What's the point getting 4th place?

[Grebbo]

The CL is the only thing we have to attract top players, we can't pay big wages or promise trophies. There are still some players who would love to play for Arsenal FC.

What frigging planet are you on??!! We never even attempt to sign top players - that is not our business model!!

And we pay fucking huge wages - look at our wage bill - we just pay them to the wrong players.

Jeez.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

What frigging planet are you on??!! We never even attempt to sign top players - that is not our business model!!

And we pay fucking huge wages - look at our wage bill - we just pay them to the wrong players.Jeez.

So we pay 250K a week like city/utd and barca do then ?

[LDG]

So we pay 250K a week like city/utd and barca do then ?

Yes we do. Difference being, we pay 62.5k a week to four shit-kicking bottlers like Bendy and Denilson etc, whereas city pay one David Silva.

If we wanted to do it properly, we could have two or three highly paid players....so long as we stop bungling the wage bill up with crap players earning more than they're worth.

That said, we're gambling on 1 in 4 of those players being sold on for a massive profit...in any case, we're always planning for the future, never the here and now.

[Coney]

I'll give 'em a fiver for Walcott.

Final offer

If you offer them a fiver, they'll settle for 3 quid.

Arsenal player negotiations

[Marc Overmars]

Yes we do. Difference being, we pay 62.5k a week to four shit-kicking bottlers like Bendy and Denilson etc, whereas city pay one David Silva.

If we wanted to do it properly, we could have two or three highly paid players....so long as we stop bungling the wage bill up with crap players earning more than they're worth.

That said, we're gambling on 1 in 4 of those players being sold on for a massive profit...in any case, we're always planning for the future, never the here and now.

A future that never happens. 5 years ago I'm not sure we were planning for this.

[Grebbo]

So we pay 250K a week like city/utd and barca do then ?

Yes

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Yes we do. Difference being, we pay 62.5k a week to four shit-kicking bottlers like Bendy and Denilson etc, whereas city pay one David Silva.

If we wanted to do it properly, we could have two or three highly paid players....so long as we stop bungling the wage bill up with crap players earning more than they're worth.

That said, we're gambling on 1 in 4 of those players being sold on for a massive profit...in any case, we're always planning for the future, never the here and now.

What my main point was, to attract a certain we always had the CL as a way of getting them, cant see them wanting to come with us in the Europa league.

I agree we do pay high wages, but not as big as the clubs i mentiond. City have abour 3/4 players on 150K or more we can't do that.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Yes

so which one of our players is on that a week then.

[Coney]

This is why I said that finishing outside the top 4 may jolt us into action. Humiliations like last night or at OT can be dismissed as one off aberrations in a season where we won our CL group and we're still competing for a top 4 place (I think that says more about Chelsea and Liverpool than us, but astonishingly we are still 4th right now).

Finishing lower though crosses a line though which may jolt the board/Wenger into action.


Or it may not

I guess we'll find out in the summer. We failed to buy a striker that can score goals in the January window so I'm just waiting for Wenger to go, get kicked upstairs and get a decent tactical manager who will insist on proper players, or for the miracle road to Damascus light where Wenger/Board spot the deliberate mistake, sack the dross and buy effective players.

I'm not surprised we are probably not getting past AC Milan, though it would have been less painful if it had been a 2-0 rather than a 4-0. Their first goal was decent and I don't really blame us for that. But Rosicky, Walcott have shown they are just not going to do the business and persisting with them is just frustrating. We needed to get at them, so why the fuck was Ox not playing at the start. etc. Blah blah - same shite blah blah. etc. ™

[Grebbo]

so which one of our players is on that a week then.

We paid Henry £200k in his final season with us.

Wages are not the problem. We have one of the highest wage bill's in the league.

Paying a load of shite above average wages is the problem as we cannot then pay the exceptional players top dollar (See LDG's post).