David Ornstein saying we're close to a deal with Everton for Walcott, in excess of £20m. Good deal for us. Even though I think we should've gotten rid of him a couple of years back, I've never disliked him as much as many Arsenal fans. Very good goalscorer when on form, and had his best years ruined by injuries. Think he could be a very good signing for Everton.

Theo was a decent player but if ever there was a player who needed the benefit of direct one to one coaching and micro management it was him. Wonder if he would have been better with a different manager and it will be interesting to see how he does at Everton

Talk that the Sanchez/Mkhitaryan deal is a straight swap with no money involved.

I thought previous reports of cash + Mkhitaryan sounded too good to be true.

There's talk it's either one of Mick or Malcolm to plus Aubameyang not all 3. Why not all 3 ?? We must have the cash and we are way short of talent

Talk that the Sanchez/Mkhitaryan deal is a straight swap with no money involved.

I thought previous reports of cash + Mkhitaryan sounded too good to be true.

Just saw a very good Twitter thread explaining that we do probably need to sell before we can buy due to our high wage bill and the allowed % of turnover to be used for wages. Although we are very cash rich, our relatively ordinary commercial deals, high wages and no CL football means we are restricted in how much we can spend presently. That would explain why we need outs before ins.

Just saw a very good Twitter thread explaining that we do probably need to sell before we can buy due to our high wage bill and the allowed % of turnover to be used for wages. Although we are very cash rich, our relatively ordinary commercial deals, high wages and no CL football means we are restricted in how much we can spend presently. That would explain why we need outs before ins.

But surely nothing you say contradicts the idea that it's too early to consider him top class.

If that's the case we must be spending way too much on wages for bog average players. If our wage bill is 234 million per annum

We certainly aren't getting much "bang for the buck " when you consider while we were spending 234 mill , Tottenham spent 120

Would be a good point to raise at the next AGM .


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He was top class at Lyon , and he looked sharp early on with us , for reasons I've pointed out I think Arsene is totally to blame for his lack of form .

No he isn't top class at the moment but I guarantee if he was playing in a Spurs side he'd be up there with Kane for goals .

Their style would compliment his attributes , ours doesn't . Only thing looking top class with our style is opposition defenders .

If that was the case, Liverpool wouldn't have been able to sign Van Dyk. Their wage bill is very high relative to revenue and they recorded a loss last year. Unless of course, they are ignoring the rules and we are being stupidly compliant.

Was he top class enough at Lyon to make the head coach of the French national team play him instead of Giroud?

Look, I like Lacazette and agree that he needs a new manager at Arsenal as he's in the process of being Wengerised. But there's little reason to look omd him as top class already.

Being linked with a move for Timo Horn, cologne gk who would be available for £4.5m if cologne were relegated.
Let’s do it if only for the headlines “Wenger has the horn”, “Wenger lost his coq but found his horn” Of gk’s I’ve properly seen I wouldn’t mind us going for Jack Butland in the summer.

Jesus wept was I drunk ...... because the way he's handling things at the moment he'd be in the running for the title of Arsenal's worst ever manager

Coq, Horn and Butland. I sense a certain theme there. Well, it is Arsenal we are talking about.

We certainly aren't getting much "bang for the buck " when you consider while we were spending 234 mill , Tottenham spent 120

Would be a good point to raise at the next AGM .


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Just saw a very good Twitter thread explaining that we do probably need to sell before we can buy due to our high wage bill and the allowed % of turnover to be used for wages. Although we are very cash rich, our relatively ordinary commercial deals, high wages and no CL football means we are restricted in how much we can spend presently. That would explain why we need outs before ins.

Cheer up you silly old sod! https://youtu.be/tqC3BjIyq_0

It's interesting we are selling Walcott first as without a replacement lined up we will be really short. I would have thought one of the other 2 wingers Malcolm and Mick (I'm not spelling all that every time!) must be getting close.

There's talk it's either one of Mick or Malcolm to plus Aubameyang not all 3. Why not all 3 ?? We must have the cash and we are way short of talent

Is this the thing about wage increase year on year? I'll be honest I'm not sure how it works.

So are UEFA getting strict on the amount your total wage bill can increase by each year.....but totally ignoring the mountains of money some clubs can just pour in to clubs for transfers and 'sponsorship'?

How ridiculously ironic after years of moaning about financial fair play, carefully stashing our money and being more prudent than a church mouse that WE are now being hamstrung by trying to spend some money!

Can anyone name a single big decision the club has got right in the last 5 years?

Too late I'm afraid, he needed expert coaching during his formative years. His game is based on pace and movement alone and his technical limitations were always going to be exposed in a tippy tappy set-up like ours.

Preferred the Ventures with their driving beat over the Shadows in my teenage years but now think the Shadows have a lot more class and musical talent..

Ttey sold Coutinho for £145m which would offset that.

This is Wenger's socialist wage structure. Trying to keep all the players on relatively similar pay so it creates harmony...! Arsenal have continually paid big wages to young players and then quadrupled them as soon as they set foot in the first team, alongside this they don't pay the real top players enough to be able to keep them. There needs to be a much better plan.

Rashford is 'only' on a reported £20k per week at Man U. One of england's brightest young talents - but he hasn't really made it so don't pay him £80k per week like we have with lesser players

Talk that the Sanchez/Mkhitaryan deal is a straight swap with no money involved.

I thought previous reports of cash + Mkhitaryan sounded too good to be true.

Just saw a very good Twitter thread explaining that we do probably need to sell before we can buy due to our high wage bill and the allowed % of turnover to be used for wages. Although we are very cash rich, our relatively ordinary commercial deals, high wages and no CL football means we are restricted in how much we can spend presently. That would explain why we need outs before ins.

Just saw a very good Twitter thread explaining that we do probably need to sell before we can buy due to our high wage bill and the allowed % of turnover to be used for wages. Although we are very cash rich, our relatively ordinary commercial deals, high wages and no CL football means we are restricted in how much we can spend presently. That would explain why we need outs before ins.

If that was the case, Liverpool wouldn't have been able to sign Van Dyk. Their wage bill is very high relative to revenue and they recorded a loss last year. Unless of course, they are ignoring the rules and we are being stupidly compliant.

If that's the case we must be spending way too much on wages for bog average players. If our wage bill is 234 million per annum we must be paying 6-9 players over a hundred grand a week if not more to cover the bulk of this cost.

Before anyone says the staff numbers are included in this figure I get it but the commercial staff, academy staff etc etc can't contribute the bulk of this cost.

Also if this is the case it's an act of total and absolute MADNESS to let Özil and Sanchez reach the last year of their contracts if we can't financially afford to replace them. What on earth is going on at Arsenal

We certainly aren't getting much "bang for the buck " when you consider while we were spending 234 mill , Tottenham spent 120

Would be a good point to raise at the next AGM .


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