Everyone seems remarkably calm given the fact that we are selling are best player AGAIN and this

[Progbook]

time to Manchester United. Unbelievable.

The board and Wenger are in another universe, they really are. What sensible f**king business sells on it's greatest asset each year to a rival company?

[Selkey - Wenger's hairpiece is a masterstroke]

[Monty91]

[Monty91]

should be a bigger priority than winning trophies?

[Norn Iron]

If he's refusing to sign a new deal we have no other option but to sell him.

[Islington Exile]

in the hope of finally winning something.

[Classic Jorge]

Sale and Leaseback goldfish, that sort of thing?

[Snin]

a fun one but a silly one at the the bestof times, get a grip imo

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

due to our inability to compete (salary wise and trophy wise).

I'm not sure that, until now at least, it's been the habitual problem people seem to suggest.

[redgunamo]

We're just better at it than most, thanks to Arsene Wenger.

I just watched this; Wrighty's first transfer fee was a set of weights

http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsAndFeatures/2012/fa-inquiry-i an-wright-150812.aspx (http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/NewsAndFeatures/2012/fa-inquiry-ian-wright-150812.aspx)

Still love him.

[Classic Jorge]

Presumably you'd rather us be like....say....Villa? They are run like a business.

[Progbook]

..of that. http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/hehe.gif

As i said, you all seem remarkably calm.

[Progbook]

[Monty91]

[Trixie Popsicle]

[redgunamo]

Beautiful Game, RIP.

[Progbook]

[Progbook]

[redgunamo]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Ashberto]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Monty91]

of what could, occasionally, happen on the pitch.

No-one ever meant it to mean the "beautiful contact negotations", or the "beautiful takeover".

[Ashberto]

£200k a week salary.

With a bit of luck it will bankrupt the buggers.

[Classic Jorge]

Having lived amongst many Leeds and Bradford fans for the last decade I can tell you that from experience/

[Classic Jorge]

[Red N White Army]

I think it's more to do with him and AW as much as anything. He publicly slated him, he had to get rid.

[Monty91]

[redgunamo]

Are you saying you're only an Arsenal fan so long as we're in the European Cup?

[Progbook]

[kilburn_ralph]

[Red N White Army]

And got caught short (relatively) when the offers didn't come flooding in. Neither of us have much of a choice if they're the only ones ponying up the cash, and he won't back down.

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

Can you imagine if we somehow managed to win the league? Would that not be one of the most beautiful, romantic stories in the history of the sport?

[Monty91]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

Of course that does not invalidate what you said, but perhaps he really believed in what Wenger was doing and wanted to stay?

[redgunamo]

being rescued from bankruptcy, you mean?

That's football, dear.

[Classic Jorge]

However grownup we pretend to be there's still a tiny part of us whose self-esteem is linked to the fortunes of our team.

[Progbook]

[redgunamo]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

norverner http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/smile.gif

[kilburn_ralph]

[redgunamo]

[Red N White Army]

Never keeps an unhappy player. It's pointless and not helpful to the rest of the team.

[Monty91]

was evidence of their carefree, 'carpe diem' attitude, in contrast to our dour business-like approach.

But my problem is not so much with the financial vulnerability that comes with being a rich man's play thing (though there are rightly concerns about this model), but with the moral degredation of it.

[Classic Jorge]

Given that Abramovich's money was essentially stolen from the still rather pisspoor russian people, rather than stuff that just bubbled up out of the desert whilst Uncle Ged Bin-Ibn al Makhtoum al Mansour was out huntin' 'coons in that thyar desert one day.

[redgunamo]

Or, rather, my morals, such as they are, are not the most important thing. Ever.

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

I just think it'd be nicer to win it our way. It would feel more earned, like getting rich from toiling for years on an intellectually compelling best-selling book rather than winning the lottery.

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

Shall I put you down for a fiver of the usual numbers and another five lucky dips?

[Monty91]

[redgunamo]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Treeing-walker-coonhound-standing.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

When he was a child you'd have to travel for miles, sometimes as far as Kensington, to find an organic cafe that served eggs benedict http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/frown.gif

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

decent eggs Benedict are, of course, paramount.

[Supermac1976]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4kw6g69611r9164to1_1280.png
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cav5bEZw1r9164to1_1280.png

http://maddieonthings.com/

[redgunamo]

There's always unhappy employees in every workplace.

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Peter]

A year really. It was pretty obvious when he didnt sign last summer.

Let it go