What happened to the 134 players said to be coming to Arsenal last summer?

6 Replies to “What happened to the 134 players said to be coming to Arsenal last summer?”

1. 134 examples of Bloody stupid “journalism”. In other words: Blah, blah, blah.

2. It’s interesting to note where the ones that actually did move ended up.

   Taking a cursory look, quite a few were signed by the “wealthy” clubs e.g. Man City, Chelsea, PSG, Barca, Juve etc. So from that I’d suggest that even if we had wanted them, we would not have been able to compete on a financial level so any thought of them moving to us was pretty much nonsense.

   Others ended up at what I would consider lesser clubs (no offence) i.e. EPL teams we would expect to consistently out perform. I would therefore suggest that in many cases we weren’t interested enough as, by and large, Arsenal would be a more attractive target, likely to pay higher wages (unless of course the players in question had heard about how unforgiving the referees, the media and some fans are towards the team!).

   The one I find the most intriguing, however, is Nikola Maksimovic who left Napoli and is still a free agent. So in fact either nobody wanted him or his demands were so unreasonable nobody would consider him……..yet apparently he was good enough for us! So clearly we are so slow at doing our transfer business we’ve still not managed to sign somebody who nobody else wants 🙂

   I still, however, think you are overly generous to the media. Can they really be given credit for the handful of rumours they got right when even those claims are made quite late in the process when the story has become common knowledge. Indeed, even if the did make the claim months before, they still deserve no credit since, for me, it’s a question of monkeys and typewriters.

   All in all, the hard work you guys at UA put in every summer does, as you rightly claim, show the media up for the charlatans they are. Well done.

3. You have surely done this story to death. In asmuch that you have alerted Arsenal fans to be very cautious about believing any transfer speculation, you have done us a service.
   But any sports journalist or blogger reading your articles may be laughing. Their job is to interest and entertain their football loving audience. Feeding us with crap about things we are interested in is all part of the game. The “truth” hardly comes into it. In asmuch as you are drawing attention to what they write, sometimes providing links, aren’t you just playing their game?

4. But nevertheless important Hans, because after Arsenal don’t sign these players the media then blame Arsenal for being too slow, incompetent, having owners with their hands in the till, etc. The blame is handed over to Arsenal whereas it lies fair and square with the media.

5. I thought Hans Andersson was a Christian.

6. Dublin Gooner

   Surely the media have done making up transfer stories and then slagging off Arsenal to death, but it doesn’t stop them does it ? No.

   So why should we (Untold and many of us regulars) stop highlighting the insanity of it all, especially as in my humble opinion it actually has a negative effect on our fan base, and as a consequence on our team.

   If you think making this **** up, and it’s subsequent effect on our team, is all fine and dandy, that’s up to you, but don’t knock people who are prepared to call them out for the charlatans they are.

   Personally I detest the media and how they treat my beloved team and will continue to call them out at every opportunity.