Arsenal

[Yid121]

I feel like it's a good addition when you just think about the player and what he may bring but £220,000 a week on a 3 year deal for a 32 year old is pretty crazy. Certainly not something I would push for us to do even if I wouldn't be against having the player himself.

Our wage structure would probably put him on 100k less than that so that would effectively be 400k/month over 3 years as a transfer fee equivalent to roughly £15m.

Glad we dodged that, probably analyses over the same period to what we paid For Hojbjerg...

 

[AberdeenYid]

Looking forward to Willian replacing Ozil in a year or two as the phenomenally well paid guy who can’t get a game. Lovely.

 

[Bensonrecon]

Arsenal review £72m Pepe transfer; Barcelona start hunt for new boss

ESPN's Insider Notebook has news on Arsenal's assessment of their £72m move for Nicolas Pepe. Plus: Barcelona start the search for a new boss.

www.espn.co.uk

I know it's ESPN but fuck me, that's hilarious. Everyone and their dog knows they paid at least twice what they should've.

"Edu is determined to make every penny count"

'32 year old winger signs a 3 year contract worth £220k a week'

That frugality lasted long then

 

[NickHSpurs]

Baffling why you'd sign a 32-year old on a three-year deal, love to see it.

 

[nailsy]

They're clearly just looking at the short term. If he helps them get back into the champions League places he'll be a good signing. They need a lot more than just him though.

 

[WePlayWednesday]

I’m not sure where they are heading with squad planning. Adding a 32 year old while trying to sell Maitland Niles seems a bit silly. Add to that how they have sold a lot of their depth over the last few years, and it doesn’t make sense. As @nailsy put it, it’s short term thinking, and I can’t see it working. Feels like a badly run club, especially with the distasteful redundancies.

 

[Kingellesar]

So the top 3 highest paid players at the club are 31/32? Two of which are tied down for another 3 years? Assuming Aubameyang signs an extension.

Madness.

 

[Spursmatty87]

He’s the sort of signing that if Jose had made he’d of got lambasted for, but because it’s Arteta he’ll probably be lauded for it.

 

[King of Otters]

He’s the sort of signing that if Jose had made he’d of got lamp-blasted for, but cause it’s Arteta he’ll probably be lorded for it.

 

[cider spurs]

Much happier we cut our cloth accordingly.

 

[Marty]

He’s the sort of signing that if Jose had made he’d of got lamp-blasted for, but cause it’s Arteta he’ll probably be lorded for it.

1. he'd have, or he would've
2. Lambasted
3. Lauded

Lamp-blasted is fucking hilarious though, fair play.

 

[thecook]

That pisses all over 'mute point' and 'damp squid.'

 

[sparx100]

Still think he would have been a good signing for us. I don't think he will stay at arse for 3 years but they will sell in the 3rd or even the 2nd season depending on his contribution to an American or Chinese team and do ok out of the deal.

 

[McFlash]

1. he'd have, or he would've
2. Lambasted
3. Lauded

Lamp-blasted is fucking hilarious though, fair play.

When you're having your English corrected by a Norwegian...

 

[Syn_13]

I’m not sure where they are heading with squad planning. Adding a 32 year old while trying to sell Maitland Niles seems a bit silly. Add to that how they have sold a lot of their depth over the last few years, and it doesn’t make sense. As @nailsy put it, it’s short term thinking, and I can’t see it working. Feels like a badly run club, especially with the distasteful redundancies.

They're desperate for instant succes by the looks of it. They want to challenge for big titles and not just FA cup, and they're willing to sacrifice the long term plans. I guess the way they see it is that if they pull it off they won't need to worry about the future. It's short sighted.

 

[Trotter]

When I say fucked I mean they aren't going to get back to those level of profits or high positions in the table without Champions League football. Say they go another 2 or 3 years without it whilst paying champions league level salaries it isn't going to be pretty for them. Their stadium is badly financed compared to us. They are heading towards mid table if they don't qualify for the champions league soon. Plus they have no fans in their stadium which was their cash cow. Sure we don't but we have the £175m loan to cover those losses while we try and continue as normal. Kronke isn't going to put any money in to rescue them (not that our owners would) but without a lucky season they aren't going anywhere. Hopefully they are on a slide to become another west ham.

Their stadium is badly financed compared to us ?
That would be the same stadium they paid off the finance for in full last month after Kroenke injected significant capital into them would it ?

 

[Shadydan]

Still think he would have been a good signing for us. I don't think he will stay at arse for 3 years but they will sell in the 3rd or even the 2nd season depending on his contribution to an American or Chinese team and do ok out of the deal.

Thought he'd be a great idea before Lucas turned into a madman in the last few matches.

 

[C0YS]

yup - he had almost 30 assists in La Liga (highest that year) when he left. Ronaldo and other players very unhappy but Ancelotti and Perez wanted him out and Wenger wanted him to join.

Arteta has mucked this up rather badly - one thing for Zidane to discard Bale (Z has serious credit at Real) but entirely different for a first time manager to freeze out your highest paid player. Not like they have a load of creative players + just gave a mega contract to Willian and a mega contract to Abu....a lot of money to players over 30. Between them probably around 800K per week!

Not really Ozil simply hasn't been good enough.

Just like Ozil is within his rights to see his contract out, Arteta is within his rights to not play the highest paid player in the team.

On signing Willian, it's a strange one really. I rate him, but he isn't anything special anymore.

 

[C0YS]

They quite simply thought they were leaping ahead of everyone for his signature and then being clever with the finances. They genuinely thought they were getting the next big superstar.

Anyone who'd seen Pepe could tell you he was incredibly raw for a 24 year old.

Instead they've ended up commiting to a deal that eats into their funds every summer.

Brilliant

Yeh he scored 22 goals in Ligue 1, which looks impressive until you realise 9 of those goals were penalties. Still good but 13 goals 11 assists reads, very differently.

The thing is, hindsight is 20/20, and a lot of people on here thought Arsenal did sign a very special player. So there you go.

 

[thecook]

Their stadium is badly financed compared to us ?
That would be the same stadium they paid off the finance for in full last month after Kroenke injected significant capital into them would it ?

I don't think it is paid off, simply restructured due to pending penalties that had to be paid