possibly, but the realistic situation is we needed a midfielder at the very least, even wenger thought so.

i think a midfielder is the player we need the least. we have tonnes of good midfielders.

well I'm not getting my hopes up on diaby and wilshere staying fit.

We've got about 10 midfielders, think we're short up front but agree with the article still

If that happened we would be complaining about something else, why didn't he buy them earlier for example!

Well before RVP left this board was full of great cheerful articles me included, talking on how we could challenge for the title etc... and even when we did anticipate RVP's departure there was the hope that he'd be sold abroad and replaced.

Then we lost Song and failed in every player we tried to get since, and have also seen more of how good RVP's replacement Giroud actually is and have great reason to worry. The board effed it all up and that is the reason for some of the pessimism we are seeing.

Worst is how Wenger lied to us 'We have added to RVP, not replaced' 'We will still sign 1 or 2 players' Gazidis also said in the summer 'We want to make a team that will win trophies' I laughed when he said that. All lies we were told.

Hmmm, positive comment ?

On a slightly negative note, we signed no major players,
On a much more positive note, we saved alot of money !

but we would have been looking to sign players within our budget, that are of good enough quality to enhance our squad, who will actually come to the club.

i am of the belief that we did look, and attempt to sign of players, but there were none available.

it isn't our fault that RVP failed to agree terms with juventus and that no other european clubs came in for him (or that is what i am led to believe)

i think a midfielder is the player we need the least. we have tonnes of good midfielders.

Yeah but not on a high level.

i think we have enough on a high level.

The timing of the ins and outs is irrelevant, the window has seen AFC become more vulnerable to 'relegation' from the top 4

i am of the belief that we did look, and attempt to sign of players, but there were none available.

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.

The fecking truth is we dont even try because our 12 M philosophy prevent us from doing it.

On the other side we don't take any risk. We arent even able to put a risk on a loan deal for Sahin who would improve us dramatically.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

I was not resigned to losing Van Persie nor did I say Coquelin was better than Song.

Grand Theft's post is spot on!

good for you. what's your point?

gunnersfiringblanks is the boss around here.

Disagreeing with him should result in an instant ban.

"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.