Dont forget the bruised banana kit though. Spoilt us.
Short term mentality tbh, similar to United post SAF.
We have to adopt a smarter approach to squad building. Signing Perisic at Ā£35m would not be smart business nor help this club in the short or long term. Our defence is a shambles and weāre one season into a post Wenger era, patience and methodical building is required.
Iām willing to forgive the poor football on offer if I can see the club are making right moves with a competent strategy
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The thing is short term investmenst could be crucial to get us back into CL, this would make our transition a lot easier
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I agree with Daniel.
Weāve tried the youth project and through a combination of lack of patience or the players themselves not being good enough, itās just not going to work.
Seasoned, known pros is the way forward.
Did you even watch Iwobi last night, of course Perisic would fucking improve us short term, we are a club with no wingers ffs. But thatās ok if we adapt a smart approach that sees us make a significant progress in the transfer window of 2022 cause after all itās not like getting back into the Champions League would be financially beneficial to us.
Who at the club really believed that Inter would accept swapping Perisic for Ozil?
If we are going to spend a lot of money on a player past his mid 20s we could do worse than Perisic. Heās actually a winger and as much as I want Iwobi to succeed, I think Perisic would offer something different.
Wasnāt the same thing said about the Auba and Mhiki signings? Yet we still have the worse squads in the top 6 but you want to add another 30 year old, on high wages, with no resale value or guarantee heāll be enough to make it into the top 4.
If weāre talking about adding extra quality to our 11, our eyes should be focused on defence as thatās where weāre clearly struggling. If we can get a loan then great, otherwise itās silly to commit major money towards this profile of player when it has never worked
Our defense cannot be repaired by signing one player in January. Our squad is imbalanced towards the attacking front so I say we double down on that anyway.
Mustafi is garbage, we know that. Our RB position is not looking great. Xhaka can be pressed into mistakesā¦But we can win 5-4 if we have to.
Iām thinking that maybe a defensive coach would be the key to us improving here. Personnel not so much (yes, get rid of Mustafi and possibly Bellerin)
We need intelligence in defence by, paradoxically, getting an unintelligent mentality in. Launch yourself at every ball, attack every corner, defend every set piece with your head. Playing out from the back is overrated. Itās almost like that is pre-occupying our defenders minds
Iām totally against spending Ā£35m on Perisic as I donāt think it represents sensible thinking. I think the board have offered the loan with the option knowing full well they wonāt take it up.
It doesnāt make sense to spend that sum of money on someone who just isnāt really THAT good to begin with anyway.
Not sure how you can say this when our defensive record 2nd worse in the top 6. No one said anything about repairing it in one go but we can improve it with personnel. Why wouldnāt we do that when itās a clear weakness?
Go back to last Jan and people said the same thing about outscoring our way to top 4 yet the formula hasnāt worked because it doesnāt. This is all short term thinking on display here
Yea. Weāve been playing the long game for 15 years. Time for something different.
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Right now Iām willing to try anything.
So it looks like chances of signing this guy are Perising, eh?
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Ivan to ban you for such dire punmanship.
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What a dire sicuation
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We seem so desperate first suarez, then carrasco and nkunku now perisic, trying to loan players without paying anything, pathetic.
And why does it always end up in public, can we not negotiate privately, so we do not look like total losers when we get rejected.
Probably because Arsenal is still a big enough team that players can use us as a chip in negotiations with their current club.
Or
It might be as simple as us calling PSG and saying āHey is that Nkunku dude available?ā and when PSG say āFuck off.ā It gets reported as Arsenal HUMILIATED by BOTCHED move for PARISIAN ACE when in reality we made an inquiry, were told no and that was the end of it.
Perisic the thought 
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We have to be smarter with our money than spending 35 million quid on players that are 30 and not world class.