Wenger: There’s not much money in the transfer market – unless you are rich!
Arsene Wenger has been asked about whether there is any news on the Arsenal transfer front, and he again stated that he is likely to bring in a loan player (Wayne Bridge?).
Wenger said: “At the moment nothing, we don’t have a concrete case but we don’t rule it out,”
“A loan defender is the likely scenario, yes.
He also thought that there wouldn’t be much buying of players this January due to the financial problems in the world right now, except for those teams (like Man City or PSG) who had a rich backer to pay whatever they liked to secure a player.
“I am expecting a quiet market. Europe is depressed and there is not a lot of money available, only some clubs who have exceptional resources. Let’s say that clubs who are not linked with the economic environment at the moment can buy!”
Wenger may have forgot to mention that although Arsenal don’t have a sugar-daddy to bankroll their purchases, the club certainly has more than enough financial surplus to compete for top players in the market.
The big downside to the depressed market is that Arsenal are also unlikely to be able to reduce their overall wage bill by offloading some of their (to put it politely) surplus-to-requirements squad members, therefore freeing up space to bring in quality replacements. I don’t think that Arsenal could even give away players like Almunia or Squillaci!
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Here we go again. We have 2 of the richest people in the world who own arsenal. Constantly sold world class players. Yet we still can’t buy any world class talent. Bs it’s just the board and wenger being tight asses and wanting to make a profit. Wenger is an excellent manager but it is time for the board to be kicked out. What has this club Become?
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Yet we have to settle for useless players like squilacci. Now bridge. Disgrace
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ooh boriiiing financial fair play,balncing books.blah blah blah.m tired with all of these.jat bring back the glory days. dein n usmanov in!! kroenky n gazidis please out!!!
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jst throw them out.accept the loss.they dnt worth a penny.
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is kroenky one of the billionaires??if he cnt help the squad.what the use of having him there back of the board??why usmanov cnt raise his stake??he wud provide money..meanwhile kroenky n gazidis cn hv fun on the club with chairman hill wood??with the money??this is nt for economic stuff r so what.this is football.yes i admit i dnt knw anythng bt im curious with these board. what r they doing back there??calculating the money?
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I thnk wat Wenger wnts 2 say is that we r goin 2 buy cheap 3rd class players
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Basicaly it is going to be a tough year.and maybe the next season as well .
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DO WE NOT WANT TO WIN TROPHIES ANYMORE?????
CLUB HASNOT INVESTED THE MONEY FROM THE SELL OF FAB AND NASRI …….NOW LAST YEAR WE DIDNT BUY IN JAN AND WE GOT HAMMERED IN ALL COMPETETION……THIS YEAR IT SEEMS WE LOSE THE SPOT FOR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AS WELL……WE KNOW TAIWO(MILAN) AND ALY CISSOKHO(LYON) R BETTER THAN GIBBS ON ANY GIVEN DAY…..BUT STILL OUR MANAGER IS HAPPY…..COME ON WE CANNOT WIN TROPHIES UNLESS WE HAVE FULL BACKS AND GOAL SCORERS LIKE PODOLSKI IN OUR TEAM…..BUY NOW AS THEY R AVAILABLE…..OR LATER WENGER WILL SAY WE WERE THINKING OF BUYING THEM BUT LOST TO BIG BIDDERS AS USUAL.
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Chill out folks jack and sagna almost back its gonna have a huge impact especially when the Brazilian boy comes back, let’s be optimistic the season is still young…and if you can’t handle the stress just hit some cali bud
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Guys, AW is a top layer strategist, he pretends this kind of character in every possible situation. He is reluctant to give any idea that whether he is going to spend money or not. As a Arsenal supporter for a long time, I know one thing that only AW can buy players at right price that any one else. And in the current situation of world economy, he really needs to spend sensibly. Don’t get me wrong guys; I am a rational personal, but a freak Arsenal supporter. Who also wants top players in Arsenal such as in past.
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Buy good players 4 us pls. Arsene wenger pls spend dis money is not ur own money, look at mancini 4 God shake. We nid quality players not quantity players
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I bet you Wenger thinks his squad is good enough to keep as it is and that Chamakh is a suitable back up. And will probably keep him.
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Mh, @ arsenal lover, we got bussiness men there, body members are lk money counters, look on money rather than win, what the logic is on this, dein goes with our trophies, let call him back hoping will come with them, tired of big4 as success we need
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Smoke screen stuff. Why must we always settle for 3rd best AW? We are the Mighty ARSENAL and should behave like such- professional, classy and victorius. We must get better cover in defence and a decent back up striker.Podolski would be perfect as he also plays on left. Sell the hangerson-Squillaci, Almunia, Arshavin (who has been unhappy for a long time in UK), Chamakh, even Walcott who is overated. Play Ox and Park. But most of all spend the cash available as Kroenke has stated.
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Its funny how we give meaning to what wenger says & react inappropriately
Lets jst wait & s
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Unless we secure a talented player to our club arsenal we can never win any trophy infact we supporterz are tired of not win any trophy.
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New players?; forget. AW n the board are not gonna buy any; that’s why our team is suffering. We should have been 2nd by now but…..too many shit players.
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So there is no money out there .. But they raise season ticket prices .. Thanks for that! Arsenal are earning more money than ever .. What has happened to that 60mill from cesc and nasri .. Buy or we will lose rvp , and we will have to get used to competing for 4th every year..
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sack wenger and the board or else we will end up as blacburn
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Its easy to think of players like jack, sag & gibs who are about to return, yet hard to imagin loosing players like vp song and others who hav been injury free for the last 5 month. Lets not forget winning trophys is all abt having better reserve players in cases of emergency. Finally if we dont get better reserves for song, vp, arteta and others, i strongly believe in absence from top 4 and trophyless project, where those who believe in AW and his board policy now will join us in a necessary cause for change.
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Yep get rid of Wenger now we will not win anything with him again.everyone knows the players that need to be sold well everyone except Wenger that is
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@Things are in a decline. Perhaps Arsenal are waiting for Fifa Financial Regulations to take effect. At the moment, I do not think it is actually a problem for Arsenal to splash out on one or two world class players. But there is a strategy in place and I think that is it. The board and company are saving what they can now, balancing the books and are getting ready for the regulations to hit. We all know City and Chelsea etc have way too much money to throw around, making it unfair on other clubs. Let’s face it, unless we and other clubs can buy the sort calibur players City are buying, we will never beat them.
So I think we all should just hang in here and realize there is a bigger picture to this whole situation. When the regulations do take effect, Arsenal will be smiling and City, Chelsea will have serious problems. That is if these financial regulations actually do come into effect, we have all seen big wigs turn a blind eye to the law when offered enough money. Let’s hope Fifa are strict enough and uphold what they intend to do.
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I’m surprised that Wegner still thinks that us fans are to believe that money is tight. Wether it be wegner or the board they need to realise that we need strenghening and now. To think we could finish outside the top 4 is depressing, and i for one is getting fed up with the excuses we have to swollow. We have two multi billionaires on board who need to dig deep and splash the cash. So what if podolski could cost £12mil, What happened with hazard? All the interest then the price of £20+ and we run off. It’s a joke and if we are to be the team we know we can be then money needs to be spent.
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another excuse not to buy. What happened to proceed from nasri and fabrigas? Its a matter of time before i totally lose interest in arsenal.
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omg we have 50 million we might as well spend honda 12mil podolski 16 taiwo/baines 8m get a young playmaker about 3mil a right back blow the 11 mill on him thats not so hard since u get money next season usnamov dein in kroenake gazadiz out they are shit easy
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It is true that AW might just be playing word games with his statement just to give the message that we do not have money to keep the price down on any potential buys.
The thing is that us fans can take a look at what has happened during the past few seasons on the transfer market and to put it bluntly its not impressive.
We supposedly had a transfer budget of 30 million at the end of last season and if you add the Nasri 25 mill, Clichy 7 mill and Fabregas 35 mill income the total transfer kitty comes up to 97 million.
we spent
AOC 11
Gervinho 11
Park 3
Jenkinson 1
Santos 6
Arteta 10
Total 39 million
The painful truth is that with Kroenke and AW in charge we will never spend on proven world class players
In addition to this any of our players who over the years have become world class material will end up being sold by Gazidis to the club he supports who as we all know is Man City (if you don’t believe me Google it.
Now before the ‘in AW we trust’ mob start having a rant just sit back and make an assessment of the teams results over the past 6 seasons.
Has there been any improvement? NO
And don’y mention the league cup final last season where we got there by luck of the draw just to collapse mentally at the final hurdle.
It is getting worse every season and the frustration for us fans is that Manure and Chelski have not been good which means some shrewd transfers in critical positions could have turned things around.This proves on it’s own how incapable the people running the club are.
So how do we move on from where we are now.
Our only chance even though it is not easy is if Usmanov makes it to majority shareholder we are in business because he has been a supporter for many years and is twice as rich as Kroenke and 1000 times more generous.
As I have mentioned on older posts our curse was qualifying for the ECL group stage which means money guaranteed for the shareholders.
If we would not have qualified it would have broken our hearts yes, but we have gotten used to that happening in the past few years.
The thing is though that it would have also broken the shareholders pockets and that is a no go which means they would have had to take drastic measures and make changes.
But don’t worry fellow gooners this lot won’t be around forever but our great club and the massive fan base will be.
We pulled through the 50′s and 60′s and got a double and played three consecutive fa cup finals in the late seventies early 80′s.
Better times will come we just have to accept it won’t be with the current lot running the club.
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What has happened to football now. It’s sickening.
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@ Reddb 10
You made some valid points and I was surprised to hear that Gazidis supports Man City but by the end of the day:
IN WENGER WE TRUST!
Deal with it!
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We have Only one thing if true we want win SACK MR EXCUSES ARSENE WENGER
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I think i agree with you Alex,dead woods we ever like to setle at,Squilacci,Sylvester,Bridge;please for that Bridge to come in i think i prefer Miquel then rest Ramsey atimes and play the fantastic Coquelin.
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I was at secondary level, form 2 when arsenal win EPL, six mönths left to earn my degree, so may be when the time to retire my job i expect we will win, IT IS POSSIBLE IF THE MANAGEMENT WON’T CHANGE. Rub…sh!
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Why the hell would we get rid of wenger…. Try the board if you are tired of us not spending.
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We are the 4th richest club in the world year on year, and this guy keeps talking about money. Wenger has become a bloody joke. His willign to play shite players top wages, and toungsters top wages. and Thiery henry £10 million in his last year at the club whichamounted to £200k a week, yet he wont pay top money for top players, fucking joke. His gone insane
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Its sad that the manager sees we have 1 striker who can be relied upon but who has been lucky to avoid injuries this season despite being injury prone. Its also clear that if that same player don’t fire in any game we struggle. with injuries to other positions like defense, its only rational that the manager & board should rectify this in this transfer window but a failure might be a disaster for this team towards the end of this season. I stop by crossing my fingers but if we witness wat happened last season again this season, surely we shall need a change of management of our dear club.
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What pissess me off is the fact that the spuds are being linked with 1st class players and we being linked with 3rd class WTF!
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Wenger stabonnes n stupidity is costing arsenal so much.the guy is lost,he thinks us fans r stupid,he talks about arsenal dont have money.whats about nasri n febrigas money?get rid of dead wood whos not even epl standard pl.the man is in his own lil world,can u believe evep spuds r above us n wenger dosent see the problem.if wenger doesn’t buy good players we can all say good bye to RVP.all the deluded akba can sing wengers name but the the facts speaks for its self
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I suppose we should wait till the close of this window. However the last few years windows activities have been disappointing. It looks like the club’s ambition is to get the 4th place for champions league and of course continue to fill the stadium. Purely business. If we fans know the team we currently have cannot win trophies then am sure the manager, board and majority share holders also know but unfortunately they are ready to settle for less as long as business is good.
I suppose we have to be realistic. If we love the club so much then we must make the management know we fans need to win as much as they need to make money.
For a football business to be good you need the fans to keep spending. I think the support will start to dwindle if we fall short at the end of the season till the management sort things out. Supporting Arsenal is like a religion, a way of life and that will never change but I guess we have to only pay back what we get. We desperately need a top striker for long term, a class creative mid more than anything. I won’t mind much if we have to use the reserve defenders for now or loan but our game style need midfield creativity as a must. Just imagine Barcelona game without much creativity in the mid. A tactical passing side like us need that more than anything else. Fingers crossed
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wenger is not buying now, he is waiting to buy cheap players when it is only one to two days for a transfer window to close.
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so in that case dnt fill up the stadium.stop buying anythng from the club.show their ambition! n mkes quality signings!n gt rid off the deadwood. we hv a capacity of 60,000+ at the emirates. if there is only around 20 to 30,000 fans around thaT stadium n less of passion around the suporters that wud mke the board woried of their profit! so thats perhaps jst sums it why usmanov cnt raise his stake??
that must b somethng with kroenky,gazidis,hilwood.hw xn we chnge that management??hw cn a suporter manshity be on our club as an executive when it shud b dein n wenger in there.if it goes like this i wud happy to b stayed at highbury even with less capacity. that is our true arsenal.this is not the gunners that we know.
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Wenger is a complete tosser and those of you that still support him are off your head he will f–k us as he has done for the last 6 years with him in control we will nothing take a look at the situation RVP will leave next and i don’t blame him we have money but wenger guys fucken shit 3rd rate players get a lifre FFs
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I think he is holding out as long as he can…..till the last two days, to see what players can come back from injury before he thinks about getting any new players.
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gazidis openly admitted arsenal is a business model.what more u want ??? The senile board fails to understand how much they lose financially in terms of arsenal as a ‘global brand’.when a club wins trophies and are serious abt their ambition,popularity goes up resulting in more viewers,merchandise sales etc.the board have been playing too safe when it comes to money.luk at united,god knows where they would have if they were a bit more liberal in transfers.wenger in a video says he was few thousand pounds from signing ronaldo.eventually fergusom got him,look at how much they earned with his move to madrid.imagine jersey sales of ronaldo,messi.apparently i read that madrid regained the 80mill by jus selling ronaldo jerseys…but if ffp rules are enforced,it will do arsenal a lot good!!!
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To lovemygooners,
The frustration and anger is because we ARE trying to “deal with” the fact that some of you blind delusional fools trust in AW.
The thing is though if we are in such dire straits financially why doesn’t Wenger take a pay cut on the 20 million he earns a year.(you can also check that as well if you want)
If he is the great leader you say he is and we have a wage cap and club salary policy, why doesn’t he lead by example and reduces his own wage?
He is the second best paid manager in the country second only to ferguson and in contrast where Ferguson is winning trophies Wenger is winning NOTHING.
Well nothing for the fans that is, but I am sure the shareholders are laughing with the make money spend nothing philosophy of Gazidis and Wenger.
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Total. F***ing. Bullshit.
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What an absolute disgrace we sold world class players for big money kroenke god knows how much hes worth plus ticket prices went up 6-7% what an absolute outrage seriously how perthetic is that statement
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Same old story.Even when clubs like Newcastle and Sunderland,QPR were busy in the last summer window,Wenger must paint a picture of a suffering club.Only arsenal is suffering from the effect of finacial meltdown.A miser is a miser even with a billion pond at his disposal.Arsenal made so much money yet no quality player came in, what a shame.
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What happens if we finish 5th or 6th this season? Which I think could happen, what will be his excuse then? He doesn’t need to spend 50 mil on couple of players but it is pretty obvious that he needs to strengthen the team a little. What is worrying me is that our new owner has a history of owning teams that become worse once he buys them. All of his teams have gotten worse since he took over. That is what’s happening with Arsenal too. I just hope that we won’t be like Liverpool, finishing 5th or 6th 3 years in a row.
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I’ve thinking, if we need a creative mid why can’t we try get Afellay from Barca
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what pearls of obviousness from the once wise, but now deceitful and delusional wenger. It is accepted that we cannot compete with the nouveau riche sugar daddy types, but at the same time AW has wasted what funds he has had on largely average or dire buys and in doing so shown no ambition.
In trying to save money he has actually lost the club money and will continue to so along with his reputation. The contempt for paying fans is unreal.
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What are the fans at Emirates doing? Are they just feeling rich to get disappointed?
No big signings, no trophies, star names leaving…. it is getting embarrassing to say u support Arsenal, especially when spurds climb above our heads and us dropping out of big 4.
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If you are hoping for wenger to sign players, its not gonna happen, the boys need to step it up we have potential especially when everybody is injury free, wenger is a descent man and I am sure he wants success for the club…next
Season would be our season
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Even when AW had money he, the CEO n the board go in 4 cheap n mediocre players. AW always making excuses whenever we loose. Just wait 4 his response after the AC Milan match.
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arsenal have no world class midfielders ramsey is overrated walcott just has pace without it he is crap he runs in straight lines wilshiere is good but he is injured song is ok but for a holding midfielder he does give some good passes we should sell diaby chamach arshavin almunia squllaichi bendtner and buy some world class talent we got no back up for van persie we got henry on loan wenger will say wilshire will be a new signing once he is back but it wont work we NEED gotze podolski and another striker like demba ba or someone who is a proven goal scorer not some 10 year old who we have to develop we cannot win anything with this crap board we have won nothing since david dein left kroenke is a joke he never spends look at his track record in america just in there for a profit we always take a long time with transfers we could have bought mata but wenger or the board did not want to spend 23 million on a world class player when dein was there deals would have been done within a week i have lost faith in arsenal
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