Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Kano]

Direct quote from gazidas this year "aw has done an outstanding job to keep us in the mix on a limited budget"

one quote against many from agm's and the media over the past few years stating the opposite, so the balance clearly leans one way more than the other. if they want to change that perception, rhetoric is not going to do it. their own words and lack of action haunt them.

[Power n Glory]

Direct quote from gazidas this year "aw has done an outstanding job to keep us in the mix on a limited budget"

Again, limited does not mean no money and it's obvious when you look at how much we've spent. How comes you're unable to grasp this?

[Özim]

2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...-to-spend.html

[Ollie the Optimist]

How? Pod is supposed to be on £90k - £100k already and Giroud can't be on anything less than £50k. Higuain isn't on that much at Madrid and reports were batting around £100k as the wage he'd be on?

As for that argument about options up front....Podolski hardly played up front and Theo started more games through the middle than he did. Gervinho as well. We had a good chunk of the season where Pod was on the bench too. We need quality over quantity. Wenger is terrible at rotating players and hardly made use of his bench at all. If you're not happy on the bench, he'll freeze you out totally so forget the argument of needing a big squad. When Theo was having contract issues he'd play Ramsey out wide instead of starting Theo, which was senseless.

Quality over quantity is fine, except over a season if you lose you quality and don't have quantity, you are fucked. So if we signed a Higuain/Suarez last year, we wouldn't have had giroud or podolski. So if he was injured for a length of time, we would have to play Walcott or chamakh or even god forbid, bentner up front. Then Ramsey plays on the right as theo is up front, and gervinho/ox on the left. That's not good enough, so you buy a couple of good players. Then year after splash the cash as seems to be our plan.

Forget what we did last year, if we signed Higuain/Suarez now, that's a strike force of pod, Giroud, theo, and the world class striker. Plenty more options so if we did have to rotate, we are rotating in good players who can do a job and keep us competitive.

[Özim]

Same old shit, different season.

As we know, the money is there. Always has been. Wenger refuses to spend

Pretty much.

Believing Wenger will spend big is like believing in Santa Claus tbh.

Been there done that, heard the BS time and time and time again, this summer is no different to any other summer, spin about money, Wenger saying 1 or 2 quality players, linked to some pipedream signings which seem to drag on forever as they're never going to happen etc etc.

[Ollie the Optimist]

one quote against many from agm's and the media over the past few years stating the opposite, so the balance clearly leans one way more than the other. if they want to change that perception, rhetoric is not going to do it. their own words and lack of action haunt them.

I'm not going to argue with that because its true. The club need to learn that the best way of telling fans we have money and will spend is to announce a huge signing. Not telling the press we can spend

[Ralpheroo72]

We aren't signing Higuain or Suarez.

[Power n Glory]

Quality over quantity is fine, except over a season if you lose you quality and don't have quantity, you are fucked. So if we signed a Higuain/Suarez last year, we wouldn't have had giroud or podolski. So if he was injured for a length of time, we would have to play Walcott or chamakh or even god forbid, bentner up front. Then Ramsey plays on the right as theo is up front, and gervinho/ox on the left. That's not good enough, so you buy a couple of good players. Then year after splash the cash as seems to be our plan.

Forget what we did last year, if we signed Higuain/Suarez now, that's a strike force of pod, Giroud, theo, and the world class striker. Plenty more options so if we did have to rotate, we are rotating in good players who can do a job and keep us competitive.

You're talking rubbish, Ollie. So last year you would have turned down an RVP replacement, star striker for two just above par players?

[Niall_Quinn]

I must tell you, the money has been stolen. It is left on the bus. A large dog has eaten it.

[GP]

Quality over quantity is fine, except over a season if you lose you quality and don't have quantity, you are fucked. So if we signed a Higuain/Suarez last year, we wouldn't have had giroud or podolski. So if he was injured for a length of time, we would have to play Walcott or chamakh or even god forbid, bentner up front. Then Ramsey plays on the right as theo is up front, and gervinho/ox on the left. That's not good enough, so you buy a couple of good players. Then year after splash the cash as seems to be our plan.

Forget what we did last year, if we signed Higuain/Suarez now, that's a strike force of pod, Giroud, theo, and the world class striker. Plenty more options so if we did have to rotate, we are rotating in good players who can do a job and keep us competitive.

Exactly right.

It's amazing how myopic some can be.