Wenger knows what needs to be done in January

[No-one knows LESS about Wenger than Myles Palmer]

Keep the faith guys - I think he's going to go on a spending spree for the first time

[Ronaldooooooo]

[No-one knows LESS about Wenger than Myles Palmer]

[TRENT COLTON]

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

No more....

The boy has cried wolf for the last time.....

[Goonerism]

Every f**ker else did. Its ludicrous that a club of our means and size had ONE striker in the squad today.

[JUNGLEMAN]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

If he doesn't spend it's by choice.

[Ronaldooooooo]

[No-one knows LESS about Wenger than Myles Palmer]

[TRENT COLTON]

To gamble yet another season on his fitness was just negligence.

[Ronaldooooooo]

[No-one knows LESS about Wenger than Myles Palmer]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[No-one knows LESS about Wenger than Myles Palmer]

[No-one knows LESS about Wenger than Myles Palmer]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

there is no telling how much of all this is smoke and mirrors.

I suspect that the money is there to spend but the players Wenger really wants will not come for the wages on offer.

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

years and made some shocking buys. Many of whom who are a drain on the wage bill.

[Goonerism]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

less money.

[Ronaldooooooo]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

Get with the programme man

[No-one knows LESS about Wenger than Myles Palmer]

[Goonerism]

Yet we have no problem paying market rate (and above) for our manager and CEO.

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

money than Ramsey. There's f**king loads of examples.

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

Less common in a sports team, but we're not really one of these any more are we?

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

and Twitter is not proof

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

[TRENT COLTON]

don't turn up for him very often.

This is great imo. An ostrich free, proper good winge http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/cloudnine.gif

[Yesterday Once More]

He may be Scrooge, but the ending is not like Dickens!!

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

structures is probably the biggest pointer. Newcastle's total wage bill is just about 1/3 of ours, West Broms is probably even less. Ba for example is rumoured to be on 30k a week. Chamakh is on more than double that.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/transfer-news/Newcastle-read y-to-double-Demba-Ba-wages-to-60k-a-week-to-convince-him-to- stay-at-club-article851639.html (http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/transfer-news/Newcastle-ready-to-double-Demba-Ba-wages-to-60k-a-week-to-convince-him-to-stay-at-club-article851639.html)

If you honestly think those players i've mentioned are on the same money as ours you're a fool. You don't though, you're just being argumentative.

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

get rid because he part of the fixtures and fittings and people keep thinking of the good times.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Progbook]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

Unless you actully know, i.e. seen the payslips, or downloaded their HR database, then it can only be guesses based on speculation.

I hear that Gervinho is on under £40k a week becuase the hold up in the original deal to sign him was that Spurs came in offered him £40K, then withdrew a week later. Again this is what I heard and I have no proof, so it can't be seen as reliable.

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

Chief executive Ivan Gazidis was at pains to emphasise the club’s self-sustaining model, claiming that the club “can and will forge its own path to successâ€�, though he must be concerned about the continuing decline in operating profits, which have fallen from a £31 million peak in 2008/09 for the football business. In fact, excluding property development, the club actually reported an operating loss of £18 million last season (2011/12), compared to the previous year’s £9 million operating profit. This £28 million turnaround was due to operating expenses (£38 million) rising much faster than revenue (£10 million).

http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/arsenal-song-remai ns-same.html (http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/arsenal-song-remains-same.html)

Only in profit through player sales. Nothing to do with that slippery arsehole.

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

Through that went to better clubs.

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

That being said, the players also aren't as good as they used to be either.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

I'm assuming that this exclude player purchase? If so then that is fair enough

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

have posted an £18M loss.

Not something you'd expect from the Premier League's highest paid CEO.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Goonerism]

[Jake]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

of course the club can easily suggest that the Emirates deal is the difference and that the new deal will mean that we will not make an operating loss, player transfers excluded. The question is can we move forward without selling our better players?

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

punched above their weight and sold their best players. Ohhhh a parallel.

[ArseMart - Enjoy every sandwich]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

be in the Top Five. Don't think there's a comparison. Clough's was challenging for trophies (and winning some) until his final season when they were relegated.