Auba and Laca have scored more than the other 4 combined since they left.

You have a knack for selling players to a rival and making them stronger

Alexis has been a massive disappointment up until two weeks ago. Walcott, no one's heard of him since. Giroud is doing what he was doing at Arsenal.
Ox is the only one who's improved.

In the period Alexis and Giroud have started scoring, PEA and Lacazette have also contributed their bit.

Such another pointless, reactionary article. Only Giroud was a bad sell.

As bad as Walcott was/is the guy had tons of end product in terms of goals and assists. We managed to replace him with Iwobi who literally cannot score and hardly assists.

We should have been replacing Walcott with the likes of Draxler/Mahrez.

Only player I miss is Giroud and I wouldn't swap him for Laca or Auba.

I'm much happier with Mhiki than Sanchez based on this seasons performances. He's a great fit for our team.

Ox doesn't look any different to the player we had, not sure where the hype has come from. Hopefully CM is one of the first areas our new manager addresses, so he certainly won't be missed.

Walcott is now playing at his level. £20m was great business. Only the other side of Liverpool would have been stupid enough to pay more.

If you said at the beginning of the season we would lose Sanchez, Giroud, Walcott and Ox but gain Aubamayang, Mhikitaryan & Lacazette then I'd have signed you into a mental health clinic. These guys are a massive improvement on all bar Sanchez, who was becoming more and more of an outcast at the club anyway.

All the players you listed are attacking players, an area of the team that last season we all agreed needed improving. We would surely all now agree that this is the area of the team our new manager will least need to focus on?

Iwobi is like a poor man's Welbeck, who himself is a poor man's Walcott.

Giroud and Walcott were the only ones we had power over keeping. Walcott was barely getting game time so might as well cash in. It was a choice between Giroud and PEA and I'd rather have PEA, do miss Giroud though.

Aubameyang was going to happen as long as Sanchez was going to be sold. Surely a stronger manager could have just kept Giroud to be that impact player. Forget the fact that he wanted game time, he was tied down to a long contract

comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 18 minutes ago
Aubameyang was going to happen as long as Sanchez was going to be sold. Surely a stronger manager could have just kept Giroud to be that impact player. Forget the fact that he wanted game time, he was tied down to a long contract
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No he wasn't. 18 months is not a long contract.

comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 17 minutes ago
Aubameyang was going to happen as long as Sanchez was going to be sold. Surely a stronger manager could have just kept Giroud to be that impact player. Forget the fact that he wanted game time, he was tied down to a long contract
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No, it was widely reported Dortmund wouldn't sell unless they got a replacement. So Giroud was either going to Dortmund or Chelsea. Also keeping Giroud against his wishes could've easily backfired, and totally unfair on him. He's been a good servant for us with minimal fuss and its a WC year.

comment by RonAlvinho - Victoria Concordia Pathetic (U6117)
posted 8 hours, 18 minutes ago
Only player I miss is Giroud and I wouldn't swap him for Laca or Auba.

I'm much happier with Mhiki than Sanchez based on this seasons performances. He's a great fit for our team.

Ox doesn't look any different to the player we had, not sure where the hype has come from. Hopefully CM is one of the first areas our new manager addresses, so he certainly won't be missed.

Walcott is now playing at his level. £20m was great business. Only the other side of Liverpool would have been stupid enough to pay more.

If you said at the beginning of the season we would lose Sanchez, Giroud, Walcott and Ox but gain Aubamayang, Mhikitaryan & Lacazette then I'd have signed you into a mental health clinic. These guys are a massive improvement on all bar Sanchez, who was becoming more and more of an outcast at the club anyway.

All the players you listed are attacking players, an area of the team that last season we all agreed needed improving. We would surely all now agree that this is the area of the team our new manager will least need to focus on?
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So to sum it up. Good business by Arsene Wenger who pepople claim he has lost it, right?

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
comment by RonAlvinho - Victoria Concordia Pathetic (U6117)
posted 8 hours, 18 minutes ago
Only player I miss is Giroud and I wouldn't swap him for Laca or Auba.

I'm much happier with Mhiki than Sanchez based on this seasons performances. He's a great fit for our team.

Ox doesn't look any different to the player we had, not sure where the hype has come from. Hopefully CM is one of the first areas our new manager addresses, so he certainly won't be missed.

Walcott is now playing at his level. £20m was great business. Only the other side of Liverpool would have been stupid enough to pay more.

If you said at the beginning of the season we would lose Sanchez, Giroud, Walcott and Ox but gain Aubamayang, Mhikitaryan & Lacazette then I'd have signed you into a mental health clinic. These guys are a massive improvement on all bar Sanchez, who was becoming more and more of an outcast at the club anyway.

All the players you listed are attacking players, an area of the team that last season we all agreed needed improving. We would surely all now agree that this is the area of the team our new manager will least need to focus on?
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So to sum it up. Good business by Arsene Wenger who pepople claim he has lost it, right?
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Good business by Raul and Sven...

comment by Gunnerthru (U6675)
posted 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
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So to sum it up. Good business by Arsene Wenger who pepople claim he has lost it, right?
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Sure, whatever. He can have praise for these signings if it makes you feel better. I'm really happy with our transfer business this season (Ozil included).

Quite happy with everything the club has done off-the-pitch in 2017/18 to be honest (removing Wenger included). On the pitch is where I continue to get frustrated and funnily enough that lands right at the feet of Wenger, who has overseen the decline.

According to reports today we will only have 50M as transfer budget. To generate more we will have to sell first

comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 9 hours, 15 minutes ago
Aubameyang was going to happen as long as Sanchez was going to be sold. Surely a stronger manager could have just kept Giroud to be that impact player. Forget the fact that he wanted game time, he was tied down to a long contract
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Not true, as we couldn't pay him the wages due to the rules.
Kolasinacs mega wages hit the increase we are allowed each season massively, even if you deduct Gibbs wages.
Alexis and Walcotts wages covered most of Ozils pay rise and Mkhitaryans wages.
The likes of Coquelin, Ox and Giroud then bridged the gap and paid for Auba and other pay rises.

comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 4 minutes ago
According to reports today we will only have 50M as transfer budget. To generate more we will have to sell first
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Tomorrow it will be a "£200m warchest".
But the new manager will want to redevelop the squad anyway, so it is natural players will be sold.
Pretty much a non-story, tbh.

I can see Wilshere leaving, Mustafi sold and possibly one other major sale. Probably Bellerin

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 46 minutes ago
comment by Castor Troy (U8700)
posted 4 minutes ago
According to reports today we will only have 50M as transfer budget. To generate more we will have to sell first
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Tomorrow it will be a "£200m warchest".
But the new manager will want to redevelop the squad anyway, so it is natural players will be sold.
Pretty much a non-story, tbh.
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Not really care about the warchest tbh, although it won't go down well with the WOBs who were cliaming that it was Wenger who didn't want to spend.

To me, the most important is bringing fresh ideas and getting ride of the current coaching staffs which will be the case if reports are true. We might finally see someone who can coach and improve both defense and GKs.

Think there will be more redevelopment than a couple of players going.
The likes of Chambers, Ospina, Holding, even Kolasinac are ripe for the chop.
Welbeck, Koscielny, Monreal could be others the new man may push out
Wouldn't be surprised if Laca went, tbh.

The defence should get an overhaul this summer.

comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 11 hours, 11 minutes ago
Iwobi is like a poor man's Welbeck, who himself is a poor man's Walcott.
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Poch is like a poor man's Sherwood, who himself is a poor man's Ramos. Losers every one of them

I'm sure Castor was fully supportive of those players' abilities when they were at the club right?

And what's the point of moaning about what a different manager would do now? Did you not hear the news? We'll get to find out soon!

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 7 minutes ago
Think there will be more redevelopment than a couple of players going.
The likes of Chambers, Ospina, Holding, even Kolasinac are ripe for the chop.
Welbeck, Koscielny, Monreal could be others the new man may push out
Wouldn't be surprised if Laca went, tbh.

The defence should get an overhaul this summer.

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Really hope Laca doesn't go as he's a proven goalscorer who just needed some time to settle in a new league and struggling team.

Even if the warchest is only 50m, as you say, any new boss will want a lot of the current players gone which will free up wages and generate additional cash.

Apart from our defence which pretty much needs a complete overhaul and Xhaka who is poor we are pretty sorted anyway. Admittedly buying 2 new CBs a GK and CM will set us back a few bob though.
@ £150m I'd say.

Admittedly buying 2 new CBs a GK and CM will set us back a few bob though.
@ £150m I'd say.
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Who are we gonna sell to raise £100M in cash? The entire squad?!

comment by Wenger can f..ck off! (U10012)
posted 20 minutes ago
Admittedly buying 2 new CBs a GK and CM will set us back a few bob though.
@ £150m I'd say.
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Who are we gonna sell to raise £100M in cash? The entire squad?!
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Conservative estimates:
Xhaka £15m
Welbeck £15m
Iwobi £10m
Mustafi £20m
Ospina £3m (or is he a free?)
Monreal £10m
Chambers £15m
Holding £15m
Joel Campbell £5m (yep he's still on our books)
Jenkinson £3m

Good thing is we could theoretically get Meyer and Horn for relative pennies.