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Originally Posted by Sir C
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nice to see you are on message, sc :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I was a little surprised there a week or two ago when I read a piece with Carl Jenkinson who was discussing his non-move to Palace. He did not of course lay out the full reasons but did state the issue was not financial.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
He did however mention that he had still another 3.5 years on his deal with us, which surprised this reader. Mental arithmetic of 3.5 years lead me to 182 weeks and I hazarded a guess at perhaps £25,000 per week. So I worked out we had committed to paying this chap a further sum of £4.6m in basic salary over a period when it is not impossible to think that he may never kick a first team ball again.
The whole thing is wrong.
I don’t blame him of course, nor the club really.
He can get a lot of arsenal wallpaper with that money.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Our position in the table is not relevant as we have no chance of winning the league, and it is still February.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
What is relevant are the appalling performances against big teams in important matches, how often it has happened over the past 5 or 6 years and the lack of real challenges for the league or the CL over the past 11 years. All of those things are terribly relevant and terribly damning.
Good thing is that while people like you may not realizing how damning these things are, there are increasing signs that Wenger does.
A prime example of the third rate, second stringer. Earning millions...
AND the 'Arsenalification' of that bedroom; well, quite remarkable.
:nono: Arsenal wallpaper is hard to come by... could be a fash marketing idea here for youQuote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
If my kid who is 9 asked for that I would tell him to grow up.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
It isn't like I am standing there calling for Born in the USA. Just maybe one of his selection of, oooh, 20 odd best songs that he never plays. It amazes me that people like you can stand there and watch Working on the Highway for the 20th time and not at least wonder whether the old **** might consider slipping in Used Cars, or Backstreets, Racing in the Street, Factory, a full band Thunder Road perhaps, something from Joad other than Youngstown...just once.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
The live shows have become a little predictable. Still a great night and compared to watching anyone else a great show. Just not as good as it could/should be.
I've read he's on £45k a week.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
And you are skipping over the poor performances against average/**** teams, as well as the regular habit of completely failing to turn up at home to Watford.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
It isn't just big games against big sides where we let ourselves down. It regularly occurs against rubbish as well.
Perhaps an ambassadorial role, imo. Nothing more.
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Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
My friend, you seem distressed and conflicted on this matter. :-( On the won hand, you are cross with the team/manager, but on the other, you don't want to be among the Wengeraaahti. I understand and sympathise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I am cross, yes, but I am unwilling to allow my crossness to engender a lack of perspective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
That's not helpful mate, honestly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Goat Sverige
Shocking.
Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing somethingQuote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
A natural end of contract parting of the ways this summer is the best progress for all concerned I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
No sacking, no kicking out, simply change.
No, it's actually big club mentality. After all, most of them have spent time outside the top division.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Perspective. 'Poor performances against ****/average teams' and 'failing to turn up' would suggest that we lie 17th. We are significantly better than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
No, it would suggest that we cant get the kind of consistency that keeps you in a title race. For example a recent run of six very winnable games yielded 4 wins and a draw because we were a disgrace against Bournemouth and Watford. By the time we got to Chelsea we were out of the race, effectively.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Right. And even that, only after a period of reflection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Certainly He's something of a victim of His own method, as normally the club runs itself while the manager is merely expected to run the football team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Managers deriving credit for maintaining a club's financial health is unusual.
Therein lies the problem...too many conflicts of interest and major step away from the careful coaching and man management that made him successful.
He says his job is to entertain but there wasn't anything entertaining about losing to Watford or last nights humiliation.
Board don't see it as an issue and wants him to stay because he keeps on brining in the cash with his 'entertainment'
He clearly loves the club and all that but things have gotten away from him...does he even still stay up at night wat high games from the Estonian 2nd division like he used too? probably not...
He only did all that to avoid the wife, I thought, and she's gone now, ain't she?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
It really was woeful, not really sure any of them could look AW in the eye today and say they gave it 100% (except LK6)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C