A breakdown of Arsenal's money schemes

[mastermind84]

Check the post history of the guys cosigning your argument and see what they have to say about players like RVP, Walcott, Song, Nasri…..it's not made up. They applaud us paying the 'market value' for young players but not for our seniors. That doesn't make sense to me. Check it out for yourself.

Also, has it ever occurred to you that we're responsible for inflating the market for young players? I remember, years ago, Benetiz was saying Liverpool couldn't offer the sort of wages Arsenal were offering to young players. I laughed when I first heard the claim, but it makes a lot of sense now.

of course it occurred to me, thats why I said it. I was implying that. You can say it was wrong to do that, but if we dont then we dont sign players like Cesc, Ramsey, and Clichy. That was the untapped market we exploited until other clubs caught wise to what we were doing.

Man Utd's players, according to this article, they're paying Cleverley, Smalling and Jones £40,000k a week. It's similar to what we pay for some of our young players, but there are guys in the squad that are supposed to be £50 - £60k a week as well.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...deal-2015.html

I dont understand the "50 to 60k a week as well comment." Does that apply to us or United?

and you see what I mean about other clubs doing the same. United had to do that to either sign those guys as well. Look how much Macheda is on as well.

But as you've rightly argued, we were one of the first to go younger and look for fresh new talent. Most clubs were looking for established stars that could jump straight into the first team. Man Utd have only just started to tighten their belts. Guys like Smalling and Jones are new additions and fit into their new long term strategy because they know they can't spend crazy money like they used to. Ramsey and Ox snubbed Man Utd in favour of us and maybe now so maybe they have decided to bring their wages up a bit more to compete with us. As said, this is new territory and we were the first to go this route and now other clubs are starting to follow. They're practically forced to because of the homegrown player rules and FFP ruling.

exactly

Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with us bringing in players like Ox, Ramsey, Wilshere, Walcott, but we had a serious imbalance. It was to the extent that we couldn't even play half of the players we bought and would have to play them out of position just so they get first team experience, or we're having to loan them out. A good chunk of the youth that played during the Chelsea Carling Cup final era have all left and things haven't gone according to plan. We should have had a team built from that phase. But now, it looks like we have the right balance with Wilshere, Gibbs, and Coquelin, playing alongside experienced players like Podolski, Merts, Giroud, Gervinho, Sagna and Arteta. The balance looks a lot better now, so it's not all bad news.

and like I said earlier, the club foolishly thought "loyalty>money"

and because of that, we lost a generation of players.