
Originally Posted by
ollie the optimist
we could announce anything these days and people will still moan. we could sign messi, and people would say he has no premiership experience.
5 talented players who will be here for a very long time signed to new deals, and the best thing about it for me, is they signed them quickly. jack said about two weeks ago, i want to stay at Arsenal, two weeks later, signs a new deal because he wants to stay with us, ramsey i read has not got an increase in wages but wanted to stay with us, jenkinson is a fan so he was always going to stay, gibbs and ox will be very good.
but because none of these players have scored 500 goals, and won 17 billions trophies, people will moan. some are happy to give theo 6 years to do fuck all in reality and blame the club for not signing him, yet because one player hasnt won everything already, they think its a shit deal.
we seem to moan that the club never get contracts right, why wait for them to be in their last two years before renewing them, so we renew them and the club still get moaned at. as far as i can tell, everyone in this club is now signed up for the long term bar theo and sagna. (and possibly chesney) vermealen, kos, gibbs are here for the long term in defence having all signed new deals in the last year, mertsacker will be too i assume given he only signed last year. in midfield, arteta signed a new deal in summer i think, cazorla has a 4 year deal, rosicky has a new deal, jack now comitted, ox, podolski, gervinho, ramsey have all got years to run and up front giroud has at least another 3 years left.
that means all of our squad is committed, theo and sagna are the only exceptions. this squad is good enough on its day, it needs additions of course, but we have seen performances such as liverpool away and city away that show how good this squad really is, and if i remember correctly, theo was only on the bench those games and sagna didnt play, it shows we have a real basis to build on. if we can get david villa next month, a good defensive midfielder and a winger, suddenly we have a committed squad, a talented squad, however there are problems with motivation and tatics, but that can be worked on, we wont be worrying about players leaving for a while like we were with rvp, nasri etc because they all have years left on contracts. if we get sagna and theo done, then contracts dont become an issue until about 2016. not bad eh?