Transfer targets in January

[LDG]

That's true, but if you look at some of the players we still have who earn pretty decent money these are players AW signed as kids or on the cheap and then stuck on high salaries, he seems to look at economics when buying a player but not when salary comes into it.None of the players mentioned were particularly special and none of them deserved the salaries on offer, the way I see it with such ordinary players it's like it or lump it, if they don't like the wages they are offered (reasonable ones) let them go elsewhere, they need to prove themselves before the money comes rolling in. If you give player big money before they've achieved anything is it any surprise when they have no motivation on the pitch?The lack of hunger IMO is partly down to the fact we never give players an incentive to produce on the pitch, they're already multi-millionaires off the pitch before they've even done anything.....what happened to proving yourself.

Completely agree....that said. It's not all our fault. Every player out there earns those kind of bucks. I do feel we have inflated salaries for players that shouldn't have been paid so highly, but i think it's a moral thing from the clubs point of view. We don't pay MEGA...we pay parity acceoss the squad.I do think that it's a game wide problen though. Not just ours. To keep RVP we have to pay....but walcott can fuck off tbh.

[Boss]

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has revealed his regret at failing to sign for Arsenal, calling it a "missed appointment" in his career.

Toure was handed a trial at Arsenal in 2003 and featured in a pre-season friendly against Barnet which ended in a goalless draw. Arsene Wenger subsequently passed up the opportunity to sign the then 20-year-old, claiming the midfielder's performance during the match as "completely average".

“For me, England was the country of rhythm, speed, commitment and beautiful game, a country for me," Toure told L'Equipe.

"But I always wanted to go to Arsenal and this is the missed appointment in my career.”

Toure also revealed his reluctance at joining Metalurh Donetsk, rather than Paris Saint-Germain, from Belgian side Beveren and admitted the inability to secure a work permit prevented him from signing for a Premier League club.

The lure of joining Arsenal was also increased due to Wenger's presence at the club, according to Toure. The Ivory Coast international had played under Jean-Marc Guillou, the man who had handed Wenger his first break in management at Cannes.

"It was a great disappointment," said Toure.

"There was a proposal from PSG, but it was not done because the PSG would pay in several times. Donetsk paid in one. I had to accept. I was young and I wanted to try another challenge. I had a test at Arsenal, but I have not had the opportunity to go there because I could not get work permits.

"[In 2006] Lyon was manifested, but I dreamed of signing for Arsenal to rejoin my brother Kolo and Arsene Wenger, whose [Jean-Marc] Guillou is the spiritual father. But it did not. And I landed in Monaco."

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/englan...chance-to-join

Still can't believe we signed Eboue instead of him...

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Even if we had signed him, Wenger would have stuck him out on the wing. . .Eboue

[Olivier's xmas twist]

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/englan...chance-to-join

Still can't believe we signed Kolo instead of him...

yep wrong brother

[Marc Overmars]

Another one for Wenger's list of nearly signings. What a team that could have been.

[Master Splinter]

I might have mentioned it before, but we have to register an intent to purchase Clinton Drew Dempsey.

Just do it, Wenger.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I might have mentioned it before, but we have to register an intent to purchase Clinton Drew Dempsey.

Just do it, Wenger.

Might as well with all the injury's we have.

[Boss]

We were interested in Dempsey this summer iirc, it was between him, Arteta and Cahill for the PL based midfielder we wanted to sign.

We know how that went...

[Master Splinter]

Dempsey doesn't play in midfield though and I doubt we were after him considering we bought Gervinho and Oxface.

But seeing how shit our forward options are aside from RVP, Gervinho and Oxo, Dempsey is a no-brainer.

Citeh will probably bid £40m for him.

[Master Splinter]

So Dempsey, Rhodes and Biglia this window?

That will do.