Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Özim]

It's got to the point now where part of me wants us to spend no money just to see what would happen

Also, most of me thinks no signings will be made anyway

What would happen.

See last season.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Mourinho is caught between a rock and a hard place as Mata is a creative player and creative players make him physically ill but Mata is a fan favourite and Mourinho as a clinical Narcissist craves love and adoration

[Zerlathon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0aS...ure=youtu.be&a
Arsenal fan tv vid from last night, this guy knows his numbers , and everything he says about Gazidis is bloody true, Gazidis is a cunt

Great video, and I cannot fault any of the points raised by the lad.

If my 2 minute investigation is correct, then Ivan Cashidis is the highest paid CEO in UK Football at present. There is also allegedly a clause in his contract that allows him to walk away from the Club we change Ownership with a lump sum equating to 3 x his annual wage (plus extras).

I think whoever writes these contracts should go do one!

[Niall_Quinn]

Maybe..possibly...we've left ourselves in such a delicate situation regarding Player recruitment, what makes it even worse if reports are to believed is that we're pinning our hopes on purchasing players from Real Madrid on the basis that they sign Bale and the players we are after actually want to come here?

Our lack of planning and hit and hope strategy is nothing short of a disgrace. We are supposed to be an Elite European club.

We have been chasing unobtainable targets since the Suarez stitch up. Suarez, Rooney, now Benzema. This is deliberate. The one deal we could have made (for way below the £31mill if we had been decisive) was Higuain. We ran from that - on principle Yes, the miser's principle of spending no money. This is not a lack of planning, it is very detailed and deliberate planning by crooks.

[Özim]

We have been chasing unobtainable targets since the Suarez stitch up. Suarez, Rooney, now Benzema. This is deliberate. The one deal we could have made (for way below the £31mill if we had been decisive) was Higuain. We ran from that - on principle Yes, the miser's principle of spending no money. This is not a lack of planning, it is very detailed and deliberate planning by crooks.

Totally agree, we can see they're unattainable from the off, let's not fool ourselves, after 8 years without silverware we're no longer top of the pile, there's plenty of other more desirable destinations...sure we have CL football but that doesn't fool anyone when we don't invest in the team, sell our best players and never really challenge anymore.

Realistically the kind of players we're going after are never genuinely going to be interested in coming to us.

[Niall_Quinn]

Those must have been tense times in the Arsenal boardroom, "But what if Liverpool accept £40mill, we're FUCKED!?", "Don't worry Ivan, I ring them every day and call them cunts, they will not sell, we are safe."

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

We have been chasing unobtainable targets since the Suarez stitch up. Suarez, Rooney, now Benzema. This is deliberate. The one deal we could have made (for way below the £31mill if we had been decisive) was Higuain. We ran from that - on principle Yes, the miser's principle of spending no money. This is not a lack of planning, it is very detailed and deliberate planning by crooks.

If you were on the board and had decided to spend no money would you really go to the effort of subterfuge.

[Niall_Quinn]

If you were on the board and had decided to spend no money would you really go to the effort of subterfuge.

This is like anything in big business, you have the company agenda and then you have the public perception that has to be crafted. What is the overriding goal of a corporation? To make money for the shareholders, that's it. The method has a simple formula, do the bare minimum to maximise those profits. Nobody needs to sit down and conspire, they just need to follow the guiding principles of the corporation. Making crazy and impossible bids works well. You can achieve the primary goal while putting out a useful message that appeals, in this case, to the fans and sponsors and their money. Would they lie to achieve their aims? Of course, that's a key part of their job as corporate executives.

[milla]

Well said, no pies, no drinks, no match programs, no Arsenal kit.

[Ralpheroo72]

There are still no players available, no one has signed any players.