When I was a kid I used to go down to Highbury ON THE DAY and go watch my heroes, WRIGHTY, THE MERSE, BIG T.A., LIMPAR, SMUDGER AND OF COURSE ROCKY, ROCKY, ROCKY, ROCKY ROCASTLE. We would regularly pay £5-10 and no waiting lists! I appreciate that the extra revenues we have now are supposed to have taken us to the next level but what is the use in being on the next level if we aren’t gonna compete??? Now I have a season ticket that I waited 8 years for and then had to pay £1300 for! Now that works out at around £50 per match (alot more than £5-10!!!) Now I don’t mind paying that type of money IF WE ARE GONNA COMPETE AND WIN THINGS!! We moved into a new stadium to compete with the biggest clubs in the world, we have consistantly got into the last 16 of the CL which makes us one of the top 16 clubs in the world, LETS START ACTING LIKE IT!!! This is how the simple economics goes, Mr Wenger has a masters degree in this subject so will know the maths already!

1. A full Emirates Stadium for the 2nd year running @ £3M per home match plus cup matches (we’ll be consevative and say 6 home cup mathces) = 25 home matches which then in turn equals £75M. Times that by 2 and its clear to see that we have generated AT LEAST £150M and thats not including the friendly Brazil matches and concerts that we have at our new home.

2. Merchandising – Not sure on the figure but its gonna be a good few million isn’t it?!

3. The sale of players last year. In the summer we made £25M profit and then you can add another £5M from that idiot Diarra, Thats £30M.

That makes £180M without the merchandising or the rental of our stadium and that is conservative!

4. Our repayments are going to be a chunk but we re-financed not that long ago so what is it? £60M Altogether for 2 years?

Well that gives us at least £70-90M in surplus cash and heres what I would love to see happen!

Firstly I believe very stongly that we need more players at our club that actually supported the club as a boy. As much as our current crop is good, they won’t have the same passion a gooner would have. I don’t want to see Adebayor laughing and joking with Ronaldo after we got beat by Manure, what was so funny?

Here are the players we need to lose…..

EBOUE – A true liability, he has made us a laughing stock at times, doesn’t score goals and his final ball is diabolical.
LEHMAN – Has given us decent service but with his age etc its time to move on.
HOYTE – Just not good enough.
ROSICKY – Too injury prone! When you are taking Bobbys place in our team you need to score at least 15 goals a season.
HLEB – The only one I might convince can possibly stay, BUT he takes on the world and has no final ball or goal scoring killer instinct, which aint good enough!

We need players to replace these lot and then we also need to add to the squad.

Heres who I would buy……..

ASTON VILLA:
ASHLEY YOUNG – A self confessed gooner, English, yet to peak, very fast, very skillful and great at dead ball situations!
GABBY AGBONLAHOR – Is a brummie lad but WE HAVE TO STAMP OUR AUTHORITY AND START ACTING LIKE A TOP 4 CLUB. He’s fast, pacey, very direct and again ENGLISH.

We could certainly use Rosicky and Eboue as makeweights plus about £20M

MAN CITY:
MICAH RICHARDS – Another self confessed Arsenal fan who is the right age, the right strength, technique and pace to be an Arsenal legend plus he can play right back or central defence, ENGLISH.
JOE HART – A top keeper in the making and ANOTHER, YES ANOTHER ARSENAL FAN!!! David Seaman was his idol apparently and guess what…He’s English!

Again we could use Justin Hoyte and Jens Lehman to soften the blow to City plus around £15-20M.

The last player I would bring in is one of the following 2.

DAVID VILLA or KLAS VAN HUNTELLAR.

Either one of these 2 please and it will boost our squad no end as everyone has been discussing. Hopefully we can get a deal for around £15-20M for one of these. And maybe use Hleb as a makeweight if we really need to.

Then we will obviously bring through a few youngsters:

Kerrea Gilbert – Back from Cardiff
Carlos Vela – Back from Ossasuna
Jay Simpson – Back from Millwall
Nacer Barazite
Henri Lansbury, etc etc

I strongly believe that these signings will add majorly to our club and this spree would cost no more than £60M, remember, you need to speculate to accumilate!

As someone said earlier, we should have more of a say. We believe very stronly that we have one of the 3 best managers in the world, BUT we are the ones who pay week in week out, we buy the tops every year and programmes every time we visit. WE WANT TO SPLASH SOME CASH, THATS WHAT US THE FANS WANT. WE DON’T WANT TO SEE LIVERPOOL BUYING TORRES AND BABEL, WE SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THEM BOTH!!! WE WOULD HAVE WON THE LEAGUE WITH THEM!

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE LISTEN TO THE FANS, PLEASE! ALSO, I HEARD THAT WE WANT TO SIGN KRANKJAR, WELL WHY DIDN’T WE JUST DO A STRAIGHT SWAP FOR DIARRA IN JAN?

Aside for transfers Ive left it a bit late to get a ticket for one of the last home games…theres a few tickets availble for tomo but Im not paying £66!!! Never mind

I celebrated like mad when we beat the spuds to the 4th place spot now i look back on it and think 4th thats not good enough.

We have the facilities,Youth set up,Money,Backroom and Management to dominate for years to come but what we lack is REAL WORLD CLASS PLAYERS

Come On The Arsenal 3-1 Tomorrow