Errrr .... we are talking about selling players or are you taking things a little too literally ? They may not be good enough for us but they will be good enough for some other team.
Read post 165 and try and understand before leaping and making a fool of yourself. I have already talked about increasing the wage bill for the short term whilst contracts run down
I wasn't the one saying we would pay the players 150K a week, HotHead was. But I'll put it simply for you. For every player we pay 150K, we have to find a player willing to play in our first team sqaud for 40K, so that they average out at 80-90K. Now, tell me again, how we can find these quality players to play in the first team squad for 40K?
Stop making things up - no one has said pay 11 players £150k per week. As for first teamer on £40k.. not sure where you got that from - I have already demonstrated that we could pay every single one of our first teamers AND 3 subs a MINIMUM of £90k per week - more than our current top earner. The problem is we are paying deadwood who will never get a game £60's aand £70's. They need to be sold or their contracts run down.
You may not need the BEST, but you certainly need some darn good players. Not even the best manager can offset bad players.
Is that not a sure fire way to financial problems, seems like a flawed argument, if it was that simple then we would do it, what if the players we bring in dont make that much difference, we may still only end up third, then we have a higher wage bill and our income would not really change.
We have profits every year that would cover a £20m increase in wages and we would still have a profit left. Add to that we have just under £200m in the bank that could be drawn against for 2-3 seasons whilst we run down contracts. Drawing down £15-20m a year would still leave £150m PLUS any further profits in the next 3 years. We are very well placed to do exactly what I said. We are incredibly healthy financially. Why are we not taking action to keep our best players? Who knows, but i suspect that the old Etonians at Arsenal think more of their flawed wage structure than they do of success and keeping our best players.
Juve set to pull out of race for Van Persie and switch attention to Dzeko Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...pull-Robin-van-Persie-race.html#ixzz1va0GrBpT Robin van Persie's future took another twist on Monday as Juventus prepared to pull out of the race to sign the Arsenal skipper. The Holland striker has told the Gunners that he is not ready to sign a new deal as he looks to buy himself time before making a decision on his future. Manchester City and Juve are the only two clubs who have shown a concrete interest in the 28-year-old. But sources at the Serie A club claim they are now ready to look elsewhere in their search for a new big-name striker. Juventus fear the striker has already privately agreed to sign for another club and do not want to concentrate their focuses solely on luring Van Persie. The Italian club will now explore swoops for Manchester City's Edin Dzeko, Real Madrid's Gonzalo Higuain and Napoli's Edinson Cavani. Juventus' decision will only heighten talk that Van Persie is in line for a controversial move to the Etihad Stadium. Is there any truth that Juve have pulled out and looking to sign elsewhere due to Man City? It wouldn't be suprising as they can't realistically compete financially with them. If Man City have made RVP their number 1 signing then we are truly stuffed...
daily fail, so i highly doubt it. newspapers these days can only be believed if lots of them are reporting the same or similar stories. from what i know this is simply a journalist's gamble on getting it right without actually knowing
Greece in the Euros. Denmark in the Euros. Then there are endless teams in various European leagues who won their championships while certainly NOT having the best players. They had a formation and tactic that suited them and a will to win.
Fine, how about win consistently, as surely that is what we want. Didn't Greece get knocked out in the group stages last time?
You have a point. Take Holland for example, they've had one of the best teams never to have won a World cup, and still haven't....
ARSENAL chief executive Ivan Gazidis admits Robin van Persie’s contract saga could drag on all summer - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...-saga-could-last-all-summer-Ivan-Gazidis.html. Gazidis said: “We had a good discussion with Robin at the end of the season. He is clearly focused on the Euros at the moment. What we agreed was to keep all the discussions over the summer to ourselves and make announcements when the time is right." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arsenal full-back Andre Santos unsure whether team-mate Robin van Persie will stay at the club next season - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...Persie-will-stay-at-the-club-next-season.html ''He has been at the club eight years and this was his best season. Sometimes, a player is interested in getting to know other teams and of course, playing well, he has attracted interest from many other teams. Of course your mind is affected." ''He is currently fully focused on the Euros and then, after, he can talk about whether he wants to stay with Arsenal.'' Not really positive news on RVP. Per usual, a slimy ambiguous answer from Gazidis regarding RVP. Santos' answer however is more revealing.
Ivan - the terrible - probably looks at it and thinks - 'add £5m for RVP increased wages, plus say £40 to £50m buying players for him to stay, then on the other hand we might sell him for £25 to £30m - is it worth forcing him to stay another year?.' A commercial man, not understanding football ambitions, and trusting Wenger yet again, will see the sale as being the best route.
That's the problem, he comes across as a pure business man concerned only with profit. Wenger is a shareholder's wet dream. He doesn't rock the boat, take any risks and achieves success beyond his resources. To get consistent top 4 finishes with some of his average squads, is close to great. Say hypothetically, RVP is sold for £25m, we buy no replacement and shift Podolski as CF. We manage to scrape a Champions League position (again) after another Spur's implosion gifts us 4th. Would people really be suprised by this turn out? After Wenger's "Quiet summer" comment and RVP's refusal to sign another deal, just to wait for.....we know what, it has everything pointing to this scenario....
Let me preface this by stating that I have no real affection for AFC, but at the same time I am not having a go either, your Fans fill the 60,000 Most Expensive Seats in World Football, and for that you deserve respect. I keep reading the reasons Gonners believe AFC should (or shouldn't) keep RVP, but frankly that is irrelevant. What I have yet to see is a compelling argument put forward, for why he should want to stay. He's under Contract? Well we all know that means nothing (if any Club's Fans should then it's yours) If you were running Arsenal Football Club, how would you convince him to stay?
With respect BaDm I don't think you have. Why Arsenal should keep him has been done to death, I agree, but I can't see anyone putting forward a reason for him to stay.
Okay, here goes. 1. He's captain, he won't get that elsewhere 2. His wife wants to stay in London (and i'd listen to her) 3. He's a club hero, with a guaranteed starting place, something he can't get elsewhere.
