Summer Transfer Misery and Recriminations.

[dostoy]

Would you rather finish 10th and have Wenger leave or finish 4th and have him here for another 3 years after that until 2020 ?

[Niall_Quinn]

Would you rather finish 10th and have Wenger leave or finish 4th and have him here for another 3 years after that until 2020 ?

He's here until 2019. The board have said as much. They are just waiting for the right moment to announce it. We're not going to get as far as finishing 10th or 4th before he gets the offer. It's probably him making the offer to himself anyway. But if they did wait until the end of the season, then no, I wouldn't want to see us 10th. I want to extract any last crumbs of entertainment and enjoyment from the season, there won't be many. But there won't be any if we are languishing in mid-table so I can't see the point of that, especially as it wouldn't force Wenger out the door anyway. He's at a supposedly top club, he's failed to compete for a title in a decade, he's failed to mount any sort of a challenge in the CL. What makes you think finishing 10th in a league awash with money no matter where you finish will see the back of him? Fan protests? They won't care about that.

[selassie]

He's here until 2019. The board have said as much. They are just waiting for the right moment to announce it. We're not going to get as far as finishing 10th or 4th before he gets the offer. It's probably him making the offer to himself anyway. But if they did wait until the end of the season, then no, I wouldn't want to see us 10th. I want to extract any last crumbs of entertainment and enjoyment from the season, there won't be many. But there won't be any if we are languishing in mid-table so I can't see the point of that, especially as it wouldn't force Wenger out the door anyway. He's at a supposedly top club, he's failed to compete for a title in a decade, he's failed to mount any sort of a challenge in the CL. What makes you think finishing 10th in a league awash with money no matter where you finish will see the back of him? Fan protests? They won't care about that.

Aye, agree with this NQ, it's depressing but it's the reality of the situation.

[selassie]

Frankly who cares how much we spend as long as we get the players, the TV deal has made transfer fees irrelevant, it's not our job to worry about that, we should just worry about the team. Like I said before Palace and West Ham are willing to Shell out 30 million plus, on that basis 90 million is what we should be able to afford comfortably as we're much bigger and richer than those clubs.

Noone is putting any kind of limit of transfer spending so it will continue to rise, not for us to worry about.

That's my take on it too. We have the money, we all know this, it's just Wenger refuses to spend it.

I've been looking at numerous links to us over the past few weeks regarding strikers and pretty much every link goes like this....

Arsenal interested in making offer for Player X, Y or Z but only if the selling club reduces their valuation in Player X, Y or Z. We look cheap and act like it too.

[dostoy]

Still say that if we finished 10th or thereabouts he might go.

If what you say is true and he is here for another 3 years even if we are nearly relegated then what is the point of supporting Arsenal any more ?

He will never win the PL again and as for the CL, we will go out in the last 16 again, that's if we get through the group stages.

It will be the same shit as last season and the 10 seasons before that.

[fakeyank]

Would you rather finish 10th and have Wenger leave or finish 4th and have him here for another 3 years after that until 2020 ?

I will take 17th place in a heartbeat for that mean to leave this club.

[Marc Overmars]

each year a little bit of my love of football and the Arsenal dies. Next summer we will be seeing £150mill players. I actually believe that. I know a few people who have given up on the premier league and now have season tickets for Colchester, Ipswich, and other local teams. They feel more a part of the club and players. One was formally a spurs fan, and one a Chelsea.

This is kind of madness, even with the SkyTV hype machine in overdrive, can't last another 5-10 years at this rate surely?!

Can't see the bubble bursting anytime soon, the popularity of the PL grows every year, even if regular fans like us zone out there are millions across the globe all willing to foot the bill. Fans that actually bother to attend games are small fry, it's the armchair fans that it's marketed towards. TV companies pay so much because they keep getting returns on their investment and that isn't going to stop unfortunately.

There will be a £100m player soon and on it will go. Once upon a time I'm sure it was view as obscene to spend £1m on a player.

[Niall_Quinn]

Still say that if we finished 10th or thereabouts he might go.

If what you say is true and he is here for another 3 years even if we are nearly relegated then what is the point of supporting Arsenal any more ?

He will never win the PL again and as for the CL, we will go out in the last 16 again, that's if we get through the group stages.

It will be the same shit as last season and the 10 seasons before that.

I think it may actually be a bit different this season. It looks like we won't sign a striker now or bring in any signings that would signify serious intent. So that will mean Ozil and Alexis leaving either in the January window or next summer. So that's something a bit different than the last few years.

[Özim]

I will take 17th place in a heartbeat for that mean to leave this club.

He'll never leave, the guy doesn't give a toss what anyone thinks and the owners love the money making fool, he's here for as long as he wants and can do whatever he wants with no comeback.

We know how this is going to go, the wrong signings or ones that don't change a thing, an unjury crisis and collapse every season, failure in the CL in the last 16, always the same.

Still seems to have some weird cult that follows him and worships him as well. What a weird club we've become.

[Marc Overmars]

Negredo and Subotic to Boro.