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BrunelGooner said:
Can Arsenal's season just end now, please? I don't even care about the Europa League semi-finals anymore, I want us to get to the Summer, get rid of the deadwood and get new players in.
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Would now be a bad time to suggest that getting rid of the deadwood may be a tad.....well, let's be kind and say, "tricky".

Nobody's going to want to pay Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Elneny, Kolasinac, Mustafi anything like what you're paying them. I remember telling another Gooner that losing the CL place meant going down the rabbit hole. There's a few more years of this ahead....Time to find out who really supports the club.
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Would now be a bad time to suggest that getting rid of the deadwood may be a tad.....well, let's be kind and say, "tricky".

Nobody's going to want to pay Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Elneny, Kolasinac, Mustafi anything like what you're paying them. I remember telling another Gooner that losing the CL place meant going down the rabbit hole. There's a few more years of this ahead....Time to find out who really supports the club.
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You forgot Xhahaha, Brian <laugh>
 
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Utd have scored two goals in their last 5 matches and only won one in six. The end for Ole already perhaps.
 
At least there's a silver lining....
And I don't mean Spurs looking nailed on for top four after tonight.
If Utd beat Chelsea and then Hudd (a) and Cardiff (h), it would force Chelsea and/or Arsenal to win all their remaining games to get top four.
Utd v Chelsea looks like a 0-0 though. What are the odds? Worth a tenner.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Would now be a bad time to suggest that getting rid of the deadwood may be a tad.....well, let's be kind and say, "tricky".

Nobody's going to want to pay Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Elneny, Kolasinac, Mustafi anything like what you're paying them. I remember telling another Gooner that losing the CL place meant going down the rabbit hole. There's a few more years of this ahead....Time to find out who really supports the club.
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The one silver lining we have is there are lots of players whose contracts run out this Summer.

Elneny is on a low wage, so shouldn't be an issue getting rid of him. Agree on the others though, it will be tricky because of their obscene wages.

Jenkinson's contract is up, Lichtsteiner's is, as is Monreal's, Welbeck's and Ospina's, Cech is retiring, Ramsey is off, Denis Suarez will most likely be back at Barcelona (pointless loan signing). That's 8 players right off the bat without selling a single one of them.

As much as I want to see us win the Europa now, I just think to myself, though the additional income will be welcome, we will still get embarrassed by any half-decent side we face.

It's a long road ahead. I said before that Wenger and Gazidis set the club back by at least 5 years with their series of shocking decisions. I hope I'm wrong, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
 
BrunelGooner said:
The one silver lining we have is there are lots of players whose contracts run out this Summer.

Elneny is on a low wage, so shouldn't be an issue getting rid of him. Agree on the others though, it will be tricky because of their obscene wages.

Jenkinson's contract is up, Lichtsteiner's is, as is Monreal's, Welbeck's and Ospina's, Cech is retiring, Ramsey is off, Denis Suarez will most likely be back at Barcelona (pointless loan signing). That's 8 players right off the bat without selling a single one of them.

As much as I want to see us win the Europa now, I just think to myself, though the additional income will be welcome, we will still get embarrassed by any half-decent side we face.

It's a long road ahead. I said before that Wenger and Gazidis set the club back by at least 5 years with their series of shocking decisions. I hope I'm wrong, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
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Name 5 Arsenal players who would be good enough to give Klopp or Pep a serious selection headache. That's the benchmark I've always referred to in gauging the average quality of a team. If you're scrabbling for even a handful of players good enough to play for the teams you aspire to overtake, chances are you won't be overtaking them for the foreseeable future. At Spurs, we have Kane, Son, Eriksen, Alli, Toby, Vertonghen and (based on recent upturn in form) Rose. The remainder of our first team players wouldn't get within a country mile of the Pool or City teams but I am ok with that as 6 or 7 out of 11 means we aren't a million miles away, especially if the remaining 4 or 5 put in a shift the likes of Sissoko and Winks show every week, all we need are 2 or 3 quality additions in key areas and we'd be challenging right at the top.

To my mind, and no I haven't seen enough of you this season to pass proper judgement, but beyond Lacazette, Aubameyang (both maybes if I'm honest) and Bellerin (who is permanently crocked anyway), who else is there? To have 7 or 8 of your first team needing an upgrade to compete with the very best requires either loads of cash or loads of patience and in all likelihood ultimately loads of both. Kronke has both but rarely uses the former and relies too heavily on the latter.
 
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Dier Hard said:
Despite our loss to City on Saturday, it’s been a great few days of results for us.
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Last night felt significant. It's even more so now. 3 more points and United can't overtake us.

One more win would leave Arsenal having to win all of their remaining games or overturn a 7 goal deficit in winning 2 and drawing one.
BrunelGooner said:
The one silver lining we have is there are lots of players whose contracts run out this Summer.

Elneny is on a low wage, so shouldn't be an issue getting rid of him. Agree on the others though, it will be tricky because of their obscene wages.

Jenkinson's contract is up, Lichtsteiner's is, as is Monreal's, Welbeck's and Ospina's, Cech is retiring, Ramsey is off, Denis Suarez will most likely be back at Barcelona (pointless loan signing). That's 8 players right off the bat without selling a single one of them.

As much as I want to see us win the Europa now, I just think to myself, though the additional income will be welcome, we will still get embarrassed by any half-decent side we face.

It's a long road ahead. I said before that Wenger and Gazidis set the club back by at least 5 years with their series of shocking decisions. I hope I'm wrong, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
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You rolled the dice in trying to rescue the CL spot last season. Keeping Sanchez when Citeh were willing to spend £60m+ was a mistake. Swapping him for Mkhitaryan compounded it.

Add in making an obscene deal with Ozil, buying Aubamayang and losing Ramsay on a free has completed the set. It's a long way back from that lot. A long way...
 
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