That's just completely wrong, Laca brings much more than Giroud to our game, and while he could do with scoring a bit more, he's only playing sporadically so it's been more difficult, also he brings the best out in Auba, so he's one of the few players we should definitely keepOriginally Posted by SMatthews
Got to agree, Lacazette brings a lot to our game and does make Auba much more effective, Giroud was rubbish to be honest, he's stunk up the place at Chelsea and was basically given a starting place despite not performing for months for us, he was 2nd rate, Laca isn't.
Doesn't the owner take money to pay off the money he borrowed to buy the club outright now? I don't get it either to be honest, from a fan point of view we're not a good club to support these days, we're a big club only in name these days, there's zero investment into the team.
Laca was bought in as a finisher, not a second striker to help someone else. He's played out wide and upfront and had the same results in front of goal. So has Auba, and he's consistently delivered. And he's not been short on chances to play. 52 starts and 13 from the bench. There's other ways to make Auba tick. If we are complaining we don't have assets we can use that are of value, then this is a prime one right here, along with Bellerin. Most people thought Liverpool would be a shambles without Coutinho, but they reinvented their frontline into one of the best in Europe.
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We would probably break even with Laca, I can't see him going for more than we paid for him and I don't even know which club would buy him, it certainly wouldn't be an Elite club.
I personally just think we are going to need to be very shrewd and smart with our transfer business going forward, more "Torreira" type signings if you will.
We have Sven in charge of recruitment and his track record is arguably amongst the very best in the world when it comes to identifying "undiscovered gems", he is going to need to work flat out to find them, he gets paid well enough!
Emery has a part to play too, he needs to develop some of the talent from our Academy, we have seen it for our own eyes with the likes of Smith-Rowe, Reiss Nelson and Saka, they are there to be developed and integrated into the First team.
We do have money, we are just choosing NOT to spend it. It's impossible for a club of our size given the gate receipts, sponsorship deals, Prem TV deal, global exposure and other global marketing deals that we have that we have nothing to invest.
I do kind of see where they are going with this spending freeze IF it means getting rid of a handful of fairly high earners off the wage bill to make space for new signings.
The cynic in me says we aren't planning to do that though...I dunno...this money no money lark is classic Arsenal smokescreens...has been for years. No plan, just opportunist nonsense.
This self sustainable nonsense being peddled out by the club worries me too given what many others have said. Self-sustainable yet we allow our best players contracts to run down and pay players 300k per week who can't make our bench? Laughable
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Morata in talks with Atleti.
What a waste of money.
Imagine being left with Giroud.
Morata is one of the most overrated overhyped forwards ever (along with the likes of Walcott), how he's managed to go from top club to top club is beyond me. To think we stuck with Giroud for so long when the guy can't buy a goal.Morata in talks with Atleti.
What a waste of money.
Imagine being left with Giroud.
Talk that Emery wants Ozil sold (Ozil doesn't want to go, earns mega wages and no clubs seem interested), on top of that he supposedly is interested in Benega.
I find this odd, Benega is 31, seriously where is the sense in brining in a 31 year old, we seem to be far too focussed on signings players who won't have long at the top which is a waste of money and won't allow you to build a team.
I posted some articles in the West Ham match reaction thread. Our wage bill is 5th highest in the PL and in terms of a percentage of turnover it's one of the lowest.
Wenger had become a problem but I always felt there were other problems at board level which meant that replacing him wasn't a silver bullet.
Kronke is one of only 2 owners to have not put a penny into the club and as Zim says he might even be taking money out to pay for the loan with which he bought the club.
Gary warned us about him, some of the clubs he owns in the US have gone down the toilet.
This used to be a well run club with owners who really cared about the club, now we're a business with owners who only care about profit
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