Arsenal Banter Archive January 11 2019

 

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11 Jan 2019 19:20:19
Looking like we have another yes man in emery,

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11 Jan 2019 19:56:01
What you mean someone who accepts the conditions under which he took the job in the first place mate?
Didn't you run your own business Welsh mate? What did you expect from the people you employed
A. To do the job you hired them to do and which they freely accepted.
B. Argue with you and completely forget about what you and them agreed at the interview.
Come on mate give things a chance.

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11 Jan 2019 20:50:55
If they are leaders - professionally challenge to date what’s best and be committed to being the best.

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11 Jan 2019 21:00:50
Don’t disagree with him G62 you will exceed his expectations 😂.

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11 Jan 2019 22:02:21
I appreciate everyone is entitled to an opinion Sanogo mate but how can any of us have an educated definitive opinion on a brand new set up that is only half a season into its first season, we can be happy or unhappy at the start they have made but none of us or anyone else can declare this management team/ board a success or failure yet.
SY I have always felt every professional football team that charges an entrance fee to watch them has a duty to be the best they can possibly be whether that's Basingstoke wanting to get into the football league or Barnet wanting to get into the premier league or Burnley wanting to emulate Leicester city in 2016.
For any club to accept Just taking part as job done is wrong in my book but obviously not everyone can always achieve thier full potential or Spurs Arsenal Chelsea Utd Everton Liverpool City would all share the title each and every season.
Only one team can be champions but all should give their all in the pursuit of being that team.
None wants to see the club get into serious financial problems by sending crazy money we don't have but neither do we want to be the richest team in the europa league or worst still in the second round of the league cup each year.

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11 Jan 2019 22:17:09
Just answering your question : “ What did you expect from the people you employed “.

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12 Jan 2019 00:04:10
I’ve never owned my own business haven’t even told anyone my job on here lol.

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12 Jan 2019 00:30:36
G62, wrong welshie mate. The other welshie owns his own business, loves sheep and misspells words to feck.

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12 Jan 2019 10:09:28
Oh really! Thanks Sharpie
Apologies to both Welsh gunners, wow you both look so alike:-)
Can't the new Welsh gunner change his name to notquiteaswelshastherealwelshguuner to make life simple for me :-)

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12 Jan 2019 12:14:35
Obviously everyone's allowed there own views so no bashing that but it does worry me how many arsenal fans I see slagging emery off. Give the guy a fair chance come on now. And as for the only loan situation i'm sure there's a good reason for it. Perhaps the wage bill being ridiculously high. Which will no doubt improve in the summer when a few players on stupid money leave.

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12 Jan 2019 16:30:31
D, the voice of reason. Lol.

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11 Jan 2019 09:13:41
Hi eds what is the reason arsenal can only do loan deals is it because short of money or the ffp rules.

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{Ed002's Note - No.}

11 Jan 2019 11:08:04
My guess is we can't get who we want right now so we are trying to borrow what we need to improve us short term until more preferred opinions are available.
Makes sense to me, as no disrespect to Miki but would we really have gone for him if it was not our only option involving the Sanchez move?
Surely we've signed enough players who haven't worked out and taking our time to get it right in future is 100% the right thing to do.
Fantasy football is easy but in the real world players and opposing clubs have choices and they won't always be the choices we hoped for.

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{Ed002's Note - Suarez will be a loan with an obligation to buy I would think.}

11 Jan 2019 11:58:13
It certainly looks like that Ed002.

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11 Jan 2019 13:05:42
Thanks Ed for the reply.

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11 Jan 2019 13:19:17
I believe this may have to do with Premier League short term cost control rules, which were designed to control clubs wage bills spiralling out control as a result of increased TV income. PL clubs can only increase their wage bill by a maximum of £7m a season, until season 2018-19 (current season) . The rules are quite complicated.
Arsenal have renewed certain contracts this season, so they may have to wait until the end of the season before they can sign players permanently and increase the wage bill, when our sponsorship income increases quite considerably and players whose contracts end or are sold come off the wage bill.
FFP may also come into the equation, as I am certain Arsenal could borrow to fund player purchase, with the club having relatively small debt.
The other simple fact, is that the squad has to be managed both in terms of the 25 overage player limit and the limit to the amount of overseas players that can be registered. This window is also notoriously difficult, with clubs unwilling to sell players mid-season, players not wanting to uproot mid-season and financial demands being excessive.

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{Ed002's Note - There is some clear misunderstanding about FFP. Wages are indeed an issue for Arsenal but this is not the reason they can only loan players.}

11 Jan 2019 15:36:26
Right my next guess as to why we can only loan players is :-)
We still owe money on Pea and Lacasette plus probably other previous signings too and we have maxed out our credit card limi, good name or agreed amount of outstanding fees we can owe and we need to pay some off before we can extend out credit rating further.
Most transfers are paid by installments so this is my latest guess based on nothing more than my own slightly strange and often weird thought process :-)

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11 Jan 2019 14:15:23
What is the reason ed if you have any idea cheers.

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{Ed002's Note - I suspect Arsenal will want to keep spending to a minimum at least until the Adidas deal kicks in and the club know whether or not they will be in the Champions League next season. As I have explained wages have been a problem in respect of FFP and the Suarez deal is held up over whether it is a loan with an option to buy (what Arsenal want) or a loan with an obligation to buy (which is what Barcelona want). If Arsenal were to take Medhi Benatia on loan until the summer (in exchange for releasing Ramsey now) when he will move elsewhere, then the club need to find the wages from elsewhere - Mohamed Elneny the most likely route.}

11 Jan 2019 16:46:06
Surely saving on Ramseys current wage would off set Benatia wages of 100k a week quite easily?

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11 Jan 2019 23:54:26
So if we do Barcelona option we get him then why not take a gamble at jeast he would of been here a good few months to see what he can do.

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12 Jan 2019 12:16:49
I believe what Ed is saying with the Barcelona option that'll mean we must buy him in the summer. The clause says we're obligated to sign him. Assume that's subject to him wanting to join permanently. But an optional clause would be better for us clearly in case it doesn't work out.

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Review Of The Day 11th January 2019

11 Jan 2019 07:29:01
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 11th January 2019

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