Jonty

Arsenal winning minor trophies every season is probably good for us, deludes their fans, players and even manager into thinking that next year will be their year without actually making the necessary additions in the summer. I've noticed none of them have mentioned that they actually finished with less points this season than last despite picking up Sanchez.

Wigan beating City in injury time wasn't bad.

I'd take Willian over Walcott any day of the week no doubt, on a totally different level of quality.

Still hoping we're all just being trolled very successfully.

I'd have to go with Robbie as well

So we probably should have stopped all our first team players training or playing games after the Palace game?

Imagine if on our pre-season tour to the US in a few months Eden Hazard gets struck by lightning while walking his dog, we should probably cancel that as well. May as well stop playing football altogether and become a Chess team.

I don't want to buy the next FIFA because I don't want to condone the way the game engine and scripting encourages people who speed whore, counter attack and spam crosses until eventually they score. That being said, at least once a week I get the urge to go online and play a few games and its near impossible to get a game on an outdated version within a few weeks of the new one coming out.

In all seriousness though I am very much in the FOR Pogba camp.

To be fair its not like he has any outstanding competitors, I know little to nothing about the only other candidate other than that he is the prince of Jordan? What makes him qualified to be the head of FIFA? What experience does he have in football or football administration? A Jordanian prince doesn't exactly scream legitimacy or transparency either. It's a shame Figo dropped out.

Considering its a global body I think the more appropriate system would be to give more power to those who...well have more power, just like the UN does.

If you're Nathaniel Clyne would you really even want to leave Southampton for Liverpool right now?

He's not a robot, imagine doing as a successful a job in your field as he has done this season and has done his entire career, and to still be criticized constantly by his inferiors, he's bound to stick the boot in sometimes.

I'd only support Gerrard being on the other team if Lamps team got to have Demba Ba.

Looks like he's just realized that he left the stove on.

4 Europa's in the last 8 years for Sevilla, crazy record.

Good point, hopefully the FBI looks into UEFA next, they're as corrupt as anyone.

How is it possible for a loan player to take a paycut? The combined wages being paid by us and Monaco would have to amount to what he's earning in his contract, the only way we could be paying him substantially less is if Monaco were to pay most of his wages, and why would they do that?

I'd take him on loan for a season with no loan fee if Monaco paid all his wages, maybe.

I agree with you, but by innocence I mean those not a party to the proceedings in this case, as in those not involved in the corruption/bribery/fraud etc.

A case this massive will likely take years before theres any sort of result, there won't be time to move it anywhere else by that stage i'd think. They might also consider that removing the world cup from Qatar would be an injustice to the innocent people who have invested a lot of money in the country in expectation of millions of people going there for the tournament.

First point: Maybe if he were a young striker i'd give it some thought, but considering he'll be 30 next season theres no time to wait around for him to maybe get back to his physical prime. Second point: Di Maria, Rooney and Mata are 3 of the best support players in the league, you could say they didn't help him enough or you could say he didn't provide them enough of an option, either way he's scored 4 goals in 26 league games with 3 of the most prolific playmakers in world football behind him. Third point: It's been a year and he's probably worse than when he arrived. Fourth point: He has 3 years left on his 265,000 quid a week deal. This is a guy that could have gone to about any club in the world and chose Monaco for money, do you think he's going to be taking a massive paycut? He earns nearly 100,000 quid a more than Diego Costa does a week, he earns more than 3x what Loic Remy does and nearly 3x more than Drogba did. Our highest earner currently is Hazard on around 200,000 a week. Do you think he's going to be willing to more than halve what he earns currently with 3 years left on his deal, or do you think he is worth similar wages to Eden Hazard? Fifth point: I don't understand it, you acknowledge that Costa and Remy have been excellent but believe we need someone on massive wages to play 3rd fiddle to them? Then go onto mention their injury problems when, even with the extremely inconvenient timing of Costa and Remy being injured at the same time late this season, has made Drogba starting necessary in a mere handful of games. Could Bamford or someone else not on 12 million pounds a year not fill that role? I have to say your lengthy post did nothing to sway me, if anything in making me look into respective wages it further convinced me what an awful all around deal this would be.