Super Super Quality Transfer Speculation & Shit

[Niall_Quinn]

Can't wait for Wenger's autobiography, especially if he writes it himself

He's bound to have some harsh words reserved for Ach.

[Globalgunner]

Sack both if you must but don't expect dramatic change if you want to keep the same agenda and merely replace the front man. We've been 3-4 quality players short for a long time now. A little bit of investment could have made all the difference. We built stadiums and flats instead and the shareholders bugged out with half a billion quid in their pockets. The promise was the investment in property would allow us in turn to fund the team so we could continue to compete at the very top level. We have yet to see a penny of that funding. And we remain 3-4 quality players short. But the good news, the shareholders did get their half a billion quid so the strategy hasn't been a complete failure.

Note: No shareholders were harmed during the production of the last 7 seasons.

I think we are forgetting the principle of shareholding. The people who sold their share s to kroenke et al, can hardly be expected to sell their shares and pass the cash back to the football club. Our strategy to improve the profitability of the club was not wrong. In fact it was so right that 2 billionaires both wanted the club and 1 won out but not so that he got rid of the other. This situation is not likely to change any time soon. what needs to change is our strategy on the pitch. In our last two games of the season we score in the first 5 mins of each match, but were holding on for dear life at thend of both against middling teams. this is our story for years, what has the board got to do with that?

[Niall_Quinn]

I think we are forgetting the principle of shareholding. The people who sold their share s to kroenke et al, can hardly be expected to sell their shares and pass the cash back to the football club.

Really? Why not? They put nothing in and they have taken everything out. Is there zero margin to play with? You don't have to take Stan's money and hand it back, you can negotiate a price and allow the American some room for wider investment. But they wanted the full fruits of the share price they carefully constructed - at the expense of everything else, especially the team. No, unfortunately it is the cut-throat and impersonal nature of the shareholder than has seen us fall behind. In many ways Arsenal is at the forefront of the money revolution in the game. The owners of city and the chavs have had to stump up, they'll probably never get their money back. The are amateurs compared to the ruthless vampires in our boardroom.

[Boss]

Can we save this thread for unrealistic links to C. Ronaldo and L. Messi and keep the whining about Wenger and the board to other threads plsty.

Not sure which side is embarrassing itself more above.

[Syn]

Just got myself a 40 carat gold watch. Fucking love ambition.

[Power n Glory]

This is a silly conversation and we keep having it over and over again. When you lose the Carling Cup final against Birmingham, you can't blame it on the Board and the lack of quality signings. We lose games because we can't focus for 90 minutes or we're over confident and think the lower teams will be a pushover. It's a tactical problem, a mental issue and lack consistency. We don't work hard enough to win the ball back and over the past few years we've all said how poor our off the ball movement is. We work our socks off against City and Chelsea but take it easy against teams like Swansea and Norwich.

Ignoring such problems and expecting it all to be fixed with a few key signings is foolish. Look at Arshavin as an example. How comes he never looked match fit? If his fitness was really and issue then why has Wenger got this 30 year old with no engine playing on the flanks where defensive discipline is mandatory and demanding? How comes Wenger couldn't get his fitness level up to play that role or just shift him further up field to take the pressure off his legs? That's one example of bad coaching and there are several other examples. Don't forget the RVP's frustration at seeing the Ox subbed off the Arshavin. He makes questionable decisions and we can't afford to have a coach that seems out of his depth when we're competing against teams that can outspend us.

As for funds, they're being swallowed up by huge wages. There is a huge imbalance on that side of things. There are players available that are within our price range and can do a lot better than the likes of Ramsey, Squallaci, Gervinho, Park, Chamakh.....we just don't go for them. There were plenty of players that we missed out on this year and last year.

[Cripps_orig]

When you lose the Carling Cup final against Birmingham, you can't blame it on the Board and the lack of quality signings.

You can if youre in the Wenger can do no wrong camp as a few are on here

[Boss]

Hazard says Gervinho is the best player he has ever played with.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...rvinho?cc=4716

Says it all about the quality of the French league, I'm afraid.

[Cripps_orig]

Hazard says Gervinho is the best player he has ever played with.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...rvinho?cc=4716

Says it all about the quality of the French league, I'm afraid.

Joe Cole

[Letters]

3rd is the new 1st to be honest.

When it's behind a side who spent a billion quid to get to the top and a side who have the best manager around it's not that bad.
Especially when some people were saying that Spurs squad was better than ours in every way. Man do they look silly now.
Them