Seven new players coming in, one more leaving as Arsenal’s transfers hot up.

23 Replies to “Seven new players coming in, one more leaving as Arsenal’s transfers hot up.”

1. What did these pundits and experts do before they got their football media job?

   Made be they planted trees as in-

   There were two blonde guys working for the city. One would dig a hole, the other would follow behind him and fill the hole in.

   They worked furiously all without rest, one guy digging a hole, the other guy filling it in again.

   An onlooker was amazed at their hard work, but couldn’t understand what they were doing. So he asked the hole digger,

   “I appreciate the effort you are putting into your work, but what’s the story? You dig a hole and your partner follows behind and fills it in again.”

   The hole digger wiped his brow and signed,

   “Well, normally we are a three-man team, but the guy who plants the trees is sick today.”

2. Mr Wenger understand one thing you’re old enough,thanks for your work done,go peacefully, nothing new from you next season,we gonna cry the same Since Wenger is still at the club.He can’t sign big strikers like Cavanni,Messi,Lewandowski,Abumyanga,Neyimar,he’s just arrogant. What Arsenal doesn’t have to sign like six big names,I wonder why that boss is not sucked he bought the club????Listen get Diego sieomeon,we lost Gwadiola just because of that arrogant manager, Robert am Ugandan in eastafrica,lives in LusakaZambia.wait they will sign one or three players.Wenger is Arsenal problems nothing else

3. Nice one , Charles , sounds like how most Government departments in my country function .
   The standing joke was that a new road gets built very quickly so that some politician can do the ribbon cutting official opening ceremony , especially near elections and with all the publicity and hot air .
   The very next day the long suffering public wanting to use this new facility show up , only to see that there are now excavators , tractors and other heavy vehicles , digging up the newly tarred road to lay the underground pipes , cables and what not !

4. I like to think that AW and the club would want to get all the business of transfers done , long before the uncertainty of the EUROS in France .
   And BREXIT !

5. Robert, if I may say so, it is always worth checking a little about the background of a site, and what its last few articles have said, before commenting.

6. Good Morning, Sir Hardly Anyone (?) 🙂

   That Post and the the ‘Transfer List’ summary is a work of love. I have often thought of trawling through the rumours, counter-rumours and innuendos, and then discounted doing so for two reasons.
   First the sheer stupidity of some of the ‘eyeing’, ‘linking’, ‘closing in’ or ‘preparing a bid’ comments just makes me mad – secondly, it was too much work to produce such a list – so well done for taking the task on.

   I would, of course, prefer to avoid being tagged as a concretian myself, but the worry is that I do have personal views on some players in our current squad who I think are ace, some I think are adequate, and some I think are not pulling their weight – so I had better keep those to myself.

   After all, it is better that I am perceived to be a fool, than to write a concretian comment and confirm it. 🙂

   A very interesting Post – thank you.

7. Perhaps I could add a couple of things to my previous comment.

   When typing ‘concretian’ auto-correct insists I intended concertina, but when Ii type concertina it allows it thru without a glance. Some form of word discrimination?

   Going against my earlier resolve to type nothing to avoid confirming I am a twit – I find it irresistible to admit that infuriatingly I lap up these bloody rumours, in the hope that one may be true, and the player concerned will be of the highest quality. Now that is foolish!! QED 🙂

8. Brickfields

   Yep. Expecting Utd, Chelsea and City to spend well over a hundred million each, with plenty of other prem clubs spending massive amounts, and Real and Barca also to go a bit nuts.

   In short, things seem sure to become crazier the longer the window goes on, as precedents are set, clubs get more desperate, selling clubs look at other fees,etc.

   One strange plus is that it ought to be harder for City, Chelsea or Utd, especially Utd, to plunder rival prem teams as they used to.

   I’d love it if we can get whatever we want done early- and there may be a window of opportunity given those three big hitters all have new managers. Would be terrific to be able to avoid the later craziness and get to enjoy rivals struggling with it.

9. In your list of current players I notice that before Alexis is leaving he has changed his squad number to 7 from the current number 17. 😉

10. We went through all this last season and for the most part were disappointed. By that I mean Arsenal support generally.
    Alright, so we wont be signing another seven, but I’d be surprised if it was less than three more (not counting Granit). One more marquee star plus a couple of younger “to develop” fringe players.
    More of interest to me will be the ones leaving. Could be some surprises.

11. Like HenryB, i do look at the rumours all the time, but being aware that they are just that, rumours and speculations.

    Then i can tick them off as 1:possible, 2:plain foolishness or 3:somewhere in between.

12. Only slightly off topic but I note with disgust that the annual con trick played on Arsenal supporters by way of yet more newly designed shirts, has already begun.
    I look forward to the day when either the designers run out of ideas or the powers that be at the Emirates become too ashamed over the way that the most loyal of supporters are being rooked season after season.
    I won’t hold my breath though.

13. Arsenal will stick to their policy of buying “top top” players and/or promising youngsters.

    Looks like Xhaka is a “done deal”. Not sure that was the area we most needed reinforcing? Let’s see what happens next?

    Other concern is the Euros and Copa America.

    I reckon that the following could all be called up:

    Ospina
    Cech
    Koscielny
    Wilshere
    Ozil
    Ramsey
    Giroud
    Alexis
    Campbell.

    Maybe not as bad as it could have been?

    And at least we won’t have a CL qualifier…

14. We don’t seem to hear much about Financial Fair Play anymore, is it still a factor or is it dead in the water?
    Tony, we had an oik award, how about a weekly Robert Award for the silliest comment.

15. It really, really frustrates me how many people actually believe each and every-single transfer story that they read on “Goonernews” or the likes. You see people commenting on each story like; “Why the fuk is Venga going for him, when we know xyx is available, because xyx is about to purchase him??! Stupid, blind, arrogant Venga at it again!!”

    I remember at the start of last season, people over on JustArsenal were absolutely crucifying Wenger for letting Chelsea get Pedro and how because of that they will certainly dominate the league. Do they not pause and think for just one second, that maybe, just maybe; they actually know very little about managing/running a football team? It’s either short-term memory, arrogance, stubbornness or plain-old stupidity.

16. Lets hope Xhaka is a done deal and we add a striker and defender to the ranks nice and early. After all, 100 million in TV money can be spent without touching our famous cash reserves.
    I totally agree about the ridiculous nature of transfer rumours – seems to be a journalistic loophole which allows them to knowingly publish untruths. I suspect labelling them rumours gives them free reign to print anything and they are happy to take advantage of fan’s hope in order to make money.
    I don’t know why so many are averse to spending though? We can be ultra sensible and have the following years operating costs in place, we can omit the CL money just in case of non qualification, yet we can still spend 50/60 million net every season. Easily.
    Stan Kroenke has made over a billion from our player sales and frugality. He could easily have granted us an interest free, long term loan to cover our debt in 2006. Instead, we had to sell, sell, sell to make the debt manageable. When will the fans realise the real problem at Arsenal? This problem is not going away. Doesn’t make a difference who is manager – unless we massively overachieve, we will never win the title as long as economy is the prime target.

17. Mick, have a look at financialfairplay.co.uk for the 16/17 regs

18. I thought we were finally going to get hold of Kalou after all these years trying…. 😀

19. It look like its bye bye LVG and hello Moaninho at ManU. Next season it will be interesting with the top managers in the world all competing in one league.

20. @ GoonerDave, copy from Arsenal annual accounts. The Board’s strategy.

    ‘The Board are committed to a self-sustaining business model within which the funds generated by the business are available for further investment into the Club with the aim of achieving an increased level of on-field success which ultimately translates into the winning of trophies.’

    Arsenal want to be ‘self-sustaining’ club without relying on someone else for financial assistance. In my opinion this is a good thing, as when the billionaires one day decide they are no longer interested in football, at least Arsenal can survive on its’ own.

21. A Robert award for silly comments – yep I’ll go with that.

    And meanwhile it looks like Alexis is not leaving !!!!!

    The Telegraph has just said…

    Arsenal launch new kit and appear to confirm Alexis Sanchez’s future at the club

22. I havent checked all of the comments but Wenger has a stadium named after him near his home town.

    http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-manager-inaugurates-stade-arsene-wenger-in-french-region-where-he-grew-up-a3254151.html

23. You heard it here first folks: Titus Bramble.