what the hell are we doing!?

[Niall_Quinn]

I am baffled, can someone clear this money buisness up. That fcuk face Gazidis said there was £50 Mill in the transfer kitty for W@nker to spend, now I am reading we need to clear out 4 or 5 players to generate funds to sign a fucking 31 year old?? WTF is going on with our club finances and transfer policy?

You are getting confused by what is said before the transfer window and what is said during and after it. The £50mill, £70mill stuff is specifically per-window and post latest on the pitch humiliation. This keeps the fans in hope rather than open revolt. Then when the window comes along we can blame city for our rising cash balance. I heard we took the money that has been earned from wrecking the team over the last few seasons and placed it in government bonds. True? If so, it's as good as theft.

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

its supposed to be progression not regression.

year on year getting worse. cant stand it.

[selassie]

We have a lot of dross that we've been paying for years and as expected it's very hard to get rid of them, even when they go on loan we're most likely paying a large part if not all of their salary so loan deals aren't the answer...but what can you do when noone wants them?

I would suggest being a bit more selective with signings, maybe someone should point out to the manager when he says spending money isn't the answer that not spending certainly isn't either, these bargain basement buys have been nothing but a hindrance, the money we've waste on their wages could have got us a few quality players instead.

Imagine how much we would have saved if we'd not been paying the likes of Chamakh, Denilson, Bendtner, Squillaci, Djourou, Rosicky (he's always injured), Fabianski, Park, Diaby, Santos, Gervinho, Miyacho, Campbell.

Yep totally agree, Arsene's record in the market has been very very flakely over the past what 3 or 4 years.

He actually "risk" buys way more than he should do given our current position etc.

I would take his "buying doesn't solve everything" comments with a pinch of salt...he completely ignores the point like you say that it's not so much we want him to spend like Chelsea or City, but to adequately replace our best players. His comment of "everybody wants a big name like Messi" is crazy, I don't know of any Arsenal fans that want "Messi's", I do know lots who would have liked players like "Dembele", "Ashley Young", "Baines", those 15-20million types...not sure why we can't purchase one of these type players from time to time.

[LDG]

Yep totally agree, Arsene's record in the market has been very very flakely over the past what 3 or 4 years.

He actually "risk" buys way more than he should do given our current position etc.

I would take his "buying doesn't solve everything" comments with a pinch of salt...he completely ignores the point like you say that it's not so much we want him to spend like Chelsea or City, but to adequately replace our best players. His comment of "everybody wants a big name like Messi" is crazy, I don't know of any Arsenal fans that want "Messi's", I do know lots who would have liked players like "Dembele", "Ashley Young", "Baines", those 15-20million types...not sure why we can't purchase one of these type players from time to time.

Tbh, if you add up the amount of money he has wasted on players, wages etc, then we quite possibly could have bought world class. Not necessarily Messi, but certainly something resembling top quality.

For all the risk 10mil buys (Gervinho etc) he oculd have bought himself someone fucking good

[Marc Overmars]

Buying middle range players isn't a risk to him though, he knows he'll be able to extract enough out of them to secure the bare minimum target, then he can proudly boast how economic we are.

He doesn't have it in him to buy a worldie or 2, there's real risk involved there and I doubt he fancies the challenge.