Stupid player sales

[East Level 2]

If anyone told me arsenal were going to be where they are at the start of the season, I would have laughed. No one had them as a direct rival.

Same can be said for selling them Gabby Jesus. They did nothing last season to indicate they'd be so good this time around.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Stewart came 8 months after. Wilson was worth way more than £250k. We gave him away

Also sold mick mccarthy around that time for £500k. Swales was just cashing in

 

[MarcIsTired1986]

I always liked Zinchenko - and still do. Rarely got a 10/10 performance from him, but never got anything lower than a 7/10!

Should have replaced him, but not with Gomez - but on the flip side I'm glad we didn't get Cucurella. We've got the money, lets just go big and get Alphonso Davies!

 

[mattcity5]

All of these felt daft and wrong to me at the time. I'm sure there may have been injury or other issues for a couple of them, but still... just don't replace anyone with the likes of Gerry fucking Creaney of Rick Holden...

Paul Simpson
David Phillips
Clive Wilson
Colin Hendry
Michael Hughes
Ian Bishop
Andy Hinchcliffe
Paul Walsh
Peter Beagrie
Tony Coton
Garry Flitcroft

 

[tony adcock]

Personally I don’t think we’ve ever adequately replaced David White

 

[chris85mcfc]

Finally, a thread to discuss the sale of Zinchenko to a team that finished 24 points behind us last season.

 

[SWP's back]

Same can be said for selling them Gabby Jesus. They did nothing last season to indicate they'd be so good this time around.

Arsenal are better with that Eddie N bloke to be quite honest.

 

[LongsightM13]

A double smack in the face, selling Michael Hughes and the buying Rick Holden as a replacement.

Yes losing Zin and Jesus has definitely weakened us, probably more mentality than anything else. Pep spoke about passion, guts, desire and that is something those two had in abundance and I guess in a dressing room its infectious. The dressing room dynamic has changed as it has at Arsenal also.

Even worse, iirc Hughes was replaced by Alfons Groenendijk, who was probably even worse than Holden

 

[Dirty Harry]

Even worse, Hughes was replaced by Alfons Groenendijk, who was probably even worse than Holden

Was he the one who could ‘open a can of peas with his left/right foot’ ?

 

[01cravend]

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