well if you use barca logic he is a year older and its a year later so he is worth lessOriginally Posted by selassie
well if you use barca logic he is a year older and its a year later so he is worth less
And I'm sure our lads can't wait to force an Arsenal shirt on him.
Yep With Wilshere leading the tapping up, i mean being guilty of wanting him at arsenal.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz1Sk0T3gzxARSENE WENGER is under pressure from the board to start spending at Arsenal.
Some Emirates chiefs are baffled £11million star Gervinho is the only major arrival, even though the start of the Premier League season is just three weeks away.
Wenger has focused on attempting to keep both Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas. And he wants to tie up Robin van Persie to a new deal. He is also considering offering new terms to other emerging players at the club.
Yet despite being given a large amount to spend, Wenger has failed to lure anyone else other than Charlton's £1m defender Carl Jenkinson.
Wenger is being urged to close out some of his deals with shareholders and fans becoming increasingly concerned and frustrated with the lack of transfer activity.
Thousands of supporters are turning down the chance to take a season ticket for the coming campaign, as exclusively revealed in SunSport on Tuesday.
The Gunners boss accepts he urgently needs at least one centre-back but has not pounced in the market.
Wenger failed to land Blackburn's Phil Jones, who joined Manchester United, while Arsenal had a £10m bid for Everton's Phil Jagielka laughed off.
The Frenchman has made only enquiries for Blackburn's Chris Samba and Bolton's Gary Cahill.
Arsenal also face a fight to sign Anderlecht ace Romelu Lukaku.
Wenger has already made a £14m offer for the 18-year-old striker while Manchester City and Chelsea are also involved a bidding war.
And Fabregas looks certain to leave with a Barcelona delegation set to head to London today for talks before offering £35m.
Probs shite being from the Sun, but if the board are getting fed up With Aw not spending the road ahead could be interesting
Cahill isn't coming dude, he never was.
I think the Kroenke effect might well be to push for more of a spend - he was not part of the original 'project' and he knows that a decent return on his own investment - buying in when the price was much higher than when the previous board invested - means that we have to get good franchise revenue, which means trophies which, in turn, means buying whatever players are necessary to get silverware.
While the Sun story might be partial crap, given the board change and Gazidis' as well as Wenger's comments at end of season and the AST meetings, it does seem clear that we will be buying this time round. I think this is already under way and has been for weeks. Just because we have not seen the results, just rumours from dubious sources, does not mean that things are not happening quietly in the background, which is how it should be done.
I like the way you rationalise this and while I'd like to believe that there was pressure from above to spend, but well, quotes=0.
Kroenke spoke to the Sun about his bafflement? This <= Doubt.
Well if we're talking about last summers offers they were plastered all over the press, pretty much every paper reported it. I think Everton were even running a story on their club site about rejecting the offers.
If you are talking about the 'apparent' offer now, a few papers have hold of story, it's even up on the Beeb now...I'm highly skeptical on whether we've bid for him.
He signed a new 4 Year contract last summer after they rejected our offers, he won't be coming here, neither will Cahill, they are too pricey for Arsenal.
No - I don't think he spoke to the Sun - likely they have some other leak (or maybe they tapped his mobile??)
I base it on the way Gazidis and Wenger have been speaking since right after the last match of the season where what is being said is different from before. Wenger said almost in so many words that the plan had failed and that they needed to change direction. Gazidis said practically the same at the AST meeting, making it perfectly clear that they needed to buy players and that they had to change direction. The Kroenke part is my feeling that he is the kind of investor who wants to make the club succeed financially in its own rite - same as he has done in the US with his investments there, He is different from the sugar daddies that the other clubs have where they are throwing in silly money seemingly for an ego trip. Kroenke makes things work 'properly'. Given that is the case, he would want us to get merchandising money. The trip to the far east, something Wenger used to oppose, makes it clear there is a change. And the reason for doing the far east trip can only be for revenue raising. The logical backup for that marketing means that we need to have trophies to wave around.
All those things are the reason I expect to see some good transfer work before the window has closed. It is also the reason why I think that if Wenger does not start to produce silverware, Kroenke will look at the issue again and make changes.
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