Who cares how much we pay for a Defender? We need one who is better than what we have, and one who can organise and improve our Defence. If it costs 25 Million then so be it? It's not like the money is coming out of our pocket.
Yeah Cesc still has a long contract but the point I was making was he (Jagielka) had something like 2 years left on his contract last summer when they rejected our bids and he's since extended his contract.
I see where you're coming from though...Contract means nothing in the sense of a player can move...but long contracts put the selling Club in a strong position to dictate whatever price they want for the player.
I'm getting fed up with this transfer window. I mean, we should have changed what? 6 players? and only gervinho and another hopeful jenkinson have come.
Then we bid £10m for jagielka knowing that they want far more? do we really want him? then offer 15-16 I don't know how much, but mean business FFS!
I'd also like to know what we are going to do if RVP gets injuried as usual. Play Chamakh in his place? Who's playing at LB? Mr. Crock, Gibbs?
We are in for 7th place as things stand.
Eboue and almunia are still in our paybook....
If there's ANY truth in that, we're completely screwed.
The board, i.e. the people in charge of the money and negotiations are saying that they need to spend more money on transfer, if they can't do that then Wenger really is this tyrannical overlord that some make him out to be and in that case should be removed on principle as much as anything. However, I'm pretty sure it's just cobbled together bullshit to play along with gooners current fears and get a few hits on the site and sell a few papers, so we should be ok.
And Wenger
And Squillaci.