Well, that was the point.
Nasri To City - Done Deal!
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Did they not consider extending Highbury?
I can, Wenger seems to be on a mission to prove that you can put together a championship winning side spending next to nothing in net terms. Liverpool's income levels were roughly on par (if not less than) Arsenal's pre G&H but they spent nearly four times as much. You can't tell me that in all his time at the club, Wenger has only had the funds to buy a handful of players >£10m. Even with our levels of debt, we've spent considerably more than them and this doesn't even take into consideration that they were the most profitable team in the league last year.
They are fecking football up. It was clear even in the early days of Abramovich where this was heading. Yet the authorities have just let it happen. Now we're seeing clubs like Arsenal and Tottenham, double winners who have played themselves to where they are being held to ransom by their best players, because of a couple of sugar daddys turning up and elevating their respective clubs purely based on money. FFP has come far too late, and looks about as effective as a chocolate teapot
What about this Kroenke lad? He's notoriously quiet for a majority shareholder, seeing what Arsenal are going through.
The fans must feel like shite, the club is getting rid of their best players,refusing to spend, and their manager is trying to play a crucial CL fixture as unimportant.
The fans must feel like shite, the club is getting rid of their best players,refusing to spend, and their manager is trying to play a crucial CL fixture as unimportant.
The Emirates is soulless, but that's always the way with new stadiums without any history...It'll become soulful eventually...Probably. As far as the new stadia go, the Emirates (or Ashburton Grove as you all promised us you'd call it, but then didn't) is far away one of the best, in the way it was built, the time it was built, the view and the pitch it was built with and even the rather classy way it used your history in a non tacky, desperate *cough* City *cough* way...I rather like the captains mural on the outside for example and the concorses are all far better than they are at Wembley for example.
The roll call of success is a bit cringe though....Well, it is now you aren't winning anything anyway.
The roll call of success is a bit cringe though....Well, it is now you aren't winning anything anyway.
This Eto'o thing today makes it look as if football is heading the way of the Harlem Globetrotters.
Highbury was lovely, I liked the art deco facade being a ponce and all that. And the lower tier's too shallow at the Emirates due to height restrictions in Islington, also the stands are too far away from the pitch - which you alluded to.
It was lovely on the outside, the concorses and innards weren't, and are far far better at the Emirates.
A crowd close to the pitch is always a plus though I admit. And Highbury had bundles of character in it's playing arena.
A crowd close to the pitch is always a plus though I admit. And Highbury had bundles of character in it's playing arena.
The one good thing about this 'crisis' is that maybe all the muppets and cnuts will feck off and support the chavs.
When you've lived through Don Howe as coach this current situation is nothing. All I here is a bunch of shrill cnuts complaining that Wenger isn't pissing away our money on assorted over-rated dross.
You lot will enjoy our period of decline but real gooners will know that we don't have many options and there is no magic solution here. I can't think of any other manager who could come in and do what Wenger achieves with what's at his disposal. Some things need to be tweaked but the foundation is rock solid. Even losing tomorrow won't be a complete disaster since we are able to cope financially and won't do a Leeds.
When you've lived through Don Howe as coach this current situation is nothing. All I here is a bunch of shrill cnuts complaining that Wenger isn't pissing away our money on assorted over-rated dross.
You lot will enjoy our period of decline but real gooners will know that we don't have many options and there is no magic solution here. I can't think of any other manager who could come in and do what Wenger achieves with what's at his disposal. Some things need to be tweaked but the foundation is rock solid. Even losing tomorrow won't be a complete disaster since we are able to cope financially and won't do a Leeds.
Agreed, FFP came way to late and doesn't hold them back. Both teams are just stockpiling players... especially City. Nobody is willing to buy their players because the wages they pay are way to high. I don't care how good Nasri is, he's not worth anywhere close to what he will earn at City. The FFP seems to be more in words than action. It's sad to see what's happening at a big club like Arsenal. They just can't keep hold of their players (although, I feel that they should moved quicker in regards to Nasri and a new contract). FIFA and UEFA will have to do better... but I have my doubts about that.
It's not all that. The players bar was a fecking shithole too.
Yeah, I remember being at the seat-moving shenanigans and the guy telling us that the seats were less steeply raked, the first 8 rows or so can't really see the game very well - nor do the guys at the back of the upper tier get a great view. A lot better than Wembley though.
It's always a plus when a club is going through decline.
No, not really, I loved our on pitch rivalry. Let's be honest, in footballing terms only Arsenal have come close to matching us... for the best part of the last 20 years. Besides, anything's better than City and Chelsea. They aren't proper football clubs anymore.
Yeah. It's old school. Red brick turnstiles on a residential street etc. It's also penned in to a little suburban area like Highbury was. But in a far more discreet way. You'd almost never know it was there if you were walking up the side of it. There's not that much to it though really. It's quaint. But a bit bland. Though I wouldn't mind sitting in that little over hanging cottage bit...Just for gits and shiggles. Though I'm sure that wouldn't be nearly as novelty as it looks.
I think it's because the height restriction is 35m in Islington, I think that's also the reason why your roof slops down and all. It's a massive stadium though, with a lot of leg room and large seats.
Something tells me they are not likely to oppose two very wealthy owners who have both shown indications they can spend their way out of 'difficulties' (Arneson tapping up ending up with Roman chucking millions to Spurs, and the new deal City have 'made' recently are two examples which spring to mind). I've definitely lost a bit of my enthusiasm for watching Premier League football, knowing what it's become and where it's potentially heading.
It's looking like it's heading to an NFL type deal with mega-rich owners and massive sponsorship/tv rights money.
It's like Rollerball (James Caan version) with corporations calling the shots.
It's like Rollerball (James Caan version) with corporations calling the shots.
The whole situation is worrying and it looks like it will only get worse. Clubs find ways to manipulate the system as unfortunate as that is. I don't really see how this is going to get any better, these "rich" clubs will continue to spend crazy money. They just have no respect for other clubs.
I don't really see a return to the good old days. You'll probably go the same way once SAF is gone.
At the end of the day they can only put 11 on the pitch. Chelsea looked set for world domination after 2005&6 but have only won one league title in 5 years.
True, but if you can put 11 internationals on the pitch no matter what your injuries are or whatever competition it is then it's gone too far.
At least the NFL has spending limits on all clubs.
Arsenal needed FFP 10 years before for certain, so did everyone else in terms of Player Wages. I hope the clubs to stay as part of UEFA if not a lot of things are fecked, like that thread i made said.
He has passed the medical. So will they be unveiling him tomorrow?
At 2am..? Why were they doing the medical this late?
I posted it now does not mean he just completed his medical but he did finish it earlier.
Come on, man. You and wr8 are my main sources of football news, if you dont post it as it happens I'll forever be behind the times.
Bizarrely, the Mail reckons we're standing-by to hijack the deal:
Arsenal agree £24m Samir Nasri fee with Manchester City | Mail Online
Arsenal agree £24m Samir Nasri fee with Manchester City | Mail Online
Bollox bollox bollox
There will be no hijacking of anything, Nasri has been a City player all but in name since he decided he was definitely leaving, and City decided to pursue him.
Bollox bollox bollox
That's new depths of shitness from the Mail.
All this money is good in a whole in some way, they're attracting viewers, setting the football alight with all the top talents, and as footballers getting paid more, interests will spark all around the globe.
You just have to use different spec to see it, nowdays i bet kids in china are playing football in streets instead of Wushu, thanks to Barcelona, Madrid, United, Chelsea of the world.
You just have to use different spec to see it, nowdays i bet kids in china are playing football in streets instead of Wushu, thanks to Barcelona, Madrid, United, Chelsea of the world.
Rumor going around that he's failed the medical because they couldn't find a pulse. Seems his heart is at Old Trafford while his wallet is at Eastlands.
After seeing his attitude with Arsenal, I wouldn't even want him on the squad!If all the Arsenal Stars are leaving, what the hell, lets move for Wilshire
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