability to recalibrate. So I can only await his exit and hope that in the interim the players we have achieve something – a cup is fine – and that some of the diamonds actually shine up. Wenger’s tired and jaded and his project has imploded in a very public manner. His mana his standing in the game has taken a huge hit. That said, I’m gobsmacked at how much utter denial continues to happen amongst those who love what he stands for (as opposed to what he does).
So, we sell our 2 best players, in Cesc and Nasri… our starting LB in Clichy…
In return, we get Arteta, Benayoun, Santos, Mertz, & Park.
In sports, as I have said before… 2 fives, do not equal 1 Tenner.
Losing STARS and bringing a good players, does NOT make you better.
Are we better than last years team, or equal to it? NO, NO WAY.
Are we better than we were 1 week ago, YES, YES WAY.
I don’t believe we are going to make the Top 4.
Liverpool are definitely better, Chelsea got better, and we know for fact City and United are miles ahead of us.
Tottenham got rid of malcontents, and slid sideways…. but we are battling them for 5th, not 4th.
Incredibly, the Arsenal MONEY MACHINE rolls on, as we made MANY MILLIONS in profit by selling off the best players we had… and when it came time to BUY STAR POWER PLAYERS, for the same MONEY we SOLD ours for, we FOLDED.
We PASSED. We said, NO…
M’Vila? Hazard? Cahill? etc etc etc.
There were a LOT of names thrown out there, but the classic Wenger line, that “I’ll pay 30 to 40 Million for one special player” is an outright LIE… its BULLSHIT. We had a week after we sold Cesc & Nasri, and we fu**ed around the whole way… if we were serious about specific targets, we would have PAID THE PRICE, and BROUGHT HIM IN…
So, I am going to give Arsenal a “C” for today, an “F” for the Summer… we are NOT better than last year, and we barely made 4th place. We sold our souls AGAIN, our CAPTAIN again… made MEGA-MILLIONS in profit, and the team and fans will suffer because of it…
I hope the supporters group “Where have my Arsenal Gone”…. who have bought a billboard near the Emirates, and have a planned protest and march… get THOUSANDS to show up at the match(es)… and we have a half-empty stadium on numerous occasions this season.
I wish the players we have, and the ones that were brought in the best… I will watch and support them… but I am under no illusion that Arsenal did what they could have and should have… it was smoke and mirrors again, not doing WHAT HAD TO BE DONE.
F**K you Arsenal FC, and F**K you Arsene Wenger… the board and manager should be fired… someday, in a book by some insider, we’ll find out WTF really happened the past 6 seasons, when OUR TEAM was SOLD to the HIGHEST BIDDERS.
For me, I have become numbed by the group of players at AFC. The fact we have witnessed a massive changeover in the space of one off-season is in itself rather welcome.
I had zero belief that the 2010-11 squad could win ANYTHING. Losing the Carling Cup to Birmingham encapsulated what they were. And maybe, it was right and proper that our little general Cesc Fabregas departed and took his designated ‘successor’ with him. Those 2 defections along with the 8-2 humiliation forced the issue, Wenger was forced to recalibrate. He couldn’t simply bore us silly with another season of predictable same same.
I’m a bit taken aback to be honest with the scale of the change. The Project has been savaged. He must be a bit traumatised. It’s like what we’ve suspected for 5 years known for 3 years has finally smacked him in the face. It hasn’t worked. The players weren’t good enough, they weren’t loyal, and the style and blend didn’t bloom. It flumped – we knew that – Wenger has been faced with it despite his desire to deny it.
Mertesacker aside, all the players he’s signed are type-AW players. We might win a cup this season, Arteta, Mertesacker & Gervinho alongside Vermaelen, RvP, Wilshere, Sagna & a spirited Szczesny might have the determination to start off this new era winning. They might collectively be free enough from Wenger-ideals to genuinely go-for-it. That’s my only sense of hopefulness.
Still making up my mind about these transfers. Really happy about Mertesacker. And with Arteta and Benayoun, I suspect our 4-3-3 is here to stay.
When fully fit (hypothetical as our crock list includes but is not limited to Diaby, Arteta, Benayoun, Rosicky, RVP, Gibbs, Djourou, Theo?) our first 11 would look sth like:
Szczesny
Sagna – Per – Verm – Santos
Arteta – Song – Wilshere
Theo – RVP – Gervinho
Bench: Arshavin, Park, Chamakh, Benayoun, Sicky, Diaby, Frimpong, Ramsey, Gibbs, Koscielny, Fabianski, Jenkinson, Miyachi, Oxlade, Coqelin
Looks alright I guess. I’d put even-money on us finishing top 4. Winning the league? I reckon I’d need over 30-1
Still short in the striking department. When RVP gets injured, we basically have no-one. Strikers are the most notorious of take-their-time to settle players. Suarez is the only one that comes to mind that seemed to fit in straight away after coming from a foreign league.
If nothing else, the novelty factor should see the games become that much more entertaining.
What this Summer has done is to totally create an Arsene Version IV.
The team has been systematically dismantled and partially rebuilt:
OUT: 12
Sold: Cesc, Nasri, Clichey, Traore, Eboue, JET
Loan: Lansbury, Bartley, Bendtner, Denilson, Sunu, Campbell
Missing: 2
Almunia, Squillaci
IN: 7
Bought: Jenkinson, Ryo, Ox, Mertesacker, Santos, Park, Arteta
Loan: Benayoun
Arsenal are winners in net transfers once again.
Assessment:
Potential to be a good, solid team which can challenge for 4th place if Liverpool stumbles and a fighting chance for the CC and FA Cups. Good chance of reaching QF of CL.
Failure to sign a world class striker puts our success on the ability of RVP to stay fit the entire season and Wilshere to regain fitness and continue his development.
Secondary biggest failure which will come back to haunt us was not signing defensive and tactical coaches to assist Arsene.
Commiseration: If we had this team with Nasri and Cesc last year we probably would have won the EPL.
Key to the future depends on what they do next year.
AFC is scarred shit about relegation, and they acted accordingly:
Mertesacker the “German pole” has spent his best years and he is SLOOOOOOW,
Dos Santos another reformed winger who’ll “forget” coming back,
Benayoun a Chelsea reject + Arteta a Spanish has been = Cesc’s left leg.
We already have the “experienced” Arshavin and Rosicki, why do we need more wussies?
And he’ll still play Djourou.
Coates to LFC, the best business of the day, where was the famous Arsenal scouting network? Probably at dinner in Lille, they don’t do South America.
Perhaps nobody wants to come to Arsenal anymore.
The “quality” of the new signings are the proof for that: nobody in their prime, nobody really promising, just some stop gap “professionals”, to stop the slide.
They all came on the cheap, AND THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS at AFC.
8-2 didn’t look so bad until Arsenel made these PATHETIC signings.
They’ll say: you wanted experience, we GOT you experience. Yes, but these are all in the mold of Silvestre, Schillaci, Rosicki, Arshavin, Almunia, etc.
@Arsenalistul,
I agree with your general argument but Per at age 26 is young for a defender. He has faced ALL the top and speedy striker in the world cups and CLs and has never been embarassed for speed.
26 is the PERFECT age for a CB.
Per’s profile is perfect for Arsenal and much better than getting another short, “mobile” CB.
PS: We made a PROFIT of over 30 million pounds on transfers alone this summer. Go figure.
@Arsenalistul, Mertesacker isn’t fast like Toure/Clichy, etc. but he isn’t exactly slow either. ANd there is more to defense than being fast (see previously mentioned Clichy/Toure, etc.). Positioning and reading the game is hure for a CB and he can do it. Now hopefully Arsenal doesn’t coach it out of him like they do with just about every other defender.
I would have been happier with the Arteta signing a couple years ago, but now that he spenta big chumk of last year out injured I fear he’s going to become part of Arsene’s Broken Brigade.
What I find funny about the whole situation is that Mertesacker cost, what, 9M? Bolton wanted 17M for Cahill just because he’s English so they will probably lose him at the end of the year unless he is sold in January. Cahill is not worth 8M more just because he has an English pasport.
@David Eshenbaugh,
In my books, Mertesacker was the best deal out of the lot followed by Santos. The rest are just temporary stop gaps.
@Caribkid, I don’t know much about Santos, but I agree on Per. I’ve always liked Arteta too though. I wa surprised he’s only 29. Seems like he’s been around forever. Like I said though, I would have liked the deal a lot more 2 years ago.
@David Eshenbaugh, Agree completely with what you say about liking an Arteta deal more if it was 2 years ago. I said the same thing above myself. And yes, he does feel like he has been around for a very long because I think he was so involved in Everton’s play every game that he always stood out and didn’t hide unlike some other players.
Funny stuff….
Personally I’m very pleased with the Benayoun loan deal and it’s nice to see a few players from the Big Two (Chelsea/City) moving on in search of football, rather than hanging out in the “shadow squads,” football’s equivalent to the NBA’s “injured reserve”….Likewise, Bendtner goes on loan to Sunderland for a year…..
Arteta seems a good signing too, but those who think all Spaniards are equal and we can just slot him in need to lower their Cescpectations….And sure, it would have been lovely to have signed another (slightly more mature) prospect (MarTan, the new Z-Dan, or M-Vila, the tasty box-to-box new Vieira….) but we’ve shown our interest, so as we did for Cesc to Barca, their current clubs can keep them on loan for us while we see if they develop to our expectations…..
The deadline is all good and fun (and a great made-for-TV-and-internet occasion) but it seems like an anachronism of which the bigger clubs are getting sick….Meirles puts in a transfer request at 10 o’clock and somehow, the deal gets done, puh-leeze…..In the end Chelsea bosses Liverpool, sort of like we bossed Everton, sort of like Barca (and City) bossed us….Ah, the circle of life……
Many will STILL feel that Arsenal failed despite landing 5 solid, mature, ready-for-prime-time players in 3 days…..Oh well, whatcha gonna do?…. Me, I feel pretty good about the team going forward and hope we can find that little bit of “collective belief” that might find us climbing back up the table towards the top echelon, to bad it took the summer from hell and spotting our rivals a bunch of points to make it happen. We’ll see, of course, but I’m as hopeful about the Arsenal as I’ve been for a little while…. Your mileage, of course, may vary, as they say….
Arteta!!! That was not a difficult signing at all.
Bye Nicky see you next year.
If only Arsenal had treated June/July like transfer deadline day, then fans would have had more to cheer before the season and a humiliation might not have happened.
Breaking news…Almunia is seen near the Emirates. Yes it is true. He is still at Arsenal.
Where the hell is the snow storm to help Arteta’s deal? Is Ivan working on US time?
@sachin, arsenal’s website is down. Hmmm are they getting ready to surprise everyone……..
With no one????
Benayoun in on loan.
OK
didn’t spend much there.
Arteta deal is allegedly BACK ON!
as of 4:30pm US time.
He wants out after we inquired about him.
But is Arteta and Benayoun going to be enough to equal Cesc/Nasri leaving?
WHERE IS THE MONEY WE GOT FOR OUR STARS?
WHY IS THERE NO MAJOR SIGNING?
M’VILA?
HAZARD?
We could have had Parker for next to nothing, we could have had Bellamy for NOTHING, Kaka is allegedly talking to Spurz about a season long loan?
Imagine if that happens and we end up NOT spending much of the 80 MILLION we are sitting on?
REALLY PISS POOR MANAGEMENT.
You have to SPEND MONEY, LOTS OF IT, to REPLACE YOUR BEST 2 PLAYERS.
Just RIDICULOUS when we will have all this money and do not want to “overpay” for a star player.
F**K THIS SHIT… ITS INSANITY and everyone on the damn staff and board should be GONE.
How much will they stuff into their pockets this window?
60 MILL?
I am glad Ivan is working hard. Now someone needs to tell him he needs to work hard for the football team, you know the players that kick the ball, and not for Stan’s bank account.
Arsene Freaking Wenger is at it again……
We are missing out on Arteta … a solid EPL guy because the club will offer no more than 10 M and are shocked that Everton want a bit more money for their BEST player especially as they will have NO TIME to buy a replacement.
This is the same hypocritical club that was holding out with Fabregas. The same freaking club that sold Nasri for 25 M in his last year.
The same club that has over 80 M in its bank account!
Also, Scott Parker moved to Spurs for FIVE million … we could not afford that????
We loaned West Ham Lansbury, so we were obviously dealing with them. So in other words, Lansbury plus 3 or 4 million would have gotten a ready and steady Parker.
So for LESS THAN 15 MILLION we could have got BOTH Arteta and Parker …. but no, no, no …. that is too expensive for a club SITTING ON 80 MILLION from transfers ALONE.
Instead we are going for a LOAN of a 31 year old CERTIFIED INJURY CROCK who could not cut it at Liverpool or Chelsea.
WENGER MUST F*(&^^g GO!
@Fred,
And just as I spoke, Arteta back on.
I cant wait for the deadline to pass.
we’ve signed some pototos… the side dishes…
Santos and Park.
Mertz is also allegedly in… he’s more of a name.
But we need the MAIN COURSE.
Where’s the BEEF?
Need 2 high profile players IN, to replace Cesc/Nasri.
We haven’t approached spending the money we have available.
Need CREATIVE PLAYER(S).
M’Vila? Arteta? Hazard?
6 1/2 hours to go…
we’re making some progress… just need the bigger names.
@stag133, Who is this Names you speak of? I imagine he’s French. And how do you pronounce it? Is it Na-me or is it one syllable as in “I did 3 tours in Nam”?. And is he really big? I can’t find his wiki page….
Help…..
Well, I tried to get through on the tweety thing, but maybe I wrote too much…..(lol, at myself…..)
More than a whiff of desperation in our transfer work, but we’re at least adding to our numbers and getting new bodies in to replace (some of) the failed “projects” As for the day ahead, might we see a (desperate, overpriced) move (or two) to fill the gaping hole left behind by the loss of Cesc?….MarVan MarTan, the new Z-Dan? (I thought that was Nasri….) Yann M’Vila? (Sounds tasty: Mmmmmm……) I think Yossi B would be a good signing as he’s probably run more in his year out injured than Andrey has in his last couple playing for us…..
Bottom line, with Cesc gone we’ve lost any and all creativity in our MF. Nasri was never going to step in for him as he had very little faith in his teammates and he really didn’t like to pass when under pressure. (See, for example, his “wonder goal” vs Porto–And Ramsey seems a bit in this same mold…..) Wilshere, injured, still a baby, and extremely left footed seems solid at running onto and keeping the ball moving, but his effectiveness nearer goal is still a question. Song does OK doing the same and Frimpong, Mr. T hairdo notwithstanding, seems interesting, but hardly one upon whom we should bet the farm….. Finally, (though I pray that we try….) there is NO WAY we’re going to bring in a youngster (on deadline day) from a lower league who can measure up to the Cescpectations…..
Instead we need to morph to a team that can use CMs to move the ball outside to our “pacy” wingers who might then bring it back in or play some dangerous low balls (Theo’s patented shot-cross comes to mind)…..But this begs the question about whether or not our malf (manager for life….) can alter his tactics based on the personnel at hand….It also would seem to bode poorly for taking consistent points from those “lesser” teams that are happy playing for a nil-nil (“parking the bus”)…..
But I’m getting ahead of myself…..First we need to endure the next 10 hours, scream about NOT spending the Ce$cNa$ri money, say goodbye to the summer from hell and get ready for the darker days ahead…..
Cant see us signing M’Vila, have Song, Frimpong and Wenger told Coq he cant go on loan. Wont sign Samba either unless we get rid of Squill and loan Miquel cause we have 6 atm. Creative midfielder only to come in I think.
@@colfog,
Song still not impressing and needs to be pushed. Also you have ACoN coming up which could take both Song and Frimpong. Frimpong still too green to be a dependable backup.
Plus M’Villa really is Vieira MkII.
Club is trying to offload Squillaci and quite possibly Djourou. MIquel will get a loan deal I think to an top EPL club. Bolton are alikely destination.