So let’s start on the deal that was done some time ago with the stadium naming rights and the shirt sponsor. You may remember we said here on Le Grove that it was a woeful deal, some came on and said it was money up front and we needed it to finance the stadium and I know fuck all about finance.
It now tops up the money was part paid (up front) and we are still owed some, Dubai are in the shitter, so we may now be able to buy ourselves out of it and get a real deal, good, don’t say we didn’t tell you that 5 years ago, I sometimes wonder why the Arsenal board think they are so clever. (Dubai part own Emirates)
Stan really is buying Arsenal by a thousand cuts, Stan get on the pot and piss or let someone else buy the shares that will make us the biggest club in the world, I can see no earthly reason why buying 12 at a time makes any financial sense. It’s getting boring, it’s like waiting for Beckham to reveal his haircut in Japan.
I read a poster at a main line station yesterday advertising half season tickets at Fulham for £150, well if that doesn’t tell a story I don’t know what does! And I know how much Adshel advertising costs, it’s not cheap. I said last season that unless Wenger bought some world class players, people like me and many thousands of others would think twice about renewing, Arsene did his usual ‘I will buy players’ crap which ensured we would all renew, only to buy one and sell two, it kept the shareholders happy but once again it cheated the fans, the fans have responded by not turning up many times this season.
Wenger told the press the holes around the ground were due to Christmas shopping, bollocks Arsene, we are football fans and shopping doesn’t stop us, project youth and intransigence does however and it seems that the only way fans can tell you that, is by boycotting games.
I also suspect a lot of seasons were not renewed and the holes in the ground are tickets owned by Arsenal they couldn’t sell, to say we had 60,000 fans there was an insult to our intelligence.
Fans are bleeding, fans are losing their jobs and fans won’t put up with bargain basement transfer policies when they are themselves being charged huge amounts to watch, if spending nothing is the way forward, drop the prices to match those of Fulham, they don’t expect to win trophies.
PHW and co may look at Arsenal fans as the great unwashed, but they are the reason we have so much money, heed the warning Arsene and go forth and multiply, before it’s too late.
Yes we beat Liverpool, but not because Wenger threw his toys out the pram, but because we were better than a shit Liverpool team, the first half against Hull was as bad as I’ve seen, we weren’t that good, just better than Hull. Thank God the ref didn’t see the Nasri stamp, or we may well have lost the game instead on winning it, think about that.
Our fans are celebrating Porto in the next round, why? We couldn’t even beat West Ham, Burnley or Sunderland, we are about to lose Song and Eboue to the ACN, where’s the back up? I have seen no evidence of who can step up, on Saturday we kept banging in crosses for the forwards that were going over their heads, where’s the sense in that, yes we did win, and for that I’m grateful, but I think we are papering over the cracks.
We need to spend in the window, if the management don’t think we can improve on our keeper, then I have no idea what they are looking at, really, someone enlighten me, someone out there tell me how good he is.
The Mancs lost, the Chavs drew, Villa and City are behind us, this is the best chance we have had in 5 years to win something, please, please, don’t blow it Arsene, go out and fill the gaps, if you do that the season is ours, if you don’t, we’ll win nothing, again.
I have always said Diaby has more talent than most of the midfield, the problem is, we only see it every 4 or 5 games, we need a forward with height and ability.
We have lost Robin, Bendtner may come back Ok but as we have seen many times, when players come back from injury, they get injured again, don’t risk our season, I bleed Arsenal and it hurts when we win nothing, it really fucks my week up and I keep waking up thinking we had scored, only to be cruelly reminded by the brain cells that are working at 3am that we in fact drew, or worse. So no one tell me I’m not an Arsenal fan.
We lost Djourou for the season in the summer and Kolo was sold, we bought Vermaelen, great signing but we need another, not a kid, a ready made.
If any of you are horrified by my forthright concerns, and see me as anti-Wenger, then go and buy one of the spare tickets and fill up the stadium with your blind devotion. I love the Arsenal and I did when we were cheering a mural in the North bank, I don’t cheer for the board or the manager, I cheer my team, I don’t have an Arsene Wenger quilt, I have an Arsenal quilt, this season we’ll never get a better chance of winning something, next season more teams will have sugar daddies and it will be tougher to win, come on Arsene, get the cheque book out, we are 3 players short of domination or obscurity if we don’t.
For the record I think Danny Fiszman has done a great job, I love Arsene Wenger and think the football he plays (mostly) is the best I’ve seen, so don’t spoil it for the sake of a few quid, you both saw the difference Arshavin and Vermaelen made when they arrived, just think about it, that’s all I ask.
I was right about the sponsors, I was right about the empty seats and I am right about the players we need.
Have a great day Grovers, it will soon be Christmas and you’ll all be getting those presents from the Arsenal shop you know you wanted! Only 5 days to go until Santa gives us 3 points! Which will in effect be 6!
So now Wenger must replace RVP. He stated as much when he said in his own mind, Rvp will not feature for the rest of the season.
http://goal.com/en-us/news/85/england/2009/12/22/1704221/arsene-wenger-hints-robin-van-persie-could-be-out-until-may
Thought that by April all that would be needed is match fitness.Pfffft.
If we don’t buy anyone then our manager has really lost the plot.
Hopefully that’s an indication, “I will buy a CF in Jan.”
spot on jag , agbon V’s diaby is a good comparison . Not much in it there ..
and more over it shows you the type of 1st team player we show case nowadays (borderline crap ). I agree he isnt the quality we need , but i wouldnt say no to him …. anyone …
currently
From some of the comments on here, you would think we are on the one-way road to relegation..even pool fans are a merrier bunch than us…
We’re getting relegated Rohan? When?
Rohan
I guess people can see the writing on the wall if proper action isn’t taken in the window…
Who’s going down with us, I can make some money here!
How do you know that Liverpool fans are merrier than us? Have you been reading their blogs Rohan?
Geoff, Rohan, Iceman: one (attainable) player in jan. Who is it for you?
Mickey, I have written todays post on that very subject! You’ll love it!
Ok I may get an earful (eyeful actually) for this but:
Huntelaar
Down here in Devon, we have two local postmen. One Pool, one Gooner. Both season ticket holders. Believe me, the Gooner is the happier.
Geoff…tease
To answer my own question, I think (given Ros and Theo’s form/injuries) I may go for Bellamy. I think he could have got/created us the five extra goals this season that would have kept us above the Chavs.
my mates, Geoff… surrounded by them and mancs.
Being silly…Villa
I’d go for someone like Dzeko ( is he attainable ? ) If not him then Marcus Berg althogh I doubt he is better than Bendtner.
In addition, it also might be a good time to add a Vermy type defender..
Rohan, they must be retarded if they’re happier!
Thinking about Pool, surely Gerrard must be thinking of one last Hurrah somewhere else (I’m not thinking about us)
Huntelaar is RvP in disguise…isn’t he?
He’s way too old for us, 29.
Yes Micky…
I would think he’d rather be in sunny Spain then play alongside Lucas much longer!!
So Melo was voted the worst signing in the Italian league and was subbed after 26 minutes, they are offering him to us cut price!
morning y’all
Cetin would be a good shout as far as defensive options are concerned:
- monster
- Turkey have not qualified for WC
- 28 (well, 29 in March to be precise)
- right footed
- would come for £8-9M
- not cup tied (I think)
Geoff: is that a good thing?
Not a bad shout but that would fuck up Wenger’s average age.
Micky, he turned us down, Wenger sulks, 2 and 2!
Geoff,
like I said quite a few times: Melo is just a bigger and dumber Denilson
Gilberto must nurse him in the national team, it’s a no…
Signings: it should be possible to make money out of the right £15m’ish signing. The bigger the signing, the more of a boost it gives the whole club, both players and fans. The league is clearly “up for grabs now” (my favourite line, ever).
But cut price…that’s Wenger’s middle name!
iceman- huntelaar is rud van N in disguise
AW has revived careers of Henry & Vieira…
Huntelaar can be another…
NEW POST!
Yup Ribery to Arsenal. Watch and learn Wenger’s Skills.