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It's not the freak injury - it's the inaction since BFG's injury which is alarming and a classic case of Wenger negligence.
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It's not the freak injury - it's the inaction since BFG's injury which is alarming and a classic case of Wenger negligence.
carlito'sway
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We are all speculating here.....How do we know they have not been searching for replacement since then? You know as well as me that it is not like walking into a grocery store and walk out with a can of beans.
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Because we're famous for dithering? If reports are to be believed, we put in a low ball bid a few weeks ago and got knocked back, what's happened since then? Crickets and tumbleweeds...
carlito'sway
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Again, speculations mate. We don't have any facts in hands...I also read rumors that Valencia wanted a replacement first before letting the player go. So no point of trying to make a mountain of a molehill...
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Didn't Valencia come out and confirm the bid? Or at least tacitly so? It seems to be common knowledge that we had a bid rejected. You would think if we had upped our bid, we'd have heard about it by now given how our other bids have been made public by the selling clubs (Lacazette, 'Gladbach)
carlito'sway
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Okay, they didn't confirm it. Not really a big deal tbh.
What's important is that we're 2-3 weeks from BFG's injury being made public so I would have expected serious wheels in motion to get another defender in considering Arsène had specifically stated he wanted another defender prior to Merte's injury.
Poor planning, incompetence, negligence, whatever you want to call it.
What's important is that we're 2-3 weeks from BFG's injury being made public so I would have expected serious wheels in motion to get another defender in considering Arsène had specifically stated he wanted another defender prior to Merte's injury.
Poor planning, incompetence, negligence, whatever you want to call it.
4R5Emaniac
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Also, the player would have been at the club, settled and in pre season preparing.
carlito'sway
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Let's try to be factual for once... It has just two weeks since BFG was ruled out. As I said before it is not like one walk in a store a buy a bag of chips, transfers take time and are more complicated than that. So to pretend otherwise is just not being serious.
Anyway, we can speculate all we want and draw our own conclusions. That is always the easiest thing to do.
carlito'sway
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No he would not have been...Best case scenario Mustafi would have been back last friday like Özil.
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I said 2-3 weeks
No need to nitpick there
I'm not pretending otherwise. Nowhere have I said transfers are easy. I just tend to think that if we really really really wanted Mustafi he'd already be in an Arsenal shirt.
carlito'sway
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I said 2-3 weeks
No need to nitpick there
I'm not pretending otherwise. Nowhere have I said transfers are easy. I just tend to think that if we really really really wanted Mustafi he'd already be in an Arsenal shirt.
I like the way you put it.
... Case in point...the worst kept secret transfer this summer...rumored since June only concluded today. Just to show how difficult those are. Anyway, hopefully this Mustafi saga will be over this week.
4R5Emaniac
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We do most likely really really really want him but we also want to look clever.I said 2-3 weeks
No need to nitpick there
I'm not pretending otherwise. Nowhere have I said transfers are easy. I just tend to think that if we really really really wanted Mustafi he'd already be in an Arsenal shirt.
4R5Emaniac
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That's the biggest deal in the history of football. And, there was no desperation. Yet we are desperately in need of 2/3 additions and we seem to not doing much with talks of an injury prone defender on loan from WBAI like the way you put it.
Anyway, hopefully this Mustafi saga will be over this week.
4R5Emaniac
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That's probably likely but he isn't the only CB out there.
carlito'sway
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4R5Emaniac
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That doesn't really discredit my argument though. There have been plenty of movement regarding CB's. Even better players than Evans and on a free transfer or much cheaper or would cost as much.That was the topic at hand, if you did not notice...
carlito'sway
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Uhmmmm....Okay....
4R5Emaniac
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I have naazing to zay...naazing to zay.
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I'm wondering how long the City fans will put up with it . Sides are going to press hard because they know goal keeper is under strict instruction to play out .
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