So as we approach the final minutes of the January transfer window, I think we all calm down now and be happy with what we have achieved.
The plan was to increase the depth of the squad for the assault on the Premier League title and the Europa League, and also to get in an able deputy as a midfield back up.
We also got the urgent cover for Martinelli and Saka that we needed, so I reckon we can say it has been a successful window in that respect.
Yes, we didn’t get any of the mega money deals we were hoping for, but it could also be a relief that we didn’t pay 100 million for Mykhailo Mudryk, and now we hear that we have not allowed ourselves to be taken to the cleaners by Brighton, although it seems they just weren’t interested in selling in the first place….
🚨 Understand Moisés Caicedo deal with Arsenal is now completely off. No further talks will follow. #DeadlineDay
Brighton never changed their stance: no intention to accept £60m or £70m proposals. Plan has always been to keep Caicedo.
Arsenal will announce Jorginho soon. pic.twitter.com/uagUr2wypl
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) January 31, 2023
So, the facts are, that we have bought some excellent players without breaking the bank, and we achieved our objectives.
That’s good enough for me!
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I agree, PAT! Please don’t faint with shock though!
I’m reading that #eduout has been trending today. What on earth is wrong with some Arsenal fans???
What an ungrateful bunch some people really are.
Not long ago, he was a hero for some of his signings. Now, just cos we didnt make a marquee signing, they want him out.
The question id like to ask fellow gooners is that do they think our squad wouldve been stronger just by signing Mudryk alone, or are we actually stronger cos we’ve signed two very good players with essential PL experience plus a youngster in Kiwor?
And before people reply re the Jorginho signing – have they actually looked at his stats over the last 2 seasons? Dare i say, it’s more than a match for Partey. And whilst Jorginho wont be in our starting XI, he will provide very good cover for the EL and allow Partey to rest.
What do fellow Gooners think?
Ric,
I think you are absolutely correct and I am so mad at these so called gooners who want Edu out, that I just want to slap them in the face to wake them up.. How dare they???? Thanks god there are normal fans like you with common sense .
Thank you
jon fox! My heavens – just teasing. I also agree, I think that this is pretty reasonable – and as ric ionta said below – the edu out crowd needs to take a peak at the table.
We are five points clear and ahead of anybody’s schedule to be competitive.
Leandro , Jacub and Jorginho welcome to the greatest club of the world
Hmmm … not sure we have been turned over so many times in the transfer market by Chelsea – Willian seems to be making an effort at Fulham, which he certainly wasn’t doing at Arsenal. Hope this isn’t 12 million wasted ….
Would you perform if the fans of your new club spew so much vitriol your way before you even arrived for day one? In this age of social media, he was well aware of it, and it undoubtedly affected his performance in an Arsenal shirt.
It’s not over till the fat lady sings…….. no sexism intended.
Basically it’s not done till the clock strikes 11pm tonight.
Shocking signing to say the least.
I can’t fathom how our only 2 midfield targets were overpriced Calcedo and aging Jorginho as back up plan. And we actually now have less midfielders than we had at the beginning of the season with ASL gone and Elnenys season over.
No doubt Jorginhos agent is buddy buddies with Edu, as the player is once again born Brazilian.
Does it ever occur to Edu just WHY Chelsea are so eager to let their players join Arsenal? Luiz, Willian..
In the case of Jorginho, Chelsea have been trying to extend his contract for months.they just couldn’t find an agreement,in my book that doesn’t make him a Chelsea reject.
I see what you did there with the header pic 👍😂
You’re damn very right. His stats are better than TP in some ways. He’s an upgrade on elnenys. Check that out.
Looks like the proposed loan move of Cedric to Fulham has fallen through.Not surprising given his ludicrous salary.
Only took 30 days for that deal to fall off. I’m telling you, Edu can’t negotiate for Jack. No doubt Jorginho was given pay raise up to 150k a week just so we can’t get rid of him in the summer without releasing him.
I don’t understand your stance on Edu. I thought there was a specific contracts man at the club?
Yes SueP, the fellas name is Richard Garlick. Obviously going on his posts, DaJuhi has a massive problem with Edu.
Jorginho deal is not bad
In fact it could only mean we are investing big in midfield in summer
It also means Mo time at the club is up
A stop gap measure to help steady the ship
We went big twice (mudryk and caisedo), on both occasions we didn’t go beyond £70m mark which shows we would not be spending over £75m for any players this year imo
£150k a week is average of what big clubs pay this day, we are now back as elite champions league club, we should start behaving so.
I bet Saka and others will start earning same
We have just offered the Egyptian pirlo a year extension.
Elneny will be given a one year extension. That is what Arsenal does for injured players in the last six months of their contract. [Santi Cazorla]. Both men are and were great servants to Arsenal Football Club.
We’re extending Elneny too btw. As much as I love the guy, we don’t need him if we just signed Jorginho. End of the day this IS a football club and not a charity so don’t understand why we aren’t letting Mo go especially with our latest purchase. I know ppl will get mad at me for bringing this up after he just suffered an injury, but it just doesn’t make sense to me.
It may be a business deal. He is 30 and could still draw a small transfer fee in the Turkish league where he is held in high esteem.
Don’t get thr Elneny extension either.
@Yankee Gunner,
Extending his contract by 1 year will cost thr club roughly 3 million in wages alone. I highly doubt any club wants to buy him, especially now that he has torn his ACL. He’s fit next December and getting an extension for that. I don’t get it.
thats true. During the summer tho he’ll be coming off a long injury so puts a very big question mark over him. Would make more sense to wait until he is fit again. But I do get that Mo has been here a while and having him leave on a free when he is still injured would be cruel.
Here lies the problem,fans want/demand loyalty from their players, well it goes both ways .
Hopefully Grandad, when the apparent irregular dealings of a particular past senior employee are out of contract, we will return to normal service
Agree with the article. The signings look fine in view of what was possible, what was sensible – and the injury to Elneny with 2 weeks to the end of the window.
I think Trossard could be a great signing at a good price and Kiwi seems a prospect too. The otehr is just forced by circumstances and we’ll hope he only plays when a game is won and we take a chance to give Partey a rest for the last half hour or so.
The real concern for me is the striker role with Jesus still out for a while, Nketian needs to stay fit and keep delivering. But there are players who fill the role and January has never been the time for big signings (seems nobody told Chelsea that though).
Signing Jorginho is a good peice of business, am actually surprised Chelsea sanction this deal.
Pep Guardiola actually wanted to sign Jorginho to play in the exact role Rodri is playing in just now.
Jorginho is no stranger to the number six role as that’s the position he played in Sarri ball, he could even be thrown in at Merseyside come Saturday.
This is smart by Arsenal and a mature move when taking into account what happens recently between the two clubs.
This will leave back some £70 mil plus in the war chest that can goes towards Declan Rice purchase in the summer .
Arsenal will still haggle West Ham to death over the amount for Rice. Other clubs act faster than us. I see it going the way of Mudryk again. Sending in at least 2-3 offers we 100% know are going to get rejected and wasting valuable time on a very important transfer. We’ve got to be more decisive. If we didn’t want to pay Mudryk’s price we should’ve walked away weeks ago.
NO! Not at all. It won’t be £12m wasted by Arsenal in their signing of Chelsea’s Jorginho on this winter deadline day transfer deal makings today.
But it will by God’s grace turnout to be £12m wisely spent by Arsenal to invest. That will yield high dividends for the club at the end and becomes an absolute steal.
By and large to me. Arsenal have had a very successful January transfer window signings this season. For their reinforcing in signings Lesandro Trossard, Jakub Kiwior and Jorginho for a stronger depth having. And for this their success achieved. I congratulate Arsenal immensely.
Once again Edu and Co fall short this will cost Arsenal the Premiership in the end. Why do Arsenal always go after players that they have no intention of buying because they won’t spend the money and end up buying dead wood. One thing I can say about Arsenal is they never fail to disappoint.
These signings are very fantastic ones. You’ll see wen they’re put into action. Look at Leandro, he was very good against Man city.
What a deluded prawn sandwich fan ,so you conclude this is a great window when we missed onour main targets muryk and caicedo ????and end up with washed up 31 yo chelsea reject which his fee will help them offset the wages of our main target mudryk ??? Are we a big club or not ? If yes then we should act like a big club and if you target its “muryk ” you go and stomp out the cash you dont dilly dally around,and caicedo saga if edu wanted him which i seriously think we needed him because hes young and can develope into world class cm ,did we learn anything at all when we got luiz and willian 2 chelsea reject or did you think at that time thry were great additions aswell ,the point is edu its useless ,i wouldnt be if we bottle it and dont even make it 4th this season of course you will say im not a fan etc,..
really, the window is going to see us fall to 4th. and you are calling the optimists delusional…
So you think Mudryk is worth 85m pounds?
Has he played at the highest Level?
Has Grealish justified the 100m pounds Man city paid for his services? How many goals and assists does Grealish Have in a City shirt?
Has Anthony Justified the 70m pounds Man united paid for him? Was he outstanding against Arsenal at the Emirates?
Did Lukaku live up to the hype? Chelsea wasted 97m pounds on Lukaku. Lukaku is a shadow of himself now
Can any sensible club pay 80m pounds for Lukaku right now?
Is Caicedo worth 60m pounds? We offered 70m pounds for the guy but the club wanted more. They were not willing to sell. But they were waiting to see if Arsenal or Chelsea would be dumb enough to pay 90m pounds for a Defensive midfielder who has won nothing.
He hasn’t even played in Europe.
I am happy with the players we bought. January was about squad depth. Jorginho has experience at the highest level. You need this personality in the dressing room as you push for the title.
AC Milan had Zlatan(40 years) and Giroud(35 years) last season.
Arteta knows what he is doing. Let us support the team. We need a positive energy.
We should support Jorginho whenever he wears the Arsenal shirt.
SAA,
Thank you buddy for being so reasonable.
There are some idiots here who are not happy and that just mean how many stupid ppl there are even among our great Arsenal fan base.
SAA please mind the language, everyone is entitle to their opinion
It’s a shocker of a transfer window we may never be in this position again to win the prem league and what do Arsenal do buy nothing more than decent players could have made a real statement and bought in 3 top class players got no chance of winning it now city will walk it watch the wheels come off big time!
People like you just never tire to complain and condemn. It’s appalling. Nothing is ever good enough for people like you.
Of alan p . S off mark its absolutely right
There’s a good argument to have that disturbing the first team with three elite players would disrupt and derail the dressing room. The aim this season was to get top four, the lads have been outstanding and I’m willing to keep backing them for the rest of the season, so it seems is Arteta, the players he’s brought in rectify, current issues in the immediate squad. Cover for Gabriel, rotation and cover for saka and martinelli and replacement for the injured elneny, who’s actually a much better player and we now have valid rotation for xhaxa.
we retain a lot of money for the summer and didn’t get taken for mugs with ridiculous valuations.
I’m glad we didn’t pay 80m for casiedo or 100m for mudryk.
Plenty of money for the summer means we can buy an elite level player and he can blend with the squad better before the season begins.
Tojo, i fully expect not to get Rice after the way we handled this window. We are just too frugal and if we want Rice there is going to be nothing frugal about the price tag West Ham will put on him. It’s going to have to blow away our current record fee by quite a distance.
Bravo Tojo,
Spot on. I am so pist off with all complainers here.
Miserable people .
Thank God ,there are good fans like you.
Lets support Arsenal and stop crying like babies.
I guess these are the same idiots who were crying for Uzil.
Jorginho is such an underwhelming signing. And with Lokonga gone we’re even weaker in midfield lol
So we go after 2 70+ million players get none ? Can understand failing with one but both ! Raises doubt on serious intentions to sign players in that range.
With current squad and number of points Arsenal can still be in top 3 but such opportunities to win PL won’t come soon again especially while other 3-4 clubs are spending madly to improve
With respect, who is spending madly that will challenge us this year for the title?
Man City aren’t spending madly.
ManU aren’t spending madly. Nor are Spurs, Newcastle, Brighton or Liverpool.
That leaves Chelsea. Clearly spending madly but are 21 points behind us and have played one more game.
Those who are spending madly won’t challenge this year but will make it more difficult for Arsenal next year and after that until Arsenal can do the same. Where as this year there is more probability to win with bit more quality on the bench & cover for the injury.
This is where we re now…lets focus on the next game. January transfers is best known for back up players (Injury to player) and we dont have them now.
Those who spent madly will meet us when the Full transfer is open and we will match them madly.
Could still be a twist in the tail as I wouldnt be surprised to see an athletic midfielder come in on loan.
If it doesn’t happen though, I’d still say job well done:
–Two of the three incomings should hit the ground running and hopefully Kiwior can as well.
— Excellent loans for Marquinhos and Lokonga
— We didn’t panic and recall Balogun and Patino. Both are developing nicely on loan a la Saliba last year
— Plenty of money for top targets in summer with exciting names likely to be on the move
Now focus on Everton – always a tough time to play a team with a new manager.
Why are some of the fans so short sighted, the reason some fans are arguing is because of league position we are at the moment. £12 million Gorginhio is cheap for sure but in bigger picture if costs us the title then will this be looked as a wise signing. We will not get a better chance to win the title then this based on how we are playing and amount of points we have gathered. We have broken all our previous record so we needed were some class signing to get us over the line but instead we got linked we two £70 mil player and ended up with Chelsea discard. Now all you guys can sing as many praise of Gorginhio you can and trust the process slogan but that won’t make Gorginhio into Kante or Casemero.
@Logic, It is what it is! It’s done. This is who we are now and Jorginho is our player! Personally, I didn’t like the sound of it, but after a winded walk in the park I’ve made peace with myself. Let’s get behind the team and hope our first 11 stay fit then we wont have to worry about that Jorginho.
I agree with you, I would never blame the player and will always support a player in Arsenal shirt currently playing even if I don’t like him. But I don’t agree with this philosophy that Edu can not make blunders because he has proven track record for it.
@Logic, just pipe down. Gosh!
After 19 games, how many 70 and 80 million pound players do we have in our ranks? How is the much-maligned manager doing with the team he supposedly cannot manage?
The gaffer is happy with the three players obtained. Two of them have extensive premier league experience. What more do you want? The previous complaint is that the team lacks depth. That concern has been assuaged, only to lead to more complaints from fans who are never satisfied.
All that glitters is not gold. If Arsenal does not win the league this season, it certainly won’t be because of the January transfer window.
Imho we are one midfielder light, Jorginho is the back up in the single pivot position for Partey but who is a cover for Xhaka? Or are we expecting him to start every game from now until the end of the season, just look at our March and April fixture list in particular which is very congested when the Europa Leagues returns.
Seems like we are banking on Mo’s quick recovery. The guy is a machine, he aggravated his hamstring for 30 mins vs Fulham yet still came back earlier than expected.
I doubt if we’ll see him before next season (if then) as he’s going to have an operation on the injured knee.
I just checked. He’s already had an operation and would be out for an extended period of time actually. Gutted for him, one of the coolest guys around, zero drama just does his job silently.
Zinchenko or ESR but most likely there is no cover because Xhaka doesn’t get tired and doesn’t get injured. He’s made of granite…
How strange, doing what Brighton do, raising young Athletic men to sell, used to be called slave trading. Caicedo wanted to better himself…..why not? Greedy Brighton modern slave traders.
I had the same thought too. Caicedo, who earns about 3K, pw was denied the opportunity to earn close to 1OOK. Qatar world cup wages in the premier league!!
I have to say that most of us would welcome £156,000 pa.
@SueP,
If you would be the lowest paid employee at your company although being the most efficient, you wouldn’t be happy making 10x less than some other scrubs at the company. Nevermind what the salary is.
He signed the contract- or his agent did.
Saka is on considerably less than other team members and his salary will improve as his contract updates. The same will apply to Caicedo who clearly could not have been the hot potato then as he is now
He appears to consider himself underpaid as he wants much more money to support a very large family of ten brothers & sisters back home in Ecuador. Not that Arsenal or BHA are responisble for his parents slack attitude to family planning.
Exactly @SueP – slaves, by definition, don’t get paid a penny, let alone £156k pa.
I wonder if the same slave nonsense would’ve been raised if we’d been talking about one of the paler members of Brighton’s squad.
Some of the posters here… sigh.
IDKWIC, when I read many of the hysteria driven , self entitled nonsense on this thread from, in the main, younger fans with little life experience, I despair at how foolish and reactionary many of them are.
” Fifa is a joke” is the single worst of all and sounds to me, in MOST of his spiteful posts, very like a troll.
MANY OF THESE “KIDS” ARE MORE ANTI SUPPORTERS THAN ACTUAL SUPPORTERS.
Either way, he( Fifa etc) has not a clue what being a proper SUPPORTER means!
jon, You should read his recent rant against BHA owner Tony Bloom. I think he is actually close to being a troll, but then sometimes he puts in a worthy comment or two.
How would you react if Saka or Saliba wanted to leave and Arsenal reacted in the same way Brighton did?
Do you think we did enough to convince the young guns (Saliba and Saka) as well as the fanbase, that we would spend whatever is necessary to back our title ambitions for this year?
my question to comment above by Voyageur.
Can’t get inside their heads but I suspect that it would take more than a couple of £80m signings to convince them. I’d think playing style (tick); great atmosphere (tick); good manager (tick) champions league football (probable tick) would all factor in.
But the main factor will be what is on offer in terms of the new contract.
This is the best chance we have to win the league and then player see us bring these type of cheap over the hill sort of players. I would not be surprised if Saliba moves onto Madrid or PSG where he will get way more money and chances to win way more trophies as well. If we don’t win league in coming 2-3 years I can see Saka leaving as well.
Yup this was a crucial window. If there was ever a time to go all out, it was now. If things work out then GREAT, and the club can pat themselves on the back for saving money in the process. If things don’t work out, then its a total disaster and we’ll all look back at January and ask the club why they didn’t push harder for certain players.
First chance at the title in NINTEEN years. I just expected Edu and co. to have more of a fire and be less cautious in the market. Will hope everything works out and we are all happy at teh end of the season
I believe we still have a chance despite Edu’s disgraceful fumbles that I’ve repeatedly stated. If we can keep our starting 11 fit for at least 13 PL games then we are set. Fingers crossed.
Why are most of us missing the timeline here, we had two full windows which included one whole summer window and we could not get a decent DM. That is a failure no matter what anyone says. If it was not important then why did we try for Luiz right at the end of last window and now Cacedo again right at the end. Now fingers crossed Party remains fit for rest of whole season otherwise we are messed up.
I’m surprised and disappointed that it seems like we haven’t even considered a move for Amrabat, with Fiorentina prepared to let him leave on loan with an obligation to buy for €30M-€40M. When watching him I saw him display similar qualities to Partey, obviously not to the same level but he is definitely more like for like ro Partey than Jorginho.
“So as we approach the final minutes of the January transfer window…”
Last few minutes? I thought it was 11pm not 5pm…
Or was that meant to read “last few hours”?
Jorginho is a very good signing especially at 12M which is nothing these days in football.when you consider that Forrest paid 10M for Chris Wood,I mean no offense.anyway,like Trossard he will hit the ground running,bring experience and calmess to the team.he may not be TP but he is pretty good at covering the back 4,better than Mo technically.all he has to do is release the ball to MØ,Saka…his experience is great,he is good at setting/slowing the tempo which our team doesn’t know how to do it, it’s always 100 miles/hour with us.as for next summer,Mo will be out of contract, Lokonga will sold or loan so will AMN and few more…so I have no worries when it comes to number.
Siamos another deluded fan
Deluded am I?would you mind to elaborate?
I think it’s the only word he knows. Probably doesn’t know what it means though.
Just another oik who can only communicate in cliches.
Probably a spud – pass the ketchup?
🤣🤣🤣lmaooo
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Siamois,
You are correct. Frankie is some kid or a crazy guy.
Don’t even bother to ask him or answer him.
You need to stop trolling commenters on this blog with your continous “deluded” refererences.
I am mortified at some of the comments flying about
Edu should be sacked. We are falling apart
Come on. get a reality check
We have 3 decent signings to strengthen the squad
Will say again to strengthen the squad
2 proven prem players with experience and don’t need to settle in
We complained when we didnt sign and some complain when we do
You pay top dollar in Jan for players. We needed to add to the squad with proven prem players for as little as possible which we have done
We have 19 hard games coming up in the league, europa as well.
GJ coming back will be like a new signing
Let’s not get wobbly and lose faith now when everything is in front of us to win
Onwards and upwards
Quite right too, Alanball08 A lot of hysterical ranting going on it seems to me.
Definitely onwards and upwards
AB, make a note of what these negative fans are saying – it will come in handy at the end of the season 😂😂😂😂
Likewise Alan. No idea what lit their fuse. Bizarre.
Ok guys let me ask you a question, do you think if Party sustains an injury which keeps him out for next 10 games or so then that will make Gorginhio regular, do you think we can still win the title? Don’t answer it emotionally but logically. He is 31, set in his slow playing style which does not suit us as we play different style and fast paced football. He is not part of long term project either, he is clearly out of form n on decilne as he can not even get into struggling injury struck Chelsea side om regular basis. If you see him this n last season as well he plays sideways or backwards most of his passes so how is he going to be good fit for us. As a backup player when you want to rest party after we scored 2 or 3 goals yes but if you have to start him in probably 10 games from remaining then there goes the title.
Arsenal should change their name to Aldi.
I am really very unhappy with this window.
Look a Chelsea , Man Utd they don’t have any problem getting the players they want. What the hell is going on at Arsenal it like they want to be an also ran club.
Yer right…
And look where they are in the league
Below us if you last checked
640m later and 21 points behind. They are really doing well when it comes to getting the right players in
3-2 and 11 clear of manure.
Look forward to your comments at the end if the season when it is us who sit proudly top
The way Chelsea is recruiting and the players they will end up with next season probability is they will be very strong, we have not won the title this season yet as well. Plus Chelsea are serial winners. Looked what happened to us and them after invincible year. Don’t deceive yourself on half a season table. The issue with Arsenal all these years has been that we did not strengthen ourself because of different reasons and stood still while our rivals did n kept picking up trophies. So if we would have signed quality young players or class player in prime that would have not only really helped us in our title push this season but would have kept us in strong competitive shape for seasons to come.
First,nothing stops us to go back for our targets this summer.secondly,Chelsea have bought 17 new players, I’m pretty sure they plan a clear out this summer. As we did,they will find out how difficult it is to move on players on very high wages.the clubs interested will bargain big time.i expect them to let players go for free or next to nothing,contracts terminated/bought off, loans and more loans (does that sound familiar?)
Well said Siamois
Thanks SueP!
Well we are already helping them out buy one of their dead wood plus Chelsea are renowned for bagging good deals when selling players on.
You should change your affiliation if you are unhappy with this transfer window. You won’t be missed.
@Eddie Dandy: Go support one of those clubs, then.
Arsenal Football Club is being run prudently. We will not pay over the odds for any player, no matter how good they are.
Okay window. Trossard a great buy. Jorginho is…. i’m still not sure how I feel about it. It’s technically better than Lokonga backup, but still pretty underwhelming. Think the club wasted WAY too much time going after deals they were never fully 100% committed on stumping up the money for. A lot of effort went into Mudryk and it seems only Arsenal thought it was ever going to happen. Our transfer dept still has a lot to learn. Overall a C+ window. Thrilled with Trossard, eh on Jorginho. Kiwior is TBD but will trust our scouting did its just there.
If I may ask, does signing cacedo guarantee us the premier league trophy? Or does Mudrikh guarantee us the trophy? I think we have a good first eleven, and what we needed is just back ups until the end of the season which I think we got Cacedo might end up being a flop, there is no guarantee that he is going to be a super star, though he has flashes of that. So let hope for the best. Am very optimistic because I’ve seen us play against the best in the premier league and we have been able to give a good account of ourselves.
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Well said
You can’t win anything with kids
Well the kids have had a few season under there belt and ready
We have just added a bit more experience to the SQUAD
if the players we have just brought in step up and come to fight for the position then all the better as the players in that position will have to raise there game even further.
We haven’t bought these players as bench warmers or immediate first team choices
I am looking forward to healthy competition and be even better then the last 19 games
If we wanted Mudryk and Caicedo but ended up with Trossard and Jorginho is that a success. Well Trossard and Jorginho need no bedding in. Trossard we have seen in red and may well be better than Mudryk in the short term. Jorginho worries me. He does not play at the same intensity as Thomas Partey so I’ll wait till he wears red and I see him play our system. Trossard is excellent though and I think we have a goodun who may be our best bit of business.
There’s a serious downturn in the quality of posts and posters in the last day or two.
It seems a new group (or maybe they’re not all new) has started posting utter tosh denigrating the recruitment team with all sorts of wild, entitled nonsense.
There’s no point in engaging with them individually, they’re beyond reason. And some of them are getting downright insulting to some other folk who are being reasonable in their language and posting what I see as common sense in saying that it’s been a decent transfer window.
And actually some of the grief posters I’ve never seen post much of anything before so I’m a tad suspicious.
If this is what it used to be like then I’m surprised some of you older posters are still here.
Yes I think I very already pinpointed one clear troll. We only want intelligent conversation on her…
I do care…
I hope you’re referring to the troll called Frankie
@Pat good man.
And good to know you’re wielding the… what’s the name of those kitchen utensils for turning spuds into mash?
Admin pat how do I get to change my picture profile
Ad PAT I also agree that a certain amount of thre hystercal posts by know nothing, self entitled kids, are so insulting to our club. AND that at least SOME of these who write ridiculous unthinking rubbish, are actually TROLLS. I ask you to ban anyone who is a troll. There is much evidence against both Fifa is a joke and also Frankie, when you read ALL their posts. You ought, IMO, to at least give them both a stern warning not to repeat their arrant nonsense. JA ought to be for committed GOONERS ONLY, IMO.
Why can’t you guys be realistic these are comprise deals, players who in a couple of years will be driftwood they are not players Arsenal will be taking into the future. Jorginho is washed up. He cost Italy a place in the World Cup and Chelsea simply have no use for him. It’s so disappointing. Obviously Edu settled for another “mate”. The best we can hope for is that these new guys can plug in some holes and not do too much damage to the team’s balance and rythme. And just when I was starting to believe that Arsenal were serious contenders.
It’s also funny or should I say hypocritical that the same people who have been passionately arguing for months that Arsenal did not need Tielemans are now putting up the shutters to defend Jorginho’s signing. As a replacement for Elneny, I say ok, sure. As someone to win trophies and compete in Champions league, I say too little, too late
I’ve read elsewhere that Lakonga has gone to Palace on a loan. Makes good sense with Jorginho coming in, and Patrick will help with his developement
I am not understanding all the vitriol towards our new signings. We are top of the league with a first 11 that can compete with any club on the planet. The January transfer window is notorious for serving up mediocre players at inflated costs. We needed cover and that’s what we got. We also kept our powder dry for for those marquee signings in the summer. I for one believe that our business dealings this window have been on the mark, but only time will tell. So to all the nay sayers and there is many, critise after the season, not during which may save you from writing protracted articles defending yourself from previous opinions.
I must admit the Sabitzer loan to Man U took me by surprise.
Could be a very good piece of business.
I am happy to see our new additions, hope they all give us more than our money’s worth. I have long believed a patch up player would be our imminent reality. As far as that strategy is concerned, we achieved the goal.
On a separate note, I am really sick and tired of this January window as the excuse idea. Party is injury prone and that is nothing new, we lost our top four bid last season exactly for that reason. We knew we needed an alternative. What were we doing last summer? We waited until the last moment and failed. We looked like DM were never our priority. The same fiasco was on again this January, we spent most of the time chasing a winger. For that very reason, it looks like we inherited AW’s very deficiency of not beefing up our defense. I blame Edu for this as he failed to demonstrate our ambition or capacity to recruit top players. Maybe we are not the club that bets on top priced talents, then this current position we are in is even more precious.
I am still in full support of our club to fight for that long overdue EPL championship. But if…, this January is a traceable cause, and last summer was a seriously wasted opportunity. I hope we won’t need to come back to this at the end of this season. We want to break out of a trophy-less (major ones) cycle that engulfed us for so long, a championship will start a new chapter, more sustainable and more exciting, which takes some initial deposits.
For those who always label any criticism as negativity, we can agree to disagree and I very much look forward to seeing us lifting that championship trophy, we deserve to enjoy some luck every now and then, it shall be our turn this time.
The ugly heads are suddenly out of the shells right now. These ungrateful, unintelligent and insufferable morons think they are at a funfair with their poor parents buying colour candies.