Those are summer signings, you aren't going to grab them in January. We've had years in the wilderness, penny pinching, being second best. We shouldn't even be in a position where players are contemplating leaving. We should be bringing in enough talent so they all end up fighting for a place and we can do without them if need be. Boot would be on the other foot.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
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http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...act-tug-of-war
Wonder how we will F this up..
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
By not offering enough, probably. Although the whole idea of having to offer someone £400,000 a week to make them happy makes me
The bubble surely has to burst at some point.
That's a standard negotiating press conference. I love the club, I love the fans, I want to win for the fans, I'm happy here. Standard stuff. What we need to do now is look at players like Hazard and Aguero, see what money they are on and pitch a figure that's in the ballpark. Alexis is easily at that level and can demand the same sort of money and if we want to keep him we have to accept this is where football is at today and we'll have to cough up. Either that or sell him, bring in somebody more affordable and announce second tier status. The rewards at the top of this game are huge, but so are the costs. Either we have ambitions to be at the top or we don't and this contract negotiation, along with Ozil's, will tell us where we stand. We mustn't let this drag on. Having a player like Alexis happy and with his long term future secured can only benefit us on the pitch for the remainder of the season. If we fuck this up then it's game over. We're done. We can join the spuds at their level and see if we can do a one-off Leicester somewhere down the road.
Wouldn't it be great if the club made a big, bold statement by signing our two stars up in double time and then announcing we were spending more bringing in a third top talent in January? That would transform the place. What I can actually see us doing is dragging this out and penny-pinching and low-balling all the way to a summer crisis where Alexis' and Ozil's positions will be twice as strong. Like we did with the signings this summer. Hunting in the bin, scraping out the barrel, waiting until the very last minute and then overpaying massively for the players we ended up with. Any lessons learned I wonder?
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He won't want 400k, that's just a negotiating tactic. Nobody except Utd pays those stupid Chinese bribes because the PL has far more to offer. We're probably going to have to end up paying him in the regions of 200-220k. That seems to be around the figure the top stars are earning at the top PL clubs, excluding Utd's joke payouts of course.By not offering enough, probably. Although the whole idea of having to offer someone £400,000 a week to make them happy makes me
The bubble surely has to burst at some point.
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Well he's not exactly poor is he, so if he chooses to go to China just for the money when he's in his prime, let him go. (I don't think for one minute he wants to go to China though.)
Not sure about Drax these days...... taking a while to come of age.....perpetually unsettled and failing to pull up trees in Germany....
Wenger is a long time admirer which is the only reason there's any chance whatsoever but not sure he's any better than Iwobi or Chamberlain.
Reus??? Yes please.
I doubt it too. If he keeps playing like he has been he'll have his pick of title challenging European clubs. He might even be willing to go back to being a bit part player at somewhere like Barca after having a taste of Wenger's mediocrity.
NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.
Looked pretty pissed off at half time today, in another abject Arsenal display.
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