Are Arsenal really much slower than other clubs in getting the signings they want?

8 Replies to “Are Arsenal really much slower than other clubs in getting the signings they want?”

1. Tony
   As an adjunct to your article, the 1st match of the last season when we were short of players after their international games, we lost 3-4 at home to Liverpool
   Had that game been drawn, or we won, then we would have been fourth and L`pool fifth and in the Champions league
   This is apart from our bad run from the end of January as you point out
   This won`t of course deter the naesayers who are convinced there is something wrong with The Arsenal

   So many clubs do get in new players, perhaps more quickly but that, I believe is because they have a new manager who has to buy and rearrange his team

2. Thanx for that, Terry. Funny enough the noys showed quite some mental strength in reducing the tally that first match. But as the season drew on, several uncertainties came up. Hopeful next season.

3. respectufully, was not Elneny a transfert in January 2016 ?

4. Good thought leadership, but ultimately comes short of a sound conclusion. While I find the comparisons to how fast other teams act in the transfer market irrelevant, swift movement is irrefutably an advantage to any team hoping to get off to a good start and avoiding a “bad run” of games at the start.

   Last season, BFG picked up a serious injury a week before the community shield and 2 weeks before the start of the season. Acting fast has a better quality where a replacement is identified, secured, and integrated prior to the start of the season. The previous season had a similar ring to it, with Gabriel eventually joining in January.

   Both challenges led to opportunities within the squad which led to overall improvements of both Holding (16/17) and Monreal (15/16) at centre backs, but ultimately the damage was done early on.

   If the rumours are true, AW bid £30m for Lacazette last summer which was rejected as a ‘price tag of £40m was slapped on him’ by Lyon. This summer, Telegraph rumours from 12 June suggest £60m is now required. Let’s assume the rumours are true (they probably aren’t), hence acting quickly earlier would save £20m ignoring of course the time value of money or the opportunity cost of probably not being able to secure Mustafi when needed.

   Hence acting fast in itself is an advantage for a team not in comparison to how quickly others have acted but in ensuring a team is as prepared as possible heading into a new season. Player quality will of course have been extensively researched and scouted prior to a transfer window opening, and becomes less critical in preparing a team than moving quickly.

5. Does buying early has an advantage on buying late? I think to buy early in the case of Kolasinac who they’ve bought very early this summer has an advantage on buying late because the player or players bought early can fuse in into the rest of the squad to acclimatize and get to known his mates and the team’s ways of playing early and thus settled down properly before the season’s campaign kicked off.

   Notwithstanding, a particular transfer case like that of Kylian Mbappe who are Arsenal heavily linked by the media to sign this summer can prove stubborn to procure as such a transfer may drag on and on until the deadline day before it’s finally comes through. In such a case, one can not blame Arsenal for not concluding such a particular difficult transfer early.

   However, in the case where Arsenal missed signing their most preferred transfer target and subsequently went on scrambling in the transfer market to buy a target they can find who wasn’t even in the top 4 in their transfer radar and went on to take a gamble (Lucas Perez) to panic buy the player to pacify the spend spend the cash Arsenal transfer agitators, is unacceptable and amount to professional lack of having metal strength in the transfer market. The preferred option should be if Arsenal missed to sign their top most target in a window, they should cool it and wait for the next window to try their luck on the same target they were interested to sign or go after a different target that has come up.

   In the wise of these my afore sayings, I will implore Le Prof to try by all means to conclude his signing attempt of Kylian Mbappe early by making his 2nd bid plus Giroud (according to daily express media) in time so that Arsenal doesn’t miss on signing this potential marquee player who when he comes to Arsenal could vastly improved on his game and goalscoring ability for Arsenal than he been having for Monaco. Because this is Arsenal FC where player who wants to improved on their their game will as Sanchez has improved considerably since his arrival at Arsenal.

6. What a bonkers article full of massive inaccuracies
   For instance
   Solanke is still a Chelsea player and will be till 30/6. He in effect is being released at the end of his contract. He joins Liverpool on 1 July
   Schweinsteiger was released by Man Utd in March not May
   Pato, Miazgo,& Caulker and Eleney weren’t transferred in January 2017 you are a year out .
   As an aside my understanding is that Chelsea are trying to delay the announcement of signings till the new contract kicks in with Nike.
   Getting players in early is important when you have a major international tournament and yes there is a mini one in Russia but with most players returning from their holidays in a week or so that’s when things will start to hit up.

7. OT: Cheating players

   I think this is worse the PGMO.

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40283286

   You should not be jabbing opponents with a needle during the game.

   This guy needs to be banned for life.

8. ‘Willy Caballero, Jesus Navas, Gael Clichy, Bacary Sagna, Pablo Zabaleta,’ some great free bargains there .