JimJams

I think that is 100% a guaranteed fact. Otherwise there really is something weird about the way we operate. It might even involve time travel.

Bit pantomime.

Cos we could do something mental like spend the money we made on the sale.

It'd be nice if this had legs, cos Bournemouth are about the only club that's been interested in Daka since we signed him.

He''d better not, eh?

And the fact we have Mads, Vestegaard and Kristiansen so the Danish gaffer is going to watch plenty of our games. That should be our angle if he's prioritising International opportunities.

I wonder if a Saudi club came in with a ton of money and no project (cos the Saudi league is a joke) if he'd dismiss them too.

Can we get Yunus back!

Remind me which players came to us over the likes of Roma once that happened.

The fact he says "He didn't even want to listen to the Leicester City proposal" shows we've only done one thing wrong in that instance, and that's to show interest. You can't argue that we've messed up in our proposal or in our "project". He'd already decided before he even knew anything about it.

When did they ever though?

I don't think the Nelson deal falling through says anything negative about us at all. We obviously saw a player we like and thought a deal could be made. His financials and what Arsenal want are above what we think he's worth. If we're "unattractive" to players that are massively overpriced and have ridiculous wage demands, then that's a good spot to be in.

We'll probably need 100 points next season so it's a good policy.

You're crazy!

He's German. And 28. And a left back. And...

A lot of agents make their money when players move. The more they move, the more they make. So probably not.

Would be an interesting one. Loan Cannon the other way!

Transfermarkt has him as an unattached 28 year old left back with dual nationality whose last club was Woltmershauten in the German 5th tier. So that's clearly who he is.

Well I think he's shit. How's that work for ya?

Do we want a 10? I'm not sure we do tbh. Right now it's difficult to know what we should be looking at in the market because we don't know how Cooper wants to play yet, but I said it before when we had Maddison is that I'd like us to move away from a specific 10 role, not because I don't like it but I think it's a specialist role (if they're any good at it) that means if they're out injured, you're fxxked. When Maddison was out the lack of creativity in our side was plain to see. If we have 3 cm midfielders in the mould of say Sara at Norwich you have players who can do every job required in the midfield, if you've got an injury another 8 steps in. Ok, it's not foolproof, and people will still claim you lack creativity from the middle, but if you get the recruitment right you get players who can create on occasion. For that to work though you need a lot of output from your wide men, both wingers and fullbacks need to be getting in and around the box. We basically need 2 prime Ricardos, and we've only got half of one. Maybe a 10 is the quicker fix. Shit.

Ship out Iversen and Ward and I'd be happy with a 1 armed blind guy with inner ear problems.

Maybe we just overload on a bit of filler and get the good players done a bit later. Like signing Coady and then not using him. Then we get a Fatawu late in the window after being in for Rak-Sakyi for what seemed like the entire summer.

But without the forced wanking.