Will we finish in the top 4?

[Marc Overmars]

Agent Pardiola.

[IBK]

As for signing Rooney, I agree he'd be a wreck after 30 and is past his best, however if we signed him he'd be our best player by a mile and we'd get a couple of good years out of him.

That couple of good years will probably cost us £50m so it's a non starter. Plus Rooney would never want to join us.

If only because he is a winner - and has a desire that we haven't seen in any of our players since 2005. Wouldn't want it to happen, though.

[Grebbo]

If only because he is a winner - and has a desire that we haven't seen in any of our players since 2005. Wouldn't want it to happen, though.

You wouldn't want us to sign a player that's miles better than the players we've got?

[Cripps_orig]

Looks unlikely

[Lord Nelson]

http://www.glory-glory.co.uk/showthr...497#post360497

Five pages.

Spuds should not worry, we will fuck up against Wigan anyway!

[Marc Overmars]

If only because he is a winner - and has a desire that we haven't seen in any of our players since 2005. Wouldn't want it to happen, though.

I would. If only for the sheer gasps of WTF that would echo around the country.

In all seriousness, it's a non starter but I don't think we're well stocked enough to turn our noses up at a player of Rooney's quality. He is very good and has a desire to win that is unmatched by anyone in our squad, but obviously he's a bit emo and not the type of player Wenget would relish managing.

No doubt the likes of Wheelchair and Oxlade would love having him around though.

[Cripps_orig]

Wazza on his day is awesome.

Unfortunately his day has been and gone.

He's peaked. He's on a downward spiral. He'll be playing for Fulham soon

[selassie]

Because quality costs money forget transfer feees, transfer frees are nothing

We signed Song when he was 18 so fair to say he would have been on no more than 60k a week when he left us, to sign someone of the same sort of quality we are having to pay 100k a week + in wages because where as Song came to us as a raw recruit we would need an already established player to replace him with complete with greedy agent.

Arshavin was a good signing at the time, unfortunately he became a sloth


Gervinho again endemic of the fact that to replace the quality we sold we would have to pay wages that we can't afford, especially when you look of the wages of some our bargain basement signings

Denilson 40k a week, Squillaci 60k a week, Chamakh 70k a week (i doubt we wanted to pay them that much but the board and Wenger probably felt their cheap transfer fee negated the amount of money we would have to pay them).

That's it because of the greediness of players and their agents it's impossible to get even average players unless they are kids without paying them 50k a week plus. The exception of course being Arteta who took a pay cut to join us, the reason we required him to take a pay cut is that even with the sale of Fabregas, Nasri we still had a significantly high wage bill.

So as much as i think Wenger dithers at times in the transfer market, it is impossible to buy quality players....we can afford the transfer feees of one 25million pound player but they are likely to demand 150k a week.

We'll have to agree to disagree.

You have pretty much stated why we are in the mess with our transfer & wage policy, throwing away millions of pounds a year on duds and then complaining about the state of the market?!

I don't agree that a 20-25million player would command 150k per week. For example, Juan Mata is one player we could and should have signed...we dithered as per normal. He most certainly isn't earning anything close to that wage at Chelsea and they tend to throw money around like it's going out of fashion.

Players that trade for that kind of fee (20-25million) tend to be 2nd tier players, ones with potential to be world stars. Aside from clubs such as Citeh & Chavs, who is going to pay that kind of wage, I don't even think the Spanish clubs would.

I personally feel Arsene has gambled one step too far in the market and we are going to suffer the consequences now.

[Marc Overmars]

Wazza on his day is awesome.

Unfortunately his day has been and gone.

He's peaked. He's on a downward spiral. He'll be playing for Fulham soon

Fergie washing his hands with him says it all.

[Cripps_orig]

Re: Pardew: I dont care, if Arsenal win 4-0 next weekend
I have sent an e-mail to the FA and Premier League via their websites regarding his statement. maybe if enough people do this he will be sanctioned in some way. I am not holding my breadth but at least I will know I tried to metaphorically smack that **** in the face.

from Maccys link above.