January 2023 Transfer Thread

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  1. ArsenalMetro

    ArsenalMetro Member+

    United States
    Aug 5, 2008
    Chicago, IL
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Forest won't let something as pedestrian as a transfer window stop them from signing players, as they added Andre Ayew as a free agent today.

    That's 28 first-team signings for them this season!
     
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  2. And_ROOS

    And_ROOS Member+

    Dec 30, 2006
    Melbourne, Aus
    They are basically stealing my management style for "managing a 1st division club in Football Manager". Sign everyone, sign free agents, hope for the best, sell the rest.
     
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  3. ThreeUpTop

    ThreeUpTop Member

    Feb 16, 2011
    Valley Forge
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    I would imagine that ETH not being the one who brought Greenwood along might play a factor as well. Would any of us expect Mik to let a youth from Emery or Wenger’s era to return with such baggage and disrupt the chemistry he’s fostered?
     
  4. And_ROOS

    And_ROOS Member+

    Dec 30, 2006
    Melbourne, Aus
    Listened to the Athletic podcast and Ornstein did Xhaka dirty, talking about the Jorginho signing he says "about Granit Xhakas availability and with his penchant for the referees notebook" when talking about why we tried to sign Caicedo and Jorginho because with Elneny out we are a bit short.

    Xhaka has 3 yellow cards in 19 games in the Prem, Xhaka has killed that reputation.
     
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  5. Shen-O

    Shen-O Member+

    United States
    Jul 26, 2005
    Los Angeles
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think Jorge gonna surprise a lot of people
     
  6. Tonerl

    Tonerl Member+

    Arsenal
    May 10, 2006
    Cincinnati, OH
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That’s football ‘journalism’ for you. The most surface level…I hesitate to call it analysis…color (?) added to the reporting of information.

    Ornstein obviously is well-sourced and has great discipline when he doesn’t have the concrete information he needs to report something, but his own embellishment is no better than mine when it comes to adding meaningful insight into the whys and wherefores.
     
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  7. Super Llama

    Super Llama Member+

    May 21, 2006
    Seattle
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Football is entertainment. For this reason, the only correct choice is 11 Eboues.
     
  8. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 16, 1999
    Big City Blinking
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, I let out a "******** you" at the gym while I was listening to that.
     
  9. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 16, 1999
    Big City Blinking
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Agreed. I've actually lost respect for him since he's gone to work for The Athletic. I feel like he previously wasn't one to default to old narratives and bullshit. But now---not so much. I'm tending to agree with the speculation that his "inside sources" were folks in/around Wenger and now he can't rely on those anymore.
     
  10. Tonerl

    Tonerl Member+

    Arsenal
    May 10, 2006
    Cincinnati, OH
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    We have only come to see Eboue, after all.
     
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  11. Shen-O

    Shen-O Member+

    United States
    Jul 26, 2005
    Los Angeles
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    11 Keanes vs 11 Sounesses

    who survives?
     
  12. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    The Athletic in general has gone down hill IMO

    The long form journalism we were promised seems to have mostly become the usual old hot takes
     
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  13. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    It won't be up to him
     
  14. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    I see why the criminal trial has collapsed.

    They need the witness to testify to the acquisition of and corroborate the recording. Just in terms of technical evidence, they have a huge problem if she doesn't do that.

    That doesn't apply so much in an HR/Commercial setting.

    If Man Utd decide to get rid, I think they have plenty good enough evidence to do so.
     
  15. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I don't read TA a ton, but it seems to me they expanded, and "acquired" so many new writers, so quickly that it must be a bit challenging to perform oversight/management/editorial functions.
     
  16. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    From today's presser, Mikel's own words on the window just passed...

     
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  17. CarlosKaiser

    CarlosKaiser Member+

    Arsenal
    United States
    Jul 30, 2018
    Kansas City

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