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Thanks for explaining the rules of how a league works, I would pos but I don't think it would really show my gratitude/On a sidenoteWiltord scoring a winning goal that won us the league and bendtner missing the one that condemned us to going out the champions leagueI would take wiltord the flop over all our top men now bar RVP
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Smh.In a time (now) when Arsenal fans are crying out for Arsenal to do a little bit more, to hopefully guarantee us getting past the post (i.e many say we should have got Samba in January) we should look at Wiltord like this...Wiltord was an expensive luxury - 13m, he didn't walk into the team, infact he struggled to get in, hence him being forced out to the right wing a lot for game time (we had Bergkamp, Henry, Kanu, etc), he never individually proved his transfer fee, and left for free...Poor business from a financial point of view, and as a player he is no Samir Nasri thats for sure, but...Honours With ArsenalWinner FA Premier League: 2001/02, 2003/04 FA Cup: 2002, 2003 FA Community Shield: 2002Runner-up FA Premier League: 2000/01, 2002/03 FA Cup: 2001 FA Community Shield: 2003Plus I'll repeat... He did this...

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He never proved his transfer feePoor business from a financial point of view
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Honours With ArsenalWinner FA Premier League: 2001/02, 2003/04 FA Cup: 2002, 2003 FA Community Shield: 2002Runner-up FA Premier League: 2000/01, 2002/03 FA Cup: 2001 FA Community Shield: 2003
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would rather put vierra on the benchthe same man who was adiment signing Samba was the end of daysand then admited not watching him much :D now wants us to sign a manc and spud reject :D why dont we complete the picture, reunite with david bentley sure he can play 60 mins in the fa cupcomon brah

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Tim Payton: Two billionaires, no buys: Arsenal must smarten upWednesday, 6 July 2011Three weeks ago fans attending the Arsenal Supporters' Trust Q&A with club chief executive Ivan Gazidis were promised a busy summer of transfers to strengthen the first-team squad.But so far the news is all about likely high-profile departures, deepening the concerns among our members who, in the last three months, have endured the team's failure to end a six-year wait for a trophy, being told their season tickets were to increase in price by 6.5 per cent and witnessing long-standing, Arsenal-supporting board members end 70 years of ownership stability by selling a majority stake in the club to Stan Kroenke.For many years now Arsenal have operated a sell-to-buy policy and can no longer compete with the very top clubs in Europe in transfer fees or wages paid. This is a strategy dictated by the club's decision to adhere to a "self-sustaining" business model.Arsenal have neither the commercial revenues nor benefactor income to enable them to match the finance strength of the likes of Real Madrid, Manchester City, Chelsea or Barcelona. This inevitably means that the transfer window will be drawn-out as we wait to see who leaves and what budget this creates to buy players not coveted by those who offer riches of £150,000 a week. It is a precarious arrangement that relies ever more on manager Arsène Wenger to secure top fees for players no longer at their peak, while continuing to unearth and develop superstars and persuade them to stay.So what can be done? Arsenal need to grow their overseas presence and broaden their commercial programmes. The commercial gap behind Manchester United is now £50m a year. After years of AST pressure to do so, they will embark on a long-overdue overseas tour of Asia next week. But the stark truth is that the long-term deals for shirt sponsorship and kit supplier put in place when raising the £400m plus to build the Emirates Stadium do not expire till 2014 and the opportunity cost of lost revenue is now estimated at £35m a year and growing.The AST does not support an unchecked sugar-daddy approach to ownership. But we do think the club should thoroughly review the options for its two billionaire shareholders – Kroenke and Alisher Usmanov – and other supporters to make sustainable investment into the club. Sustainable long-term options include paying down the remaining debt or undertaking a rights issue, as was concluded to the tune of £80m also to raise money for the stadium project. There is certainly an appetite from supporters to own shares in the club as the Arsenal Fanshare scheme, which has gained 2,000 members in just nine months, demonstrates.Sadly, player loyalty is all but gone in modern football. They are employees doing a job. It is supporters who love the club and build a relationship for life. But we should not be held hostage or priced out of the ground for it. If our money and the backing he got from the stands last season isn't good enough for Samir Nasri, and he won't commit to a new contract, then we would fully support a club decision to cash in.You can't blame the Arsenal board or Gazidis if players try to break long-term contracts or refuse to sign generous new contracts offered to them months ago. But you can judge them on how they handle the situation and act to take Arsenal forward. The priority has to be protecting the club's long-term interests and making any other club who wants to take them off our hands pay full whack, then reinvesting the money in other world-class talent. So far Gazidis has refused to be bullied by Barcelona over Cesc Fabregas and as long as he holds this line he will be on good ground with Gunners.
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It sounds brutal, it sounds blunt, but it sums up the mood of the supporters as this summer lurches from frustration to despair.Gael Clichy's move to Manchester City wouldn't bother me much in normal circumstances.I'm not that fussed by it on an individual basis as Kieran Gibbs is coming through nicely. But now it looks like Samir Nasri is set to join him.Since when did Arsenal become Manchester City's feeder club? And with Cesc Fabregas looking a goner to Barcelona too, it's very, very sad to see. How on earth will Arsene Wenger attract any top players to Arsenal?It's come to something when a player like Clichy feels Arsenal is not good enough for him anymore. He can see that Man City is going to be challenging for top trophies next season.For a start, he won't have to go through Champions League qualification, unlike Arsenal. It is a club going places and this summer City look like they will kick on again. Manchester United have made it clear they mean business too, being bullish in the transfer market and buying Ashley Young, Phil Jones and the keeper David De Gea.Liverpool have got Jordan Henderson and are making serious moves for Stewart Downing.Chelsea have got a new manager in place and will soon be very active.Arsenal are being left behind. And the trouble is, when all the top-class players have gone, it becomes extremely difficult to lure other top players to your club.Wenger has put his faith in picking up little gems from abroad, little-known players who he can nurture and develop. All very well. But he has filled the dressing room with players who 'owe' him. It's a nice cosy arrangement.There are no players who are big enough and experienced enough to turn around and say 'hang on boss, let's try this, or let's do that'.Serious teams need established world-class players, who can bring it to bear in February and March when the youngsters need a gee-up, when the going gets tough and the demands of a long season kick in.He's been asking too much of the young players he's brought through.Nicklas Bendtner, Fabregas, Robin van Persie, Clichy, are all good players but Arsenal should be courting the star players before they move to other big clubs. But they're nowhere to be seen.What's Wenger doing? I see the Gervinho deal looks close to being finalised. He might be good, fingers crossed. Well I'm sorry but fingers crossed doesn't work anymore. It hasn't worked for six years since the Gunners last won a trophy.Downing, Jones, Henderson. Even Young. They might not be the sort of players Wenger likes but at least those other clubs are having a go. And by doing so, they send out a statement of intent they want to be even better next season.I'd love to see Wenger being given the same sort of transfer pot that the likes of Jose Mourinho had at Chelsea, or Andre Villas-Boas will get. The same backing Alex Ferguson enjoys at Manchester United.I'd be so curious to see where he goes and what he does with it.But I have my suspicions that he would still dither about, take too long to make up his mind and then plump for someone in France or Spain hardly any of us have ever heard of.Fabregas has clearly recognised the fact that Arsenal will not be competing with their rivals in the transfer market.He has been loyal to them and played his best but now he can see what's going on and looks set to go.That's been going on for some time but the whole transfer thing is like a house of cards. Once one big name wants out, the rest see it and it all comes tumbling down.I get accused of having a go at Arsenal. But I'm only putting in bold black and white the problems that the real fans are deeply concerned about.And I'm not referring to those who came with the flash new Emirates Stadium, some of whom don't like singing on Saturday afternoons.I've been engaged in fierce debates with some of whom have fallen for this guff that at least Arsenal's not in debt. They point out that the Glazers have borrowed fortunes in Manchester United's name.True. But Man Utd have also been in three Champions League finals in the last few years and have won Premier League trophies and FA Cups. Man Utd may have debts but I tell you this, if the club suddenly went on the market, it would be sold within a week. Would that happen with Arsenal? I'm not so sure.Real fans don't give a hoot about debts. They pay a lot of money to come through the gates and they don't want to see their heroes passing them on the way out.Wenger is still the right man for the job but he needs proper backing and I do feel that sometimes he needs a good shaking.Right now, I can't see Arsenal challenging for the Premier League title next season, which is seriously depressing in July! What I'd like to see are some bullish signings.Go out and chase the likes of Michael Essien. Get him back on top form and he's a fabulous player, plus you'd be getting a player from Chelsea, one of Arsenal's supposed rivals from the Premier League and just across the River Thames.Then go for keeper Joe Hart and Vincent Kompany and get your own back on Manchester City.Make the rest of English football sit up and take notice for once - not just Arsenal fans who can see the lights going out on their club.
IAN WRIGHT WRIGHT WRIGHTIAN'S RIGHT RIGHT RIGHTRead more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/sunsport_columnists/3681696/Ian-Wright-says-Arsene-Wenger-only-buys-unknowns.html#ixzz1RSaIYC4c
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Well today after all these years of wanting a season ticket I've been offered one, as much as I would love to take it up but I just can't. Other things come first in my life right now, the price range was between £1,395 or £1,150 for the back 10 rows in the upper area behind the goal.What a shame.

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