Who would you like to see us go for?
He has barely been a footballer for a few years now, he might as well switch careeers and give journalism a go tbf.
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Shambolic ffs. What a muppet
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Yes thatâs twitter football. Stupid people saying stupid things.
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Football fans when their club doesnât spend ÂŁ200 million:
âShambolicâ
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The issue for me is not what weâve spent, I think it was clear for FSR that we needed to make money from player sales in order to spend. But again itâs the areas that weâve focused on. Iâve no doubt Califiori is a very good player, but was 40 million on a defender absolutely necessary?
If you consider that Havertz was bought to play in midfield, and that Arteta had to concede what a completely absurd proposition that wasâŚ.we clearly donât like signing attacking players.
Since Arteta has been at the club, Jesus and Trossard (and neither of them are strikers) are the only forwards weâve bought. Havertz is used as a forward but wasnât bought as one. Thatâs absolutely insane.
Itâs âtoys out of the pramâ time for some now.
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The reality is that we are an injury to Saka or Odegaard away from disaster. Vieira, ESR (less so) and Nketiah leaving is fantastic, but to not replace them, particularly with the injury record of Jesus, is negligent.
Merino and Calafiori are quality additions but it is our attack which malfunctioned a little at the back end of the season.
Maybe we are praying on more availability from Jesus, Mar 9 to find his old form and we will put some more trust in Bossard? Very risky.
i dont think he has trust in most Strikers available in market and doesnât want to spend big amounts on available strikers, especially when they will cost you more than 60-70M easily
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otherwise i dont think he is shy from spending money as we saw in case of Rice and Kai.
If our worlds were not overlapping, I would wish entitled fans like these to experience a last-minute equaliser in the last game of the season that loses them the title.
âShambolicâ get a grip.
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Lmao, Liverpool have signed Chiesa and nobody else. I know some Liverpool fans and they arenât too pleased with their window, and donât think theyâve had a better window than us.
Theyâve taken one huge punt and thatâs it, and Iâm meant to look at their window and feel negative about ours in comparison?!!
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Go to other Arsenal forums and you will find plenty of these imbeciles
What our fanbase needs to realise (myself included), is that we canât spend tons and tons with little to no return. Weâve been overdue a âselling windowâ for a number of years anyway.
This feels like the first window in a very long time that we actually received some money for our players.
Last few years felt very much like ripping contracts up, giving folk away for free & paying players to eject themselves.
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A product of previous regimes. I think we have definitely turned a corner now in this regard.
I think as I say it was always expected to be a window where we didnât spend massively. The money we are going to recoup on Smith-Rowe, Nketiah and Ramsdale is good in my view.
However I question the wisdom of spending 40 million on yet another defender when weâve needed more options in attack for two years or more.
Even if there wasnât an out and out striker worth getting, a player that could play anywhere in the front three and give us the option of rotating clearly made sense.
And actually even if this meant not signing another midfielder I would have been more understanding of financial constraints than a situation where an injury to Saka or Havertz leaves us with virtually no options
Whilst I can see where youâre coming from. I think bringing in Cala was necessary - in part because Timber is going to take time to get back to speed (could get another knock or two) and it reduces our reliance on Zinny who is a defensive liability at times which has caused us problems.
We did manage to score over 100 goals last season, though it is evident we need at least 1 forward now. Maybe two, cause we have no reliable cover for Saka. Jesus is always injured and Martinelli is regressed massively.
But it wasnât necessary, it was desirable but it wasnât a first order priority.
Yes ideally you want good defensive cover, but compared to attacking options it was a would like rather than a must have.
Instead we are going to rely on Saka playing every game, Trossard and Havertz both getting into double figures and Odegaard and Martinelli both doing likewise.
These werenât either/or situations. Buying Calafiori in no way prevented us from buying a forward.
We had needs in defense, midfield, and attack. In each area of the pitch, the fundamental problem is finding a player good enough for our level who fits our football and is attainable. The issue is not money.
That we could find players in midfield and defense who were good enough to play at this level and also fit into our football is great. That we havenât been able to find an attacker good enough (so far) is frustrating. But the issue has always been finding that player, not affording him.
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