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This is HUGE!Quote:
Originally Posted by Injury Time
Too true. One long holiday. He's taken over £60 mill out of Arsenal since his false promises over a decade ago. How long did the great train robbers get?Quote:
Originally Posted by Globalgunner
There are ways around that......upping one'a bid by £1 being one them :good:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dein-machine
They don't take kindly to £1 bids up there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dein-machine
LOL - got snapped sneaking off to Ulan Bator where there are no phones or faxes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
That's a bleak outlook. Purity is in the lower leagues or just playing with mates. You don't even have to go that far. Those who are sick of Sky and BT can just find an illegal stream. That is what happened with the music industry. The regular gunk stopped selling because of illegal downloads and now industry execs are scrambling trying to find a new model. What you'll find is most people are willing to support an independent model over the corporate structure. I don't know how things will work in football, but the bottom line is, if everyone rushes out to pay for the new BT Sports package to go along with their Sky Sports package then nothing changes. I don't know how long BT have the rights for but if it's profitable and makes them a load of money, I'm sure someone else will try to get a look in on the rights if they want in on the sports money. If it fails miserably and illegal streams rocket, it's a kick in the teeth for them and they'll walk away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kano
Anyway, spending too much time on this. It's deadline day.
@JWTelegraph
Nothing expected today at Arsenal (as has been case since Cech signed).
Hadda nuff
Does he even get a call up to Brazil? I'm sure he has some sort of talent and would be one of those fallen star type projects that Wenger may be able to bring back to life....but we ain't got time for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
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Either Cavani or Great Khali
A lot of that is true in some respects, but the pigs follow the sheep. If everyone got pissed off with the PL and started watching non-league footie then the pigs would be attracted to that because the numbers would work. There needs to be robust discrimination against pigs in all forms of sport. Some of the most iconic moments in sport were delivered in crummy stadiums and on one of the three available TV channels. These pigs aren't required, they don't add value. Hopefully more people are going to start seeing it. Calling BT today to tell them to fuck off with their super duper package. Tried to watch the match on the weekend on that BT Player. Had to switch to a pirate stream to avoid all the freezing, resetting and pixelation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Who's that other bloke who's even better? Fred is it? The one that can't hit the side of a Boeing 747 factory from 3 yards? We should get him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Wenger on holiday pissing it up on transfer day :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
That guy was bloody awful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Is the purple dildo still available?
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Yeah, they'll follow but as long as there are no invites for them that's all they can do. Until they come back with a reasonable model, nobody will want what they have on offer and that's the problem problem music industry is having now. Trying to convince a generation that's used to not paying for music to actually pay. Football may be a slower process because of technology but internet speeds keep getting faster and streaming will get better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Chelsea have 28 players out on loan. Many of them are youth, but still that's fucking mental. Absolute joke of a club.
BT and sky can both fuck off as well.
Seriously disillusioned with professional football.
Have to say it's incredibly disappointing to not sign any outfield players. With the money we've got sitting in the bank, does anyone seriously believe that we couldn't find a single player that would make a difference to our team?
We've got a very good squad and after a strong finish to last season I expected us to sign the players needed to give us the edge and to put us on the right side of those fine margins.
What is wrong with you WUMger? Crazy bastard.
We have just signed a new commercial deal in Indonesia though :trophy:
Same shit every year I'm afraid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Each season our squad is lacking in areas, and over the season, that's what costs us. Eg not signing a striker in 13/14, and signing Kallstrom with his broken back :lol:
"It’s very unlikely Arsenal will make any signings before the deadline. They explored a few options but nothing even got off the ground, let alone coming close. Almost certainly no ins or outs today for the Gunners."
Ornstein has spoken.
Piss poor by the club, but not unexpected.
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Originally Posted by Gooner23
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Originally Posted by Gooner23
It annoys me the amount of stick Wenger gets (stick he rightly gets) and nothing said about his employers. It's human nature that if your under no pressure to achieve anything but the bare minimum you won't look to do any more and you certainly won't take any risks with your employers money on a achieving what your under no pressure to.
Getting rid of Wenger by itself won't change that, Gazidis needs to make sure that the next manager isn't given a free hand and that competing for and winning titles is a requisite rather than just desirable
Especially when £200m is just sitting in a Natwest current account. It's just sitting there guys! Doing nothing! Being devalued.
I said this on page 1 of this thread
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Originally Posted by Gooner23
You could hear from Wenger's early comments that we weren't going to make many major moves. Oh well. It's on him to deliver with what we have.
It's time for him to go along with the £8m a year he earns. Kloppo is available. He absolutely must go, he HAS to.
#WengerOUT
https://twitter.com/hashtag/wengerou...efault&lang=en
Fuckin joke, guys been sitting on his arse
Again why aren't the board accountable, Wenger isn't making them pay him an exorbitant sum. They are happy with him because they and our major share holder just want to turn us into a giant cash cow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syn
And what good would bringing in Klopp do irrespective we can't sign players till January
Plenty has been said about his employers in the past and they were taking heat for years whilst Wenger's failings ignored. Wenger has to be in the firing line at some point because now you can't deny that the funds are available. He used to use that as an excuse every year and would throw the owner under the bus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
As a sportsman, Wenger's natural instinct should be to aim for gold and success. To improve the team to the best of his ability and it shouldn't take extra coaxing from board members and execs. I don't want a club that interferes with the managers decisions but I hope they're ruthless with him when a top class manager is available and he fails to deliver. That for me is where I expect them to step in. At least we have funds in the bank for a new manager and Wenger deserves the sack if he gets this wrong again.
I am honestly not that surprised, we went into last season with an exhausted Merts and Chambers as our only senior central defenders, Wenger attempted to correct that sham of a decision with the signing of Gabriel in January.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Why he feels he has to gamble on the squad is anybodies guess.
There is money available and if a target is identified, we sign them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
This is Wenger. He has become a coward with old age.
Wenger & the board are taking the piss out of us & the only reason its been tolerated for so long is due to Wengers earlu success, the pink elephant regarding stadium repayments & recently the 2 cup wins.
Sorry to say it guys, but we need to finish out of the top 4, behind the likes of Liverpool & Utd, who have spent - and then have a mass demonstration. Not aimed at Wenger but aimed at the board. They then need to decide whether they run with a manager who does not understand that nowadays success on the pitch runs parallel with spending heavily on the team or to swap him for someone who actually wants to compete.
Back stage at the Kelis concertQuote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
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Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
Totally agree, I've said for a few years now that Wenger isn't using his resources efficiently. It shouldn't be a case of spending like City or not spending at all, there is a middle ground and that is where Wenger is failing IMO.
He doesn't need to spend heavily, he just needs to spend. The minimum we required this season was an upgrade on Giroud, I am pretty sure we could of achieved that if we were more proactive and showed more intent in the market. We obviously had our targets but as usual we do the one bid then walk away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dein-machine
We are not ruthless enough in the market and that will be our undoing this season just like it was last season.
The argument about his salary is nonsense - any amount paid to a manager or player is ridiculously high, so whether it is 1, 2 or £8m, it’s all disproportionate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
Money spent or not, Wenger can’t escape the failings of building such an unbalanced squad. We have no wingers. A novice DM with under a years experience. A good striker, an average one and another piss poor guy. Add to the usual complaints of playing people out of position and not using his squad enough. Those are the things he can’t hide from.
Even just another Giroud would be acceptable at this stage. Because as it stands he is the only striker we can rely on to score 15-20 goals. Walcott will not and don't even mention Wellbeck in that conversation. Giroud completely loses form, or gets injured we are screwed, unless Wenger comes to his senses and puts Alexis in the middle where he should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by selassie
The point I'm making is that the board are happy with Wenger and are happy without putting him under pressure to achieve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
There is a difference between board room meddling which I agree doesn't work and the approach the board takes summed up by Chips Keswick "when Arsene has a plan we back him, when he doesn't we stay quiet"
It's that laisse faire approach that bothers me, they have the ultimate say over Wengers employment and so it's them I ultimately hold accountable for his lack of action.
Their lack of action over his prevaricating and his reversion to type every time it looks like we've turned a corner is an inditement on them. We blame Wenger purely because he isn't accountable
My point is he doesn't need to hide from these things because he is not accountable to anyone to achieve anything but top four.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kano
It's like in my office, if an employee turns up late every day they just about do the bare minimum and cause resentment amongst other employees...it's their line manager who should be accountable if they fail to address the situation.