Posted on Monday, 25th February 2013 by Tony Merakli
I don’t know if Arsene Wenger is having us on or not, but the Frenchman reckons Arsenal COULD beat off the likes of Chelsea, Real Madrid and Manchester City and splash out £80 million for Radamel Falcao, even if we don’t make the Champions League!
Several Arsenal fans, including myself, want Wenger to splash the cash this summer and get the team back to where they belong – challenging, and ultimately, winning trophies.
Wenger has been given at least £70 million to spend this summer to strengthen the side for next season’s campaign and it seems he will answer the fans’ calls, hinting that he would be willing to splash the cash.
When asked if he could buy Falcao, Wenger said:
‘We can do it.
‘If we find a player of top, top quality we will take him.’
Taking into account transfer fees (around £40 million) and wages (on a five-year deal or so), the Atletico Madrid man would cost us around £80 million. This to me sounds ludicrous, but Wenger says it is possible, even without the financial backing of the Champions League:
‘We are in a stronger situation where we can spend some money. I’m not reluctant to do so. First of all, we only had money recently.
‘Financially, we can live without the Champions League.’
In my opinion, the club needs to get rid of the deadwood, players like Sebastien Squillaci, Denilson and Andrey Arshavin in order to fund such proposed moves. Plus, loosen the wage budget in general.
We are financially in a stronger position than we were in the past. But can you guys honestly see Wenger signing superstars like Falcao? As much as I would like to see him bring in players of this calibre, I just can’t see it happening.
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February 25th, 2013 at 3:56 pm
This is a good laugh. For all the talk about buying Falcao, Wenger will end up buying someone cheap like Gervinho and pray that he will turn into another Henry.
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February 25th, 2013 at 4:04 pm
We should 1st get rid of likes of rosicky, diaby, squilaci, Arshavin, djourou, denilson n if possible gervinho n bring in likes of Falcao, song n Nasri!! N believe me…
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February 25th, 2013 at 4:37 pm
@Sparta Kenya – You do know we once had both Nasri and Song right? could you not think of anyone else to buy back apart from old players. I’ve seen some terrible AFC fans posting some real nonsense before but that was special.
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February 25th, 2013 at 4:41 pm
not in this world. wenger to pay such an amount on just one player? it will never happen
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February 25th, 2013 at 4:42 pm
Only one more year until we can rebuild our team
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February 25th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
We need fellaini, isco, muniaim, wanyama and cavani
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February 25th, 2013 at 5:44 pm
I don’t want him to pay a ridiculous amount for one player. If we signed Falcao and he didn’t take to the Premier League, all the fans would have Wenger for breakfast (all the ones who wanted Falcao would be hypocrites and idiots.)
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February 25th, 2013 at 5:54 pm
i wouldnt dream that far.
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February 25th, 2013 at 6:22 pm
Truefullyit will never happen as lonv as wenger walks with a hole in his arse it wont happen forget he said this and he said that wont happen, but I do believe he will buy 3/4 quality players we could do with cb dm attacking player and a striker. If all great players bought in then we could win something imo. The only other 2 things we need to do is have confidence in the way we play and get rid of zonal marking the players we have cant do it go back to man marking. Good luck boys for the resg of the season. Sorry about the spelling
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February 25th, 2013 at 7:15 pm
£80M FOR Messi is acceptable but not for anyone else.
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February 25th, 2013 at 7:48 pm
apart from the players out on loan there is approximately 24 players in the first team. i would sayof that lot 2 keepers should be considering their futures fabianski and mannone also 2 defenders squillaci and possibly sagna. in midfield rosicky and diaby need to be asked questions of whilst up front arshavin and possibly gervinho. of the first team players out on loan i cannot see futures for djourou santos denilson park chamakh or bendtner whilst frimpong and ryo lso have flattered to deceive. campbell probably wont get his work permit either. so all in all that is potentially 17 players who are facing next season away from the club. i just wonder how many of that lot will be here come august 31st?
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February 25th, 2013 at 8:09 pm
i don’t see that
but if he want to strong our team bring these
cavani
thomas ince
wanyama
julio cesar
and one more brtish playr in back 4
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February 25th, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Financially we can live without the champions league
That is the point of interest.
It means there will be 30 million less … we can live without it, but its a big blow.
Live without it means we will not do a leeds … it does not mean we will spend 80 million on a player.
Even with all the big talk … arsenal will not spend more then 16 million on a player! Will not happen.
Falcao is not a realistic target … shock horror, as if any one believed otherwise.
Also, i want wenger to define super quality… i mean, squilachi, santos, chamakh etc…. even giroud and pod would not be what i call ‘super quality’
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February 26th, 2013 at 9:05 am
No i cant see wenger doing this and nor should he.80 million for one(admittedly good) player is way too much money.There would have to be a corresponding increase in our other senior players wages and theres no guarantee that he would settle
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