Arsenal Transfers & Pre-Season 2

quote Sex

Fantastic summer in terms of transfers. Cazorla, Giroud and Podolski all together cost almost as much as Carroll.

quote DjedwardSmith

Not true. He's spent nearly every penny made available to him. The board talks that they've never turned him down, and that money is available, but the reality is ignoring any income from transfers out, we're run to break even and manage to do that without generating any extra income for transfers. The money that comes in is mostly re-invested, that's why he had to splash out last year because we had to wait until Cesc and Nasri deals had gone through before we could buy.

Wenger and our fans haven't berated other teams for spending money, they've been (rightly) criticised for spending money they don't have, operating at a loss.

And yes, they haven't done anything yet, but on paper they are fantastic signings if you take into account their cost, suitability to our squad and possible impact. That can change if they flop, ofc. Chamakh on a free was a fantastic signing at the time, look how that's turned out. Just a case of you say tomato I say tomato argument that one. Doesn't really work that when written lul.

quote Praetorian_Lord

For what? Van Persie tries to force a move; has a thinly-veiled dig at the club, Wenger, and in effect his teammates; Wenger goes out and signs three world-class players and starts restructuring the squad (and no doubt training regimens) in preparation for his departure; and then when the ungrateful nearly-30 year-old decides he's having second thoughts, he's promptly sold with 12 months left on his contract and one great and five injury-ridden seasons behind him for 24 million pounds. There's just no pleasing some people.