Compare the big 6: who has had the best transfer window?

[Macho]

I don’t envy Chelsea’s business at all tbh. Their summer looks like ours last summer but on steroids.

They cheaped out on areas that needed strengthening and they are too top heavy. Frank doesn’t even know what his best team is anymore and he spent all of last season working that out. They scrambling for loans for their excess players now last minute.

A whole new squad never works out. If we brought in a 40 year old Silva and Werner looked like how he’s looking after spending that amount, we’d have been screaming.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Gabriel
Willian
Elneny
Runarsson
Cedric
Mari

I think this recruitment this year is a step backward. Very bad from us.

 

[MikelHadADream]

Can we change this title of this one to big 5 plus Arsenal?

 

[ThisFather]

At this rate, Everton will finish above us lol. Within a SINGLE transfer window, they have a more balanced squad than ours. Every year, we fall behind the pack. Initially it was Sp**s and Man U. Now it's the likes of Wolves, Everton and Leicester.

Wouldn't be surprised if newly promoted Leeds finish higher than us this year.

 

[RunTheTrap]

Signings we made under Emery:
Litchsteiner
Torreira
Guendouzi
Pepe
Denis Suarez
David Luiz
Sokratis
Tierney
Martinelli
Leno

Signings we made under Arteta:
Pablo Mari
Willian
Cedric
Gabriel
Runnarsson

We arguably made better signings with Emery than we did with Arteta and we gave him a b*llshit promotion. Here’s the kicker though the club can’t even give him the players that he’s asked for. Club can’t even back our own “manager” and yet Levy is spending like no tomorrow for Mourinho. If we truly rated Arteta as much as we claim, we give him the tools to do the work.

 

[Wounded Healer]

i dont think we could do much worse. at least gabriel is something. we are decaying surely and slowly like a sinking ship.
sad.
another year that wishful thinking covered for a month till it exposed its ugly face again. just like the previous year, and the one before and the one before that etc...
so many bad moves... alexis, ramsey, Özil, pepe. british core. so many players that cant rise above in the current squad.
we are not a charity organization but arsenal surly behave like one.
no dirctness no plan just improvising like a clown on a shoe string.
same season as before. because nothing changed. only decayed slowly. like a dream of what we used to be.

 

[celestis]

Updated to include Sp**s’ Vinicius loan. Really good move for them: don’t rate Mourinho but I think their window is being seriously underrated.

Going to ask the mods to reset the poll when the window closes to get a fresh look. Might also allow 3 votes as Chelsea and Liverpool are such shoe-ins. Be interesting to see who people think the best of the rest are.

In my view:

1-2. Chelsea / Liverpool
3. Sp**s
4. City
5. Arsenal
6. United

If we sign Auoar I think we’d push Sp**s for third place. Aouar and Partey and we’d arguably be 1st.

If Bale is fit, then they are ridiculously potent

 

[Kav]

Man U appears to be getting Cavani on a free. Hmmm good business to be fair.

 

[Makingtrax]

Would it fair to describe our transfer business as a complete mess. Raul and Kia making us look like suckers.

 

[bingobob]

Everton currently winning the transfer window. James looking a great buy so far. I'm not really convinced any other team has had a stand out window. Although I think Chelsea will begin firing once Pulisic and Ziyech return. Frank is playing a very weird system.

 

[say yes]

Would it fair to describe our transfer business as a complete mess. Raul and Kia making us look like suckers.

Raul’s gone mate. This is Edu’s ****-show now.

 

[say yes]

Add Cavani to the mix and I think it’s clear Arsenal have now had the worst transfer window of any of the big 6.

 

[yybecause]

..add

Add Cavani to the mix and I think it’s clear Arsenal have now had the worst transfer window of any of the big 6.

...add him and they are still ****e

 

[Makingtrax]

Raul’s gone mate. This is Edu’s ****-show now.

Yeah, he's gone but his legacy will echo through the season.

 

[Dial Square 1886]

..add

...add him and they are still ****e

They are not really though.

I mean they had a bad day, but can't see them not right in the mix for top 4 minimum come the spring.

 

[Macho]

Would it fair to describe our transfer business as a complete mess. Raul and Kia making us look like suckers.

Think Vinni, Edu and Arteta have been completely lost without Raul tbh.
Anything good we’ve done this summer was directly because of him - he got the Gabriel and Auba extensions started for example.

No doubt he would have had a much easier time moving on our out of favour players as well. Look at the fee we got for Iwobi.
We’ve been absolutely mocked in the Torreira deal, with his connections with La Liga clubs that’s never happening with Raul here.

The timing of his sacking was the **** up. The board don’t care about the transfer market at all so they would have had no regard about the timing. Not everyday bias and senseless accusations dude.

 

[GunnerShy]

What's Jack Wilshere up to these days??

 

[Makingtrax]

Think Vinni, Edu and Arteta have been completely lost without Raul tbh.
Anything good we’ve done this summer was directly because of him - he got the Gabriel and Auba extensions started for example.

No doubt he would have had a much easier time moving on our out of favour players as well. Look at the fee we got for Iwobi.
We’ve been absolutely mocked in the Torreira deal, with his connections with La Liga clubs that’s never happening with Raul here.

The timing of his sacking was the **** up. The board don’t care about the transfer market at all so they would have had no regard about the timing. Not everyday bias and senseless accusations dude.

Tony Adams:
"I think the club is going through such a recruitment issue at the moment.

“Relying on agents is not the way to go. It’s not Arsenal DNA I’m afraid. I don’t like it. I’ve got to say it publicly.

“Edu, I love him. He’s a beautiful man, a lovely man and it’s not personal, but he has no experience of building European squads.

“Even Raul Sanllehi, he came from Barcelona where all the money in the world, but it doesn’t look like he’s going to get money here!

“Those people are kind of out of their depth, I’m sorry."

“They need to build a fantastic squad that challenges for the league, and it hurts.”

 

[Kakao]

What's Jack Wilshere up to these days??

Injured

 

[GunnerShy]

Tony Adams:
"I think the club is going through such a recruitment issue at the moment.

“Relying on agents is not the way to go. It’s not Arsenal DNA I’m afraid. I don’t like it. I’ve got to say it publicly.

“Edu, I love him. He’s a beautiful man, a lovely man and it’s not personal, but he has no experience of building European squads.

“Even Raul Sanllehi, he came from Barcelona where all the money in the world, but it doesn’t look like he’s going to get money here!

“Those people are kind of out of their depth, I’m sorry."

“They need to build a fantastic squad that challenges for the league, and it hurts.”

O don't think our spending has been that bad. We've bought some quality.

Willian, Cedric & Mari is the garbage though. Through investment in fees and wages there's another quality player gone missing there.

The biggest issue with this club and it's KSE driven is that they want to make the Champions league THEN invest in the squad.
Sorry, it's has to be the other way around. So long as you have the right manner you invest TO make the UCL.

From there its about improving the squad to cement your position and compete for the league.

You cannot cost cut your way into the UCL in the EPL. There's too many foreign owned clubs spending money now.