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Pepe signs for Arsenal.

Jed

Gazidis had us behaving like a nothing club for so long.

arsedocmd

Interesting. Where the defense signings though?

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Lovely stuff. It really is.

Kel Varnsen

Nice signing.

QuincyAbeyie

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:
I know it’s a bit pissy

But that highlights how much bigger our fan base is.

If you want proof of how big our fan base is you can also see that we're absolutely crushing it in the Mascot World Cup semi final. Boiler Man doesn't stand a chance.

goon

Burnwinter wrote:
A major trophy winning Arsenal would be a global sensation.

Best club history and reputation wise in the biggest city in the biggest and best league. No stink of petrol or gas on us.

This is why the 'Kroenke is in it for the money so isn't interested in success' line espoused by Arsenal fans baffled me. Being at least moderately successful is the best and possibly even only way for him to make money.

The idea that someone worth nearly €10bn was running an organisation valued at over a billion just to take out a million or two in dividend and fees each year was and is ludicrous.

QuincyAbeyie

Yeah, but trying to keep us in the top 4 is probably a better investment than trying to make us league winners ahead of City, given the cost and risk involved.

I don't think those fans mean that he doesn't care in the sense that he wouldn't care if we got relegated. I do think that he'll be happy if we're in the top four consistently as we'd keep earning good money.

goon

I think you're right to an extent, any owner that's mostly trying to run a club like a business (even an ambitious one) is never going to be able to compete with City (though they've been quite restrained recently, by their standards anyway).

But I don't think building a team specifically to just get top four is smart either though, it limits how much the brand can grow. You need fans to know the team will or can at least challenge for the big trophies. Constantly yoyoing from 6th to 3rd isn't going to do much to grow the global fan base. If you can challenge most years and then and throw in the odd league title or CL trophy then you'll reap the benefits, you don't have to go to City's level where not winning the league is a failure.

Claudius

You need to try to challenge. We are past the Sky era of the Big Four when we would look forward to a double header on Sunday night featuring the only 4 teams in the league that mattered. Now there are six teams. If you are planning for a top 4 finish it is easy to fail and finish 5th or 6th. And we've done that 3 times in a row. So you need to invest to finish as high as possible.

Liverpool have absolutely outspent everyone these last two seasons on transfer fees and salaries. That is why they lost the league by 1 point and won the Champions League. They're in no danger of falling out of the Top 4. And that is critical because the Europe revenue gap could be 30-60m pounds per year. That finances a super quality player every year, essentially paying for itself in the long run, all things being equal.

Klaus

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
If you want proof of how big our fan base is you can also see that we're absolutely crushing it in the Mascot World Cup semi final. Boiler Man doesn't stand a chance.

Boiler Man 😆 They didn't even try.

MuswellHillGooner

Gunnersaurus was losing the last round with 3 hours to go.

MistaT

Klaus wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
If you want proof of how big our fan base is you can also see that we're absolutely crushing it in the Mascot World Cup semi final. Boiler Man doesn't stand a chance.

Boiler Man 😆 They didn't even try.

Captain

Muswell Hill Gooner wrote:
Gunnersaurus was losing the last round with 3 hours to go.

And then the bat signal went up! 😆

With the renewed vigour amongst Arsenal social, boiler man is about to get fucked up real bad.

Clrnc

Kel Varnsen wrote:
Nice signing.

You know the footballer is something special if you get Kel's approval

Gunner89

Raul would have got us Suarez all those years ago.

Good riddance to that eggheaded cunt.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Love having a dodgy bastard finally dragging Arsenal into horrible modern football.

Anzac

Gunner89 wrote:
Raul would have got us Suarez all those years ago.

Good riddance to that eggheaded cunt.

Agreed.
That said it only makes me more riled to think of what could/should have been rather than appreciating how we are seemingly prepared to put the team & club ahead of personal idealism & ethics that was spun as being traditional club values.

If these last 2 summers are indicative of our new norm then more power to it.

Qwiss

Do you think with Pepe in that the 5 man defence is gone? It made some sense when we had no width but Pepe should fix that and he's too expensive and good now to rotate a lot.

Bold Tone

I thought the 5 man defence was mainly because neither Monreal nor Kolasinac were capable of playing LB.
I don't think Emery likes it and i hope it forces them to get Tierney, whatever the cost.

Qwiss

I think it was a bit of both. He leaned heavily on Kola to give us width, his starting position when we had the ball was usually as pushed up as the CF.

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