Where is the activity?? All this talk about the key to doing business early hasn't alerted the club at all! All these top strikers being tempted around Europe and we're not amongst the top clubs competing for these signatures. Wenger always gets the supporters excited and do squat next season we definitely won't scrape top 4 without any significant additions.
Williams also is only a good addition if TV stays, we'd have 4 very good CB's 1 (TV) is very injury prone so games could be balanced well, when both on form TV is quite better than Williams so if he's only replacing that again is poor business, the same way Giroud was only a good addition if we kept RVP.
The worst thing is money doesn't even really need to be spent that highly
My signings:
Top Stiker £25m or Natural goalscorer £15m
Vela £4m (buy back clause)
Cesc £15m (half value price)
DM £10m- There are actually so many good physical options out there.
GK Experienced decent keeper shouldn't cost too much
RB Sagna's replacement anyway
---------------Chesney----------
---Jenkinson--Kos---TV/Williams/Per-----Gibbs
------------------------DM-------------------
-------------Cesc (c)------------Wilshere------
Walcott-----------New ST----------- Santi
Subs: New GK, Per/Williams/TV (2 of these 3), Ox, Arteta, Vela/Giroud, Podolski
All our weak spots sorted and we'd posses a strong squad as first XI additions would have been pushed to the bench/res leaving us with very good options for cup games which we would need to take serious from now on.
Vela will add more goals hopefully around 7 if he played. Since Wenger now likes the idea of pushing forwards out wide then might as well use one that is better adapted to playing there than the likes of Podolski, Vela plays right in Spain and he can balance our wide play which needs to be more fluent.
Cesc could sit and ping balls okay allowing Jack to fly up and down and with Santi involved we'd be quality, Theo would even things out with direct play. A top quality striker or just goalscorer is all we need. He needs to be greedy because our creative players can never decide on shooting or not.
United had 5 centre-backs competing and 4 forwards competing we should look at something similar to that especially if those squad places are taking the places of dross we already have anyway.
A productive summer doesn't even need to be an expensive one.
Well?
posted on 29/5/13
well what happened to Jovetic signing after we clinched 4th spot???
Other teams have signed players already & we are waiting for what other teams to pinch them from us. We finished 4th miles away from united & have CL Qualifers to play we need to sign players very quickly instead of waiting a few weeks before the window ends & then expecting to players to fit right in.
posted on 29/5/13
Other teams have signed players already & we are waiting for what other teams to pinch them from us.
Jeez, you do like your knickers in a twist, don't you. Looks like seeing Monaco getting in players has got your blood pressure shooting eh? Calm down and stop acting like a hissy girl.
posted on 29/5/13
How do you know how active we are? We may not have announced any major signings as of yet, but who else has (other than Bayern and Monaco)? But I can guarantee you the club is being active in the background. They're not just sitting on their hands like most people seem to think.
posted on 29/5/13
^^^ well u do know what next season is dont you
probably not its 10 yrs yes 10yrs since we last won the league with the invincibles
i dont give a f about monaco its about reacting quickest in getting the best players not the scrapes that are left cause everyone has bought our transfer targets.
posted on 29/5/13
Who's City, United, Chelsea, Spurs, Everton signed??? Liverpool have Toure. Calm down you crackpot, season has barely finished and i;m sure the club are working on things behind the scenes.
posted on 29/5/13
Who's City, United, Chelsea
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this is why we should be signing fast before their managers settle in, remember out of the top4 only us hasnt changed managers. If wenger cant win the league this year what will be the excuse???
City looking to sign Jovetic & Carzola, according to reports spurs are close to Villa & a Brazilian striker.
posted on 29/5/13
according to reports we're signing players too so it's no different, none of us have signed anyone. I agree its important to get things sorted early and hopefully we do, if in a month or so nothing's happened then fair enough to criticise them but right now we just need to be patient and see what happens, I'm sure they are doing things behind closed doors.
posted on 29/5/13
^^^ i just like the way the german clubs operate we could take a leaf outta their book
both bayern & dortmund have signed players, i think dortmunds has 4 already.
posted on 30/5/13
They're not just sitting on their hands like most people seem to think.
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No course not because the club never sit on their hands in the window yes you're right! Thanks for the assurances....
If we weren't so used to the outcome you wouldn't have worried supporters! Why would this sumer be any different?? Oh right of course because of this new batch of money we have, the money we got around christmas and splashed in the winter window right????
posted on 30/5/13
No course not because the club never sit on their hands in the window yes you're right! Thanks for the assurances....
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So because we haven't been wildly spending money, the club have been sitting on their hands? Right.
And what money did we get in Xmas? Even if that was the case, who was a realistic option? We signed Monreal when we were short at LB, and the main other position that needed strengthening was upfront. But who was there to buy? Ba? Because he's really worked out for Chelsea. You have a short termism mentality. Making a panic signing in January because there was no quality available would've lumped us with another Arshavin, Park, Squillaci, etc. exactly the kind of deadwood that we have had on the books that I'm sure you love complaining about.
People like you will take anything to beat the club with.