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It's become evident we're going to be spending very little this summer, with the sale of Routledge we're running into a profit for the summer. Now I've argued elsewhere about investment, or in our case the lack of it and the failure to spend the Carroll money and strangley enough it does not annoy me nearly as much as this sort of stuff. Why insiuate you're going to spend the Carroll money if you aren't? Why treat a manger you owe so much to with utter contempt? Why break a gentlemans agreement with your club captain? It's got nothing to do with football, it's got nothing to do with buisness, they're a series of cuntish acts that only a coward would commit. Courtesy and respect cost nothing, but these classless bastards quite clearly lack both.
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We're short of versatile centre back (ideally one who can play left back), a right winger and a forward.
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The way they treat the football club and its fans with such utter contempt is disgraceful.
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Very provisional team: De Gea Luiz Senderos Lescott Nani Taarabt Silva Kuyt Suarez Ba Gervinho
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Some people jumping the gun a bit, we don't know much about the lad yet.
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An even more interesting debate is could the squad be stronger still if we bothered to invest some substantial cash into it.
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Smith 'rubbed off' James while Jonas went past a man 'like a dog in a pool' Honourable shout out for Darlo too -
To be fair we hammered them llast season without him, i'm sure we can do the same again Who scored a hat trick in that game again ? And is he still here ?
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We had an endless caravan of substitutions apparently -
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A mention for Darlo -
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Ligue Oon Jesus tap dancing Christ -
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Like a dog in a pool? -
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Smith trying to rub James off apparently -
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Slips it into the canal? -
Wayne Routledge signs 3 year deal with Swansea
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We're in profit lads! Get in! -
I think that's a rather simplisitc way of looking at it. We're a stones throw a way from being a half decent side but the lack of investment we're currently seeing means we'll be settling with mediocrity for some time, it grinds me and quite clearly grinds our more amibtious players. However claiming 'if we don't sign player x' or 'if players x and y don't score as many goals as Carroll' he wasn't worth selling is a bit of a bizarre stance to take.
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Proof some people really should be put down at birth.
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So the update was he'd prefer to stay in France but we're quietly optimistic?
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Straw man-tastic, you're being accusing you of nothing. All I'm saying is that there's no real excuse for the lack of investment.
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Why do you think he is leaving? (Genuine question)
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When the inevitable Fabregas to Barcelona transfer goes through, Arsenal will have had an even less net spend as us since Ashley took over, maybe if they do offer for him to replace Clichy he should snub them for not showing the right ambition. It's a bit daft comparing a team who a 'there' with a one that are thousands of miles away... It's all relative though. You could argue if Arsenal spent their money properly they could win the league rather than simply fighting top 4, similarly us spending £35m might have helped us challenge 6th a bit closer, but we could still be more than capable of 8th or 9th. well yeah, it's pretty universal the criticism that Wenger gets for not investing properly to make them competitive. So not sure what point you were making there. Maybe it was another one of those situations where you argue for something you don't actually believe in? saying that, i could accept spending as little as Arsenal do on transfers if Ashley went out and hired Wenger and gave him the backing to set up his scouting and coaching network here as well as the big wages Arsenal spend. Oh well, I can dream. Arsenal have been in Champions league finals and all sorts, so they clearly have the talent to win the Premier' they just didn't have the bottle. I don't think they necessarily had to spend to have a better chance of winning stuff, they merely needed the consistency. So what's the difference between Wenger selling big and finding his bargains, and us doing the same? Arsenal's failure to invest is costing them big time. They also had a hell of a lot more quality to begin with, two completely different situations.
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It's a method which every club outside of the top 6 is adopting, not just us though. 1)We should be aiming to be in that top six. It's not going to happen overnight but it's never going to happen if you don't spend a bit of cash. There's a reason those clubs are outside the top six 2) The only clubs that have sold players for substantial sums thus far are Villa and Sunderland, they have/are re-investing it.
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I disagree with the Enrique 'tweet' but his sentiments are correct, we're settling. The lad is obviosuly ambitious, he wants to see the club push on and challange for a European place and as a fan I want to see the same. I was willing to give Ashley a chance this summer and granted it isn't over yet, but so far he's yet again failed to deliver. Yes the squad is better, but it could be better still with substantial investment. Why settle for a mid-table finish when we could be so much more with a bit of investment, investment which was all but promised following the Carroll sale. Top sides carry debt because they invest in quality, yet we seem to have bought into this notion that we're in some form of financial crisis. There's nothing wrong with a running a tight ship, similarly it's accepted the market has gone a bit mental but at the same time failing to re-invest any of what you've brought in when there's genuine quality about is bad crack. Buy cheap, sell big, it looks to be the future, and it that will do little to convince the likes of Enrique we're going anywhere fast.