Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread


MikeH72 said:
Arsenal are supposed to be bridging a gap to the top of the league and the gap is only increasing by the week. Their business in this window has been absolutely tin pot so far, while Liverpool and City are making real statement signings. Arteta will be gone by December I reckon.
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Arsenal will always keep firing blanks when it comes to a title race, with regards to that el khannouss he is the type of player we should be after

Young with good technical ability with a high ceiling for improvement
 
MikeH72 said:
Arsenal are supposed to be bridging a gap to the top of the league and the gap is only increasing by the week. Their business in this window has been absolutely tin pot so far, while Liverpool and City are making real statement signings. Arteta will be gone by December I reckon.
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The lad that swerved the Kult last summer will be their biggest money signing I reckon, Kepa, Norgaard and this Leicester lad doesn’t scream title challengers
 

MikeH72 said:
Arsenal are supposed to be bridging a gap to the top of the league and the gap is only increasing by the week. Their business in this window has been absolutely tin pot so far, while Liverpool and City are making real statement signings. Arteta will be gone by December I reckon.
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Weird club. They should have gone all out on Isak but Newcastle coming 5th and qualifying for the champions league (?!) put that to bed. Need a quality striker. Have all the other players there already.
Should have won the league last season if they’d got their transfers right.
 

JimmyJeffers said:
Weird club. They should have gone all out on Isak but Newcastle coming 5th and qualifying for the champions league (?!) put that to bed. Need a quality striker. Have all the other players there already.
Should have won the league last season if they’d got their transfers right.
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Reckon Arteta is deliberately trying to be a weird hipster to look clever rather than just addressing the position that needs to be addressed.
 
Lanolin said:
Your initial post looked sarcastic/flippant and so I responded in kind. If it wasn't, then I can only apologise and hope that my 'spiky' response of saying it didn't really address the point wasn't too offensive.

You appear to be completely misunderstanding or deliberately misrepresenting what i'm saying though. I haven't suggested at all that it's unreasonable to prioritise signings that improve our squad - that's quite literally the opposite of what i'm saying. Going back to the original point, Christian Norgaard improves Arsenal's squad, that's the entire point. He's not a sexy name and he won't walk into their starting XI but he'll give them depth and options. I'm saying we can do the same here.

We need to sign some players who are intended to become amongst our best, that isn't up for dispute and i've already said that to you in this conversation, it's just that I think we probably also need to accept that some players will have to be brought in who aren't in that bracket. You appear to think i'm talking about signing a load of Anthony Gardner types to just sit on the bench but i'm not at all and haven't even hinted at that. You mentioned Mykolenko and Beto and they're good examples of what i'm talking about. Do I want them to be unchallenged starters every week? NO! Of course not, again that is the entire point! I think realistically we are not going to go out and buy a left back who becomes our undisputed number one choice and pushes Mykolenko down to back up and not getting a kick unless we have injuries. Same with Beto up front. What I think is much more realistic is that we sign players who are able to compete with them and offer different options at different times. Like i've said numerous times, this is how literally every club in the world operates, it's not some mad idea i've got it's just reality .

If we have the budget to go out and sign 8 players who go straight into our strongest starting line up then fantastic, i'll be absolutely made up. I just very much doubt we have, and so I will be OK with us signing a few players who are useful to have but aren't likely to pick up a ballon d'or.
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It's sort of what I would call the Kevin Kilbane paradigm.

Didn't set the world on fire but was ok for a couple of years.

We all often want the world beaters, or young high potential players. But if you throw too many young unknowns in to a losing team, they lose confidence and regress (sort of what happened in 2017).

I'm not sure if the post refers to Longstaff, but I can see the sense in such a signing on that basis.

I'm increasingly drawn to Occums Razor with this stuff. If you sign a player who has played in the league, to fill a position, you start to improve. To be fair to Moyes, I'd imagine he will want players who make us better next season and will allow others to worry about what happens beyond that.
 
MikeH72 said:
Reckon Arteta is deliberately trying to be a weird hipster to look clever rather than just addressing the position that needs to be addressed.
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They want sesko but won’t go all the way to the asking price. They’re actually linked with some serious quality this summer to be honest, no idea if they’ll get them but if they do they’ll be right up there.
 
Lanolin said:
They want sesko but won’t go all the way to the asking price. They’re actually linked with some serious quality this summer to be honest, no idea if they’ll get them but if they do they’ll be right up there.
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They always get linked with top players but just seem to avoid them. I can’t remember the last time they made a statement signing that I really thought was going to move the needle, you could maybe say Rice but that’s pushing it. They’re going backwards under Arteta for me, can’t see them troubling the top 2 in the slightest.
 

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