What do we think of Wilshere? Shit! What do we think of shit? Wilshere! Looks like wheelchair got what he deserved in the end. C—t.
I know this has probably been done to death in this or other threads, but the thought of potentially us being top and Arse bottom by the end of the day makes me giddy. Even if it only lasts a week!
100% agree. Most of the Arsenal fans I know are pleading ignorance “I don’t work for the club” and “I don’t make these shit decisions”. Ok, but you were happy to gloat at Spurs fans when your stock was high… Now take a bit of that back please! #artetaforeverHe's a typical arsenal player/fan. Massively arrogant for no apparent reason. No surprise to see his career never amounted to anything given his attitude.
It'll be a couple of weeks as it's international break.I know this has probably been done to death in this or other threads, but the thought of potentially us being top and Arse bottom by the end of the day makes me giddy. Even if it only lasts a week!
All fair points.We should be careful what we wish for, clubs that get relegated rarely challenge again. If Ar$eanal go down, they could end up like Schalke, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern. Big clubs with CL & Europa league histories, who challenged at the top. Of those, only Frankfurt made it back to the top part of the league, and it took them 15 years. Following relegation Schalke lost 80% of the first team, the replacements are mostly free transfers and frankly rubbish.
In the UK, Newcastle, Villa, Blackburn and Leeds went down. All were challenging at the top in the years immediately prior to relegation, and none of them are going to be troubling the top 6 come the end of the season.
If Arsenal went down, given the current ownership there. I suspect it could be a long road back, maybe upwards of 10-15 years. They could lose most of their team, and be financially stricken for a long time.
Sure, we can laugh at their plight, but the league would be poorer for less derby games. We’re seeing that this season in Germany where Schalke are missing out on local derbies with Leverkusen, Bochum and Dortmund, which in turn means lost revenue for all clubs involved!
Furry muff mate ?All fair points.
But fuck 'em.
We'd still have the Chavs and maybe we'll actually start caring about WHAM as much as they care about us. We'd be fine.We should be careful what we wish for, clubs that get relegated rarely challenge again. If Ar$eanal go down, they could end up like Schalke, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern. Big clubs with CL & Europa league histories, who challenged at the top. Of those, only Frankfurt made it back to the top part of the league, and it took them 15 years. Following relegation Schalke lost 80% of the first team, the replacements are mostly free transfers and frankly rubbish.
In the UK, Newcastle, Villa, Blackburn and Leeds went down. All were challenging at the top in the years immediately prior to relegation, and none of them are going to be troubling the top 6 come the end of the season.
If Arsenal went down, given the current ownership there. I suspect it could be a long road back, maybe upwards of 10-15 years. They could lose most of their team, and be financially stricken for a long time.
Sure, we can laugh at their plight, but the league would be poorer for less derby games. We’re seeing that this season in Germany where Schalke are missing out on local derbies with Leverkusen, Bochum and Dortmund, which in turn means lost revenue for all clubs involved!
They’re not exactly challenging now. I always thought I would prefer them suffering in mediocrity and the limbo that ensues rather than get relegated completely but just for kicks it would be great to see them go down. 3 games gone so none of this is really relevant right now.We should be careful what we wish for, clubs that get relegated rarely challenge again. If Ar$eanal go down, they could end up like Schalke, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern. Big clubs with CL & Europa league histories, who challenged at the top. Of those, only Frankfurt made it back to the top part of the league, and it took them 15 years. Following relegation Schalke lost 80% of the first team, the replacements are mostly free transfers and frankly rubbish.
In the UK, Newcastle, Villa, Blackburn and Leeds went down. All were challenging at the top in the years immediately prior to relegation, and none of them are going to be troubling the top 6 come the end of the season.
If Arsenal went down, given the current ownership there. I suspect it could be a long road back, maybe upwards of 10-15 years. They could lose most of their team, and be financially stricken for a long time.
Sure, we can laugh at their plight, but the league would be poorer for less derby games. We’re seeing that this season in Germany where Schalke are missing out on local derbies with Leverkusen, Bochum and Dortmund, which in turn means lost revenue for all clubs involved!
We should be careful what we wish for, clubs that get relegated rarely challenge again. If Ar$eanal go down, they could end up like Schalke, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Kaiserslautern. Big clubs with CL & Europa league histories, who challenged at the top. Of those, only Frankfurt made it back to the top part of the league, and it took them 15 years. Following relegation Schalke lost 80% of the first team, the replacements are mostly free transfers and frankly rubbish.
In the UK, Newcastle, Villa, Blackburn and Leeds went down. All were challenging at the top in the years immediately prior to relegation, and none of them are going to be troubling the top 6 come the end of the season.
If Arsenal went down, given the current ownership there. I suspect it could be a long road back, maybe upwards of 10-15 years. They could lose most of their team, and be financially stricken for a long time.
Sure, we can laugh at their plight, but the league would be poorer for less derby games. We’re seeing that this season in Germany where Schalke are missing out on local derbies with Leverkusen, Bochum and Dortmund, which in turn means lost revenue for all clubs involved!
And IF we win we be the only team in all 4 divisions with a 100% record.
Fair points but how entertaining would it be seeing a club like this going to the Championship?Agree. As much as I take delight in how shit they are, I'd still rather have them in the league than not.
I suppose the thing for me is that we get 2 big, intense games in the form of the NLD whereas if they go down those would be replaced by 2 run of the mill fixtures against some arbitrary team who got promoted. From a pure entertainment perspective, I'd rather watch a match against Arsenal than a match against a WBA, Stoke, Watford, Norwich type team
It’s weird when people talk about the DNA of a club or the identity. You kind of think how can a stadium a group of 25 men and a fan base have a singular identity. But it does happen, it’s hard to quantify actually how. Quite hard to explain how in 10-15 years they’ve gone from an Elite winning club to an absolute sorry mess. I really wonder what part AFTV played in it, I’m sure there is some connection. Long may it continue ?
Fair points but how entertaining would it be seeing a club like this going to the Championship?
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They have 5 relatively high earners in the last year of their contract. That's potentially £70m+ of transfer fees being lost on free transfers.
They'd still be left with players on huge salaries, many likely not willing to leave their salaries can be matched.
Every team in the Championship would go all out for them.
It would be fucking epic.
It'd be glorious.What a wonderful dream. Them getting relegated, and then in the Championship, trying desperately to fire-sale all their highest but chronically underachieving earners out of the club whilst getting stuffed by teams like Peterborough or Swindon in front of 20,000 every week inside the Haemorrhoids Stadium.
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