January 2023 Transfer Thread

[El Dangerous]

53 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

We should assure his father that either his son’s brain or his signature would be on the contract. 
 

 
Rumours of the club offering Ma’ Bellingham a moustache ride on Alisson Becker are so far unsubstantiated, but I’ll be using the image tonight nonetheless. I’ll be Ma’ Bellingham.

[Aventus]

1 hour ago, Scott_M said:

We should assure his father that either his son’s brain or his signature would be on the contract. 
 

Fuck it, why not? I love a good old story about a family being reunited. 

[3 Stacks]

48 minutes ago, Harrison Booth said:

I think Arsenal have been incredibly lucky rather than clever. They had so many old money grabbers on the books they had no choice but to shop for youth with lower wages. They had Odegaard and Dani Ceballos on loan because they couldn't afford to buy anyone at that time. They then had Saka and Martinelli come through at the same time, 2 fabulous players at the perfect time.

 

Then when the season of matches every 3 days comes they have a team full of energy. As we seen in 2014 momentum can gather quickly and confidence brings players further along than they have and right to be. Obviously they have made some good decisions along the way but they most certainly aren't a club we should be modelling ourselves on.

Yes, those are all good points. There's always some luck involved when teams like us, Spurs or Arsenal start dining at the top table with the mega rich. They couldn't turn it into trophies, but Spurs got similarly lucky with Kane and Dele Alli at the time. Players that just showed up out of nowhere. We got lucky with the Coutinho transfer in a way. And it does help Arsenal that they aren't in the Champions League this season.

 

But what Arsenal are doing right is they now have a tactical plan that works well and they found good players for reasonable fees that fit into those tactics. That should be the bread and butter for any club, but few are successful at doing that. They are currently doing it and there's something to be said for that.

 

 

[Pidge]

21 hours ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

Because he wants out, apparently.  Also they're a bit weird at the moment playing him and Griezmann as two 10's behind a hapless Morata. The Felix signing just hasn't worked out really, but he's still got big sale value to correct the team.  

 

Does he? Not actually sure about his assist stats, but they spend huge money on him a few years back, I don't think his value has gone up and even after accounting for depreciation I'm sure they'd make a loss. Hope for a successful loan is the only way they make money on him imo.

[Anubis]

2 hours ago, Scott_M said:

We should assure his father that either his son’s brain or his signature would be on the contract. 
 

We all dream of a club of Bellinghams, a club of….etc.

 

Is Ma Bellingham coming on board as a dinner lady at Kirby?

[Razoray]

2 hours ago, 3 Stacks said:

What Arsenal are doing is the equivalent of what we did, but without having spent the massive fees on van Dijk and Alisson. Granted, they haven't sold anybody for big money like we did. Even Keita cost us more than Ben White, who is the most expensive player in their eleven, and they don't have expensive depth either. It's not been some incredible show of wealth or ambition by their owners, they just know what they're doing, like we once did.

 

Mudryk would change that a bit. That looks like it will be an overpay, although he looks like a good player, and they're entitled to take a shot to try to win the league. 

They have a net spend of £280m in the past 3 years since Arteta was appointed. With no champions league football, that's a huge outlay. 

 

For comparison, Klopp's net spend is £245m in 7.5 years reaching 3 champions league finals and the knockout rounds every year. Their owners have spent big since Kroenke bought Usmanov out in 2018.

[3 Stacks]

43 minutes ago, Razoray said:

They have a net spend of £280m in the past 3 years since Arteta was appointed. With no champions league football, that's a huge outlay. 

 

For comparison, Klopp's net spend is £245m in 7.5 years reaching 3 champions league finals and the knockout rounds every year. Their owners have spent big since Kroenke bought Usmanov out in 2018.

Well yeah, they weren't not gonna spend, they were in precipitous decline in the final Wenger years and after that. They had to do something.

 

The way they have done it compared to a lot of clubs, though, is the way you have to do it, that's my point. They simply haven't often overpaid for players, and therefore, haven't made many mistakes in the market, and built a team with a fair few talented young players entering their prime, and there is room in their squad to add more.

 

They also couldn't really sell players for big fees like we could because the remnants of the big players from the prior regime were a shit show. They had to flush Aubameyang, Ozil and Lacazette down the toilet for nothing. That's not the fault of Edu or Arteta. Meanwhile, we've benefited from having stability, whereby after Klopp got rid of the people he wanted rid of in 2016, we could just build and build and develop and develop and sell players to fund other players.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Scott_M said:

We should assure his father that either his son’s brain or his signature would be on the contract. 
 

Can the mum do a job in the medical department?

[SasaS]

23 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Well yeah, they weren't not gonna spend, they were in precipitous decline in the final Wenger years and after that. They had to do something.

 

The way they have done it compared to a lot of clubs, though, is the way you have to do it, that's my point. They simply haven't often overpaid for players, and therefore, haven't made many mistakes in the market, and built a team with a fair few talented young players entering their prime, and there is room in their squad to add more.

 

They also couldn't really sell players for big fees like we could because the remnants of the big players from the prior regime were a shit show. They had to flush Aubameyang, Ozil and Lacazette down the toilet for nothing. That's not the fault of Edu or Arteta. Meanwhile, we've benefited from having stability, whereby after Klopp got rid of the people he wanted rid of in 2016, we could just build and build and develop and develop and sell players to fund other players.

 

Arsenal were doing that for years under Wenger, it was splashing out on the likes of Lacazete, Pepe et al. that was a deviation from the policy. 

 

And BTW the (relatively) recent rise of Spurs began when they lucked out with  Bale.

[joe_fishfish]

3 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

Arsenal were doing that for years under Wenger, it was splashing out on the likes of Lacazete, Pepe et al. that was a deviation from the policy. 

 

And BTW the (relatively) recent rise of Spurs began when they lucked out with  Bale.

Bale, Kane and Eriksen saved them an absolute fortune. They wouldn’t have got the stadium built without those three. Bale cost them almost nothing, was on a comparatively low wage, and was sold for a fortune. Kane has been world class for years now and cost them nothing, Eriksen again was world class and prepared to play for them for like £30k a week or something ridiculous.

 

Testament to Levy and his powers or negotiation I guess.

[3 Stacks]

20 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

Arsenal were doing that for years under Wenger, it was splashing out on the likes of Lacazete, Pepe et al. that was a deviation from the policy. 

 

And BTW the (relatively) recent rise of Spurs began when they lucked out with  Bale.

They were. And when they started paying bigger fees, that was actually their downfall. Wenger made some terrible choices on players in his later years. Before they paid 40 odd for Ozil in 2013, their prior transfer record was Jose Antonio Reyes from 2003! That's pretty incredible.

 

Was gonna add Bale to the Spurs luck thing, but they spent the money they got for him terribly. The eventual bounceback they made after he left was when Alli and Kane randomly became top players. And then they also found some really good players for pretty cheap.

[Chris]

2 hours ago, Aventus said:

Fuck it, why not? I love a good old story about a family being reunited. 

 

Cilla? Is that you? 

[TheHowieLama]

Arsenal fuckin hell

 

Past windows include

 

100 mil plus for Aubamayeng, Lacazette and Miktharyan

 

80 mil for Torreiera, Leno, Sokratis and Guendozi

 

100 mil plus Pepe and Tierney

 

60 mil on their "right back" in addition to 20 mil on their other right back

 

70 mil on Viera and Zinchenko

 

[sir roger]

57 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Can the mum do a job in midfield

 

Let's hope so

[Bobby Hundreds]

Just give Klopp the players he wants and we can all be friends!

[Anubis]

Bellingham’s mum looks like a member of the Dora Milaje, so I’d like to apologise to her for anything we’ve written that might have offended her, and to point out that Captain Turdseye made us do it.

[3 Stacks]

21 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Arsenal fuckin hell

 

Past windows include

 

100 mil plus for Aubamayeng, Lacazette and Miktharyan

 

80 mil for Torreiera, Leno, Sokratis and Guendozi

 

100 mil plus Pepe and Tierney

 

60 mil on their "right back" in addition to 20 mil on their other right back

 

70 mil on Viera and Zinchenko

 

Are those last two lines supposed to be bad?

[Reckoner]

50 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Arsenal fuckin hell

 

Past windows include

 

100 mil plus for Aubamayeng, Lacazette and Miktharyan

 

80 mil for Torreiera, Leno, Sokratis and Guendozi

 

100 mil plus Pepe and Tierney

 

60 mil on their "right back" in addition to 20 mil on their other right back

 

70 mil on Viera and Zinchenko

 

Shhh Arsenal are the torch bearers now for all of football. Their sustained period of success is now spanning an incredible 5 months, landing them a massive haul of zero trophies.

We should copy them in every way.

[Crazy Dave]

41 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Bellingham’s mum looks like a member of the Dora Milaje, so I’d like to apologise to her for anything we’ve written that might have offended her, and to point out that Captain Turdseye made us do it.

 

On that note of offending mothers, we'd also better hope that Danielle Smith (or her Ma) haven't since gone onto produce a future generational footballer that has the potential to come in and solve all of our problems. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

Arsenal fuckin hell

 

Past windows include

 

100 mil plus for Aubamayeng, Lacazette and Miktharyan

 

80 mil for Torreiera, Leno, Sokratis and Guendozi

 

100 mil plus Pepe and Tierney

 

60 mil on their "right back" in addition to 20 mil on their other right back

 

70 mil on Viera and Zinchenko

 

Doing it the right way!

[TheHowieLama]

49 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Are those last two lines supposed to be bad?

Umm, yea - White is not a RB, they could have got a world class fullback for that.

The other two have played about 1000 minutes combined this year - they are gash as well.

[Lee909]

Can't wait for another club to sign so e random midfielder from France or Austria and the twitter knobheads to start screaming about how he'd be perfect and we are fools. A bit like they did when we didn't sign Patson Daka

 

I mostly wrote this to say how fucking shit Patson Daka is

[Lee909]

Arsenal are really benefitting from no champions league football you can progress quote far in the Europa with a fringe team of squad players and kids. 

 

If we can get in a few decent midfielders in the summer even with missing out on top 4 then we should be able to do the same next year

[Kevin D]

20 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Feels like we're just hoping something changes with a target, and we can react in an opportunistic manner. Everything is framed around saving pennies for Bellingham.

 

If he doesn't arrive in the summer, this could be our dumbest transfer saga ever.

Nothing will ever top selling Suarez and replacing him with Markovic, Balotelli and Lambert.

 

In 500 years people will still be looking back to marvel at the sheer incompetence.

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Arsenal are really benefitting from no champions league football you can progress quote far in the Europa with a fringe team of squad players and kids. 

 

If we can get in a few decent midfielders in the summer even with missing out on top 4 then we should be able to do the same next year

They’re also benefiting from every other so called top team being shit this season.