More to the point, why the hell hasn't Diaby just been given a new contract worth 150k a week. Surely he deserves it.
More to the point, why the hell hasn't Diaby just been given a new contract worth 150k a week. Surely he deserves it.
Windchime is the future of Spain's national team.
Oxo and Gibbs are very talented and technically as good as you could hope for young English players.
GHELkers (apart from themoment against Swansea) has been excellent when he has played this season.
Ramsey at the moment is the only one who's future you'd worry about. But he has shown flashes of top, top quality in the past.
Theo.
Awlful traitor.
Yet, if we didn't sign them up, and they (AOC and Shakespear especially) fucked off for nothing, you'd moan that we hadn't signed them up, and that it was terrible for the club to let them run down their contracts
This is good news. Good news in and amongst a stinking pile of turd. But good news nonetheless.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Firstly I assume the only ones I'm interested in keeping, Oxo and Wilshere still have some time to run on their contracts (i.e a few years), in addition I don't think either has any intention of leaving as they haven't really performed well enough yet, so IMO it could have probably waited, though I don't mind we signed up those two.
The other 3 players I couldn't give a damn about to be honest, not a big fan of them. If you reward failure as much as we do it's no surprise we fail so much to be honest.
Fair enough.
I like Ghelkers. And I think Gibbs is pretty #decent. I don't see anyone much better than him, aside from Cole, possibly Evra. Clichy certainly isn't.
Ramsby is the only one I don't think should be rewarded. In fact, I think he should be set on fire. But four out of five ain't bad.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Who is rewarding failure? End of the day if you think thats rewarding failure, then we were right to sell of Cesc. RVP, Nasi etc. Cause all of them failed with us too. Your right these lot have a lot to prove, but the club believes they are the future and thats why thwy have long deals.
People moaned we never have a English or brithish back bone. Now we do lets be happy with that. That is not to say we should not go out now and buy quality players.
Its irrelvant though End of the world tomorrow anyways.
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"I really like Arsenal. Do you really like Arsenal, or only Arsenal with trophies?" - Dennis Bergkamp.
"Which Arsenal do they want back, the one Arsene created?" - Tony Adams.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...ger-van-persie
Alisher Usmanov has said it is still his dream to own Arsenal and has given the under-fire Arsčne Wenger his full backing. The Russian billionaire already owns a 30% stake in the club but has no seat on the board and has been frozen out by the majority shareholder, Stan Kroenke.
In a rare interview, Usmanov told CNBC: "I want to take this opportunity to just reaffirm that in order to help the team, we would be ready to buy more shares, to buy control, to buy all shares. It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal. I would never instruct the chief executive, and I would ask if they need my help.
"If I had a big stake in Arsenal of course I would have my opinion of what we must do, for example on the commercial side. I think there are also many questions about the management of Arsenal's commercial activity. We will see and we will wait. Maybe one day I will wake up and have control of Arsenal."
Usmanov said it was a mistake to sell Robin van Persie to Manchester United in the summer and added if he had more involvement in the club he would back the manager in the transfer market.
"Today less, but over the last five years he has not had enough support to provide his conceptions of his game in Arsenal from the board, either for transfers or for keeping players etc. We are ready to do all that we can in order to help the company, in order to consider any form of cooperation or ownership with the team.
"This decision [losing Van Persie] was a mistake. If I am one of Wenger's players I would want to stay for the finish, but he explained Robin wanted to go to win trophies."
Asked about his influence in the transfer window, Usmanov said: "I never interfere with things over which I have no control, this question [about buying players] is for Wenger. I never ever give instruction to chief executive of my plans I only ask you need my help or not."
"I really like Arsenal. Do you really like Arsenal, or only Arsenal with trophies?" - Dennis Bergkamp.
"Which Arsenal do they want back, the one Arsene created?" - Tony Adams.