Czarnikjak

The concern shown by some for Arsenal is commendable. I didn't realise Arsenal football club has some much affection amongst our fanbase.

You are correct to list these items out, the all matter. I am just trying to show that people shouldn't be looking at the "net transfer spend" to make informed opinions about our transfer window. I understand that's it's an easy to present and digest figure, but reality is much more complicated than that.

Willian has walked away from £20.5m and has just now terminated his Arsenal contract. He had two years left on £240,000 a week deal. Honourable

I appreciate your post, as it looks like you have put some effort into it. My premise still stands that the "Transfer Net Spend" as Sky like to present it to an average punter is a meaningless figure to football clubs. Clubs don't look at, or use this figure in their plans and calculations. We shouldn't be using it either if we want to accurately describe our situation. What clubs are interested in is: 1. Total cost of ownership of the player (wages plus amortisation) 2. Actual cash flow behind the transfers (which can be very different to the Sky touted "net spend") It's too simplistic to quote the "net spend" like the original poster did and complain that we have negative value. Regarding the figures you're quoting, I mostly agree with them. Looking from the outside, yes we could spend more money this summer. But the management and coaching staff decided it's not necessary/beneficial in the long-term (or maybe simply the players they really wanted were not available). I have trust in their decisions as they are much better informed then us to make them.

You need to stop posting here. Your post is far too sensible and measured.

Net spend is meaningless touted by Sky as it is easy to understand by average punter. What counts to clubs is the overall cost of ownership of a player (amortisation plus wages) and cash flow. You forgeting to factor wages of any more of potential incomings.

Net Spend is a meaningless figure, not reflecting how the transfers are actually accounted and paid for. Our actual cash spent this summer on transfers will significantly outweigh the cash received. People seem to forget we still paying large chunks of moneys for our 2019 and 2020 summer transfers. For example we still had to pay outstanding £6m to Bournemouth for Mings last month.

Hourihane is our 7th choice midfielder...how is that cutting close?

That's the problem, nobody has the money to take players like that. Regarding wages, if they pay 50% of his wages we should be happy. Brugge allegedly only took on 20% of Wesley's wages.

They paid those loans back with long term bonds. Also their money making machine stadiums opened again and they will rake in £100m gate receitets each this season ( big chunks of it already received as season ticket renewals).

Good reality check for him. It’s not easy to make it in professional football, regardless of the talent you have. let’s hope he reacts well and works even harder.

Agreed with your points. Carney is not ready yet to start games in Premier League and make an impact. Off the bench cameos, yes. Amazes me how well Bellingham is doing at the same age, already starring for Dortmund and playing for England. He must be one in generation talent.

They must have very high hopes for Luiz and his development, and see him as the type of sitting midfielder we want to play with. The results this season will show if it is a good or bad decision.

He does usually talk rubbish when it comes to injuries, but apart from that he is reliable. When he says no more incomings it means no more incomings.

It's not just our academy, the same applies to all academies. Focus is on developing the players.

Not happening. Smith said again today after the match - no more incomings. There might be couple loans out, that's it. We are done ladies and gentlemen, accept it.

They are suffering now, but I bet they will still finish ahead of us this season.

Just when he gets his confidence and form back, here comes international break. That's his luck. No doubt he will be benched after the break. The same thing happened last season, he was flying in December then the covid break came in and he was immediately benched for Barkley afterwards.

Ings is on £120k He rejected £100k contract offer from Saints to become their top earner. We offered him a bit more and big fee to Southampton, hence it all happend so quickly.

Love him or hate him, with Bailey still injured be prepared for another Elghazi showing tomorrow. He will definitely start, I can't see Smith being brave enough to start JPB.

Do you know the ages of Fulham players? Were they much older then ours? I am wondering why they looked so much better all over the pitch.

Buendia was one of those names. The other one? Who knows...maybe ESR, we will never know.

£250m is one of the highest net spends in the division. The talk from Purslow was always about bringing "sustainable success" to the club. Pumping in £100m every season is hardly sustainable. They took the longer term approach by trying to leverage academy to bring this sustainable success. It might not work out in the end, but it's a decent bet and I am with them on this one.

NSWE spent £350m of their own money since promotion (£250m net spend) on transfers. It's easy asking people to be more ambitious when it's not your money.

Like it or not we can't compete with the Big6 on transfer fees and wages. While we were criminally neglected and mismanaged for 10 years under Lerner and Dr Tony they pulled too far away. Reality check, this won't be fixed in 3 or 5 years. Place where we can gain competitive advantage is in developing youth and hoping for them to be good enough to elevate us higher up the table. If the above doesn't work, the best we can do is another Leicester (nothing wrong with their model BTW), keep selling your best players and reinvest.