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Happy Face

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I'm sure your right. Those kids that went in search of European glory came back and kicked the fuck out of the first teamers in training.

 

The under soil heating, new fitness facilities, new fitness guru etc made no difference at all. :lol:

 

That's so bad it doesn't deserve the factual rebutal you already know in your head.

 

But just count...

 

http://nufc.com/html/2012-13html/app-goals.html

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Christmas Tree

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If we won a spakey league cup with loan players and kids it would be lovely, for a moment.

 

As a set of fans we dare to dream of more though.  Which is exactly what Keegan/Hall harnessed to catapult us to challenging for the league.  We want to be regularly competing at the top with the teams that have a similar size stadium/crowd.  Our attractiveness to sponsors and the best players in the world has been shown to have all the potential of any other club.

 

Buying players isn't always about replacing an individual in your squad that isn't as good.  It's about making a statement to everyone.  Arsenal's best performance in years comes off the back of a statement signing.  Breaking their transfer record and their top wage told everyone that they meant business and that sort of thing is infectious at a club lifting the entire team to better things....and frightening opposition clubs into an underdog mindset when they visit.

 

Ashley, Kinnear and Pardew have no such vision.  They never will.  Any talk of incremental improvements is an acceptance and endorsement for treading water.  That's fair enough if you fear drowning.  

Arsenals "statement" signing comes after years of stability and sound financial planning.

 

We've made many "statement signings" during the same period just without the other two.

 

It didn't work.

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Arsenals "statement" signing comes after years of stability and sound financial planning.

 

We've made many "statement signings" during the same period just without the other two.

 

It didn't work.

 

Arsenal never dropped out of the top 4. They invested hundreds of millions in a brand new stadium. Almost every year of "sound financing" included spending between £30m and £50m on players, just to stay in the elite group.

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They consistently sell out the biggest club stadium in London despite charging some of the highest prices.

 

They can do this by playing appealing football. They can do that by investing in the manager's vision. The appointment of Alan Pardew is proof positive that Premier League survival is sufficient for this owner.

 

He doesn't want to win a trophy, he'd be happy if his minimal investment returned one, but he's not going to alter his path to make it more likely.

 

It seems so simple; employ a proper DoF instead of my mate, have a budget for transfers that doesn't put the club into financial hot-water, support the scouts and the youth system.

 

How can you be happy with safety, when silverware could be in our grasp?

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The only club ahead of this is the one you are wrong about. Everton made a profit last summer on transfers so spent less than us.

 

Pointing to spending alone doesnt tell the whole story.

By selling Fellaini for £28million. Hardly a sustainable business plan every summer

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Arsenal's sound financial planning saw their debt more than double from £150m in 2005 to £320m by 2008

 

http://blog.emiratesstadium.info/archives/10230

 

The notion that Ashley is following their model by refusing to allow any further debt to accumulate is patently ridiculous.

 

Aye but at the same time they were building a fuck load of flats, the debt was safe, it wasn't caused by pissing money up the wall.

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So not 16 games then.

 

No actually, it was 14. Well corrected :D

 

The squad played 14 extra games. Travelled hundreds of miles to do it and played/trained with greater fatigue. Rarely were any players left at home altogether.

 

Apart from Bigirimana, Obertan and Marveaux all the players with most European games were first teamers.

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No actually, it was 14. Well corrected :D

 

The squad played 14 extra games. Travelled hundreds of miles to do it and played/trained with greater fatigue. Rarely were any players left at home altogether.

 

Apart from Bigirimana, Obertan and Marveaux all the players with most European games were first teamers.

 

 

Lets not be too pedantic with each other. :lol:

 

A few first teamers played a maximum of 7 games and a few of those games were after the winter break.

 

Im sure the underground heating and input of a fitness guru will also have had an impact on firness levels.

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Aye but at the same time they were building a fuck load of flats, the debt was safe, it wasn't caused by pissing money up the wall.

 

Aye.

 

It's not a black or white choice of investing nothing whatsoever or pissing money up the wall. There is an approach to sustainable investment. It doesn't involve breaking your transfer record to sign a crock whose entire game was built on pace,

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Lets not be too pedantic with each other. :lol:

 

A few first teamers played a maximum of 7 games and a few of those games were after the winter break.

 

Im sure the underground heating and input of a fitness guru will also have had an impact on firness levels.

 

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Christmas Tree

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What money invested in the training ground? You mean the plans unveiled in December that are a long way off happening? And as for fitness staff, you mean Faye Downey, a part-time fitness consultant?

 

Such as the underground heating and Yes Faye Downey. (Not to mention the further improvements announced in December)

 

Apparently we are bottom of the injury list season.

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