Gazidis – Wenger will spend Arsenal’s money wisely…..if he wants!
The Arsenal Chief Exec Ivan Gazidis has been happily announcing new sponsorship deals which (he says) will put the Gunners amongst the “top five clubs in the world” in terms of revenue, but with Arsenal fans clamouring for all that cash to be spent on building a trophy-winning side, Gazidis has made it clear that any transfer decisions are made entirely by Arsene Wenger and not the board.
“I think we will be able to be more financially competitive and that will enable us to push forward on the field,” Ivan Gsaid. “We can pay bigger salaries and I think we can invest more in transfer fees. How we make those decisions will be based on a manager whose judgment, over the years, has been shown to be outstanding. There’s nobody I would like to be thinking about those types of decision more than Arsène Wenger.
“We have got a lot of money coming in. We also kept some powder dry, so we have got the ability to invest if our manager finds the right opportunities in January.”
But the fact is that the money has been rolling in for quite a few years, but Wenger himself has made it clear that he intends to carry on his prudent policy of investing in youth players at Arsenal, but is very happy that the club has become more successful off the field.
Arsene said: “It is massive for us because I am so many times with my back to the wall, accused of not spending fortunes. To show that we can do it, with the way we do it, with the club in a good financial situation and with the players coming from our youth development, I think it is important for the game as well. There are many different ways to be successful and I am very happy that our way is one of them.”
Your way may be one way of measuring success, but I think the fans prefer the age-old version where success is totally measured by how many trophies you win…..
Pat
Yes as a football club one of the main achievements should be trophies especially after being without for now going to 8years. Even positive financial situation will not stay longer if in the pitch arsenal is not playing well. For sure Internationally has started loosing the popularity. Come on Arsenal after filling the pocket give the chance to trophies
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Lol, never thought Gazdis would give money to Wenger. Now the onus is on you, Wenger. Please strengthen the ST, DM and LB position for once in your life. PLEASEEEE
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money, money, money…look at west brom, how much money did they spend to reach third place? chelsea, how much money didn’t they waste on torres? yes, you can buy a very good side for money, like man city, but it’s no guarantee for success, just look how they crashed out of the champions league. arsenal’s problems for the most part (we’ve got great quality players, although we could do with one more top-class striker) is not related to money, but to tactics that are suitable to the champions league but aren’t adapted to the english game, and to lack of leadership. where are the ljungbergs, the adams, the van persies in this side? if someone in man united would have defended as poorly as santos did a few weeks ago, he would have got a thorough bollocking from not only alex ferguson but from the rest of his team and his backline. in arsenal he got an anxious stare at most. ridiculous.
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Don’t believe Gazidis!…he is a liar at best!…all talk & no action!
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I’m pumped! I can’t wait to see what le prof will add to the team!
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Monsieur Wenger a perdu son esprit… / Mister Wenger has lost his knickers…
He persists on playing football on the highest level without spending money. I do not beg him to splash 100 million on overrated players. I just want him to get the right people with the right attitude. We need a few keyplayers who know what it takes to win. The “never giving up” attitude is what we need.
Arsenal for life
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in ivan gadis we don’ trust
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Ooh the pressure that is put on wengers shoulders… Will be a heap of trouble if he does no satisfactory transfer dealings in January… Now just to wait and see.
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The board is gutless always lying to us. Ill belive it when I see it
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if wenger makes all the decisions means he needs to go because he is frustrating us by not spending some money ………….di matteo ,blanc should coach arsenal on an interim basis ….Weneger is our new ceo ……gazids ..take ur salary and get out ..next year we can appoint someone like klopp or guardialo
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sure you will give wenger money after theo & sagna are sold & then they will be replaced by some kid dubbed the next theo or korean muller lol heard zaha 2 arsenal is almost a done deal ivan gazdis wtf do you do
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First priority is to keep the actual squad together and sign new contracts with key players like ox, walcott and sagna (but players like denilson, djourou, park, santos must be sold).
Then in january and the next summer transfer period we have to add 3-5 QUALITY players who can strengthen the squad. This actual squad must be the base to build a new team than can compete for titles. Imagine we had still the players in our squad who left the last 2 years (rvp, fabregas, clichy, song, nasri), we had today a strong squad that could compete with city, manu or chelsea.
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iam losing my truse in this greedy board ….dein , usmanov in ….kroenke,hillwood and gazidis out ….
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@always a gooner Arsene Wenger: When I arrived clubs were owned by people who loved the club. Now it’s a business model” Arsène Wenger was speaking at the London College of Communication, where he was guest of honour i guess that answers ur question who is in charge
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Im thinking about M’vila as CDM, he can help Arteta with his job or Arteta can move forward. M’vila does also have great passing skills.
A new striker is needed; Get the technical El Shaarawy. (could be the best striker in the world someday)He is still young but has massive potential. AC Milan sold their best players in the summer; why wouldn’t they do it again? We just need to offer 20 – 25 million.
I don’t mind breaking our bank for such a star. Remember, a good striker doesn’t come cheap. If chelski pays 40(?) for Torres, Liverpool 40 for Carrol, Manu 20 for RVP, Why can’t we buy a better striker for less?
Arsenal for life
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arsene wenger was speaking about Football generally, but of course with an eye on the structure at Arsenal.
bring back david dein & stan out usmanov in
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One of the things I’ve found so frustrating about Arsene is that he doesn’t really have to spend as much as the chelskis and man shittys to win things imagine the combined cost of Carzola, Podolski, and Giroud is just around 40 mil. I believe Wenger can give us good signings like this in every department of the team if he wants to.
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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger will make a decision ‘shortly’ on whether to fast-track Thomas Eisfield into the senior squad
Good news.Theo Walcott & Thomas Rosicky in Arsenal training, both expected to be in squad for Everton clash tomorrow
Arsenal on a very keen move to transfer Sebastain Squillaci in January. Villarreal & Espanyol with interests
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God i hate gazidis he thinks hes the dogs bollocks gets right on my nerves…. lets just take it as it comes we hear all the time we have money to spend but nothing comes of it and we end up signing players with money earned frm selling our best players which in my opinion is a joke…. give something back to the fans that pay over the odds for everything year in year out
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Words that, Gazidis & Wenger met with Theo personally after Aston Villa game. December decisive for final round of talks. Its 50/50 Scheduled contract talks with Walcotts representatives after Aston Villa game postponed till December it make more sense in giving theo 85-90 a week than spend 10-15m on his replacement
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@leo now i can understand …it is the board who is killing afc
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@Always a gooner spot on dude wenger made this comment yesterday
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sounds like some of us think spending 100million is a trophy…
to me, I dont care, the current team we have is as good as any top team that you can named there…
what I want is we preserve our beautiful game play which we failed to produce lately..and of course the winning attitude from us..if everyone work like giroud all the time, maybe we the fans stop blaming…
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Right, first order of business: sort out Theo’s contract!!!
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It’s interesting to hear Gazidis say that transfer decisions are made entirely by Wenger. I wasn’t entirely sure if that’s true but at the same time if that’s not the case would Wenger work with these guys if they would just lie like that?? I don’t think so. So is the majority of blame for not spending more mostly on Wenger? Hard to say for sure but it wouldn’t surprise me.
And if this is true, Will Wenger spend more since we have more money?
I am really losing faith in Wenger, I’m not sure if he can change his stubborn ways.
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He’s really put Wenger in it and its a shrewd political move on the part of our Chief executive. Unfortunately, were still none the wiser for knowing who really is accountable for the lack of spending. There needs to be another independent representative on the board -i think that’s a must. Otherwise It’s just another ambiguous statement from our CEO (like one of many of the years).
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Did I hear somebody wants to take squillaci? Is that guy still even playing football? Good job Wenger on signing this guy. Wonder if it was worth the couple of mil that we saved by not signing a quality CB instead. Squillaci and Park might be 2 worst signings in the history of the league. These guys would be the highest earners on some teams in the premier league but they are not even good enough to make our bench, which is pretty weak to begin with.
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Same old rubbish from Gazides, actions speak louder than words!
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Tactics flexibility is d key……even if we replace all our current players with world class players they’ll stil fail to perform if they are nt utilised to d full of their potentials or being played out of position….we’ve been braggin abt gettin a proper DM but i think TV5 OR LK6 can fit in that role perfectly if wenger can use his techniques of bringin out xtra potentials in playas as he’s done in d past….@Tapo ur comment is exactly what arsenal needs the neva giv up spirit has been lost in our playas if every playa can work hard like giroud every game we’ll win games cos he even comes deep to collekt d ball wen d passes arent cumin to him in d front…..its nt abt synin d best playas in d world its abt bringin d best out of our players and inputtin d winnin spirit in dem…if our current team culd be utilised in d right way we can compete with oda teams for d title…..d legends we’ve had in d past werent legends b4 dey came,we made dem legends e.g(henry,bergkamp,pires,viera,ljunberg,fabregas e.t.c)
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Greedy/Selfish Arsenal Board + Economist Manager = STINGY
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All the same all what we want is too deliver atleast one trophy for us this season.
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lol, Ivan’s been saying that crap for years, and quite frankly, it’s exactly that…crap! Anyone who thinks Arsene was the one who sold both Nasri and Fabregas in the same summer, after he went public and said “imagine the worst, if we sold both Nasri and Fabregas. You cannot convince people that you are still ambitious after that”, a message I believe was a shot at the board, clearly can’t see that he’s been made a public scapegoat. Don’t get me wrong, the man is extremely stubborn, and he’s not without his flaws, but the board are the ones who handle the funds. They should stop kidding themselves otherwise, cause they aren’t fooling anyone!
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Heard it all before Gazidis you lying scumbag
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We have a first 11 good enough to win games with, its management that continues to not get the best of the teams just like the last 7 years. Wenger needs to spend the money on a one way ticket out the club and its time for someone else to have a go.
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Dear Gazidis, I take it as you mean if you and your American boss allowed and then Wenger can spend some money.
Over the years, our approach to sign players that half developed and hoping that we can complete their training to the dark side had caused us with players like Chamakh, Squilacci and Park Chu Young. We also have players that we thought that they will develop but looks like they stop developing such as Djourou. We are also being ignorant to the fact that Diably and Gibbs are injury prone. Now we are left with many players who we cannot sell due to their wages demand.
Next come the January transfer window and then the summer transfer window. Now, what is interesting this time will be we have no more star players to sell unless we sell Vermleen, Carzola and Podolski. Please don’t get me wrong, Giroud, Wilshere, Walcott might can bring some profit but they are not in the same price category as RVP and Fabregas. So, what is going to happen to the bubble of the profit this time?
Look at our squad today, where are those Vieira, Henry, Ljunberg, Bergkamp, Pires, Sol Campbell, David Seaman, Martin Keown, Tony Adam etc? Next look at the top scorer list, where are our players? And remember where was Henry in this list last time? Or just play fantasy soccer, suddenly you found that Arsenal players aren’t so expensive any more. What does this tell you?
“we will sign player if we found a player who can improve our squad”. You kidding me? You saying that Juan Mata, Eden Hazard, Dzeko, Baines etc. cannot improve our squad or worse than the player we have in the same position?
The thing is, we ended up signing dead wood, causing us to spend about 50 million per year more than Spurs just to have 1 point more than them and luckily Chelsea won the CL else we might cannot even differentiate our achievement with theirs. The money spent for Squilacci could have been use to sign Bale.
So, stop signing half baked product and start to get real good players!
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I don’t care if Wenger fu cks off. Arsenal football club is not his private project. The fans want proper signings, so give them to us! Silly old man!
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Succsess that Wenger adresses to is the ability to buy cheap and sell expensive.
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william from shaktar if we dont sign him them lot down the road probably will.
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what ever gazidis comes out with nowadays he seems to be puting wenger more and more in the sh1t with the fans.
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it is completely the boards decision what a load of bull, Wenger is just a yes man and that why the board dont want rid of hin
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Come JAn all fake fans out!!!
sales promoter and agents out!!!!!
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so, if wenger got money why still you all can’t offer walcott better offer?
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Gazidis earns money so easily, he just talks!!
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did you forget already, we already won the 4th trophy loads of times!
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Mr Ivan Gazidis,you presume to be crafty and smart, but you are not, rather you are a blatant liar we all know very well that you are not giving AW enough money and in time. You dont really understand what it means to run a modern football club.Your judgements and decisions are all stale, small financial success is not all in all. Arsenal could make more if they had won one,two or three trophies in these past shameless eight years. huge sums are being wasted as wages on so many under-performing and unmarketable players who will just relax and sit out their contracts. This is bad biz. how many Barca players will be placed in the mkt and they will not attract buyers.
Who told you and AW that you are the best prudent in football biz. you and Wenger cheaply sold off Alex.Song to Barca without getting Bousquette or Pique on loan and Song is your sole DM. Sir Alex.F. did not sell Rooney to buy RVP, you people could not get Chicharito on loan from him as wise guys you claim to be. Arsenal is among the five world richest club yet they cant afford a player that ATM [Falcao] are having on their payroll and are also winning laurels with, Napoli is not among the five richest club in the world yet Arsenal can not afford Carvani. If these players were to be in Arsenal, Gazidis and Wenger would have rushed to sell them off instead of adding other quality players to support them and win trophies as ATM has done. without a blink they would have been sold at the slightest offer b/w 20 – 25 Mil. and we will be told that the players contract is almost finished or he wants to go and win trophies somewhere else,but we do know that Gazidis and Wenger created the plat form these excuses, please tell me is Arsenal allergic to titles these days. Sir Alex will mock us and say Wenger is the best thing that will happen to Arsenal yet he will not practice what Wenger is doing, he retains his quality players and even add more to them. when he sells a quality player [C.Ronaldo], the money can assemble complete Arsenal squad. is it because Wenger bought cheap that he is selling cheap? no it is due to [1] lack of CVs [trophies], inability to control their lust for very small extra millions that are being dangled before them. please Gazidis enough of the lies we know you are not releasing the dough to AW. you do not to tell us that Wenger is a world class Mgr, we all know that, F.Rijkard, Pep Goudiola and even Tito Val. are all world class Mgrs.and with them Barca soared high in finance trophies. Gazidis and Wenger, both of you have lost touch with the current demand in football biz. Arsene Wenger have won trophies, but that was in the very very pa-a-a-s-st, oh when was that self? your lack of guts to demand for money to buy players, inability to buy quality ones, inability to retain your quality players, unable to replace them equally, you are filled with indecision when good players are being offered to you,your inability to read matches, take the right decision and make right changes at the right time with the right players in addition to playing them in their right positions shows that you have lost touch. With all due respect it is time for both Wenger and Gazidis to please step aside and lets have either F.Rijkard or Pep Goudiola, we need to move forward. The truth is that one day you will hang up on Arsenal so it should be by the time both of you must have grounded the club and leave we the fans sulking., Stop fighting with referees, 4th officials and pitches, we need results and trophies and not stories. ARSENAL 4 EVER!
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Mr Gazidis has been saying this over and over again. The fact is we have left every season with one big hole which costed us trophies.
if you have the Money to be at the top five in the world and have no idea how to fill such holes, you don’t deserve to be here!
we’re tired of your cheap talk,we deserve to have our ARSENAL back Gazidis,Stan and The Medical team out, Dein and Ousmanov in period!!!
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Well done Ivan, its always best to gey your retaliation in first.
Obviously the Buck doesn’t stop with you!!!!!!!
Its time to get rid of the “lone Ranger and Tonto” and then we might see some HI HO SILVER(WARE)
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Go on guys just keep dreaming, they won’t spend a penny. I think arsen is getting paid for not spending. please SPEND SPEND, THE ONLY WAY TO GET QUALITY, AND NOT SULK EVERY WEEK BY GETTING DRAWS EVERY WEEK AGAINST, MEDIOCRE OPPOSITIONS. SHAME FULL REAL SHAME FULL. WE NEED A YOUNG DROGBA R SOMEONE WHO CAN INSPIRE THE TEAM, ALL THE PRESENT LOT ARE MOODY. DON’T KNOW WHAT U GET OF THEM, ITS A GAMBLE TO WATCH THIS TEAM. GET LOST ARSEN, AND DON’T BE SARCASTIC ABOUT UR OWN WRONG DOINGS & ENTERTAINING THE BOARD TO RULE OVER FOOTBALL.
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I’d just make sure we keep Theo and Sagna, then put a bid on Cavani and get decent CDM, maybe Fellaini
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TIME 4 FALSE HOPE TO BLINDFOLD US AGAIN. POOR FANS. They know the implication….
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Blind followers of the blind. He said it without mincing words. Wenger is in charge of all transfers both buying and selling. He wouldnt say it point blank if it wasnt so. But what do you know? The Arsene worshippers here cannot bare to imagine it.
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I just cant understand the logic in here. Why would he call Wenger out like this if it wasnt so? Why would Wenger keep quiet knowing the pressure this puts on him? One thing I loved about Arsenal was also the fact that the fans were also known to be great thinkers. Now, all we see are blind people following one man blindly. Below is Wenger’s quote :
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“To show that we can do it, with the way we do it, with the club in a good financial situation and with the players coming from our youth development, I think it is important for the game as well. There are many different ways to be successful and I am very happy that our way is one of them.”
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So cant you people read and comprehend? What he quoted here is clearly stating his preference and misgivings at buying quality but would rather have youth come up from the ranks.
Is that not clear that Gazidis was right here? I hate Gazidis’guts but hey, the truth be told here… They have always said that there is money to spend, so why in the world would Wenger not refute it or ask for the money, seeing that he is under so much pressure? Goodness!!
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Salvage, you just put it rightly. There is clearly no ambiguity of any sorts in Gazidi’s statement even though we know he’s a master of double speak an art he learnt from Le Prof. himself. Any discerning mind can also draw the fact of the matter through an objective analysis of Wenger’s statement. Sadly this rather not comprehensible to most(AKB)Wenger apologist who are still in denial of Wenger’s delusion (cause they also deluded)and narrow-minded focus on financial success at the expenses of the team success. The tragedy off this all is that Wenger has lost the plot in terms of sound judgement in match tactics,player selection and improvements. Being a Wenger fan is not a equivalent of being an Arsenal fan. Simply put, Arsene is not Arsenal but dudes muddle the two together.Wenger and the Board are one and still different from our dear old Arsenal. They will all leave at some point but Arsenal remains forever.
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wenger won’t spend f all he will buy a kid or some second rate no hoper like the rest of the shite he has collected.
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Wenger: Ivan i want to spend 50m on players in january. Ivan: You can spend 5m. Wenger: Ok 25m is better: Ivan: Still 5m. Wenger: Come on 15m then. Ivan: Read my lips 5m. Wenger: Fine 5m it is. Ivan: Changed my mind just spoke with Big Stan he said you may spend 2,5 m pounds IF you sell Cazorla…….
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@ src3 i love your comment
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THE ARSENAL RICH BOARD DON’T GIVE A MONKEY ABOUT OUR OPINIONS (FANS) THEY FULL OF POLITRICKS BLINDFOLDING US FEEDING US LIEEEEES YEAR AFTER YEAR. WE HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE. TRANSFER WHAT ?
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@Jack the shite that he bring to us have his bronze statue at emirates if you know who..
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Gosh… is there anyone out there feeling like want to assassinate both Gazidis and Korenke? Kill them please, painfully. COYG!
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the boards won’t get rid off aw.he’s quite brilliant in bringing profits to the boards.sold our best players and raked in millions.bought half baked players n giving excuses after excuses over and over again…..no more invincibles around,as it is about getting richer and richer(board members)……qualified 4 CL rake in more money,so how on earth they would try 4 another manager?
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