I hate you all.
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I hate you all.
Wilshere :bow: :bow:
Podolski :bow: :bow:
Stoke :pal: :pal:
Didn't watch the game, good to see us get a win, heard Monreal played well which is another bonus.
On to the next one.
We've never been a club that has been able to compete with the big elite clubs when it came to spending and have always steered clear of a bidding war. If a player starts to make a name for himself with a smaller club and manages to get on the elite clubs radar, we've never thrown our hat into the ring. That's how it's always been under Wenger. During the Highbury years under Wenger, we were never battling it out with United to sign players and competing for the marque players. We weren't involved when they were making bids for internationals like Rio, Veron and Ronaldinho. We were never involved in the big money moves back then so it's wrong to suggest we would have been had not Chelsea arrived. World record bids were being made way back then when guys like Crespo, Veri, Figo and Zidane were on the scene and Real Madrid were spending silly money. We supposedly built the stadium to be able to compete with those clubs.
Prices have been inflated but even if they weren't I doubt we'd get involved in a bidding war for players because that's never been our style. This bring me to the second part of the argument and the bit highlighted in bold. There are plenty of cheap players out there that aren't on the top clubs radars and are within our price range but we don't make a move for them. We've seen what Pardrew is doing with Newcastle and it's like he's pulling a Wenger with some of his buys. How has he got the inside lane on Wenger's on territory and where he should be the expert? There have been plenty of cheap players that we could have moved for but we haven't over the years. Now it looks like we're slowly getting back to our old ways with the signing of Podolski, Cazorla, Merts, Moreal, Giroud but we're still way to cautious in the transfer window and have missed out on players that could have helped us years ago and maybe wrapped up some silverware or at least convince some of our wantaway stars to commit to the club. There are some real gems playing for some of the mid level teams and they'd have done a much better job than some the players we have currently so we can't keep blaming our transfer inactivity on Chelsea and co. Look how quickly we snapped up Moreal because of the Gibbs injury. It was the same for our deadline day deals last summer. We know players are out there but Wenger is too indecisive and what call time on a players career quick enough or adapt when we're in bad shape.