And so it begins

[Toronto Gooner]

can i just throw something in here?

They paid £35mil for a dribbling fuckstick with a pony tail

and they have Joe Cole

Well, the pony tail alone is worth at least £30 million.

But seriously, when Wenger buys a player (usually younger than Carroll) for potential, he gets slagged relentlessly. When Liverpool pay £35 million (8th largest transfer fee of all time) for a player with fewer than 100 premier league games and no season with more than 20 goals, the "defence" is they are buying potential.