How is it that other club don't seem to get affected the way Arsenal does? Or is it an indication of how much dross on high wages we have accumulated over the years?
How is it that other club don't seem to get affected the way Arsenal does? Or is it an indication of how much dross on high wages we have accumulated over the years?
There's obviously ways round it, look at Liverpool they spent 150 millon net this summer. We signed 5 players but I can't imagine any of them are on huge wages.Originally Posted by Goonermerree
Goes back to my point though, even if this was an issue then we should have got rid of the likes of Xhaka, Mustafi to bring in the quality replacements we needed, there's no excuses. West Ham/Everton and co didn't seem to have an issue.
We've done a poor job of selling players this summer so far IMO and then gone out and handed new contracts to players who don't deserve them.
To be fair, it’s been very quiet for most of our rivals. Spurs haven’t spent a penny, Man Utd spent around £60m on two players, some midfielder named Fred and a rightback. But they recouped just under £20m from sales.
Chelsea sold Courtois and went big with signing a new keeper. They also signed Jorginho. I think they spent around £100m when taking into account the sales. But considering the criticism we’ve received about our transfer dealings for our new manager, two new signings and one of which is to replace your first team goalkeeper looks like a poor summer in comparison.
Man City only bought Mahrez….it’s mainly Liverpool that have been the big spenders and then some of the lower league teams. I think the rules are you can’t increase your wage bill more than 7% if you can’t make up the difference through earned sponsorship and stadium revenue. For newly promoted clubs it’s a totally different rule, hence why Fulham are spending like crazy. But in regards to the usual suspects, it’s a quiet summer.
Are they still our rivals? To be fair, they didn't need to strengthen as much as us anyway. I don't know, who knows what goes on behind the scenes?
We need major surgery on our squad after last seasons disaster, we've made changes but not really enough to be honest.
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