Next 2 signing are key

[merson_is_god]

Next 2 signings will be between now and 2012

[USMartin]

Next 2 signings will be between now and 2012

So they could be this summer then? Hallelujah

[northbankbren]

Havent read the thread or a single response....but next two signings will happen next summer.

[Only One Tony Adams]

[quote="northbankbren"]Havent read the thread or a single response....but next two signings will happen next summer.[/quote]

i fear this could be correct

[lowerwest]

god this guy really gets my goat big time...his response to man citys spending is to convince himself and us fans that we will do better than last year and we prefer to invest in long term planning and confidence in ourselves. whats it based on then arsene a whole hill of beans or just blind faith. with this squad as it is there isnt a chance in hell we will go better than 3rd. could well get worse though..

[mikeyb772001]

god this guy really gets my goat big time...his response to man citys spending is to convince himself and us fans that we will do better than last year and we prefer to invest in long term planning and confidence in ourselves. whats it based on then arsene a whole hill of beans or just blind faith. with this squad as it is there isnt a chance in hell we will go better than 3rd. could well get worse though..

That is exactly right mate.

I wish the *word censored* made those comments before the season ticket deadline. It’s obvious he won’t buy anyone now. And again it’s us fans who suffer. No wonder Cesc wants to go. “Wenger is like a father to meâ€

[lowerwest]

ur right its obvious we are being softened up...if cesc stays whats the chances it will be like henry or viera last year where they just went through the motions. personally i am not convinced that wenger really believes it but while he remains and more importantly this board remain it wont change. maybe not getting top 4 and some empty seats might get these guys to act...tried to be positive but its very very difficult!

[bergkamp10]

Again we could have sold Highbury for an immediate profit of 65-70 by most accounts at no cost whatsoever to the club and used those proceeds to pay off several years of stadium loan repayments which surely would have meant more money could be invested in the football team over the past five years including from 2005 to 2007 and we would be several years closer to being debt-free

Selling Highbury wasn't really 'for profit' was it? It was always going to be sold to provide a sum of money to go toward the new stadium. We could have sold it to developers for £70-75m but at the time, because of the booming housing market the board thought they could make between £30-40m EXTRA on that sum by developing it themselves, only to be hit by the impending recession. It was a decent idea that suffered only because of the world financial markets. There's absolutely no guarantee that if we had sold it for £70m that even half of that money would have been invested in the squad, in fact, with Wenger in charge with his pet project, if he'd had 35m to spend he'd renew the contracts of 7 or 8 players before he thought about signing anyone who would actually improve the 1st team!

Now I see why its all Mr. Wenger's fault.The Board had a good idea that they couldn't be blamed for because the economy went bad onm them.

If you read what I actually said I never said any of that money would have been invested in the team - it all would have gone to debt re-paymnet. Go ahead quote where I say otherwise. I'm waiting.

What I said is that we would have owed 110 million pounds less by the year 2010 than we did and would have paid off 70 million more on the stadium. That would have meant the the money from the matchday turnover in the years 2005-2007 that almost certainly went to debt re-payment could have been invested back in the team. Show me where I say anything to the contrary once.

BTW the economy had nothing to do with the decision being a poor one for Arsenal Football Club.

First off, the negative impact of the decision on the football team almost wholly pre-dates any economic or housing crisis in London or England. That impact began in 2005 and continued through ealy/mid 2008 where the cirisis itself occurred in mid/late 2008. At best the economic crisis made a bad situation a bit worse a bit longer for the football club.

Secondly the only thing the crisis did according to the Holding Company was perhaps delay that extra profit by 6 months to a year. So in fact their plan worked. So its a question of who it worked for, and looking at the team's recent history its not the football team. But looking at the History of the Share Price. Its pretty clear who it did work for.

UAM. good post there.

As I said probably this time last year, we will be extremely fortunate to see twoplayers signed, that we have heard of...

How I sincerely hope, Wenger sees some sense on the Goalkeeping front, because I will seriously lose faith in him, if he doesn't deal with this issue.

Plus to at least as formidable another Centre Half wouldn't half help the cause...

[USMartin]

Cheers Bergkamp10, been trying to show people who believe all these things are coincidental somehow that they simply aren't.

One thing I missed though was the statement by TeeCee about te sale of Highbury not guaranteeing the "Wenger Project" would not have continued. An interesting point that raises an even more intersting point reallt that TeeCee never responds to. So TeeCee I'll ask again:

Wouldn't that have shown the Board they had no choice but to sack the man? Indeed - yet again - I'll ask haven't his actions to now as you see them shown the Board they had no choice but to sack him? So why haven't the Board sacked him then? And why not answer this? If the money is there to be spent and as this implies the Board would like it spent and the manager - THEIR employee - refuses to spend it to the detriment of the team's performance, why don't they just sack him and get someone who WILL spend the money available to spend?

[USMartin]

BTW Bergkamp10 your goals for additions are spot-on, plus another ball-winning box-to-box central midfielder would be neat.