@@Liquiddnbftw LoL Sky Sports is the worst channel that Comcast owns. All Sky Sports pundits are from when they where owned by 20th century Fox. Sky Sports would've crumbled if they where owned by Disney. Haha.
This article didn’t cover Arsenal’s unwillingness to engage certain agents, which for example resulted in us not signing Kanté but going for Xhaka at the same price instead!
Szymon Szor At the time Higuain was a squad player that was true in 2013 I think only in 07/08 and 08/09 Higuain was starting fairly regularly as soon as Pellegrini came in and bought Benema and CR7 Higuain time as a regular starter was over.
@@adammercer6004 Higuain was injury prone. Mourinho also preferred Higuain and once said "If you go hunting and you haven’t got a dog, if you have a cat, you take the cat. You can’t go on your own. And that’s a bit like what we have here. We have a forward, Benzema and we play him but if we don’t have Higuaín, we have a problem". Higuain leaving was more political, typical madrid. @Mantorras Montquilla, Arsenal definitely missed out, signing a 20+ goal a season striker for 45M is on point. Look at his numbers till his 2nd Juve season. Career average of 0.5 goals per game at the moment
Mantorras Montquilla he came to England in what? 2018 or 2019, the video talks about 2013 when he was entering his prime years 😂 Arsenal would’ve gotten themselves a goal scorer and a half
Adam Mercer maybe he was a “squad player” at the time, but only due to Benzema and CR7, as you said, but he still would have been better than what Arsenal had And I was mainly joking about the bloke using that as an attempt to negotiate a lower price Banter FC never fails to amuse
As a United fan, that's the one signing I'm glad you didn't get, post-invincibles. Suarez, Higuain, Sanchez and Ozil at 10 would have been arguably better than LFC's current attacking line.
Biggest _"oof"_ moment for the Premier League: Each time Arsenal fans remember they were about to sign Messi from _La Masia,_ but Arsene preferred Fabregas instead. Also, _Pere Guardiola_ 5:18 is the younger brother of _Pep Guardiola,_ so that's not a typo. We all learned something new today, didn't we?
Oslo MGTOW only thing is Messi would not have been as great I believe. Just like Gnabry and other former arsenal players like RVP they find success elsewhere.
@@Brynhildrify So, you tried to sign 3 players, but Barcelona says you can only have 1. But because you don't want to pay the cost set for Messi, you choose Fabregas instead. Years later, he is the most expensive player on the planet. How is that not an _"oof"_ moment, from every perspective for investment? ... _Kal Koma,_ did you even reflect on that before you started calling me the same name you call your mother in the shower? 😂
Oslo is Right. Wenger could have gotten Messi, but he didn't want to pay the huge transfer fee, so he took Fabregas. The return on investment would have been worth. Imagine destroying both Manchester teams every time they met.
Afrizki that worked out well didn’t it. Usmanov actually cares about the clubs best interests, he’s a fan whilst Kroenke sees Arsenal as a cash cow to help fund his other projects
Arsenal was also close to signing Zlatan before Wenger entered the room and Zlatan was turned off. After failing to sign Zlatan, Wenger opted for van Persie instead.
As a Arsenal fan our transfer business under Wenger , the board and our negotiator Dick Law was abysmal ..._good job we haven't got them anymore why we've signed Aubameyang , Lacazette and Pepe in recent years getting rid of Wenger and Dick Law aswell as most of the backroom staff was a improvement massively especially regarding transfer activity .
Dude I am old enough to remember missing out on Frank Ribery in 2006, David Villa in 2007, Xabi Alonso in 2009 and we ended up with Nasri, Adebayor, and gave the midfield position to Alex Song. They all betrayed Wenger.
The Suarez one is what kills me. We fail to sign him and that same season goes on to have arguably the greatest season a player has ever had in premier league history. smh
Wenger legacy for me is very ambiguous because his real rise and fall coincides with David Dein, as soon as Dein was gone Wenger struggled so was Dein really the one who should be praised not Wenger? I also wonder why no one has criticized the lack of world class Arsenal youth products given how long Wenger was there and the fact that Arsenal are in London and have an enormous catchment of youth, also when the new crop of young French stars was coming through why wasn’t he in on the ground floor? Pogba joined Utd academy instead of his, Mbappe looked at Chelsea instead of his ect. I am just really surprised no one really critiques his Arsenal tenure properly.
The relationship actually reminds me a bit more of Clough and Taylor except Wenger had the eye but Dein knew how to manage him and push deals through. Arsenal started to slide after the invincibles, it's true, but they were very unlucky in 2008. To me, the Eduardo injury was the real turning point for arsenal as they were well on course for the title that year (which is crazy when you look at utd's squad that season, but quite true). They had an excellent side centred around fabregas and could have built on it had they won the league, but they all started leaving after that and seemed unable to properly replace the ones that left (and that was well after Dein).
Both should be given praise during the early years and it was just a partnership that worked in harmony, bit like shearer and sutton for blackburn in the 90s. When Dein went it was just Wenger operating with the new board and backroom staff but he was trained to be a businessman so was very careful in deals. He didn't do badly for the first part of Emirates era as he had his hands tied behind his back and once the debt for the Emirates was paid off, he didn't adapt but it was because he was trained to be a businessman over a long period of time. The problem was that the new board were stingy and were also incompetent so they allowed players to run down their contracts and pretty much lost control of the club so Wenger carried on in a businessman like fashion. As for the youth, he did give a lot of chances for youth such as 2007 league cup and had strong youth prospects coming through which were used throughout his tenure.. Problem is transitioning from youth team to first team is a massive step up and lots of potential doesn't necessarily mean that players will be world class, hence why a lot of top youth prospects fail at big clubs. Look at Ravel Morrison or Ballotelli. Pogba grew at Juventus not United, and there haven't been many prospects recently that have started at top clubs and have become world class. Youth finding is mainly due to scouts but they can only scout players with potential, they can't just scout world class players so I don't think you can really blame Wenger in that regard.
@john moore bro the league was not the same..money was not the same..what wenger did last season? Finished 6th..arsenal would be 2nd half of the table this season if wenger stayed.
The Suarez bid is infamous due to the media spinning the narrative. Arsenal's understanding of the issue is broken down into 2 parts. 1) Wenger has come out and said that Suarez wanted to join Arsenal. 2) Bids over 40mil meant that Liverpool merely had to inform Suarez that another club was interested. This is to formally open proceedings. Liverpool's reaction? 1) What are they smoking over there? 2) Stevie G knowing that Suarez was his only hope of actually winning an EPL title. So, he practically begged Suarez to stay. Didn't work out in the end lol. Liverpool's REAL reaction 1) 40mil was the real release clause. Liverpool just refused to sell. Just go google it.
You guys should do a piece of failed transfers in general, across clubs I mean, and include Nabil Fekir's failed transfer to Liverpool in that (the dude was in the Liverpool kit in Melwood giving interviews but it ended up not happening).
Need a few more windows to be certain but the new regime of Edu, Sanllehi and co seem more adept at pulling off good deals than Wenger+Law/Gazidis/Dein. Especially in the modern transfer market. They've already done better at finding lesser known gems, and dont dither around but get the deals most needed.
To be fair some of the failed attempts were escapes. Also, from what I understand, we were never gonna get Suarez anyway. I think Arsenal expected Suarez to push for a move after the initial bid but StevieG convinced him to wait out for Barcelona, which was the correct strategy for him imo. Our dailying lost us Griezmann but saved us from Balotelli. You win some you lose some I guesss.
I always questioned why tf the club did not buy in higuain in 2013, turns out it was gross incompetence from a clown who had probably never kicked a ball in his life. Hazard was also keen on coming here before lille won a league title, the less anyone talks about that, the better.
Well, it was so frustrating when we miss out on Lemar and just chopped out the deal with Man City for Alexis Sanchez of which we almost got £60 million. In the end following, the swap deal was dust and done.
If someone compiled a starting XI of all the players Arsenal had the opportunity to sign they'd have a pretty intimidating team. In the front line they'd have had Luis Suarez, Ruud van nistlerooy and cristiano CRYNALDOOOOOO for their forward line
I'm sure Law was just bullshitting Real with the squad player comment, but why didn't they pay the fee for an amazing finisher if they were prepared to pay a similar price for Suarez? Yes, Suarez was the better player, but buyers tend to pay a bit more than what a player's worth.
@@k.more1995 prem proven is such a nothing term. If it was as important as fans like you believed, there would less foreign players and managers in the premier league.
Lemar I understand fear of moving to arsenal but surely Athletico was a career killing move. That team is super defensive and that's why someone like Joao Felix is struggling.
But the transfer successes weigh far more than the failed ones. Toure, Anelka, Henry, Van Persie. Those lads who went to City. Even Alex Song gave us some nice profits.
I'd really love to see that Arsenal Squad and the Set of Players that they were linked too, if they had those players then it would've been anothet Invincible Team, but unfortunately none of that happened.
As much as Arsenal transfer business was frustrating under the previous regime its important to remain logical. It’s clear that all of the negotiations were handled by Law but people prefer the narrative that Wenger was responsible for everything and we didn’t sign players because of him. Also with the exception of Suarez and Higuain every player mentioned flopped with their next move. People are obsessed with transfers and the buzz around them and would love 5 players per window but that’s not what went wrong at Arsenal. Wenger just eventually wasn’t a good enough coach anymore in the era of new young managers and football ideas!
There was nothing wrong with bidding £40M+1 for Suarez. If his release clause was £40M wouldn't the same people be mocking us for wasting money if we'd offered £45M or £50M? It just turns out that release clauses aren't worth the paper they're printed on
My heart bleeds for Arsenal.....Imagine supporting a club which has nearly gone out of business or are that lowest point in their existence. Everyone is linked with players over the years. Look at my team Sunderland linked with Luis Suarez before he signed for Liverpool. Van nistolroy was going to sign under Reidy but injuries and timing stopped that happening. Even back in the 80s Argentinian newspaper were saying that Maradona was wanting to sign for sunderland. We ended up with Marangoni who after leaving us went on too win the coppa libertadores
Eavy Eavy it wasn’t a release clause. Look up the interview from the then-head of transfers of arsenal in 2019. The guy that was involved in the deal literally says that it wasn’t a release clause and that suarez was actually stupid for letting such a pointless clause be integrated in his contract.
Liverpool - "We will negotiate with any team that bids over 40m." Arsenal - Bids over 40m Liverpool - Doesn't negotiate, breaks their own contract, "What are they smoking?"
Why don’t they ask the price first. Seems like most of their deals fall through because they do everything backwards - agreeing personal terms, and then negotiating with the selling club. Surely you’d get an idea Of what the selling club want, before you sit down with the player.
Sahin was at Liverpool for 3 months, cost Liverpool €5m and played only 12 games. Wenger's gut feeling was right. Trabelsi retired in 2007. Wenger was right to chose Eboue. Higuain joined Napoli for €39m. Wenger knew the £45m fee was too high.
Sahin was a blessing in disguise. Dead player after joining Madrid. Trabelsi was a serious talent and at the time would have been a great signing for Arsenal. However Trabelsi struggled with injury problems alot soon after. Higuain was one that was a clear mistake, he would have been great for Arsenal at that time. Dudek, Lemar, Ba are nothing too bad really.
This doesn't make sense. Arsenal were reportedly hit hard by the financial climate of 2008, but Sahin wasn't loaned out until 2012 and the club spent a lot of money during that spell. Hmmm.
It's hilarious that Mourniho wouldn't let go of Ba, considering Arsenal gladly let go of RvP and Giroud to rival clubs. Their transfers are so pathetic... They sold Giroud and bought Luiz from Chelsea, and yet they couldn't get Demba Ba?! Good lord. Also, how can you make this video without talking about Cristiano and Zlatan?!
Arsenal are the worst negotiators in football. The dudek transfer showed how it was at first. Clubs high balling us then selling for less then it became simply being to stingy and too slow, while also making poor signings
Arsene pull out game is strong
😂😂😂🤣
never bring it to fruition
Lol
We could have been a Galatico type club if Wenger had a pair of balls 🥺😢
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂shiat mam
Must say, not many football related channels comes even close to this
Thanks to the Athletic
Because they didn’t originally appear on the athletic
@@Liquiddnbftw LoL Sky Sports is the worst channel that Comcast owns. All Sky Sports pundits are from when they where owned by 20th century Fox. Sky Sports would've crumbled if they where owned by Disney. Haha.
Rabona TV is a nice channel
@@TheNextDestinys101 was about to comment the same. He and tifo seem to be the only channels to do research.
Nobody:
Wenger: "We nearly signed Pele, Maradona & Cruijff in 2014 but ended up with Welbeck"
hahaha
Pretty good deal considering, they were all well past the age of 50
h bell mate we had Bendtner
At least he got an upgrade lol
As an Arsenal fan this makes you kinda sad but makes you laugh at the same time lol
Especially now that Don Raul is here instead of that bald fraud gazidis.
@Nathan Brown same here, thank god there's finally some hope for us now 🙏🏻
"It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up."
- Criss Jami (seems to sum up the last decade or so @ Arsenal)
Same Don that wanted to give Emery a contract extension.
we'll that's been one of our identity lol
Shout out to Wengers I almost signed starting XI.
Jordie Wings Look here! Look! Listen! Appearing offline does not fucking stop it! Stop giving advice you know nothing about!
wheres brandi
Jamie Jansen Webby fucking leave
Wtf. Women
I'm banning anyone that makes another comment. Real talk.
1:44: fun fact, Manchester United's website still has a press release announcing the signing of Aaron Ramsey from Cardiff.
Lol
coffeyallday I recall Chelsea printing out Robinho shirts back in 2008
A96oaye Robinho didn’t even know he had signed for Manchester City. He never heard of them 😂
It wasn't announcing the signing of him, just that they agreed a few with Cardiff. They stated it was still subject to personal terms and a medical.
Yeh it isn’t but good one
Me: Mom, can we get a Pep Guardiola?
Mom: We have Pep Guardiola at home.
Pep Guardiola at home: 5:18
😂😂😂
You do know that the person is Pere Guardiola (younger brother of Pep), right?
That's his brother
@@RafaelSantos-di5yw Yeah of course, I just saw the opportunity for an easy joke.
Diet Pep
This article didn’t cover Arsenal’s unwillingness to engage certain agents, which for example resulted in us not signing Kanté but going for Xhaka at the same price instead!
Your comment hurt me deep inside.
Do you mean like Raiola?
They wanted both, had nothing to do with eachother.
Is that the new excuse from arsenal fans for their clubs terrible transfer negotiation strategy?
@@saadmanalam7283
And Jorge Mendes
9 minutes?? This video should be an hour long
Tottenham's would barely make the minute mark
Tracy Morgan's Belly 1 hour +60s
30 minutes of that time dedicated just to Kalou.
@@autosportactivity1905 LOL Tottenham's would be 2 hours
@@anantgugi2009 2 hours of whining about willian
Forget the "i almost signed him" starting 11. The 25 man squad would be impressive.
Hospital in London: Baby born 7 lbs
Arsene Wenger: We almost signed him!
“Higuain a squad player at best”
Goes on to score 30+ goals in a Serie A season 😂😂😂
Szymon Szor At the time Higuain was a squad player that was true in 2013 I think only in 07/08 and 08/09 Higuain was starting fairly regularly as soon as Pellegrini came in and bought Benema and CR7 Higuain time as a regular starter was over.
@@adammercer6004 Higuain was injury prone. Mourinho also preferred Higuain and once said "If you go hunting and you haven’t got a dog, if you have a cat, you take the cat. You can’t go on your own. And that’s a bit like what we have here. We have a forward, Benzema and we play him but if we don’t have Higuaín, we have a problem".
Higuain leaving was more political, typical madrid.
@Mantorras Montquilla, Arsenal definitely missed out, signing a 20+ goal a season striker for 45M is on point. Look at his numbers till his 2nd Juve season. Career average of 0.5 goals per game at the moment
Mantorras Montquilla tbf he came here at a old age
Mantorras Montquilla he came to England in what? 2018 or 2019, the video talks about 2013 when he was entering his prime years 😂 Arsenal would’ve gotten themselves a goal scorer and a half
Adam Mercer maybe he was a “squad player” at the time, but only due to Benzema and CR7, as you said, but he still would have been better than what Arsenal had
And I was mainly joking about the bloke using that as an attempt to negotiate a lower price
Banter FC never fails to amuse
Imagine if we got Suarez or Higuan at the time we got Ozil. We could have had titles more worth than the damn FA cups.
As a United fan, that's the one signing I'm glad you didn't get, post-invincibles. Suarez, Higuain, Sanchez and Ozil at 10 would have been arguably better than LFC's current attacking line.
Would the club have the spent the money to sign both though? Napoli paid less than 45m for Higuain didn't they as well?
Imagine if Van Persie didn't leave to Man Utd instead...
Ozil would still ozil though
@@FountainOfYoot it wouldnt be better than liverpools bro..
As much as wenger is an arsenal icon, it's still unforgivable how he only brought in cech during 15/16 season to "challenge" for the league.
also failed to replace Arteta and Coquelin...
Arsenal have Torreira now thou.
@@HenSt-gz7qj yep that's partly due to mislintat and now Raul doing the deals instead of wenger.
AG22 well Mislintat left Arsenal a year ago already, so I would say it's Raul and Edu.
He was too naive as a person.
AG22 and signed xhaka instead of Kante for the same price
I remember Trabelsi being at Arsenal on PES 4. I was disappointed when I had to move him back to Ajax on it because Eboue was crap on the game.
Lol
Arsenal should use stats from One Football, story from Athletic and a Tifo video to become a better club
Arsenal own stat dna, good statistical analysis isn't the problem
Arsenal dont watch youtube anymore because of PTSD from watching AFTV
Or maybe it’s not as easy as you make it seem and the club are already at the forefront of statistical analysis in the sport
Arsenal own StatDNA one of the best stat companies on the world 😂
Biggest _"oof"_ moment for the Premier League: Each time Arsenal fans remember they were about to sign Messi from _La Masia,_ but Arsene preferred Fabregas instead.
Also, _Pere Guardiola_ 5:18 is the younger brother of _Pep Guardiola,_ so that's not a typo. We all learned something new today, didn't we?
Oslo MGTOW only thing is Messi would not have been as great I believe. Just like Gnabry and other former arsenal players like RVP they find success elsewhere.
he didn't prefer Fabregas dumbass, he wanted Messi Fabregas and Pique but could only get 1
@@Brynhildrify So, you tried to sign 3 players, but Barcelona says you can only have 1. But because you don't want to pay the cost set for Messi, you choose Fabregas instead. Years later, he is the most expensive player on the planet. How is that not an _"oof"_ moment, from every perspective for investment?
... _Kal Koma,_ did you even reflect on that before you started calling me the same name you call your mother in the shower? 😂
Oslo is Right. Wenger could have gotten Messi, but he didn't want to pay the huge transfer fee, so he took Fabregas. The return on investment would have been worth. Imagine destroying both Manchester teams every time they met.
As much as I hate the guy now, Wenger said in an interview that Messi was untouchable, and I am inclined to believe him.
Remember when Barkley was on his way to sign a deal in Chelsea, then he changed his mind?
SkySports went mad! Hahah
Ross Barkley? When?
@@McBeaner720 im sure before he actually went to Chelsea there was whole saga and he went to do a medical, decided ill stay at everton lol
@@morelyfe1891 Oh yeah i remember now.
I remember this too - and also the fact that he never left Liverpool that day. He was hiding an injury and obviously knew he would fail the medical
There are many more though: Zlatan, Yaya Toure. Karim Benzema, CR7, Mbappe, Morgan Sneiderlein... and many more.
David Dein leaving was a massive loss that we haven't recovered from yet. United fans can relate with their loss of David Gill.
Brilliant negotiator but he introduced Kroenke to this club. Unforgivable.
@@GnESupastar Dein do that to minimize Usmanov influence back then
We need a new david behind the scenes
Afrizki that worked out well didn’t it. Usmanov actually cares about the clubs best interests, he’s a fan whilst Kroenke sees Arsenal as a cash cow to help fund his other projects
@@stealthiscool Usmanov will turn Arsenal into sugar daddy club like Chelsea Man City
Some of these are honestly unforgivable.
Arsenal was also close to signing Zlatan before Wenger entered the room and Zlatan was turned off. After failing to sign Zlatan, Wenger opted for van Persie instead.
Just Water Well Van Persie was very good so losing Zlatan doesn't hurt as much in this case.
@@adammercer6004 I agree but his spell was ruined with all his injuries. So in that sense it was a missed opportunity.
Just Water what no zlatan said he doesn’t do auditions wenger didn’t like his attitude and said no as well rvp joined a few years later
Zlatan is an overrated egomaniac.
@@DC-zi6se still better than most arsenal playrr
A 10 minute video roasting Arsenals previous regime.
They forgot to mention Benzema. Multiple outlets reported that he was having a medical, but then he made an IG post saying he was staying at Madrid💀
And now he is Ucl champion continue 3 times
Not gonna lie. Everytime transfer window benzema always link move to arsenal.
As a Arsenal fan our transfer business under Wenger , the board and our negotiator Dick Law was abysmal ..._good job we haven't got them anymore why we've signed Aubameyang , Lacazette and Pepe in recent years getting rid of Wenger and Dick Law aswell as most of the backroom staff was a improvement massively especially regarding transfer activity .
Another great video made with meticulous detail. My vote for best football channel on youtube.
Dude I am old enough to remember missing out on Frank Ribery in 2006, David Villa in 2007, Xabi Alonso in 2009 and we ended up with Nasri, Adebayor, and gave the midfield position to Alex Song. They all betrayed Wenger.
Sell van persie, complain about offense, sell Alexis Sanchez, complain about offense, sell giroud, complain about offense...
We just nearly signed every player in the world
The ineptitude of this era is simply outrageous!
The Suarez one is what kills me. We fail to sign him and that same season goes on to have arguably the greatest season a player has ever had in premier league history. smh
He won the Champions League with Barcelona. Why would he move to Arsenal ?
@@halfvolley11 I imagine him lacking the ability to magically predict the future would play a role.
@@jamiemcghin5689 One does not need to predict the future to choose between Barcelona and Arsenal. The huge differences in quality spoke for itself.
Imagine Dudek never joined Liverpool, Istanbul would have never of happened
How do you know to use "would have", but not to use, "never have happened"? Haha.
@@illuminite he is a weeboo, wdye
Sounds like a series of bad luck and getting cheated.
No no no, pure idiocy and incompetence my friend
Sounds more like incompetence from th club
Wenger legacy for me is very ambiguous because his real rise and fall coincides with David Dein, as soon as Dein was gone Wenger struggled so was Dein really the one who should be praised not Wenger? I also wonder why no one has criticized the lack of world class Arsenal youth products given how long Wenger was there and the fact that Arsenal are in London and have an enormous catchment of youth, also when the new crop of young French stars was coming through why wasn’t he in on the ground floor? Pogba joined Utd academy instead of his, Mbappe looked at Chelsea instead of his ect.
I am just really surprised no one really critiques his Arsenal tenure properly.
Wenger is the best thing that happened to Arsenal
The relationship actually reminds me a bit more of Clough and Taylor except Wenger had the eye but Dein knew how to manage him and push deals through.
Arsenal started to slide after the invincibles, it's true, but they were very unlucky in 2008. To me, the Eduardo injury was the real turning point for arsenal as they were well on course for the title that year (which is crazy when you look at utd's squad that season, but quite true). They had an excellent side centred around fabregas and could have built on it had they won the league, but they all started leaving after that and seemed unable to properly replace the ones that left (and that was well after Dein).
Both should be given praise during the early years and it was just a partnership that worked in harmony, bit like shearer and sutton for blackburn in the 90s. When Dein went it was just Wenger operating with the new board and backroom staff but he was trained to be a businessman so was very careful in deals. He didn't do badly for the first part of Emirates era as he had his hands tied behind his back and once the debt for the Emirates was paid off, he didn't adapt but it was because he was trained to be a businessman over a long period of time. The problem was that the new board were stingy and were also incompetent so they allowed players to run down their contracts and pretty much lost control of the club so Wenger carried on in a businessman like fashion. As for the youth, he did give a lot of chances for youth such as 2007 league cup and had strong youth prospects coming through which were used throughout his tenure.. Problem is transitioning from youth team to first team is a massive step up and lots of potential doesn't necessarily mean that players will be world class, hence why a lot of top youth prospects fail at big clubs. Look at Ravel Morrison or Ballotelli. Pogba grew at Juventus not United, and there haven't been many prospects recently that have started at top clubs and have become world class. Youth finding is mainly due to scouts but they can only scout players with potential, they can't just scout world class players so I don't think you can really blame Wenger in that regard.
I agree with you.
is that the lullaby song in the background I hear?
This is painful, finding out why the football club I love them most has failed to live up to expectations to compete at the highest levels in europe
Who else nis watching this after the mudryk move to Chelsea?
You guys didnt add the fax machine ]saga with DeGea and Madrid
This is why fans started getting fed up with Wenger. He would’ve never signed Lacazette, Aubameyang or Pépé if it was up to him alone
@john moore bro the league was not the same..money was not the same..what wenger did last season? Finished 6th..arsenal would be 2nd half of the table this season if wenger stayed.
Arsene "I nearly signed him" Wenger
The Suarez bid is infamous due to the media spinning the narrative.
Arsenal's understanding of the issue is broken down into 2 parts.
1) Wenger has come out and said that Suarez wanted to join Arsenal.
2) Bids over 40mil meant that Liverpool merely had to inform Suarez that another club was interested. This is to formally open proceedings.
Liverpool's reaction?
1) What are they smoking over there?
2) Stevie G knowing that Suarez was his only hope of actually winning an EPL title. So, he practically begged Suarez to stay. Didn't work out in the end lol.
Liverpool's REAL reaction
1) 40mil was the real release clause. Liverpool just refused to sell.
Just go google it.
my career appeared on the Athletic
You are the next big thing
@@k.more1995 Thank you!
I think all Arsenal fans, by now, should be sceptical when they hear Arsenal is "close to signing someone".
Pere Guardiola was Suarez's agent? Now I can imagine him retiring at Girona smh.
These videos are so like helpful and insightful for the casual fan
The amount of titles we missed out on if just a handful of players that almost signed actually did like Zlatan And Ronaldo even Messi I mean come on
I appreciate that Lemar turned down good pay at a top stepping stone club in London based on not having enough time to think about his future
This is giving me so many bad memories , so glad wenger is gone, always teasing you by being 1 signing away from actually challenging
You guys should do a piece of failed transfers in general, across clubs I mean, and include Nabil Fekir's failed transfer to Liverpool in that (the dude was in the Liverpool kit in Melwood giving interviews but it ended up not happening).
Need a few more windows to be certain but the new regime of Edu, Sanllehi and co seem more adept at pulling off good deals than Wenger+Law/Gazidis/Dein. Especially in the modern transfer market. They've already done better at finding lesser known gems, and dont dither around but get the deals most needed.
To be fair some of the failed attempts were escapes.
Also, from what I understand, we were never gonna get Suarez anyway. I think Arsenal expected Suarez to push for a move after the initial bid but StevieG convinced him to wait out for Barcelona, which was the correct strategy for him imo.
Our dailying lost us Griezmann but saved us from Balotelli.
You win some you lose some I guesss.
Add Mudryk to the list 😢
Very nice video as usual
The whole Arsenal's player's roster of this season originally appeared, before they were footballers, on the Athletic.
This channel truly has superb production value
So Dudek owes it to Wenger he won the Champiosn League with Liverpool in 2005
Ah.... My fraud of a club
They bought Xhaka instead of Kante... Let than sink in.
I always questioned why tf the club did not buy in higuain in 2013, turns out it was gross incompetence from a clown who had probably never kicked a ball in his life. Hazard was also keen on coming here before lille won a league title, the less anyone talks about that, the better.
still remember how complicated to signed Kieran Tierney too, it was all over the summer and they signed before deadline
Truly amazing channel
Well, it was so frustrating when we miss out on Lemar and just chopped out the deal with Man City for Alexis Sanchez of which we almost got £60 million. In the end following, the swap deal was dust and done.
If someone compiled a starting XI of all the players Arsenal had the opportunity to sign they'd have a pretty intimidating team. In the front line they'd have had Luis Suarez, Ruud van nistlerooy and cristiano CRYNALDOOOOOO for their forward line
2020 and it's looking like the same thing with Pablo Mari now
Xabi Alonso was the bitterest pill to swallow. I'm certain a centre midfield pairing of Fabregas and Alonso would have won us the league that season.
Xabi Alonso also makes everyone around him better. A natural leader and a calm presence on the pitch. That was indeed a bad miss.
can you do one for Man Utd under Ed Woodward? it would be super fun
I'm sure Law was just bullshitting Real with the squad player comment, but why didn't they pay the fee for an amazing finisher if they were prepared to pay a similar price for Suarez? Yes, Suarez was the better player, but buyers tend to pay a bit more than what a player's worth.
You're responding yourself, Suárez was not just a better player but a prem proven
@@k.more1995 prem proven is such a nothing term. If it was as important as fans like you believed, there would less foreign players and managers in the premier league.
@@Agee1 I agree with you, but the clubs in the premier league believe in that so much, anyway Suárez was better than Higuaín ever was
Lemar I understand fear of moving to arsenal but surely Athletico was a career killing move. That team is super defensive and that's why someone like Joao Felix is struggling.
Also gelson
Ahhh I'm early but the athletic came earlier
40mil and £1 let me explain this for Luis Suaez
The deal was Arsenal pay off Luis's contract and Liverpool get £1 for the transfer
Arsenal is a magical club to support and has truly been 'the' rollercoaster ride to be on as a supporter these last 15 years or so.
But the transfer successes weigh far more than the failed ones. Toure, Anelka, Henry, Van Persie. Those lads who went to City. Even Alex Song gave us some nice profits.
I'd really love to see that Arsenal Squad and the Set of Players that they were linked too, if they had those players then it would've been anothet Invincible Team, but unfortunately none of that happened.
As much as Arsenal transfer business was frustrating under the previous regime its important to remain logical. It’s clear that all of the negotiations were handled by Law but people prefer the narrative that Wenger was responsible for everything and we didn’t sign players because of him. Also with the exception of Suarez and Higuain every player mentioned flopped with their next move. People are obsessed with transfers and the buzz around them and would love 5 players per window but that’s not what went wrong at Arsenal. Wenger just eventually wasn’t a good enough coach anymore in the era of new young managers and football ideas!
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There was nothing wrong with bidding £40M+1 for Suarez.
If his release clause was £40M wouldn't the same people be mocking us for wasting money if we'd offered £45M or £50M? It just turns out that release clauses aren't worth the paper they're printed on
My heart bleeds for Arsenal.....Imagine supporting a club which has nearly gone out of business or are that lowest point in their existence.
Everyone is linked with players over the years. Look at my team Sunderland linked with Luis Suarez before he signed for Liverpool. Van nistolroy was going to sign under Reidy but injuries and timing stopped that happening. Even back in the 80s Argentinian newspaper were saying that Maradona was wanting to sign for sunderland. We ended up with Marangoni who after leaving us went on too win the coppa libertadores
John W Henry after Arsenal's 40 million and 1 pound. "What do you think they're smoking over there at Emirates?"
Proper release clause, not cheatingpool not fulfilling the it.
Eavy Eavy it wasn’t a release clause. Look up the interview from the then-head of transfers of arsenal in 2019.
The guy that was involved in the deal literally says that it wasn’t a release clause and that suarez was actually stupid for letting such a pointless clause be integrated in his contract.
@@eavyeavy2864 the video clarifies that there wasn't a release clause
Liverpool - "We will negotiate with any team that bids over 40m."
Arsenal - Bids over 40m
Liverpool - Doesn't negotiate, breaks their own contract, "What are they smoking?"
@@url7292 they rejected Arsenal's bid, end of story. Arsenal could've made higher bid, which Rodgers had gone on to say could've possibly accepted.
Some of these are completely finished now 😂
"What are they smoking down at the Emirates?" I will never forget John Henry tweeting that when the bid for Suarez came in haha.
@john moore 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 good trolling
Arsenal has history of failures...we could have got some good players....makes me cry thinking about it.
If you had to do the same video on Manchester United it would never end. You'd basically have to a lifelong live stream
Wesley Sneijder
Nicolas Gaitan
Kalidou Koulibaly
Etc
Ya and for real Madrid too 🤣
I am surprised this isn't written by David Orstein, the Mr. Arsenal News himself
Why was there a violin version of the jingle that puts a baby to sleep in a cradle at the introduction?
Might just lose out on Bissouma to Spurs XD
Why don’t they ask the price first. Seems like most of their deals fall through because they do everything backwards - agreeing personal terms, and then negotiating with the selling club. Surely you’d get an idea Of what the selling club want, before you sit down with the player.
Sahin was at Liverpool for 3 months, cost Liverpool €5m and played only 12 games. Wenger's gut feeling was right.
Trabelsi retired in 2007. Wenger was right to chose Eboue.
Higuain joined Napoli for €39m. Wenger knew the £45m fee was too high.
Can y’all do a video on the Leeds United head coaches philosophy of “plays”?
Remember when Wenger tried to buy Jamie Vardy for 20M a few years ago.
balf1111117373 I don’t think he made a bid we where interested but I don’t think he wanted to leave at the time
Vardy proved himself right Leicester are a bigger club than arsenal now
Chicken Oriental Arsenal will forever be a bigger club than leicester - form is temporary, class is permanent.
@@hanklesacks which arsenal have no class right now
Chicken Oriental Wouldn’t even bother arguing with you
Wolves fan, your channel is great, please do a video on Mendez and Wolves...
The recent Conte and Leece relationship athletic article would be a great video.
I'm glad we pulled off from most of this transfers bar Suarez and maybe Dudek.
apart from suarez really, its several bullets dodged by arsenal- better off without them
@@FiveJPB
Higuain was at his peak years. Consistently getting past 20 goals a season of Napoli and Juventus.
@@Agee1 It's a different league. Not sure if he's got the pace, but I could be wrong.
kiriakoz you are wrong. If a 35 year old Zlatan could do it, a 26 year old elite striker definitely could.
Sahin was a blessing in disguise. Dead player after joining Madrid. Trabelsi was a serious talent and at the time would have been a great signing for Arsenal. However Trabelsi struggled with injury problems alot soon after. Higuain was one that was a clear mistake, he would have been great for Arsenal at that time. Dudek, Lemar, Ba are nothing too bad really.
Suarez and Lemar hurt, but with the rest we probably dodged a bullet.
Captain Smoke lemurs been dog shit you moron Suarez hurt tho
Thank God we avoided the Lemar deal, we nearly spent £95m on a complete dud. Lemar is worth half that at most.
This doesn't make sense. Arsenal were reportedly hit hard by the financial climate of 2008, but Sahin wasn't loaned out until 2012 and the club spent a lot of money during that spell. Hmmm.
It's hilarious that Mourniho wouldn't let go of Ba, considering Arsenal gladly let go of RvP and Giroud to rival clubs. Their transfers are so pathetic... They sold Giroud and bought Luiz from Chelsea, and yet they couldn't get Demba Ba?! Good lord.
Also, how can you make this video without talking about Cristiano and Zlatan?!
It's hard to call Wenger a shrewd operator when you find out just how much he threw away even at relatively low prices.
He didnt have the power of hindsight
Arsenal are the worst negotiators in football. The dudek transfer showed how it was at first. Clubs high balling us then selling for less then it became simply being to stingy and too slow, while also making poor signings