Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

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Originally Posted by Gooner23

Arteta (thigh strain) and Cazorla (late return from international) are doubts for Sat according to AW. Its started..

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Arteta could be out for a month now...

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Originally Posted by Munchies

Arteta could be out for a month now...

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Dont worry Diaby and Fripong are walking again. :coffee:

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Originally Posted by Munchies

Arteta could be out for a month now...

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Could be a blessing in disguise.....

Perfect opportunity now for Wenger to get in a proper replacement.

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Originally Posted by Josh_Gooner

Sorry. I should have been clearer in saying that I'm arguing from the standpoint of getting in proper players capable of strengthening us and making us a bit more competitive with the league's elite. Why should we be overly concerned about paying them wages close to, or in line with what they'd get at other clubs. Bear in mind that some of these other clubs are even smaller than Arsenal in size and balance sheet.

We really can't expect to have it both ways. We are either big club that are going to sign a few quality players expecting to pay near the going rate in transfers and wages, or we accept that we are just a pretentious and pathetic wannabe.

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The whole point of moving stadium and then charging the highest ticket prices was to rake in money, lots of it. Odd thing is that now there seems to be no intention of spending it. AW can't complain about player wages as he's on 6-7m a year. If he feels so strongly about the wages perhaps he should take a pay cut. It's like those CEO's who always say they can't raise a worker's wage from 22,000 to 24,000 while the SOB's salary goes up by over a million the same year.

From the financial info available, Arsenal CAN afford to pay the wages being talked about they just refuse to for some daft reason. The irony of course being that if you did get quality players in, you'd compete for and likely win stuff which would then result in higher revenues.

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Originally Posted by StamfordBrdige

The whole point of moving stadium and then charging the highest ticket prices was to rake in money, lots of it. Odd thing is that now there seems to be no intention of spending it. AW can't complain about player wages as he's on 6-7m a year. If he feels so strongly about the wages perhaps he should take a pay cut. It's like those CEO's who always say they can't raise an worker's wage from 22,000 to 24,000 while the SOB's salary goes up by over a million the same year.

From the financial info available, Arsenal CAN afford to pay the wages being talked about they just refuse to for some daft reason. The irony of course being that if you did get quality players in, you'd compete for and likely win stuff which would then result in higher revenues.

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Yup. So frustrating :banghead:

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Originally Posted by Munchies

Arteta could be out for a month now...

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Ox will take his place

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Originally Posted by Keith

Ox will take his place

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not if theo is injured like rumours have it.

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Originally Posted by StamfordBrdige

It's like those CEO's who always say they can't raise an worker's wage from 22,000 to 24,000 while the SOB's salary goes up by over a million the same year.

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Yeah but that's perfectly reasonable as the SOB will move to another country and find a new job if you make him take a pay cut. Plus without him there would be no company :coffee:

Wenger - We'll be active before deadline

"We are active," he told Arsenal Player. "We are in a situation like Manchester United, like Chelsea, where everybody expects signings and at the moment not a lot has happened.

"There are 18 days to go, so that is a long time in the transfer market and we will be active.

"I cannot certify what the number [of players coming in will be] but we will be active until the end, that is for sure."



What a prat. We are not in the same situation as United and Chelsea because they already have far stronger squads than us. I despair.

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Originally Posted by ollie the optimist

not if theo is injured like rumours have it.

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didn't he play last night?