Damien

Arsenal won't get Suarez. We have the most incompetent transfer department in the business it seems, everyone from Wenger to Ivan seems utterly out of their depth when it comes to getting deals done. We simply seem unable to get a deal done if other teams are interested in the player and now that we've lost an edge in scouting (all teams do it all the time everywhere) we are rarely able to unearth a gem as we did often 10 years ago and thus ALWAYS face competition for the best players.

Gustavo has many teams after him including Juve and Napoli, does anyone really think that we'll beat them to him? Of course not. Arsenal may want him and he may want Arsenal but we won't close the deal. We'll play hardball on the salary when we don't have the position to argue from, we'll stall because Modric might leave Madrid, and Napoli will turn up and pay the cash.