ARSENE CANNOT COMPETE: Hamstrung by 17 man rule

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Who is this 'Diaby' you speak of?

:? :wink:
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Percy Dalton wrote:Who is this 'Diaby' you speak of?

:? :wink:
:shock: :shock: :shock:

Are you telling me that you know not of 'The Imperious One'? :shock: :? :? Shame on you!! :oops: :oops: :roll: :lol: :lol: :wink:
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I Hate Hleb wrote:Seeing as we are paying them anyway for fuck all contribution, can we not 'de-list' some of the players and replace them in our squad? :? :?

See that would make sense wouldnt it which makes it all the more unlikely to happen :roll: :banghead:
I would have thought that we would have at least made an approach to mutually terminate or release shitachi but after being brought on (at right back no less :roll: ) v fulham that is highly unlikely :cry: :cry: :cry:
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I Hate Hleb wrote:Seeing as we are paying them anyway for fuck all contribution, can we not 'de-list' some of the players and replace them in our squad? :? :?
No, that would hurt their feelings. Much better to give them contract extensions instead. :roll:
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Rocky Number Seven wrote:
Babatunde wrote:Every season, France Football publish the Premier League squads wages estimates, as do the IFFHS.
This word stands out for me so will take with a pinch of salt. If however there is some truth to the fact that Squillaci, Chamakh, Diaby and Almunia are on around £60k a week then whoever agreed those contracts needs to be taken to task.
It is well documented by John Cross (very close to the club), that Diaby's move to Besiktas fell through because they were "only" offering £50k a week.

Do the maths.

And remember, Armand Traore's agent admitted that Benfica'a offer of £30k a week fell way short of what he was earning at Arsenal. Again: do the maths.

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Post by Gunner4LiF3 »

Money wasted....

Chamakh and Squid were free transfer after all.

Obviously with the aid of hindsight none of these players justify their wages :wink:
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Babatunde wrote: Sebastien Squillaci: £1,440,000 GBP :shock:
Choo Park: £726,900 GBP
Marouane Chamakh: £1,560,000 GBP :shock:
Andrey Arshavin: £1,550,000 GBP
Tomas Rosicky: £1,420, 500 GBP :shock:
Johan Djourou: £1,320,000 GBP
Abou Diaby: £1,446,300 GBP
Lukasz Fabianski: £840,000 GBP
Manuel Almunia (zero PL minutes played): £1,538,000 GBP
Yao Gervinho: £1,212,000 GBP
Vito Mannone: £726,500 GBP
Those figures, if true, are shocking, but it does explain why we can't get rid of Squillaci and Almunia.

I assume wages are the reason we've not been able to sell Denilson, Bendtner or Vela either, and instead have ended up loaning them out.

As for Chamakh... I'm not surprised because signing players on a free means you often pay a premium on wages, but even so - disastrous signing.

Then there's Arshavin, who doesn't even put the effort in for his wages.

I'm so frustrated by the quality of our "large squad"... it's just shite outside of the starting XI.
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I'm stumped at the first part before I fully read on...17 non-domestic rule? Can you clarify a bit more?
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rodders999 wrote:
I Hate Hleb wrote:
rodders999 wrote:Abou Diaby: £1,446,300 GBP - 20 minutes played this season.

Now that's good work if you can get it. :banghead:

That's the princly sum of 72,315 quid per minute that bean headed sick note c**t has fleeced our club of. :roll:
Yes, but you'd have to admit they were 20 minutes of absolute quality and a mere taste of what's possible and still to come from the great man!! 8) :lol:

(Oops, sorry - thought I was SteveO for a second there.) :wink: :lol: :lol: :wink:
Never fear IHH (or SteveO for that matter!!), the good news is our glorious leader said this about our beloved bean headed hypochondriac -

"It is a slight muscular problem, he'll be out for around 10 days."


Sadly he said this on the 9th December.
You have to laugh at our injury estimations :coffeespit:

If they were estimators in Print or in insurance the companies would have gone down years ago :awnker: :roll: :banghead:
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Boomer wrote:I'm stumped at the first part before I fully read on...17 non-domestic rule? Can you clarify a bit more?
It's like it says on the tin - there's a Premier League (or is it UEFA?) rule which states each club is only allowed to register a maximum 17 non-domestic players within their 25 man squad.
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I Hate Hleb wrote:
Boomer wrote:I'm stumped at the first part before I fully read on...17 non-domestic rule? Can you clarify a bit more?
It's like it says on the tin - there's a Premier League (or is it UEFA?) rule which states each club is only allowed to register a maximum 17 non-domestic players within their 25 man squad.
Isn't there something about "homegrown" players though? I don't think Cesc was counted as "non-domestic" :?:
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I think that's because foreign born players that came through the youth ranks are counted as 'domestic' players.
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I Hate Hleb wrote:I think that's because foreign born players that came through the youth ranks are counted as 'domestic' players.
isn't it something like "the player must've been trained in england for at least two years before his 18th birthday"?

or is this from the champions league?
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Not sure BG but if you're interested you can check on here: www.goggleityoulazycunt.com

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Mannone gone back on loan to hull does that help.
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