If they offer less than what we're asking for, we should take that as a percentage, and reflect that percentage in what we give them back.
We could keep his legs, and send them the rest of the dumpy little cunt.
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If they offer less than what we're asking for, we should take that as a percentage, and reflect that percentage in what we give them back.
We could keep his legs, and send them the rest of the dumpy little cunt.
He won't be rotting on any bench, he's already as good as anything they've got and he'll end up captaining club and country. We're letting a top, top player go, one of our few world class assets. And it looks like we'll be swapping him for chump change. This sends a terrible message out to the fans, the players and the football world in general. Arsenal have given up even pretending to compete with the big boys, we are now officially second tier. The stadium move has only succeeded in driving us out of the top ranks and into the chasing pack. We desperately need a manager who has the balls to tell the players straight they will be forced to honour their contracts. I don't buy any of this shit about there being no point in keeping a player who wants away. That attitude effectively tears up any contract the minute it is signed. Top players aren't going to sit on the bench and sulk if forced to stay, their careers and future earning potential wouldn't afford them that luxury. I reiterate, anyone who is comfortable with the thought we have enough with Nasri (another want-away player), Jack and Ramsey are forgetting we are a selling club. They also overlook our track record of being able to keep players on the pitch. That trio will be nowhere near good enough to make us competitive next season. They are all good players undoubtedly but none are in the class of Fabregas. It would be interesting to see what fee would be attached to Messi if he decide he had Manchester or Chelsea in his DNA. I doubt Barca would play the, no point in hanging on to him card. They'd just demand the £100mill and wouldn't budge. Somehow it's different for Arsenal though, it's fine for us to sell world class players on long contracts for pennies. That all makes sense at Arsenal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Japan Shaking All Over
The problem has been purified at Arsenal though, we are the ultimate expression of business over football. We practice business to the detriment of the football, who else does it so well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
We should send them Diaby in Cesc's shirt and tell them he got a sun tan.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDG
Might work.
We live within our means and don't rely on a sugar daddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
I would argue that we're trying to do things the 'right' way rather than getting ourselves in silly levels of of debt or being some billionaire's plaything.
I applaud that. Long term I still think that will be shown to have been the right thing to do.
What's annoying is while others have spent big Wenger has built a squad which is capable of challenging but doesn't because of poor defensive coaching and weak mentality, things which it wouldn't take megabucks to fix.
I believe that is a good post young Letters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
It will take megabucks to replace the talent of Fabregas if we let him go on the cheap. And as it will take megabucks, it won't happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
I think this is serious enough for us to let him rot on our bench if the need arises. He has a contract til 2015, he is a world class player, he is young, he should NOT be going for anything in the region of £31-35m.
If this were happening anywhere else you would not expect movement for under 50m euros.
So you think the moral superiority cup is coming our way again next season? If it wasn't for the humiliating reversals on the pitch we could gloat at the nasty Manchester Utds and Chelseas, poor sods have to spend money to win things. Losers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
That is so wrong I don't know where to start.Quote:
The stadium move has only succeeded in driving us out of the top ranks and into the chasing pack
If Cesc goes for 35m, hell if he goes for anything less than 50m, it's a good deal for Barca but there's been an undercurrent of opinion for a while that the team might be better off without him, others stepping up and taking responsibility or him just not being suited to the Premiership. If they're right it'd work out but I can't help but think we're getting done, at a time when we need guys with the right attitude we could be losing a world class guy who has that right attitude for less than he's worth.
Doesn't make sense, does it? They penny pinch everywhere to the extent they are comfortable with seeing the club slide backwards. But when they have a real asset that is worth the big bucks, they sell on the cheap. Sounds to me like they are so desperate to cash in on him they don't want to jeopardise the deal by demanding a fair price.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.