Suarez ain't coming dude, but I do think blowing your entire budget on one player when the team needs several isn't very clever.
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Suarez ain't coming dude, but I do think blowing your entire budget on one player when the team needs several isn't very clever.
You kept saying we needed a world class striker to replace van Persie. I had this debate with you the other day when I was saying it was better to buy three players last year and you said we needed to get a world class striker in and you would rather watch us have world class players anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
Now you are saying dont get the world class striker get good players instead. You've changed your whole argument
World class players don't all cost 40+ million.Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
We do need a goalscorer yes, but there were others around who were much better value than Suarez who also happens to be banned for 6 games.
Signing one player to replace a player we lost last summer isn't going to make a massive difference, we'll be back to where we were with RVP and that is still not good enough. We need 3-4 world class players, they don't have to cost 40 million.
Why do you think it's our whole budget?Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
Arsenal spending £40m on a player is very hard to believe so it's not out of this world to think we'd buy other players as well.
we have 30 mil left and sanogoQuote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
thats the exact opposite of what you were arguing the other day :lol: goalposts firmly shifted,Quote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
we need a world class striker. rooney, surarez and higuain seem to be the only ones we could sign this summer. higuain hasnt happened for whatever reason but by all accounts was going to cost 35 million after madrid dicked around. (id much rather sign higuain this sumemr then any other striker as well) so its between rooney and suarez. i guess you go for suarez really. hes a better player.
these days though world class players mostly go for 25 million. so 3-4 would cost between 75-100 million anyway. i also wonder with suarez, how much of it is a statement too. we signed cazorla last year who is a very very good player, but because he was only 12 million ( i know malaga had money troubles but i doubt there would have much more excitment if we got him for 20) there wasnt much excitment. you sign a suarez, rooney etc people sit up and take notice.
40 million plus wages (those are all factored in), all in we're talking 75 million plus on one player. Based on that I can't see us spending any more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grebbo
bernard is coming homeQuote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga
No it really isn't, we need world class and a top striker would be great, but not as a single signing...the squad is threadbare as it is. If we signed Suarez and noone else I don't see how we would suddenly become a great team, we had RVP (who I rate higher than Suarez) and never came close to challenging, in fact he carried us in his last season. What we need is a few quality players around the pitch, not one sole big name signing.Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
Cazorla is excellent and does make a difference, there was little excitement because he wasn't high profile really. There's also a big difference between 25 million and 40 million, as I said if we we're going to pay 40 million for Suarez why not go all out and get a superstar like Neymar for 8 million more who is much more lucrative marketing wise.
Nothing about this Suarez thing makes sense, from the amount bid, to the fact he's banned, to the fact he wants to go abroad on top of everything else. That is why I'm convinced this will never happen and will in fact just hinder our chances of strenghtening the team in the end.
bernard will most probably sign, and i can see us getting in another midfielder and defender in, wenger isn't stupidQuote:
Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga