Transfer Rumours Thread

piresistible · Post by **piresistible** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:25 am

In fairness, I'm not sure he could have realistically kept either Nasri or Cesc, even though I think he badly wanted to keep both.

Nasri has one year left on his contract, and realized that he could make almost twice as much money at Manchester City as he could at Arsenal. To come anywhere close to matching what Manchester City was reportedly offering, Wenger would have had to offer Nasri a contract worth way, way, way more than any Arsenal player had ever made before, and those high wages would have really drained the budget. For a player who's really only been at a high/elite level for half a season. I think his hands were pretty tied on this.

On Cesc, what more could Wenger do? He dug in his heels at ever opportunity and kept him longer than most teams would. But if a player obviously and publicly wants to be somewhere else, and basically goes on strike in the preseason (I don't buy the injury excuse) to force the club's hand, what's the alternative?

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:45 am

piresistible wrote:In fairness, I'm not sure he could have realistically kept either Nasri or Cesc, even though I think he badly wanted to keep both.

Nasri has one year left on his contract, and realized that he could make almost twice as much money at Manchester City as he could at Arsenal. To come anywhere close to matching what Manchester City was reportedly offering, Wenger would have had to offer Nasri a contract worth way, way, way more than any Arsenal player had ever made before, and those high wages would have really drained the budget. For a player who's really only been at a high/elite level for half a season. I think his hands were pretty tied on this.

On Cesc, what more could Wenger do? He dug in his heels at ever opportunity and kept him longer than most teams would. But if a player obviously and publicly wants to be somewhere else, and basically goes on strike in the preseason (I don't buy the injury excuse) to force the club's hand, what's the alternative?

Get finally rid of this fraud in charge and then stop buying players who have a European team's DNA in them.... that'll put a stop to it...

the playing mantis · Post by **the playing mantis** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:51 am

jadson is sh*t

kiwomya · Post by **kiwomya** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:02 pm

the playing mantis wrote:jadson is sh*t

Great stuff.

enjibenji · Post by **enjibenji** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:17 pm

Cesc deal done, and will travel with barca squad to madrid

worthing_gooner · Post by **worthing_gooner** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:24 pm

enjibenji wrote:Cesc deal done, and will travel with barca squad to madrid

Just heard this too. Somehow even though you knew it was coming, it does hurt just a little

mikeyb772001 · Post by **mikeyb772001** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:26 pm

worthing_gooner wrote:
enjibenji wrote:Cesc deal done, and will travel with barca squad to madrid
Just heard this too. Somehow even though you knew it was coming, it does hurt just a little

What hurts is watching the club pocket the money and then sign a usless *word censored* called Jadson for about 8mil

RVP2 · Post by **RVP2** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:37 pm

Same feeling here, knew it would happen for so long, but now it (pretty much) has it's got me down.

bang goes the 0-0 draw · Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:37 pm

Pique has just tweeted now he has arrived at Cesc

SWLGooner · Post by **SWLGooner** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:40 pm

Why does it hurt? It's inevitable, all I feel is relief we won't have to go through this crap next summer and we've finally gotten rid of a terrible captain. Don't care about the money as we wouldn't spend 31m, 13 mil or 131 mil

SWLGooner · Post by **SWLGooner** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:40 pm

Why does it hurt? It's inevitable, all I feel is relief we won't have to go through this crap next summer and we've finally gotten rid of a terrible captain. Don't care about the money as we wouldn't spend 31m, 13 mil or 131 mil

worthing_gooner · Post by **worthing_gooner** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:41 pm

SWLGooner wrote:Why does it hurt? It's inevitable, all I feel is relief we won't have to go through this crap next summer and we've finally gotten rid of a terrible captain. Don't care about the money as we wouldn't spend 31m, 13 mil or 131 mil

It hurts because we've allowed Barce to screw us over and regardless of his abilities as a captain he is one of the best midfielders we've ever had and his ability to pick a pass will be a huge loss.

Him and RVP are the only two world class players we have. One has now gone, which means that out of our entire first eleven, we have only one world class player. It's a sad fall from grace really.

mikeyb772001 · Post by **mikeyb772001** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 12:44 pm

SWLGooner wrote:Why does it hurt? It's inevitable, all I feel is relief we won't have to go through this crap next summer and we've finally gotten rid of a terrible captain. Don't care about the money as we wouldn't spend 31m, 13 mil or 131 mil

oh wenger will spend, but the *word censored* will spend it on toys, jelly and ice cream for all the kids that he fathers. fucking french wanker prick.

i despise the man more than i should. he is liar , a fraud and a *word censored* that likes to mock us. How can any manager want to see the fans suffer like he does??????

Captain Fabregas · Post by **Captain Fabregas** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:12 pm

we've signed a new 12 year old by the looks of it:

nvm just Arshavin

spike241 · Post by **spike241** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:21 pm

That's what I love about this forum. Some poor guy is a c**t just because some journalist somewhere has linked him to us and someone doesn't want him here...nice