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Dude Ranch

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"The strategy of the club is to sell every year and to buy less expensive players," he told the News of the World.

"We manage at Arsenal to maintain all our football ambitions - national and European - while having to free up, for 17 more years, an annual surplus of £24million to pay for our stadium.

"The club's strategy is to favour the policy of youngsters ahead of stars and to count on the collective quality of our game."

This is a massive exaggeration surely.

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BlinkyBear

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This is a massive exaggeration surely.

Arseblog's evaluation of the situation:

Now, bar the first line of that it makes sense. Yes, we have a debt which we are managing well. The club's policy for the last few seasons has been to develop youth. It's something Arsene admitted a long time ago - that with the new stadium he felt he would have to take a different approach. There was no Chelsea on the scene at that time though, inflating the transfer market, and throwing around money like someone had just landed on their purple with 4 houses and a hotel in Monopoly. So he chose very deliberately to build his squad in a different way.

However, I am very, very dubious about the first line where he says the strategy of the club is to sell each summer and buy less expensive players. To make something like that public is almost suicidal as other clubs would come after our players and our negotiating position would be seriously weakened because of this admission. I don't think Arsene Wenger would say something like that. I really don't.

It's interesting that the quotes don't come from any particular interview, or 'Wenger said at a meeting on Tuesday'. To have said something like this would be the football equivalent of Gerald Ratner. Ratner was the Chairman of large chain of jewellery stores who famously admitted most of their merchandise was 'crap', comments which very nearly destroyed the company. So I'm a little bit doubtful that Arsene said that. A by a little bit, I mean a lot. We know that Wenger is a shrewd negotiator, we've seen him do fantastic deals in the past so for him to instantly weaken his hand in any transfer move just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to me.

So before you feel like the world is caving in this morning, which is quite clearly isn't, try and imagine Arsene saying that. I just can't. Especially as we're in negotiations with another club for at least one of our first team. Who would it suit for a quote like that to emerge? Not Arsenal, that's for sure. It's definitely stinks.

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Silent Runner

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Arseblog's evaluation of the situation:

Well if that’s the case I’d expect a statement from the club/the boss clarifying when this interview took place and to explain what exactly “The strategy of the club is to sell every year and to buy less expensive players” means.

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Dude Ranch

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Strong suggestions of a new centre back..

“Justin (Hoyte) is a player that has improved tremendously.

I have big respect for Justin because he is a player that does not talk too much, but every time I play him he is quality.

Technically he is very good - but as well he is very versatile and quick on the turn which is a great quality for a centre-back.

He is good in the air even if he is small and overall I refuse categorically to give him up.”

:)

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Benji

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Anyone get the home shirt / kit yet.

Got mine yesterday... full kit for training in! lost count the amount of times i wear Arsenal shirts to chill in etc.

Fabby on the back with premier patches :D

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Lucky

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Hleb's turn to be a cunt

He said: “When we get scoring opportunities, Fabregas is much more selfish than me.

“Given a chance to shoot, he always goes for it — unlike me.”

Isn't this what you're supposed to do? Are you not meant to shoot when you have a scoring opportunity? How many assists did Cesc get last season? a bit more than Hleb I think.

What a fucking idiot.

The days when I wanted a player to stay at Arsenal no matter what are gone. I want Adebayor and Hleb to go, even though I heard on talk sport today that we've offered Adebayor 60k a week to stay, double what he's on now apparently. Most players nowadays are complete wankers and they need to realise this.

Even in recent years the rumours every summer with Vieira and then Henry, it was different to these two clowns now. Vieira and Henry never went to the press and started talking bollocks and demanding all sorts of crazy shit. I'm sure there were things going on behind the scenes and to be honest it's fair enough if an Arsenal player wants to play for Barca, Real, Milan etc at some point in their career but there is a right and a wrong way to go about these things.

To have shown Wenger a bit of respect and loyalty and stuck around at Arsenal for a few years, to show Wenger that you appreciate that he's made you the player you are, to talk with Wenger and explain that it's a chance to earn crazy money and an opportunity to experience having played for a club like these, this might be acceptable.

But to come out in the press and talk a load of absolute bollocks and beleive your own hype and your agent when he tells you that you are the new Henry or the new Pires and deserve what they were on and deserve the same role in the team then you're a cunt and you should fuck off.

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Apparently the Hleb quotes were taken out of context.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/ju...senal.barcelona

"Cesc and I understand each other very well on the field," said Hleb in the original interview. "It is very, very pleasurable for me to play with him. He's a very pleasant guy both in life and as a footballer. He is just more egoistic in goal-scoring opportunities, if he had a chance to score, he always used it, unlike me."
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Mars

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What a huge over-reaction - there's no way that those quotes, the Cesc one in particular, are him 'SLATING!!!1111!lol' anyone. Fucking media.

We've all been saying that our midfielders should be more selfish in front of goal but as soon as one of them says it (and he might well be leaving) everyone is up in arms about it.

:P

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Surely a goal-scoring opportunity is an opportunity to score, not pass? I really like Hleb as a player sometimes, but boasting about the fact he's contributed so few goals isn't a great thing in my eyes.

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Exactly, its an absurd situation. Which is weirder - a £36mil transfer fee or a £120k p/w wage demand?

It seems fair enough to me. If he thinks he is worth £120k a week then surely a player worth that can command a fee of £36m. :wub:

It all makes sense in the crazy world of football transfers, greedy agents and deluded players.

Seen this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...nal/7495471.stm

AC Milan claim Arsenal are ready to sell Emmanuel Adebayor, a month after insisting he was not available.

The Gunners told Milan on 13 June that the striker, 24, was not for sale.

But Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani revealed the Gunners have since written to the Italian club to say they have changed their position.

Galliani told Italian TV station Antenna 3: "I have a letter from Arsenal that says 'we will consider a deal if it still interests you'."

I am so bored of the summer I wish I could just fast forward to the first day of the season and just go to the game and see who runs out the tunnel and avoid all the bullshit between now and then. Even the Nasri deal, which could be a great move, has dragged on to the point where I don't care anymore.

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Silent Runner

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Do you remember those long, hot, hazy summer days when everything was rosy and we'd sign Dennis Bergkamp or Marc Overmars or Thierry Henry.

Good times.

I can remember the day we signed Bergkamp as if it was yesterday. Me and my friend were playing Warhammer when we heard the news on the radio and we looked at each other all no way.

Yeah, to summarise, the summer can get to fuck.

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Lucky

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We've had to put up with some pretty shit summers as Arsenal fans but this one is right up there, and there's still 5 or 6 week's before the season starts.

Plenty of time to turn it around and make it a half decent one I suppose, but then again plenty of time for it to get a whole lot worse.

I hate the summer too, and with each summer that comes along I hate it more than the last. I'm also finding more reasons to hate even more footballers.

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Gilberto going to? (probably not)

http://arsenalanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/0...midfielder.html

Arsenal have agreed to transfer Gilberto Silva to Panathinaikos and Gilberto may be keen on the idea too.

Ken Friar is reported today in the Greek press as having said that he has, on behalf of Arsenal, come to an agreement on principle with Panathinaikos president Nikos Pateras.

All that remains now is for the player to agree personal terms for the deal to go through.

"If Gilberto agrees persdonal terms then we will not stand in his way" Friar said to Greek paper "SportDay". "If this happens then it seems that we will agree a transfer fee with Panathinaikos".

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hercules

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I just want the players that are unsettled to leave now as i'm bored of hearing it everyday. I'd like us to buy ruben de la red and of course nasri( who should sign anytime soon...) Arshavin would be nice but highly doubt it.

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Dude Ranch

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If Gilberto goes, don't we then need two new central midfielders of quality? :)

Cesc starts. Plus Diaby backed up with Denilson and.. Song? Or this new fella who's played one first team game and is injured? That's a joke, right?

I'm starting to think something's up. That Wenger 'selling Club' quote still niggles me. Or is there big news on the horizon?

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