Cesc

[Joker]

Wenger in 2010:

http://justarsenal.com/wenger-we-can...e-chelsea/3702

“I think we can overcome Chelsea,” Wenger said. “For a while we were not investing maybe because we had built the stadium but I think our financial situation is now becoming much stronger and we will be capable to buy the players we need to buy.”

“No we cannot compete on wages with Chelsea. That is simple. I believe what is not normal is not our wage bill but their wage bill because that should not be allowed.

“However they cannot all go to Chelsea, it is as simple as that. There are top players outside of the ones Chelsea want to buy who are good enough for us.”

He was right that there were players not on Chelsea and Citeh's radar who would have improved us immensely. Instead he went with Chamakh, Gervinho and Squillaci.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Yes, we can. Why cant we!? We got 25 million quid for Nasri and Adebayor. Between 30-40 million for Cesc. Of course we can spend 30 million quid at players. Something Utd can do. IMO, everything Utd can do monetarily on a player, we can do match at least 70% of that.

Yes we got that money it does not mean it was Given to the manager to spend it does not mean it was not give to him.

My point its we will never truly know if we had money or not so to say it like you know because of Articles proves nothing.

[Xhaka Can’t]

PULL THE TRIGGER NOW!!!!!

DO IT!!!

[fakeyank]

Add 25million per season on satdium repayments each year for four years, and see what figure that takes us up to. Oh yeah. About the same as Utd.

And we're still third.

And that extra 25 million quid comes from revenue generated from CL football, merchandise sale, home games etc. Utd has debt payments too.. please do not forget that!

[LDG]

Wenger in 2010:

http://justarsenal.com/wenger-we-can...e-chelsea/3702



He was right that there were players not on Chelsea and Citeh's radar who would have improved us immensely. Instead he went with Chamakh, Gervinho and Squillaci.

We're 7 points in front of them He was right.

[Letters]

What is this resources that thing you talk about? Utd and Barca pretty much have the same resources as us!

Really? Both have a bigger fan base, bigger stadia, bigger income. Neither have a new stadium to pay off. How can you say we have the same resources as them?

You ignored the point about City and Chelsea. By rights we should have far bigger resources than either as we have a bigger fan-base, stadium etc. But they're bank-rolled by billionaires. Not much we can do about that.

How then can you say we have the resources to be top 2 or 3 in world club football? We don't even have the resources to be top 2 or 3 in this country.

I agree with some of your point about the way SAF has adapted. Wenger has taken a different approach, knowing he can't compete with Chelsea and now City in the transfer market he's not tried to and gone for 'project youth'. I don't think it's quite been the unmitigated failure some on here make out. We have, after all, finished top 4 every single year. You ignored the point about whether that's an easy thing to do and that Fergie is the only other manager to do it for a sustained period. Other clubs have spent bit to try and dislodge us and repeatedly failed. And Wenger is a bumbling idiot™? Nonsense.

The battered wife thing is balls. We're 3rd! Not mid-table, not on the brink of relegation. He pushes us down a well at the start of every season? The last 2 seasons at Christmas we've been a few points off the top (2 and 4 points respectively). The problem then was a poor end to the season, not the start. You're just making stuff up now as you have with the resources thing.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

[QUOTE=fakeyank;129223]

Utd does not have debt

Never ever said that.

[fakeyank]

Yes we got that money it does not mean it was Given to the manager to spend it does not mean it was not give to him.

My point its we will never truly know if we had money or not so to say it like you know because of Articles proves nothing.

If it was not given to him to spend, then why is he still with us? Which manager who is used to winning would one day want to work with so many constraints? He can resign, you know.. or may be he is too busy lining his pockets.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Wenger in 2010:

http://justarsenal.com/wenger-we-can...e-chelsea/3702



He was right that there were players not on Chelsea and Citeh's radar who would have improved us immensely. Instead he went with Chamakh, Gervinho and Squillaci.

Easy said then done.

[Joker]

We're 7 points in front of them He was right.

He also said we actually had money to spend, and that we were no longer as constrained by stadium debt payments as before. So what did he do with this money? A lot of it apparently wasn't spent, and what was spend was wasted on turds like Gervinho and Squillaci.