50 million quid budget for transfers this summer


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... ssion=true

As an example I know of a capital city law firm who sacked 50 lawyers one Friday morning and not one of them was even allowed to return to their office/desk. There goods were gathered by security and they were marched with redundancy payments in their hand.

....and I'm sure one fine sunny day in the not too distant future a really maxi intelligent guy like yourself will come to realise this .

Are you really that uncomfortable with just letting go of the anti Wenger narrative? He'll be gone soon, and he'll most likely be busy at some other club. No reason to let him affect the fan mood at Arsenal any longer at that point.

Babu: "Yes, that man overe there does look like a complete and utter shitforbrainspretentiousarseholefuckingsomebitchrapperwhileheshouldhavebeenlookingafterthisclub7daysaweekfuckingcunt, doesn't he."

As he proved in his comments the other day , the ‘anti’ narrative only really can start the day he walks away

Oh great - Now I gotta add that to the swear filter as well ...

Yeah, you seem to have made your mind up about this already. I think once a new manager is in place and Wenger stops being the center of attention we'll see a completely new dynamic among fans. Although I'm looking forward to you apparently being the one to defend our new manager in face of relentless and often unjust criticism!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUS_1K3yHVk[/youtube]

There you go proving my point.

Er, excuse me. Don’t sully my well garnered decades old reputation, show some unity will you!

I haven’t been venting my spleen!

Until now...



I’m probably somewhere in the middle, which probably means something like I want the intellectually questionable luxury of holding all the different opinions at once.

I don’t dislike the man, it seems to me he’s more intelligent than most other people involved in English football, but crucially not as much as he thinks, and you don’t need to be intelligent to win at football. Being a deep thinker doesn’t necessarily make you intelligent anyway. He’s so French.

A problem he seems to have is he likes the side quests. “Develop 5 youngsters into first teamers”, “revolutionise your training centre and overhaul club nutrition”, “turn an obscure turnip farmer with spades for feet into a marauding left back” and so forth. Winning was never enough for him. Or never the only thing.

The problem being that these things aren’t the same thing as “produce a team to win titles and trophies” which is really what he is paid to do first and foremost.

I’ll miss him, he’s clearly unique and all, but I’m glad he’s going and slightly worried, like someone else said, of the potential harm he could yet cause to the club before he goes.

So this book states the board told us the money was not available or was it simply I understand the money was not available. Or did the person who made all transfer decisions at the club say the money was not available. See three possibilites out of the simple words that you quote.

That same person has a long history of working out a value for a player and then not paying beyond that - you know like Suarez, Alonso. Perhaps he did not have an understanding of the true market and Dein was no longer there to convince him to pay the extra.

Still all those in the 'I am feeling guilty now' group are scrambling to blame everyone else. I simply don't know in this instance but you cannot exonerate Wenger. I do not know if it was Wenger, the board or a combination.

Yeah, you seem to have made your mind up about this already. I think once a new manager is in place and Wenger stops being the center of attention we'll see a completely new dynamic among fans. Although I'm looking forward to you apparently being the one to defend our new manager in face of relentless and often unjust criticism!

Decent programme but I thought it slightly favoured united. Also it doesn't help the flow of the programme having morons like Paul Scholes on it.

Great example! Did they win their semi-final the following week?

I'm just glad the *%^@*** *%^@ didn't die!
And I never thought I would say that!

At least we can still slag him off a little bit.
Just imagine if the old *%^@ had just died in the dug-out and no-body noticed. Bouldy certainly wouldn't have.
And then there would be all the moving obituaries ( bowel-moving ) and such-like.

Yup, I'm glad the old wanger is still alive.
I really want to break his arm. Or leg. Nothing too serious. Just a lasting scar.

Also, lawyers can do immeasurable damage poaching clients, leaking documents etc and upon leaving could destroy a firm if they chose to given the nature of the business. Bar annoying a few people and putting more pressure onto the board, what damage could Wenger do that hasn't already happened yet?

Lets take Wenger out of the news. I am tipping 3-1 win against Atletico and a draw against Man U if we play our best team.

Reyes and Hleb were the only two incoming transfers where I remember the fee being announced on Arsenal.com. Reyes was £17m with add ons, but I wouldn't write off the possibility it was paid in full. In his first eighteen months at Arsenal we won a league title and FA Cup, and before leaving he played for us in a Champions League final. He also played over a hundred games for the club.

I accept his contribution to that success is debatable, but I'm certain any performance criteria for the add ons had far more to do with trophies and appearances than opinions on how well he played. My guess would be the £17m would have been paid either in full, or at least very close to it.

Atletico still favourites for me; we have it all to do.

Yes, I’m not expecting us to go through and I wouldn’t be surprised if we lost the first leg at home. For all the talk from our players about wanting to win for Wenger, you don’t win football games just because you want to. Atletico are a better team than us, and they’ve been very successful in Europe the past five years. There’s still a lot missing from our team; defensive stability, creativity in midfield, reliable goalkeeping etc.

Would be a great story if we won, but I don't see it.

oh do stop it

Yes, I’m not expecting us to go through and I wouldn’t be surprised if we lost the first leg at home. For all the talk from our players about wanting to win for Wenger, you don’t win football games just because you want to. Atletico are a better team than us, and they’ve been very successful in Europe the past five years. There’s still a lot missing from our team; defensive stability, creativity in midfield, reliable goalkeeping etc.

Would be a great story if we won, but I don't see it.

I would be surprised if his anger isn't rather more at the board in the fullness of time. After all, he's made the previous lot and the current lot a boatload of cash, and the second the fans started not turning up, it was cheerio time. One gets the impression that he wasn't set any ultimatums or told he was underachieving. Not that for a second I think its the wrong thing that they've handed him the revolver...