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*Official* English Football Season 2014-15
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duffer
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One bit that piqued my attention was when he said our wage bill is now a bit more than Chelsea's. Surely not? It blows all the "we need a sugar daddy to win things" comments out the water if true.
Tom Halsey
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Yeah have heard that as well recently so could be true.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Well, Arsenal have players like Podolski who are on £100k+. Sanchez and Ozil will be on more, I should have thought. That's a huge amount in and of itself.
Cabinet96
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Yeah it is. But I think the main reason is the fact our squad of first team players is bigger. I mean, they never get injuries, they currently have one (Nathan Ake), so it's not really surprising they have less first team players than a side that regularly has up to 10. Arsenal do commit the sin of paying rubbish players they never play salaries nearly as high as their star players though. Podolski the prime example.
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I don't think it blow those comments out of the water at all. They can compete financially now, but Chelsea are still benefiting from investment in the squad up to seven or eight years ago, when Arsenal couldn't compete.
It strongly suggests that you're paying a lot of your players far, far too much, though.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
I was thinking about this earlier actually. It's not even necessarily a financial thing, but the foundations that Arsenal started to lay for a good team in that period didn't work out well at all. There were so many players who either didn't quite make the grade/turned out to be really crap/got injured/got sold/now play for a rival.
In fact the only players from that period I can think of who don't fit one of the above criteria are Walcott and Gibbs. And given their record with injuries, I'm probably being a bit generous with their exemption.
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Burgey
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Take solace in this thread :-)
Nate
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...it was quite clearly a joke - I smiled when he said it.
Neil Pickup
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Matt Grimes to Swansea for £1.75m - allegedly.
That would change things.
That would change things.
grecian
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Doesn't change the location, hold out City and Grimey, Southampton are the club, they must have tons of money.
Mind you, it's only been reported in the Star, Mail and Scum, so that only makes an half-a-rumour between them.
Still, looks like the Arse aren't going for Ampadu, which is nice, if he's half as good as they say he is.
duffer
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It means we shouldn't be losing our best players for money anymore. If we can keep them, slowly get rid of deadwood, promoting a couple of youngsters while adding a couple of great players every summer we can over the course of a few seasons have a cracking squad once again.
anil1405
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