Roberto Martinez is soon going to have to face up to the fact that he is running out of

[Ashberto]

hair.

[Nicosia Gooner]

tbf I also like him but wanted him to prove himself at the top level before he comes anywhere near Arsenal

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

Probably because he's done well with Everton (until this season) whilst on a shoestring budget. Now we have money, who knows? When AW does call it a day, he's going to be a tough act to follow especially with some of our noisier fans shouts for instant gratification.

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Ashberto]

His team might have a little bit dipped in their league form this year but he'd be worth a try imo. Good fun, at least.

[Peter]

It winds me up too much :-)

[Ashberto]

[Nicosia Gooner]

Of course they lost a couple of players but to bottom of the German League halfway in the season isn't just bad luck.

I also like him but this year's performances perhaps tell us something

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Ashberto]

That's not an elbow in the face, he's just getting across his man".

Tony Gale has never got over being called fat and slow when he played against Ian Wright. I expect things were said about his wife too.

[Nicosia Gooner]

[barrybueno]

left in place along with the ****ty and totally wrong FFP.

Pretty sure the new man will finish top four all the time FFP is enforced, maybe even top two in a few years when it really starts to hit City and Chelsea.

Before anyone mentions the Manu situation they don't compare, Fergie left a pile of ****, Wenger will leave a decent squard with some fantastic players and some decent potential.

[Ashberto]

http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/002/506/866/klopp_crop_exact.jpg?w=1500&h=1500&q=85

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Peter]

A player's legs without that player ever being in the goalkeeper's eye line.

A diagram would be even better. :-)

[Nicosia Gooner]

behind their disaster so far, no?

I have no idea what it is but its too risky for us to have him right now.

[Ashberto]

which inflate ticket prices for non-doped clubs?

You sound like Rich will be next year, squealing that his buffed-up Bournmouth aren't being allowed to compete with the rich clubs and should be allowed to buy their way to the top, rather than to grow their way there.

You'll start me off on why West Ham's *** FREE STADIUM **** will make them the next Man City in a minute.

[Peter]

Some of them seem to have a genuinely flawed understanding of the rules of the game.

[Ashberto]

I'm suggesting he might be in the frame when Arsene sees out his contract, assuming that this season is a blip for Klopp. All managers should be allowed a bit of slack, right?

[Peter]

They must have one or two we would like :-)

[Ben.]

had the idea of such a **** club having a television station not been so ridiculous.

[barrybueno]

stop clubs going bankrupt when really that's bull****, it's designed to create a closed shop for all the big clubs in Europe.

I think it's a pile of crap Ash but obviously as a Gooner you're gonna like it as it should return Arsenal to second in the country for the next 100 years, maybe the odd title when Manu have a bad season.

[Ashberto]

which inflate ticket prices for non-doped clubs?

I think you forgot to answer that one :hehe:

[barrybueno]

has the potential to do what Arsenal has done. The CL was bad enough for making the big clubs in each country even bigger but FFP has really sealed it. As for ticket prices I think you'll find FFP will push them up, when a club is trying to keep up and they are flat out of things to sell to sponsors they'll pass the cost on to the mugs paying at the gate.

[Peter]

And through carrying moderate levels of debt.

So for us, a new owner could have stumped up the 400 million for the ground, leaving us free to spend our own money on players. That would have been nice :-)

It prevents short term huge investment in players designed to bring short term success.

[Peter]

I hate it, even though it helped us pay for pur new stadium.

[Ashberto]

And when the nth team in a league becomes owned by a Mansour/Abramovic, they'll only have a 1/n chance of winning anything, so what are they spending their money on?

I take your point about the CL, but Leeds, Newcastle, Everton and Spurs have had a go in it. Just because Wenger has got Arsenal in it every year, despite a very low net transfer spend during that period, people assume that that sort of consistency is easy.

[Ashberto]

Even a bostonbrian club like, for example, and picked entirely at random, Crystal Palace, have an extra 20-30m now, which is spread a lot more evenly in this league than in Spaid, where two clubs hoover up all the TV money.

[barrybueno]

PS. I do agree about the TV money, that's fair do's, and I do like that bostonbrian of a random club :thumbup: