Gazza Dazzla
Chris Perry
I agree, they always do spend a fortune and their wage bill is off the scale for a non CL club. Hopefully with the new FFP rules they might have to reign that in?
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Transfer thread
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Bishop
John Lacy
Its silly because Bissouma will still be here in 5 years if hes good enough, Forster likewise if he doesn't leave to get games elsewhere. The other links we have to Spence and various CBs are all medium to long term additions. The only player we've been linked to that works just for the short term is Perisic.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Their comfort blanket is age
They will be building this team for a long time unless they unearth a genuine world class player or two
I’ve seen and heard comparisons to Poch spurs side. I can see it too but it’s a way off as Poch inherited some top top players too which he was able to improve upon
The other challenge is their plan only works if those players get you into the CL. Otherwise you end up with the better players being targets for bigger teams, as happened to us for years
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Yep
Saka will leave at the end of the season if no CL
Gazza
Frederic Kanoute
Lol they won’t be able to keep Saka if city want him as per the rumours. Who else do they have that can compare to the likes of son and Kane? N’Ketiah hahah
If anything we have learned that the best teams are those balanced with world class players, and peppered with good young hungry players.
Hopefully Farteta stays there and bricks the bed like this season, and AFTV can hang on to the FA cup he got them.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
That's a bit of a managed decline statement signing from Chelsea. Lingard next?
Tbf he's an upgrade on werner or pulisic.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Forster is 34, not sure he'll have 5 years left in him. But on a free, a solution, happy with that. Perisic similarly has limited mileage, but again on a free, fixes a problem short term. And we have Sessegnon.
As is mostly the case, whenever we sign someone for more serious money it's someone with years left at the top like Bissouma, or even younger.
Will very happily take more obvious solutions to problems, very good players.
To be fair to Arsenal they're trying to do a thing, it takes time, it may work out. But that doesn't in any way make our current approach anything other than really good, on paper. Then there's reality, for both of us.
lurker of old
Gus Poyet
That's a bit of a managed decline statement signing from Chelsea. Lingard next?
I don't rate Sterling at all, I don't see what other folk see in him. Very glad that we aren't after him.
I don't rate Sterling at all, I don't see what other folk see in him. Very glad that we aren't after him.
Yeah like Juve fans were happy to get rid of Kulu, some of our fans were happy to see Walker go etc etc Means absolutely nothing…..
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
100% to City !!!
I still think they will test the water for him this off season
Would be brilliant if he left them too
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Just dangling the carrot so he knows
2 years left on his contract. So they may well. If he's not signing a new contract arsenal will be losing a lot of money keeping him.
Just watching the last word on spurs. At around 20 mins adam (sport finance guy) starts to explain about what happens duing a transfer. Interesting. I knew the hrmc had limited how much a player can claim of his salary as image rights to 15%. As otherwise players would claim the lot and pay zero income tax just coorporation tax. I didn't realise that it is only really players of the big 6 clubs that get this (players getting paid less i'm guessing it's not worth the hassle). So if you are a player from a smaller team joining a big club (say spence joining tottenham). You would first have to get a lawyer to set up a company that would then own your image rights, which the club would then pay into.
Makes sense, but it hadn't occured to me. Other stuff aswell that can drag out a transfer.
Makes sense, but it hadn't occured to me. Other stuff aswell that can drag out a transfer.
I disagree, I see no plan from Arsenal to do anything
- they literally have the most inexperienced manager in the league, so if you look at top 6 -> Pep, Klopp, Tuchel, Conte, Arteta and Ten Hag, they have put themselves at a huge disadvantage.
- Taking your time when missing on CL doesn't make sense, it just makes the money gap problem worse
- Young players translating to the real deal happens far less than people think, this idea that their young players will just improve year over year is delusion. They don't have a single player that is what Dele was in those first 2-3 seasons with us, and look how that turned out.
They have done what United did with Ole, go get a manager that the fans/players will be less likely to complain about, and won't push the board to actually do something, all nice and comfortable while not realizing you are making the club fundamentally worse by breeding a poor culture. Under Arteta, Arsenal has a terrible disciplinary record, they bottle it and they then make up some conspiracy theory brick to not take responsibility, let that fester in an organization for years and you will struggle to ever fix it.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Yeah but they are young so their discipline will improve as they get older
Yes I’m being sarcastic