The Arsenal Thread XX

Phew, getting scared you were that moody bastard Caster Troy.

Poverty like Podolski is on £100k a week, Giroud £60k a week, Ryo on £20k etc. It all adds up.

He's a right misery guts

Feeling somewhat confident about today, Villa haven't beaten us at Villa Park since the Santa incident in 1998.

But saying that, we are fully capable of ****ing things up, so I wouldn't be surprised if we lost.

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Remember reading Fabregas was around 200k when he joined, Hazard's new contract will be 200k, then I think it's Costa but that's around 130 irc. Cech/Terry 120k. Ivanovic/Remy/ Willian/Schurrle/Cahill 70-100k. Oscars still on his original contract, I remember seeing the figure at like 30k back in 2012/13 and Salah is 35k. Bertrand was 35k with a new contract last year, Mata was 60 at the time which was relatively low.

Lampard and Cole were on like 100k each I reckon on one year contracts, Torres was 175k, ridiculous, and Luiz was around 110 I think as he signed a new contract beginning of 12/13. So from this summer we wiped off pretty much 400-500k and then used like 300-350k on superior players. Plus the 80 odd million from the Luiz and Lukaku deals.

Point is we wiped off a lot of our wage bill this Summer whilst, despite however many players you released, you must have added heavily. Sanchez must be up there with Ozil as near the top earners tbh.

But yeah, it's all the press on another of there factless baseless witch hunts again.

I wouldn't say it's a witchhunt but it is, in all likelihood, wrong. We added 5 players and sold 3. That will have increased our wage bill but I wouldn't say it increased it "heavily". And Chelsea didn't ONLY add costa and fabregas, (both on higher wages than anyone at our club), they also added Filipe Luis, Remy and Drogba.

And I don't really know why you're mentioning the transfer fees for Luiz and Lukaku in a discussion about wages.

After the previous game, for the first time in my life I would rather study than waste my time watching the game. I can always see the highlights.
I can't remember a game where we dominated throughout, we always struggle against teams and are lucky to get some points, our tactics have been poor, we are wasteful. when Chelsea get the ball they look like they will score same with many other teams. We wait for the opposition to regroup then we try to pass through 10 bodies ...I really miss the directness and power we use to show! Until we start winning 3-0 on a consistent basis I will invest my time to watch the full games.

After the previous game, for the first time in my life I would rather study than waste my time watching the game. I can always see the highlights.
I can't remember a game where we dominated throughout, we always struggle against teams and are lucky to get some points, our tactics have been poor, we are wasteful. when Chelsea get the ball they look like they will score same with many other teams. We wait for the opposition to regroup then we try to pass through 10 bodies ...I really miss the directness and power we use to show! Until we start winning 3-0 on a consistent basis I will invest my time to watch the full games.

Go support another team.

I wouldn't say it's a witchhunt but it is, in all likelihood, wrong. We added 5 players and sold 3. That will have increased our wage bill but I wouldn't say it increased it "heavily". And Chelsea didn't ONLY add costa and fabregas, (both on higher wages than anyone at our club), they also added Filipe Luis, Remy and Drogba.

And I don't really know why you're mentioning the transfer fees for Luiz and Lukaku in a discussion about wages.

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