We need a sugar daddy to compete.

[Kano]

We're already finding it difficult to attract talents, beyond kids and a few french players, no one good wants to come here. If we dropped out of the top 4 we'd be truly fucked.

thats more to do with the wage structure. most fans despise the amounts these mugs earn so why shouldn't a club and/or manager make an issue of it and not just cave in

[budesonide]

thats more to do with the wage structure. most fans despise the amounts these mugs earn so why shouldn't a club and/or manager make an issue of it and not just cave in

But they have no reservations paying unproven and untested kids ridiculous sums just based on potential? That is what most fans also have issue with. Where is the sense in paying someone like bendtner all those sums the past half a decade for just his potential only to get nothing in return. I am no economics expert but that is stupid.

[LDG]

I am no economics expert but that is stupid.

That's alright. Neither is Syn.

[Letters]

That's alright. Neither is Syn.

We need someone with an A level in economics tbh.

[Kano]

But they have no reservations paying unproven and untested kids ridiculous sums just based on potential? That is what most fans also have issue with. Where is the sense in paying someone like bendtner all those sums the past half a decade for just his potential only to get nothing in return. I am no economics expert but that is stupid.

investment in youth in line with the general policy. right or wrong, that's the way it's been but gladly they are not pay 200k etc for any

[Darth Vela]

investment in youth in line with the general policy. right or wrong, that's the way it's been but gladly they are not pay 200k etc for any

We need to do it this way as we can't afford to compete with the sugar-daddy backed clubs.

There is nothing weirder than those that slate our ambition and our youth policy in the same breath (don't think anyone here has done so in this thread but it happens a lot...), it's as if they don't understand the power of money in the modern game.

If you need something a little more substantial budesonside, We've got a decent goal return and we'll get a decent transfer fee for Bendtner, we've got something out of him footballistically AND financially, that's decent economic sense imo.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Reading through this thread, AKB apologist wants an owner that is a sugar daddy who:

-Spends hundreds of millions on players
-Pays our marquee players (the likes of Yaya) in excess of £200m per week
-Doesn't interfere like Abramovich
-Isn't passive like Kroenke
-Isn't of morally dubious persuasion like Usmanov
-Needs to be incredibly handsome

OK, I made the last one up, but while we are living in fucking la la land, could we change the last point to the owner being a gorgeous nymphomaniac blonde with big tits?

[budesonide]

We need to do it this way as we can't afford to compete with the sugar-daddy backed clubs.

There is nothing weirder than those that slate our ambition and our youth policy in the same breath (don't think anyone here has done so in this thread but it happens a lot...), it's as if they don't understand the power of money in the modern game.

If you need something a little more substantial budesonside, We've got a decent goal return and we'll get a decent transfer fee for Bendtner, we've got something out of him footballistically AND financially, that's decent economic sense imo.

We got something out of him? Really? Anything that made us competitive as a top club? I don't think so -- but that is your opinion. According to wenger he does not buy BECAUSE doing so will kill' the likes of bendtner,diaby,denilson etc. When thse players have bid their goodbyes after not being "killed" by AW, let's hope he actually buys and KEEPS HOLD of the quality and established players or "super super quality" players he chooses not to buy because of these so-called promising youngsters.


Brcelona haven't got a sugar-daddy, but they compete to win things and do win things. They also employ a youth policy --- a very good one at that --- but do break the bank to buy where necessary to make sure that they stay at the very top. And guess what, they do stay there or have for sometime now.

There is a balance to be had.

[Darth Vela]

Yeah, Barca are one of the biggest teams in the world who are able to afford to blow massive amounts of loans in players because the banks aren't willing to do shit against them, I don't think we can point at them as a marvel of modern football in that respect. Their academy is, however, better than ours which is something we can aspire to reach and as one of our youth products was on a par with theirs, we're not THAT far off imo.

We don't buy the top players at their peak because we can't afford them so instead of going the Spurs route of throwing money at mediocre players in the hope that something sticks (which it did, for one whole season, whooo), we develop the talented youngsters which requires a little more management than spending large amounts on players at the top the second echelon in the hope they push onto the higher level.

I do agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment that there must be a balance in these things though, I think it was slightly off but given that we were financially hamstrung I can see why we erred in the favour of development, now we see if we can push on I guess by buying in experience and slightly older talents.

[budesonide]

Yeah, Barca are one of the biggest teams in the world who are able to afford to blow massive amounts of loans in players because the banks aren't willing to do shit against them, I don't think we can point at them as a marvel of modern football in that respect. Their academy is, however, better than ours which is something we can aspire to reach and as one of our youth products was on a par with theirs, we're not THAT far off imo.

We don't buy the top players at their peak because we can't afford them so instead of going the Spurs route of throwing money at mediocre players in the hope that something sticks (which it did, for one whole season, whooo), we develop the talented youngsters which requires a little more management than spending large amounts on players at the top the second echelon in the hope they push onto the higher level.
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No; you missed my point.

Those are not the reasons why we are not buying where and when we need real quality.