re: Arsenal *crickets

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Madrid will open the bank for him anyways.

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I agree with that. But, with NESV throwing around cash IMO he should have been the first option, not Carroll. I hate Chelsea with a passion and hope El Nino flops. I just think Pool overpaid for Carroll. Especially considering he might not be fit for a month.

I've had issues with Wenger the past couple of years, but what its hard to hate on him too much considering he's steered us through a tenuous financial period with the new stadium and kept us in the top four with a very young and fiscally responsible squad. Now's the payoff time though...we need more than the Carling Cup.

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Hazard in the summer and sell Arshavin back to Russia.

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I'd like Hazard, but I hope we keep Arshavin and ditch Rosicky. We still need some experience in the squad, and while Arshavin has taken heat this year he can still perform. He played with a lot of energy against Everton, just wish he did it more consistently. Rosicky is done.

This is my fear when Cesc leaves. As our team should be reaching it's pinnacle I'm afraid we are going to lose Cesc and try to replace him with Wilshere/Ramsey who aren't at that kind of level yet.

Nice 2009 article.

Net means CR's absurd transfer fee and whoever else you sold is subtracted from all your purchases. Berba, Valencia, Nani, Anderson, Chicharito, Vidic, Obertan, da Silvas, Carrick, and others sure sounds like a lot of buying over the past 5 or so years.

If you want to go net transfer money spent, I think Arsenal would blow any of the top clubs out of the water.

We really didn't need to buy anyone this window. The key to any success we have is to make sure that Koscielny and Squillaci don't play with each other. Hopefully winning the CC will lead to better things. The youth academy is key, as if even a small percentage of this latest class works out, we'll have some unbelievable depth.

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Y'all can keep Wegner. Ill take sir alex. He's a trophy winner. He develops talent as well as arse and is a better tactican

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While Sir Alex is a better tactician, partly because he'll play defensive where as Wenger never plays defensive, I really don't think he develops talent as well. That's not to say the players he has developed aren't world class, but Wenger's pedigree is much higher in terms of who he has developed in my opinion. Man U did produce one of the best academy classes ever in the 92-93 season, but I don't think any team will produce five international quality players all of the same age and talent level ever again in England.

I understand and do think arse wenger is one of the top coaches in the world. Maybe I can explain a little bit better what I mean.

Arse does a great job into developing talent but I don't think he does the best job into making good players into great players.

Sir alex does a great job making good players into great players. Maybe that's more of a tactical thing since he puts players into roles they can excell in

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Arse does a great job into developing talent but I don't think he does the best job into making good players into great players.

Sir alex does a great job making good players into great players.

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You're arguing by a matter of degrees, which makes your argument slightly difficult to elucidate, and you provide little to no evidence. If there's one thing Wenger does well, it is to make world class players. If anything, Sir Alex has a harder time developing players because he is more likely to buy them after a certain level, while Wenger often buys unproven talent in order to develop them. Sir Alex also will pay whatever price he wants for players, something Wenger has never done. There are numerous players on the squad, Nani, Hargreaves, Berbatov, Rooney, Ferdinand, Carrick, whose price exceeds anything Arseanl has ever paid for a player. For me, that's not developing, that's buying already great players.

Developing is buying Cesc for half a million pounds, and turning a deep-lying playmaker into one of the best attacking midfielders in the game. Developing is taking a raw Alex Song and turning him into one of the best DM's in the PL. Developing is taking a young support striker like Van Persie and turning him into one of the most clinical CF's in the game. That's not to even mention turning Henry from an average winger into one of the best strikers in the game, or finding Vieria, Petit, Overmars, Pires, and a slew of other players. It should be noted that many players never reach the level they had with Arsenal once they leave, Henry, Anelka before Chelsea, Vieria, Adebayor, and numerous others.