Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman?
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Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman?
From an economic perspective, would it not have made sense to keep him until his contract ran out?
I think so, the fact that we are half way through the season and (let alone a title challenge) 4th is by no means safe, so broadcasting money is at risk of being reduced, We're in the last 16 of the cl. What did chelsea get in prize money for winning it? in excess of £45m?
Economics aside, If the board turned around and said, "your not going anywhere", surely that would of eased tensions with us, the fanbase. Tensions which are now a risk of spiralling out of control. It's all hindsight but you never know we might have got silverware this year, enough to change his mind and take a pay-cut? We will never know.
Should they not have just taken the kick in the bollocks and said fcuk it your staying?
I think so, the fact that we are half way through the season and (let alone a title challenge) 4th is by no means safe, so broadcasting money is at risk of being reduced, We're in the last 16 of the cl. What did chelsea get in prize money for winning it? in excess of £45m?
Economics aside, If the board turned around and said, "your not going anywhere", surely that would of eased tensions with us, the fanbase. Tensions which are now a risk of spiralling out of control. It's all hindsight but you never know we might have got silverware this year, enough to change his mind and take a pay-cut? We will never know.
Should they not have just taken the kick in the bollocks and said fcuk it your staying?
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Re: Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman
Funniest thing ive read on this forum in a long time,our board letting rvp go on a free,and Northbank i mean no offence,but seriously 

Re: Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman
they should of kept him obviously hindsight is a wonderful thing but after the window is was glaringly obvious where we was going to struggle, with van persie being here you would have thought things would be a whole lot better now but then again would we have giroud here if they where keeping van persie?!?! their would have been the whole sideshow once we got to january etc etc, though if theo doesnt sign and his contract is run down then i think its ludicrous why you they wouldnt have kept van persie. at the end of the day their was no way the board was saying no to £24m with someone in the last 12 months of his contractNorth-Bank-1987 wrote:From an economic perspective, would it not have made sense to keep him until his contract ran out?
I think so, the fact that we are half way through the season and (let alone a title challenge) 4th is by no means safe, so broadcasting money is at risk of being reduced, We're in the last 16 of the cl. What did chelsea get in prize money for winning it? in excess of £45m?
Economics aside, If the board turned around and said, "your not going anywhere", surely that would of eased tensions with us, the fanbase. Tensions which are now a risk of spiralling out of control. It's all hindsight but you never know we might have got silverware this year, enough to change his mind and take a pay-cut? We will never know.
Should they not have just taken the kick in the bollocks and said fcuk it your staying?
Re: Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman
They will regret it if Arsenal fails to get into the Champions League but as we all know it's just a bit too early to say if that will happen 

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Re: Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman
mcdowell42 wrote:Funniest thing ive read on this forum in a long time,our board letting rvp go on a free,and Northbank i mean no offence,but seriously

I really think they could have taken the gamble, In all honesty I don't know the exact difference in prize/tv money for being in the top 4, and finishing 5th, 6th, 7th (heres the closest thing I could find, looks abit suspect though) http://www.sportingintelligence.com/201 ... 12-150501/
We would be performing better than we are now for certain, so would have taken some of this pressure off. It also would have let off a statement that we are not a selling club, something that we all need to hear!
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Re: Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman
I said before he went that it would be better to keep him than let him go to another PL club. I'd have preferred 25mil from Juve but to let him go to Manure was a double disaster for us and a massive kick in the nuts to fans and players.
Re: Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman
One day the penny will drop we are not a football club anymore.
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donaldo wrote:One day the penny will drop we are not a football club anymore.
With our money grabbing board the penny wouldnt even hit the floor b4 it was in the bank
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Struggling to understand what your saying here mate, but why do you think its ludacrous If Walnuts 6 months is run down and we were to of kept judas?.... It's the same thing.DB10_TH14 wrote:they should of kept him obviously hindsight is a wonderful thing but after the window is was glaringly obvious where we was going to struggle, with van persie being here you would have thought things would be a whole lot better now but then again would we have giroud here if they where keeping van persie?!?! their would have been the whole sideshow once we got to january etc etc, though if theo doesnt sign and his contract is run down then i think its ludicrous why you they wouldnt have kept van persie. at the end of the day their was no way the board was saying no to £24m with someone in the last 12 months of his contractNorth-Bank-1987 wrote:From an economic perspective, would it not have made sense to keep him until his contract ran out?
I think so, the fact that we are half way through the season and (let alone a title challenge) 4th is by no means safe, so broadcasting money is at risk of being reduced, We're in the last 16 of the cl. What did chelsea get in prize money for winning it? in excess of £45m?
Economics aside, If the board turned around and said, "your not going anywhere", surely that would of eased tensions with us, the fanbase. Tensions which are now a risk of spiralling out of control. It's all hindsight but you never know we might have got silverware this year, enough to change his mind and take a pay-cut? We will never know.
Should they not have just taken the kick in the bollocks and said fcuk it your staying?



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Re: Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman
No.
I do not think the board regret getting £22-24M for Van Persie with a year left on his contract.
I think they should have paid him what he was worth and kept him.
Yes.
I think the board will have seriously messed up if Walcott goes on a free, he should either have been sold for good money 18 months before his deal was up, or been compelled to sign a new deal.
The club should never have been in this situation again after Flamini left for free.
I think the board should pay Theo what he is worth and keep him.
I do not think the board regret getting £22-24M for Van Persie with a year left on his contract.
I think they should have paid him what he was worth and kept him.
Yes.
I think the board will have seriously messed up if Walcott goes on a free, he should either have been sold for good money 18 months before his deal was up, or been compelled to sign a new deal.
The club should never have been in this situation again after Flamini left for free.
I think the board should pay Theo what he is worth and keep him.
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reading over it i aint making much senseNorth-Bank-1987 wrote:Struggling to understand what your saying here mate, but why do you think its ludacrous If Walnuts 6 months is run down and we were to of kept judas?.... It's the same thing.DB10_TH14 wrote:they should of kept him obviously hindsight is a wonderful thing but after the window is was glaringly obvious where we was going to struggle, with van persie being here you would have thought things would be a whole lot better now but then again would we have giroud here if they where keeping van persie?!?! their would have been the whole sideshow once we got to january etc etc, though if theo doesnt sign and his contract is run down then i think its ludicrous why you they wouldnt have kept van persie. at the end of the day their was no way the board was saying no to £24m with someone in the last 12 months of his contractNorth-Bank-1987 wrote:From an economic perspective, would it not have made sense to keep him until his contract ran out?
I think so, the fact that we are half way through the season and (let alone a title challenge) 4th is by no means safe, so broadcasting money is at risk of being reduced, We're in the last 16 of the cl. What did chelsea get in prize money for winning it? in excess of £45m?
Economics aside, If the board turned around and said, "your not going anywhere", surely that would of eased tensions with us, the fanbase. Tensions which are now a risk of spiralling out of control. It's all hindsight but you never know we might have got silverware this year, enough to change his mind and take a pay-cut? We will never know.
Should they not have just taken the kick in the bollocks and said fcuk it your staying?![]()
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[quote="DB10_TH14reading over it i aint making much sense
it would have been a disaster allowing 2 players running down their contract but with hindsight if walcott gets sold in january then i would have much preferred us to sell walcott in the summer and take our chances with van persie. the more i think about it the more it makes little sense to me. obviously they thought theo signing was probably a done deal but boy arsenal and contracts are just fucked up[/quote]
My thoughts exactly, think they had binkers on worrying about cashing in on that dutch one, and thought "we'll be alright with wally, he'll sign."
The fact is if the 5th highest paid football manager in the world spent our wage budget properly we would not continually do this to ourselves.


My thoughts exactly, think they had binkers on worrying about cashing in on that dutch one, and thought "we'll be alright with wally, he'll sign."
The fact is if the 5th highest paid football manager in the world spent our wage budget properly we would not continually do this to ourselves.

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My thoughts exactly, think they had binkers on worrying about cashing in on that dutch one, and thought "we'll be alright with wally, he'll sign."North-Bank-1987 wrote:[quote="DB10_TH14reading over it i aint making much sense![]()
it would have been a disaster allowing 2 players running down their contract but with hindsight if walcott gets sold in january then i would have much preferred us to sell walcott in the summer and take our chances with van persie. the more i think about it the more it makes little sense to me. obviously they thought theo signing was probably a done deal but boy arsenal and contracts are just fucked up
The fact is if the 5th highest paid football manager in the world spent our wage budget properly we would not continually do this to ourselves.

not only spending the budget but the logistics on how we do business no longer makes sense they'll give rosicky 2 years on par with diaby as the biggest sicknote at the club yet only want to give sagna 1 year




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Re: Are the board regreting not letting judas go on a bosman
North-Bank-1987 wrote:From an economic perspective, would it not have made sense to keep him until his contract ran out?
I think so, the fact that we are half way through the season and (let alone a title challenge) 4th is by no means safe, so broadcasting money is at risk of being reduced, We're in the last 16 of the cl. What did chelsea get in prize money for winning it? in excess of £45m?
Economics aside, If the board turned around and said, "your not going anywhere", surely that would of eased tensions with us, the fanbase. Tensions which are now a risk of spiralling out of control. It's all hindsight but you never know we might have got silverware this year, enough to change his mind and take a pay-cut? We will never know.
Should they not have just taken the kick in the bollocks and said fcuk it your staying?
You are talking about the board who have no idea how to run the club anyhow.
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Makes sense to me, in theory at least. We could have feasibly got £15m or so for Walcott in the summer imo, possibly even more. As ridiculous as that may sound at first, when you take into account the standard English premium plus Walcott's profile (deserved or otherwise) it's not that fanciful, especially with City reportedly interested before they signed Sinclair to sit on Adam Johnson's wet spot on the bench. So the club was prepared to risk having to write off around £15m by keeping Theo into his final year, but not the £22m guaranteed we got for Van Cumbucket.DB10_TH14 wrote:reading over it i aint making much sense![]()
it would have been a disaster allowing 2 players running down their contract but with hindsight if walcott gets sold in january then i would have much preferred us to sell walcott in the summer and take our chances with van persie. the more i think about it the more it makes little sense to me. obviously they thought theo signing was probably a done deal but boy arsenal and contracts are just fucked up
"Only" £7m or so difference between doing it the other way round (keeping Van Urinalmint and flogging Walcott) whereas the difference between the two in quality and footballing value is much greater. United have probably recouped a huge amount of what they paid for Van Jamrag already in terms of extra shirt sales out east, exploiting his image rights etc. Or even just in terms of their "Brand Equity" as Gazidis would no doubt put it.
As you say, the club probably thought there was much more chance of Walcott signing a new deal than Van Escariot but probably more important (to them) is the fact Walcott would/will retain a long-term resale value if he stays whereas Van Helmet wouldn't.
But of course, he was only sold for footballing reasons.
