Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

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I think we dont need to buy a striker. We just need to change our playing style and use Alexis up front with Giroud or even Theo with Giroud. I wouldnt mind us buying some quick wingers to add width to the team though.

None of the strikers that are mentioned for trillions of dollars are a serious upgrade on what we have. I would rather we looked internally to solve the striker situation and rather focus on the bigger issue we have- our playing style.

Yeah, I think I'm starting to lean that way too - give Sanchez another run as CF (a sustained run this time), and sink the money into a couple of really good wide players instead. Draxler would make sense as one of them, if we still think there's a potential CF waiting to be made there, and I'm not sure who else - Mahrez maybe, or see if we can get Götze playing like he was at Dortmund again? Fekir, Boufal, Barbosa, Sane, Yarmolenko, etc - feels like there's probably a better market for this kind of player at the moment...

[Niall_Quinn]

23rd most valuable sports team (not football, but all of sports) in the world. Worth a couple of billion. Kroenke has made an absolute killing, he's doubled his money and then some. Crazy. More valuable than the chavs and the gypos. Way more valuable than Liverpool. And outspent by all of them.

This doesn't translate to cash in the bank (apparently we are the number one sports team on the planet in that respect), but it does reflect on how much we can afford to invest in the team taking a relatively safe risk here and there. We take no risks. We are a sustainable club. We sustain Stan's insane growth in wealth. That's what sustainability means to us. That and sustaining the wages of a non-winning manager and a bunch of mediocre players than bottle it every season.

How high up that list do we need to get before we start hearing about Arsenal going head to head with Bayern or Utd or Marketing for the signature of top talent? And I wonder when that leech Kroenke is going to cash out. Surely the money train can't keep rolling at this rate? 2019 when the "big 5" losers cement perpetual CL spots, that's probably when he'll take his winnings.

Not a football team - an investment fund.

World’s Most Valuable Sports Teams

Team Current value ($bn) Sport 2015 rank
1. Dallas Cowboys 4.0 NFL 2
2. Real Madrid 3.65 Soccer 1
3. Barcelona 3.55 Soccer 4
4. New York Yankees 3.4 MLB 2
5. Manchester United 3.32 Soccer 5
6. New England Patriots 3.2 NFL 6
7. New York Knicks 3.0 NBA 8
8. Washington Redskins 2.85 NFL 9
9. New York Giants 2.8 NFL 12
10. Los Angeles Lakers 2.7 NBA 6
=10 San Francisco 49ers 2.7 NFL 22
12. Bayern Munich 2.68 Soccer 11
23. Arsenal 2.02 Soccer 36
28. Manchester City 1.92 Soccer 29
36. Chelsea 1.61 Soccer 31
41. Liverpool 1.55 Soccer Not listed

[Munchies]

23rd most valuable sports team (not football, but all of sports) in the world. Worth a couple of billion. Kroenke has made an absolute killing, he's doubled his money and then some. Crazy. More valuable than the chavs and the gypos. Way more valuable than Liverpool. And outspent by all of them.

This doesn't translate to cash in the bank (apparently we are the number one sports team on the planet in that respect), but it does reflect on how much we can afford to invest in the team taking a relatively safe risk here and there. We take no risks. We are a sustainable club. We sustain Stan's insane growth in wealth. That's what sustainability means to us. That and sustaining the wages of a non-winning manager and a bunch of mediocre players than bottle it every season.

How high up that list do we need to get before we start hearing about Arsenal going head to head with Bayern or Utd or Marketing for the signature of top talent? And I wonder when that leech Kroenke is going to cash out. Surely the money train can't keep rolling at this rate? 2019 when the "big 5" losers cement perpetual CL spots, that's probably when he'll take his winnings.

Not a football team - an investment fund.

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Bunch of cunts, the lot of em!

And we still penny pinch every f'n year.

There to make up the numbers

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

£80million better? Or say £60mill if we twist their arm and then offer ours to be bitten off. I'd rate them the same - inferior to the top tier strikers, and in the end that's all that will count. Wenger's already shown us what he wants to spend - £20mill. That doesn't get us Troy Deeney these days. Silly old sod should have given Vardy that 4 year contract he wanted. But stubborn old, has-been gits will be stubborn old, has-been gits.

The argument against Higuain is a little sheepish like the one against Messi as to his international contribution. The international failings of Messi wouldn't stop us signing him. Higuain has scored consistently in two of Europe's top leagues now and scored 30 in the Italian where they are pretty good at denying space. He played some considerable time for Real who aren't the sort of team to accept mediocre players in key positions for extended periods of time.

I ignore the reported fees as I don't know how much credence it has. What I do know, is, Higuain is the level we should be looking at. Vardy's release clause was 20 mill but that doesn't mean that is our ceiling on a worthy forward. At this point though I am at a loss......it really is a position we have addressed seriously years ago.

[Gooner23]

23rd most valuable sports team (not football, but all of sports) in the world. Worth a couple of billion. Kroenke has made an absolute killing, he's doubled his money and then some. Crazy. More valuable than the chavs and the gypos. Way more valuable than Liverpool. And outspent by all of them.

This doesn't translate to cash in the bank (apparently we are the number one sports team on the planet in that respect), but it does reflect on how much we can afford to invest in the team taking a relatively safe risk here and there. We take no risks. We are a sustainable club. We sustain Stan's insane growth in wealth. That's what sustainability means to us. That and sustaining the wages of a non-winning manager and a bunch of mediocre players than bottle it every season.

How high up that list do we need to get before we start hearing about Arsenal going head to head with Bayern or Utd or Marketing for the signature of top talent? And I wonder when that leech Kroenke is going to cash out. Surely the money train can't keep rolling at this rate? 2019 when the "big 5" losers cement perpetual CL spots, that's probably when he'll take his winnings.

Not a football team - an investment fund.

For years they peddled the sustainable club argument and we lapped it up as something to be commended (which back then it probably was to a degree).

Now though they are just taking the piss out of the fans. I haven't been to a game or spent any money on the club (knowingly) for 2 seasons, and sadly don't intend to until something changes.

[Munchies]

@fkhanage
Arsenal have no interest in Gonzalo Higuain.
https://twitter.com/fkhanage/status/753483568727359488

No interest in anyone

[Niall_Quinn]

The argument against Higuain is a little sheepish like the one against Messi as to his international contribution. The international failings of Messi wouldn't stop us signing him. Higuain has scored consistently in two of Europe's top leagues now and scored 30 in the Italian where they are pretty good at denying space. He played some considerable time for Real who aren't the sort of team to accept mediocre players in key positions for extended periods of time.

I ignore the reported fees as I don't know how much credence it has. What I do know, is, Higuain is the level we should be looking at. Vardy's release clause was 20 mill but that doesn't mean that is our ceiling on a worthy forward. At this point though I am at a loss......it really is a position we have addressed seriously years ago.

I think all you really need to know is the nominal value of the club increased by £500mill (Stan's entire investment) in the last 12 months. Arsenal is a world class money printing machine, unparalleled in it's efficiency.

Oh yes, and we do that football thing as well.

[Marc Overmars]

Relax guys, Sanogo has got this.

[GP]

Relax guys, Sanogo has got this.

Got what? Parkinsons?

[Niall_Quinn]

Got what? Parkinsons?

He wouldn't even do Parkinsons properly. He'd have something more like Wogans. Or Postman Pat Syndrome.