Arsenal's front 6 - would any of them get into a title challenging squad?

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

Giroud, Walcott, Arshavin and Podolski are all mid table players

Gervinho and Chamakh are Championship players

Wenger needs to sign a minimum of three decent attacking players in Jan if Arsenal want to make the top 4

[JJSB]

Or we may have to do a Chelsea and win the Champions League to get in next season

[PET]

forget title winning squad ..

[Bergkamp's Brain]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

See what i did there?

[plastic james]

yes you can find the odd bargain ....but you get what you pay for generally.



rooney = 30 million

rvp = 24 million


dzeko = 27 million

baloteli = 24 million

tevez = 25 million

aguero = 32 million


hazard = 32 million

oscar = 25 million

mata = 23 million


and then

gervinho = 10 million

podolski = 11 million

giroud 12 = million

[JJSB]

[JJSB]

ours have far more goals and assists at about half the cost too(though the three Chelsea players compared were Marin, Hazard and Oscar)

[Bergkamp's Brain]

salaries quoted are guess work. However we do know that we have the 4th highest wage bill in the league and we do know that we pay our highest earners a lot less than the 3 teams above us. It is reasonable to assume that we pay mediocre players a lot more than we should. My comments were aimed at the figures quoted, not the principle. Some players salaries have been quoted from £50K to £70K in a matter of weeks.

The latest quote is that we are negotiating with Wilshere to take a pay cut if we do not qualify for the CL. Any truth to that?

[plastic james]

torres is a flop but id rather have chelsea's 3 behind torres than ours.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

but if the run of results doesn't improve, will the board be prepared to finance the manager?

[Camp Freddie]

[JJSB]

so then the coffers have a dent put in them, and there's no CL revenue next season either.

[JJSB]

in terms of value for money.

Oh and for me Hazard is not really progressing like he looked like he would after the first few games.

[Camp Freddie]