Sorry but no one can back the management on this one, they fecked up the transfer window by not reinforcing and they will face the backlash when we get our usual 3rd/4th place, due to it. We really need a better striker if we intend to challenge for the title. Giroud is around a 15 goal max a season striker which isn't enough for us. We need a more prolific and skillful striker up front, this is the reality.
You have completely missed my point, yes those players were available, yes you could afford the transfer fee's, but you have to look at where they ended up moving to and think of possible reasons they might have gone there. Did any go to teams who were reigning champions of their league, did they move to a city that could provide great weather and life style, did they go to /stay in a country that spoke their language. You are not the only English team that didn't manage to get a striker this window, it doesn't mean none of them tried.
But you don't know that they did try to get those that moved. You're just assuming or hoping they tried but the player chose to go elsewhere, in order to excuse a manager that signed no-one. Wenger's chief annoying trait is making out he 'tries' to sign players. His attempts, if even made, are pathetic a lot of the time. He has next to no ability to sign big players when others come sniffing. He's only ever gotten two worldies (Ozil, Sanchez) and that was because no-one else good wanted them. You could feel sorry for him that he's in a scenario where he's trying to sign players for a team that is fundamentally less successful than others and therefore on a hiding to nothing... but he's the cretin that created that unsuccessful situation by not being able to get us to being champions. Many teams sign players when they're not champions, and then become champions because of those signings. There is no evidence that Wenger tried to sign anyone this window, given he's failed to strengthen the two positions we required for about the last eight transfer windows. Or are you suggesting that we're such an unappealing proposition that we've tried to sign dozens of strikers and DMs in the eight windows but that none of those prospects have chosen to come to us, even though Ozil and Sanchez did? You've got to see how thin the supporting evidence is for this.
No, what I am trying (and obviously failing) to point out is that the fact 10 strikers moved this window does not mean could have had your pick of them. Just a made up scenario let's say 7 of them moved for personal reasons (weather/food/girlfriend, what ever) that leaves 3, of these 3 your manager doesn't fancy 2 of them (maybe heard things about their attitude or something) that leaves 1, maybe you miss out on this 1 (**** happens). This is not a story about Arsenal, this is about any club. We as supporters just see players moving and tend to think "we should have got him", it's not always that easy.
Arsenal is seen as a resurgent European team with one of the most respected manager in the game, large resources, top players, located in one of the best cities in the world and has a large fanbase. Top players have moved for far less. We have very large pulling power, as demonstrated by our last three signings.
You could argue that for one window, maybe two. But after eight transfer windows of no top class DM or striker my conclusion is that Wenger is a moron.
10. Dybala - Could not lead the line in our system. He's a small WF/SS. good player though but not what we need. 9. Austin - Yup. A possibility. There's a real question mark over his quality though. 8. Zaza - His highlight videos basically consist of him tackling players. He doesn't have a great goalscoring record lets be honest. 7. Dzeko - Just about worth it. A little better than Giroud IMO. 6. Zlatan. Would have won us the league. 5. Carlos Bacca - Good call. Looks like a decent finisher. 4. Lacazette - He's quite small. Good young player but I'm not sure he can play the lone striker role in the EPL. 3. Martinez - Smashed it in Portugle, good finisher. 2. Cavani - Probably our best option after Ibra. £50 Million is ALOT but he may well have won us the league. 1. Benzema - Would suite our style and probably flourish at Arsenal. Would have been worth the money.
Yeah but if we had Dybala we wouldn't need to use our currently inneffective system which relies on a big oaf up front. I suppose Aguero wouldn't suit our current system either so not worth having? Our current system isn't good enough. It needs to change. Starting at the top with the manager.
Don't agree at all. We play the lone striker upfront as to accommodate our midfield options. (which are top quality) Aguero is only small in terms of height. He's built like a little bulldog. Who you going to drop Ozil? Ramsey?.. Personally I would just like to see us sign a player that could feed off all that service. Put Ibra or Lewandowski in our system and we would steamroll the league. I honestly think/believe that.
When you look at the teams that some of these players have moved to, then of course we could have. All the other extraneous variables become irrelevant if you offer the right amount. Let's take Jesus Navas as an example. A player who claimed he never wanted to move from Sevilla because he suffers from chronic homesickness and anxiety attacks. Oh but wait. Where is he now...? Money talks.
Damn straight money talks, City managed to get how many top World Class players with money? After our restrictions were lifted we miraculously got three World Class players in a row. I'm sure they didn't just come for Wenger's sparkling conversation. They get paid loads and play in very favourable conditions. Arsenal is one of the best clubs to play for in the world. It's b0llocks that we can't get players and the only clubs that can beat us to us to a transfer is Real, Barca and Munich, due to a combination of money and prestige. The rest we should be able to compete with.
But it does though. The fact that they spent £36m on a relatively unknown 19 year old is indicative of the market. It's pretty clear that we were chasing Benzema in this window, but he made it clear he didn't want to leave Real. I'm more disappointed that we didn't sign Higuian, or Mandzukic when they were available in previous windows. But I'm glad we didn't take a punt and piss £30m+ up the wall on a panic buy.
Why not? It's not your money and it wouldn't make or break Arsenal FC. Martial wouldn't have made us any worse offensively, and he MIGHT have made us better. So how would it have been a negative scenario? The saying 'glad we didn't waste £xm on him' is the stock phrase of those who would quite liked to have made that signing. Saying that you're glad arsenal didn't waste money is absurd... We have oodles of the stuff sitting in the bank doing nowt. If anything Wenger is wasting the fans' money as the club takes it off them and he doesn't use it for anything worthwhile.
Because it wouldn't have taken long for people like you to start slating Wenger for making a panic buy.
Not really, it's fairly predictable. If Wenger had splashed £36m on a 19 year old on the last day of the window. I'm almost certain you would have accused him of panic buying
Listen, I'm disappointed Wenger didn't sign anybody other than Cech (although he's a brilliant signing) I think the DM position was more realistic than CF, so I'm not singing Wenger's praises here. But in terms of the CF position, Benzema didn't want to come and the rest of the market came down to Benteke for £32m, Martial for £36m and Son who the spuds spent £22m on !
