Stan Collymore slams ‘daft’ Arsenal for transfer failure and hails Tottenham business
STAN COLLYMORE has slammed Arsenal’s transfer market business as “embarrassing”, while praising rivals Tottenham for their signature signing of Tanguy Ndombele.
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Arsenal have been making “daft” transfer bids this summer, and are embarrassing themselves, claimed former Liverpool and Nottingham Forest striker Stan Collymore.
The Gunners have been making themselves look foolish by making bids for players that are well below their clubs’ valuations, he said.
I’m not sure what Arsenal are playing at, offering £40m for Wilfried Zaha
Stan Collymore
“I’m not sure what Arsenal are playing at, offering £40m for Wilfried Zaha,” Collymore wrote in The Sunday People.
“Not when they know he’s valued at double that by Crystal Palace, who sold promising, but inexperienced, full-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka to Manchester United for more than that.
“It smacks of Arsene Wenger’s days at the club, when he was on a crusade for financial prudence in football and didn't want to fuel a transfer market fire already burning out of control.
“I thought they had moved beyond that mentality and had brought their transfer policy into the 21st century, but clearly not.
“Unai Emery obviously likes Zaha, and that's easy to understand because he's fast, strong and aggressive and only 26.
“As that's the case, pay the going rate and stop embarrassing yourselves with bids that won’t succeed and just make you look foolish.”
Stan Collymore: Arsenal's transfer policy is embarrassing, claimed former Liverpool star (Image: GETTY Images)
While Collymore clearly doesn’t approve of Arsenal’s transfer policy, he had nothing but praise for Tottenham’s business.
He claimed that Spurs were learning from past mistakes in the transfer market.
The squad is very well-balanced, and unlike in the past, they aren’t just spending money for the sake of it.
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