Clichy has left. And Nasri in talks with Citeh.

[Darth Vela]

Much to Barcelona's delight.

Indeed, they've got themselves a nice little feeder club.

[Joker]

He will buy a replacement, the more specific 'project youth' to bring us to this point was a failure in that it didn't bring us a title-winning team so now that we have a bit of money we'll splash out to get the team back on track for next year, the wider 'project youth' in that we take talent and develop it instead of constantly buying at the top end of the market will continue though.

I hope you're right, because it's absolutely imperative that Wenger makes the right decisions in the transfer window this summer, and if he doesn't get it right we're in deep shit, especially with teams around us strengthening their squads, ready for an assault on the title.

[Power n Glory]

Thing is though Chelsea wouldn't have got Mourinho but for the money either, they were nowhere near high profile enough before they started to spend big and even un Ranieri they pushed harder than they ever had previously. You can't just throw money around, you have to throw it in the right places, but Chelsea and now City's success all comes down ultimately to the sugar daddy. Frustrating as things are right now, it's not how I'd want us to do things

I'd take the sugar daddy over a greedy board that won't even but their hands in their pocket to help the club out. We have two billionaires on the board and the club are raising seasons ticket prices and membership fees to pay for the electricity bill.

[budesonide]

That's a nice image.

Not so sure the price matters to us, much as it doesn't to them. They could go out and spend 15m on Baines instead and not bat an eyelid, maybe we figure giving them Clichy is a good way to stop 'em from going for any other, good, LBs.

Actually, why didn't City just buy Baines? That's stupid.

because in a decent team, clichy -- for only 7mil -- will be worldclass.

[Niall_Quinn]

That's a nice image.

Not so sure the price matters to us, much as it doesn't to them. They could go out and spend 15m on Baines instead and not bat an eyelid, maybe we figure giving them Clichy is a good way to stop 'em from going for any other, good, LBs.

Actually, why didn't City just buy Baines? That's stupid.

They probably will buy Baines.

[Darth Vela]

I hope you're right, because it's absolutely imperative that Wenger makes the right decisions in the transfer window this summer, and if he doesn't get it right we're in deep shit, especially with teams around us strengthening their squads, ready for an assault on the title.

Yeah, this is where I agree with the more pessimistic denizens of the Arsenal blogosphere, we don't invest this summer and we're a bit fucked.

[Niall_Quinn]

I hope you're right, because it's absolutely imperative that Wenger makes the right decisions in the transfer window this summer, and if he doesn't get it right we're in deep shit, especially with teams around us strengthening their squads, ready for an assault on the title.

We say the same twice a year and nothing ever comes of it. I think there's a certain degree of disbelief that shields Wenger, people simply can't believe he won't act to correct the problems and assume he'll do the obvious next time around. But this is year six of him screwing around and he doesn't sound in the least bit repentant or deterred to me. According to him, it's the fans that have the problem, expecting the team to compete and unrealistic shit like that.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Aguero would never sign for us, bigger better more ambitious clubs would be interested.

We paid Campbell 100k+ back in the day, we still could if we wanted to. I'm not saying we should sign the world's very best, but we could sign some top players, can we still attract though with our reputation of being bottlers and our 1st teamers leaving?

You never answered my question just tried to be clever. Did i say he'd ever sign for us. Are you that thick to think we have money to pay top wages.

If you want a club of superstars go support chelsea or city. things will be this bad with this club till the debts are paid off Aw or no AW.

[Darth Vela]

because in a decent team, clichy -- for only 7mil -- will be worldclass.

I doubt he'd make world class but he'll certainly be under less pressure from the bombardiers and get a lot more support from those around him, given their usual tactics. He will still make errors, he'll still give his man too much space and he'll still play players onside though, that will stop him from being world class.

[Boss]

Expect Wenger to spend 30M+ in January when we're struggling to qualify for the CL.