Dear Lord, Ollie is also depressed... we might as well shoot ourselves now
Dear Lord, Ollie is also depressed... we might as well shoot ourselves now
Arsene Wenger, the only football manager that got paid 8 million quid to do nothing but sit on his arse..
I acknowledge it, I just don't agree with it. As said, if we're talking in the realms of business and greed, it makes no sense for the club to play such games with their number 1 asset and not in his final year of contract. I've never understood why the Board let the wage bill increase but act so cheap when it comes to transfer fees. It doesn't make sense at all for them to be okay with the wages but not with the fees. Surely they'd look to keep both at a low cost?Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
I think Wenger's latest interview gives a lot away. He prefers to work with young players and to nurture talent. He values hard work and as a result we lost key players because they were unwilling to wait. The numbers and sales match the theory. I find it hard to believe that we'd penny pinch on transfers but nobody blinks when it comes to signing contract extensions.
"The egos are big, but you must know that a person, no matter how big a star he is, is ready to listen to you if it meets his needs," he explained.
"Unfortunately in management, you cannot cheat for a long time. When you are in a squad of 30 people, the players detect at a huge speed the weakness in your personality. If they think you are the man who can help them, they will respect you.
"The next step for them is deciding whether they are in a squad who can help them to be successful. We had that problem when we were under financially-restricted conditions.
"At Arsenal we have fought against the policy of only buying stars. For some players, we didn't have enough stars to be successful as quickly as they wanted to be.""One of our strengths is young people know we will give them a chance. We try to look all over the world to find players who have the talent and desire," he explained.
"But what we look for is their motivation to be successful. You also need consistency in your motivation and that is what we try to test in players as well.
"For me that is a very underrated quality. It means they are determined and they are ready to hurt themselves to be successful, and that's the type we are looking for - the people that are very demanding with themselves, and each other for a long time."
It's a bloody shambles. Deadline day it is then.
I'm done trying to make sense of what is non-sensical.
The Owners, Board, CEO and Manager are all money grubbing ****s.
deadline day? there wont be that this year. fucking pathetic
Was that down to Stan or due to the salary cap ruling? I really don't know much about NHL but it seems unfair to lay the blame on Stan if a salary cap gets imposed.
I think there will be. We'll sign players but there won't be any high profile stars moving here. But it really is pathetic. We're going to gamble again.
whats the point of signing players who wont improve us? the club knew we needed big players, and have completely failed to act on that. its august this week and nothing. i was optimistic and hopeful we would go big, but the board and wenger havnt. they've fucked around, no one has stood up to wenger and done what they should have done and hes dithered. its unbelievable.
The salary cap has a ceiling (max you can spend) and a floor (minimum you can spend).
Guess where Stan took the Avs to?
no champs league football there. any signings we make will be after the cl play off imo.
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