People forget the season we qualified for the CL by beating Liverpool. The only signing we could afford that year was Sam Della Bona on a free. Somtimes less is more.
Either they become a XI squad player and their value rises e.g. Madueke, or they go out on loan and their value rises e.g. Veiga
Not every player will be successful that is life. But our squad is stacked with highly sought after young talent.
And yes, back to 2017. We bought a load of crap on huge wages that took forever and a day to move on. We didn't get better, in fact Lampard had to use the Academy in 2019/20 season.
@The Score sorry that you had to take some time out, but your articles have been missed. They’re always to the point from my perspective given accurate viewpoint. I have never worried about us not having MM as a GK or getting an extra CH. We have players lined up for those positions and we have a great amount of young talent outside the club, learning the game, getting experience that will come in next season depth. As they say Rome wasn’t built in the day. I also don’t buy comments that we have had a bad outgoing window with the SDs selling to correct previous mistakes. I just don’t get it or buy it. When you paralyse each transfer player by player on the outgoing basis, we have not lost money on the vast majority and I have made money and will make additional money in the future with the add-ons and sell on clauses. Was this a perfect window, no but tell me one that is. Everyone says Arsenal have improved the squad but look at the deficit in there transfer fees. They hardly raise anything from players on the way out and that is going to bite them in seasons to come. Likewise, Manchester United and Tottenham. No one comes out the Liverpool had a good window and there has to be a huge? As to what’s going on at Manchester City. I like you think we’re in a better position than we were 12 months ago and I am confident that we will get a top four place again and that will help our continued growth. Finally thank you for your excellent analysis and report.
Good analysis and fair evaluation. The hidden success to me was finding Chilwell a lifeline to play again! We’ll probably find out we ate his wages to get him playing time at Strasbourg, but fair play to him and the club for finding a solution.
i dont think that sales should be seen as some sort of a resounding success. Agreed that some sales were good.. where we made actual profit on the player (Petrovic, Noni, Jackson, Veiga) but alot of the other sales was the correction of SDs past mistakes. Its good that they moved them on but overall we have lost money on some of these players. Im hoping they have learnt their lessons and in future windows dont stockpile players that they dont need.
Also there is a reason why we were punished and have to agree to a settlement agreement with UEFA. The overspending of the last couple of years and failure to get a big revenue item like the FoS sponsor has come back to bite us. Hopefully lessons have been learnt.
People forget the season we qualified for the CL by beating Liverpool. The only signing we could afford that year was Sam Della Bona on a free. Somtimes less is more.
Egbad we need to sell Ben chilwell. Heres an idea lets buy him Todd
Our model is very clear
We buy cheap young talent to flip for profit.
Either they become a XI squad player and their value rises e.g. Madueke, or they go out on loan and their value rises e.g. Veiga
Not every player will be successful that is life. But our squad is stacked with highly sought after young talent.
And yes, back to 2017. We bought a load of crap on huge wages that took forever and a day to move on. We didn't get better, in fact Lampard had to use the Academy in 2019/20 season.
@The Score sorry that you had to take some time out, but your articles have been missed. They’re always to the point from my perspective given accurate viewpoint. I have never worried about us not having MM as a GK or getting an extra CH. We have players lined up for those positions and we have a great amount of young talent outside the club, learning the game, getting experience that will come in next season depth. As they say Rome wasn’t built in the day. I also don’t buy comments that we have had a bad outgoing window with the SDs selling to correct previous mistakes. I just don’t get it or buy it. When you paralyse each transfer player by player on the outgoing basis, we have not lost money on the vast majority and I have made money and will make additional money in the future with the add-ons and sell on clauses. Was this a perfect window, no but tell me one that is. Everyone says Arsenal have improved the squad but look at the deficit in there transfer fees. They hardly raise anything from players on the way out and that is going to bite them in seasons to come. Likewise, Manchester United and Tottenham. No one comes out the Liverpool had a good window and there has to be a huge? As to what’s going on at Manchester City. I like you think we’re in a better position than we were 12 months ago and I am confident that we will get a top four place again and that will help our continued growth. Finally thank you for your excellent analysis and report.
Good analysis and fair evaluation. The hidden success to me was finding Chilwell a lifeline to play again! We’ll probably find out we ate his wages to get him playing time at Strasbourg, but fair play to him and the club for finding a solution.
i dont think that sales should be seen as some sort of a resounding success. Agreed that some sales were good.. where we made actual profit on the player (Petrovic, Noni, Jackson, Veiga) but alot of the other sales was the correction of SDs past mistakes. Its good that they moved them on but overall we have lost money on some of these players. Im hoping they have learnt their lessons and in future windows dont stockpile players that they dont need.
Also there is a reason why we were punished and have to agree to a settlement agreement with UEFA. The overspending of the last couple of years and failure to get a big revenue item like the FoS sponsor has come back to bite us. Hopefully lessons have been learnt.