It's Expected I'm Gone - Transfer Thread

Sure guy.

We approached him this year, eh? Last year we did too, eh?

Stop making up nonsense.

 

i agree with wenger taking bullets, i have a sneaky feeling our board is more greedy than it makes out

 

pre mourinho he was courted multiple times

stop crying

 

Does anyone have his contract history for Arsenal?

 

DC i am not trying to wind you up. please don't take this the wrong way but exactly how do you know that for a fact?

 

He was also contacted by PSG . They would love to have him in Paris.

 

I'm not saying the man isn't wanted, I'm saying what he said was false.

You never stop so why should anybody else? Hell you're nonstop.

Besides, I said pages ago that we wanted him instead of Pellegrini. The facts are after we got rid of Pellegrini we wanted Mourinho and only Mourinho. We have not be linked with Wenger and we don't want him.

 

Thanks Imposter....Age is just a number anyway

 

Thats because you knew AW would turn you guys down

 

Lets pretend for a second that the "board-Wenger conflict over wage budget" story is real. There is no way this club could offer 150k/week salaries and maintain the "offer young talent high wages/relatively flat salary across the squad" policy the club has had for the past few years. If this story is true then I'd probably back the board's plan unless the Wenger plan included a lower cap on youth/reserve salaries otherwise the club will blow past the accepted best practice ratio of wages to turnover. The only way you could stay at a reasonable level with those high end top salaries without just shipping young talent out of the club would be to accept a short period (maybe 2-3 seasons) of being out of balance on the wage/turnover issue with incoming young players offered a lower wage than the most recent top young signings. I don't see how you do that and keep the squad happy or attract new top young talent since the financially doped clubs we're competing with have or are moving to a bloated wage structure throughout their squad not just for the first team.

Then there is the issue that clubs like Citeh could easily just keep upping their wages (assuming FFP is going to be as toothless as many expect) until Arsenal simply can't come close to matching them. People need to remember that the amounts spent on Citeh's squad seem large in the football world but are not even close to a fraction of a dent in the wealth of their owners. If your family is worth a trillion (which seems to be the current estimate) then dropping 300million on football transfers is exactly as meaningful as spending 300 pounds is to a millionaire.

 

The entire family isn't on board with the Citeh football situation. just an fyi

 

Even if we make the (wrong) assumption that they can only draw on the personal wealth of Mansour and we take the lowest reasonable estimate of his worth than blowing 300million on transfers is like a millionaire spending a little over 17 thousand pounds. Hardly a significant amount by either measure.

 

SOCCERNET CONFIRMS MATA TO CHELSEA


oh well....

 

Juan Mata to Chelsea all but confirmed by Spanish club Valencia.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896...ws-chelsea-reach-agreement-with-valencia-over

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!

 

Sadly I'm extremely worried we are about to have a season similar to what Liverpool had two seasons ago under Hodgson

 

Guys, I've been convinced its not Arsene that is the problem, its the board. To be honest I really think they are way too conservative and greedy for the modern game. They just want to hoard cash and spend as little as possible on the team. Lets be honest here, who has been revolutionary for the club? Arsene Wenger. Who has brought modern football to the premier League and Arsenal? Arsene Wenger. Who has implemented modern diet schedule which Alex Ferguson himself took the piss out of it and then started to implement the same methods? Arsene Wenger? Who was the first to really rely on Foreign players in the premier League? Arsene Wenger. So really if anyone that would adapt to the new image of the modern game and also change with the times, it would be Arsene Wenger. The board sadly are a bunch of old grumpy men with a secret agenda. They are lucky to have someone like Arsene to shield them from the abuse. Look at the way they reacted to Korenke coming on? "We don't need his type" they said. Sorry but that strikes me as a very closed minded person talking. I really don't think they are the right board for the club, especially hill-wood who with all due respect is a grumpy old man that is detached away from the reality of todays modern game.

Lets hope Koreonke will change things. Lets hope he'll inject some aggression in the board.. We need a fierce leader in the board room, not a bunch of passive old grumpy men hiding behind the Wenger shield.

 

ok, cool....now shut up

 

Lets not compare Hodgson and Wenger. Hodgson= shit manager. Wenger= revolutionary man. Hodgson= lucky to have managed Liverpool as he's good for mid table clubs at best. Wenger= Arsenal are lucky to have a loyal and intelligent manager.

 

thanks for the recognition.
been harping on this for too long now.
great article.

 

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/s...-midfielder-juan-mata-to-join-chelsea?cc=5901

no words

 

We are in dire need of a new recruit. I will be happy if the only news on Monday is that someone is caught having ice cream with Arsene.

 

We agree on this. The board are all about the Benjamins

 

I can't believe Mata goes to Chelsea. @#$@

 

If this is true then PHW is a liar, and has been lying to us for a while now. It's even more frustrating if the board is behind this than if Arsene is. But it's also reassuring because it means Arsene hasn't gone crazy; he sees as well as any of us that this squad is in desperate need of additions.

 

Umm, duh? We've been lied to for years.

I think the wages thing is looking more and more plausible now. If we'd bumped the wage ceiling to 150k, would we be looking at losing Nasri? And it's not like it would make a huge difference - we only have three players (and more like two) who would deserve those kinds of wages: Nasri, Van Persie, and maybe Vermaelen.