in the light of the tone of a lot of the articles on this board.
If we had made the signings of Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud all on the days leading up to and the actual deadline day itself, then would most of the negative posters on this site be saying that it was a good bit of business, praising our now more that adequate squad?
I appreciate that in this situation, that most people would have been ridiculously frustrated that we had signed no big names up until the last minute. But ask yourself that question, and I think you'd be surprised.
I think it's seeing clubs around us doing the majority of their transfer business in the last few days available that causes the frustration, not the actual signings we have made.
Let's face it, most of us expected RVP to leave regardless, and the amount of posters I have seen completely slating Song and talking up Coquelin I've lost count of. It's a fickle world out there.
Just a quick hypothetical question
posted on 1/9/12
The timing of the ins and outs is irrelevant, the window has seen AFC become more vulnerable to 'relegation' from the top 4
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if that's how you see if fair enough. but it seems to me that a lot of people have had a knee jerk reaction to the surrounding clubs making exciting signings on the last days of the transfer window.
i'm all for people boycotting going to matches because of their disgust, means more tickets available for me.
posted on 1/9/12
Are you serious? The fecking window opened for nearly three months. There are lots of good player or better top class players that would have improved us.
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but i don't think there were any that would improve us for an amount we could 'afford'.
posted on 1/9/12
but i don't think there were any that would improve us for an amount we could 'afford'.
That is exactly the attitude why we are not challenging for trophpies. If that is good for you and you are satisfied with it I respect that. On my behalf I am not and I am fed up with it.
posted on 1/9/12
After we signed Cazorla, Giroud and Podolski, and RVP and Song were still at the club, and Sahin was due to sign, most of us all felt we needed another midfielder to compete for a place with Song in the team, a new right back, a new back up keeper and another striker to hopefully replace Park.
Since then, we missed out on Sahin bizarrely, sold RVP and Song, and bought nobody. So how people can now turn around and try and portray the transfer window as anything short of a disaster is baffling.
posted on 1/9/12
After we signed Cazorla, Giroud and Podolski, and RVP and Song were still at the club, and Sahin was due to sign, most of us all felt we needed another midfielder to compete for a place with Song in the team, a new right back, a new back up keeper and another striker to hopefully replace Park.
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but most people were resigned to the fact RVP was going anyway, and didn't seem to be calling out for us to sign a striker there and then in the inevitable even of him leaving.
most fans were claiming coquelin was better than song, that he was more dynamic and a better player defensively.
i don't get where RVP's departure was a shock, and song's was a massive disappointment. grioud needs to be given a bit more time before we can judge him.
posted on 1/9/12
I was not resigned to losing Van Persie nor did I say Coquelin was better than Song.
posted on 1/9/12
Grand Theft's post is spot on!
posted on 1/9/12
good for you. what's your point?
posted on 1/9/12
gunnersfiringblanks is the boss around here.
Disagreeing with him should result in an instant ban.
posted on 2/9/12
"If we had made the signings of Cazorla, Podolski and Giroud all on the days leading up to and the actual deadline day itself, then would most of the negative posters on this site be saying that it was a good bit of business, praising our now more that adequate squad?"
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Sorry but I've seen this argument put forward a few times now, and quite frankly it's utterly ridiculous.
Thanks for the laugh though.