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Ribble

Ribble

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absolute bobbins said:
Liverpool don't have the money to sign top draw players without CL football and won't be able to compete on an equal footing with us for players
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Last season Liverpool made £302m, we made £209m.The season before they made £298m and we made just under £196m. Liverpool can and do spend a lot more than we do regardless of the Champions League, we're currently very fortunate that they've been pretty consistently shit at spending it for years now.
 
spurs9

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Ribble said:
Last season Liverpool made £302m, we made £209m.The season before they made £298m and we made just under £196m. Liverpool can and do spend a lot more than we do regardless of the Champions League, we're currently very fortunate that they've been pretty consistently shit at spending it for years now.
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I don't think they have been shit at spending, I think they are pretty much part for the course, it's just that we have been pretty good overall but mainly the difference has been our long term plan put in a while back with a mixture of youth investment and coaching and signing of young players with high potential.
 
DogsOfWar

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Looking at the list of players at Arsenal with only one year left on their contracts I would have serious concerns for their future.

Sanchez, Ozil, Cazorla, Ox, Ramsey pretty much make up all their creative options and, if they don't make CL, I'd expect all of them to be off or on cruise control while they run down their contracts.
They don't have the blank cheque attitude of United, Chelsea, or City to sign top draw players if they are outside of the top 4 so will struggle to replace their big hitters. They can look to rebuild with youngsters but we're already a couple of seasons ahead of them with that and I can only see us, Liverpool, City, Chelsea getting better.

If they do miss out I can see a period of a few years instability before they get a chance to return.
 
thebenjamin

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Khilari said:
All good sounds raising that optimism meter.
But I'm still not sure I've recovered from those "mind the gap" slogans, the Defoe/Whilshire bet, the 5-1 drubbing at Newcastle, the lasagna…

Look at it this way: despite the relatively rubbish season they've been having, all the unrest amongst the fans, the uncertainty over player and manager future and their recent poor form...

...like us they're out of Europe. Like us they're in the QF of the FA Cup with Lincoln City to play (i.e. SF beckons). They are only 6pts behind us with a game in hand. They have a knack of making top 4. They have a knack of finishing above us.

Reign in that Optimism, Sir.
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It's true but relative. We should not be competing with them. Their wage bill is double ours and they've spent nearly £200m net more than us in transfers in the last 3 years. So in those 3 years they've spent in total £500M more than us on their playing squad, yet we're better. That's what we should be happy about.
 
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DogsOfWar said:
Looking at the list of players at Arsenal with only one year left on their contracts I would have serious concerns for their future.

Sanchez, Ozil, Cazorla, Ox, Ramsey pretty much make up all their creative options and, if they don't make CL, I'd expect all of them to be off or on cruise control while they run down their contracts.
They don't have the blank cheque attitude of United, Chelsea, or City to sign top draw players if they are outside of the top 4 so will struggle to replace their big hitters. They can look to rebuild with youngsters but we're already a couple of seasons ahead of them with that and I can only see us, Liverpool, City, Chelsea getting better.

If they do miss out I can see a period of a few years instability before they get a chance to return.
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Yea I'd be heart broken if Arsenal fell off and became a midtable team
 
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Shadydan

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DogsOfWar said:
Looking at the list of players at Arsenal with only one year left on their contracts I would have serious concerns for their future.

Sanchez, Ozil, Cazorla, Ox, Ramsey pretty much make up all their creative options and, if they don't make CL, I'd expect all of them to be off or on cruise control while they run down their contracts.
They don't have the blank cheque attitude of United, Chelsea, or City to sign top draw players if they are outside of the top 4 so will struggle to replace their big hitters. They can look to rebuild with youngsters but we're already a couple of seasons ahead of them with that and I can only see us, Liverpool, City, Chelsea getting better.

If they do miss out I can see a period of a few years instability before they get a chance to return.
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Ramsey and Cazorla will sign regardless if Wenger stays or not...Ox will be off if Wenger stays I reckon and Sanchez will leave whether Wenger stays or not. I think Ozil will stay especially if the money is right.
 
DogsOfWar

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Shadydan said:
Ramsey and Cazorla will sign regardless if Wenger stays or not...Ox will be off if Wenger stays I reckon and Sanchez will leave whether Wenger stays or not. I think Ozil will stay especially if the money is right.
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Maybe, but I'm always skeptical of any player who's contract has run down to within a year. Either the player doesn't fancy the team and wants out or the team doesn't fancy the player.
But if Arsenal don't get top 4 it leaves these players open to offers with Arsenal being forced to sell or keeping unhappy players who will leave on a Bosman.
Win-Win either way.
 
allpaths

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Khilari said:
I enjoyed that

But then I read this:
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/8-reasons-why-everyone-hates-tottenham?page=0,1

Quite a lot of truth!
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I don't know I think the author is reaching on a lot of those points.
Points I'd concede would be the mugs, dvds, the getting ahead of ourselves and the fact we like to make out that we are some noble club because we don't win things, but we try to play good football. Playing good football is nice but winning something every once in a while would be nicer.

Everything else is rubbish. First he moans about the football league elections and the behaviour of our club a hundred years ago, but then tells us we should stop using the word yid and get over Judas, no fuck u that is our history and we should never forget!
My favourite is how the author hates how we sing oh when the spurs go marching in, goes to show how effective and powerful it can be.
 
Khilari

Khilari

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allpaths said:
I don't know I think the author is reaching on a lot of those points.
Points I'd concede would be the mugs, dvds, the getting ahead of ourselves and the fact we like to make out that we are some noble club because we don't win things, but we try to play good football. Playing good football is nice but winning something every once in a while would be nicer.

Everything else is rubbish. First he moans about the football league elections and the behaviour of our club a hundred years ago, but then tells us we should stop using the word yid and get over Judas, no fuck u that is our history and we should never forget!
My favourite is how the author hates how we sing oh when the spurs go marching in, goes to show how effective and powerful it can be.
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There's one for most of the top clubs so I think it's a light hearted critique.
 
spursfan77

spursfan77

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Wellspurs said:
Anything other than a very convincing win v Lincoln will make his position unTENable?
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I think people TENd to over react to one result. If they had West Brom next and lost to them then I think Wenger will be in trouble.
 
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