People seem to believe that Arsenal spend no money in comparison to the likes of Chelsea, City and Utd over the past decade or so..
What a load of nonsense.
While Arsenal did not regularly fork out the bigger fees and wages as the others did, they still wasted millions upon millions on what I would call bad investments.
Bendtner, Chamackh, Diaby, Silvestre, Park, Gervinho, Squillaci, and many more have earned at least 2-3 million EACH year they have been at arsenal.
Haven't totalled it up now, but I'm sure we would be talking of a sum somewhere around 100m WASTED on wages of players who were either useless, or we're never developed properly.
So yes, it's not been 300 or 400m, but it has still been a massive waste of resources. And for that we cannot blame anybody outside of Arsenal. Just look at Liverpool now. They invested wisely. And it shows.
Feel free to add anybody I've missed.. The money is not the biggest issue, but more the USE of it.
Shaddup about money FFS
posted on 16/4/14
Rarely have I seen so many "I reckon"s stuck together in the form of fact.
posted on 16/4/14
My bad.. Figures are wrong. According to this..
http://www.football-salaries.com/2013/09/04/player-salaries-borussia-dortmund/
But the general gist of what I am sayin is Arsenal have wasted what money they have spent..
To be paying Bendtner 2.5m a year, and so it would appear over the course of his time here we are looking at over 10m wasted, multiply that by 7/8/9 players.. A massive waste.
The extra 5-10m we won't budge on when it comes to draxler and co.. Goes into these players pockets, and they add nothing.
posted on 16/4/14
Just to be clear.. I am NOT moaning about the fact we haven't spent more money, just having a go at others who seem to believe we have no money to spend when we actually have spent quite a lot on garbage.
Then our season falls apart.. And who do we blame? Chelsea, or city, or Utd, or anyone else but ourselves...
And you want to know who the biggest culprit is.. Arsene himself. No wonder Jose taunts him. Always blaming others.
posted on 16/4/14
The problem has been a not too vast a difference in wages between say a Bendtner and a Van Persie. RVP was paid too little though he would have gone anyway and Bendtner was paid too much.
posted on 16/4/14
So your main point is that the club has spent money on players who for one reason or another did not make the grade and this makes you unhappy because you see it as money wasted.
Tell you what, why don't you offer Wenger your crystal ball - I'm sure he'd be interested...
posted on 16/4/14
...not as interested as the clubs who have spent as much/more and similarly failed/done even worse.
posted on 16/4/14
OP, youre a facking idiot. We spend far less than anyone else in the top 4 and a lot of other clubs. 2 links to prove it...
http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/a-graph-showing-arsenal-chelsea-and-man-citys-net-spending-since-sheikh-mansour-moved-into-the-etihad-picture/
http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2011/08/12/arsenals-net-spending-of-48m-in-a-decade-puts-them-9th-in-premier-league-120802/
posted on 17/4/14
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/f0/f00a442e126e1aae560d10926df9fa2eab017b9e806fb840eeb9ff1b3d3861a8.jpg
posted on 17/4/14
Dudes got a point but its lost on you Wenger supporters,
noone needed a crystal ball to know denilson was kack ,not one other person thought bendtner was worth 52.000 a week,
(not even bendtner, who head over heels that us mugs paid him that much changed his shirt number to 52 in sheer shock mid season)
how many reasonable priced players during these periods were we screaming for all whilst the likes of almunia was in goal i may add,
the list goes on and on,what we saved in fees was lost in wages and outright crappyness
posted on 17/4/14
comment by Joey Joe Joe Shabbadoo (U6955)
posted 53 minutes ago
Dudes got a point but its lost on you Wenger supporters,
noone needed a crystal ball to know denilson was kack ,not one other person thought bendtner was worth 52.000 a week,
(not even bendtner, who head over heels that us mugs paid him that much changed his shirt number to 52 in sheer shock mid season)
how many reasonable priced players during these periods were we screaming for all whilst the likes of almunia was in goal i may add,
the list goes on and on,what we saved in fees was lost in wages and outright crappyness
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Arsenal and particularly Arsene have allowed for some god awful players to be paid silly money, don't think any fool would deny that.
However, to even mention them in the same breath as City or Chelsea when it comes to spending is reetarded