Arsenal FC Thread

[Thade2532]

Wenger: Eduardo returns to training next week
Eduardo will take a significant step towards his long-awaited first-team comeback next week.

The Croatian striker has not played since breaking his leg and dislocating his ankle during a Premier League game at Birmingham City on February 23. Now, after surgery and a long rehabilitation, Eduardo is on the brink of rejoining his team-mates on the training pitch.

"Eduardo is doing very well and is one week away from joining in training,” confirmed Arsène Wenger at his pre-match press conference on Friday.

The Arsenal manager discusses Eduardo's timetable for a first-team return in his exclusive interview with Arsenal TV Online. Subscribers can watch this from Friday morning.

taken from the official website and also Toure is out of the Man City game

[y0daddyalex]

Originally Posted by Thade2532

hes better than what everyones say he is, hes not a bad player and not really a bad captain, just he shouldnt have been captain in first place

I've watched every game carefully and you can pretty much see almost every goal conceded is in some way gallas' fault.

[AriseForLife]

Originally Posted by y0daddyalex

its not wengers choice, the owners obviously are trying to make as much money as possible in profits and spend as little as possible on players. they dont want to sign any one else and wenger is forced to stick with the team he has

Wrong.

It actually is Wengers choice. Every since Arsene's 2nd year at the club he has had complete autonomy over transfers. Arsene elects not to spend money despite having an average of £38.5M available for spending over the last 5 years.

Arsenal's financial structure is set up so that player transfers are not part of the planned yearly budget. This summer when Arsene said they would be a selling club fot he next 10 years he made that comment based on his idea that he would rather use money on from selling players and the money made available to him to pay off debt rather than bring in more of it.

Among who I consider to be the most valuable clubs in England (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Newcastle United, and Tottenham), Arsenal are third to Tottenham and Newcastle in terms of overall debt so we are in a sound financial situation and the money is there. We have not one, but two Billionaires that have stock in the club so if we were to ever start going under they would put up money to balance us because they would lose more money selling than they would bailing us out. However we will never come to that situation because of such a good financial plan in place for our future.

[AriseForLife]

Originally Posted by den525player

Wenger have spent in the past, so i don't think it is the case that he doesn't want to, but he probably doesn't have any money. Mind you Arsenal have spent on alot of youngsters, probably have to pay compensation for some of those. Not sure how they are paying for the Emirates either... im guessing something like 10-20m each year? just a guess

Arsenal has the money. The money we pay for youngsters doesn't even add up to more than £4M and the most we have ever had to fork over was for Walcott and even his transfer ended up being cheap than originally planned because Southamption took less money to have it sooner.

Taken from the 2007 Annual Report

Significant funds were available to themanager during the summer transfer window,as evidenced by the cash balance at the end ofMay of some £73.9 million, but in fact we wereable to secure all of his main targets for a totaloutlay well below the maximum budgetavailable. Everyone at the Club is very excitedby the enormous potential which exists in thecurrent playing squad and we are confidentthat Arsène Wenger is building a team of whichwe will be very proud.

The Emirates stadium project is going to cost Arsenal PLC £430M and of that only £260M is actual financed debt. The way it breaks down is £210M is over 23 years so that means £9.13M per year and the other £50M over 25 years or £2M per year. All in all thats £11.13M per year in paid debt and that sum is less than the amount we paid to acquire Walcott, Nasri, Eduardo, Rosicky, or Hleb.

So as you can see we are fine financially and Arsene has had the money available to him to get players but chooses not to spend it. At the close of the year there was a surpluse of £74M availble and Arsene did not touch 25% of that amount for new players.

[AriseForLife]

Originally Posted by CaLLyRN

they buy young players and sell them in their prime


players go their to get better than leave...

You're still at it. You are a fool. It amazes me how much of a moron you truly are.

None of the players you mentioned were in the prime and none of them were young.

Arsenal has NEVER sold a player that was young an in his prime other than Anelka and he HAD to leave the club because he was a cancer.

Marc Overmars played 97 games for Barcelona over 4 seasons and was never as good as he was for Arsenal. We bought him for £5M and sold him for £25.5M so that was just good old fashion excellent business. He average 33 games a year for Arsenal and 24 games a year for Barcelona. He played in three less games for Barcelona despite being there 1 full season longer and scored 10 less goals, hardly what I would call prime.

Petit left us after three successful seasons and went to Barca where he bombed and ended up back at Chelsea where he wasn't nearly as good as he was with Arsenal. Petit was not in his prime either.

Bottom line stop thinking you know anything about ARsenal or football outside of Italy for that matter because the more you talk the more you look like a fool because you don't know what you are talking about.

Before you try to call anyone a platform club you need to take a look at your own club.

[AriseForLife]

Originally Posted by Thade2532

hes better than what everyones say he is, hes not a bad player and not really a bad captain, just he shouldnt have been captain in first place

Gallas is terrible. I couldn't stand him at Chelsea and I don't like him even more at Arsenal. Gallas should have never been allowed to join Arsenal, I would have rather taken someone else from Chelsea than him.

Gallas doesn't fit the type of CB that Arsenal historically uses, we had the likes of Keown, Campbell, Adams, etc who are physical CBs and that is something that Gallas is nothing like.

[elementkid1021]

what do you guys make of this?

ESPNsoccernet - England - Gallas reveals rift in Arsenal dressing-room


if it was one of the four players that are 25, my money would be on eboue.

[Scuba Steve]

I can actually see it being RVP. He is whiny, and comes across to me as a complainer. But it could be Eboue for his lack of playing time.

[ForeverBlue'86]

Or Van Persie.

EDIT - ^^ What he said.

[AriseForLife]

I honestly think its Van Persie and if it is this could be a good thing because I have wanted him sold for the last three seasons.

[AriseForLife]

....and hopefully Gallas will follow him out of the door.

[chemicalrubber]

I wanted Gallas to leave since last season. I hoped that Raul Albiol will sign but this is a more or less impossibility.

[TomRuss20]

Someone I'd like to see in an Arsenal shirt would be, well yeah actually Raul Albiol, he'll eventually get a permanent spot in the Spain national team and then he can develop an understanding with Cesc.

[Thade2532]

Gallas is a good player and better than what most of you give him credit for but his problem is his attitude and always has been, Albiol isnt the soloution at the moment, we need a big centre back which all the big teams have bar us, every top team has a ball playing centre back and a big no nonsense centre like Man Utd have Vidic the no nonsence CB and Ferdinand the Ball playing CB and suprisingly weve been linked with Daniel Van Buyten who is a big no nonsence CB so him and Toure wouldnt be a bad partnership.

[TomRuss20]

Well the good thing about Albiol is that he can play in a holding position in the midfield. Maybe he could be the one?

[AriseForLife]

I have to disagree with you Thade. William Gallas is A LOT worse that many of give him credit for. Sure he scores the occasional goal, but ever since he left Chelsea under Mourinho he has not been as sound defensively and gets worse each season. Gallas is not good enough to wear an Arsenal shirt and if you think he is then something is wrong.

Right about now I am wishing we would have signed Vincent Kompany because even though he is another young player with not a lot of experience, he couldn't do much worse than Gallas has and he would continue to get better rather than worse as the case is with Gallas.

Gallas is not to blame completely though, we haven't had any production from the midfield this season, Cesc is looking burned out and aside from Nasri and Theo the rest of our midfield has been horrible at best. Denilson shows promise, but I don't see him really shining until nexy season at the soonest.

Right now we are in a world of hurt and need to have something good happen or else everything is going ot slip away from us and we will be looking at just fighting for 3rd and 4th rather than a title.

[Thade2532]

well it looks like Gallas is on his way out now after his outburst, and isnt in the squad vs Man City, could of waited until Toure was fit again. well the good side is that Kolo will surely be a starter again and i thought he should of been captain in the first place so hopefully he might get the captaincy but it will probably go to Cesc.

[y0daddyalex]

Originally Posted by AriseForLife

Wrong.

It actually is Wengers choice. Every since Arsene's 2nd year at the club he has had complete autonomy over transfers. Arsene elects not to spend money despite having an average of £38.5M available for spending over the last 5 years.

I have heard differently. I have heard that he was told not to sign any big names

[AriseForLife]

Originally Posted by y0daddyalex

I have heard differently. I have heard that he was told not to sign any big names

Just read the financial report from the last two seasons. Hill-Wood clearly states that "the manager" decided against buying players and we are confident of our young talented squad.

Arsene has always had discretion when it comes to buying players. He and Fergie share that same power at their clubs. When Dein was at the club he reiterated that point numerous times and Hill-Wood has done the same multiple timse also.

[chemicalrubber]

Should Arsenal sign Shay Given? After all Manuel started out as a reserve keeper and he is average. Also, Micah Richards is a boyhood Arsenal fan I think.

[Thade2532]

yeh id love to see Micah Richards at Arsenal i think he will be world class, as for GK we should go for Boaz Myhill hes put in some great performances would be a bad signing.

Eduardo has returned to action in closed doors friendly vs Nottingham Forest appartently i think he could be on the bench vs Burnley in the Carling Cup, we need his finishing touch badly to save our season.

[elementkid1021]

what do you guys think? i personally don't think he'll spent any.

FOX Sports on MSN - Premier League - Wenger has the cash - Hill-Wood

[joegerrard]

I think he will buy Veloso or Toulalan...

[Thade2532]

i wouldnt mind seeing a 4-5-1 vs Chelsea, it worked quite well vs Man Utd but this time we would have Adebayor up front rather than Bendtner, and Nasri had more freedom in the 4-5-1 and looked what it got us vs Man Utd

---------------------Almunia----------------
---Sagna------Gallas------Silvestre---Clichy--------
--Denilson--Nasri---Diaby----Fabregas---Van Persie---
-------------------Adebayor---------------------

[TomRuss20]

Originally Posted by Thade2532

i wouldnt mind seeing a 4-5-1 vs Chelsea, it worked quite well vs Man Utd but this time we would have Adebayor up front rather than Bendtner, and Nasri had more freedom in the 4-5-1 and looked what it got us vs Man Utd

---------------------Almunia----------------
---Sagna------Gallas------Silvestre---Clichy--------
--Denilson--Nasri---Diaby----Fabregas---Van Persie---
-------------------Adebayor---------------------

I'd prefer Denilson in the centre and Nasri out wide.