Farhad Moshiri

[LiamG]

Nonsense, they were going come what may and does not need the funds right now. Where do you think the money came from for the summer signings? BTW which young best players?

Is that a joke? TV money, Lukaku, Cleverly, Deulofeu etc

We will see this January because we need signings and don't really have anyone we can sell.

I am clinging on that no one in their right mind would allow Koeman to buy Giroud, Bolasie and Sigurdsson if we are sell to buy. 3 players all either close to 30 or over 30 who would have cost 100m in total.

 

[kithnou]

Make a decision already Mr Procrastinator.

 

[Tramps_mate]

Sold Stones, purchased Williams
Sold Lukaku, purchased Rooney

Yeah, he's definitely tried to make us better.

Do you not understand that we HAD to sell them. Players wanting out aren't worth keeping.

 

[LiamG]

Do you not understand that we HAD to sell them. Players wanting out aren't worth keeping.

It's not the fact he sold them. It's because he replaced them with older poorer players while using the rest to strengthen the squad which is something that we thought he would do with his own money. This is something Kenwright has been doing for decades.

People also think that if he spent 200m before he sold them they would have stayed but it would appear the plan was to sell and use the money from the start.

Maybe none of that is true but it is how it looks and ultimately only Moshiri can change that.

We could have easily been lining up with. Stones and Lukaku would both still have 2 years left. Barkley is home grown and would stay in a winning team.

Lukaku
Bolasie Sigurdsson Barkley
Schneiderlin Gueye
Baines Keane Stones Coleman
Pickford

That team would certainly challenge Liverpool, maybe Arsenal and therefore have a decent chance of getting top 4.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Do you not understand that we HAD to sell them. Players wanting out aren't worth keeping.

We didn't have to. We had every right to keep them for the remainder of their contracts. They both had multiple years to run and in a World Cup year, we never could have had a stronger hand.

Amateur by the board. Sell to buy, that's all we are.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

We didn't have to. We had every right to keep them for the remainder of their contracts. They both had multiple years to run and in a World Cup year, we never could have had a stronger hand.

Amateur by the board. Sell to buy, that's all we are.

And lose £140m, genius move that would have been mate, and they wouldn't have got any stick for that honest......

 

[MartSlinger]

We didn't have to. We had every right to keep them for the remainder of their contracts. They both had multiple years to run and in a World Cup year, we never could have had a stronger hand.

Amateur by the board. Sell to buy, that's all we are.

Both Ozil and Sanchez want out at Arsenal, but im sure they'll be so chuffed in the Summer when over £100m worth of talent walk away for nothing.

 

[GwladysBlue]

And lose £140m, genius move that would have been mate, and they wouldn't have got any stick for that honest......

Why would we lose £140m?

We could have kept Lukaku until after the World Cup and then sold him, same with Stones.

IF Stones and Lukaku were in the team instead of Williams and Rooney, and we had of invested, then maybe we would have made CL and got even more money.

As it was, we sold them and currently find ourselves 15th in the league and seemingly going backwards as a club.

Selling to buy is great, isn’t it?

 

[davek]

Cant take the feller seriously. Jim White, Ronald Koeman, asking a BBC reporter if he'd seen a psychiatrist.

Obvious errand boy and not a player.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Both Ozil and Sanchez want out at Arsenal, but im sure they'll be so chuffed in the Summer when over £100m worth of talent walk away for nothing.

Lukaku and Stones has longed to run on their deals than one year.

 

[LiamG]

And lose £140m, genius move that would have been mate, and they wouldn't have got any stick for that honest......

We sold Stones when he had 3 years left. We sold Lukaku when he had 2 years left.

We could have invested heavily in his first summer transfer window when both had 3 years left. He bought the club in January so had plenty of time but for some reason they dragged their feet in appointing a DOF and a manager and then said there was no time and started sticking in a load of phantom bids. If it really was firing

Maybe it was the confusion of firing Martinez and seemingly having no plan after. Maybe just being new to the job, Kenwright etc

Hopefully January will prove all the doubters wrong.

 

[MartSlinger]

Lukaku and Stones has longed to run on their deals than one year.

Your post states 'keep them until the end of their contracts', which is the point i was replying too.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Your post states 'keep them until the end of their contracts', which is the point i was replying too.

Sorry, I was just being pedantic. The original post I was replying to said we HAD to sell them. We didn’t. We could force them to stay here until the end of their deals.

 

[LiamG]

Your post states 'keep them until the end of their contracts', which is the point i was replying too.

His post says we could keep them to the end of their contract not that we should. People are making out we HAD to sell. We didn't. Arsenal haven't sold Sanchez and are set to lose a £100m player and they are well known penny pinchers.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Why would we lose £140m?

We could have kept Lukaku until after the World Cup and then sold him, same with Stones.

IF Stones and Lukaku were in the team instead of Williams and Rooney, and we had of invested, then maybe we would have made CL and got even more money.

As it was, we sold them and currently find ourselves 15th in the league and seemingly going backwards as a club.

Selling to buy is great, isn’t it?

You said we should have kept them for the remainder of their contracts, make your mind up.

If we kept Lukaku against his will this season, who knows that we'd have got out of him? Also if we did that, then if I was his agent, I'd have said OK, then in that case we'll run his contract out, and we'll sign a pre-contract agreement with another club in the following Jan, and we'd have got nothing for him.

Dead easy to pontificate about keeping players who want away and are hugely valuable assets.