Piskie I would never attempt to wind you up mate, Evans is right up Wenger's street. Be grateful ffs!
In 2000 Arsenal spent £13m on Wiltord. 22% of total revenues that year. If they did same now it would be around the £80 million mark on one player. What happened to all the ambition at this Club?
Arsenal are a ****ing shambles from top to bottom, every summer the same **** happens, and that leads to the same **** happening every season, we are just under two weeks away from our first game and we will line up with Walcott or ****ing Akpom leading the line, with Holding and Chamber in defence, we deserve to get smashed by Liverpool. How the **** does Wenger still have supporters who trust and back him?
Ah but they don't directly back him of course... They say they're happy to see someone else come in but aren't actually happy with anyone that could actually come in. No-one is ever good enough to achieve what Wenger does.
Interestingly Daniel Cutts (The Sun) and Tony Cascarino (Skysports) are claiming bids for Lacazette and Mahrez are happening.
That is quite telling. The problem is Wenger has changed, he isn't the same cutting edge Wenger that brought us so much success early on. He got so caught up by the financial side of things that he's spread himself too thin. Truth be told, the management are ecstatic with Wenger in charge, he brings so much in terms of revenue to the club without rocking the boat or taking any risks. I really miss the old Wenger, the same guy that cared only about football and wasn't so obsessed with value for bloody money. Let the management deal with that, his job should ONLY BE THE FOOTY! But sadly he's too integrated on the money side of things at Arsenal that he's always going to come up short with his squad.
Antoine Griezmann rumours starting to appear... Now THAT would be a player I would genuinely be excited to see in an Arsenal shirt.
Of all the premier league transfers actually completed this year, Arsenal's splash of £35m for Xhaka is the second largest behind Citeh's splash of £42m for Sane. Despite all the talk in the papers, nobody is paying massive amounts for individual players. Maybe that will change, maybe it wont.
The prices for players seems to be up. As Skylarker pointed out Watford turned down £27 million for Troy Deeney. £34 Million for Sadio Mane is madness. I rate Higuain but £74 million really? £100 million for Pogba??...
Must admit I forgot about Higuaín, but my point was about done deals in the premier league. Pogba deal remains 'undone' and if it goes ahead just creates madness in the transfer market. Having said that, it is pretty mad when you look at what is being paid for some quite ordinary players. But I guess nothing really changes......
