[quote author=peterhague link=topic=46690.msg1391753#msg1391753 date=1314812474]
[quote author=RedZeppelin link=topic=46690.msg1391742#msg1391742 date=1314811824]
Arteta and benny to Arsenal ?...some of their fans will be thinking that these aren't the worse deals but it will be like when we lost Alonso and Mascherano , we replaced them and tried to be positive and think we might be ok but the fact is it was a massive lost to our team .And it's the same here with arsenal , these signings are nothing special at all and they're still alot weaker than before .
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i'd be fucking furious if i was an arsenal fan. mertesacker looks a good deal, granted, but the others are little better than journeymen, and £20m or so is going to remain unspent (unavailable?) when it's far from certain they'll get back in the top 4.
great for us, though.
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yeah and if you believe reports , they could have had a few players (maybe mata and certainly Cahill) if they offered just a little more . I don't know what they're playing at but hopefully it helps us out and quite frankly I'm happy to see Wenger's youth policy falter -it was hyped to high heaven but hasn't won any trophies like everyone said it would.