Ozil and Alexis are completely irreplaceable. The reason why is simple. If we aren't prepared to pay 250k a week to keep them then we can't afford or won't pay for suitable replacements. These two would already be tied down if they played for any other major club. With us, we're still living in the past. Sure, we love all the benefits of this new money era such as the big TV deals and the fuck off mega ticket prices. But when it comes to ponying up the costs attached to those benefits then it's back into scrimping and scraping mode. Whether the story is true or not, and a combination of the Metro and Marca almost guarantees it is created from thin air, the real problem is we still aren't a serious club when it comes to competing at the top. The stated reasons behind the stadium move, the "fuck me, are you serious" ticket prices and the years of putting up with bargain bucket transfer windows - all lies. This club has zero intention of competing at the top of the game. We're as far away as we ever were from properly competing in the CL and we have shown season after season, money or no money, that when an opportunity presents itself we neither have the personnel nor the bottle to grab it. 250kpw is of course lunacy, but that's the going rate for top tier talent. That's about 25mill a year between the pair of them, or 2/3rds of a Mustafi or a Xhaka - decidedly average players by comparison.
We have no problem paying outrageous Wenger's wages of course. And we'll have no problem resigning this bean counter masquerading as a football manager for another 3 torturous years.
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