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redwhiteandermblue said:
This year's Gunners have made a powerful case for losing their best player every year and not spending, which some on the Arsenal board may just try to take advantage of. Why spend more if results don't improve?

That $50 million fine on City really is a paradoxical concept, isn't it? The only way it would make sense is if they would get a further fine for paying it--because it would make their finances even more out of whack with ffp regulations...which would result in another fine, and so on, until the bottom of the deep pit of oil money is finally reached.
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Yes, it is nonsensical, isn't it? Perhaps they could get 24 months interest free credit from UEFA? After all, Payday Koans could prove a bit damaging to what passes for City's balance sheet.
 
redwhiteandermblue said:
On the contrary, the misfortunes of your own club have never, do not, and will never prevent you from enjoying the misfortunes of your rivals.

I cite you as exhibit A, giving it to us (rather poorly and peevishly IMO) despite the Groundhog Day Gunners outdoing themselves this year. You not only hold on to your top players (for once) but (also for once) lay out the cash on a player some called "the best #10 in the world." The most optimistic among us Spurs fans would have assumed you would have gotten third place at the very worst.

And yet there you are in the last CL spot one more time. In the interests of science, I believe the entire Real team should play for Arsenal next year, to see if anything in the world can get you unstuck from the miasma of this endlessly repeating last CL spot year.

It is to laugh.
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We actually tend to have finished 3rd then 4th, then 3rd then 4th... Since we where last in the top 2.

This year we will end in 4th but within a handful of points of the top for the first time in a few years. We've had great home form this season and lead the league for longer than any other team. We fell apart in our most difficult period of the season which coincided with our worst injury list of the season including a handful of guaranteed starters (one of which was arguably player of the season before his injury). Plenty of ups and downs, but overall a pretty good season. Particularly if we go on to win the fa cup (making us the only team except city to take a trophy this season whilst still keeping our spot in the cl).

I think offered top 4 and the fa cup at the start of the season almost every arsenal fan would of taken it. It's been a good season and should give us something positive to build on.
 
redwhiteandermblue said:
This year's Gunners have made a powerful case for losing their best player every year and not spending, which some on the Arsenal board may just try to take advantage of. Why spend more if results don't improve?

That $50 million fine on City really is a paradoxical concept, isn't it? The only way it would make sense is if they would get a further fine for paying it--because it would make their finances even more out of whack with ffp regulations...which would result in another fine, and so on, until the bottom of the deep pit of oil money is finally reached.
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@your first paragraph

There has been a clear improvement in arsenal defensively, consistency against the lesser teams (which has been an issue for us in recent years), fantastic home form etc...

I think it's a little silly to just look at the final league position and base your entire judgement on that.
 
afcftw said:
I think it's a little silly to just look at the final league position and base your entire judgement on that.
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Especially Spurs! How in the hell we're 6th is still the biggest mystery to me having watched us this season.
 
Spurm said:
Especially Spurs! How in the hell we're 6th is still the biggest mystery to me having watched us this season.
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It's a miracle. I doubt some of the relegated/ bottom half sides have seen as much dross as we have seen this season.
 
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has revealed he was on the verge of signing Eden Hazard, 23, before London rivals Chelsea's financial power won the battle for his signature from French side Lille in August 2012.
(Source: Daily Mail)

<cry>

Welcome to our world, asshole!
 
If Wenger signed all of his I-could-have-bought players, then they'd have a squad of thousands.
 
Has FFP been brought in to protect Real?

They seem to be the only team in the world that can buy whatever player they want.
 
Get real Madrid are devotees of creative accounting.
Are they not trying to claim the 100m Euros for Bale is not "creditors owing"
as far as the UEFA FFP goes (courtesy of their "instalments" scheme) ??
 
afcftw said:
We actually tend to have finished 3rd then 4th, then 3rd then 4th... Since we where last in the top 2.

This year we will end in 4th but within a handful of points of the top for the first time in a few years. We've had great home form this season and lead the league for longer than any other team. We fell apart in our most difficult period of the season which coincided with our worst injury list of the season including a handful of guaranteed starters (one of which was arguably player of the season before his injury). Plenty of ups and downs, but overall a pretty good season. Particularly if we go on to win the fa cup (making us the only team except city to take a trophy this season whilst still keeping our spot in the cl).

I think offered top 4 and the fa cup at the start of the season almost every arsenal fan would of taken it. It's been a good season and should give us something positive to build on.
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Well if City, yourselves and Everton all win their last games then you'll be as close to the top as you are to dropping out of the top 4. It's an improvement, of course, but 7 points is more than a handful.
 
The Mackems take the lead against West Brom. Poyet's good run, following their battering at WHL, seems to be ongoing.
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
If City are anything like Liverpool, they'll attack Villa so much that one of their defenders will foul someone in the area.

That's the excuse they use, right?

...the same one than Man Utd fans used for a couple of decades?
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Well City should've had a penalty about a minute or two into the game. They're not darling Liverpool so they didn't get it ;)
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
If City are anything like Liverpool, they'll attack Villa so much that one of their defenders will foul someone in the area.

That's the excuse they use, right?

...the same one than Man Utd fans used for a couple of decades?
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