Im sorry but you can't go through a whole summer and only sign a GK'er esp when you are getting full houses every week (while charging stupid prices) and getting money from TV and CL deals. There is no justification for this and the whole "the right player isn't available" isn't going to wash and nor should it. Arsenal fans have every right to question the transfer policy at the club.

You are getting outspent by teams coming up from the Championship. Just think about that.

he operates as if a £50m mistake would bankrupt the club

liverpool make £50m worth of mistakes every summer and they're alright

then again, they're the recipient of other teams making £50m mistakes every summer which can't be long term sustainable

no they don't, teams which spend money on donks while having unlimited supply of money to have much more money to waste in the future win the titles.
the others take huge mid-term blows if not running good with their transfers.
even clubs with a lot of spending power get ****ed up, just look at pool (carrol/adam summer), spurs same (soldado summer) and utd past fergie as well.
spurs unfortunately have learned from their mistake, you need oil money to spend like that.

who do RM/barca shed this summer

pool signed suarez in the carroll/adam window. spuds signed eriksen in the solduadudo one. some you hit, some you miss. only way to avoid missing is to buy no one and finish 4th.

also, both solduadudo and carroll signings were pretty much bottom of the range outcomes (barring career ending injury), and they still got about half their money back on both guys, not like all the money went up in smoke.

its ok to flush 30m down the toilet every now and then b/c your turnover is 15-20x that, and your two principle owners are A) richest man in england and B) off spending $800m on a big house. whiffing one the occasional big money xfer is not gonna kill you

its not even gonna dent you

taking risks is one thing, burning money another

Couldn't even go to £40,000,002 for Suarez but will drop $725 milli on a ranch

If Leicester have to choose between keeping Mahrez and Kante, I think they should retain Kante. Am I alone in this? There are other "creative" types out there, maybe not as good or as fitting into this team as Mahrez, but his skillset can be replaced. I don't know anyone else who brings Kante's level of energy and ability to recover the ball without fouling.

Surely he could've spent a fiver on on someone better than flamini when the inevitable injuries happen? Wenger, the idealist when it suits him, has always said that beating the even richer clubs to the title would be a great achievement. True. But now Leicester have done it better, he might as well give up his act and locate the keys to the chest.

Edit: having said that they were more than good enough to win it this year, even with injuries, so the runbad is unfortunate (for them) - just don't think they can afford to not take big risks this summer.

senile approach

Ah now come on. Wise up. You're gonna sit there and tell me signing a goalkeeper throughout a whole summer window is good enough? You're gonna tell me there were no players available that would have strengthened your squad?

pretty sure its only a 'risk' if there's the chance you burn the money.

This is both a bad argument and results orientated. Our biggest need was at DM. We got that in the winter window when we were within 3 points of Leicester at said time. That player has played very well since, maybe our best player since his acquisition.

For the first time in the era of Wenger, our midfield was our issue. Rosicky, Arteta and Wilshere had a handful of minutes between them. Cazorla sustained a major injury. Ramsey and Coquelin didn't work together and Flamini isn't very good. We can debate the merits of signing a striker, if too much faith was placed in the likes of Ox/Theo, players who appear to be on the block to be sold after very disappointing years.
I was fine rolling my dice and going with these players. Just about everyone in our team had a pretty bad year and we're still in the same position we're always in. The next step is to take what everyone knows and now upgrade these players.
Messi wasn't walking through that door and beyond Ozil, Bellerin and Monreal, I can't say anyone else played at or above the level expected of them. If you look at title winning teams, nearly every player consistently elevates their play. That wasn't going to happen with this bunch whether we bought someone like Higuain or not.

the trouble with turning your nose up at players like higuain and instead waiting for the next henry to become available: you're probably going to be competing with at least a couple of mun/city/barca/buyern/real/chelsea for his signature. its problem.

especially when wenger offers 110k/wk

No, I'm not turning my nose up on higuain at all. My point is solely that an elite striker wouldn't have won us the title. You need contributions from everyone getting consistent minutes.

Getting some serious #LvGin vibes from the media and the man himself in recent days. Probably best if Woody keeps the chequebook locked away for the summer in that case.

Youre not trying to beat Bayern. Apparently you need 3 great players and a team of decent ones to win the title.

we are in a situation where non world-class signings are minimal improvements at best and barely make a difference if any.
I have said that even before the said window started, try for a world-class player and if we can't get one then we don't need anybody as we have more than enough depth/bodies.
given that arteta is done and cazorla not the youngest anymore the situation has changed slightly as we need a young DLP for the future now but apart from that it will be the same again, try to find a worldclass attacker(really hard)

Wenger should have continued to rule on the Ligue1 value buys, instead he turned to fraudulent spanish migetry, i still like him but he kind of let me down.

ah yes the good old days when you could go buy a talented french child for 500k cos none of the other english managers had ever heard of him, or cared to hear of him

costs 60m these days because if a peruvian 4 year old kid who lives in a remote mountain village shows can do 50 keepie uppies in a row, every professional european football club knows his name within hours

Mostly valid BAIDS, but Martial playing for a semi-oilbux team means he's not quite the best example. Dembele from Rennes, said to be a similar talent, for example is rumoured to be going to fiscally responsible Dortmund for ~25m euros. I think that's what passes for value in todays market.

Real value comes from poaching 17 year olds still in the junior team

It's pretty hard to get them time though. Look at Denis Suarez, Pogba, Coman etc. You end up loaning them out, then if they dont break through just let them leave just to regret it a year or two later

Yeah I guess for btvditw teams that's a problem when they bought a 40m guy for the same position just in case