Just so everyone can appreciate the disaster that this is. We have some pretty tough fixtures coming October-November after the 2nd international break which looks like this: Munich h Everton h Swansea a Munich a Spurs h And we're going to have to go into every one of these major games with only one proper striker, Giroud, and if not Giroud then Walcott, and it's going to be fantastic watching Walcott as a striker vs Munich isn't it? Does anyone really still think we're contenders? I mean seriously? When you look at all the games coming, our squad once again, looks thin, we always talk about having cover for each position, in reality because our medical staff suck, and because we never make signings, we make ourselves thin. We are 1-2 injuries away from a disaster, just one injury to Giroud and another midfielder, and we are basically ****ed. It's so frustrating really, and sad, that it's come to this again, I really thought this year we would finally push on, and instead it's the same sack of **** from other years, non stop injuries making the squad thin, lack of signings which doesn't help the situation either What more does it take to finally say that yes Wenger needs to **** off? He's the common denominator to all of it. I can't for the life of me understand how this man has any backing from the gutless board, let alone supporters. Wenger, please, just **** off man, stubborn arrogant bastard.
Whilst there are some sensible suggestions here (Dzeko, Dybala, Martinez) most of them are just ridiculous: - Benzema posted a picture of himself holding a Madrid flag on social media and personally laughed at the transfer rumours on Instagram! - Cavani would've been an insane amount of money and is he really a huge step up on Giroud, he's not one for the future either. - Lacazette signed a bumper new contract last month, how were we going to pry him away without paying stupid money? - If Ibrahimovic was going to play in the Premier League he would've done so by now, he is not a realistic target at all. Also there's no doubt that he's special but he is 34 years old in a month!! - £15 mill might be affordable and Austin might be worth that to a team fighting relegation but he's not Arsenal quality at all. He has never played at that level. Just because we have money doesn't mean we should spunk it away. Might aswell add Rooney, Aguero and Diego Costa to this list... We need to be realistic. I am super disappointed that we didn't sign anybody but I think we were sensible not to get involved in these stupid last minute transfers.
The fact we bought no-one throughout the entire window put us in the position to have to sign someone last minute. I don't see any defence for Wenger at all... he's a moron. Juventus signed TWO strikers, both of whom could have been good signings for us and a step up from Girouseless
We could and should have signed at least one striker, that point is not debatable at all, Wenger has royally ****ed us over, again, by not getting a striker in.
Can't be bothered to watch the video, but was Carlos Bacca mentioned? Another CF who was available and a CF who would be an upgrade on Giroud and way better than Walcott.
The 'right strikers' aren't available. And Wengers only criterion for being the 'right striker' is that they have to be completely unattainable and unrealistic. Textbook Wenger transfer tactics to save money and keep the Wengerites on board.
What has this comment got to do with Wenger intentionally choosing to not sign a striker in the transfer market and consequently not addressing the team's faults? Again? Nice of you to selectively ignore the previous 9 years to those cup wins, by the way.
Who did he "choose" not to sign? I have read a comment on here that Juventus have signed two strikers you could have had, can I just point out that Juventus are reigning league champions in one of the top leagues and based in a very nice city, they may not be able to afford excessive transfer fees but can give a very competitive wage (compared to your structure) given the difference in tax levies. Why should players choose Arsenal over Juventus?
Most things nowadays are related to money. Don't try and tell me that there weren't players we could have realistically signed who would have strengthened our team. Atletico, after they won the league, still had their best players picked off them because they couldn't compete financially with other clubs. Juventus do not have over £200m in cash reserve, Juventus do not charge their fans one of the highest ticket prices in Europe and they do not have revenues which exceed £300m. If rumours are to be believed that we backed out of a £50m bid for Cavani because he has no resale value, I would say that is a very poor decision to make, given the current state of our CF options.
If we could have signed 10 strikers, then why didn't Man Utd sign any of them and instead paid (an initial) £36m for a 19 year old ?
Because they are a bunch of morons. Look at the way they handled their transfer business since Fergie and Gill left, it's been a ****ing mess.
Austin might be good enough. If he can score 18 goals for a team as **** as we were with no service, who's to say he couldn't get a similar number in a team with probably the most creative midfield in the league except City? He's made the step up when every new challenge has been asked of him.
And yet not a single PL club brought him despite a lot of them having the money and getting desperate. Something clearly not right in the background with the whole Charlie Austin story.
Perhaps. I think a lot of it was to do with him being adamant he was staying living where he was and rightly seeing himself as too good for a team which will probably end up getting relegated. Doesn't leave many alternatives. We rejected at least one bid from Leicester. Clubs may bid their time and decide they're better off getting him for free in a year which I'd understand. Given the paucity of strikers (strikers, not poncey attacking midfielders) at Arsenal and Spurs, I think he'd have been a good move. I don't think Arsenal fans would have reacted well to such a signing as many would see it as beneath them. Better to bring in a foreign player with no pedigree in this league but looks the part in France or Spain.
Whatever United do in the market has no bearing on what we do or should be doing. Maybe they weren't interested in some of these names? By the looks of things, we weren't either.
Probably the same logic could be used for why we signed no defensive midfielders... there were just none available and none moved this transfer window. Hang on, sorry no, apart from Vidal. Oh yeah and Imbula. Oh, and Kondogbia. Oh yup, and Illarramendi. Ohhh yeah, and Khedira. That's the problem. Every time we need players, Wenger is put in the coincidentally unfortunate position that there are just no players available to move in the positions that we need filling. If only Mandzukic, Dybala, Martinez, Tevez and Bacca had been available this Summer for transfer. Maybe next year we'll have more luck with players willing to leave their clubs.
