Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
So let's make this easy, seeing as I'm the one who is being irrational, despite being the only one who bothers to give similar examples to why I believe we faltered, yet again.

Can you give me an example, in the last 5 years, of a top professional footballer (before you go looking for what happened at Notts County) who turned down a new contract at his existing club because it was 5 years or more.

Once you do that I'll apologise to everyone here for being irrational and OTT.

Edit:
@IBK
Just seen your last post, the same challenge goes to you
At the risk of answering your question with a question, have you heard of a club withdrawing from contract negotiations with a player because they wanted to tie him down for longer than the player wanted?


This is why they are called contract negotiations, the club might want one thing, the agent and the player another and in most cases the press aren’t going to hear about what goes on behind closed doors


So to put my point in further perspective. There are lots of decisions made by management in my job that utterly mystify me…but I accept that I can only reason with the information available to me. I make a point in meetings of questioning what they do, and you know sometimes they’ve had to factor in something I’ve not even considered, and sometimes yeah….its just utter fucking stupidity

So alls I’m saying is, it’s not a happy time to be an Arsenal fan we all feel pissed off. But as I say, it could be that we have people in charge who are about as business savvy as those at the head of ENRON. It could equally be that there are factors involved that we’ve not considered