Arsenal 1991 wrote:I know it seems counter productive to sell our two best players but we need our best players playing more games than cesc and van persie currently play.
We could get at least £60m combined for them add that to the £33m we would get for Bentdner (£6m), Squillaci (£1m), Denilson (£6m), Arshavin (£10m), Rosicky (£5m) and Eboue (£5m). Then we have the £56m profit, thats a total of nearly £150m.
Thats money to rival Man City, Madrid, anyone. Use £30m to buy a proper striker, £20m to buy a proper defensive midfielder, £15m to buy cahill, £7.5m to buy Parker, £5m for a reserve right back and the rest to buy a couple of proper wingers.
Promote JET, lansbury, Bartley and any others. We suddenly have a very, very good squad. NOT THAT DIFFICULT!!!
1991 some valid points several problems though -
The first is that while your theory is correct could it be put into practice/ Again You are ignoring our fatally flawed wage structure. What striker valued at 30 million GBP will play for 90K a week? And that is the ceiling of our wage structure now. You could argue this all the way down to Scott Paker at 7.5 million theoretically. Who will come to Arsenal to play on 60-90K a wekk when the could play elsewhere for 100K a week or more?
Second is to move that many players is at one time is just ridiculous and would mean we would have to get every single replacement spot-on to be able to come back even two years on. And again this assumes we can actually agree wages with the players valued as you suggest. If we don't get all these moves spot-on we may be no better off than we are now and some will use it as justification to roll back investment in the team(buying bigger guarntees nothing, etc...)
Third is relying on several youth products as the underbelly of the squad is a major risk unless you go full seasons as injury-free as possible. Otherwise injuries fatally compromise the squad because as we have seen now the drop-off in quality from much of our first 11 to our reserves is too sever and can drag a whiole team's season down.
Finally putting aside the manager's future and assuming for now he is still here after this year what if Cesc in fact leaves? What if a couple of others do as well? What if Tom Vermaelen's achilles doesn't heal properly or quickly enough? I think it's reckless to suggest we can just do all this in a single year or even two transfer windows. The problems weren't created over a single year, and they certainly won't be solved over one either unless we re-think our wage structure drastically, and even then it will probably be a two-year procedure under any manager.
