Reasons to be cheerful

[donaldo]

Reasons to be cheerful:In the last two years Wenger signed Chamakh Squillaci Park Santos Gervinho and Giroud.Wait till FFP comes in they are the type of players Utd and Chelsea will be signing.

[DarylAFC]

Reasons to be cheerful:In the last two years Wenger signed Chamakh Squillaci Park Santos Gervinho and Giroud.Wait till FFP comes in they are the type of players Utd and Chelsea will be signing.

One of those is a great player

[AFCasap]

UEFA are the most spineless organisation in football. You only have to look at the pathetic actions they hand down for offences like fan violence, repeated instances of widespread racism etc and then look at the fine they levy on an idiotic individual like Bendtner for showing a sponsored waistband. The whole racket stinks and the only time they'll consider 'getting tough' is if it will damage English clubs. The only reason the FFP were touted was because Platini (who in my mind takes the impressive accolade of being the biggest *word censored* in football) was bitter at the success of the English clubs in the CL from 2005 onwards.

Despite what they say UEFA benefit from football becoming ever more commercialised and corporate, as evidenced by their two club competitions being geared up to generate revenue for them by having bloated formats ensuring that the big guns play at least 8 games pretty much every year. They would rather have PSG in the CL filling nearly a 50,000-seater stadium and generating far more commercial and media interest than a smaller club like Montpellier.

Secondly, do they have the will to take on a list of clubs that potentially includes City, Chelsea, Malaga, PSG and even smaller clubs like QPR (although they have greater worries right now) who may be looking to progress into European competition on the back of individual ownership in the future? Not a chance, the owners of those clubs have unlimited resources that they'd throw into a legal battle that would span years and cast the whole of European football under a huge cloud of uncertainty as well as costing UEFA tens of millions of pounds in legal fees.

uefa regard england as a pest so don't expect anything...it might be a racket....but what to call whats going on at AFC?....where's the financial fair play towards its own fans?...yet another agm...same outcome...another bitchslap to the cheeky sods daring to ask questions about "THE BOARDS MONEY".

[SteveO 35]

Reasons to be cheerful:In the last two years Wenger signed Chamakh Squillaci Park Santos Gervinho and Giroud.Wait till FFP comes in they are the type of players Utd and Chelsea will be signing.

One of those is a great player

Don't go overboard about Squillaci like that

[DarylAFC]

Reasons to be cheerful:In the last two years Wenger signed Chamakh Squillaci Park Santos Gervinho and Giroud.Wait till FFP comes in they are the type of players Utd and Chelsea will be signing.

One of those is a great player

Don't go overboard about Squillaci like that

Woops, didn;t see him there

That's TWO quality players

[highburyJD]

unsurprisingly this thread, like so many here, is just becoming another Arsene Wenger coconut shy
where loads agree how terrible the manager is
- how unfair it was when Wenger sold all our best players, put ticket prices up, banned standing, ramped up wages, caused Heysel, created a working class disconnect with sporting heroes, collapsed the world economy, lost the remote control and stole your first girlfriend.
Whatever.
That's not what the thread's about.

I'll reply to some rare 'points' that were made

Hooray, the white knight of FFP is coming to save us...

Does anyone really believe in their heart of hearts that ANYTHING that FIFA, UEFA and the FA have their mitts on, will do any of those 3 things? Really?

UEFA will do fuck all about it as they wouldn't want the top clubs to breakaway, it'll be dead in the water within a couple of years, our club just use it as a means for an excuse.

I was quite specific in my initial post which 'cycle' I was referring to:

FFP is conceptually very popular in the Prem, it now looks likely they will enforce their own rules to combat wage inflation, could be as early as next season. Prem needs 14 out of 20 votes to push that through.

every Prem club not the personal plaything of oil thieves and oligarchs will back a version of FPP in the Prem.
My belief is the big clubs (in the Prem just ManYoo is enough) want it to happen: therefore it will happen.
Every reply has been about UEFA, please reread the point I made. The Prem is essentially a private club, they can enforce any rules they like.

I believe our return to a tiered wage structure is a positive move. That will happen organically as 'deadwood' contracts expire and the next generation of youth players come through.

[SteveO 35]

Chelsea's little dream about going the whole season unbeaten will have to wait at least another year

[highburyJD]

never worried about that one for a sec to be honest

Bac Sagna apparently had the furthest forward average position of any Arsenal fullback this season V QPR

[SteveO 35]

never worried about that one for a sec to be honest

Bac Sagna apparently had the furthest forward average position of any Arsenal fullback this season V QPR

The only thing that surprises me about that stat is that Santos is never ever where he should be defensively so would have thought he would win that almost by default. Having side that the useless fucker is hardly brilliant going forward either

[highburyJD]

could nearly accept the comedy caricature dodgy Brazilian defender - it he at least delivered at the top of the pitch

[Clash]

Chelsea's little dream about going the whole season unbeaten will have to wait at least another year

Thats all I hope for in a season now ... that our unbeaten season is preserved for another year.

Sad state of affairs eh!

[dPmunky]

reason to be cheerfull: jack is back and he looked solid!

another reason to be cheerful, even though you hate to see players go down, gervinho wont start vs utd on sat.

[1989]

Santos is slightly leaner than he was last year.

[highburyJD]

apparently BillyHill have us at 50-1 for the title...
I may put £2 on

[highburyJD]

Just stuck my head in, 20s, sod that.