I know of no other case where a manager has been consulted on the appointment of a CEO. AW clearly has major pull in the club hierarchy. You speak as if this is Real Madrid where the manager is just a puppet or something. This isn't real madrid we're talking about, this is a PL club and in most PL clubs the manager is the one who decides which players get signed (unless buying said player will bankrupt the club).
I'm pretty sure buying enrique wouldn't have bankrupted arsenal.
I just told you about Nasri.
We are making massive profits and paying tax on these profits (the only club in the Prem who is paying tax).
So you think the board just wants the money to sit there even though they don't take dividends (yet)?
In that case we are not a football club we are a savings account (for Stan) and PHW and Wenger should re-sign and tell us the truth. Instead Wenger will end up dying of a heart attack with the amount of pressure that's only going to increase.
Selling Nasri is common sense. Letting him run down his contract would be seriously daft. Sell the dude, get the money and buy some fucking quality players with it. What's silly is letting it drag on this far when they should have got rid of him a long time ago and used the money to get replacements in.
They don't tell him who to buy that's for sure.
Moroever if they sold players left right and centre without his approval I'm pretty sure he wouldn't stay on as he would see it as intefering in team affairs.
He couldn't persuade Cesc to stay, just like he can't persuade Nasri to sign a new contract and stay.
Last edited by Özim; 18-08-2011 at 11:00 AM.
Which is why any talk Wenger makes about being unable to afford players and the market being overpriced is complete garbage.
You can't complain about a young English top quality CB being overpriced at 17M, or a Spanish first team player for a top four side being overpriced at 14M, or a PL regular 1st choice GK being overpriced at 4M and then spend 15M on a 17 year old and expect people not to call you absolutely fucking insane.
15M on Oxlade-Chamberlain is far more overpriced than 38M on Aguero.
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