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« Reply #45 on: July 04, 2008, 11:43:05 PM » |
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Arsenal couldn't splash out £32 million for anyone as they are skint.
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« Reply #46 on: July 06, 2008, 07:03:25 AM » |
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« Reply #47 on: July 06, 2008, 08:45:33 AM » |
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Nem,
This is how football clubs have always been running, or how they should be running. It is only in the last few years since foreign investment has come into our game that some clubs are being run more like fantasy football clubs.
£24m outlay a year for the stadium but getting over £90m in matchday income seems very good business to me.
Last season our wage bill was rumoured to be around £80m (which I find hard to believe considering Man Utd's was £85m). So that makes around £100m outlay yet our turnover is over £200m a year. That hardly makes us skint.
I actually read this article last night and thought of you, I think Wenger is very coy when it comes to using the media when it comes to transfer dealings and if he really did think we were a selling club I dont think he would openly admit it. it would devalue your stock or players in this case. The fact this article has come from the NOTW makes me suspicious in what has been said. I have heard the Huntelaar is actually quite close to moving to Man Utd. I think he would be a good signing for anyone that has him.
Anyhow if being a selling club is getting £30m for a striker that has a terrible attitude, headbutts his own players and thinks he is as good as Henry was after just 1 season then so be it.
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« Reply #48 on: July 06, 2008, 11:44:42 AM » |
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Wenger's "We are now a selling club" is so obviously a quote out of context I would have thought even Nemesis would see through it athough his white tinted glasses must have particularly thick lenses. |
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« Reply #49 on: July 06, 2008, 12:41:49 PM » |
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Wenger has always operated on the basis of buy cheap, get best out of player, sell for huge profit and use money to buy 3 or 4 more youngsters with potential.
It doesn't mean Arsenal are just a selling club, if journo's listened properly they'd realise Wenger was justifying why he'd sell Adebayor for the right amount not that he was saying Arsenal have to be a selling club!!
and I'm not even an Arsenal fan (do quite like the way they play though).
IMO Keane will stay at Tottenham for another season at least because in his heart he really wants to see Wolves in the Premiership and finish his career there.
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« Reply #50 on: July 07, 2008, 01:45:20 PM » |
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Crouch agreed personal terms with Pompey.
Sad to see him leave, but glad he'll be playing week-in, week-out now. Excellent player and he'll be a great asset for them.
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« Reply #51 on: July 07, 2008, 01:56:24 PM » |
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Defoe and Crouch next season not a bad combo.
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« Reply #52 on: July 07, 2008, 02:54:46 PM » |
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Defoe and Crouch next season not a bad combo.
Yep. A small fast forward alongside a big fella who can hold it up well and play the ball off to him. |
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« Reply #53 on: July 07, 2008, 03:35:35 PM » |
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Defoe and Crouch next season not a bad combo.
Yep. A small fast forward alongside a big fella who can hold it up well and play the ball off to him. Shame Liverpool don't have a fast striker like that or he could stay. |
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« Reply #54 on: July 07, 2008, 03:40:50 PM » |
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Defoe and Crouch next season not a bad combo.
Yep. A small fast forward alongside a big fella who can hold it up well and play the ball off to him. Shame Liverpool don't have a fast striker like that or he could stay.  He could do that, if Rafa played with two up top. He much prefers Torres up on his own with Gerrard playing behind him. The Torres/Crouch partnership didn't get a chance to develop or see if it would work. I have a feeling it would have worked very well. |
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« Reply #55 on: July 07, 2008, 03:45:14 PM » |
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he looks good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Tunchevthere must be a catch though, as he came to Leicester He will no doubt be crap then |
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« Reply #56 on: July 07, 2008, 03:46:45 PM » |
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Crouch agreed personal terms with Pompey.
Sad to see him leave, but glad he'll be playing week-in, week-out now. Excellent player and he'll be a great asset for them.
yeah i agree, if only he could of got a lot more power when heading the ball, he would of been a nightmare for defences |
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« Reply #57 on: July 07, 2008, 04:50:30 PM » |
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Adjusting to the game and culture in the lower leagues is often a problem. We had a Czech striker (David Stravhika) at Norwich last year and he look totally lost, despite being top goalscorer in the Czech Rep the year before. |
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« Reply #58 on: July 08, 2008, 08:41:08 PM » |
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From the Daily Telegraph, Holland Midfielder Rafael Van der Vaart has snubbed Spurs. "The interest has been there for some time allready, but Tottenham are not a club I want to swap Hamburg for"  |
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« Reply #59 on: July 08, 2008, 08:44:44 PM » |
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From the Daily Telegraph, Holland Midfielder Rafael Van der Vaart has snubbed Spurs. "The interest has been there for some time allready, but Tottenham are not a club I want to swap a set of socket spanners for" fyp |
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