Ahmad - the trouble with a salary cap is it takes no account of differences in currencies and national economies. US sports can do such a cap because of a common marketplace. And even in North America, teams in Canada have often been at a great disadvantag
I agree in principle on the salary cap, but it would have to be voluntary as it would be very hard to enforce. Also, I am sure clubs would get around it creatively in the form of various bonus schemes and players pools. Could not imagine say Real sticking
This is why it is vital for the game that a salary cap is introduced otherwise we will be reduced to seeing domination of all European leagues by a handful of teams. Idiots like Platini should address this as a more pressing issue than his home-grown proje
Well Gazza was the highest paid in the top flight when he joined spurs ahd he was £2000 a week thats almost 20 years ago at the time 20 fags cost about £2.80 a packet so if ciggies when up at the same rate as players wages we would be paying over £150 a pa
€15 million is probably about right for Arshavin in the current climate. The collapse of sterling has made the European market around 20% more expensive this January for British clubs, while the general economic slump has meant that big money signings wil
Wow, didnt even notice that. That means that player wages have increased at a far, far higher rate than club revenues over the past fifteen years.
SLutton - The original post was to REAL gooners, not foreign idiots, so why are you answering? When did you start supporting Arsenal and why?
Are you sure your figures are right? In an article by Nick Harris in The Independent on Saturday, 6 May 2006 he wrote: The Premier League yesterday pulverised the theory that English football's boom time has been and gone when it announced it would earn
2 Dec, 19:45 ...... Burnley 2 - 0 Arsenal ..... Carling Cup
Excellent article.Has changed most of my preconceptions of this terrible one-sided "war".
Are you taking the piss out of an injured player John ? After all the furure on the Arsenal board about wind-ups over Eduardo ? I offered my hopes that Eduardo would recover, and had a go at a United fan who took the piss out of him. You're a bloody hypoc
I said somewhere else I can see him combining with the midfield quite well... he's your typical "hoof it up the field to a big man and see what he can do with it" type, that's why he did so well at Charlton, if he can get an understanding with Modric or ev
Bye Bye Bent!!!!! IMO get Podolski. £9.5m
Its times like this this Im ashamed to be Jewish. Tough times
i agree, he's utter tripe! he can pick out a pass or 2 when he feels like it but im sorry the guy's not good enough at all to play for arsenal, as a back up maybe but it goes to show the state of our team when someone like song becomes a 1st team regular.
Nice one Fred, that was a good article, and rare as most of the zionist controlled media fail to show whats really going on. Things are going to get alot worse. It wont stop with Bush leaving, Obama has made it pretty clear that he's going to continue bac
Right now with so many clubs in the EPL in debt to the banks any out lay in the transfer market could be a risk as repayment dates are not that far away and a number of clubs are looking to change their payment plans now as they are not able to pay the bil
Good point KM......I pondered this potential double act too. I have high hopes that Pav and JD will combine well and there are similarities to the JD/Crouch threat. Defoe struggled to blend with Keane and Berbs when played but I remember him and Mido compl
Song is the SHITTIEST player i have seen in an Arsenal shirt. I'm absolutely baffled to know that there are so many people who think Song is good for Arsenal.
we haven't lost in 9 games. Song is ok for now.we dont have the money
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Now that Pav is dishing up the goods I thnk we got the better deal frankly. I know we paid a fair bit for him but he's certainly repaid it with his goals where it counts. Now he's not cup-tied for the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup I reckon he could be
pmsl fcking classic
You might not see it as inevitable, but Cesc does as he has said more than once recently. Long-term contract? What does that mean these days? Not worth the paper unfortunately.....
yeah but they still bang on about fortress OT dont they? Sunderland were seconds from taking a point away from there and Boro not much more than that. chelsea have fck all to worry about this weekend.
Look at the YOUNG Arsenal side that were beaten, now compare it to your 1st team beaten by a poor derby side, LOL! <a href=http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/carling-cup/2008-2009/burnley-arsenal-266895.html>http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/car
Look at the YOUNG Arsenal side that were beaten, now compare it to your 1st team beaten by a poor derby side, LOL!
Trouble is Arsenal seem to need a midfielder and available quality English midfielders are a bit thin on the ground...not withstanding the fact that Scott Parker could be plucked from West Ham without too much trouble as they are having a fire sale....and
Even if we do need another plyer for that position I don't think we need another foreign player, who will need months to adjust to our League. My husband said he couldn't remember any Russian doing well in UK? He is desperate to see a few English play
Didn't Fabregas sign a new long term contract recently? And I would be most surprised if he didn't leave eventually, having been playing in the first team since he was 16 (over 5 years) it's a rarity for a player to stay at one club for the whole of his p
No I dont. And like I said above there would be no loyalty if we were out of the CL for a sustained period of time, even if we remained in the PL. My point is simply that missing the CL next season would not necessarilly lead to a mass exodus of players.