He would
only go to a big club a club that is a step up from Monaco who are winning the French league and are still in the CL.
Not exact matches
Arsenal aren't the
biggest spenders so perhaps won't
go higher than # 70m, but in truth Madrid should perhaps take the money and run for an injury - prone player low on confidence whose time at the
club is surely up and whose value may
only continue
to tumble down in coming transfer windows.
Our
club will
ONLY have a realistic chance of winning what matters when the
biggest obstacle
to achieving that, is
gone.
This will fester on and on till we get rid of the real problem WENGER hes the cause of our demise why does the board still support him he must have
big friends on the board any other manager would have been sacked years ago but not Wenger does he run the
club or what????? And Ozil the useless German hes the worst player on the field no commitment, and along with a few others he should be sold we have the money, months ago it was said we had in excess of 160 million
to spend where did that
go we
only spent 50 m.
He's talking about Arsenal
going into the transfer market, and then put Arsenal along with Bayern, Madrid, Barca and said it's
only natural for
big clubs like this
to bring in more players.
who would of guest City would make an offer of 60 million in the summer for Sanchez with
only a year left on his contract, i'm guessing we could get an offer of around 30 million from City in January so he wont be persuaded by the likes of PSG with a signing on fee in the summer, but who knows what
goes in the mind of Alexis or what kind of injuries some
big clubs could have from now until January for them
to make ridiculous offers
to a world class player with no CL conflict of interest, lets say Real Madrid loses Ronaldo, Bale, Karim
to long term injury you bet they will come ceiling with baring gifts for Sanchez's services or even Barca with Messi or Suarez
We are the
only big club that has the stability coming
to the new season (not count Spuds as
big) and we have
to grab that chance
to go ahead of our rivals.
From unknown entity in europe
to one of d most valuable football
club in d world, english team with d 2nd
biggest fan base in d world
only behind man u, the most beautiful stadia in English football, and the list
goes on and on, u can rant all day here buh u can never erase facts
NO, If we can be honest and unbiase No they are all right
to be disappointed in Arsenal because we are supose
to be this
BIG CLUB and we have failed to live up to big club expectation and ability and yes not only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season only because Chelsea failed to buy one or two players more for depth in case of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have
BIG CLUB and we have failed to live up to big club expectation and ability and yes not only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season only because Chelsea failed to buy one or two players more for depth in case of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have
CLUB and we have failed
to live up
to big club expectation and ability and yes not only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season only because Chelsea failed to buy one or two players more for depth in case of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have
big club expectation and ability and yes not only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season only because Chelsea failed to buy one or two players more for depth in case of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have
club expectation and ability and yes not
only the top five have improved but sadly the rest are catching up, I'm not saying we are a total disaster but we should do better, I'm
going to stick my neck out here but I think we will finish 3rd this season
only because Chelsea failed
to buy one or two players more for depth in case of injury and Spuds could have problems settling at Wembley and Liverpool could lose their top player in January and have injury problems and worst they have OX?
He wanted a pacey forward and a CB... ok he failed with the CB but we did read that our targets had
gone to other
clubs but he spent
big on Alexis which has worked out, not
only due
to his pace but his work ethic.
Only few English players have
gone to from one
big club to another and then become a first team player.
Sanchez
to city is
going to happen no matter what Wenger says he don't want
to play for a
club who has no chance of winning champions league or premiership
only the fa cup now and again and has too many mediocre players in the team that are just happy
to collect
big wages every week
The likes of Koscielny and Bellerin have also stated in the past that they
only wish
to win
big with Arsenal and although of course they aren't
going to come out and say any different, I really do believe them, and Elneny, when they state that want
to win with Arsenal and become legends at the
club.
This season has been a mirror of the last 12 seasons and I'm sorry but if we claim
to be a
big club not
only capable of competing as well as capable of actually winning the league then the fans have every right
to be absolutely livid if the title challenge
went exactly the same way it has as the last 12.
Arsene should know how
to get the most out of these guys and I am sure we will not lose out stars again but
only let
go of guys that feel they are good and should play more (like players we buy from other
big clubs)
Although I've found it very cathartic
to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need
to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're
going to get played by this
club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want
to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are
going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want
to have a front row seat
to see something special and
to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested...
to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed
to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and
only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he
goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill
to swallow... they would have
to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we
go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change
to occur at this
club we need
to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the
big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time
to focus on the head instead of the heart for now
i would have thought if we are
only getting in c / h wenger will
go quite
big in who it might be i have got my money on a # 15 million + player,
to come in as we will need that price range of quality
to come in
to compete and maybe displace mert, or at least allow him
to rest for a few games we do nt know who wengers talking
to in the back ground but i am sure all the scouts have been busy and its just asking
clubs for availability after that.
You
only to go on a pre season tour
to see that man u aside, arsenal are the
biggest global
club from England.
So he obviously thinks that this will
only be helping the smaller
clubs get
bigger, but as we discussed in an earlier article, it is
going to be a lot easier for
big clubs to get around these rules.
which is the opposite of Spanish
big 2
clubs where they do have inexperience managers but their supporting them with players recruitment and they always wins something
big within 2 years.The
only hope i have is behind the scene changes towards next season i mean sven and Sanllehi and wenger
to leave Arsenal at the end of this season otherwise is not gonna work because of chemistry
What Ozil and sanchez are doing imo is
only going to help FANS... Although the
club is
bigger than any player buh then if our two most expensive players and currently our best players refuse
to extend their contracts until they are assured of the
club's ambitions, then wenger will feel the heat and I don't think even HE can cope with that....
The reason we don't get the «
big names» anymore is that Arsene / Kroenke are not ambitious they have made us into a
club to not be taken seriously, players have lost respect you can see this in the ambition and desire they show on the pitch (barring sanchez) but he will
go the same way under Arsene unless he doesn't leave before long and we fail
to make the CL... Arsene / Kroenke
only see arsenal as a money making machine - but you knew that already..
I can
only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention
to the matter, it failed
to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a
big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially
to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was
to follow... but I get it, few wanted
to turn on their
club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you
to keep your thoughts
to yourself... who are you
to tell these fat cats how
to steal your money... they have worked long and hard
to pull the wool over your eyes... they even
went so far as
to pay enormous sums of cash
to your once beloved professor
to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the
club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the
club hierarchy
to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened
to this
club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this
club needs
to be changed and that starts at the top... in order
to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this
club we need
to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power...
only then can we get back
to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have
to do with the
big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed
to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying
to make
big moves, they once again lost the plot due
to their all too familiar tunnel vision
Only Man U is a
club that is actually
bigger than us in terms resource prior the money that
went to Chelsea and City.
«And I'm happy
to say that this transfer has not
only gone well for me, but it's also the
biggest transfer in the
club's history.
Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position
to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers...
to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have
only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the
only one we have actively tried
to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want
to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem
to have a pretty good history when it comes
to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are
only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers
to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things
to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz
to the starting lineup due
to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this
club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition
to these moves the
club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB
to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need
to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need
to target a CDM then do whatever it takes
to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us
to become dominant again we need
to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper
to CB
to DM
to ACM
to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil
to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed
to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed
to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a
club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time
to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just
to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye
to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need
to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had
to wait so many years
to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this
club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market
club when it comes
to making purchases but milk your fans like a
big market
club when it comes
to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk
to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling»
club... does it really make sense that we could
only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually
went to Juve for, or that we've
only paid any interest
to strikers who were clearly not
going to press their current teams
to let them
go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants
to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due
to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that
only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately
to raise awareness for several years when cracks began
to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued
to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
Lukaku will
go to a
big club, Koeman would likely
only turn his back on Everton if he were offered the Barca job and Barkley is not so special.
Am never one
to excuse our continuous failings and Wenger's general ineptitude but all this talk of Afobe been another one we missed out on is a bit preposterous and very very premature... yes he's scored a few goals for Bournemouth but can we all take a step bck and recognise that playing for a team who will be happy just
to avoid relegation is very different from playing for a
club which demands trophies and high achievements every season (yea, I know we have been found wanting on these fronts for a long time)... some players are better in small
clubs with limited expectations and very neat
to no pressure... that is why history is littered with stories of good players who
went to big clubs and flopped
only to go down a few levels and find their form again....
You do when all the chips fall into place, never once have you been aggressive and shown I want him, he will make us better
go and get him whatever the cost like other
big clubs do: Özil & Sanchez were bought not
only because the two
clubs (Madrid & Barcelona) were looking
to sell them.
With all the academy players trying
to make it into the first team as well as a
big squad
to start with, sometimes the
only way for a player
to get some valuable competitive experience is for them
to go to another
club for a bit.
But Mahrez is
only 25 and he would be
going to a
bigger club and he knows Leicester probably won't finish in the top 4 next season.
So the football media were all thinking that whichever
club secures a place in the Champions League, if it is
only to be one of us, would have a
big advantage when it comes
to persuading Vlaar where
to go.
the
only way he will leave is if he says he wants
to go and even then you are looking at a far
bigger fee this year, forget the silly newspaper estimates of 12 — 18 # M its
going to take a massive bid, a request from the player and a
club with the history and resources of say a Real Madrid
to prize him away.
He signed a new five - year - deal earlier this season which is a huge commitment and it certainly means any move from Leeds would take a very large figure, but hopefully Andrea Radrizzani has a plan
to push on again and he won't
only need
to convince Pontus Jansson, Pablo Hernandez another who wants
to know the direction the
club is
going, because it's not somewhere where he'll stay for a
big wage because he won't get one.
The
only Arsenal fan with a twisted mind is yourself and others like you, loyalty
to a
club is old news and past tense, exactly why Clichy and Nasri left for Citeh, it, s the weekly pay cheque that makes the difference, if Chelsea, Ci teh or Real Madrid offer van Persie a better weekly wage so be it as his manager Arsene Wenger has shown he can not take the
club any further than a mediocre 3rd place and
only one point ahead of Spuds, football in 2012 is
big bu siness, get with the times or
go away mister, your child ish unalytical mind won, t pay Robin, s monthly bils etc..?
Of course, stunning play for Inter can
only mean that the
bigger clubs are
going to come in and swoop the player away.
I do believe Manchester players are not
only the players who have the skills but also those who fight for the shirt.If you can not fight for the shirt u don't deserve
to be a united player even if u could be the best on planet.For the period i've watched and supported Man u, i have come
to vehemently accept that the players who win trophies are not necessarily the most talented players.But rather those with the heart and head
to win for MAN U.And so i don't care whichever player it is
to be axed / sold as long as he doesn't not help the
club to win trophies.
Big names don't matter as long as they cant bring success
to the Team.Let Jose
go ahead and do what he thinks can make the
club successful, let him be supported by the board
to assemble a winning team.Guys with
big hearts.
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