Agree with this.
It was obvious from the start that Sanchez was our number one target. Don't know why anybody would think otherwise. The impact of not landing him we will have to wait and see, but I have a feeling that this season is going to be a strangely frustrating one where we just don't achieve the consistency we need in front of goal. Unfortunately, I don't think our rivals will suffer the same. We may do ok in one of the domestic cups, but the squad looks nowhere near deep enough to launch a serious CL campaign i.e. semis/final.
Conversely, I think Arsenal will do their usual Phoenix like rise and compete strongly for the top four. Funnily enough the Liverpool defeat in combination with retaining most of their key players will be the stimulus for this. No matter what people might think the players are professionals, and they will have been stung by that horror show at Anfield, and want to put that right as soon as possible. The likes of Ozil even came out and took the unprecedented step of apologising for the performance, which to me showed how much it hurt and how determined they are going to be to put it right. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the likes of Ozil, Sanchez et al, have one of their best seasons at the Arse. You can laugh all you like but life and football is strange.
At this stage it feels to me that this will impact us way more than it will impact Arsenal, simply because we didn't fully achieve what we wanted to achieve in the market. It feels like we have a huge Sanchez sized hole that we have created for ourselves. A hole that might have a bigger impact than any of us really think.
I understand where you are saying but, coming from a place of always having had a contract for any position I have held since university, I think football is the only realm in which people think this way. If you are not a footballer, want to terminate your contract with your employer (to pursue a better position elsewhere, perhaps for a better compensation package or more professional prestige, or both), with willingness to except outlined penalties and/or ensure they receive reasonable compensation for the loss of talent, but they refuse and threaten severe legal action to prevent it, forcing you to stay and see out the contract, you would be livid and your morale and motivation would be significantly impacted. Thankfully, that rarely happens outside of football—often because contracts can be difficult to enforce but more often than not because the employer realises the moment you've decided to go you've immediately become less valuable (read productive) to them and they need to mitigate the loss and transition as best they can. The few times something similar to this Sanchez situation has occurred in the non-footballing professional world has been down to a star talent (usually in executive, sales, or R&D) wanting to go to a competing entity or to start a competing enterprise. Ironically, though, in many of those cases the original employer reacted in the same way Arsenal has in this case and gone about shackling (or worse, professionally destroying) said talent which, in the end, usually leads to several bad states:If he's the sort of player that doesn't put in any effort when he doesn't get his own way then i'm glad we didn't buy him, he's under contract and should give 100% every game for Arsenal.
As it is, i don't think he's that sort of player
Agree with this.
Conversely, I think Arsenal will do their usual Phoenix like rise and compete strongly for the top four. Funnily enough the Liverpool defeat in combination with retaining most of their key players will be the stimulus for this. No matter what people might think the players are professionals, and they will have been stung by that horror show at Anfield, and want to put that right as soon as possible. The likes of Ozil even came out and took the unprecedented step of apologising for the performance, which to me showed how much it hurt and how determined they are going to be to put it right. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the likes of Ozil, Sanchez et al, have one of their best seasons at the Arse. You can laugh all you like but life and football is strange.
At this stage it feels to me that this will impact us way more than it will impact Arsenal, simply because we didn't fully achieve what we wanted to achieve in the market. It feels like we have a huge Sanchez sized hole that we have created for ourselves. A hole that might have a bigger impact than any of us really think.
How do you know i don't know any of them?But you don't know any of them, what they actually do or how they actually do it. Just because your meticulously crafted think-tank have decided that our staff are inept that doesn't make it so. We should be very happy with how this window has gone but two failed transfers - one fucked up by the selling club and the other a result of a player going against his word - seem to have baited quite a few people into losing their shit.
Agree with this.
It was obvious from the start that Sanchez was our number one target. Don't know why anybody would think otherwise. The impact of not landing him we will have to wait and see, but I have a feeling that this season is going to be a strangely frustrating one where we just don't achieve the consistency we need in front of goal. Unfortunately, I don't think our rivals will suffer the same. We may do ok in one of the domestic cups, but the squad looks nowhere near deep enough to launch a serious CL campaign i.e. semis/final.
Conversely, I think Arsenal will do their usual Phoenix like rise and compete strongly for the top four. Funnily enough the Liverpool defeat in combination with retaining most of their key players will be the stimulus for this. No matter what people might think the players are professionals, and they will have been stung by that horror show at Anfield, and want to put that right as soon as possible. The likes of Ozil even came out and took the unprecedented step of apologising for the performance, which to me showed how much it hurt and how determined they are going to be to put it right. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the likes of Ozil, Sanchez et al, have one of their best seasons at the Arse. You can laugh all you like but life and football is strange.
At this stage it feels to me that this will impact us way more than it will impact Arsenal, simply because we didn't fully achieve what we wanted to achieve in the market. It feels like we have a huge Sanchez sized hole that we have created for ourselves. A hole that might have a bigger impact than any of us really think.
Unless the board are willing to sanction a £250m+ spending spree next summer Arsenal are done. Even if they do, £250m might not get that much if the market continues to go the way it has. Playing silly beggars all summer and then holding on to him against his wishes, especially in the manner it unfolded yesterday is as short-sighted and amateurish as it can get. Very few clubs can hold on to a player and let him run his contract down and it not affect them. They need a really strong squad and even stronger finances, Arsenal have neither. Its going to cost them £150m next summer to stand still.
"Threw money in our direction" act with some decorum.As I said as soon as you threw money in our direction we folded and we were expecting as much, not to question why City didn't do this earlier seems a little naive.
Arsenal wouldn't have wanted to sell and as the buying club it was City who had to make an offer that was to good to refuse. Which admittedly you did, just on the last day.
Why not throw money at money at Arsenal when we first went in for Lemar or were chasing Mbappe? You can't blame them for not rushing to sign some random player on deadline day.