Have to say I rarely agree with ollie but I can't argue with what he's saying here.
Do you really think that football should be about who has the richest owner, who can throw the most money around?
I think Arsenal have been far too cautious in the transfer market over the last few years but I wouldn't want Arsenal to achieve success by spending stupid amounts of money from some billionaire benefactor.
City are only where they are because of the money. Money they don't have. As Ollie said above, they spent 117% of their income on wages last year. 117%. Just on wages. Forget the transfer fees and other running costs.
Any normal club would have gone bankrupt.
It's obscene that a club is allowed to operate this way, I can't believe someone above said billionaire owners are a good thing in the game.
EVERYTHING that is wrong in the game is, at root, because of the obscene amounts of money and the massively uneven distribution of it throughout the game.
according to orstein on the bbc, van persie last week was coming round to the idea of staying this year, contract or not, but wenger told him he was not in his plans and that he was selling him before the game on sunday.
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Fucked off that we have sold to utd, but have a feeling Wenger had this planned all along to prevent vp having a proper pre-season with utd