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I believe it does, but "better" probably means about a tenner. To a contract he likely signed when he was 12 or some shit like that.

Bookies don't know shit on this kind of thing dawg.

Do you wish "Guy" would "get in the sea" ?

It doesn't. We stopped playing years ago.

Aye. Joe Hart is better than Peter Schmeichel as well.

I'm undecided on the matter personally.

Aye Nut, you hear that, you're wrong. You think Ospina is better than Cech, you idiot.

Can't believe what i'm reading and that's saying something. Literally no one has said he's not better than Ospina Nut did. He didn't. I'll admit it was a little confusingly written, but he means the current #1 for last seasons top 5. i.e. Cech not Ospina.

Don't see how its ridiculous, its not as if he has to turn up for training or have any involvement with NUFC. He just has to go out and find a new club and once a tribunal sorts out compensation he can play poorly for them. He's an out of contract worker who cannot work for someone else unless they pay a fee. He is neither earning, nor capable of earning elsewhere. He's basically forced to re-sign for us, on a no doubt ridiculously low ball contract. Spain abolished this kind of compo because it infringed on the footballer's right to practice his profession. I'm all for rewarding clubs that develop players, but this seems to me an excessive restraint that hurts the footballer. Obviously not going to happen in this case but it would be unfair if you spent ten years developing a player and then he just let his contract wind down and a big club comes in and the smaller club gets nothing I don't disagree with that, but this system is shady as fuck and IMO will only end up getting challenged by someone's legal team in the not so distance future. Also, if we really wanted to keep Sammy, we could have given him a longer contract, or offered him a better contract a few years ago. There has been plenty of time in which we were in the best position to tie Sammy up for a long time. I think this compensation malarkey has to change so that the owning club has to offer a minimum x% pay rise, or maybe change it so that it really only applies when it's an upward move through the leagues. Incidentally, the system would be fine if there weren't people like Mike Ashley, whose only interest is milking every penny out of the game, rather than building a competing football club.

That's a pretty significant increase tbh. Because when people drop stats they ignore all context. It's fine in a "play" based game, like your American Football, but in real football, they're useless without context.

Can't believe what i'm reading and that's saying something. Has anyone said he's not better than Ospina? I just don't think it'll make much difference. Arsenal had the 3rd least GA in the league last year and finished third. I doubt Cech will do much to change that. Arsenal need a keeper who won't make mistakes at important times. Not sure Cech is the guy I'd be picking for that role. Especially after a year on the bench. Either way, for them to improve, they need to do a lot more than swap out Ospina for Cech.

Don't see how its ridiculous, its not as if he has to turn up for training or have any involvement with NUFC. He just has to go out and find a new club and once a tribunal sorts out compensation he can play poorly for them. He's an out of contract worker who cannot work for someone else unless they pay a fee. He is neither earning, nor capable of earning elsewhere. He's basically forced to re-sign for us, on a no doubt ridiculously low ball contract.

Assuming giving him the #3 means we're expecting for him to be a first choice player in a NUFC team. I find that very difficult to get excited about. He's fine, and probably better than everyone but Janmaat, but most of our defence is utter shit. If we had any sense we'd be buying pretty much a whole new backline and Dummett would be a decent bench option, nowt more. Sad times.

suppose if you were believing in it you'd have to think that he still so good he'll inspire the defence in front of him through him giving them confidence in what's behind them it's arguably happened in the past with keepers, can't see why cech couldn't inspire the arsenal shower to raise their game a bit He's too meek to be inspiring imo.

I do not believe he will make much difference at Arsenal whatsoever. Maybe, like, 2 points. Or more importantly, a 3%-5% save percentage increase.

Exactly. Not sure what happens if he just doesn't want to stay at NUFC. How long until someone can sign him gratis? Seems kind of ridiculous that he's not able to do as he wishes.

Aye. It's almost as if using your fucking eyes is a better idea.

FFP marra. Need to get their English quota higher too. Probably better business to drop £25m on Troy Deeney instead. #ModernFootball.

Only stats I can accept are "fuck ups" and "belta saves".

Unless he has detoriated badly in last season by not playing he is, he was fantastic the season before last and made something like 84% of shots It's a fantastic signing but they are still a couple short because Wenger will no doubt fuck it up in someway. Save percentage? We're not seriously using that nowadays?

Wonder if we can get away with a switcheroo http://i.imgur.com/AA3CIV3.png

If it's just nufc then surely it's siouxsie souness and the banshees... Ah sorry - just getting caught up. The Jim Smiths? Er, how about Kevin Keegan?

Looks like he was part-owned by Roma in the first place. They just bought out his half in order to sell him to Milan.

One good season again and a lot of those people will be back again. That's the sad thing. Probably don't even need a good season. If we signed a player, or won against Southampton, people will immediately forget everything. Simpletons rule the roost unfortunately.

It's no different to lower level football. Lump the ball up the pitch, hope defender/keeper fucks up. Either that or take a speculative 30 yard dig and watch the midget keeper desperately scramble around.