THE WENGER THREAD

[northbank123]

Ahh the old "gloryhunters" tag, you must really be running out of semi-coherent arguments. One small step away from "go and support Chelsea or City" on the desperation scale.

Thank fuck we've had somebody to fiddle whilst Rome has been burning for seven years. Can't imagine what would have happened if we hadn't had somebody in charge who has sold our best players consistently and replaced them with injury-prone underachievers on bloated wages whilst completely ignoring ongoing defensive frailties and feeding constant misrepresentations and lies to the fans. Thank God.

[highburyJD]

"What would have happened"? is your rhetorical question
- it seems what you want was us to borrow a bunch of money.
Very hard, as ManUre showed when borrowing in that period you normally get prohibitively bad rates.
they have ENORMOUS income compared to us, they should be an internationally dominant force in the market
they are not, and won't be any time soon

Maybe you didn't want us to borrow. Instead of borrowing
- We could just have had a lower wage bill
(its the high wage bill that means we have to sell to balance our books)
in which case our very best players would have left earlier anyway,
many would in fact have left before they were even our best players
or just never signed in the first place

Missing the CL just once would probably have meant additional sales.
and yes as far as I'm concerned gloryhunters is a fair tag for non-Islington fans who decide to follow a foriegn team
and express hatred for a great manager because we havent won enough

suck it up gloryhunter boys

[flash gunner]

Your pomposity is only matched by your ability to talk absolute drivel JD. I even imagine Wenger would be embarrassed by your posts

You are another Babatunde even worse perhaps

[DB10GOONER]

"What would have happened"? is your rhetorical question
- it seems what you want was us to borrow a bunch of money.
Very hard, as ManUre showed when borrowing in that period you normally get prohibitively bad rates.
they have ENORMOUS income compared to us, they should be an internationally dominant force in the market
they are not, and won't be any time soon

Maybe you didn't want us to borrow. Instead of borrowing
- We could just have had a lower wage bill
(its the high wage bill that means we have to sell to balance our books)
in which case our very best players would have left earlier anyway,
many would in fact have left before they were even our best players
or just never signed in the first place

Missing the CL just once would probably have meant additional sales.
and yes as far as I'm concerned gloryhunters is a fair tag for non-Islington fans who decide to follow a foriegn team
and express hatred for a great manager because we havent won enough

suck it up gloryhunter boys

Oh. Dear. God.

I am actually embarrassed for you Mr Superfan. What a moronic post.

What proof do we have that you are actually an "Islington fan" here on the anonymous internet, huh?

Aren't you the same guy that posted about how great it is to be at a big game knowing the world's TV audience are watching you? How fucking sad is that?

[flash gunner]

JD please dont ever over step the mark and get yourself banned from here or have another one of your hissy fits where you self impose a lifetime ban only to go back on it a week later .... Youre posts are almost partridge-esq in their humour and total lack of self awareness

[DB10GOONER]

JD please dont ever over step the mark and get yourself banned from here or have another one of your hissy fits where you self impose a lifetime ban only to go back on it a week later .... Youre posts are almost partridge-esq in their humour and total lack of self awareness

Abso-bloody-exactly!

[OneBardGooner]

Your pomposity is only matched by your ability to talk absolute drivel JD. I even imagine Wenger would be embarrassed by your posts

You are another Babatunde even worse perhaps

Aaaah yes, but at least blahblah had a legit excuse - he was only 13yrs of age and his carer was a scumfan.

[StuartL]

"What would have happened"? is your rhetorical question
- it seems what you want was us to borrow a bunch of money.
Very hard, as ManUre showed when borrowing in that period you normally get prohibitively bad rates.
they have ENORMOUS income compared to us, they should be an internationally dominant force in the market
they are not, and won't be any time soon

Maybe you didn't want us to borrow. Instead of borrowing
- We could just have had a lower wage bill
(its the high wage bill that means we have to sell to balance our books)
in which case our very best players would have left earlier anyway,
many would in fact have left before they were even our best players
or just never signed in the first place

Missing the CL just once would probably have meant additional sales.
and yes as far as I'm concerned gloryhunters is a fair tag for non-Islington fans who decide to follow a foriegn team
and express hatred for a great manager because we havent won enough

suck it up gloryhunter boys

No need to borrow - we don't spend the profit that we make anyway.

We have an inflated wage bill cos we pay below average players far too much (and then can't sell them) and underpay our few class acts, leaving them far below their counterparts at other top clubs.

Winning, for me, is not the be all and end all, but we need to try to compete, not just meekly accept that 4th is the limit of our ambition and shout about what a great achievement it is. In many of our matches the football is second rate too now, far behind the fast paced exciting game that we played 4/5 years ago when you were very likely to watch a great match, irrespective if we won.

Yes missing out on the champions league just once would have cost the club £20m, so why not invest in key area's to strengthen the team and increase the chances of securing your place. Plus a better first team increases the likelyhood of winning a trophy, therefore increasing our "global brand" and attractiveness to sponsors, while also doing a bit to attract the better calibre of players too ?

[officepest]

"What would have happened"? is your rhetorical question
- it seems what you want was us to borrow a bunch of money.
Very hard, as ManUre showed when borrowing in that period you normally get prohibitively bad rates.
they have ENORMOUS income compared to us, they should be an internationally dominant force in the market
they are not, and won't be any time soon

Maybe you didn't want us to borrow. Instead of borrowing
- We could just have had a lower wage bill
(its the high wage bill that means we have to sell to balance our books)
in which case our very best players would have left earlier anyway,
many would in fact have left before they were even our best players
or just never signed in the first place

Missing the CL just once would probably have meant additional sales.
and yes as far as I'm concerned gloryhunters is a fair tag for non-Islington fans who decide to follow a foriegn team
and express hatred for a great manager because we havent won enough

suck it up gloryhunter boys

I only lived in Islington for 2 days but Haringey and Harlesden for years, do I not count?

Also, you lionise the very manager who has been responsible for umpteen 'gloryhunters' jumping on board since Highbury was disgracefully demolished.

[DB10GOONER]

"What would have happened"? is your rhetorical question
- it seems what you want was us to borrow a bunch of money.
Very hard, as ManUre showed when borrowing in that period you normally get prohibitively bad rates.
they have ENORMOUS income compared to us, they should be an internationally dominant force in the market
they are not, and won't be any time soon

Maybe you didn't want us to borrow. Instead of borrowing
- We could just have had a lower wage bill
(its the high wage bill that means we have to sell to balance our books)
in which case our very best players would have left earlier anyway,
many would in fact have left before they were even our best players
or just never signed in the first place

Missing the CL just once would probably have meant additional sales.
and yes as far as I'm concerned gloryhunters is a fair tag for non-Islington fans who decide to follow a foriegn team
and express hatred for a great manager because we havent won enough

suck it up gloryhunter boys

I only lived in Islington for 2 days but Haringey and Harlesden for years, do I not count?

Nope, sorry. You are not a Superfan. You cannot post on this thread anymore. And neither can I. Oh, hang on...

[officepest]

Right then, I'm off to live in a cardboard box in Drayton Park so as to regain Superfan© status

[StuartL]

"What would have happened"? is your rhetorical question
- it seems what you want was us to borrow a bunch of money.
Very hard, as ManUre showed when borrowing in that period you normally get prohibitively bad rates.
they have ENORMOUS income compared to us, they should be an internationally dominant force in the market
they are not, and won't be any time soon

Maybe you didn't want us to borrow. Instead of borrowing
- We could just have had a lower wage bill
(its the high wage bill that means we have to sell to balance our books)
in which case our very best players would have left earlier anyway,
many would in fact have left before they were even our best players
or just never signed in the first place

Missing the CL just once would probably have meant additional sales.
and yes as far as I'm concerned gloryhunters is a fair tag for non-Islington fans who decide to follow a foriegn team
and express hatred for a great manager because we havent won enough

suck it up gloryhunter boys

I only lived in Islington for 2 days but Haringey and Harlesden for years, do I not count?

Also, you lionise the very manager who has been responsible for umpteen 'gloryhunters' jumping on board since Highbury was disgracefully demolished.

The gloryhunters haven't jumped on board, the club have gone out of their way to get rid, as best they can, of the average working class fan, who shouts and sings and swears sometimes, to be replaced by the type of fan who doesn't care how much a ticket costs as it is chicken feed, doesn't sing, doesn't swear, and will meekly applaud another half arsed display to get a draw with the might of Stoke, Norwich, QPR etc

[officepest]

The gloryhunters haven't jumped on board, the club have gone out of their way to get rid, as best they can, of the average working class fan, who shouts and sings and swears sometimes, to be replaced by the type of fan who doesn't care how much a ticket costs as it is chicken feed, doesn't sing, doesn't swear, and will meekly applaud another half arsed display to get a draw with the might of Stoke, Norwich, QPR etc

Modern football described to a tee. Nothing more to add.

[DB10GOONER]

"What would have happened"? is your rhetorical question
- it seems what you want was us to borrow a bunch of money.
Very hard, as ManUre showed when borrowing in that period you normally get prohibitively bad rates.
they have ENORMOUS income compared to us, they should be an internationally dominant force in the market
they are not, and won't be any time soon

Maybe you didn't want us to borrow. Instead of borrowing
- We could just have had a lower wage bill
(its the high wage bill that means we have to sell to balance our books)
in which case our very best players would have left earlier anyway,
many would in fact have left before they were even our best players
or just never signed in the first place

Missing the CL just once would probably have meant additional sales.
and yes as far as I'm concerned gloryhunters is a fair tag for non-Islington fans who decide to follow a foriegn team
and express hatred for a great manager because we havent won enough

suck it up gloryhunter boys

I only lived in Islington for 2 days but Haringey and Harlesden for years, do I not count?

Also, you lionise the very manager who has been responsible for umpteen 'gloryhunters' jumping on board since Highbury was disgracefully demolished.

The gloryhunters haven't jumped on board, the club have gone out of their way to get rid, as best they can, of the average working class fan, who shouts and sings and swears sometimes, to be replaced by the type of fan who doesn't care how much a ticket costs as it is chicken feed, doesn't sing, doesn't swear, and will meekly applaud another half arsed display to get a draw with the might of Stoke, Norwich, QPR etc

Sorry, StuartL - would you mind showing your Superfan credentials before posting on JD's Superfan thread please? Thank you.

[rodders999]

The gloryhunters haven't jumped on board, the club have gone out of their way to get rid, as best they can, of the average working class fan, who shouts and sings and swears sometimes, to be replaced by the type of fan who doesn't care how much a ticket costs as it is chicken feed, doesn't sing, doesn't swear, and will meekly applaud another half arsed display to get a draw with the might of Stoke, Norwich, QPR etc

Amen brother, finally a voice of reason on here, I'd almost given up all hope