Are You Happy With Our Transfer Business This Window?

[Pablo]

We've strengthened while arguably Arsenal and Spurs, our main rivals for a top 4 berth, have weakened.

More confident than ever of a Top 4 finish. I'm delighted

[Pablo]

I'll also add to my previous posts...

When you look around - Arsenal/Everton/Spurs imo have had a bit of a stinker -

And it also ties in with the fact that i started reading An Epic Swindle yesterday.....and when you read that you ****ing **** ur pants

So i am more than grateful for what we have done this window and that we have Kenny/Commoli/clark/owners all seemingly pulling together

Cheers for the warning, I'll give that a miss then

[Zapater]

We shipped out in one way or another pretty much all of the ****e

This, didn't mention that. Amazing that we managed to get rid of all of Woy's tripe barring Jones (who will never play). I was getting really nervous about that, but to get rid of Poulsen, Cole etc so late is great news. N'gog is a nice boy but clearly wasn't good enough either. I really hope he does well at Bolton.

[kris90210]

We've strengthened while arguably Arsenal and Spurs, our main rivals for a top 4 berth, have weakened.

More confident than ever of a Top 4 finish. I'm delighted

Yeah, we've got to be super confident of top 4 now. Arsenal have basically capitulated

[Darkon]

Arsenal have managed to replace Clichy with Santos, Fabregas with Arteta and Nasri with Yossi so arguably a bit weaker side but managed to pull some back last night. Mertesacker seems to me like a much needed improvement in a weak arsenal defensive.

Tottenham seems weakened a lot IMO, and don't see them as real contenderes for CL spot.

Chelsea looks a lot better now, so we will have a though fight to get in to the top-3, but I'm quite confident of fourth this season.

[RichC]

I'd probably sum this window up as "smart" we've moved on a lot of dead wood from the squad as well as adding in some good players that have decent footballing intelligence and can form the nucleus of a side for a number of years.

I can't see anything but an overall positive from this window, perhaps the Merieles thing is the only negative but if he wanted to go then we were best to move him on, he was IMO going to be a bit part player for this season anyway, much the same as I expect him to be at CFC

Well done FSG et al

[MrMichael]

Yeah, we've got to be super confident of top 4 now. Arsenal have basically capitulated

On their day, Arsenal still have some decent players and will trouble a lot of teams. However, Arteta, Benayoun & Santos for Fabregas, Nasri and Clichy is extremely lol worthy, while Gervinho & Mertesacker really do not make up the difference. Spurs are the funny ones imo, trying and failing to sign every player in the world, stuck with an unhappy Modric, Parker in but Palacios out, Adebayor in but Crouch out... really not impressed with their business at all.

Realistically, the title should be between the 2 Manchester clubs and perhaps Chelsea (when you consider what they've spent in the last 12 months they really should be close). You'd like to hope though that we could push that group for their spots harder than Arsenal and Spurs will push us.

What a difference 12 months makes

[Vermilion]

Thing is though dude, with him officially handing in a transfer request, which means he'd give up all sorts of payments to him and his agents, the value to us of a £12m deal could easily = a transfer of £15m without a request.

Yeah i considered that, but i meant 15mill with all that, the window was shutting..Chavs were desperate...player was desperate...make em pay i say, we KNOW they have the money.

Saying that, where does it say 12mill, because officially it apparently says...Undisclosed.

[G]

Sorry to see Raul go but given how I felt this time last year it'd be mad not to feel well happy with the last 2 transfer windows.

[Neil Young]

It's a flawed poll (as usual). It should be a straight choice between 'happy' and 'unhappy'.*

None of this shilly-shallying marks out of ten nonsense. Nothing's perfect (and neither is Notjong) so f*ck it, if you can't be happy when things outside your control are better than they were then you'll never be happy.



* Or, if you prefer a more consistent dwarf theme, 'happy' and 'grumpy'.

[elrichio86]

I'm quite happy with our dealings this summer. A solid 7 out of 10, nothing spectacular.

This summer was always going to be about laying the foundations for the future. Anybody expecting the superstars like Aguero or Hazard were always likely to be disappointed. We've signed players who can comfortably come into the first team this season, and become our squad players over the next few years as we upgrade.

The big thing for me was the amount of dead wood we've managed to clear out. I never expected us to manage to get rid of so many in one summer. Respect to Comolli for that.

I'm a little disappointed that we've let BOTH Meireles and Aquilani go, but I can understand the reasons for each. Neither was going to be a first teamer, and would have been benchwarmers at best. If there was ever a season we could manage with a smaller squad, it was this when were out of Europe. As a few have said, this summer was the time we'd likely get the most for Meireles, as by next summer he'd be 29 and unlikely to have started many games.

I'd be interested to hear from those who've voted "No" - gentingfrmhell, Mattimetal, The Reverend.

[Roboklopp]

Cheers for the warning, I'll give that a miss then

[Shaggy]

It's a flawed poll (as usual). It should be a straight choice between 'happy' and 'unhappy'.*

As the question is "are you happy...?", surely the answers "yes" or "no" make it essentially a straight choice between 'happy' and 'unhappy'?

[Neil Young]

As the question is "are you happy...?", surely the answers "yes" or "no" make it essentially a straight choice between 'happy' and 'unhappy'?

Hmm, yes, it might. But also it might not. And there's the rub.

Have you read 1984? Is 'bad' the opposite of 'good'? Or is 'ungood'?

'Happy, yes or no' leaves too much to the interpretation of the respondent making it difficult to interpret results. It doesn't matter here because partly because it doesn't matter since it's only a football site and has absolutely no impact on anything real.

But also it doesn't matter because the respondents here have got the luxury of being able to add comments to clarify their interpretation. But once you do that the figures themselves become much less clearcut, and that's largely due to poor design of the question.

However my main point is that happy/unhappy is better read as a straight choice when you have absolutely no influence on the situation. You don't need to be completely happy and if you're completely unhappy then you might need professional help. But if you're somewhere in the middle then it's more useful to think "7/10 = happy, end of" than think "I'm happy I suppose but I still rue that missing 3/10" because otherwise you end up a moaning git and probably, er, unhappy. And that's a pity because really you're happy.

So ultimately it's a philosophical rather than a methodological point.

Happy?

[Shaggy]