I love being rich, love it, thankyou John Henry

[JER]

Am I the only one that feels like we may have perverted the values of our club?

 

 

In what way, exactly? Torres and Chelsea left us in an extremely awkward position, and the club could have done nothing, and left us with no replacement for Torres. We are better off with Carroll than without him, so I'm glad that they did what they did. This club exists to win trophies - values that have been forgotten for too long.

 

Kenny is just doing what he did in '87 with the Rush money and that didn't work out too badly

[ngogswilly]

Didn't we just do both these things? They're 22 and 23.

 

Well thats what I'm trying to say. But alot of people seem genuinely annoyed we've spent big money on young players. Obviously its understandable, its a big risk. We could end up looking like right twats.

 

But I just don't think we should throw all our eggs in going down philosophical we don't need to spend money route. We don't have to spend like crazy every year. But we do need to spend wisely and buy top quality, be it established young players or players with huge potential.

[JER]

Well thats what I'm trying to say. But alot of people seem genuinely annoyed we've spent big money on young players. Obviously its understandable, its a big risk. We could end up looking like right twats.

 

But I just don't think we should throw all our eggs in going down philosophical we don't need to spend money route. We don't have to spend like crazy every year. But we do need to spend wisely and buy top quality, be it established young players or players with huge potential.

 

I found that highly amusing - relax - it's not YOUR money

[s(k)aturation]

Well thats what I'm trying to say. But alot of people seem genuinely annoyed we've spent big money on young players. Obviously its understandable, its a big risk. We could end up looking like right twats.

 

But I just don't think we should throw all our eggs in going down philosophical we don't need to spend money route. We don't have to spend like crazy every year. But we do need to spend wisely and buy top quality, be it established young players or players with huge potential.

 

100% with you. Arsenal we are not, nor want to be please God.

 

Here's to a bit of risk and a bit of wisdom. In Kenny we trust.

[ngogswilly]

I found that highly amusing - relax - it's not YOUR money

 

Christ if I had that money, I wouldn't spend it on Andy Carroll. I'd buy a fucking island and do fuck all for the rest of my life.

[ngogswilly]

100% with you. Arsenal we are not, nor want to be please God.

 

Here's to a bit of risk and a bit of wisdom. In Kenny we trust.

 

Yeah its going to be an interesting next few years anyway so we may aswell sit back and enjoy it. I just want to enjoy football again. Under Kenny is the first time I've been enjoying watching us since 08/09.

[Alan Sex]

Christ if I had that money, I wouldn't spend it on an island. I'd buy Andy Carroll and fuck him all the rest of my life.

 

Fixed it for ya, he's ours now y'know!

[ngogswilly]

Fixed it for ya, he's ours now y'know!

 

:whistle: hes like a young kyrgiakos.

[Alan Sex]

:whistle: hes like a young kyrgiakos.

 

Jesus. Imagine being the meat in that sandwich.

[Mustangt125]

we didnt actually spend that much of our own money, though.

 

we got 50 mill for torres, 7 mill for babel, 57 mil

 

we bought a player for 35 and like 23, so say 58 mill

 

1 million expenditures, doesnt sound very rich. We basically spent nothing

[Beantown Red]

we didnt actually spend that much of our own money, though.

 

you had to ruin it with your facts?

[Zurbaran]

Thing is though the plan was to buy Suarez, Adam and a Winger with out selling Torres so if FSG are true to there word we will have a lot of money to spend in the summer.

[Red Phoenix]

We've basically taken a bit of a mad gamble with Carroll but it could pay off. It's not like we've bought someone who's completely unproven, he's scored 11 goals in 19 league appearances, so it's possible that Kenny and maybe Comolli have thought that if he's got a better team behind him he really could turn out to be a great player and worth the money in the long run. Because he's done it in the PL we already know he's capable, so it could work well.

 

Again, we just have to make sure he adapts to this properly with his off the field problems. He can go one way or the other now with the massive price we've payed for him, but I'd like to think Kenny will be able to keep him grounded and focused enough to stop his ego from causing problems with all that. If he can't, yeah we're in serious trouble with him, but I think that being around people like Kenny, Stevie, Pepe, etc should change him for the better, in several ways.

 

With the money we've spent it's a bit frustrating for some that we've broken about even because there's still the memory of the two twats clearly in our minds, but when we've finished the last day of the window with over 50mil spent on two strikers, it at least makes us sorted in that area, and maybe for years to come with their ages.

 

It's not too hard to imagine that FSG want to be sure of our long term manager before properly investing their own money either. So if we can manage to keep Kenny and have our strikers working well together, the summer window could see us turn into a team that's ready to seriously start challenging on all fronts again, like we should be doing.

[RedRoadEnd]

Am I the only one that feels like we may have perverted the values of our club?

 

Clearly the NESV pr machine has been in overdrive. Acc to them, Nando is the Devil, and the Americans are true Reds, who just "accidentally" didnt spend any of the fans money on transfers again this yr.

The truth always comes out eventually.

 

I guess thats our "marquee signing" done then... :whatever: