kiwomya wrote:Babatunde wrote:Wow Yossi is the Israel captain.
Choo Young is the Korea captain.
Calling people captains instantly makes them sound better doesn't it!
I suggest we therefore sign the following too:
The San Marino captain
The Malta captain
The Azerbaijan captain
The Nepal captain
The Benin Captain
The Togo captain (he'll even speak French!)
They must all be quality since they are captains!
And Benayoun WOW. Amazing signing! Chelski must be gutted to be losing him, ah well I'm sure they'll go to bed at night consoling themselves they got a massive transfer fee for such a great player, and safe in the knowledge that they didn't have to just loan him out to a non-threatening smaller club as no serious big club would be mad enough to sign him for a proper fee and pay his wages.
Just like Denilson.
What signings would you have been happy with?
Ok here we go. Remember, that none of the signings I am about to mention are Galacticos apart from Goetze so, bare in mind Wenger had a trasnfer budget of £40 million, plus the £75 million in transfer fees recouped, plus the £40 million Toure + Greedy transfer facility.
And bare in mind he made a £25 million profit.
Here goes. Scrap all the players we signed bar Mertesacker.
1. Yann M'Vila. (trying to sign him about two months ago instead of waiting until Rennes didn't have time for a replacement mighta been a good idea). 18 million quid Rennes quoted.
2. Nilmar. Quality striker. International with a proper country. Performed in Europe and a top league. Again, coulda been had for £18 mil. (Remember, Roma failed with their £15 mil bid cos Villareal held out for £18 mil). The alternative was to offer Real Madrid the £20 million for Higuain, who Perez wants to sell.
3. Gary Cahill for £15 mil. Or Phil Jagielka for the same price if Bolton wouldn't budge on the £15 mil.
4. Juan Mata. Let nobody give me bollocks about being outpriced by Chelski. More AKB guff. A fee was agreed with Valencia for £19 million. Arsenal pulled out of the deal and his buy-out clause expired. Only then, afterwards, did Chelski pick up the scent and sign him up. £19 million.
5. Per Mertesacker. Keep that signing. £8 mil.
Now. The total outlay there for all of the aforementioned players is of £78 million. Remember, that Wenger sold for about almost £75 mil and had a transfer warchest of £40 mil also.
So even if we wanna go into tight-arse Wenger Land, the total fees for players signed just mentioned would have seen Wenger make a net spend of just £3 million! Now that still isn't acceptable to me but at least the Arsenal side would have been backed up by numbers AND quality.
The spine of the team would have been immediately addressed: Jagielka-M'Vila-Nilmar. Then there would have been an extra signing to truly get Arsenal fans off their feet in Mata.
After all these signings, Wenger would have STILL had his £40 million transfer warchest more or less untouched, meaning a mammoth bid for Maerio Goetze could have been made at least ONE MONTH AGO. Whereby Dortmund - who are in the same CL group as Arsenal remember - would have had plenty of time to find a replacement. It's ridiculous to make bids for clubs' best players at the 11th hour and expect them to sell.
No. The only players you end up with when you do that are Yossi Benayoun and a knackered Mike Arteta!!!
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