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By Bilal Zaidi

After reading some ridiculous comments on some other websites, I found it amusing to see what some Arsenal fans (hopefully children) were saying on the comments section. After reading a solid piece on ANR by Nigel Phillips, it seems as if Wenger has about £25 million to play around with INCLUDING wages. Sorry to disappoint you fantasy fans but...that isn't that much.

Here are two samples of what I read on another site from the comments:

Sample Number 1:

Sell :
Lehmann - Retired
Hoyte - 2
Eboue - 5
Gallas - 5
Rosicky - 7
Diaby - 5
Gilberto 3
van Persie 8
Bendtner 2.5
Buy
Gomes 5
Richard 7
Ben Arfa 10
Benzema 12

Sample Number 2:

"Huntelaar would be a good signing Villa would be better but what about both?? We have all heard AW has a war chest to spend and with the sales of players like

Lehmann Free,
Eboue 2.5,
Gallas 5,
Gilberto 1.5,
Rosicky 5.5,
Bendtner 3.5,
Hoyte 1.5,

Total 19.5

Spend
Villa 25,
Huntelaar 15,
Richards 9,
Joaquin 8,

Total 57"

Two words...OH MY.

Sell Van Persie? Villa, Hutelaar, Richards and Joaquin? Mass clearout? This was just two samples of it, there were SO MANY around but I found these two quite comical to say the least. Some Arsenal fans are living in the world of "Championship Manager"..whatever it is called nowadays.

£25 million is not going to be that much if we anticipate losing Flamini on a free and considering how much of that total would be taken up by wages/signing on fee's for new players. Wenger said "one or two" quality players, hopefully in the form of Sagna would do us well next year. No big star names will come in, in my opinion...call me a pessimist...but big star names, even if they are young like most that are mentioned on that list...have never been Wenger's style. The closest we came to that was a young chap called Jose Antonio Reyes who is chilling out in Spain right now after being bullied at Old Trafford.

Next season we will have a young man called Carlos Vela at the club, with a lot of hype around him. Let's hope Arsenal fans can be a bit more patient with this youngster. Flamini may be on £60k a week at Juventus, Hleb may be licking ice creams in Milan and Lehmann will be mad back in Germany. It won't be the first time that we have lost quality players for little money or on a free, but we have to see what Wenger has in store for us.

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Carlsberg Don't Do Last Minute Own Goals But If They Did They'd Be The Best Last Minute Own Goals In The World.

As you may sense I am still bitter that Liverpool knocked us out in the quarter finals due to a couple of jammy decisions...YES...but as much as I detest Chelsea, for some reason, the first time ever, I really didn't want Liverpool to win. Weird feeling...perhaps because my best friend is a Liverpool fan and his continuous digs were too much to take when we had our triple leg tie against them and many a Pro game after. Also perhaps because I had layed (bet against) Liverpool to win at home on betfair...Crazy but...Thank you Mr Riise.

However, Chelsea are Chelsea...Cashley is Cashley...so I have realised that no matter who loses this tie, I will be slightly happy. A win-win situation if you will. Preferably once Cashley aka ATM Machine scores an own goal that knocks his beloved Chelsea out of the Champions League. Wanker.

What did I think of the match? B-O-R-I-N-G to be perfectly honest. Chelsea started off better, Liverpool didn't do much in the first half and Mr. Jam himself, Kuyt, finished nicely between Cech's legs after a 'superb' pass. That was pretty much the story of the first half.

Second half was different, Liverpool didn't really allow Chelsea to do anything, they closed down in midfield, didn't allow Malouda to do anything and forced Avram to take Joe Cole off. My friend texted me while the match was going on saying "Drogba doesn't look like he's given up" and "SNAP I didn't realise Lampard was even playing", to which I replied; "Snap I didn't realise Stevey was playing"...to which he replied; "Oh SNAP...I didn't realise Arsenal WEREN'T PLAYING." Scouse bastard.

Riise got confused by a decent ball in by Kalou as Anelka loafed behind, that goal may prove to be as crucial as the Hleb (non-penalty) and Babel's penalty at the end. Overall probably a fair result in my opinion, even though I didn't think either side really did much at all to deserve anything. So at half time in this tie it is 1-1, Chelsea have an away goal that seems to be rare in this champions league tie and Chelsea play Manchester United on the weekend in their half time break.

Ronaldo to run the show tomorrow in the Nou Camp? If Messi is fit then it may not be. Until tomorrow.

Blessings all...BilZ.

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