As Emery has recently admitted that we can only sign players on loan and that’s is due to a number of fact.
Arsene Wenger was tasked to buy a prolific CF and decided on Lacazette instead of Aubameyang which costed more than £110m combined fees and another £12m per season salary for Auba.
He also had no choice but to offload Alexis Sanchez to United and ended up agreeing to take Mikhitaryan on £11m per season wages. Finally, him and Gazidis extended Ozil’s contract to £22m per season and that’s why we are stretched since all these players are nearing 30 yrs and have almost minimal resale value.
The reality is that Gazidis, Sanllehi and Mislintat had to make three huge calls in a matter of a few days, without knowing who the next manager was going to be and what type of players he would like.
They got one of those decisions right in Aubameyang and, it appears for now, two wrong. But the choices made a year ago are making a lasting impact, both in the type of players Arsenal can recruit and in the ones they can retain.
Reasons why we can’t buy players
posted on 16/1/19
*Your.
posted on 16/1/19
That's a really good point if you ignore the £130m that Arsenal got in.
posted on 16/1/19
No the point is they won't have Stones & Lukaku's to sell everyday, those two players make up nearly the entire 50% - our transfer revenue has been a lot more balanced in terms of selling players even though we are too often terrible at getting more than a packet of quavers for them.
posted on 16/1/19
But please, do continue with your read other people's comments whilst singing 'BLAH BLAH BLAH' in your head approach!
posted on 16/1/19
posted on 17/1/19
You should have sold Ozil, Sanchez, and Ramsey. You would have got in well over £100m and used that to reinvest and revamp the squad. The issue would be the signings. You have made a lot of poor buys recently. Other than 2-3 players signed in, the rest have been poor to average. Going off that, you could actually be in a worse off state if that did happen.
posted on 17/1/19
DJ we've made more on player sales than Everton in the last 3 years so your point is a moot one.
No idea why our fans are trying to delude themselves with this overspending nonsense. For years we begged for spending and when we did it still was nowhere near the spending of the other top teams. Or Everton.
posted on 17/1/19
So we have made more from sales, Everton have spent more yet our net spend is bigger?
Something doesn't add up here...
posted on 17/1/19
By less than 10 million over three years I think.
You're just being weird about it.
posted on 17/1/19
Everton got new owners and invested heavily in the last few years so if our spending is about the same as theirs then obviously we spent a lot as well. Saying other teams spent crap as an excuse for our bad spending or about how other teams can spend more is just a loser mentality. Otherwise Spurs wouldn't be ahead of us or Liverpool woudln't be competing with City. Just focus on Arsenal and how poor our deals have been and how we can improve.