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Some have been holding up Newcastle and Alan Pardew as examples of achieving better than Arsene Wenger in the transfer market. Particularly the French market when in fact Pardew has only signed 2 players from France as far as I can make out - Cabaye, who I agree was a good signing and actually thought sounded ideal for us when he signed and Marveaux, who's hardly set the PL alight. Ben Arfa was a Chris Hughton signing, no credit to Pardew there. Demba Ba has been a good signing, but was already displaying it in the PL and before that, Germany. If we had signed him I dare say there would have been at the least a degree of scepticism regarding his previous injury concerns. Papiss Cisse has proven a good signing, signed from Germany, but not for an insignificant fee of £10m. Pardew's other main signings, Santon and Obertan haven't overly impressed.
I don't want to detract from Newcastle, they've made good signings and had a good season, but using them as a transfer market lesson to Arsenal is excessive. Pardew's made 3 good signings, let's not go over the top. I know when arguing people tend to commit to simplistic arguments like Wenger is incompetent, but if you take a step back and look at things rationally things become less black and white.
As for FY stating Wenger's just lining his pockets - what a load of nonsense. If he was a Redknapp type character for whom a significant chunk of his earnings depended upon flogging players at a profit then maybe so, but Wenger's income would be enhanced by more success, as I'm sure he'd receive trophy bonuses and possibly an improved contract. Accusing him of lining his pockets is silly and insulting.
I've been shocked at how much play times he's had, and how many goals he's scored. He's actually done quite well for them.
I love childish bitching about disloyal ex players .
Cesc
Adebayor and Gallas - simply
Na$ri - I don't care what the press say, Citeh ain't winning anything this season
Bendtner
...then there are the old favourites
Hleb http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news...cle893074.html
Flamini - appearances for Milan 2011/12
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
Shamini is also out of contract in the summer with no offer from Meelan to renew
He may improve next season but now pep has gone will he get a chance especially with a new manager going to spend big to get them back on top.Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
cesc won't be getting a game under a new manager because pep was the one who really wanted him.
the fans weren't particularly keen on buying cesc because they had thiago and tello, so they saw him as a waste of money.his performances after xmas have been quite poor and some of the fans are already on his back. pep already had enough of him for missing so many chances so dropped him. a new manager won't play him ahead of xavi.
Tbh IMO Barca did not want him as much as they said they did, but as they saw him as theirs they had to take him back. If they had really wanted him they haved payed whatever to get him not haggle over a deal for weeks.
oh dear
Flamini and Hleb.
Had a brilliant 07/08 and jumped as soon as their names were in lights. Fuckers.
Would we be stupid to look at Thiago?
Seem to remember rag paper talk about us showing an interest, when dreaming up the kind of package deal it would take to get us to hand over Cesc?
No, he is their best talent imo should have got him in the cesc deal though. still id take him now.
Last edited by Olivier's xmas twist; 27-04-2012 at 12:10 PM.
No chance of getting Thiago. He's their new Xavi for the next 10 years.
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