Abou Diaby - Injuries Thread

kiwomya · Post by **kiwomya** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:52 am

DB10GOONER wrote:
g88ner wrote:
Gunnersaurus wrote:He's not going anywhere, the club are selling the new shirt with his squad number available, worth noting that Ospina, Podolski, Campbell and Sonogo were not available to be bought.

It's also worth noting that Arteta and Flamini was also being sold and the no 1 shirt had no name next to it.
It's bonkers to go into next season with Diaby, Flamini and Arteta on our books. A total waste of over £150k a week and 3 squad places.
This ^^

It's insane. Captain Stupid is a liability. Arteta is waaaay past his best. And Diaby is a perma-crocked non event. This harks back to the most stupid money-wasting days of Wenger's reign when we had uber-shite like Almunia, Flappy, Legohead, Mong, FatSantos, Squillaci, Park, (the injured for 7 years) RVJC, Vela etc etc all commanding big to huge wages whilst Arsene was telling us we had no money to compete.

It needs to be remembered that the majority of those players came in for little or no transfer fees though. Whilst the money Almunia was on could have been given to a better keeper, where was the transfer fee coming from? I suppose it comes down to how much cash was legitimately available for actual transfers.....and if you believe it.

officepest · Post by **officepest** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:07 pm

On the day Kauto Star fell over and was shot, I was, for some reason, reminded that we still have this chap on our books.

augie · Post by **augie** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:27 pm

officepest wrote:On the day Kauto Star fell over and was shot, I was, for some reason, reminded that we still have this chap on our books.

rodders999 · Post by **rodders999** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:48 pm

Today, Tuesday 30th June, is the day his contract with the club finally expires. I'm throwing a party at midnight to celebrate getting shot of the bastard

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:52 pm

kiwomya wrote:
DB10GOONER wrote:
g88ner wrote:
Gunnersaurus wrote:He's not going anywhere, the club are selling the new shirt with his squad number available, worth noting that Ospina, Podolski, Campbell and Sonogo were not available to be bought.

It's also worth noting that Arteta and Flamini was also being sold and the no 1 shirt had no name next to it.
It's bonkers to go into next season with Diaby, Flamini and Arteta on our books. A total waste of over £150k a week and 3 squad places.
This ^^

It's insane. Captain Stupid is a liability. Arteta is waaaay past his best. And Diaby is a perma-crocked non event. This harks back to the most stupid money-wasting days of Wenger's reign when we had uber-shite like Almunia, Flappy, Legohead, Mong, FatSantos, Squillaci, Park, (the injured for 7 years) RVJC, Vela etc etc all commanding big to huge wages whilst Arsene was telling us we had no money to compete.
It needs to be remembered that the majority of those players came in for little or no transfer fees though. Whilst the money Almunia was on could have been given to a better keeper, where was the transfer fee coming from? I suppose it comes down to how much cash was legitimately available for actual transfers.....and if you believe it.

Fair point, but whilst the prospective transfer fee money "saved" (or not spent, as such) could be lauded initially, it doesn't change the fact that Arsene then extended the contracts of far too many of those poor quality players and gave them pay rises after it was very obvious those players were not good enough. Our wage bill was on a par with manure's and chavski's for years and yet we weren't competing with them by any stretch of the imagination.

My point has always been that the money spent on those pay rises and far too high wages could have been better spent by Wenger admitting (at least to himself) that he'd got it wrong with certain players, releasing them and then using the money saved to buy/sign or pay wages to a smaller group of better quality players.

Just look at the isolated (and admittedly extreme) case of Diaby. We have received zero return on our investment. And yet Wenger paid him huge wages and extended his contract repeatedly. A figure emerged a couple of seasons ago that we had allegedly paid Diaby over £27million in wages. If true, (and I think conservative estimates would confirm it is true) then that is appalling waste and mismanagement by Wenger.

Also, the blame doesn't rest with just Wenger. How the Board could talk about not being able to sign better players because of limited funds due to the stadium move, and yet still be able to pay Wenger £7million a year (now £8mill I believe?) is beyond me.

Top Londoner · Post by **Top Londoner** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 2:27 pm

It's 9 million, actually.

WENGER OUT

rodders999 · Post by **rodders999** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:56 am

July 1st, contract expired, good fucking riddance

Post by **REB** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:59 am

bye bye diaby

rodders999 · Post by **rodders999** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 9:07 am

Yessssssssssssss it's finally official

One crossed off my list, one remaining.

officepest · Post by **officepest** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:10 am

Confirmed by Pravda.

Has anyone been in touch with SteveO? The poor fella must be taking this news rather badly.

We should have released him years ago.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... ng-arsenal

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:12 am

rodders999 wrote:Yessssssssssssss it's finally official

One crossed off my list, one remaining.

Yeeeeeesssss!!

FINALLY. It's about 7 years too late, but FINALLY.

Rodders - I'm so happy for you, mate!!

Will there be extra Kleenex use in Casa de Rodders tonight?

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:15 am

officepest wrote:Confirmed by Pravda.

Has anyone been in touch with SteveO? The poor fella must be taking this news rather badly.

We should have released him years ago.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... ng-arsenal

Baby Jebus! We are also releasing Jack Jebb, Austin Lipman, Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill and Josh Vickers!!

Quartz will be devastated!

Supagoon · Post by **Supagoon** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:33 am

someone made a video of his good times, that's right his good times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR3aIBa ... e=youtu.be

he could have been a contender.

officepest · Post by **officepest** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:37 am

DB10GOONER wrote:
officepest wrote:Confirmed by Pravda.

Has anyone been in touch with SteveO? The poor fella must be taking this news rather badly.

We should have released him years ago.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... ng-arsenal
Baby Jebus! We are also releasing Jack Jebb, Austin Lipman, Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill and Josh Vickers!!

Quartz will be devastated!

Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill will never make a senior appearance for us? Fuck it. Fuck the fucking world.

officepest · Post by **officepest** » Wed Jul 01, 2015 10:39 am

Supagoon wrote:someone made a video of his good times, that's right his good times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR3aIBa ... e=youtu.be

he could have been a contender.

....instead of a bum, which is what he is.

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