It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis that we get at
the real meaning of things.
Not exact matches
Which
means this uptick in Art
of the Deal - style pushiness — if it's a
real phenomenon — probably isn't a good
thing for the men employing it, their negotiating partners, or their companies.
«This
means they lose some, but it's a drop in the bucket in their process to create
things that will have a
real influence,» said Jon Elvekrog, CEO and co-founder
of San - Francisco - based social advertising firm 140 Proof.
The overwhelming power
of business to raise prices at will
means in a full employment situation where labor would otherwise be able to fairly bargain for a
real wage increase, instead,
things blow up (spiraling inflation, that 70s show).
By that, I
mean it's better to own the
real thing — gold coins or bars — than to own merely exposure to movements in the gold price via some kind
of financial product.
Meaning an organization should explore conducting buyer persona research — the
real thing backed by skilled ethnographic research — with a budget in mind
of five figures — sometimes six figures if it involves many multiple markets and the degree
of complexity is high.
Still, it may be worth pondering that in this brave new world, those who uphold the old and much derided «gender binary» — or, to speak more properly, the ancient understanding that there is a
real and normative difference between the sexes — will be the ones who can actually see some sort
of meaning, however misguided, in
things like same - sex desire and gender dysphoria.
(This view is abbreviated DP3) J. L. Mackie has described a crucial aspect
of this position: «If men's wills are really free, this must
mean that even God can not control them... «5 If one takes seriously that idea
of a universe composed
of actual
things in
real relations with other actualities, then the idea that all power is concentrated in one actuality is nonsensical.
What we
meant to model was the sending
of one
of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities
of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest
of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language
of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities
of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical
of Christian spirituality until it sees the
real thing on display.
It is the vision
of something which stands beyond, behind and within, the passing flux
of immediate
things; something which is
real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest
of present facts; something that gives
meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.
That literally was nothing, not an answer, it was even devoid
of thought and
meaning, the only
thing you have proven thus far is that you can put words together to make a passably english sentence but have yet to understand the mechanics
of imbueing those sentences with
real meaning and content.
A complementary presupposition is causation,
meaning the
real influence
of one
thing upon another.
The values
of things are thus
real, independent
of the interpretation
of them in the same sense that
things are independent by virtue
of being harmonies
of their conditional features with and by
means of their essential features.
This Presence and power include three
things: «the whole fullness
of real mutual action,» «the inexpressible confirmation
of meaning,» and the call to confirm this
meaning «in this life and in relation with this world.»
The form
of the I - Thou relation remains as a
means of re-entering relation,
of executing anew the essential human act; but this form may block the return to the I - Thou relation through its false appearance
of being itself the
real thing.
I do not
mean,
of course, to say anything so foolish as that language was not used for everyday
things in the
real world.
Before we set out Whitehead's view, it should be noted that if his view really is a different way
of looking at
real things, then we will need to think about freedom, human action, responsibility, the
meaning of life, the self, etc. in a new way.
Personality, the most valuable
thing in the universe, revealing the
real nature
of the Creative Power and the ultimate
meaning of creation, the only eternal element in a world
of change, the one
thing worth investing in, and in terms
of service to which all else must be judged — that is the essential Christian creed [As I See Religion (Harper & Brothers, 1932), P. 44].
«Religion is the vision
of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux
of immediate
things; something which is
real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest
of present facts; something that gives
meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.»
(1) Heaven and Hell are very
real; (2) God does exist; (3) God created not only the whole Universe, but Stephen Hawking too; and (4) That he wasted an exceptional «God - Given» brain on
things that will in time, will
mean nothing in the great scheme
of things.
Therefore, the
real meaning of the Christian doctrines
of creation and
of the last
things is to illumine each present moment
of our actual existence as an existence within and under the all - embracing love
of God.
Mr Cooper told Premier: «All adverts are designed to sell
things - big businesses have got their target markets - but I also think they could reference more
of the
real meaning of Christmas [and] actually do some homework.»
I think that all
of these
things are part
of THE Church, but we have given so much unbiblical
meaning to positions and titles and buildings and programs and rituals that we usually get the
REAL church confused with a corporation that just happens to share a common name.
For one
thing, there is no
real or ostensible connection between Whitehead's notion
of God or religion and the symbols
of the Christian tradition, although
of course this does not
mean that they are necessarily incompatible with one another.22 Whitehead does value religion, however, and does have a place for God.
According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess
real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective
of concrete particulars as the source
of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act
of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to
mean the degree to which a
thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity
of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.
We may show, from extensions
of Turing's proofs regarding the halting problem, that no effective well defined procedure, no precise axiom system, no metaphysical system, or no clear
means whatsoever, can ever describe accurately and completely any individual
thing or event in the
real world.
And just because we believe in a marriage
of mutuality doesn't
mean we also don't need a few tools in our toolbox for
things like conflict resolution, finances, sex, romance, aging, navigating crisis or change, all
of that same stuff because hello, we're all people with
real stuff to deal with and marriage can be hard sometimes no matter what your theology is.
People are influenced by the oddest
things, too: one passionately anti-Catholic ex-Catholic started the journey back home when some one finally explained to him what the words
of the Salve Regina
meant: he had sung it regularly at his Catholic school in the 1980s but never had it translated and assumed it was just a weird and beautiful chant with no
real meaning.
I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past, and before he reached the bottom
of the stairs I had got into him an unalterable conviction that, whatever odd ideas might come into a man's head when he was shut up alone in his books, a healthy dose
of «
real life» (by which he
meant the bus and the newsboy) was enough to show him that all «that sort
of thing» just couldn't be true.
We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other
things by their
means, and in handling the
real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth as we might lose these mental objects, these adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads
of classification and conception.
We speak
of the universe as a cosmos, not a chaos; we believe that we are in touch with how
things go in the world, so that we can to some degree understand them; we count on regularity, predictability, orderliness, as present and
real — and what are all these but a mute testimony to
meaning?
But I believe it was hinted at in the words
of a young Cambridge undergraduate who told me that what he and most
of his friends aimed at in their sexual behavior were three
things: permissiveness, within the range
of social decency and acceptance; affection, by which he
meant genuine caring and the beginning
of real love; and responsibility, which he defined as readiness to stand up and take the consequences for any and every sort
of human contact.
That
means we who are leading have to GO out
of the nice warm building and get in the streets, where
things are
real, raw, and sometimes uncomfortable.
Sorry just noticed that now... You asked for Sufi Sufism in Islam, not much I am aware
of them but as understand they are more mystic about their belief, and do
things that are not told
of in the Quran but created or invented by them which we call (Bodaa) and we say behind every (Bodaa) there is (Zalalah)
meaning that behind every
thing invented into religion could lead to become astray from the
real religion... on those bases they were not in good terms with the rest
of the Islamic world..
Now that might have
meant that this good, splendid, and
real experience or
thing was quite literally «out
of» the concrete world and in a completely spiritual realm which made that world irrelevant and ridiculous.
Religion is the vision
of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux
of immediate
things; something which is
real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest
of present facts; something that gives
meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.
... is the vision
of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux
of immediate
things; something which is
real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest
of present facts; something that gives
meaning to all that passes and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something that is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.9
INTERESTING EVERYONE (STARTING WITH cnn) TAKES THE WORD THEOLOGY TO
MEAN only RELIGION - IT MAY BE BUT IT ALSO IS DESCRIPTIVE
OF A WAY
OF THINKING WITHOUT THE USUAL CONNOTATION
OF RELIGION - HERES A UNIQUE IDEA LETS HAVE THE MEDIA STOP HYPING THE RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL
THINGS THAT HAVE NOT REALLY BEEN HAPPENING AND CONCENTRATE ON
REAL ISSUES LIKE THE ECONOMY, JOBS AND THE DEFICIT.
You would need to present an unbiased source
of information saying that
thing exists first,
meaning you'd need reason to believe in gods other than other people telling you they are
real, since people are very obviously prone to manipulating the truth.
The prayer is not indeed a purely subjective
thing; — it
means a
real increase in intensity
of absorption
of spiritual power or grace; — but we do not know enough
of what takes place in the spiritual world to know how the prayer operates; who is cognizant
of it, or through what channel the grace is given.
It's obvious for me that arsenal need 4 players to become a world class team like bayern and
real madrid i couldn't dare mention barcelona because they have unbelievable front three and they maybe the best attack in history
of football we are lacking quality in the ST as well as the RW
of course giroud and campvell are very good players but in my opinion they are less in quality than the rest
of the team so we need to improve the quality in these positins About the DM it's a number issue and i think the position is covered with flamini doing good job and elneny coming which can be deployed there About the fourth signing we need is a center back I don't think i saw till now enough minutes for gabriel to tell if he can make the position his own or not But what makes me doubt him that wenger didn't choose him till now over per which
means he is not miles ahead
of him so i think we need a new better CB This team can go and fight for every
thing even the champions leafue....
Well, apparently Galatasaray is set to make a move for Flamini for # 2.8 m... I see
things being done only that they are gradual... & Benitez apparently committed to help arsenal complete the Benzema move as he has said the frenchman does not fit into his vision
of the new
Real madrid he's about to build & he wants to make a move for Reus which
means he could cash - in on the french striker....
I feel Jackson already has a better grasp
of the little
things on film (
meaning he does them in a
real game situations) while Allen is currently learning them now (and even though he learns what he is suppossed to do he may not).
When you say stupid team with a coach out
of his depths are you really being ignorant or intelligent.Also the fact that if we had played PSG,
Real Madrid etc. during pre-season and won it still
means absolutely nothing in terms
of the fact that it does not determine our season whatsoever and does not guarantee us success but what it only
means is that we beat them.So when I see people stressing on
things like those I roll my eyes.As I said earlier if you win a match today you can lose tomorrow and vice versa.No match is dependent on the other.You had better stop wasting your time.
Wenger is an amazing manager a consistent winner most managers get to a club the club signs all theses big players for him and say please win and the manager wins if luckey on to three seasons then fired cause the players got old and the manager did hardly a
thing we habe a loual great you sad sack maybe arsenal fans we beat spurs on aggregate this season again thanks to mr. Wenger and if we did nt get another poor official call would have been 1 - 0 up the sad
thing is we should be 3rd or second in table but stikers have underperformed regardless
of beating united as we dominated them but lossed the players fell off in 5 games swansea westbrom stoke city watford bournemouth and lets mention horrible officiating this year we have a great manager its just this year the bounces and calls havent gone our way i
mean i love watching us constantly beat chelsea lets have a
real assessment for once those games are the difference in the season right now and thats not wengers fault the players faild to perform from winning positions
Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass
of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't
mean they need to be a beast on both ends
of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best
of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note
of a few
things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many
of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out
of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss
of Cazorla, who took a lot
of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk
of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for
Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type
of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments
of greatness undercut by long periods
of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste
Having faith doesn't
mean one must be delusional, we have only brought in replacements no reinforcements, since last season we've been crying for a DM and CF yet Wenger will have us believe he's good enough to start and win us games against the likes
of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Man City and Chelsea hell no we are in trouble in the bigger scheme
of things!
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 wa
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 wa
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...
much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain
things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack
of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most
of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out
of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the
real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't
mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..
Of course, this news
means only one
thing to the media in England,
Real Madrid will come back for De Gea this summer, which was also said last summer and the summer before that.