the funniest part* is that our manager is an economics graduate but has no forward looking vision when it comes to economics. someone supposedly as smart as him should have seen the increasing tv revenues over the last decade and how that would impact spending, not to mention the foreign investing in clubs like chelsea, man city and psg, which aren't a new thing over the last 2-3 years. instead, he appears to still be angling to spend money that would have made sense in 2008.
we are so penny wise and pound foolish. if valencia wanted £25m and we were comfortable paying £16m (just a guess), that is a £9m difference. it is understandable to not want to crumble to every selling side and accept the first offer. however, we could have compromised and said £23m, paid up front, and paid immediately. spending above our valuation by a few million pounds won't even matter when you consider the huge increase in tv money this year and what is to come over the next 2-3 seasons. if you factor in our £200m cash reserves, £8m pounds is about 4% of our cash balance. 4 fucking percent.
and the tangible benefit to doing the deal right away would be allowing mustafi more time to settle at the club, more time to be tactically prepared** and it would allow our young, inexperienced players to be eased in instead of being thrown to the fucking wolves by our savage manager.
this club cant see the forest for the trees, and at this point, i wish they'd just call it a day and stop embarrassing themselves. it hurts being an arsenal supporter right now, and im thousands of miles away from the people spending huge chunks of money to go and watch this steaming pile of shit week in and week out.
- most severely fucking depressing part
** hahahah sorry, we dont do tactics, i was just having a larf
