A wonderful BBC photo accompanyment to this piece

[7evens]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20220153

[willich]

Say " It ain't so " , what about old song from the Monkeys " I'm a believer "

[Rich]

overachieving for the last 6 or 7 years and who say we'll never get back to the top.

They've been told it by more intelligent people on this board many times but maybe now it's on the BBC they'll see how silly and misguided their views are.

Here's to the future :beer:

[Jake]

[Rich]

specified. There's no argument about that.

All three of them will at least double which will give us a good £100million in extra income per season. The only reason that they're so low compared to other teams in the league is because we got the money up front. Otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get a big enough loan to build the world's second most expensive stadium or would find ourselves crippled with debt so that we could never take advantage of it.

When The Emirates was built we were told it was a 'LONG TERM' project. Some fans seemed to ignore that information. It was then made worse by what happened at Chelsea and City. I don't know how we've carried on being in the elite in the Premier League but Arsene does http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/nod.gif

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

[wagoaw (out only, no in)]

4th highest wage bill for the last 6 or 7 years.