Seems to be a lot of discussion around Arteta's future

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Peter

What superstar attacking quality did City, United or Chelsea pay more than 100 million for?

Haaland, Cherki, Marmoush, Semenyo and Doku....

They cost roughly the same in total as Havertz, Gyokeres, Madueke, Jesus and Eze.

So if they have world class attacking talent and we dont, it isnt because of money. We must just be **** at spending it.

---

Haaland's singing on bonuses (on top of transfer fee) included 50mill for Raiola and 30mill for his father. It's well publicised that it will cost them over $500million to keep him for his contract. They have also spent 100mill on Grealish. 80m on Marmoush. 65m on Semenyo. 70m on Reijndners and the list goes on and on and on.

Don't try and defend Man City who are the most significant proponents of financial doping out there. And it seems that they'll have to face the music this summer in regards to that.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rich

Haaland's singing on bonuses (on top of transfer fee) included 50mill for Raiola and 30mill for his father. It's well publicised that it will cost them over $500million to keep him for his contract. They have also spent 100mill on Grealish. 80m on Marmoush. 65m on Semenyo. 70m on Reijndners and the list goes on and on and on.

Don't try and defend Man City who are the most significant proponents of financial doping out there. And it seems that they'll have to face the music this summer in regards to that.

---

I'm not defending them. I'm politely pointing out that their attackers didnt cost more than ours.

Grealish doesn't play for them anymore, and we spent 100 million on Rice. Not relevant.

You've massively overstated the fees for Marmoush and Reijnders.

My point is that spending vast sums of money has given us an attack that you think is useless.

And you think the solution is to pay bigger fees?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Peter

I'm not defending them. I'm politely pointing out that their attackers didnt cost more than ours.

Grealish doesn't play for them anymore, and we spent 100 million on Rice. Not relevant.

You've massively overstated the fees for Marmoush and Reijnders.

My point is that spending vast sums of money has given us an attack that you think is useless.

And you think the solution is to pay bigger fees?

---

Our front three comprises Saka (free), Martinelli (4million), Trossard (20million), Gyokeres (50million). It's not remotely comparible to them / their options.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Rich

Our front three comprises Saka (free), Martinelli (4million), Trossard (20million), Gyokeres (50million). It's not remotely comparible to them / their options.

---

Now that is financial doping. Deliberately selecting our cheapest forwards and ignoring the expensive ones.

Jesus, Havertz, Madueke, Eze. 230 million quid, right there. And, according to you, part of a useless attack. Bad spend :-(