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If Campbell and Poldi don't start tomorrow... sell them now. We need to win what will be a dificult
game if Southampton turn up with their first XI, and we need to do it without too many first choice players
Ospina
Bellerin Chambers Hayden Monreal
Ox Diaby Flamini Rosicky Podolski
Campbell
might do the trick. Shaky looking at the back, and Monreal may not be available. In which case Gibbs might have to play or Flamini play as a full back. With a strong bench to bail them out in case things aren't going well, we could clinch this.
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The September transfer window?
All valid points otherwise.
Well apart from the reference to clinching it. To me it suggests a sense of importance.
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Do we really care? If we go out then we have more rest days in the future.
Which might be especially useful with our pitiful excuse of a defence.
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I think the cup win last year means we can go back to laughing at the league cup.
We don't need to win this.
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Why do we need to win it, Mo? We just won the FA Cup, so there's no desperation for a trinket.
This competition should revert to a run-out for kids and squad players.
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Also: Chambers? Monreal? We can't risk any first team defenders.
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I agree. Although we can probably do well in it whilst still resting the first XI. The
proposed team selections are all quite strong.
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Our best chance of winning a trophy.Winning trophies keeps the momentum. 3rd and this cup is better
than 4th and nothing, or FA Cup and 5th.
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Poor Sanogo
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You won't beat a good Southampton side with a youth team defence. That line-up is
already quite young and inexperienced. If you play a youth team defence you may as well play the whole youth team. There's no point in tiring first team squad players if you're not going to have a decent chance of winning the game.
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We should do a sweep on how many appearances he'll have made before he scores his first goal.
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Read something over the weekedn that stated our squard wages were now above those of Chelsea ?
Evidently, we're still carrying too much deadwood or paying over the odds for mid priced talent. :sherlock:
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I may have made this point before but playing footballers in football matches does not constitute a
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He's the new Kaba Diawara imo.
Although Diawara did at least used to hit the post with monotonous regularity.
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I thought you wanted us to spend some fahking money.
Make your mind up, for Christ's sake.
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The report was based on us having 60/40 wages to turnover ratio, not knowing how much
we'll turnover or what the ratio will actually be (They predict we'll turnover 320m). The ratio at the minite is 56/44. Also not sure how our wage bill goes up by almost 40m and Chelsea's stays around the same level in these reports. We sold some decent earners and of the players we bought only Welbeck and Sanchez will be on high wages. The outgoings and incomings probably balance each other out.
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Tiring? Rosicky, Campbell and Pololski have had hardly a kick all year.
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First team squad players not involved v Villa.
Perhaps if Chambers is 1 yellow away from a suspension he may sit it out as Wenger may choose his involvement, or availability, for Spurs to be more important.
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They got rid of Louise, Cole, Lamps and Torres
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We've already lost two players for half a season - in the first month.
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Yeah and we got rid of Sagna, Vermaelen, Fabianksi, Park and Bendtner.
I think the wages of that lot probably covers Ospina, Chambers, Welbeck, and Debuchy.
Sanchez probably earns 7-10m a year, so where does the rest come from?
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So maybe it would be best if we don't play players at all
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Welbz was reported to be on anything from 70k-90k at Man U
Don't forget, Nanny and Ashley Young are both on 115k :hehe:
I'd imagine the Chelsea lot were all on considerably more but I know where you're coming from.
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Playing football is the cause of the whole trouble.
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That would be silly.
If we are to mock the concept of squads and priorities, why has Arsene not always played his best team in this competition?
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It's the League Cup. If it was important would we be charging ten quid in and still not selling out
even with a 5-6K away allocation?
I can't believe I'm having to conduct this conversation.
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You're not getting this whole quality over quantity thing are you..
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Crucial difference, it's gone from spensamfakkinmunny to spendmorfakkinmunny!
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You're going to have to spell it out.Since you whinge about everything, it becomes rather tricky to
establish what the f**k you actually want.
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Oh, sure. Even one of my boys is going, I think, for all the good it is going to do.
No, it's the idea that playing football matches is inherently bad for footballers, and that we should somehow rest them all for the European Cup final, that is being questioned.
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Right. Hopefully on the right players this time.
You know, the ones that'll win us the Champions League.
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By which you mean forwards
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More number 10s.
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It's Spurs on saturday.