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The Fox

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Heard / read somewhere the other day that Djourou has been rewarded with a new long term contract on 60k per week.

Knowing us this is probably true.

How we can reward mediocrity (I think that's being more than fair on him) in this way is beyond a joke.

It's only a year ago that Djourou was being lauded as a fine centre half: http://www.guardian....l-johan-djourou

He's in shit form at the moment and has been for some time now, but in the form he showed for much of last season, what clubs have a better fourth choice centre back than him? Man Utd and Spurs probably. I wouldn't say Man City, Liverpool or Chelsea do though, let alone anyone else. If he comes good then I don't see the problem. You need four centre backs and I don't think Miquel is quite ready yet.

Btw, the contract was just a two year extension, and £60k is also probably wide of the mark, exaggerated as a stick to beat the club with by those who bear the board and manager ill will.

£55 million to spend in the summer according to the papers today. Has to include wages including renegotiated ones though. I'm also wondering that even if we get 4th place, will the club wait until after the qualifiers before splashing the cash?

If we don't get fourth place and a CL spot you can bet your ass that £50m ain't getting touched for the most part. Any incomings or new deals will have to come from selling people.

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The Fox

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He hasn't been the same since he dislocated his shoulder away to Man Utd in the FA Cup last Spring. I think we rushed him back to get Squillaci out of the side ASAP, and he didn't look right. Subsequently Vermaelen has returned to fitness and the BFG has come in, and now he doesn't get much of a look in. No doubt he'll be out of the side again for the Spurs game as Koscielny will be back.

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I know Djourou is not flavour of the month right now, but he is 4th choice as others have said. Having said that £60k a week is crazy money. I actually think the defense is not in too bad shape right now. I would say top priorities in the Summer would be getting some of the muppets off the wage bill and bringing in a decent creative midfielder and another striker.

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The Fox

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So apparently Koscielny might not be fit for Spuds on Sunday. Gibbs seems to have died AGAIN and Coquelin is out, so we could line up with Sagna--Djourou--Song--Vermaelen as the back four. Which would be pretty horrendous, obviously. I have no idea who we'd play in Song's normal position. Arteta I guess, with Rosicky and Ramsey/Yossi ahead of him.

Hold me.

edit: tbh I'd rather keep Song in midfield and play Miquel at left-back, with Djourou and Verm in the middle, assuming Kos is out

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I have no idea how this benefits Arsenal (apart from financially obviously) but it seems that a deal has been agreed to loan Arshavin to Zenit for the rest of the season with them paying his wages and a £1m loan fee.

Wasted him hugely I feel. He's a bit of a lazy bugger but asking him to play wide and track back was a mistake. He started so well. Shame.

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Art Vandelay

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I think Tim Stillman has become my favourite Arsenal related writer now. His column the other day about being bored with the club was so spot on. Absolutely nothing comes as a surprise anymore, we don't compete for anything and every interview that seeps out is the same tired rehash of the same old empty rhetoric you've heard a thousand times before. I'm not actually looking forward to anything anymore which is an awful thing to say about the sport you love.

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It's a sad state of affairs alright. Anytime someone tries to talk football with me (which is usually just them telling me how and why Arsenal are shit) I just trot out my new running joke that I don't watch football anymore and prefer tennis.

It's all been disused to death and I'm pretty much sick of it now. Static despair.

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The Fox

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I have no idea how this benefits Arsenal (apart from financially obviously) but it seems that a deal has been agreed to loan Arshavin to Zenit for the rest of the season with them paying his wages and a £1m loan fee.

Wasted him hugely I feel. He's a bit of a lazy bugger but asking him to play wide and track back was a mistake. He started so well. Shame.

Yeah but man look how sweet that 4-3-3 has been working out. I mean it was designed to liberate Fabregas and look how well he's played this seassnnsnsnnnghfhfffffffffgghh

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There must be more to it. Wenger's been trying to clear egos and bad influences for the last two years and I can only assume there's something similar behind this move. We all know Arshavin is lazy and I assume trains in a similar manne-he's certainly shown little desire to improve over the last 6-12 months, so maybe there's something behind it. Otherwise it is just an utterly mental decision.

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Yeah but man look how sweet that 4-3-3 has been working out. I mean it was designed to liberate Fabregas and look how well he's played this seassnnsnsnnnghfhfffffffffgghh

4-3-3 worked so well at liberating Fabregas thats he managed to escape and flee the "child catcher" and make it home to Barcelona :(

Or so Pique would have you believe

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Well we get a million quid and he's off the wage bill, then presumably we'll get a proper fee in the summer as well. He was going to have a shit rest of season with us. This way there's a chance he might play a bit and up his potential transfer fee, too.

As long as all that money's been wire-transferred to Robin Van Persie's pockets, we're okay.

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