Villa/Huntelaar/Richards/Joaquin/Benzema/Ben Arfa/Vela/Sell Van Persie?...£25 Million INCLUDING WAGES To Spend...Arsenal Fans Need To Calm Down.
Wednesday, 23 April 08, 06:41 PM
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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:
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
"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
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"
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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True, Reyes was a mistake(a good player but just a kid at heart). Benzema, as good as he is, could be the same mistake. Fergie will not buy a player unless they really want to be at Manu. I believe Benzema just isn't emotionally ready right now for a big move, but Benzema will be at OL for a long time if he wants to win the CL with them. He's just not ready to leave Lyon at the moment. That could change in a season or two if Arsenal open the coffers a little bit(usmanov and kroenke are you guys awake). Oh, Dunne is not for Arsenal, we can get cheaper and better foreign players. Richards could be a gunner, but we're too cheap to buy him. As David Dein knows, if you never spend the cash you're gonna be trash.
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dan said:
True, Reyes was a mistake(a good player but just a kid at heart). Benzema, as ...
chris_goona said:nice article.. i think most the Arsenal fans that make the comments nowadays ar...
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nice article.. i think most the Arsenal fans that make the comments nowadays are the minority who do not think str8, if im wrong then im really worried about the common sense in most of the fans beacuse to make so many changes like some are suggesting is suicidal basically.!! 2 or maximum 3 players will be brought in, Vela is already coming so thats 1 already. Lets come back down to earth and realise how close we were to achieving something great this season
I think we need to buy some more solid defensive help. I would love to get Dunne from Man City. However I do think we need a big splash up front. I think we need to go to a sharp shooting winger. I think Walcott would sit really nicely in the attacking midfielder position V. Persie has been placed in when he is healthy. The place Hleb eventually found himself in. I really think we need to spend wisely because we cannot upset the balance. We really need to place the missing pieces here and there.